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"J. Lo, whether she is good or bad, is like a fiery movie star, a throwback to Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday"

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J. Lo doesn’t have to be “good” in the narrow, awards-season sense to be magnetic; that’s the provocation Steven Cojocaru slips in with a shrug. By framing her talent as almost beside the point, he’s defending a different metric of cultural value: heat, presence, the kind of star power that turns publicity into a performing art. “Whether she is good or bad” reads like a preemptive rebuttal to snobs and skeptics, the people who insist celebrity must be justified by craft. Cojocaru’s answer is basically: you’re asking the wrong question.

Calling her a “fiery movie star” isn’t just about temperament. It’s about combustion in the public eye: romance, reinvention, spectacle, glamour with a pulse. The Elizabeth Taylor comparison is strategic name-dropping, a way to place Lopez in an older Hollywood lineage where fame was not a side effect of work but the work itself. Taylor’s “heyday” also conjures a time when stars were allowed contradictions: revered and ridiculed, scandalous and iconic, all at once.

Context matters: Cojocaru comes from a celebrity-criticism ecosystem that treats red carpets, tabloids, and branding as legitimate cultural texts. In that world, Lopez’s power isn’t just singing or acting; it’s her ability to be an event. The subtext lands as a cultural permission slip: stop litigating her legitimacy and watch what she does to the room.

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Cojocaru, Steven. (2026, January 17). J. Lo, whether she is good or bad, is like a fiery movie star, a throwback to Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/j-lo-whether-she-is-good-or-bad-is-like-a-fiery-78240/

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Cojocaru, Steven. "J. Lo, whether she is good or bad, is like a fiery movie star, a throwback to Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/j-lo-whether-she-is-good-or-bad-is-like-a-fiery-78240/.

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"J. Lo, whether she is good or bad, is like a fiery movie star, a throwback to Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/j-lo-whether-she-is-good-or-bad-is-like-a-fiery-78240/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Steven Cojocaru (born January 5, 1965) is a Critic from Canada.

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