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    Image of prettycool prettycool
    11/17/09

    In reply to Lindsay Lohan Tries To Start Dramz With Samantha Ronson
    Yeah, ok, but what was Andrew WK partying about today? MOAR WK!

    Dear lord, I think I'm going to have to actually join twitter to get my fix. #lindsaylohantwitter
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    Image of MyrtleWilloughby MyrtleWilloughby
    11/17/09

    @prettycool: PARTY TIP: Fly face forward into your life with the intensity of the gods! Take what you want! Make what you want! GET OFF! (7 hours ago)

    Also, some stuff at Happy Ending tonight and some upcoming shows at Santos Party House. [twitter.com]

    You're welcome. #lindsaylohantwitter
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    prettycool promoted this comment MyrtleWilloughby was starred MyrtleWilloughby was unstarred
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    11/18/09

    @MyrtleWilloughby: Thank you! He never fails to make me smile.
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    Image of andromache andromache
    11/17/09

    In reply to Lindsay Lohan Tries To Start Dramz With Samantha Ronson
    damn I agree with LiLo on something: I love both House and Californication. this means LiLo and I are practically BFFs!!!!! #lindsaylohantwitter
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    Image of phantom lady phantom lady
    11/17/09

    In reply to Lindsay Lohan Tries To Start Dramz With Samantha Ronson
    So many questions Blair. Was Jesus alone or was Madonna there too? What are they doing at your little hoodunk church? And what preytell is "unchurched"? #lindsaylohantwitter
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    11/17/09

    @phantom lady: Translation: "I love when people bring their heathen friends to church where we can hard-sell them into shambling shame-facedly down to the front of the church where strangers will then hug and pray with them for their many, many, MANY sins. If no one caves at first, the pastor just keeps talking and the music just keeps playing until someone cracks!" #lindsaylohantwitter
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    11/17/09

    @phantom lady: I always thought "churched" was something they did in the middle ages after women had a baby to cleanse them of the sin of birth... or something... #lindsaylohantwitter
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    curiousgeorgiana promoted this comment JoStockton was starred JoStockton was unstarred
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    11/17/09

    @JoStockton: Exactly. Husbands couldn't sleep with their wives until they had been properly "churched" after childbirth or major illness. #lindsaylohantwitter
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Lindsay Lohan Tries To Start Dramz With Samantha Ronson
    Sarah Palin resigned months ago and she's only canceling her AKGovSarahPalin account now? #lindsaylohantwitter
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Lindsay Lohan Tries To Start Dramz With Samantha Ronson
    Oh, Lindsay, just when I thought we could no longer be friends, you had to bring the Duchovny love. I guess I just can't quit you yet. #lindsaylohantwitter
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Lindsay Lohan Tries To Start Dramz With Samantha Ronson
    Blair, I think you're done repenting for stealing that poem from Emily Dickinson and turning it in as your own and for being a mega-bitch to Jo for all of those years. #lindsaylohantwitter
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Lindsay Lohan Tries To Start Dramz With Samantha Ronson
    Congrats Rivers!!!
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    Edited by pesematology at 11/17/09 7:41 PM pesematology was starred pesematology was unstarred
    Image of MalinaMango MalinaMango
    11/17/09

    @pesematology: Did Rivers get someone pregnant? I'm trying to figure out what he's saying. #lindsaylohantwitter
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    11/17/09

    @MalinaMango: Rivers and his wife are having their second kid, I believe. #lindsaylohantwitter
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    11/17/09

    @ErinLovesYou: Ah, okay. I did some cursory google searching and couldn't find any news items about it.

    Awwww. I'm happy for them, but my 15-year-old self is jealous. #lindsaylohantwitter
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    pesematology promoted this comment MalinaMango was starred MalinaMango was unstarred
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    11/18/09

    @MalinaMango: Mine too. Let's have a party for our 15-year-old selves. I'll bring Ghost World and sneak some wine coolers from my mom. #lindsaylohantwitter
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    11/09/09

    In reply to Gabby Sidibe Snuck Into A Screening Of Precious
    Why do they have her sitting so far away from them? It seems like such an awkward interview set-up. #gaboureysidibe
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    11/09/09

    @JLady: Maybe Gaby moved the chairs because she was afraid that their stupidity was contagious. #gaboureysidibe
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    11/09/09

    In reply to Gabby Sidibe Snuck Into A Screening Of Precious
    Who knew that Gabourey Sidibe rhymes with "Cabaret, Sydney Bay"?

    Just another reason that she's my new favorite person. #gaboureysidibe
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    11/09/09

    @JessickerFletcher: Gamma Ray Frisbee Day! #gaboureysidibe
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    JessickerFletcher promoted this comment ketamineKitty was starred ketamineKitty was unstarred
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    11/09/09

    @ketamineKitty: Everyday's Guy Fawkes Day! #gaboureysidibe
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    Image of AtelierCeleste AtelierCeleste
    11/09/09

    In reply to Gabby Sidibe Snuck Into A Screening Of Precious
    I hope that after all is said and done, she is does not fade into obscurity.

