I still think and alot of people think Jennifer Aniston is the hottest girl in Hollywood still. I have to agree.

In partial attempted defense, the woman can act, and the faster she can get out of being mired in genre stuff, the better Hollywood will be.

I also cannot believe I never added Eliza Dushku.

So, I started watching Tru Calling a couple days ago.  Dushku wasn’t sufficient reason for me to start watching, but then I found out that A.J. Cook (who was in my original “Passing the Torch” list) was also in it.

I’m not entirely sure what it is about A.J. Cook: she is upsettingly beautiful, in the sense that it is uncomfortable to watch her.  I don’t know why.  I really hate her supercilious and sarcastic character (she plays sarcastic in a lot of her roles, although I suspect [for some unknown reason] that she really is a kind and intelligent woman in real life), but I still watch.

In the second episode, Cook lets herself into Dushku’s apartment.  Dushku is under the covers and still in pajamas.  Cook sits down on the bed, and after offering a gift of food, leadingly asks, “Is there something you want to say to me?”

“Let’s make out?” was my hope.  But no such luck.

God, I hope they don’t read this.

Very interesting to me that these two young women are among the most adamant in Hollywood about not doing nude scenes.  More power to them.  But this is in a climate in which Katie Holmes and frakking Anna Paquin have been topless onscreen.  If I had been forced to choose which pair would oppose and which pair would agree to topless scenes, I would have been 100% wrong.

Anyway, I’ve only seen a few episodes, all of which could seemingly be synced by their timecodes, with their confrontations, false reveals, and final reveals at exactly the same moments — variety, please!

I do want to complain, however, about the makeup in the show.  Seriously, Dushku in glossy pink lipstick, heavy eye makeup, and pronounced blush?  Cook made up like a Barbie doll?  They were a 23-year-old and a 25-year-old playing 22-year-old college grads — there is no reason that they should be dolled up like 14-year-olds who chose their own makeup.

Yeah, it’s probably another grunge preference, but it still drives me crazy.  I rather insensitively used to call makeup “war paint”, and almost always find women more attractive without or with very subtle makeup.  I think, for instance, that Evangeline Lilly’s makeup on Lost is some of the best on television.

Ramble, ramble, ramble.