Why celebs remain profoundly clueless

Who knows, maybe Lea Michele will be one of the other 16 guests. She can hardly fail to become your best friend after such an intimate shared experience. Conspicuous self-castigation need not involve going to boot camp to reshape your booty. If a non-celebrity repeatedly eats inedible substances, we call this the mental disorder known as pica. Pregnant women are especially vulnerable in conditions of extreme poverty, where eating soil may be a desperate move to obtain calcium and other necessary minerals.

Not only do you not eat, but you torture yourself by pretending to eat, holding up forkfuls of your favorite foods but then putting them down uneaten. Naturally, after undergoing this painful process, Paltrow turned up on a red carpet wearing a backless dress to show the world. Cupping is still going: Members of the US Olympic swim team, notably gold medalist Michael Phelps, displayed their cupping welts at the Summer Games.

That toxins can be physically sucked out of your body by hot cups is, of course, hard to believe, but experiments suggest that those who swear by the practice may be experiencing a placebo effect. If you believe something works, your body might actually be fooled. But the yearning for transcendence through self-induced trials is really just a ruse, a way of reveling in your own awesomeness. Writing in The American Conservative, Rod Dreher noted that a reader pointed out that leaving work at 4 p.

Leaving early to train for an Ironman triathlon — a masterwork of self-punishment — is, however, deeply respected. And yet the former involves giving of oneself in the service of others; the latter is simply self-gratification. What purpose is there to competing in an Ironman triathlon except winning the right to brag about it before, during and afterwards?

So in keeping with asceticism she renounced all worldly fame? The rank reek of hypocrisy clouds the air around the neo-ascetics. Like when she takes Tai around the school pointing out the different social circles. So Cher was almost a parody of the sort of Beverly Hills princess you knew all too well? But a bunch of girls I grew up with did not like this about me and always seemed so annoyed when I flipped my hair.

I remember making an effort to do that hair flip with a lot of attitude whenever I was walking as Cher. Like in the scene where I'm shopping with Dion, Stacey and I are walking and I would take a quick moment in the mirror to flip my hair. I just remember thinking This is like a heightened version of what those girls thought I was.

Who out of the core cast would you say was the most similar to their onscreen counterpart? Paul Rudd maybe? He's just a good guy who's smart and lovable and all those good things that make up Josh. Brittany Murphy was not like Tai. What did you make of that plotline at the time? I don't remember having any point of view on it. I mean I know we're not blood, so it's not like illegal in that way. But it is really weird when you think about it laughs. I mean it's a funny thing to grow up that way, but then again they weren't related.

I just remember thinking she was so great for the part. I can't remember how many girls came in to audition for Tai that day and I don't know if I saw a few girls for it or just her, but I remember Brittany being really adorable. She's so good at the little accent because she had one already, but I think she just pushed it to new heights. She was the best one you guys! You were both the only members of the core cast who were actual teenagers at the time of filming. Did you bond at all as up-and-comers at the center of this big studio movie?

I remember her mom was on set a lot. I brought my mom around a little bit and we would all spend time together. But I don't think we had any intellectual idea about us being up-and-comers in a big movie because we didn't know we were in a big movie. Maybe other people knew, but I was so innocent and never really paying attention to career stuff at all. I was just doing another job. It was a really great acting part that was different because… Well, first of all I didn't know I was funny.

Everything I'd done up until that point had been a drama. Clueless was the first comedy I ever did. I found Cher on the page to be materialistic and unappealing.

And really annoying, to be honest. Just everything I sort of loathed. But I realized that was just me judging her, and once I started working on her I found all the heart and all the love.

She loves her daddy so much! And she's trying to be a supportive friend, so I just sorta put all of my love and heart into this character with these other aspects that were cringeworthy. Did you get the chance to enjoy the experience or was it mostly all work?

I was the lead in this and I had sixty-four costume changes, so I didn't have a life. All the actors would come and go, which is the fun way of making a movie. You come in, you do your thing, and you leave. But I was there alllllllllllll the time, so for me it was very much a job. No part of it felt very social. What was your personal style going into the film?

I just didn't understand it at the time. I saw Clueless about four years ago at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery for an outdoor screening. It was an incredible experience because my son was seeing it for the first time with 4, people outdoors and that was beautiful, but I also brought the costume designer Mona May.

Because every single costume was like a Broadway entrance. It's like when your favorite star comes onstage for the first time and you lose your mind.

Every costume is so brilliant. At the time I was so annoyed because my fashion sense was so bleh. Every audition I went on I wore jeans and the same green Gap t-shirt with a little pocket.

But where are all the goofy, bubbly high-school comedies? Based on the pop-sociology bestseller Queen Bees and Wannabes , the movie — while undeniably funny and irreverent in all the right places — ended up delivering a fairly serious message on girl-hate and bullying. Many of the most popular teen comedies that have followed, from Easy A to 21 Jump Street, have similarly tended to parse sexual stigmas, drug abuse and more with a meta, tongue-in-cheek tone.

But these films are one big reason why Clueless stands on a pedestal for many Nineties babies. It had quotable lingo and a narrator as iconoclastic as Ferris Bueller. Clueless was also unapologetically girly. Today, those topics are often either secondary sidebars to drama-filled plots in films starring young women see The Hunger Games and Divergent or ignored entirely in films that hone in on male leads.

Then it was off to the s, a land of Moldy Peaches-soundtracked teen pregnancies , heart-warming traveling pants , and Gus Van Sant-directed school-shootings.