Last weekend, the NYT published a feature to ask the question on the nation’s mind: Why does everyone hate Gwyneth Paltrow so much?
Is it because everyone thought she was British for the first five years of her career, but it turns out she’s merely affected? Is it because she named her kids Apple and Moses? Maybe it’s the masturbatory project known as GOOP? Or are we all, in fact, just jealous?
The question is, why bother putting herself out there so boldly? Is it possible that with her homes in London and the Hamptons, and a husband who, while a star, has to share his profits with a four-member band, she actually needs to find new ways of working her brand to make money?
James Gray, who directed Ms. Paltrow in “Two Lovers,” sounds as puzzled as anyone else. “I think she’s a brilliant actress, but it’s weird all the attention from the film right now has been diverted by her Web site,” he said in an interview.
Ms. Paltrow does take her acting very seriously, Mr. Gray said. “I was concerned that she wouldn’t be invested in the work, but she was wonderful,” he said. “At a certain point I asked if she missed acting, and she said she wanted to come back to it and that it was important to her as an artist, but that there aren’t that many roles and she doesn’t get enough scripts.”
“It’s interesting,” he added, “because she doesn’t seem to care that much about stardom and fame. She cares about her kids.”
I think she also might care about stardom and fame. Or at the very least, money — and all the fun you can have when you have gobs of it. In today’s GOOP newsletter (yes, I subscribed) she gives some helpful tips about where to eat and stay when you’re in Paris if you’re well-heeled. A sampling of her advice:
“There are two schools of thought regarding l’Ami Louis: one is that it is an overpriced place for tourists and the other is that it is one of the best, most venerable bistros in Paris. I am firmly in the school of the latter.”
“Although I occasionally try the “new” spot or an old-new spot, I always keep coming back to the Ritz. The place is just beautiful and the service is pretty flawless for France. Yes, it costs an arm and a leg, but it’s worth it.”
“After a couple of days in Paris when I need to lay off the butter and goose fat, I head to Kinugawa for a Japanese lunch.”
Goose fat? Yet another luxury she’s going to have to explain to PETA…
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Gwyneth Paltrow confuses me. I do think she is a very good actress, and I saw her on a documentary style food show called “Spain On the Road Again”, where she comes off as a really nice, and believe it or not, down to earth person with a fun personality. I even liked her interview with Jonathan Ross not too long ago where she sat there slurping a Guiness. A person that drinks Guiness always scores points with me.
However, this GOOP crap, the snotty persona, and her hypocrisy when it comes to meat (she ate fish on that Spain show but no land animals), really makes me cringe. It amazes me that she either doesn’t see how stupid all this makes her look, or refuses to see it.
Why does everyone hate Gwyneth? Maybe she’s just easy to hate. I’ve heard this sub-moron talk in interviews, do you really believe she wrote that stuff you’re reading? Because I doubt it.
“Two schools of thought…” And here she’s talking about a restaurant. Egad what a pompous ass.If anyone ever asks you why people hate Ms. Paltrow, just copy down that first paragraph of that little blurb and show it to them. It sounds like someone deserves a major punching. And for once it isn’t me.
I’ll take your advice Gwynnie if it’s your treat
. In fact L’Ami Louis is in my upcoming guide to the best places to eat if someone else is paying.
She’s simply trying to step into the psychographic gap left by the declining circulation of Town & Country magazine.Yeah those ho’s are annoying-but hey…it’s a market niche.
I loathe Gwyneth Paltrow for so many reasons that the “G” volume of the HatingGwynniepedia is now in its second printing. For all the Hollywood liberal whining that it’s conservatives who are elitist and uncaring, there sure are a lot of overpaid, overprivileged, shellacked turds like Paltrow asking why the homeless don’t just go to their summer houses. I mean, if it’s ACTING she cares about–and for her, it’s “Acting” with a capital A that stands for Ass, why doesn’t she give it a rest with the stupid vanity website, even if she isn’t the one that writes that farty, self-important crap herself?
Beige, no one telegraphs rage like you do. You should come work for us, we need another chick.
Awww, Holly, that’s the nicest thing anyone’s said to me today.
Gwinnie’s response…
“I think the people who are criticizing it or criticizing the idea of it, don’t really get it, because if they did, they would like it,”
So now we are all stupid for not liking her drivel. Drivel she probably does not write herself
Jenn, not exactly. We aren’t stupid for not liking her drivel. We are too stupid to GET IT, thus, we don’t like it. Not much to get from an arrogant airhead who thinks she knows everything about everything. IF I wanted to look like a concentration camp victim as she does, maybe I would follow her advice. But, other than anorexics, who cares???
