Jordanna Who-ster?

Aw, c'mon... some Selma love, please?

And just three years later, Cruz was featured on VF's "Legends" cover.

I can't believe we ever let Tom Cruise have that much power.

I would still do an assortment of dirty things with Paul Walker.

And, as long as she sticks with Almodovar, Cruz is cool with me.

Question is what was Penelope Cruz doing with that pack of mostly mediocre people anyway. Wasn't she always a bit better than all of them? I know she's older at least..

Selma Blair was practically on every VF Hollywood cover, even when she wasn't literally included. My favorite cover of hers is Ranch & Feed Magazine back in 2002.

I'm gonna have to get my IMDB out for this one...

I was always gunning for Jordana Brewster.. she seemed like the type of girl I would have always had a crush on in High School but thought was waaaaay too cool for me.

i don't know who 85% of these people are.

the gallery of broken promises and shattered dreams

DINKLEMAN!!

...and they never worked again.

The End

This very photograph hangs on the wall of the Overlook Hotel...

Paul Walker is doing Fast & Furious 4. Seriously. NBC thinks Selma Blair can be funny, ruining Kath & Kim. Sarah was on 24, but I really have no idea who Marley is? This is the best/worst Vanity Fair photospread since Gretchen Mol. Ellen Page better run for her fricken life!

Chris Klein. I think my fingers were laughing when they typed his name.

@jasonelias: Agreed. And why, amongst all those sexy pouts, is Paul Walker is channeling Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farms?

@jasonelias: Yeah, Penelope was a bona fide star in Spain acting in award winning films, the others, not so much.

As for being older, Sarah Wynter, Paul Walker and Selma Blair are older (granted only a year or two) and Marley Shelton the same year.

@secretagentman: she's wendy peppercorn!

Also, Brewster was cast in Angelina Jolie role in the Mr. And Mrs. Smith pilot. When I mentioned it to my friends they all said "who?" and all I could come up with was "Fast and the Furious?" and I was at a loss as to why I knew who she was. Thank you, vanity fair.

I think Marley Shelton was the doctor with the hypodermic needle fetish in Grindhouse's Planet Terror; Josh Brolin's characters wife.

If that makes any sense..

Lots of Selma Blair and Jordanna Brewster love. Can't forget Wes Bentley though. Sucks that after Marky Mark dumped Jordanna Brewster because she was too smart she really didn't get many other roles.

Two of these women married fraternity guys from NYU - I don't know if that makes things better or worse.

@Benovite: She was also Wendy in The Sandlot! And Sin City, Bubble Boy, and for this thing, Sugar & Spice probably was the film they were thinking. Remember, the one with cheerleading bankrobbers? They had to rob a bank because she (Diane) got knocked up by her boyfriend (Jack).

@jupiterspaw: "Fraternity guys from NYU?" I matriculated there and can recall no one who would admit they were in a fraternity...it was refreshing, actually!

I can't believe Selma Blair got cast as Kim in Kath & Kim (Australian show originally). Is that the best they could do. Fuck.

Hasn't Mena Suvari been a "star of tomorrow" since American Beauty? Without ever fulfilling this promise?

I just read Selma Blair is playing Kim in a US Kath & Kim show (Australian original is hilarious). WTF were they thinking casting her. I predict a lead balloon.

Penelope is the only "star" on there, Selma the only one who really gets a lot of better work.

It's really too bad about Jordana.

I never got the appeal of Selma Blair. She's too skinny, skinny.

@capncalamity: Yep, the greek system existed, albeit in small numbers. Actually, crazy underground NYU frat party soon to be seen on upcoming episode of "Under the Arch." At this point half of these people are reduced to starring in it.

Oh, and I watched American Beauty again on TV a few weeks ago. Whatever did happened to Wes Bentley?

