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.

[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.

[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.