I have no problem believing Gwyneth Paltrow is capable of saying things like “I am firmly in the school of the latter” to an assistant with a laptop.
LOL Chronic, I watched that “On The Road” show all the way thru also, and she does almost seem approachable in it. But when she’s with the common folk it’s probably another story, than when she’s hanging with her rich friends like Bittman, Claudia, and Mario.
There was an interview with her in a New York paper (I think) a few years ago where she was adamant about making the point that she’s a really nice person, and it kind of struck me as being as much of a no-no as someone claiming that they are cool…i.e., if you say you are, you’re not.
I never really had a problem with GP (I even ignored her Hollywood Royalty type entitlement) until she began to bash the USA and say what a horrible place it is to raise children. :-p
Strawberry, I’m with you. If Gwyneth wants to treat me to L’Ami Louis and buy me Tod’s and Estee Lauder products, I’ll happily listen to her bullsh…advice.
Oh, the famous “You just think I suck for drug money because YOU DON’T GET IT” trope.
She’s not even TRYING to make friends, here. Only if she literally showed up at my house at 5 a.m. and peed in my oatmeal, could I hate her more, actually. I think she should immediately be forced to adopt Octomom’s kids. Anyone who has to flagellate a deceased equine to that degree (by which I mean, “I’m NICE! REALLY! I hardly ever suck at all!”) is only proving the opposite point.
She always comes across really insecure to me, like she’s trying to prove how smart and intellectual she is and not some dumb blonde actress. Keep trying honey, it’s not working.
Jannah, she did seem nice in that, didn’t she? She was very human there, and you could see that the four of them genuinely liked each other.
I had forgotten about her USA bashing, actually. OK, I can’t forgive that.
I’ve disliked this woman ever since she took Cate Blanchett’s Oscar. Shakespeare in Love was a good movie, but she was NOT stronger than Cate in Elizabeth.
Never really forgave her for that. The ‘old Hollywood’ BS is just that, I’ve only liked her in one movie, and that was Iron Man! And even then, she could have been replaced by any number of actresses.
She’s honestly confused as to why she’s so disliked? Stop trying to pander a common touch you don’t have, Gwyn!
Yeah, there’s really nothing wrong with being a stuck-up biy-och. Hey if you’ve got it, flaunt it!
Here would have been a decent answer:
“Goop is just a little thing I do. If people want to read it, that’s great. If they don’t, that’s cool too.”
Instead she is totally put upon that people don’t adore every piece of pooh she lays on the ground. Which sounds, dare I say, kind of arrogant.
hmmm…I had no idea she was hated so much. by so many. I remember her being well liked…back in the 90’s, at the dawn of her career. Me, I always HATED her. Not because of her pathetic attempts at pseudo-englishness, not because of the self-pleasuring GOOP, not because I’m jealous, and not even because her husband is an asshole. I hate her because I consider her a terrible actress and I never understood her appeal. I hate her because she considers herself an “intellectual” – she went to college, you see, for a year or so. It’s called flunked out of college where I live. But mostly I hate her because she’s an arrogant haughty presumptuos c***. The way she acts is just…Thackeray would call it “to put on airs”. (Or he’d just ignore the c*** completely and write about smth else.) When she speaks foreign languages in the movies with a California accent and a smug look on her face, I cringe. She couldn’t even say “Quelle dommage” right in Great Expectations…and the way she spoke Spanish in A Perfect Murder! I’m not saying that everyone should be fluent in foreign languages…just don’t assume you are when you f-ing aren’t. I actually hate her less these days…because the few movies she’s in nowadays are mostly crap I wouldn’t watch at gunpoint. But when I think of all the movies she ruined for me back in the 90’s (Mrs. Parker, Talented Mr. Ripley) by her mere on-screen presence, it makes my blood boil! The only movie with her in it that I can tolerate is Se7en. For obvious reasons.
She is, at best, a mediocre actress. Considering the degree of nepotism involved in her career–make that “career”–she’s essentially a nicer-looking Tori Spelling, but that wasn’t exactly a high bar to clear.
I call bull#$%! on her winning the Oscar. That was Daddy and “Uncle” Speilberg looking out for her. Cate Blanchet was brilliant in Elizabeth and Paltrow couldnt hold a candle to her acting skills. And Paltrow’s sobby acceptance speech was nothing but a gushy self-absorbed “Im so lucky, I have a wonderful family, I have a wonder life…” That’s when I was like “What is this chick about?” I cant watch her movies. I watched Ironman because of RDJ but Paltrows roll could have been played by ANYONE.
