英语名人故事,朱二
Roberts', love affair with the public
Actress Julia Roberts” win of her ninth People's Choice ward is a sign of the
American public's remarkable and enduring love affair with the Erin Brockovich
actress, She may have an scar, a Bafta and three Golden Globes but nothing on Julia
Roberts, mantelpiece can be as impressive as her now nine People's Choice awards.
For more than a decade Roberts has proved herself hnerica's Tavourite sweetheart,
Winning the award for the past four consecutive years
She has seen off competition from the likes of Sandra Bullock,Caneron Diaz, Halle
Berry and Jennifer Lopez and upcoming stars like Kirsten Dunst can only imagine what
such popular appeal is like.
am proof positive that anything is possible in your life。I am just a girl from
Smyrna, Georgia who wanted to be in movies,” Roberts once said and it is a sentiment
that clearly touches American audiences.
But she has not been lighting up cinemas in the last 12 months,taking a series of
supporting roles and cameo performances,
Roles in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Full Frontal have been low key but
Roberts', appeal has never been tied to her box office success
In 1991 she won the award for the first time,even though her only film of the year
as the poorly-received liook,in which she appeared as a sixrinch Tinkerbell
year later and she repeated the success,despite not appearing in a single film
daring the preceding 12 months,
She has an appeal which transcends the harsh eye of the box office,achieving a level
of popularity unequalled since the days of Hollywood stars of the 1940s and 1950s,
Garry Marshall, who directed Roberts in Pretty Woman and The Runaway Bride,described
the actress as ablend of hudrey Hepburn,Lucille Ball and Banbi
Perhaps it is that mix of the wulnerable,the stylish and the homespun which makes
her such a fans,favourite,
The reason for her success in remaining close to the affections of the American publie
may lie