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Enough, Already, About Natalie Portman’s ‘Norbit’

Listen, let’s just make this quick: Friends With Benefits is not Natalie Portman’s Norbit . Don’t let anybody tell you differently. Of course, they won’t tell you per se — they’ll ask or insinuate or poll (or offer some epic, perverse combination of the three), pretending to be on the forward edge of a significant moral-cultural quandary that will define this year’s Oscar race for Best Actress, advancing and attempting to rationalize a conversation with no rational foundation in the first place. We’re better than this, folks, and now is the time to eradicate this non-issue from the Oscar 2010 books.

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Enough, Already, About Natalie Portman’s ‘Norbit’