The Power of Angelina’s Lips

With lips like these, how can Angelina Jolie be taken seriously as an actress? That’s the question posed by a fun Los Angeles Times feature, which notes that nearly every Jolie movie poster shows the actress’ lips blown up to gargantuan size—like those red novelty lips they used to sell at Spencer’s. It doesn’t matter whether the film is Clint Eastwood’s The Changeling (opening today) or Shark Tale, in which Jolie is an animated fish. “The message? Come watch 90 minutes of these gently arched brows, gray cat eyes, and pursed pink lips. You won’t even care what the movie is about.”