Katie Holmes vs. Michelle Williams

Jen, Forehead & Joey

I think it is such a hoot what has happened with these two.

I remember watching "Dawson's Creek" the first year it was on and thinking that Katie Holmes was cool and Michelle Williams was very pretty, but very average.

Katie Holmes got all these cool little roles in movies like "The Ice Storm" and "Go" and "Wonder Boys" while Michelle Williams was in some "Halloween" sequel and that dopey movie "Dick."

Then Katie starred in "Pieces of April" and critics really noticed her so she got cast in "Batman Begins." Then...

She has basically thrown her career down the toilet. She looks like a complete fool being tugged around by that egomaniacal Tom Cruise and carrying his coffee (and his baby) for him every where. Now the entire world knows she is a doormat and people are just a tad disgusted by doormats.

Meanwhile, Michelle Williams was quietly having Heath Ledger's baby and the two of them moved to Brooklyn where there were numerous sightings (myself included) and the two of them achieved a sort of organic coolness that is the polar opposite of Holmes and Cruise. Then, "Brokeback Mountain" came out and she got the best notices of her (or Katie's) career. And now an Oscar nomination.

Whoever would have thunk it. I certainly did not know she had it in her.