Am I curious about what happened to Meg Ryan? Yeah, but a nice little side bar photo on the cover would have sufficed. The cover isn't going to make me buy the magazine. I think they forget that the idea of a magazine is to get customers to purchase it. Customers are reluctant to shell out almost $5 when they see Meg Ryan on the cover.
Of course the rest of the stories on the cover seem pretty boring and tame too. Kneepads' sales are down fifty percent. I know that any of you could walk in to that place tomorrow and do better than that.
In the article Meg Ryan says she prefers to be out of the spotlight and away from acting and is happy just living her life. They let her get away with that answer. Meg Ryan would love to be in front of a camera. if you came to her tomorrow and said Tom Hanks wants to do a Sleepless 2 she would be the first person at work and ready to go. The affair with Russell Crowe killed her career. It isn't fair but that's what happened. Kneepads doesn't even mention it in their article.
They also tread lightly on the whole timing of the John Mellencamp dating thing. Everyone knows they started dating before he said he was splitting with his wife but that's isn't in there either. They go with the whole dating shortly after he split with his wife version.
$5 for People Magazine? Don't they know print is dead?
ReplyDeleteWhat an odd cover story. It seems like someone was paying back an old debt. They also managed to find a cover photo where her plastic surgery didn't look grotesque.
ReplyDeleteAt least they were nice enough to use a picture from like 10 years ago before she completely jacked her face up and stopped eating. I'd love to see Pete Burns interview Meg Ryan.
ReplyDeleteThey sure made her look good on the cover.
ReplyDeleteThat is a nice painting of Meg Ryan.
ReplyDeleteWho did she piss off for her career to fall so flat? Was it really just sleeping with Russell Crowe? If I am to believe CDAN, everyone in LaLaLand swaps partners, so could it really be the Russell Crowe relationship?
ReplyDeleteShe could easily be playing quirky mom roles or get a gig on TV now, no? I feel like so many movie stars are going the TV route. Did any of you see the promo for the HBO show with Woody Harrelson and Matthew McCaughnahay (fuck, I don't know how to spell that.)? I was at first stunned to see those two going to TV, but you know what, I feel like TV is putting out the better products, actually, so then it all made sense.
Well, Meg Ryan will always be Sally Albright to me.
I cannot wait to see that show on HBO. It looks fantastic. MM and Woody make a good pair.
DeleteAgree the photo is excellent....funny how Angie can have an affair and breakup a marriage and Meg gets creamed for the same thing....especially since she was married to a serial cheater...bizarre
ReplyDeleteThe affair didn't kill her career. The botched plastic surgery did. By the time they fixed it properly, she was too old to play a sweetheart, and that was really the only trick she had in her bag. I'd like to see her do a movie again, though. I've always liked her.
ReplyDeleteCount - Ha! That is the most normal her face has looked in a good decade.
ReplyDeleteHow old is that photo?
ReplyDeleteI think her awful plastic surgery derailed her career. I wonder if Tom Hanks even takes her calls now.
ReplyDeleteThey used a pic of her wax figure.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to have the weed concession on that set.
ReplyDeleteMy husband is going to be all up in MM/Woody show. It does look good. It will most likely scare the living daylights out of me and I will be up all night obsessing. Kinda what I went through with the Sopranos, and Boardwalk Empire. BE got so violent/off-the-wall for me I vowed to never watch again after the second season. And now, everybody says how awesome Bobby Carnevale was. Maybe I'll watch in marathon form. I can't handle the violence. I'm such a girl.
ReplyDeleteMeg Ryan and JM seem like such an odd pairing, no? Dropping a Victoria's Secret model for Meg Ryan? Now that is some crazy talk. Oh, to know the staffers of these people.
The Russell Crowe affair didn't kill her career.
ReplyDeleteThe surgery did.
Why are you making personal attacks against the editor of People magazine?
ReplyDeleteMentioning rumors about his sex life is just childish.
Lol @ all the funnys about that pic. My thoughts exactly.
ReplyDeleteAlso, she did suffer really bad publicity from the affaur. I think it was because she was America's Sweetheart so it was less tolerated than say a vixen likeAngie.
I started reading snarky gossip sites just before my Kneepads subscription (the shame!) ran out. I didn't renew it.
ReplyDeleteWhat I don't understand is how Sandra Bullock can look so fabulous at 50. Do Beverly Hills plastic surgeons really vary that much in skill? (I really do wonder about this all the time.)
ReplyDeleteThere are some serious butchers out there. Sad part is that women can't afford to fix a "Tara Reid Bad" lipo job. Can't tell you how many bad boob jobs I saw this summer either. No symmety at all, misaligned nipples. Sad really.
DeleteShe worked after the Crowe movie but was too old (40+) to continue playing an ingenue (her forte) and not good enough an actress to carry drama. Sandra Bullock had more range as an actress and better judgement on material.