LOL Chronic.
Yes, I never understood why she got the Oscar for that movie. Her part in the movie wasn’t even really all that great.
I would totally hit it, but with that good angry attitude…you know what I mean. Then she can name her kid something normal, like “Jrod”.
I normally don’t think she’s physically attractive at all, but she does look good in that picture. Kinda like a hot ghost.
TURN AWAY! TURN AWAY!
Now I think the actual expression was “give (oneself or someone) airs” rather than “put on airs”…oh, I got confused…again…It’s all paltrow’s fault!
And speaking of her and foreign languages, does anyone recall how (a while ago) she spoke Spanish to a Portuguese reporter and said smth about Americans not being as “cultured” as the Brits…and then denied it and blamed the whole thing on being “lost in translation”? Why would you spoke Spanish to a Portuguese reporter in the 1st place? If that’s not arrogance, I don’t know what is. It’s like saying “Who cares what language those people speak, my half-Spanish is good enough for them”. Granted, Spanish and Portuguese are from the same language family, and there are some similarities, but they are 2 different languages. You wouldn’t try speaking French to a Romanian or Portuguese to an Italian, woud you? Probably not, unless you are a complete f-ing dips*it…kinda like gwyneth here. Polyglot…my ass…douchebaguette.
I have to hand it to you, Nati: “Douchebaguette” is masterful. And in this case, good call.
awww…I wish I could take credit for “douchebaguette”, but I didn’t come up with that word. I wish I had. But I think I’ve seen it somewhere before…in a fashion magazine…I think. But hey, it is so fitting here, I see no harm in ripping off a fashion mag no one reads anyway. Too bad my conscience wouldn’t let me take credit. I wanna be witty
Nati, I have to agree that it’s arrogance, but also ignorance. I speak Spanish fluently, and can only vaguely pretend to understand Portuguese. My mother in law is currently living in Portugal, and I get all stoked that I can read the warnings on the cigarettes she brings me when she comes back home, but when you hear it spoken, it’s really hard to catch on. I imagine it would be the same the other way around.
Chronic, some Portuguese words and grammar rules are actually closer to French, than to Spanish. I speak French (I’m not super-fluent, but I’m okay) and because of that when I read in Portuguese, I understand most of what I read. A lot of Portuguese words look and sound just like the French ones rather than Spanish ones. For instance, the word “street” – “rua” in Portuguese, “rue” in French. Now compare it to Spanish for street – “calle”. No similarity here. What that dumb f*** was doing speaking Spanish to a Portuguese reporter is beyond me. The bottom line here is either learn your interviewer’s native language or, and no one says it better than Pulp Fiction’s Jules Winnifield, “English, motherf*****, do you speak it?!!!”
and o god@my previously posted “why would you spoke…”
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LOL, Nati. I won’t even get started on my French, but I had never made that connection with Portuguese before. I know a few phrases to get by in French simply because we spend time there in the spring and summer, but I always end up embarrassing myself because I end up starting off in French, then my own version of sign language, Spanish, and German. I don’t do a Gwyneth, though, and just address people without making an attempt to speak their language, though! And people tend to get a kick out of my attempts so total strangers end up teaching me something new every time. What she did was just rude, especially when you consider the cultural rivalry between Spanish and Portugal that apparently exists.
Chronic, I think she was just showing off…as usual. Trying to make sure that we all know that she knows how to speak a foreign language. I just love it how she made an ass out of herself while doing that. Serves her right.
I still haven’t forgotten her comment about the Brits being more intelligent than Americans and actually talking about intelligent things at the dinner table. She’s so yesterday.
Nati, sadly, I think you are right.
And Glynn, her comments about Americans and Brits came out just around the time I moved to England from Texas. It really chapped my hide to hear that, because it was enough for my family to tease me about wondering if I would do a Madonna and put on an accent (which I haven’t… can’t lose my accent very easily and don’t want to), but when Gwyneth said that, I had to assure my sister that I would not turn into a snob.
That said, dinner conversation, no matter what the continent, is as interesting as the individuals and the alcohol make it.
I really think the “Americans are scary, patriotic and stupid” attitude from Gwynnie was a bit ill-thought-out or not-thought-out at all. I mean, everyone who heard or read those remarks knew that SHE was an American. It came across as “I shore wisht we had us somma dis cool stuff like this at our house, DUR, ’cause mah momma makes me warsh inna yard.”
Do they call women wankers in the UK? Because she is one.
Gwyneth Paltrow stinks–literally. She should never be allowed to return to the USA–& leave her apple across the Atlantic also–she’s ugly