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04/15/2007: "People"

Life's full of mysteries. Like, why do some people get acting jobs over and over while there are mobs of underemployed waitresses and bartenders in Los Angeles. Jonathan Rhys Meyers, anyone? For example. I just saw another story about him. Critics -- and, I assume, teen girls -- think he's aces. But what I've seen of him is so lifeless, emotionless, and blank. Can't anyone play that? And don't try to throw Keanu Reeves at me. He's in interesting movies. And even his dim-bulb characters have something I can't explain but I don't see it in the somnambulant performance of one Jonathan Rhys Meyers. On the other hand, I'm basing this only on articles, photos, and one movie ("Match Point"). Maybe there's more to him than the droopy, weary, monotonic image I've seen. On the other, other hand, what you see is very often what you get.

See how easy it is to criticize? I wonder if I could get a job as a critic. Sweet, media paychecks.