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connielane at 08:56am on 18/01/2007 under rants
connielane at 08:56am on 18/01/2007 under rantsI wasn't in the press room (as you clearly were) for the Q&As in the press room backstage to the Golden Globes, and I'm finding it strangely difficult, in the age of YouTube, to find any video of said Q&As. (ETA: Maybe if I'd looked at the HFPA web page, I would have found it. My bad.) However, I'm more than a little annoyed at your description of Jennifer Hudson - the deserving Golden Globe winner for Dreamgirls - as the "Coolest Cat" and your implication that she was not "nervous" or "excitable" enough while answering questions from the press right after her win. You seem to be accusing her "grinning and relaxed" demeanor as if it were a sign of arrogance.
Perhaps, being stuck in the press room, you missed her endearingly emotional acceptance speech, where she did such "cool" and "relaxed" things as crying, laughing at herself when she said something a bit silly, and dedicating her award to the late Florence Ballard (on whom her character Effie was partially based). But perhaps not, since in the very next paragraph you're subtly lampooning Kyra Sedgwick for essentially being too nervous and excitable and thanking too many people during her press room moment.
Mr. Vary, I am anxiously awaiting the day that you win a Golden Globe and/or Oscar and are forced to endure that few minutes of interrogation from a room full of reporters. I am sure that you will cry just the right amount of tears, exude the perfect amount of nervous laughter, stammer in exactly the right and appropriate manner and volume, and thank no more and no less people than actually, literally deserve it.
Yours in Eye-Rolling,
Pam
ETA, contintued: - I am watching the video of her press room Q&A now, and I honestly don't see what your problem is. I'm also failing to see how a reporter remarking about how calm she seems and asking what her celebrating plans were is "calling her" on anything.
Perhaps, being stuck in the press room, you missed her endearingly emotional acceptance speech, where she did such "cool" and "relaxed" things as crying, laughing at herself when she said something a bit silly, and dedicating her award to the late Florence Ballard (on whom her character Effie was partially based). But perhaps not, since in the very next paragraph you're subtly lampooning Kyra Sedgwick for essentially being too nervous and excitable and thanking too many people during her press room moment.
Mr. Vary, I am anxiously awaiting the day that you win a Golden Globe and/or Oscar and are forced to endure that few minutes of interrogation from a room full of reporters. I am sure that you will cry just the right amount of tears, exude the perfect amount of nervous laughter, stammer in exactly the right and appropriate manner and volume, and thank no more and no less people than actually, literally deserve it.
Yours in Eye-Rolling,
Pam
ETA, contintued: - I am watching the video of her press room Q&A now, and I honestly don't see what your problem is. I'm also failing to see how a reporter remarking about how calm she seems and asking what her celebrating plans were is "calling her" on anything.
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As for the writer of that article, well, some people are just idiots.
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And yeah, it kills me how these journalists pass judgement on actors' "behind-the-scenes" behavior like they do.
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But I mean, come on, Meryl Streep? Everyone loses to Meryl Streep.
(Totally NOT calling Jennifer Hudson fat, btw)
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Totally off topic, but was there more backstage interview drama than there's been in a while?
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And yes, I find it highly ironic that she played a character who was given the limelight over a more talented vocalist because she sounded less black, and that now Mr. Knowles is whining about black artists being overlooked. Which - again, HELLO - is so ridiculous considering there were an unprecedented number of black people who DID win awards that night. Just because Beyonce and Will Smith didn't win doesn't mean that Hudson, Murphy, Whittaker and Prince don't count. >.
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Of course, spilling the beans is different than semi-judgmental commentary. What a tool.
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However...
I have seen a couple of pundits on television and the IMDB "news" page who have been gossiping quite a bit about stuff that really shouldn't be gossiped about IMO. These are the kind of things I don't really want to know about, and it strikes me that the purpose of these parties is for celebs to be able to relax without worrying about their words and actions being splattered all over the news in the morning - especially as they've spent a good deal of their evening in front of television cameras to begin with.
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