On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:28:27 -0700 (PDT), Hilda
wrote:
>On Jul 2, 10:20 am, CliffB wrote:
>> Gwyneth Paltrow Still Hates America
>> Especially New York City
>>
>> By SCOTT ROSS
>> Updated 6:19 AM PDT, Thu, Jul 2, 2009
>>
>> http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/entertainment/Gwyneth-Paltrow-Still...
>> Getty Images
>> Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter Apple apparently can't stand listening to
>> mommy's blather either.
>>
>> A trip across Spain has Academy Award-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow
>> focusing her general contempt for the United States on New York City.
>>
>> "(Spain) is so different from the United States. It seemed to have a
>> history, and the buildings are years and years and years old. Here in
>> the United States an old building is about 17 (years old), and over
>> there it's from 500 B.C., it's incredible," said Paltrow.
>>
>> "Also, the way people live over there. They seem to enjoy life a
>> little bit more. They aren't running around as much as in New York.
>> They enjoy time with the family. They don't always have their
>> BlackBerries on."
>>
>> Paltrow has been visiting Spain regularly since she was 15, but
>> recently spent time touring the country and its cuisine with NYC
>> celebrity chef Mario Batali, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman
>> and Spanish actress Claudia Bassols filming "Spain ... on the Road
>> Again" for PBS.
>>
>> Someone -- her publicist, maybe -- should explain to Gwyneth that when
>> you eat your way across a country with a camera crew in tow, the
>> people you dine with are probably going to be more at ease and not
>> burying their heads in their Blackberries.
>>
>> This isn't the fist time the Paltrow has turned on her homeland, In
>> fact, the actress has a long history of America bashing.
>>
>> "I love the English lifestyle, it's not as capitalistic as America.
>> People don't talk about work and money, they talk about interesting
>> things at dinner," Paltrow said in a 2006 interview with NS, the
>> weekend magazine supplement of daily Portuguese newspaper Diario de
>> Noticias. "I like living here because I don't fit into the bad side of
>> American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and
>> civilized than the Americans."
>>
>> Following the uproar that ensued, she made a plea to her fellow
>> Americans.
>>
>> "First of all I feel so lucky to be American. When you look at the
>> rest of the world, we're so lucky," she told People magazine. "I feel
>> so proud to be American... I felt so upset to be completely
>> misconstrued, and I never, ever would have said that."
>>
>> Except you did, Gwyneth. Repeatedly.
>
>Sadly, nothing she allegedly dsaid is untrue.
The funny thing is that Paltrow exemplifies all of those bad qualities
and more. In her shallowness, vapidity and self-centeredness she is
the epitome of the ugly American. |
