I read Getting Rid of Matthew and I totally think Courtney Cox would be perfect to play Sophie, and it would be cool to have them working together again.

But it is a third project, Pumas, that is the furthest along�and the most telling about Aniston's state of mind these days. It is a film about older women dating younger men that Hahn describes as a "high-octane comedy about sexual politics and double standards." Aniston's description is both funnier and cruder: "It's sort of a female Wedding Crashers. It's about these girls who aspire to become cougars. They just paaarty! Young party girls who just find hot young guys to play with and then dump them. Why can't women do it?" At a time when Hollywood is obsessed with the Judd Apatow version of the infantile, directionless 40-year-old man, it is a tantalizing notion. Aniston, after all, has trained with the Big Boys�as David Frankel says, "What she does so brilliantly is play great tennis with the big stars of our day: Ben Stiller, Jim Carrey, Vince Vaughn." Why couldn't she create an alternative by having fun with female stereotypes�not to mention provide another option than the Carrie Bradshaw model she so detests?

We now know of Pumas, the female version of The Wedding Crashers, and that it's the project that is closest to getting released. I am already in love with the project and very curious about the result.

That's an interesting thought! I actually pictured Catherine Keener as Sophie, but now that you mention it, Courteney would be good in the part.

Since The Break-Up, under the auspices of her newly formed production company, Echo Films, Aniston has thrown herself into developing a range of projects that seem designed to upend audience expectations, including a biopic about the first woman tenured in psychology at Harvard and another true story about an all-female country & western band that formed in a Texas prison. But of course, what she would really like to do is direct. She already has a particular project in mind: "It's about schizophrenia, a woman who overcame the odds against her � that's all I'm going to say." Would she also star in it? "Oh, no, that sounds like torture," she says, laughing. "I'd never get myself out of the trailer."

It definitely sounds interesting. Do we know about the first woman that tenured in psychology at Harvard? If so, it seemed to have slipped my mind. Anyone know?

I thought she was going to star in Counter Clockwise as well but maybe Im thinking of another one of the companys movies biut I really thought it said that somewhere

I really wish she was in it but it's still great she is talking about it and it going to direct

Ellen Langer. Counter Clockwise :)

I think she won't star in the one about schizophrenia. I still have my hopes up for Counter Clockwise :)

"[Pumas] is sort of a female Wedding Crashers. It's these two girls who are aspiring cougars. It is so a comment on the sexual double standard�and what's been ironic is how hard it's been to get this movie made. Studios want it, but they're afraid of Middle America. They'd want to change it; they're saying, 'Oh, you can't do that, people just can't imagine you..."

I love how excited she seems to be about this one. Anyone who wants to guess just how far along this project is?

I think they will be filming it by the end of 2009, it's the project she has been talking the most lately.