This Is No Ordinary Love
A little over a month ago the E Network, infamous for creating shamelessly tacky programming like Taradise, actually came up with a somewhat cutesy concept. The show is called Number One Single and follows 37 year old singer Lisa Loeb in her quest for true love.
Back in 1994 it was next to impossible to escape Lisa who was plucked from obscurity with her Reality Bites inspired love theme, Stay.
Ironically it didn't work out that way for her career.
First of all, one look at Lisa and you wonder why this girl needs a show to find true love. After all, one thing that has "stayed" is Lisa's looks. She still comes off like she did when she made the deliciously simple video for Stay, as a hot librarian who doesn't know she's hot or a librarian. Discuss.
Which brings me back to my original point. Lisa doesn't look like she's hard up for love because she isn't hard up for love. Not to mention the fact that she's only quasi famous and still has connections you and I can only dream of having. Looking for love in all the wrong places my ass.
No, Lisa represents a much larger problem that I see in Hollywood; stars who try to make themselves sound like you or I when nothing could be farther from the truth.
Jennifer Love Hewitt insists she's just a big dork. Kirsten Dunst wants us to believe she's a homebody at heart. George Clooney is a big ol' bachelor, who loves to love. Owen and Luke Wilson would like to settle down, if only they could find the right girls.
Yeah, right.
The real reason so few people in Hollywood settle down is because there's no need to. Imagine going to an all you can eat buffet and saying, "That's cool, I'll just stick with the salad." I mean salad is nice, but most people, most famous people, if given the choice, would like soup, salad and dessert.
A lot of everyday people would like to do this, too. The difference is they don't have the opportunities the rich and famous do, so they learn to love their salad, even if it means complimenting it with different dressings and toppings from time to time.
The other thing I'm not buying is that famous people have as hard of a time meeting people to date. I understand that you might not know if someone is sincere and if they are there for the right reasons. When you're in Hollywood you gotta keep wondering if someone likes you for you or you for your career's level of hotness. Most of the time though, birds of a feather flock together. This is why we have couples like Kurt Russell & Goldie Hawn, William H. Macy & Felicity Huffman and Kyra Sedgwick & Kevin Bacon.
But for every Kurt & Goldie there's a Michelle Pfieffer & Fisher Stevens, Kim Basinger & Alec Baldwin, Johnny Depp & Winona Ryder, Jessica Simpson & Nick Lachey, Angelina Jolie and well, just about anybody.
So now you have someone like Lisa who is trying to move away from all of that and wants to find someone outside the industry to date. So how does she go about doing this? By using the very same medium she supposedly wants to avoid. That's why anonymity when dating someone famous goes completely out the window.
Think about it. There really are no "blind dates" in Hollywood because the concept is next to impossible. What would you say? Instead of I'm setting you up with a Matt Damon type, celebrities simply say, "It IS Matt Damon". Chances are if they're single, and you're single and your career is hot and their career is hot, magic can happen, if only for a little while.
There's no awkward, what's your sign meeting after glances have been exchanged from across the bar. Instead these glances are replaced with publicists who are not unlike the wingmen at the bar, only there are no drinks purchased, no fake phone numbers given out. It's just Cruise, Holmes and a career move, if you know what I'm saying.
So will our damsel in distress, Lisa Loeb, find true love? No one can say for sure, but the double entendre title is no accident. Sure, Lisa wants love, but more than anything, me thinks she wants the public to fall in love again with her.
Back in 1994 it was next to impossible to escape Lisa who was plucked from obscurity with her Reality Bites inspired love theme, Stay.
Ironically it didn't work out that way for her career.
First of all, one look at Lisa and you wonder why this girl needs a show to find true love. After all, one thing that has "stayed" is Lisa's looks. She still comes off like she did when she made the deliciously simple video for Stay, as a hot librarian who doesn't know she's hot or a librarian. Discuss.
Which brings me back to my original point. Lisa doesn't look like she's hard up for love because she isn't hard up for love. Not to mention the fact that she's only quasi famous and still has connections you and I can only dream of having. Looking for love in all the wrong places my ass.
No, Lisa represents a much larger problem that I see in Hollywood; stars who try to make themselves sound like you or I when nothing could be farther from the truth.
Jennifer Love Hewitt insists she's just a big dork. Kirsten Dunst wants us to believe she's a homebody at heart. George Clooney is a big ol' bachelor, who loves to love. Owen and Luke Wilson would like to settle down, if only they could find the right girls.
Yeah, right.
The real reason so few people in Hollywood settle down is because there's no need to. Imagine going to an all you can eat buffet and saying, "That's cool, I'll just stick with the salad." I mean salad is nice, but most people, most famous people, if given the choice, would like soup, salad and dessert.
A lot of everyday people would like to do this, too. The difference is they don't have the opportunities the rich and famous do, so they learn to love their salad, even if it means complimenting it with different dressings and toppings from time to time.
The other thing I'm not buying is that famous people have as hard of a time meeting people to date. I understand that you might not know if someone is sincere and if they are there for the right reasons. When you're in Hollywood you gotta keep wondering if someone likes you for you or you for your career's level of hotness. Most of the time though, birds of a feather flock together. This is why we have couples like Kurt Russell & Goldie Hawn, William H. Macy & Felicity Huffman and Kyra Sedgwick & Kevin Bacon.
But for every Kurt & Goldie there's a Michelle Pfieffer & Fisher Stevens, Kim Basinger & Alec Baldwin, Johnny Depp & Winona Ryder, Jessica Simpson & Nick Lachey, Angelina Jolie and well, just about anybody.
So now you have someone like Lisa who is trying to move away from all of that and wants to find someone outside the industry to date. So how does she go about doing this? By using the very same medium she supposedly wants to avoid. That's why anonymity when dating someone famous goes completely out the window.
Think about it. There really are no "blind dates" in Hollywood because the concept is next to impossible. What would you say? Instead of I'm setting you up with a Matt Damon type, celebrities simply say, "It IS Matt Damon". Chances are if they're single, and you're single and your career is hot and their career is hot, magic can happen, if only for a little while.
There's no awkward, what's your sign meeting after glances have been exchanged from across the bar. Instead these glances are replaced with publicists who are not unlike the wingmen at the bar, only there are no drinks purchased, no fake phone numbers given out. It's just Cruise, Holmes and a career move, if you know what I'm saying.
So will our damsel in distress, Lisa Loeb, find true love? No one can say for sure, but the double entendre title is no accident. Sure, Lisa wants love, but more than anything, me thinks she wants the public to fall in love again with her.
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