Brad Balfour: Comic Actress Anna Faris Finds Herself in House Bunny

src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2008-09-05-annacropped.jpg" width="300" height="478" /> Thanks to the efforts of Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and now, Anna Faris, adult-oriented comedy is no longer a boys club -- at least for this year. And at a time when women are gaining some kind of parity within the corporate and political worlds, why not with trashy comedy? Though the feature The House Bunny may lower an IQ or two with its abundant flaunting of T&A;, its fairy-tale story of the good bimbette who embraces an outre sorority as its house mother, designs some radical make-overs, and crushes their rivals -- the popular Sosh sisters of the beautiful and snooty Pi Alpha Mu -- prompts both laughs and groans. This flick is no proto-feminist tract. As the house bunny in question, the Baltimore-born actress Faris channels a ditzy Marilyn M. and iconic humor queens from other eras, such as Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett, to update the archetype/cliche of the seemingly clueless but formidable ... (link)