Who's Hot & Who's Not!

The Iconoclast ^ | November 15, 2002 | Unknown

[Apolitical]

WHO'S HOT....

1. J.LO & BEN




Oh, no. Do we have another Liz Taylor in the making? Twice-married Jennifer Lopez has confirmed that she and Hollywood male hottie Ben Affleck are engaged.

The pair met last December while filming the upcoming gangster movie Gigli , in which they co-star. Their romance became notoriously public this fall when Jennifer was photographed sliding her hand, well, down Ben's pants.

Now J.Lo has made it official, telling Primetime's Diane Sawyer that the couple are engaged to be married (as if sliding her hand down Affleck's pants wasn't official enough). Showing her usual journalistic acumen, Sawyer had asked Ms. Lopez, "Are you engaged?" and J.Lo replied, "Yes."

J.Lo even showed Diane the engagement ring Affleck gave her -- a pink diamond on a platinum band. However, she didn't reveal whether after she and Affleck are married, she will henceforth be known as J.Aff.

Touchingly, J.Lo confessed to Ms. Sawyer that she realizes people might view her and Affleck as an unlikely couple. "We've talked about this so many times," she told Sawyer. "And we talked about how people kind of see him with one type of person and me with another type of person, and the two of us together is like 'How did that happen?'"

Well, you know what? Most folks would probably agree. They all know P. Diddy -- a.k.a. Puff Daddy. And Ben Affleck is no Puff Daddy. After all, when was the last time Ben Affleck shot someone?

Let's be brutally honest here. We're worried that perhaps J.Lo is being a bit impulsive -- again. Her Liz-like 'nuptials' track record just doesn't inspire confidence. After all, her first marriage to model Ojani Noa only lasted one year. She split from her second husband, dancer Cris Judd, after only a few months of marital unbliss. And her relationship with hip-hop guru Puff Daddy, er, P. Diddy, wasn't exactly the model of long-term stability.

The good news is that this time things are different, according to J.Lo. Her feelings for Affleck are "bigger and realer" and "totally different" from anything she has felt before. So maybe this marriage will last for two years -- an eternity by Hollywood standards.

2. JESSE VENTURA



When you're hot, you're hot. First Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura became a national folk hero when he walked out of the notorious Paul Wellstone Memorial/Democratic Pep Rally in disgust and denounced this obvious opportunistic attempt to exploit the unfortunate tragedy of the Wellstone family. And now comes news that MSNBC is negotiating with Jesse about his starring in a prime-time MSNBC TV talk show when Ventura's term as governor ends next month.

According to several press reports, Ventura has met with MSNBC President Erik Sorenson over the last several months to discuss the proposed talk show which would focus on general news and media criticism. The best news for MSNBC viewers is that Ventura's proposed talk show is expected to replace MSNBC's unwatchable ratings flop, Donahue.

Bye, bye, Phil. Time to join Walter Mondale in the retirement home.

WHO'S NOT....

1. AL GORE



Why won't he just go away? Like one of those kids' inflatable punching bags that faithfully pop back up every time they're knocked down, the very dislikable Al Gore just keeps on coming back for more, every time he's appears ready to go down for the count.

Now the erstwhile presidential candidate has popped up on 20/20, flogging his latest book and whining to Barbara Walters that the outcome of the 2000 election was "a crushing disappointment" and he wuz robbed by the evil conservative majority that dominates the Supreme Court. In a Washington Post interview, his spouse Tipper Gore insisted, "I still believe we won."

Talk about living in the past. Al Gore is not only yesterday's news, he's history. The possibility that in a rematch, the American people would favor AlBore over Dubyah in 2004 is about as likely as Gore's former running mate Bill Clinton giving up extra-marital sex. In other words, it's not going to happen and everyone in the country and even the Democratric Party knows it.

So why doesn't the man who invented the Internet return to his labratory and work on more mythical solutions for the world's problems. He certainly won't be missed. And leaving the public arena for good will be the most acclaimed poltical action he has ever taken.

2. WALTER MONDALE



Well, that was quick. Walter Mondale's much-celebrated political resurrection, and crusade to preserve the Democratic Party's majority in the Senate, seems to be over. And once again this aging political trainwreck disguised as an elder statesman is yesterday's news.

