America's girl-next-door takes on romance, revenge
and man-eating dinosaurs
by Bob Strauss
Clad in leather and sporting Heather Locklear-esque dark
roots in her chopped hair, Meg Ryan takes charge of Addicted
to Love like a raptor with a mean streak. In this romantic
comedy, Ryan's Maggie is not the kind of girl who falls in
love with a voice on the radio or fakes orgasm in a deli.
Instead, she's got a broken heart and a twisted mind--and
a hilarious bent for scorched-earth revenge on the guy who
dumped her.
It should come as no surprise that the effervescent Ryan can
access some dark, bubble-free depths. In the past three years,
she's played an alcoholic (When a Man Loves a Woman), a madwoman
(Restoration) and a military commander of uncertain capability
(Courage Under Fire).
Of course, frothy comedies--like the huge hits When Harry Met
Sally and Sleepless in Seattle--are what made her a bankable star.
But there's another reason the 35-year-old actress keeps coming
back to optimistic romances. (Even Addicted has a happy ending.)
Personal experience tells her that's how things go.
Raised in a troubled Connecticut family--mom ran off to try acting
when Meg was a kid--Ryan struggled to establish her own nuclear
unit with Dennis Quaid, a womanizer with a drug problem when they
fell in love. Ryan straightened out Quaid and, in turn, got a
model husband, father and sometime costar.
Clearly, anyone who can manage a feat like that in Hollywood would
have no trouble being versatile and persuasive in front of the
camera, too.
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