For women of a certain age, Julia Roberts is like a dinner of cotton candy and macaroni and cheese. She is comfort food for the soul. So lovely is she today that it is easy to forget that Julia has dodged many an image bullet, and the lovable actress is lucky that her personal drama played out before the advent of the 24/7 gossip news cycle.
What gets us so jazzed up about Julia's movies today is that her time promoting a film is a rare moment that we get a glimpse into her private life. This isn't a woman who features regularly in the celebrity weeklies or is overplayed in ads for makeup or perfume. There's very little of Julia to go around, so when she speaks (as she is doing right now to promote 'Eat Pray Love) we listen.
I watch Julia's small part in the blockbuster 'Valentine's Day' ($110 million at the box office ) was the one vignette that made that overdone movie palatable , and her turn as an Iraqi war service woman trying to return home to her son for Valentine's Day, though brief, was one part of the film that made me tear up.
You can like her or not, but Julia Roberts is like a warm hug to some of us. As we watch her movies over time ('Mystic Pizza,' 'Pretty Woman') she became like a best friend or a cool sister.
In the same way guys find zone-out comfort in Adam Sandler and Will Farrell movies, I think women find comfort in Julia robert's romantic comedies. "they're like chicken soup," says Fashionista associate editoe Leah Chernikoff.
The ardor for Julia is a generational thing. A lot of baby boomer women has no solf spot for Julia. (Jules)
"Doesn't she always seem to be doing the same thing ? Playing the same role? Laughing the same way with her big mouth ?" Baby boomer , Tracey Piazza, said asked , didn't she steal someone's husband ?
Ah, here is the reason Julia is lucky to still be so lovable, since only women Julia's age have kept this bit of trivia at the forefront of their minds.
"Ten years ago this women would have been on every cover of every gossip magazine if there were as many magazines, not to mention blogs, as there are today. she would have had an entirely different career and she may not have won an Oscar," says US Weekly photo editor Peter Grossman.
Back in the nineties, Julia was kind of a jerk. She broke off her engagement with Kiefer Sutherland just three days before the couple's wedding and then ran off to Ireland for a romantic vacation with his best friend , Jason Patric.
The man she chose as her future husbanh and the father of her three adorable children was, unfortunately, already married when Julia set her sights on him. Julia met cameraman Danny Moder on the set of "The Mexican" in 2000 and subsequently broke up his marriage with his wife Vera.
Ten years ago Jiulia was leaving men at the alter and cheating with a married man. If that happen today, the stories would be dissected over and over in the gossip press and there is no way Julia would still be America's sweetheart. Sure, we all like her now, but that's because we didn't have the institutional memory of her misdeeds drilled into our minds by the media," Grossman said.
My spin : Nice timing Julia. ... wonder why you got upset with Angelina Jolie when Brad left your best friend for her (Jen ) you of all people should understand about man-eaters....but we still love you.
I liked the comparison of Julia to a warm hug or a best friend. That is exactly the kind of image that she has always had to me and she has a certain vulnerability. That image helped to keep her safe from the gossips, even though she was a bad girl sometimes.
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