http://cultureby.com/2007/01/how_vince_reall.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:43:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://cultureby.com/2007/01/how_vince_reall.html/comment-page-1#comment-3463 steve Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:38:49 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=555#comment-3463 Check out Derailed. Aniston is not playing "genuine" there. Check out Derailed. Aniston is not playing “genuine” there.

]]> http://cultureby.com/2007/01/how_vince_reall.html/comment-page-1#comment-3462 Daniel Rosenblatt Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:29:05 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=555#comment-3462 I live in LA, and know some people in "the industry"--I think, at least when applied to someone like Jennifer Aniston, "genuine" means the same thing as "down to earth," and both mean roughly "not a diva," "not completely full of themselves," a star who is capable of acting like a regular person. As for the contrast with "authenticity," by my reading it is similar to what you suggest, but not exactly the same: the difference is not so much about whether one is playing a role or expressing their true self but about how weird or quirky that true self is, with authentic carrying the implication of a little strange--there is an overlap obviously, since we might tend to assume that the more weird someone is the more we are seeing their true self. But (assuming she is not in fact a total diva) the word "authentic" might apply better to, say, Angelina Jolie. I live in LA, and know some people in “the industry”–I think, at least when applied to someone like Jennifer Aniston, “genuine” means the same thing as “down to earth,” and both mean roughly “not a diva,” “not completely full of themselves,” a star who is capable of acting like a regular person. As for the contrast with “authenticity,” by my reading it is similar to what you suggest, but not exactly the same: the difference is not so much about whether one is playing a role or expressing their true self but about how weird or quirky that true self is, with authentic carrying the implication of a little strange–there is an overlap obviously, since we might tend to assume that the more weird someone is the more we are seeing their true self. But (assuming she is not in fact a total diva) the word “authentic” might apply better to, say, Angelina Jolie.

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