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Each month, Rice and I will select two ladies from relative obscurity, and use the considerable might of Rice World to catapult them to stardom, ala American Idol. These are chicks who are on the verge of stardom, and are either starting to collect heavy buzz, or deserve to. At the end of the year, the RiceMate of the Year will have an automatic berth in the annual Beeotch Contest.
September 2002
Reese Witherspoon
Rice's pick for the inaugural RiceMate of the Month couldn't be better, as Reese Witherspoon shares the same initials as this hallowed web site. Following her breakthrough mainstream hit, Legally Blonde, Reese Witherspoon appears to be on the verge of becoming a household name. This fall, she stars in the saccharine Sweet Home Alabama, a movie about coming home again and finding one's true roots. I can't watch that crap, but Reese sure does look good. You can see her rack in Twilight; I think that's the only time she's done nudity. Her steamy love scene in Cruel Intentions didn't have any, right?
Jennifer Garner
My choice for inaugural RiceMates of the Month is the heroine of one of my favorite TV shows, "Alias". After thinking about it while sitting on the toilet and reading the Entertainment Weekly's Fall TV Preview, which I've scanned for you guys, I've come to the conclusion that "Alias" is so freakin' addictive because of Jennifer Garner's Emmy-nominated performance. Not only is she pretty, in a Julia Roberts sort of way, there's just an earnestness in her eyes that couldn't possibly be acting. She has to genuinely be a warm, kind-hearted person who is also vulnerable. Next year, look for her opposite Ben Affleck in Daredevil, a comic book movie where she plays the sai-wielding assassin Elektra.
