Jessica Simpson: happily, profitably ditzy
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Further evidence that it is smart to play dumb.
"Jessica Simpson has really carved out an interesting niche in what was already a crowded cultural environment," says Robert Thompson, founder of the Centre for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University.
"Newlyweds kind of invented this other space for her," he says. "She took a little bit from the book of Anna Nicole Smith with the obliviousness and cluelessness, but she's so much more likable.
"With Jessica Simpson, you wanted to explain things to her and have her over for some pot roast. She's inserting herself into the culture as almost this Gidget character who's wholesome in her attractiveness."
Comments
I agree. I love jessica!! I feel like it’s not really fair to expect celebrities to be role models because they’re human beings too, but how many girls can you find nowadays who are that beautiful and genuine who decide to remain virgins until they are married? Not too many. I’m not saying it doesn’t happrn, but it’s hard to find. I respect her reallly just for carrying herself in the manner that she does, and you can tell she really is like that. She’s cool with me.
Posted by: miss scott | July 13, 2004 6:23 PM
Just because JS is blonde and an airhead she gets all the attention. The media always calls people like the blondes, Scarlett Johansson and Marilyn Monroe, beautiful just because they are blonde, when really, people like Beyonce, who is not blonde and other beautiful actresses and singers get no mention.
Posted by: SweetSixteen | July 30, 2004 3:08 PM