ReplyDeleteGotta luv photoshop Meggie!
ReplyDeleteMeg Ryan the movie star's face is dead. That's why her career is over. She has a Michael Jackson face now. She could play the Joker's mom in a Batman movie, but that's about the extent of it.
ReplyDeleteI can see why they are putting people like Meg Ryan and Michael Douglas on the cover, though. It seems to me the people still buying magazines are probably an older demographic that doesn't get their entertainment news online.
ReplyDeleteThe editor may be ass, Enty, but I don't know that the cover choices are necessarily bad, that's my point.
Yep. It's the disturbing FrankenMeg face that killed her career. People cheat all the time in Hollywood, and nobody really faulted her after Dennis Quaid did nothing but cheat through their whole marriage.
ReplyDeleteI agree with everyone who says she ruined her career when she ruined her face.
ReplyDeleteMaybe she just really didnt want to work. It IS possible!
ReplyDeleteI'm confused. Meg is happy with her low key life ( not making films and being everywhere) so why is she on the cover of People? Surely, if you are happy being out of the public gaze you wouldn't be doing People covers. I bet she would give her right arm to have Sandra Bullock's career right now.
ReplyDeleteStephen Huvane is Ryan's publicist and he's a heavyweight in the industry. Why she even needs one is beyond me. Why he would cash in any favors to get Meg a cover is beyond me. That sounds snarkier than I intend it. I have no problem with MR and would like to see her make a comeback. I guess my point is what's the point of a big story about someone's new private life except to establish an "older, wiser" image since she's no longer our "sweetheart" (I loathe that term for actresses, anyway).
ReplyDeleteI do think the affair her in Hollywood for awhile. And remember the blind about what a bastard Russell was to her, it was all a bet and he dumped her coldly and she was really in love and a mess? That's when she went with all the surgery. She was America's sweetheart caught cheating, box office poison, and no mention of Quaid being a serial cheater.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't mind seeing her comeback. I know there was a movie in the can that was cancelled right after 9/11 that would have shown her in a new light. Maybe after she just retreated, isn't that the time she adopted her daughter?
Ugh I really wish we could edit, first sentence s/b the affair did do her in.
ReplyDeletePeople is so pathetic. My wife just got a free subscription. One of the articles was on Simon Cowell and his new chick. Completely glorifying her adultrey and him screwing over his friend. Plus you get the obligatory Jennifer Aniston somewhere on the cover once a month.
ReplyDeleteBeneath fish wrap
really great photoshopped cover
ReplyDeleteI used to love her back in the day
not sure this is a draw to sell a mag though
I've noticed "People" getting a bit more snarky. That's how it used to be. IMO the sales have fallen not just because of the Internet but also because Kneepads decided to start sucking up to stars constantly. I don't know why they made that decision. Their "Mail Bag" section used to be funny as hell and full of criticism. It's getting better but it's probably too little too late.
ReplyDeleteAs for Meg, I do think her affair with that violent idiot Crowe helped sink her career, because she was supposed to be America's Sweetheart and not do things like that. But it was also because she fucked up her face with surgery (she had the worst duck lips in the biz for a while there) and the fact that her schtick in movies was being adorable. It's hard to be adorable when you're pushing 40.
The affair with Russel made her take a nose dive, but it was the grizzly rearranging of her face to look like the joker is what sealed her fate.
ReplyDeleteShe could be working--I think some of what hurt her is she did a series of very serious "drama" movies right around the time of Russell Crowe--and I don't think that is really how America wanted to see her. She wasn't bad in some of them but I think people see her as cute and neurotic and funny--not drunk and dramatic.
ReplyDeleteI think she could easily do a Woody Allen film--he writes amazing middle aged women characters--or the type of light comedy that Diane Keaton or Meryl Streep do sometimes. She would be the funny aunt or mom now, not the cute ingenue.
I think she needs to work her image if she wants to work--and it may be she is stuck in her past and not able to see who she is now--who knows.
That is a wonderful picture--my first thought was--oh she got her bad face work fixed.
I'm almost 50, and I'm freakin' adorable. :)
ReplyDeleteThe 40+ female crowd will buy the magazine to read about Meg Ryan. She's still America's Sweetheart and will always and forever be Sleepless in Seattle. We'll always love her for who she was to us (You've Got Mail) and the romantic part of our lives. We'll be buying the magazine and reading every single word to see if and what it says as to why her marriage broke up, how she's handling being unemployed and dating a (formerly) married man. These things are all relevant to her 40+ yr old fans.
ReplyDeleteUmmm....not that I'm a 40+ yr old female who loves Meg Ryan or anything......just to clarify... :)
ReplyDeleteRyan killed her career by having the worst plastic surgery since Mickey Rourke. Jesus, she ruined her face. She must have had the worst, most easily-bullied plastic surgeon ever.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, she looked like The Joker there for a while. Sad to contrast that to Sally, or even Kathleen Kelly.