the Top Three

Nothing beats the cold wind rushing by your face and your hair flying when you take a trip down to the airport. No wait, nothing beats the cold wind rushing by and rustling through your hair when you're returning from the airport. It's usually that you drive slowly when going there because you have other people in the car with you, more likely older relatives and you would prefer to be tameezdar. But when you're returning, it's a different and more reckless story. That's where you turn the volume dial over and over and make the wind slap your face. I have a cold (damn you crab masala allergies!) and I could feel the viscosity of my sinus grow tenfold but it didn't matter. All I was thinking about were the three women I really really like to see in movies. They're all very stunning and accomplished and each has their own style to acting. I find all of them superhot (even if people don't agree with me on this) but it's just not the way they look that makes them appealing. I've seen plenty of smoking hot women fade away much like the cigarette smell in the very humble abode I call my room. Each of them has their own thing to them that somehow grabs me. This reminds me of a girl who I think looks rather like a clown but strangely, hot too. Not beautiful, because as I mentioned she looks like a clown. And don't get me wrong, I hate clowns and the way they look and the way they act and I definitely do not have clown-o-philia. But there was something about her I couldn't put my finger on that made her appealing and I could understand what was behind all those men falling for her. So anyway, all three have this individual thing about them that I can't identify and although I'd love a chance to meet any of them, I think I'd probably end up stammering and going red and not being able to talk at all if I did ever get the chance. They are (in no particular order):


Jennifer Connelly


I remember her from way back as the girl from this obscure movie about goblins and an orangutan (which I later learnt was called Labyrinth). I saw her again much later in one of my favourite movies, Dark City and she soon established herself as one of my favourite actresses. Jennifer Connelly, as her name suggests, is Irish by descent and Jewish on her mother's side. And sultry from all sides. I didn't see Requiem for a Dream and A Beautiful Mind wasn't too great but I found Ang Lee's Hulk remarkable and she was amazing as Betty Ross. And then came House of Sand and Fog in which I was blown away by her character. And when she tries to seduce Leonardo DiCaprio's character in Blood Diamond for information and finds herself a part of his fight, there was an appealing layer of subtlety to her. I can't say but there's something definitely about her that makes me want to grow a flower or something in her name.


Rachel McAdams


Wow. In this case, one can probably tell I posted the picture before I said anything. Rachel McAdams looks ordinary to me one second and breathtaking the other. I didn't mean ordinary like plain, just conventional. People tend to ignore the ordinary but there's so much beauty to be experienced and touched in this world in the most ordinary of people and things. Rachel McAdams is an embodiment of and testament to just that.
To be honest, I never really noticed her in her blonde teen roles but she was enough to make an honest man out of anyone in The Wedding Crashers. I saw The Notebook only about a year ago but I stopped watching that in the final last minutes because I knew where it was going and just didn't want to see it/couldn't bear it. But wow. And just to catch her in action, i went to see Red Eye on the big screen. Red Eye!


Amy Adams


Amy Adams is a red. I'm beginning to think I have a thing for redheads. That green-eyed girl from Lost (spoiler) who dies from those nasty nosebleeds is a red so is Isla Fisher (who was also in The Wedding Crashers with Rachel McAdams as her psychotic sister or something) who is brilliant in her comedic roles as well being a total stunner.
Amy Adams is the girl who lives next door to you and you've been in love with her all your life. You get girlfriends, she gets boyfriends and you pass her off as a friend who's also your neighbour. You don't even know you're in love with love with her. I think I saw her the first time in Talladega Nights with Will Ferrel and I definitely thought she was way better looking than the wife. I saw her again in Enchanted which made me remember her name. I have a confession: I loved Enchanted. But in my defense, I like these Disney movies. Even The Little Mermaid. Amy Adams is beautiful in her serious roles and really cute in others. There's something about her that makes me want to get to know her and introduce her to my parents or something. And...I can't wait for Leap Year.