Salon.com > The Back-up Plan http://www.salon.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:24:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The search for Jennifer Lopez’s lost booty http://www.salon.com/2010/04/23/back_up_plan/ http://www.salon.com/2010/04/23/back_up_plan/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:30:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/andrew_ohehir/2010/04/22/back_up_plan Scott Fitzgerald's maxim that there are no second acts in American lives has been proved wrong so often that it blazes out above the landscape in flaming letters of wrongness. Sometimes it seems that American lives are nothing but second acts: Getting wrecked, screwing the wrong people and going to jail is the process that ultimately makes us lovable.

Jennifer Lopez has avoided any such catastrophic meltdowns, as far as I know -- unless you're counting "Gigli," her misbegotten lesbian-mobster romance from 2003, and the botched betrothal to Ben Affleck whence it sprang. (That relationship might have counted, for both of them, as screwing the wrong people.) Actually, while "Gigli" is a very bad movie, it does not quite deserve its reputation among the most terrible ever made; as deluded pop-celebrity vehicles go, it's no "Glitter." But let us not grow distracted by that topic, alluring as it is. (We can discuss the relevance of Mariah Carey's second-act strategies some other time.)

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