Well Played, Kristen Bell

 

I rather like this. It's the sort of thing I could see Diane Kruger wearing, except a bit shorter and with fiercer shoes:

Now if only Kristen here could come up with a career move that's as interesting as her wardrobe. Forgetting Sarah Marshall was a good start, although she wasn't exactly the highlight (but nor was she a lowlight). When In Rome, though? No. I think K.Bell, like Jennifer Aniston, is a TV actress. And there is no shame in that. Episodic TV is, in a lot of ways for me, more satisfying to watch than a feature film because the challenges are so great -- you have to sustain characters for an indefinite, or at least LONG, period of time, rather than just two hours. Both Kristen and Jen have been really good on the tube (Kristen was even a bright light on Heroes, and that says a LOT, because that show stank when she was on it), and there are a lot of interesting projects being bandied about there, so why not pick something awesome on the small screen instead of something execrable and half-assed that just happens to be on a larger one? Unless you WANT people to be all, "We have the script for something execrable and half-assed that just SCREAMS Kristen Bell," in which case, When In Rome counts as a raging success and I am thrilled to see what rom-com with a middling romantic lead she comes up with next. Thank God her closet appears to be in order.