Like stories about how much everyone still loves Friends – could it be any more necessary to talk about how everyone still loves Friends? – Jennifer Lopez is everywhere. Last week, she was announced as co-headliner of the next Super Bowl half-time show, sharing that 100 million or so strong audience with Shakira. In a statement, she said it was a lifelong dream. “And now it’s made even more special not only because it’s the NFL’s 100th anniversary but also because I am performing with a fellow Latina. I can’t wait to show what us girls can do on the world’s biggest stage.”
Lopez is enjoying a career renaissance of epic proportions. In a way, epic proportions are a big part of her story in the first place. She closed the Versace show during Milan fashion week with a revival of “that” green dress, 20 years after she wore it to the Grammys. So many people searched for it back then that it led Google to the creation of Google Images. She is also receiving that much-coveted Oscars buzz – not a bad turnaround for the woman who once uttered: “It’s turkey time! Gobble gobble, gobble,” widely considered the worst movie dialogue of all time – for Hustlers. She plays a blinder as Ramona Vega, a stripper turned con artist who either wants to wrap everyone up in her giant fur coat or drug them and fleece them, depending on which side of the transactions they are on. I went to see Hustlers the weekend it came out. I can’t remember the last time I sat in a cinema filled, and it was filled, almost entirely with young women. My friend Louis audibly gasped when J-Lo performed her pièce de résistance, a gravity-caressing pole dance to Fiona Apple’s song Criminal. He grabbed my hand and whispered: “She’s 50.” Nobody shushed him.
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