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One of the movies I reviewed earlier today is a stupid new release called “Gray Matters.” The title is a pun based on the name of the main character, a glamorous ad exec played by Heather Graham who suddenly discovers that Gray’s gay when she develops a passionate crush on her brother’s wife, Bridget Moynahan.
Oddly enough, this is the second movie in a month in which the beautiful main character bears the odd name Gray. In the execrable “Catch and Release,” Jennifer Garner gets an embarrassing role as “Gray Wheeler,” who finds out that her tragically deceased fiancé wasn’t the paragon she thought he was.
In any event, both these movies are lame, lousy chick flicks, directed by little-known female directors, appealing to no one in particular, and choosing to name their heroines Gray.
Why, I’d like to know.
Has “Gray” become a suddenly stylish name? The only previous Gray (or Grey) I can remember is the pathetic ex-governor of California, Gray Davis, who got booted out of office on the same recall election that installed the current Governator.
Will this hazy moniker now become more common, because people see these two charmless films and feel inspired by the main character? Stranger things have happened: remember the well-documented craze for the name “Nevaeh” (“Heaven” spelled backwards) after one Christian music star anointed his baby?
Popular culture is full of mysteries. One of them involves two different femme directors (a rare enough breed in Hollyweird) and two different lam-o romantic comedies, both of which decide for some incomprehensible reason to go “Gray.”
If someone has an answer to this perplexing situation, I’d love to hear about it.
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