05-08-2008, 02:25 PM
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|  Five Reasons We Love Christina Ricci
No these aren't my reasons!  But it's a great list! Quote:
May 07, 2008, Erin Nolan
Christina Ricci became a movie star at the age of eleven, when she starred in The Addams Family, a big-screen adaptation of a campy classic TV show. Seventeen years later, the now 28-year-old Ricci stars in this weekend’s new release, Speed Racer, a big-screen adaptation of a campy classic cartoon show.
As Ricci returns to the original formula of her success, let’s examine the five reasons she’s been able to hold on to it:
1. She’s a child star done good.
So many child stars are forced into early retirement by the time they’re old enough to drive. Jimmy Workman, who played Ricci’s brother in The Addams Family, is a perfect example of a kid who didn’t get the chance to finish growing up on screen. It takes a shrewd, talented, prematurely mature young person to prove she can grow as an actress while she’s still growing as a person. Ricci accomplished this, and unlike the Macauly Culkins of the world, she did so without turning to drugs or wild behavior in her adolescence to make up for her lost childhood. You have to respect those Hollywood survival skills.
2. She didn’t turn into Rosie O’Donnell.
In the 1995 chick flick Now and Then, Ricci starred along with Thora Birch, Gaby Hoffmann, and Ashleigh Aston Moore as the preteen incarnations of four reunited childhood friends. This movie led us to believe that Birch would grow up to become Melanie Griffith (that didn’t happen); Hoffmann would become Demi Moore (ironically, Hoffmann would be a more age-appropriate match for Demi’s current husband, Ashton Kutcher); Aston Moore would become Rita Wilson (Aston Moore hasn’t been seen since Now and Then, so for all we know, this could be accurate) and Ricci would turn out just like Rosie O’Donnell. WHAAT? Luckily, that didn’t happen....
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