Julia Roberts

[Martini Girl]

Oct 16, 2018 12:54:16 GMT -4 kostgard said:

I think she's got some sort of movie coming out (I don't know), which is why she's doing magazines. I know she's not everyone's favorite (and isn't mine, either), but I just want to give her credit for not completely ruining her face.

Sure, she looks great for 50. Sure, she's probably had something done. But she hasn't tried to have the skin of a 20 year old at 50, and as a result I think she looks great. She's got the fine lines, but she still looks good because she has them and isn't trying to have a face as smooth as glass when nature wants her to have something else.

She has an Amazon series coming out soon.

[Ladybug]

She gave such good gossip back in the day! Running off from her wedding to Keifer. Hooking up with his best friend. Surprise marrying Lyle Lovett then divorcing him. “Stick man.” “A Low Vera.” I guess it’s good for her that she’s settled down, but I miss the wilder Julia.

[carrier76]

I like the pics of her in the green dress.

I have always kind of liked her, despite her vague annoyingness.

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I really, really, really dislike her.

[scarlet]

Oh, man, I think the Kiefer wedding bailout was the greatest celeb gossip of the early '90's. I mean, the wedding was going to be on a movie studio lot, for Christ sake. Then she runs off days before with Jason Patric? In hindsight, she was really young and had no business getting married in the first place, but I remember it being so scandalous!

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And they ran off to Ireland no less I have vague memories of reports they were spotted in almost all corners of the island!

[kostgard]

Maybe she got her fill of the tabloids in the 90s, and the "A Low Vera" incident was one of the crappiest things I've seen a celebrity do, but I at least do appreciate that when she doesn't have a project to promote, she goes away. I don't see her on the cover of magazines for no reason, I don't see constant pap pictures of her (maybe because she lives in New Mexico). She doesn't show up at every red carpet event under the sun. She has not launched a "lifestyle" brand. She has an Instagram account, but she doesn't flood it and it too seems to mostly be related to the projects she's working on.

So - props to Julia for having the grace to go away for long periods at a time. Gwynnie, take note (I just looked at Julia's Instagram page and there's an old pic of her with Gwynnie from the 90s. Gwynnie looks totally smug, natch).

[ladyboy]

Mar 11, 2005 14:51:31 GMT -4 kostgard said:

She has not launched a "lifestyle" brand.

This may be what I'm most thankful for.

[pachengala]

I will always consider her The Absolute Worst (along with Wesley Snipes) because of the consistent reports of her mistreating servers. Treating ‘the little people’ badly just because you can is unforgivable to me. Between that and the A Low Vera episode, she’s made her character clear, and it’s not good.

[kostgard]

Oct 16, 2018 16:34:27 GMT -4 pachengala said:

I will always consider her The Absolute Worst (along with Wesley Snipes) because of the consistent reports of her mistreating servers. Treating ‘the little people’ badly just because you can is unforgivable to me. Between that and the A Low Vera episode, she’s made her character clear, and it’s not good.

Yes, even though I weirdly like her in some ways, there are way too many stories of her being horrible to people "below" her. And I remember Benjamin Bratt saying something about how fame had made her mean.

Fame can certainly do a number on your head. I hope that retreating from the spotlight to her ranch in New Mexico has given her some perspective and she's gotten better in this regard...but I'm not holding my breath.