Odds and Ends
This is an odd collection of the new and not so - just a few things I've seen lately in a season when there's really been so little to bother seeing.
The plot of 13 GOING ON 30-as I hope you can guess-involves 13-year-old Jenna (dissed by the popular girls, embarrassed in front of the school hunk, and adored by her chubby neighbor Matt) slamming herself in a closet and wishing to be "30, flirty, and thriving" (the tag line of her favorite magazine, Poise). Add in "wishing dust" and POOF she wakes up the next day as ALIAS star Jennifer Garner. Don't ask. But the idea that I could slam myself in a closet and wake up as Jennifer was so intriguing to me that I still can just barely stop myself from trying it. That Jennifer is so cute when she smiles that it made me think they should let her smile and kid around more often on ALIAS, even though she's always in a life-threatening situation or involved in a tragically inappropriate office romance.