A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

"PROBABLY ONE OR TWO STEPS AWAY FROM COMPETING WITH HELEN HUNT FOR HBO ROLES": Well, that's Jeff Wells' assessment of Jennifer Aniston's future career arc, given that, apparently, no one wants to see The Breakup. Does anyone disagree with a word of this?

I'm told that while audiences enjoy Vaughn in an off-the-wall mode, they don't want to see him in semi-romantic parts. This is bad news for Aniston also because now she's 0 for 4 -- Derailed, Rumor Has It, Friends with Money and now this thing. She's all but kaput as a big-screen, big-bucks player. She's not particularly sexy, not perky, not a gifted comedienne . . . and she always seems to play parts in an introspective, low-energy way.