i don't know who 85% of these people are.

roxybebop

I was always gunning for Jordana Brewster.. she seemed like the type of girl I would have always had a crush on in High School but thought was waaaaay too cool for me.

Reluctant Financier

I'm gonna have to get my IMDB out for this one...

hack-a-rific

Selma Blair was practically on every VF Hollywood cover, even when she wasn't literally included. My favorite cover of hers is Ranch & Feed Magazine back in 2002.

Benovite

Question is what was Penelope Cruz doing with that pack of mostly mediocre people anyway. Wasn't she always a bit better than all of them? I know she's older at least..

jasonelias

I would still do an assortment of dirty things with Paul Walker.

And, as long as she sticks with Almodovar, Cruz is cool with me.

Victor Ward

And just three years later, Cruz was featured on VF's "Legends" cover.

I can't believe we ever let Tom Cruise have that much power.

IBentMyWookie

Aw, c'mon... some Selma love, please?

Princess Sparkle Pony

Jordanna Who-ster?

mr_wednesday

@aspiringexpatriate: She was fantastic in Grindhouse. "And if anyone comes to the door that isn't me, I want you to shoot them. Okay? I'm not kidding Tony, you shoot them in the head."
"What if it's Dad?"
"ESPECIALLY if it's your dad."

michaelagrammar

Oh, and I watched American Beauty again on TV a few weeks ago. Whatever did happened to Wes Bentley?

pumpkinsoup

@capncalamity: Yep, the greek system existed, albeit in small numbers. Actually, crazy underground NYU frat party soon to be seen on upcoming episode of "Under the Arch." At this point half of these people are reduced to starring in it.

jupiterspaw

I never got the appeal of Selma Blair. She's too skinny, skinny.

pumpkinsoup

Penelope is the only "star" on there, Selma the only one who really gets a lot of better work.

It's really too bad about Jordana.

Juancho

I just read Selma Blair is playing Kim in a US Kath & Kim show (Australian original is hilarious). WTF were they thinking casting her. I predict a lead balloon.

pixie-stix

Hasn't Mena Suvari been a "star of tomorrow" since American Beauty? Without ever fulfilling this promise?

enriquez the water bottle

I can't believe Selma Blair got cast as Kim in Kath & Kim (Australian show originally). Is that the best they could do. Fuck.

pixie-stix

@jupiterspaw: "Fraternity guys from NYU?" I matriculated there and can recall no one who would admit they were in a fraternity...it was refreshing, actually!

capncalamity

@Benovite: She was also Wendy in The Sandlot! And Sin City, Bubble Boy, and for this thing, Sugar & Spice probably was the film they were thinking. Remember, the one with cheerleading bankrobbers? They had to rob a bank because she (Diane) got knocked up by her boyfriend (Jack).

aspiringexpatriate

Two of these women married fraternity guys from NYU - I don't know if that makes things better or worse.

jupiterspaw

Lots of Selma Blair and Jordanna Brewster love. Can't forget Wes Bentley though. Sucks that after Marky Mark dumped Jordanna Brewster because she was too smart she really didn't get many other roles.

aspiringexpatriate

I think Marley Shelton was the doctor with the hypodermic needle fetish in Grindhouse's Planet Terror; Josh Brolin's characters wife.

If that makes any sense..

Benovite

@secretagentman: she's wendy peppercorn!

Also, Brewster was cast in Angelina Jolie role in the Mr. And Mrs. Smith pilot. When I mentioned it to my friends they all said "who?" and all I could come up with was "Fast and the Furious?" and I was at a loss as to why I knew who she was. Thank you, vanity fair.

brechtgirl

@jasonelias: Yeah, Penelope was a bona fide star in Spain acting in award winning films, the others, not so much.

As for being older, Sarah Wynter, Paul Walker and Selma Blair are older (granted only a year or two) and Marley Shelton the same year.

brechtgirl

@jasonelias: Agreed. And why, amongst all those sexy pouts, is Paul Walker is channeling Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farms?

