Moxie hates Emmy Rossum

Ben Brantley's review of Williamstown's Romeo and Juliet confirms what Moxie has known all along: Emmy Rossum is conventional, lackluster, and boring boring BORING! Her turn in the Poseidon remake cannot sway Moxie: Emmy Rossum (along with Zach Braff and a few others) needs to be shipped off somewhere remote and very, very far away from acting opportunities. Here's a bit of Brantley's review:

As Juliet, Ms. Rossum has the preternatural poise of the dutiful dream daughter, occasionally given to fits of petulance. Even committing murder and suicide, Mr. Lysy’s matter-of-fact Romeo seems to be no more than fretful. Together they exude all the urgency of a high school couple in a tizzy over whether their parents will spring for a limo for their senior prom.

Frank Rizzo's Variety review puts it in less subtle terms:

Rossum's limited legit experience is evident in her too-sweet, ever-smiling perf, which makes Juliet a one-note romantic, robbing her of intelligence, purpose and power. Rossum is lovely to look at, but her speeches are as shallow as her breath control as she speeds through her lines (the easier not to dwell on such complicated things as meaning).

teehee.... Director Will Frears described his vision for the show as, "a modern-day punk-rock Latin-American fantasy of young love." Yikes! His descriptions smacks of a desprate need to fill in the passion, sizzle, and sex that Emmy Rossum can't provide. It reminds Moxie of one of Angela's crazytown explanations of her horrifying designs on Project Runway...


"I see this design is a modern-day punk-rock Latin-American fantasy of young love." -Angela Keslar