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2006-12-02 Home Front: Culture Wars

US actress Gwyneth Paltrow prefers British dinner talk

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Posted by .com 2006-12-02 12:06|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Not me. Unh unh. I didn't talk to her.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-12-02 13:08|| 2006-12-02 13:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Would somebody please explain the appeal of this snotty, overrated anorexic to me?

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-12-02 13:19|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com ]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com ] 2006-12-02 13:19|| Front Page Top

#3 People don't talk about work and money, they talk about interesting things at dinner

I actually enjoy a certain amount of work-related discussion at dinner, although my guests generally don't rehash the 2:00 meeting. But then, I know interesting, intelligent people with a wide range of interests who do interesting and useful work in creative ways, and who are as likely to discuss how Charles Van Doren's _A_History_of_Knowledge_ shaped their world view (for me it was Van Loon's _Lives_ and more recently Revel's _Anti-Americanism_) as they are to describe their adventures in India. I've even had some fascinating war-related discussions with some colleagues who'd been involved, wherein I was able to make use of what I learnt here (garning a great many startled and bemused expressions, for which I thank Rantburgers all. Such knowledge apparently is not expected from a dear little Midwestern suburban housewife!).

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-02 13:43|| 2006-12-02 13:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe it's bad food that makes for good conversation. I grew up in Scotland. Where the cuisine was similar to the English, but blander. As a result, our dinner conversations were quite spirited. And the result of that, heated debate. Try inviting a Scot's to dinner and mention poetry.

Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-12-02 13:55|| 2006-12-02 13:55|| Front Page Top

#5 This reminded me of the scene in The Aviator when Hughes is invited to the Hepburn compound for lunchies. Their Socialist prattle finally gets to him and he says that they are dismissive of money (i.e. work, capitalism, success) because they have it. He excuses himself from the table and leaves. Of course, once he's gone, it's clear his dead-on-the-money observation has gone right over their pointy elitist heads.

Posted by .com 2006-12-02 13:55|| 2006-12-02 13:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Yeah, I can see how work related question could get to her...
I mean like: "you looked like quite the dom when you posed in a black leather bikini with a whip, Gwyneth - could you model that sometime for my son? He needs some incentive to study."

Or, "you are in nude in so many of your movies but we never get to really see the nasty parts of the guys your with - how do they keep it modest with a babe like you? Like how are you able to turn them off so well?"

Posted by 3dc 2006-12-02 14:35|| 2006-12-02 14:35|| Front Page Top

#7 Gwyneth, dahling. Be a dear and pass the fuckin potatos, will you luv?

Posted by tu3031 2006-12-02 14:40|| 2006-12-02 14:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Bold talk from a UC Santa Barbara dropout.

Posted by ed 2006-12-02 15:04|| 2006-12-02 15:04|| Front Page Top

#9 "Oi, Gwyniff! 'Nuvver eel pie and lager, Luv? Fackin' briwiant, innit?"

Posted by JDB 2006-12-02 17:20|| 2006-12-02 17:20|| Front Page Top

#10 "The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans,"

It's called generalizing from a limited case. I would think the stray cats in my alley were more intelligent than Americans if the only Americans I knew were Hollywood bozos and porn lords. What a twit.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2006-12-02 18:09|| http://www.nuclearspace.com]">[http://www.nuclearspace.com] 2006-12-02 18:09|| Front Page Top

#11 that's a lotta words for someone who reads from a script for a living. Successful highschool grad and UCSB dropout? Intelleckshul

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-12-02 18:17|| 2006-12-02 18:17|| Front Page Top

#12 Here's a dinner question for ya, sweetheart: if Brits are so "intelligent and civilized," why will you have to wear a niqab before I do?

TW, I'd take black coffee and cigarette and leave the Earl Grey to you, but I suspect our conversations would be far more interesting than what passes for intellectual exchange at Gwyneth's table. No doubt it revolves around weighty geopolitical issues, like which tart's salary goes up her nose, which one has her head down the loo, and which one is deliberately trying for beaver shots to boost her CD sales. Riveting, I'm sure.

Posted by exJAG 2006-12-02 18:54|| 2006-12-02 18:54|| Front Page Top

#13 We lived in England for 18 months back in the mid-1980's. My wife became quite close to several of the women in the local Lace Guild. They discussed much the same thing women discuss anywhere in the world - home, children, who's doing what, where, when, etc., - plus a lot about lacemaking, knitting, embroidery, and other "womanly" topics. They seldom talked politics, and they NEVER talked work, although several of the ladies worked outside the home. When we get together with friends, we discuss what interests us all, not necessarily the latest Rantburg comments or the latest joke from Hollyweird. As for Gwyneth Paltrow, I wouldn't recognize her if she walked into my living room, and that's probably not going to change because she thinks "Brits are so intelligent and civilized". I much prefer an honest barbarian to a lying "civilized" piece of fecal matter, or an idiotic bimbo.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-12-02 19:23|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-12-02 19:23|| Front Page Top

#14 what a stupid ass. I'm sure she's enjoying knowing that everyone is talking about her stupid remarks, and maybe she's eating them for dinner.These hollywood types don't deserve the press they get.

Posted by Jan 2006-12-02 20:32|| 2006-12-02 20:32|| Front Page Top

#15 Lol, Jan. She'll never know what folks like us think - nor would she care, lol - she and her ilk live in an acho chamber - which is the incubator for such idiotic statements. Just imagine how smarmy they'll be toward her at the next dinner. She "wins" - in her world.

Posted by .com 2006-12-02 20:41|| 2006-12-02 20:41|| Front Page Top

#16 #10. LOL. We missed ya 'round here, AC.
Like most Texans you sure know how to turn a phrase.

Posted by GK 2006-12-02 21:15|| 2006-12-02 21:15|| Front Page Top

#17 The America Gwyn speaks of is not the America the rest of us know. From her Wikipedia entry:

Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, California, to the film and television director Bruce Paltrow and the actress Blythe Danner; Paltrow's father was Jewish and her mother was raised a Quaker. Raised in Santa Monica, she attended Spence School, a private girls' school in New York City, and briefly studied art history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, before dropping out and committing herself to acting. Paltrow has a younger brother, Jake Paltrow, and is a cousin of actress Katherine Moennig.

Posted by markawarka 2006-12-02 21:45|| 2006-12-02 21:45|| Front Page Top

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