Jennifer's movie career is hard to categorize. Hollywood loves putting her in pretentious fluff with self-important, film-festival-type titles like "House of Sand and Fog," "Dark City," "Dark Water," and "Requiem for a Dream." At the same time, she's not afraid to cash the check for a failed blockbuster/crapfest like "The Hulk."

Personally, I prefer the early part of her career. Before she won the Oscar for "A Beautiful Mind" and got all serious actress on us. When she embraced her considerable beauty and was content to be merely eye candy for the world. Roles like her superfluous nudity in "The Hot Spot" (NSFW) or "inventing the Abbotts." Or her star turn in "Career Opportunity," another one of those John Hughes movies that could have been called "Interesting Teenagers." The poster for that one, featuring Jennifer in a white tank top leaning over some nitwit sat in the window of the Blockbuster video near my house long after anyone was interested in seeing the lousy movie. It should've been called "Opportunity Knockers."

So here's to Jennifer Connelly: the thinking (Irish)man's bombshell.