Dear EW Online Writer Adam Vary...

[connielane]

I 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.

Comments

[miss-eponine.livejournal.com]

YouTube took down all the videos of her acceptance speech. That annoys me because I really wanted to see it!

As for the writer of that article, well, some people are just idiots.

[connielane.livejournal.com]

Gah. I should have checked the link. It worked yesterday. :P Audio of the speech is supposed to be on jenniferhudson.net, but I can't seem to find it. The awards will be broadcast again this weekend on Bravo as well.

And yeah, it kills me how these journalists pass judgement on actors' "behind-the-scenes" behavior like they do.

[miss-eponine.livejournal.com]

Just pointing this out to you. I thought you might find it interesting.

[connielane.livejournal.com]

*LOLLERSKATES* THE RACE CARD OMG! Did he watch nothing but the Best Actress category?! That is the only thing that could account for his somehow missing the fact that THREE of the four film acting trophies went to African-Americans. And the other award Beyonce was up for was won by ANOTHER African-American artist. That has to be THE most ridiculous thing I've heard in quite some time. (Okay, maybe not as ridiculous as the Attorney General's ideas about habeas corpus, but not far down the ladder.)

[miss-eponine.livejournal.com]

It sounds like someone is a little bitter that their daughter, 'the star' didn't win an award and the fatty did.

But I mean, come on, Meryl Streep? Everyone loses to Meryl Streep.

(Totally NOT calling Jennifer Hudson fat, btw)

[mrs-bombadil.livejournal.com]

I haven't even seen the movie yet but I know about the premise. Is it not ironic to the max that she played a character who was promoted above others because she was not "too black"? I doubt I even need to pursue it further. lol

Totally off topic, but was there more backstage interview drama than there's been in a while?

[connielane.livejournal.com]

Well, certainly from the Grey's Anatomy people. :P I haven't heard about any Dreamgirls drama; I think a lot of people are tempted to make up stuff between Jennifer and Beyonce - I guess because they can't believe that Beyonce would allow anyone to "steal" the spotlight from her. Which jibes with everything I've read about her personally, but whatever.

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. >.

[mrs-bombadil.livejournal.com]

Is this guy new? Because there's an entertainment reporter for the Washington Post who likes to dish about the red carpet, parties, and back stage gossip but it's clear to me that he is very careful about how catty he is or how many names he names because he's not likely to be invited back if HE does handle things just so.

Of course, spilling the beans is different than semi-judgmental commentary. What a tool.

[connielane.livejournal.com]

Well, this guy was just dishing about the traditional press room Q&As at the awards themselves.

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.

[spattergroit.livejournal.com]

I decided not to read what he said just because I feel it an insult that to even think he said that. And I also ramble and get too defensive of her. Clearly, this man is a moron and wouldn't know the difference between calm and nervous if it was a red hot poker being inserted into his ass. And with that said, I'm through.