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Life is 'Picture Perfect' for Jennifer Aniston
August 1, 1997
Web posted at: 11:38 p.m. EDT (0338 GMT)From Correspondent Mark Scheerer
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Jennifer Aniston stars in "Picture Perfect," a romantic comedy about a young advertising executive who pretends she has a fiance so she can advance in her company.
Her boss promotes only those who have families and commitments that tie them to their jobs, which is how it is that she comes to proposition a man.
"It's a proposition, actually," she says to the character played by co-star Jay Mohr. "I'll pay you $1,000 if you'll come to New York City and have dinner with me. And some people that I work with."
"It's not against the law," says Aniston of her character's predicament. Having to pretend you are married, or about to be, she says "exists all over the place, even in the world of Hollywood."
She laughs. "It's sort of that struggle to get seen and be heard and prove yourself as worthy in some way."
Aniston has had no trouble getting seen or heard or proving her worth of late. Her career goals -- becoming an autograph-seekers' target and a hot cover-girl -- have been realized.
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Mohr found out how hot Aniston is when he was cast in "Picture Perfect."
"I just told my friends I get to make out with Jennifer Aniston," he says, "and then they would immediately hang up and 15 minutes later there would be a knock at my door and a fist in my face."
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As for the demands on her time, Aniston says, "That, you know, it comes with the dinner. Sometimes it's really hard and you want to just scream and run away. 'Calgon take me away!' And sometimes you just know that it's part of it, and you accept it and surrender to it. It's fine, it's easy."
Fans of the television series "Friends" want to know if Ross and Rachel, played by Aniston, will return to being more than friends this fall.
"I'd like them to get back together, because I don't think they ended correctly," she says. "They ended in a sort of heated, passionate fight. They didn't end because they discovered they weren't right for one another. They ended it because they were immature."
It is one of the few endings for Jennifer Aniston recently that hasn't been happy.
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