Sometimes, even starlets eat like real human beings

Jennifer Lawrence, an Oscar nominee for her leading role in "Winter's Bone," wants it known that a skimpy morning repast is not going to satisfy her.

"I'm freakish about breakfast," she explains to an Esquire magazine writer there to interview her. "You're not gonna order, like, fruit or something, are you? Because I'm gonna eat." We then learn that Ms. Lawrence "orders the eggs Benedict without looking at the menu."

For regular readers of glossy magazines - which depend on interviews with famous people to generate chatter and increase newsstand sales - such situations have become increasingly familiar. A writer meets a starlet for breakfast, lunch or dinner. The slim starlet thwarts our expectations by ordering and consuming, with conspicuous relish, a meal that might satisfy a hungry dockworker.