Penelope Cruz: Euro Star

Take a good look at the woman in the picture at left. Gaze into those brown UFO eyes, get a load of that Roman nose and those flaring lips, features that have been memorized by a global audience via Spanish films like Pedro Almodóvar's Live Flesh and All About My Mother, and Hollywood outings like Woman on Top and All the Pretty Horses. Now let us convince you that Penélope Cruz is (and this is the part that will throw you) average.

Yes, average. As unsurprising as a jug of sangria on a summer's day or a teeming dance floor...

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