@aspiringexpatriate: She was fantastic in Grindhouse. "And if anyone comes to the door that isn't me, I want you to shoot them. Okay? I'm not kidding Tony, you shoot them in the head."
"What if it's Dad?"
"ESPECIALLY if it's your dad."

oh no! Kath and Kim is gonna bet Coupling-ed?! ugh.
selma has a big summer movie coming out: Hellboy II.

Jordana Brewster will always be the prissy JAP who irons her hair straight in NBC's "The 60s" miniseries. Much in the same way Selma Blair will be Zoe from the Dubba-dubba-WB's "Zoe, Duncan, Jack, and Jane"... hey, wasn't that show supposed to make her a star?

@CrankYank: I believe you mean Stonybrook Farm...(look at me, I'm i-talicizing!)

Reminds me of NME predictions... mildly amusing, flash-in-the-pan results...

Am I the only person who CANNOT STAND Penelope Cruz?

@CrankYank: I think it's because Paul Walker is "not right." @brechtgirl: Yeah, Cruz came with stats. Although I do remember Brewster as Hal's daughter on As the World Turns. She was very good. Still don't know who Shelton and Wynter are...

Selma Blair is like Paris Hilton without the family money, famous for being famous (but is she REALLY famous?). She really must have something on Graydon Carter, because she is ubiquitous in that magazine and invisible everywhere else. I gossip blog for a living and trust me, Jessica Simpson's dog gets more coverage.

Jordana Brewster is both startlingly beautiful and a pretty damn good comedienne, and why she hasn't had a nice romcom breakthrough is beyond me. D.E.B.S. doesn't really count.

Hollywood, if you're listening, the conclusion here is: Kill Blair. Replace her with Brewster. Thanks much!

Oh, to be the 13-year-old boy in the movie theater during "She's All That" and having to sit through all the Paul Walker shirtlessness without embarrassing yourself. Of course, seeing "She's All That" in the theater was probably embarrassing enough.

I remember Jordana from ATWT too, but she'll always be the bitchy girl in "The Faculty" to me.

I may be wrong, but didn't Brewster come out in a movie where she was in love with Faith from "Buffy"?

@Jaguares: DEBS. It wasn't horrible. She was the best thing in it; well, she and her sidekick.

Okay, here's something I've been wondering for years: is anyone else as deeply disturbed as I am by Selma Blair's hairline?

You can't see it when she's wearing bangs, but when it's long/pulled back, it looks like her hair is advancing on her forehead from both sides like the Allied and Russian armies converging on Berlin. It would seem that, in giving Christina Ricci extra forehead, the hairline gods took an equal amount away from Selma to keep the universe in balance.

Seriously, is it just me?

She lost me back in 2000 when she put in an utterly charmless guest appearance on the Daily Show, so I suppose I'm biased.

@sundaeg1rl: She's sort of pretty, until she shows her teeth. They look like they're trying to escape her head.

We could play the Six-Degrees-of-Separation with Penelope Cruz and Chris Klein ... The common denominator in all of that mess being Major Tom (Cruise). Who knew where it would all end up?!

It's sad that Penelope Cruz, an internationally known and respected actress, gets lumped in with a bunch of pretty faced Hollywood losers. Apparently you aren't famous until some corn chip munching rube from Nebraska knows who you're sleeping with.

@sundaeg1rl:
how can you watch Banditas and not love Penelope Cruz. I would kill to be the meat between the Cruz/Hyack love sandwich

I was appalled at some of the pictures, especially the 90s ones. The use of airbrush to make people look skinnier is so horrifying. The women look unnaturally skinny in some pics. Pay special attention to Sarah Jessica in the 1995 issue. Ack talk about giving women complexes.

@sundaeg1rl: No, you're not - I'm can't abide her either - she's empty, humorless & mediocre. There are a lot of Spanish actresses who run rings around her - Maribel Verdu, Belen Rueda, Silvia Abascal & Blanca Portillo to name just a few. Blame the stupidity of not dubbing in to English. She who moves to Hollywood & sleeps with the most famous gringos wins.