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09/16/09
telling a cop to lower his voice is unforgivable diddy. see what i did there?
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It's strange, I used to really like Maggie Gyllenhaal, but I swear everything I've read over the last year or so has made me want to smack her.
Also: Emma Thompson is a goddess.
09/16/09
My father sets up education in programmes in developing countries,so I was born in Uganda,just as Idi Amin came to power.Then we moved to Lesotho,where we lived for eight years and where I went to school.It is a very small,independent nation with a black African government and a black royal family,and surrounded by the Orange Free State one of the most Afrikaaner of states, so I grew up in an independant black nation,under apartheid.
Then back to Uganda, where we lived in the middle of nowhere, with intermittent electricity and no running water- the lorry would bring water every day from the papyrus swamp and we would fill the bath and it was sponge baths and flushing the toilet once a day. We were the only white children some of the children in the village had ever seen- they would mob us in the market,pinching our skin and pulling hair-I'm very blonde.
Then back to South Africa and living in Cape Town.
I then went to university in England and studied Italian and English and then I spent two years in Florence, then Paris and now I live between Geneva(reluctantly)Paris and Berlin(yeah!!)
I normally spend time between two cities in a week but it's not unusual to spend time between three.
Having that kind of upbringing does mark and change you.It's only now,I'm almost forty, that I've come to realize what a privilege it is.
I've always felt extremely rootless and I went to boarding school very young and I really feel that my parents sacrificed any life we had as a family to their careers and to our education ( try having a father who is an education evangelist!),it took me a very long time to come to terms with that.
I've never stopped travelling,I've travelled all over Asia,Africa and Europe.
It is the most amazing education,the most amazing exposure to different cultures,different languages, different view points and mores,it really does open your mind.
What it taught me more than anything was that you can change things,my grandfather was a gas fitter in South London,my grandmother was housewife,she won a scholarship to continue at school but was told there wasn't enough money for her uniform so she had to leave school.
My father was the first person in his family to go university and then my brother and I automatically went - my brother to Oxford.You can change your destiny! I speak three languages,I'm pretty much at home wherever I go, because I learned to take my home with me,it's inside of me.
It's an odd upbringing, being dragged around the world and never really having a choice about it - as I said I've finally come to terms with it and relish it but at the same time it is very hard to be so rootless.
The Jolie-Pitts seem to travel as a family and the children see their siblings and are with one or both parents, if they have that kind of support I can only think that an upbringing like this is a good thing
09/16/09
Maybe I'm touchy but that really sounds like people consider her a "lended child". Should we really keep a clock on when she's back on birth soil? Her place is with her mom & dad, wherever they are.
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09/15/09
That being said, I imagine they have a lovely family dynamic, and I pass no judgment or condemnation on them as people, since that sort of thing isn't really even my business. I'm just curious for what that is like for a child, and how that must feel, as someone who wants a few mini-people of my own in a few years. Perhaps some Jezzies who are children of military personnel can share some correlating insight, unless there are children of international celebrities posting here as well.
09/15/09
if you have boobs you "don't like".
Stay well!
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There is nothing, absolutely nothing wrong with simply acknowledging that a colleague is older and more experienced. Gyllenhaal didn't express the idea with much elegance, but I can't be contemptuous of her for stating the fact. Being fifty isn't something to be ashamed of, or something to hide. It's frankly amazing. Describing someone as fifty years old is not an insult. It would be amusingly hypocritical of me to castigate Gyllenhaal for that.
But what is genuinely odd is her admission that she would not allow another actor to give her advice. That is bloody strange. Surely anyone working in a creative field would be eager for any useful feedback. I know there are times when it is a distraction, but a film is a collaborative effort, not a solo exercise. I mean, I know how it can sometimes be irritating when people offer unsolicited advice. When I'm making soup, my sister constantly hovers over my shoulder and tells me it needs more salt, and I want to gut her. But if I were working in a kitchen with other professional chefs, even legendary ones, their input and well-trained palate would be a fantastic resource to mine. Gyllenhaal's prickly insistence that she does not allow advice is, well, rather silly, isn't it?
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English, motherfucker! Do you speak it?
09/15/09
Not to take anything away from the whole Kanye-was-a-jackass-and - Taylor-is-a-wronged -sweet-young- thing, but this quote really drove home to me the vast difference between the outcry, from celebrities, fans, and strangers alike, about Kanye's interrupting an MTV acceptance speech and Chris Brown beating the hell out of Rihanna.
I mean, WTF, America? Kanye was a douche, yes, but the difference in the outpouring of public support and public outrage on behalf of Taylor v. Rihanna has been pretty stark.
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But even after the leaked photos, we still didn't hear a lot of flat-out condemnation of Brown from celebs: there was just a lot of "oh, well, we have to let them work through what happened, they're young, love is hard, etc etc." Even with the photos of her face! And there was no uniform outpouring of support for Rihanna -- a lot of the online conversations were actually about what she must have done to set him off and how hot-tempered "those Island women" are. Brown's supporters were everywhere online defending him -- from what I've seen, the vitriol directed at Kanye the past couple days has been more uniformly outraged than anything Chris Brown faced in the aftermath of his assault.
It's not just about the video. It's also about race, and how seriously this culture takes relationship violence.
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I am very young to know the show the Monkees so well but I grew up watching re-runs and always had a small crush on him. It was a little wierd when I realized how big that age gap is. One can't really judge based off of what one see's on TV but he always came across as a sweetheart. And at an age when bones start getting brittle, he really should re-think being with someone who has cracked one of his ribs.
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If I was dating Jon Gosselin, the first question my mother would ask is "Are you CRAZY? That man has 8 friggin' kids!!"
09/16/09
And yes, these days I reference everything back to RHA. What of it?
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