Whatever happened to Winona Ryder?  She was one of the biggest stars on the planet for a time, but then seemingly dropped off the face of the earth after the Saks shoplifting fiasco.  I watched the episode of Friends recently when Rachel claims to have kissed her sorority sister from college, who is of course played by Winona.  In that episode, she’d grown out her hair from her famous pixie, but now it’s back–not just on Winona, but also on Katie Holmes (c’mon, look at the cut below and tell me they’re not nearly identical!)  Winona defined my childhood: I adored Beetlejuice, developed a sense of irony through Heathers, was addicted to Little Women (still one of my all-time, can-watch-it-over-and-over-again favorites) and emulated the cool savoir-faire of the slackers in Reality Bites (another personal classic).  It’s said that every generation gets the icons it deserves…can we as a culture please find it within ourselves to move beyond the navel-gazing mirrors held up by Paris, Perez, LC et al. and go back to worshipping thoughtful, creative, talented (and yes, okay, gorgeous, too) actors? 

Come back, Winona…I miss you! 

Photo from People.com

How gorgeous is she?

Winona’s famous Michael Thompson photo from W Magazine after her arrest

An interesting juxtaposition of tough and fragile: classic Winona

With Ethan Hawke (le sigh), who had the one-two punch of Reality Bites and Before Sunrise, and changed my little life (and notions of romance) forever