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:: August 2005 :: |
| 12
Aug
2005 -
Bradenton
Herald |
| 'Dukes' Is
Stepping Stone For Jessica Simpson |
Jessica Simpson is
all body parts.
There's the immaculate teeth - as blazingly white as
sun-bleached Antarctica.
The long blond hair that's been lovingly caressed by
her personal stylist into loose ringlets that drip
toward a well-tanned chest. The latter is
well-presented in breathable white cotton.
The perfectly toned calves that peek from
form-fitting capri denims.
The arms - they just have to be as smooth as they
look - that flow outward from her 5-foot-3½-inch
frame like balletic wings.
Yep, she's all here. Puffed, fluffed and propped up
on a five-star hotel couch like the entertainment
industry's ultimate product placement.
Simpson, 25, is in Atlanta this day to talk about
her role as scantily clad Daisy Duke in the new,
raucous, big-screen remake of TV's "The Dukes of
Hazzard," opening nationwide today. And having
already previewed the movie, we should capitalize
the words Scantily and Clad.
Simpson, who at times in "Dukes" wears either a pink
bikini or short-shorts or a tight-tight leather vest
that allows her ample cleavage to burst into bloom,
is the ABC of entertainment.
A, always. B, be. C, closing. She's selling and
forever primed to finalize a deal.
On her tiny feet, for example, are tiny shoes with
straps that merge at the top of her foot to form an
itty-bitty yellow daisy.
"These are my own Daisy shoes," she says in
explaining how she coordinated her outfit to match
today's occasion.
Now she's pulling at the golden jewelry dangling
from her left earlobe.
"And these are my Daisy Duke earrings that my
(movie) producer Billy Gerber gave to me," she says,
pushing the jewelry toward her visitor. "With the
yellow diamond."
So where's the daisy-shaped ring with sapphires that
co-star Burt Reynolds gave to her as a gift on his
first day of shooting "Dukes" late last year in
Louisiana?
"Awwwwww," Simpson coos in a three-syllabic
ah-wuh-uh. "It's upstairs."
Ah, yes. Upstairs in her hotel suite. Tucked
somewhere in or around the 18 pieces of luggage she
- or, rather, her staff - hauled here from New York.
The luggage is full of her dresses, pants, tops,
shoes, bracelets, makeup, hair products, more shoes
and the other necessities of being Jessica Simpson,
a multimillion- album-selling pop singer, reality
show diva (MTV's "Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica" with
husband Nick Lachey) and now, for the first time,
movie star.
"There's times when I have to change five times in
one day because of different press," she says.
"There are so many outfits I have to wear and put
together."
So many outfits. So many rumors, too.
For the past few months, Simpson has been dogged by
persistent verbal rumblings of alleged flings. First
with "Dukes" co-star Johnny Knoxville (he formerly
of MTV's rudely funny "Jackass"), then with
Knoxville protege Bam Margera (he of MTV's rudely
funny "Viva la Bam").
Simpson denies it all.
"Absolutely not!" she exclaims.
Re: Knoxville - "It's disappointing," she says. "I
hate for my husband to have to read anything like
that. Johnny and I are great friends. He's a great
guy. But they make up so much in those tabloids."
Re: Margera - "I've seen the TV show. Aaeehhhhh."
She makes a face. "Are you kidding?"
She says she doesn't read the tabloids anymore.
"I look through them just to make sure my cute
outfits of the week are in there," she says,
laughing. "Then I'm OK."
Lachey, who Simpson says visited her onset for a
month in Louisiana during filming, escorted her last
week to a "Dukes of Hazzard" premiere. For the red
carpet, he wore a robin's-egg blue shirt to match
her robin's-egg blue dress.
When she visited Atlanta, Simpson had not yet seen
"Dukes." So she sat on her couch, somewhat unaware
that her big-screen entrance involves the camera
sliding slowly up her svelte legs and lingering on
her behind, jammed into denim shorts that look ready
to explode.
"I made sure no butt cheek hung out," Simpson says
with a laugh. "You know, the original Daisy,
Catherine Bach's shorts were shorter than mine."
That they were. But Simpson worked hard to fit
snugly and impressively into the outfits she wore.
She trained in Los Angeles often doing a daily
workout involving weights, lunges, squats and
cardio. She nixed a lot of sugar.
And she's pretty much kept to her diet.
"I go on and off," she says. "I really get tired
when I eat sugar now. I stick to the fruit. The
natural sugar."
Simpson says she specifically chose "Dukes" as a
stepping stone to a career in movies.
"I wanted something believable and I wanted to be
part of a team," she says. "I wanted to learn the
ropes. To see how it was all done before I took on
the pressure of carrying a movie on my own."
Her future might include another comedy. She and
Gerber have a military fish-out-of-water script in
the works titled "Major Movie Star," which Simpson
describes as a "kind of take on 'Private Benjamin.'
Very much like Goldie Hawn. She is one of my idols."
Last year, Vanity Fair reported mother Tina
Simpson's claims that her daughter's I.Q. is in the
160s (think: exceptionally gifted).
"I don't know what the score was," she says. "My
parents did it. I never did well in school. I
couldn't focus or pay attention. I was more of that
artsy personality."
And her thoughts about Daisy Duke?
"Any woman that has a pair of shorts named after her
- that's pretty successful."
Somehow, in all this talk about shorts, Simpson
mentions her new clothing line coming out this fall
- Princy, her nickname among family and friends.
"Princy by Jessica Simpson," she says, "Because I'm
a princess."
Later, when the Texas-born songstress is asked to
name a few monumental Southern songs, without
missing a beat she lets fall first from her lips: "
'These Boots Are Made For Walkin'.' "
"Boots"? The song sung by New Jersey-born Nancy
Sinatra? The song written by Oklahoma-born Lee
Hazlewood?
She's got to be kidding.
Simpson laughs.
It's the song she has remade and sings at the end of
"Dukes of Hazzard." It's her new single.
Did we not tell you?
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