Not a whole lot better, but still, she is acknowledging it.

I think she's a lot prettier in the Grey's outfit and styling than in the made-up prissy Vanity Fair picture. Not to say she's not hot either way, but the woman is gorgeous, she doesn't need anything to be hot.

I agree with her confessions, both part 1 and part 2!

Maybe Katherine Heigl thought Knocked Up would be more groundbreaking
than it turned out to be. I, myself, truly was excited for the movie, since I thought that the 40 Year Old Virgin was brilliant and knocked down macho stereotypes in a cute, sorta feminist way.

Grey's has really started to go the route that ER took. I'm scared for Grey's Anatomy.

And I definitely think Katherine Heigl is so gorgeous that magazines could take pictures of her in a potato sack and I'd still drool over them. Yum. Thanks for the extra pictures of her, dorothy snarker!

I think she looks way hotter in her doc duds than in the VF shoot. But that's me.

As for her confessions ... in regard to Knocked Up, it sounds like she took the pay day first, and then moved to higher ground. I can judge her for that, but can I blame her?

And I totally agree with her about Izzy and George. I'm not a devoted Grey's fan, and only watch while I'm folding laundry, or doing other things ... its more on in the background than actually what I'm doing ... anyway, I thought the whole thing was ill-conceived and wrong. It continues to limp along, still not seeming to have a rhyme or reason to the storyline.

Lisa

If only more stars would do this BEFORE everything was aired and put out.... wouldn't there be a lot better quality of films and episodes out there?

The Way The Cookie Crumbles

As I noted in an earlier post, I'm not a big fan of Katherine Heigl. Her comments always strike me as a little disenguous...like she got to party 30 minutes late and is trying to play catch-up. She's busy jumping on the bandwagon and you're thinking, yeah, we had this conversation a half hour ago.

I'd take Heigl a bit more seriously if she panned the movie before it made her asking price jump to $6M per movie rather than after.

First you get the power...then you kick ass.

She's is also one of the few A-List Hollywood actresses who's not afraid to look goofy. She always strikes me as being supremely comfortable in her own skin...unlike most of the other LA pretty ladies who always seem to be itchy somehow.

She wants to keep it real and the network needs to keep the ratings up? The writers should add a great lesbian character and i'll certainly be watching grey's for another 4 seasons!!!

But you need to dance with the one who brought you, Katie Heigl.

Knocked Up is from the POV of Seth Rogen's character ... he is the one who changes, he is the one who has to "grow up" through his choices/life-decisions/relationships. It's looking at a very common life-occurance through this one male's perspective ... usually in movies with this subject matter, the POV is reversed. And typically in *that* situation, men are painted as Satan's spawn - they leave, they offer abortion money, etc... Reality: Not all men leave their pregnant girlfriends. Reality 2: Not all women are saints (pregnant or otherwise). The point of any good art form, is to express humanity, in someway. I *know* women like Katie Heigl's character (and Leslie Mann's for that matter)...I also know men like Seth Rogen's character - it was a grossly exaggerated portrayal in the fact that it's a comedy. But there was truth and growth and human expression - and those qualities are not inherently female, I'm sorry.

It's funny, but part of what makes acting so hard is that one eventually has to play characters one doesn't like. It's all a part of the business. How many roles do you think Meryl Streep has had that she doesn't love? But a good actor (like Meryl) will take that reaction and use it to their advantage (I site The Devil Wears Prada and Death Becomes Her as examples). And ultimately, what's so interesting about playing characters, is that they will teach you something about yourself. So what did you learn about yourself, Katherine Heigl? That's what *I* want to know.

Knocked Up springboarded her career, Grey's Anatomy gave it the initial push. Be grateful, and don't shoot yourself in the foot. Judd Apatow or Shondra Rhimes might not be so quick to call again.

And what’s he then that says I play the villain,
When this advice is free I give, and honest

I've heard men complain about this type of on screen relationship. Some guys are insulted by the underachieving male hooking up with the overachieving female. In most movies and television shows of this nature, it clearly shows who's boss in the relationship. Some men are irked by seeing a guy constantly have to kiss his girl's ass every episode. The guy screws something up, tires to cover it up, eventually gets caught, then has to grovel. They find it emasculating. I'm not going to see the movie; but I wonder if there were some scenes where his friends made it apparent that she was too good for him? Is this a film about extreme circumstances showing a couple that personality should win out over achievement or looks? Or is this a film giving the Average Joe some hope?

There is the opposite in Hollywood: the Cinderella story. The maid or plain, unpopular girl is smitten with the rich or popular guy and in the end he finally appreciates her true beauty... well, when it's covered with makeup and nice hairdo and a sexy dress. All the while she's being called a "golddigger" and being looked down upon by his friends and family.

I've often wondered about the concept of people dating "out of their league"; on screen and in real life. I've heard plenty of women declare they are more evolved because they don't rely on superficial factors, it's all about the personality. I want to call bullshit on that but I never felt like dealing with the arguing that would follow. I've heard women discouraging their female friends from talking to a particular woman because they wanted to spare her the rejection that they just KNEW was going to occur. Interesting how no-one wants to see a woman with anyone who is "beneath" her. And men have to be with women whose beauty matches their bank account.

Anyway, I haven't come to any conclusions about it besides my usual "people suck"

Maybe there will come a day where someone can be with whomever they choose without having to justify it to others.

I can completely see that her opinions are indeed accurate, but what I'm a bit shocked at is that she piped up at all at least officially.  I mean we all out here in "watcher-land" we have thousands of opinions about plot, characters, performance, production, etc.  But those folks that are "in the business" well all I have to say is their world is radically different and they choose/get parts for many reasons.  Some who can afford to make critical choices about what they pick do, others who need to pay the bills well they sometimes do gigs that simply bring home the bacon.

Now I don't know about you all, but if I start smack talkin the folks that have the power to determine if I get future paychecks then I start to think twice about keeping my mouth shut.  That is until I win that big ole fat lottery....then I'm squawkin like a canary.

So it sort of sounds like she feels as if her ability to get work in the future is safe and she can say anything she wants.  I might want to call my boss an idiot sometimes.....but do I????  My comments are less about whether I agree or disagree with her actual comments and more about wondering if she has just shot herself in the foot.

that's one of the reasons i didn't like that movie. i seriously think judd apatow has some issues that manifest themselves through his writing female roles. i feel bad for his wife, she gets the worst of it in his movies usually. now that i think about it, the male characters suck too..

"Think Sideways"