CrankYank

Chris Klein. I think my fingers were laughing when they typed his name.

bitfactory

Paul Walker is doing Fast & Furious 4. Seriously. NBC thinks Selma Blair can be funny, ruining Kath & Kim. Sarah was on 24, but I really have no idea who Marley is? This is the best/worst Vanity Fair photospread since Gretchen Mol. Ellen Page better run for her fricken life!

secretagentman

This very photograph hangs on the wall of the Overlook Hotel...

metroville

...and they never worked again.

The End

NoWireHangers

DINKLEMAN!!

StylusPictures

the gallery of broken promises and shattered dreams

bess marvin, girl detective

@CrankYank: I believe you mean Stonybrook Farm...(look at me, I'm i-talicizing!)

hack-a-rific

Jordana Brewster will always be the prissy JAP who irons her hair straight in NBC's "The 60s" miniseries. Much in the same way Selma Blair will be Zoe from the Dubba-dubba-WB's "Zoe, Duncan, Jack, and Jane"... hey, wasn't that show supposed to make her a star?

ZJordan

oh no! Kath and Kim is gonna bet Coupling-ed?! ugh.
selma has a big summer movie coming out: Hellboy II.

el smrtmnky

Am I the only person who CANNOT STAND Penelope Cruz?

sundaeg1rl

Reminds me of NME predictions... mildly amusing, flash-in-the-pan results...

Miss d

Selma Blair is like Paris Hilton without the family money, famous for being famous (but is she REALLY famous?). She really must have something on Graydon Carter, because she is ubiquitous in that magazine and invisible everywhere else. I gossip blog for a living and trust me, Jessica Simpson's dog gets more coverage.

Jordana Brewster is both startlingly beautiful and a pretty damn good comedienne, and why she hasn't had a nice romcom breakthrough is beyond me. D.E.B.S. doesn't really count.

raincoaster

@CrankYank: I think it's because Paul Walker is "not right." @brechtgirl: Yeah, Cruz came with stats. Although I do remember Brewster as Hal's daughter on As the World Turns. She was very good. Still don't know who Shelton and Wynter are...

jasonelias

Oh, to be the 13-year-old boy in the movie theater during "She's All That" and having to sit through all the Paul Walker shirtlessness without embarrassing yourself. Of course, seeing "She's All That" in the theater was probably embarrassing enough.

I remember Jordana from ATWT too, but she'll always be the bitchy girl in "The Faculty" to me.

whitekidinflatbush

Hollywood, if you're listening, the conclusion here is: Kill Blair. Replace her with Brewster. Thanks much!

hack-a-rific

@Jaguares: DEBS. It wasn't horrible. She was the best thing in it; well, she and her sidekick.

raincoaster

I may be wrong, but didn't Brewster come out in a movie where she was in love with Faith from "Buffy"?

Jaguares

@sundaeg1rl: She's sort of pretty, until she shows her teeth. They look like they're trying to escape her head.

enriquez the water bottle

We could play the Six-Degrees-of-Separation with Penelope Cruz and Chris Klein ... The common denominator in all of that mess being Major Tom (Cruise). Who knew where it would all end up?!

whinemaker

@sundaeg1rl:
how can you watch Banditas and not love Penelope Cruz. I would kill to be the meat between the Cruz/Hyack love sandwich

NOGRUMPYS

It's sad that Penelope Cruz, an internationally known and respected actress, gets lumped in with a bunch of pretty faced Hollywood losers. Apparently you aren't famous until some corn chip munching rube from Nebraska knows who you're sleeping with.

Gyrus

@sundaeg1rl: No, you're not - I'm can't abide her either - she's empty, humorless & mediocre. There are a lot of Spanish actresses who run rings around her - Maribel Verdu, Belen Rueda, Silvia Abascal & Blanca Portillo to name just a few. Blame the stupidity of not dubbing in to English. She who moves to Hollywood & sleeps with the most famous gringos wins.

queserasera