Thursday, April 7, 2011
THE EQUIVALENT OF BUTLER HAVING WON MONDAY NIGHT: In a stunning upset, Esquire online readers have voted 30 Rock's Katrina Bowden their choice as Sexiest Woman Alive. Bowden was a 10 seed, and an underdog in every round, beating Padma Lakshmi, Kim Kardashian, Emmy Rossum, Dianna Agron and Lea Michele, and Megan Fox, before pulling the ultimate Cinderella story and upsetting #1 overall seed and defending champion Brooklyn Decker in the finals. There's no One Shining Moment, but she does have an acceptance speech.
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That seems about right. Was Ellie Kemper ever in the running?
ReplyDeleteWhile I have my own differently-oriented power rankings (Zooey Deschanel doesn't even make the bracket? Couldn't she have a play-in-game against fellow indie-styled beauty Lizzy Caplan?), I'm not disappointed that Bowden won. While she's barely been present on the last few years of 30 Rock, she was pretty good in Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, a criminally underseen movie skewering horror tropes with Alan Tudyk and Tyler Labine as good-hearted backwoods rednecks being terrorized by marauding college kids.
ReplyDeleteAfter watching that acceptance speech, it all makes sense.
ReplyDeleteCan't argue with that.
ReplyDeleteNo DVD release date on that yet, but I just saved it at Netflix and signed up for an alert from Amazon, just to try and put a little support in. That plot description is right up my alley.
ReplyDeleteI may or may not have seen a close-to-final workprint of it already, and it may or may not be fantastic.
ReplyDeleteUm....wow. Y'know, I can come up with a good argument for every one of those wins on the way to the title, though Lakshmi and Agron are far tougher competition than any of the rest.
ReplyDeleteAnd speaking of Lizzy Caplan, nice to see her last night on Mr. Sunshine (yes, I'm still watching, and still waiting for consistent laughs - the one bit that did make me laugh out loud involved man-child Roman referencing Caplan's "tushie," a word that already is never not funny, but Nate Torrence's delivery killed).
I dont see how she was the underdog against any of those other mentions. Perhaps just because she was lesser known, but I think they got this one right.
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