Five reasons I’ve decided to become obsessed with Amanda Peet.

1. She’s a better actress than her choice of films might lead you to believe. Rent Identity.

1. According to her appearance on the Letterman show tonight, her boyfriend is a writer. She dates writers.

1. She’s the smartest actress the world has ever known, Jodie Foster be damned. I quote from E! Online:

“When asked why moviegoers went crazy for her as a dental assistant cum hit woman in the comedy The Whole Nine Yards, she sagely answers, “Um, ‘cause I took my clothes off?”

“Probed about how freshly scrubbed New York City looks on her television show Jack & Jill, she responds, “Because it’s a fucking set on the back lot of Warner Bros. in Los Angeles, that’s why.”

“Girls on TV don’t have to be funny–just hot,” she says.”

1. Even in bad movies (Whipped, Saving Silverman) she can deliver comic dialogue. I’m a sucker for a woman who can deliver comic dialogue.

1. Especially if they look like this.

Ben Varkentine