2004: In flux

2004:

Virginia Madsen.

Most of you by now have probably heard my shtick about Virginia Madsen:

When we die, if we've been good, we get to take a never-ending hot shower with her at the age of 21.

But I don't think I've ever mentioned that whole bit comes from her work in the movie Creator.

Yes, the scene appears, and yes, it's sexy, but even more, it's touching and romantic.

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Madsen got a chance to show her chops as an actress in Sideways.

In the main, most of her movies before that only gave her a chance to show something else.

Since then she's kept busy making as many movies as she can but unfortunately, almost none of them have been as well-received. Maybe she'll have better luck now that she's becoming a producer.



Kate Winslet.



Winslet is one of the most satisfying actresses in the world today. Although it goes without saying I am enamored of her smokin'-hot body, I use the word satisfying not because of that but because she always delivers in performance.

I take it as a given that she will eventually win an Oscar, if not more than one.



As Sara Gilbert (who come to think of it, I should've put in this series of posts around 92-94) said on The Big Bang Theory,

"Come for the breasts, stay for the brains." That's Kate Winslet. I'd also put money (if I had any) on her aging better than most of her contemporaries.



Winslet is reuniting with her Titanic co-star, Leonardo DiCaprio, in a film directed by her husband, Sam Mendes.

Runner-Up : Natalie Portman. Look, I just don't think she's a very good actress, and in interviews and such she seems like kind of a silly person.

Shore' do like to look at her, tho.

Last month Portman was a celebrity guest judge on Project Runway. She also inspired the name of an electropop band based here in Seattle, Natalie Portman's Shaved Head.

I find them kind of unlovely, but what do you want of me? I'm old enough to remember the Silicon Teens...