AN ODE TO DEMI MOORE



Demi Moore is more known for other things than for any acting she's done in recent years--which has been rather scattershot--such as her marriage--and subsequent divorce--to former-model-turned-(alleged)-actor Ashton "Dude, Where's My Car?" Kutcher who, of course, is considerably younger than her. Of course, one could easily say that about Demi Moore's entire career as she's made headlines not so much for her acting but rather for, again, other things. For instance, Demi drew headlines for appearing nude and pregnant on the cover of Vanity Fair back during the time when it was still a relative no-no for a major celebrity to pose starkers--and pregnant--on the cover of a national magazine whereas nowadays celebrities pose naked on magazine covers all the time and no one hardly bats an eye towards it (like, for instance, as I write this TV actress Kate Walsh is naked-as-a-jaybird on the cover of Shape magazine). She made headlines again when she posed starkers again on the cover of Vanity Fair this time clad only in body paint made to look like a tuxedo. Demi also made cinematic history--if one wants to call it that--by being paid a reported twelve-and-a-half million bucks more than any other actress in cinematic history to show her surgically-enhanced bod in the by-now-notorious box office bomb the appropriately-titled Striptease by playing a stripper at a club called--again, appropriately enough--The Eager Beaver (while, at the same time, bemoaning the state of women in film). Of course, it wasn't like Demi was any stranger to showing moviegoers her non-surgically-enhanced bod in previous films such as Blame It On Rio and About Last Night where she had perhaps one the most explicit "love" scenes ever captured on celluloid with, of all people, Rob Lowe (yes, the very same Rob Lowe who was caught having sex on tape with a reported 16-year-old girl). Before that, she showed everyone her, shall we say, goodies in Playboy's one-time sister mag Oui (and also showing everyone her apparent aversion to razors, if you know what I mean!) while she was appearing on the daytime TV soap opera General Hospital. Of course, this is not to say that she hasn't had at least some success in film, especially in flicks such as Ghost (where she had the hots for "ghost" the late Patrick Swayze), G.I. Jane (where she famously--or infamously--shaved her head) and Indecent Proposal (where Robert Redford paid her $1 million to bang her brains out). So Demi Moore has definitely made her mark not only on American cinema but on American (so-called) culture as well. Whether or not that's a good thing I think I'll leave to the cinematic and/or cultural experts (if there even is such a thing!) to decide whether that's good or bad, all right? Oh yeah, she was also married to Bruce "Die Hard" Willis, for those of you who've been living under a damned rock these past several years (or at least since the late-nineties!).