Celebrity Obsession

I'll admit, everyone's choices are uniquely adorable and I can see how one could develop affection for any of them (perhaps aside from Lady Gaga and especially in the case of President Lincoln). However, when I analyze my own choice, I realize that I don't achieve the same visceral welling of desire or the same complexity of emotion that I do towards the ever beguiling, voluptuous Patricia Arquette.

While beginning to write this post, I discovered that I had two (or three, but we'll get to that later) competing aspects of Patricia Arquette I am enamored by: her charming, naive exuding of sexuality and her powerful, devious exuding of sexuality. Not to form any dualism or whatever, but these two components of what Patricia Arquette represents have solidified in my heart based on two of her acting roles: that of her in Lost Highway and True Romance. I realize that these are roles in films and not actually parts of her personality, but my perception of her acting in her roles in inextricably linked to my attraction to her.


To be honest, however, if I had only True Romance and her interviews through which to admire her, Patricia Arquette would not have nearly as deep an emotional impact on me that she does. It's not to say that she still isn't infinitely adorable and endearing. Her character in True Romance was nothing if not that, supremely naive in her concept of love (as well as the world) and almost sickeningly pure in her sexuality. In her talk-show appearances (especially now, as she has gotten older) she seems remarkably secure and her demeanor now betrays a marked self-confidence and a conceited effort to disparage pomp and ceremony (a rare quality in a celebrity). Also look how cute she is on Sesame Street:



But its Patricia Arquette's performance in Lost Highway by which she constantly comes to mind as the most seductive and alluring celebrity I can think of. Lost Highway is by no means an optimistic movie, not for the protagonist(s) or anyone, and in my mind, this all stems from Patrica Arquette's character, the epitome of the Lynchian femme-fatale. She exudes sex in this film, and has captured the minds and libidos of literally every male character she comes across. But the facet of this character that places her as the ultimate female in my mind is that while she seems submissive and postures herself in away that makes the men in her life need to own her, and think that they do, she is never powerless.


Her sexuality is her power, and she uses it without abandon. She is somehow able to make every man she comes across feel constantly emasculated up until the point at which she utterly annihilates them and their preconceptions of the world from the inside-out. At the core, it is the dark side to her sexuality that most intrigues me and most makes me want her. It is in part the danger, in part the fact that she goes as both a blond and a brunette in the film, but it is mostly the idea that she possess the ability to inflict such force on a man's existence that draws me to her above all else.

Oh right. I had a third thing. It is merely this: she is slammin'. She's cute and has a rockin' bod. Also check these out:


With all that said, this succinctly sums up my feelings on the matter: