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Nov

Gwyneth Paltrow Will Always Be One PETA Apology Behind. (Serves Her Right.)

Holly blogged last week about how Gwyneth Paltrow offended the animal kingdom’s High Priests at PETA — and then publicly apologized — for daring to model a stole made of fox fur in an ad campaign for the Italian luxury brand Tod’s.

In her mea culpa, Paltrow claimed that a stylist plopped the garment on her in the middle of a busy photo shoot, and her only real sin was failing to ask whether it was “real” or fake”:

“It was a daylong photo shoot on a boat near Capri, and there were all sorts of poses with all kinds of clothes—none with fur. During one set-up, a stylist came up from behind and draped a stole around my shoulders. I didn’t pay much attention to it, and when I noticed it was fur I assumed it was fake fur but did not ask, so it’s my fault.

It turns out that Paltrow also modeled a pair of fur-trimmed boots in the Tod’s ad campaign, which kinda blows the whole “sneaky stylist” excuse out of the water.

But the plot thickens. London’s Sunday Independent reported today that Gwyneth sends out free subscriber e-mails to fans who sign up at her website, Goop.com. And her latest missive outlines a Thanksgiving dinner that — well, let’s just say it won’t please anyone in the Tofurky fan club.

Sure enough, HuffPo reproduced that e-mail on Thursday. Here’s a paragraph that Paltrow will be apologizing for next week:

Turkey will always be the main event of Thanksgiving (at least in my house) and a whole turkey is the way to go if you’re feeding at least 12. But if your party is smaller, the stuffed turkey breast turns out to be a great halfway point. Brining it overnight insures that you don’t need to baste it and it has a quick cooking time. Why should things be any less festive if dinner is just for two? I came up with these stuffed turkey burgers which were a giant hit in my house. They are the perfect solution for anyone who isn’t feeding a big group (or for a big group that wants to try something different!).

Mmmm… Stuffed turkey burgers.

Funny — Just six months ago, Paltrow told V magazine that she was strictly a non-meat-eater:

I haven’t eaten meat for about fifteen years. I eat fish, a little bit of dairy — not much milk — but I love cheese. We’ll make chocolate chip cookies and eat them, but sugar makes me feel pretty bad. I have coffee and wine. I’ve got lots of lovely vices.

The cartoon angel on my right shoulder thinks Gwyneth, like most of Hollywood, is just not sophisticated enough to figure out how PETA operates and what its leaders really want. The cartoon devil on my left, however, suspects that one of her “handlers” floated the fur apology last week in order to make it harder for PETA to beat her up about eating turkey this week.

Both of the cartoon characters think Paltrow doesn’t understand that turkey is, in fact, meat.

23
Nov

NBC Pink Slips Are Actually “Green”

Deceiver reader Sal wrote last Wednesday to our “tips” e-mail address about an NBC football broadcast he saw (I cleaned up a few of Sal’s typos, which I’m attributing to his being a fan of the More Taste League):

During their Sunday night NFL broadcast, NBC had each of their studio panelists tell us what they were doing to keep up with the nonsensical green movement. Jerome Bettis said he washes his clothes in cold water, Keith “the smarmy hump” Olbermann has given up bottled water, and Chris Collinsworth says he walks to work.

Meanwhile, the set for “Football Night in America” eats up more electricity than most small towns.  NBC flies their correspondents all over the country, they bring Dan Patrick in for a few minute “highlight” recap (highlights that any football fan has already seen 643 times by the time NBC’s show hits the air), not to mention that they ship John Madden around the country in a luxury bus.

And I’m sure you can find even more hypocrisy in all of this.

Sal … Sal … Don’t you understand? NBC is doing this For Your Own Good. Without their helpful insights, Global Warming will overwhelm the planet, and We’re All Gonna Die.™

Or not.

Either way, NBC has some ’splaining to do, since it has just fired the entire Environmental Unit at The Weather Channel. Smack dab in the middle of the network’s “Green Week.”

From the “Capital Weather Gang” at The Washington Post:

NBC Universal made the first of potentially several rounds of staffing cuts at The Weather Channel (TWC) on Wednesday, axing the entire staff of the “Forecast Earth” environmental program during the middle of NBC’s “Green Week,” as well as several on-camera meteorologists. The layoffs totaled about 10 percent of the workforce…

The timing of the Forecast Earth cancellation was ironic, since it came in the middle of NBC’s “Green Week,” during which the network has been touting its environmental coverage across all of its platforms. Forecast Earth normally aired on weekends, but its presumed last episode was shown on a weekday due to the environmentally-oriented week.

Forecast Earth was hosted by former CNN anchor Natalie Allen, with contributions from climate expert Heidi Cullen. It was the sole program on TWC that focused on global climate change, which raises the question of whether the station will still report on the subject.

Well! At least there’s a silver lining.




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