Of course, Mr. Mondale's Senate defeat really shouldn't be a surprise. After all, while on the hustings in Minnesota, he showed the charisma of a tree stump. And in a much-publicized TV debate with his Republican opponent, he was as wooden as the log cabin Abraham Lincoln was born in (and probably just as old).

Following the cynical rehabilitation of political hacks like Frank Lautenberg in New Jersey and Walter Mondale in Minnesota, the Democratic Party looked so desperate, one half expected them to dig up the decaying remains of poor Franklin Roosevelt and run them in place of a faltering Jean Carnahan in Missouri.

The bad news is that after this orgy of Democratic political nostalgia, Gary Hart is threatening to run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004. Can Jimmy Carter be far behind?.......

[Apolitical]

J.Lo and Jesse are heating up the headlines.

[Paul Atreides]

[cajun-jack]

even seeing still pictures of owlbore makes me want to fix a drink.....a very stiff drink....and jennifer lopez....3 husbands in 5 yrs....hey!!!j-lo...just cause u a ho doesn't mean you have to marry them!!!! and all the rest of them...."who cares"? these people are so worried about their "legacy and claim to fame" they will do or say anything. alec baldwin, who claimed he would leave the u.s. if bush was elected is relegated to hollywood squares (appropiate) and hasn't left yet and probably can't afford a ticket to go anywhere either.

[IronJack]

Jennifer Lopez is a hosebag with no discernible vertical talent. Why oh why does anyone give a dented damn what she is up to? Her PR agent must have a battalion of apprentices because J Ho's name is in the paper more often than the weather.

[Skel]

J.Ho

[Revolting cat!]

Who's bragging? I was hot an hour ago until I adjusted the thermostat.

[Ole Okie]

Why oh why does anyone give a dented damn what she is up to?

Well, the reports are that she has a big ass.

Burro aside, her rear end ain't tiny, either.

Who's Jennifer Lopez? For that matter, who's Ben Afflick? He proposed to old JLo whilst she was married to another, a no-no in the world in which I was reared.

Guess I was born about 50 years too soon.

[kim r.]

post #3 - very funny LOL!

[SAMS]

Wouldn't it be easier for her to just buy a white dress and have a really cool party, with all her really cool friends. Or would that not seem "realer"

[csvset]

Hot or Not

[ActionNewsBill]

they will do or say anything. alec baldwin, who claimed he would leave the u.s. if bush was elected is relegated to hollywood squares (appropiate)

Being on H-Squares is a sign that one is an "up and comer, or a "washed out has-been". Alec is definitely #2.

[Miss Marple]

I learned more than I cared to about J-Lo and Ben in the beauty shop this week. Page after page in People, Us, etc. (You get really desperate for reading material when you forget your own and have to sit while the color takes hold...LOL).

[MadIvan]

I learned more than I cared to about J-Lo and Ben in the beauty shop this week. Page after page in People, Us, etc. (You get really desperate for reading material when you forget your own and have to sit while the color takes hold...LOL).

I've learned to always bring a copy of the Daily Telegraph with me to the barber. Did so earlier this week. ;)

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Jesse Ventura finished up his governorship in far more style than he maintained it. As for J-Lo. OK, she's got a rounded bum. Whoopee. She's a woman, she ought to have a rounded bum. As for her dating Ben Affleck, who is a left wing pink subversive - well a woman famous for her bum marrying a man who thinks with his, sounds like a match made in heaven.

Regards, Ivan

[ActionNewsBill]

I've learned to always bring a copy of the Daily Telegraph with me to the barber. Did so earlier this week. ;)

The barber shops in the U.S. usually have copies of Playboy to read while waiting. Not the styling salons, but the real "men-only" barber shops.

[MadIvan]

The barber shops in the U.S. usually have copies of Playboy to read while waiting. Not the styling salons, but the real "men-only" barber shops.

The ones I visited in America had copies of Newsweek that dated back to the Eisenhower Administration. While it was fascinating to read what Ike had in mind to do about North Korea, and about how atomic energy is going to change all our lives, most of the time I prefer to keep up to date. ;)

Regards, Ivan