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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Portia de Rossi’s Feet - Ellen DeGeneres’ Butch Cassidy

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If you had seen battling anorexic Portia de Rossi in her heyday- before she had become Ellen DeGeneres’ Butch Cassidy - you would have sworn she was one of the hottest things on two well fed feet. Born Amanda Lee Rogers in Melbourne Australia, de Rossi, who began modeling at an early age, adopted the Italianate claiming she was dealing with her struggles about being gay. So she picks for her new name a Shakespearean character, and, as we all know, those were men pretending to be women. Funny, and we always thought Rossi was one half of a comedy team with Marty Allen. de Rossi in her bio meant the character Portia, of course, and we’re being extremely silly. (Historical but irrelevant note: Portia de Rossi was also the name of the mother of the eminent Italian bard, Torquato Tasso, but subsequently abandoned her son to live with the perverse 16th century funny woman Elenora Generato.]Pissing a promising legal career down the drain, de Rossi studied at the University of Melbourne Law School, but left before finishing to pursue acting. Notorious for baring her butt on the silver screen, de Rossi may or may not have adopted the alltogether in the randy Hugh Grant nudie pic, Sirens, we can’t say for sure. But she certainly attracted international attention when she joined the cast of the Ally McBeal TV series in 1998 as the fully clothed lawyer Nelle Porter. Although her nature is to hanker for vagina, de Rossi, in an excruciating display of heterosexuality, married documentary filmmaker Mel Metcalfe then later came out to play with singer Francesca Gregorini, the daughter of actress Barbara Bach and stepchild of Ringo Starr. Then, Oblah-Di Oblah-Da, life goes on, de Rossi began getting it on with DeGeneres. A staunch advocate of volume mousse shampoo for her soft faux dreads, de Rossi’s best known for adapting her hair to various moods, whims and caprices. Were her wardrobe so versatile. Although here Portia assumes a billowy look that would stand tall and proud on any Vegas cocktail lounge bar stool. And, quite frankly, we’re amazed that Houdini’s old trick handcuffs could be adapted into footwear. Portia, with a clean toe appearance, escapes with a “6″.

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