Rob Pattinson Isn't That Hot, Right?

Well, actually he is. But we get why you'd think otherwise, and here's why

I don't get it. Why do people find Robert Pattinson attractive? He looks like a plastic girl with a beard. I think people in our economy today have lost their minds.
—Caridee

Now, now. Many in the corpse and cadaver community would find your comments to be offensive, if not downright discriminatory. You've also managed to alienate the nonshowering population and the International Society of Vacant Starers. Apologize at once.

Besides, you're wrong.

"I think he's really hot, actually," former Life & Style editor Mark Pasetsky explains. "It's the hair."

I love Supernatural. Can you give me any info on the two leads? They are totally hot!
—C.C.

They're both from Texas. And Jared Padalecki may play the younger brother, but he's several inches taller than costar Jensen Ackles. "He makes me look like a shrimp," Ackles once told the Boston Herald.

Hey Answer B!tch! You rock, girl! How did you get to become the Answer B!tch? We'd love to know more about you!
—Laura

How? How did the sun grow from a blob of gas into the brightest light-giver in the solar system and the enabler of all known life? If you answered, "the rapid collapse of a hydrogen molecular cloud," you have missed the point entirely.

I just don't understand all the interest in Jennifer Aniston—not that pretty, not that talented. Maybe I was sick on the day when the source of her renown was made apparent. Please enlighten.
—Lucien

Apparently you were sick for closer to 10 years, when Friends ruled TV, and American women stampeded en masse to Supercuts to demand the "Rachel" haircut, and Aniston appeared close to naked every other day in some major magazine. The echo from those years still reverberates. Plus, Aniston got her husband snatched by Angelina Jolie. That all adds up to at least three more years of obsession with Aniston. Stop fighting it. Just let the defeat wash over you.

I love you! Why are networks working so hard to bring back variety shows? I mean really, an Osbournes variety special?
—Laura

Because they fill the world with free song and dance, and they're cheap. One-hour dramas can cost $4 million each to produce. Variety shows? Not so much. Literally. "Don't forget there was a bad economy in the 1970s when these things were really popular," an unnamed network TV executive told the New York Post last month. "It's just a cheaper alternative to one-hour dramas."

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