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"Julia Roberts is a favorite. Everybody loves her in the Hollywood community. The public adores her"

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A sentence like this isn’t really about Julia Roberts; it’s about how Hollywood blesses its own myths into “everybody” and sells that consensus back to the public. Mary Hart, a longtime entertainment-news fixture, speaks in the soothing, access-friendly dialect of celebrity coverage: broad approval, zero friction, the kind of praise that won’t get a publicist on the phone. “Favorite” sounds casual, almost personal, but it’s doing institutional work, signaling that Roberts is safe, bankable, and socially sanctioned.

The line splits the world into two audiences - “the Hollywood community” and “the public” - then stitches them together with a neat loop of mutual affection. That’s the subtext: the industry’s internal approval becomes proof of merit, and public adoration becomes proof that the industry chose correctly. No movies named, no performances cited, no specifics that could invite debate. The vagueness is the point. It turns a complicated career and a fickle culture into a simple weather report: sunny everywhere.

Context matters, too. Hart comes from an era when entertainment media functioned as a soft-power arm of the studios: red carpets, friendly interviews, a constant reinforcement of star “likability” as a civic virtue. Calling Roberts universally loved isn’t analysis; it’s brand maintenance. It keeps the machinery humming by framing fame not as contested attention, but as a warm communal agreement.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Hart, Mary. (2026, January 16). Julia Roberts is a favorite. Everybody loves her in the Hollywood community. The public adores her. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/julia-roberts-is-a-favorite-everybody-loves-her-93409/

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Hart, Mary. "Julia Roberts is a favorite. Everybody loves her in the Hollywood community. The public adores her." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/julia-roberts-is-a-favorite-everybody-loves-her-93409/.

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"Julia Roberts is a favorite. Everybody loves her in the Hollywood community. The public adores her." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/julia-roberts-is-a-favorite-everybody-loves-her-93409/. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.

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Mary Hart (born November 8, 1950) is a Entertainer from USA.

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