She looks like a lot like Elin Nordegren, minus the smolder. Smolder to me is pretty important in terms of overall attractiveness so while Florence is very pretty I don't necessarily see her as intriguing or standout. Having been to Sweden and Prague recently I have to say that a lot of girls resemble her!

Justin, don't feed the troll!!

Yup.

"Never trust a man who calls his ex 'crazy.' He made her that way."

Very true, I totally forgot about the Louisville thing. Younger Diane Kruger/January Jones/Rosamund Pike/Natalie Portman would all be great physically. Unfortunately I think it says a lot that today's crop of young actresses are pretty far from elegant or charming or having 'deadly beauty' that isn't overtly sexual. …

Yes, Gwyneth in her Great Expectations day would have been perfect! I thought of Daisy as a WASP embodiment mainly because of the novel's east-coast setting and the references to Yale, the period, and particular Long Island new money/old money divide that it describes. The interesting thing is about her character is…

I think those choices are good as well but I've been so thrown off by mulligan being cast as daisy that I can't help but feel disappointed by the movie already. She's too button cute and young looking for the role - Daisy in my mind was always the embodiment of an elegant, perfect, intimidating WASP beauty. A lauren…

Seconded. Queens is terrible. Pigasus, why didn't you mention the terrible cannibal problem we have? People are getting murdered and eaten left and right here. I'm terrified every night in my (very expensive, tiny, and totally unlivable) apartment.

You keep it klassy Bachmann.

It's so true. It's happening in Queens too because they've pushed as far into Brooklyn as they can possibly go, and it freaking breaks my heart because Queens is literally where immigrant dreams are made, one of the last holdouts of middle-income home ownership in the city. My parents live in a rapidly gentrifying…

Love her and wish she got an HBO show over these idiots.

Seriously, fuck this show. For so many reasons. Racism, classism, every -ism possible. Did you see this? hahah. [www.huffingtonpost.com]

Thanks for understanding. I think at the end of the day we can both agree that we both feel shut out by this show - but that our frustrations come from very valid and different critiques of it. As an native NYCer, I am sick to death of this fantasy of New York and how the voice of affluent white people (in all…

You're right and I apologize to you and others who felt that my response was limiting. As someone who graduated from an extremely expensive private university I know full well that plenty of AAs are incredibly well to do and I pretty much went to school with progeny of the kids whose parents who straight up run LA.) …

Yup. "On Writing" is one of the greatest works ever written on the craft, IMHO. Whenever I recommend it to my friends or people who know every obscure writer that's ever appeared in the Paris Review they turn their noses up...but change their opinions as soon as they start reading it.

I don't know if all this race-baiting around discussing 'Girls' is really that productive. It has and it always will be a class issue for me (race and class of course are irrevocably tied in some ways) and I don't think it would really make that show that different if there were one minority face in the cast. I'm a…

Try Steven Alan, it looks like one of their signature plaids. If you live in NYC they sell them during their sample sales for less than $50.

I love Jennifer Weiner. I caught my sister reading Good in Bed once and made fun of her endlessly for reading something so trashy looking but then stole it from her while we were on vacation. I was so impressed by it and I think she's very much like Judy Blume, and I admire and respect her so much. Anyway, a lot of…

She is so beautiful - in every way. When I was a wee one in the 90s I picked up a magazine with her photo and asked my mom if she was a real person or a cartoon. Heh.

Agree on all fronts, and I thought ABC was a real class act (hate that phrase but there's no other in this situation) to support him through his recovery process and return to the public eye. Networks heads could have easily relieved him of his hosting duties but they didn't, and that speaks volumes about them. RIP…