Characters named Sydney redux

Why oh why is Jessica Alba (one of my most hated celebs) playing a character named Sydney White in The Eye. It almost sounds like a Bataille title so I was intriqued but hasn't "I see dead people" already been done by a 5 year old nonetheless. But then again, I think Jessica Alba has the intelligence of a 5 year old...she's not remotely interesting and her acting is so flat a pancake is more dense than her acting. Yet she continues to suck up fans and bad shows. I guess I'm just not the target audience--an adolescent boy. And I think a part of the resolution to the writer's strike should be that no characters will be named Sydney until at least 2065--by then I'll be dead...