The Onion's got a keen interview with Janeane Garofalo. Boy, do I love her. I am a bit embarassed to admit that I hadn't made the connection that her movie with Uma Thurman, The Truth About Cats and Dogs, was a modernday retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac until she said as much in this interview. For someone who claims to love movies, you'd think I could see the obvious more than I do. Of course that's Cyrano. Duh. I'm retarded. Anyway, here's something interesting.
I'm definitely not one of those people who's like, "I've got to reinvent myself!" See, I think that's somewhat of an odd sickness. I don't mean to slag Madonna, because I kind of like her in interviews. I don't like her music. But I think there's some kind of psychological issue with somebody who must stay number one no matter what. "I will reinvent, I will work out four more hours if I have to, I will have more pyrotechnics at my show, I will do whatever it takes to be number one with you, the public." I think there's something strange about that. Here's a woman with two children, now. So she's definitely not spending all those hours with her kids; she's spending all those hours trying to be number one, still.Posted by scott at December 28, 2003 11:23 PM | TrackBack
I remember when Janeane was actually funny. As in laugh out loud funny.
Now, she's lost her muse. She's become just a shrill little babushka who keeps making a complete ass out of herself.
Posted by: at December 31, 2003 03:32 PMSorry. That was me, above.
Posted by: stoddart at December 31, 2003 03:32 PMMore than likely, she was always the way she was and you just didn't know her politics.
Posted by: bob at January 2, 2004 08:04 AMYeah, I think you're probably right on that bob. Also, she seems to have had some success in her career which maybe gave her a larger forum for her political views.
Posted by: scott cunningham at January 2, 2004 09:48 AM