A Legend is Hatched! Bonus: Jennifer Aniston and Joan Didion!
Since Joan Didion was not available to write about Jennifer Aniston, I did.
We are living in historic times. We are under threat of nuclear attack from Russia, there is chaos in New York City, and democracy is in danger. But those things aren’t historic! Those things are always happening! What is truly historic is that now they are happening to me. And so, I looked around our crumbling world and decided it was time for me to think deeply about someone other than myself, about the one thing that remains eternal in our world: Jennifer Aniston being famous.
And since Joan Didion was not available to write about Jennifer Aniston, I did.
For the Los Angeles Review of Books, “The One Where We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live.”
Because Jennifer Aniston is the Joan Didion heroine of our time.
Yes, this really happened. No, I am not kidding. Yes, it is weird that I have not gotten a TV deal from this.
Slouching towards Hollywood,
Victoria
Footnotes:
Just to reiterate, this is a real essay! And you can read it here.
Our regularly scheduled programing will be back soon with an edition dedicated to Barbra Streisand, who turns 80 on Sunday. Regretfully, I was not able to reference Streisand in the LARB essay despite the fact that Aniston once posed as Streisand and Didion did the screenplay for her 1976 classic remake of A Star is Born—and, yes, a mini-series about Didion and Streisand on the set of A Star is Born is already written down in my “Victoria’s Great Ideas for TV Shows” notebook (if anyone has any contacts at production companies, please let me know!).
Bonus:
As a special bonus for you—my fans and friends of my fans—here are two photos I took of Brad and Jen in 2002 in my hometown of Akron, Ohio, which is known for rubber manufacturing.
