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(Side inquiry: Natalie Portman. Thoughts on her involvement with SW and rest of career?)

Personally, however, I’d have to disagree with you on the career trajectory I’d choose. If making the most of a phoned-in plot such as “Just Like Heaven” was the price I had to pay in order to, say, play June Carter Cash, I’d do it. Gimme the contract and watch me sign it with a smile on my face. Besides, Reese put in her time toplining her own B-movies, taking on films that anyone would be hardpressed to predict as winners in any market.

It IS certainly nice to see a husband, wife or partner be excited when the other gets accolades, of course. And I do acknowledge that there really should be more excitement from the Brads, Michaels and whomever is to come who listen to the acceptance speeches from the seats in the auditorium. But that much over-the-top didn’t seem genuine — and furthermore, what was HER response to it? She looked as if she was trying to get away from it before he crushed her – and, if I remember correctly, didn’t look particularly amused.

I’m not taking the tabloid reports as fact, which is why I made sure to include “snarky” and “tongue-in-cheek” for the subject lines. Nor am I assuming that, if the reports are true, that that was the only thing that went down. But even if they had been “off” for a couple of months, Ryan allegedly hooking up with his costar is lame. Wait until a separation is announced or something else makes it clear that there’s marital strife. When people have been wondering for awhile, is it smart to (again, allegedly) hand them something to place blame on? It’s asking for trouble.

Am I saying that either absolutely deserves blame? Nah. But sometimes one feels compelled to join the fray and speculate…

I’m mostly playing Devil’s Advocate here, and thoroughly enjoying the banter, by the way. I like good debate and you’re rocking this.

And by the way? 50 points to you for the Picasso reference. I’d cursed myself earlier for forgetting to include a comment about that — as a fan of SM plays and that one in particular (fell in love with it while working on a college production of it), I’m more than psyched to see how it plays out in film. GLORIOUS.

“People keep trying to make me a movie star but they just don’t understand. I’m not a movie star, I’m an actor.”

If he had wanted to play the Hollywood game (which Reese is an active player in), then he’d be doing shit like Troy, or Ocean’s Eleven or Oscar Bait like Running With Scissors. Instead, he’s working with a Hollywood legends (Clint), toplining his own B-movies (Breach, Five Fingers), and gearing up to work with great artists (the next Kim Pierce flick, Steve Martin’s genius Picasso at the Lapin Agile). Personally, I’d rather have his career, then be forced into doing shit like Just Like heaven, as his soon-to-be grease ex-wife plodded her way through.

And who cares if his antics at the award show were a bit “look at me” ish. Isn’t it nice to see a man rooting for their wife. When did you see Brad ever coo over Jen like that? I can’t recall Michael Douglas making an ass out of himself cheering on CZJ when she won her Oscar. Does Phillippe earn no points for this?

And since when are tabloids to be believed? Because Reese is the one who filed and Ryan happens to be shooting a movie with a pretty girl, suddenly that means he’s to blame? I’m sorry, I don’t buy it. When marriages end, it’s usually preceded by a separation. Who wants to put down money these two have been “off” for a couple months? So even if it is true that he’s nailing Cornish, I seriously doubt it’s what drove them to the end.

I personally think these two just had enough of each other. She’s a bit too prissy for him, and he’s a bit too jerky for her. Why does there have to be blame on either side, but especially on him? Jen and Brad ended because they differed on wanting a family, not because of Angelina. Take my point?

my impresion of thoughts in Ryan’s pretty, yet get-rid-of-that-scowl-head:

the wife has an oscar. i do not.

she gets more and frankly better quality work. i do not.

she got to wear a chanel dress previously worn by kirsten dunst. i secretly wanted to wear that dress. besides, it looked better on kirsten. even i could have worn that frock better!

I totally hear you on Rachel McAdams, who entirely rocks and comes off as a kickass woman and absoLUTELY a great female role model. And I should say that I was very much rooting for R&R, as I appreciated the fact that they were a pair of successful working actors who didn’t come off as spotlight-hogging — and that they appeared to be capably raising two adorable children (although all that flaxen hair was starting to make me think of Children of the Corn). And third, many of the films he has done in recent years rank right up there on my “thank goodness for quality films” list.

I think it’s largely interpetation, and I’m coming at it from, say, 3,000 miles away from the source. But I didn’t read the bear hug as happiness, say a “Hey, look at my WIFE!” response. I read it at the time as “Hey, look at MY wife. Where’s the camera panning to get MY reaction to this?”

Then again, I own up to occasionally being a cynical bitch. It’s sometimes how I roll.

That said, yes, he has been a part of some quality films. But prior to all the buzz for “Flags of Our Fathers,” when has he been a posterboy of a film? Not since those late 90s days — and I have to wonder what his approach to that lifestyle would have been had, say, Antitrust done better at the boxoffice (thank God it didn’t). You don’t think there was any resentment at all that Reese became an It Woman (funny that she never really came off as an It Girl) and he was That Guy You See in a Lot of Good Films Who Looks A Lot Like Sebastian in Cruel Intentions Oh Wait Isn’t He Married To Reese?

Keep in mind also that I’ve liked her work DESPITE the Legally Blonde series (first one funny enough, second one insipid, even for someone looking for political jokes). And perhaps I do buy into the hype, but she comes across as a head-down-focus-on-the-work kind of actor. Who happens to giggle from time to time.

If the rumors of infidelity prove false, my opinion absolutely will change. But in the meantime, my gut instinct is to turn against someone who was cheating on his or her partner. If it turns out he didn’t, I’ll follow up with my open letter to Ryan.

I will give you points, however, for The Face Reference. That shit was freaky, no?

I get that girls like her because she was Legally Blonde and all that (and I’ll give that she rocked in Election), but there are so many better female role models in Hollywood. Rachel McAdams comes quickly to mind. She is Public Enemy No. 1 over at TheJay.com, and I will not rest until I convince the world that she is evil (go back and look at Cruel Intentions. The scene in the car when she makes… that face… it’s the face of Satan).

Do you think he wrote it all down in a bound leather journal?