Courteney Cox & Co-Star Hang Down By The Riverside

[Los Angeles, November 10. Image via Pacific Coast News Online.]

[Los Angeles, November 10. Image via Pacific Coast News Online.]
The friends from Friends acted together on Dirt in 2007, and they'll do it for Cougar Town's second-season premiere in September. There are lots of exclusive details and what not, but seriously: What is the fascination? It's so 1996.
[Los Angeles, February 11. Image via Flynet.]
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Although according to Time's "brief history of the cougar," they're as old as human history itself. That's right, not "older woman and younger men," but "cougars." Including, wait for it, "Cougar the Great" (pictured.) [Time]
There is no shortage of in-your-face sexuality in American culture. Yet as Patricia Cohen notes in a piece for the New York Times, much of that sexual culture, including the marketing of female sexuality, is still driven by men.
A bizarre, cougar-themed Halls ad is pissing people off and weirding others out:
When Jon Caramanica writes about a show in which "a female alien lands largely unannounced in a predominantly male universe," he's talking about The Good Wife — because on television, single women over 35 might as well be Martians.
While promoting her craptastically crappy new show Cougar Town, Courteney Cox was on with Jimmy Kimmel last night and said a bunch of crappy crap about older women.
"It's girls-gone-wild feminism for 40-somethings. It's ridiculous and belittling and it stinks of another round of backlash… All the most cartoonish aspects of boorish middle-aged masculinity… [Courteney Cox's character is] so very pitiful." — Judith Warner. We suspected. [NY Times]
Critics say Courteney Cox is a good actress, but even she can't make the stale, raunchy humor of Cougar Town - which premieres tonight - work. Unless, of course, viewers, like Cox's character, tend to think with their "coochie cooch."