    Pardon my skepticism and call me jaded but given the lack of Hollywood roles for seasoned African-American actresses, I sadly do not envision Gabby's acting career taking off after this role. I can only hope that there are people around her managing her expectations (and earnings from the movie).

    Moreover, the public is notoriously fickle when it comes to stars in popular indie flicks. Keisha Castle Hughes, anyone? #gaboureysidibe
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    Dodai promoted this comment JessickerFletcher approved this comment AtelierCeleste was starred AtelierCeleste was unstarred
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    11/09/09

    @AtelierCeleste: Keisha Castle-Hughes didn't move to Hollywood after Whale Rider. (Also she was only 11.) But she is in the upcoming film The Vinter's Luck, based on a book I really loved.

    Trailer [www.youtube.com]
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    Image of AtelierCeleste AtelierCeleste
    11/09/09

    @Dodai: Good point. Are you therefore suggesting that you expect that Gabby will have a long and prosperous career? Because as much as I'm rooting for her, I seriously do not see that happening. #gaboureysidibe
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    11/09/09

    In reply to Gabby Sidibe Snuck Into A Screening Of Precious
    Kathy Lee and Hoda are totally harshing on Gabby's smart, powerful, self-assured vibe with their, well, opposite of that vibe.
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    Image of L'Chaim! L'Chaim!
    11/09/09

    @sportz.star: The sad thing is that Hoda used to be Gabby's awesomeness-twin. I remember watching her as a kid on New Orleans' WWL-TV channel 4, and she was so smart and funny (when not super-seriously investigating crime and corruption), and really comfortable in her own skin despite being the only woman of color on a newsdesk at any of the three major channels. I looked up to her, and now it brings me down to see the craziness that is the 'Hoda-n-Kathy Lee Nutjob Extravangaza {sponsored by Haterade!}' #gaboureysidibe
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    Image of Alohamaid Alohamaid
    11/09/09

    @sportz.star: for real, you know Kathy Lee was desperate to ask more questions like this #gaboureysidibe
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    11/12/09

    @Alohamaid: Reminds me of what an old coworker of mine used to say: "I can always go on a diet, but stupid is permanent." #gaboureysidibe
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    Image of rumpelshowsskin rumpelshowsskin
    11/09/09

    In reply to Gabby Sidibe Snuck Into A Screening Of Precious
    This actress is my new favorite person on earth. First because she's my skin-twin (and how often do you see that on television?), secondly because her name is so beautiful it could be Burkinabe or Senegalese or Dagomba or something, and thirdly because she defies every single bullshit stereotype of temperament that the world tries to put on people like her.

    Daniels said when they auditioned the girls they found a bunch who "were" Precious--girls who had survived horrendous things and were still standing---and though those actresses were a dead ringer for the character he felt like casting them would be making a documentary. It would be too close to their lives and their lived truth and would end up being exploitative because it would be microscoping their personal stuff and trying to make it a stand-in for fiction. He also felt like they would be overpowered by the material because they would have to relive stuff all the time.

    Though this might come across to someone else as judgmental or elitist (i acknowledge that it is to a degree) I found a kernel of truth to his statement. Because in most movies of this kind from what i've seen they do find someone just like the lead character, and make it a real rags to riches story. The young star is thrust into a life they do not have the emotional resources to cope with. And then the young star in interviews unwittingly universalizes the experience of what a (insert movie trope here) looks like or sounds like because in real life they are pretty much the character. It does such a disservice to all the other people living in similar bodies or similar existences because then it suggests that all overweight dark-skinned women are downtrodden and sad. Which of course then implicitly suggests that being discovered by Hollywood is the only thing that gives them some measure of redemption in their lives. The next logical conclusion then is that since most dark-skinned, overweight women aren't in Hollywood they must thus be all near-suicidal. Cue, well-intentioned folks treating every fat, dark-skinned girl they see like she must a "Precious." Gabby turns this shit completely on its head. And it couldn't have come a moment too soon. #gaboureysidibe
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    Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny. promoted this comment rumpelshowsskin was starred rumpelshowsskin was unstarred
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    11/09/09

    Who cares? Roles in Hollywood aren't the end all and be all of a person's life. She has a world of opportunities out there that don't end with the lack of roles for her in Hollywood.
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    Edited by Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny. at 11/09/09 1:11 PM Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny. was starred Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny. was unstarred
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    11/09/09

    @rumpelshowsskin: He was amazing when he said he didn't want to exploit girls who WERE Precious - he loved her because she was a real actress who could BE Precious. I got ya... #gaboureysidibe
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    11/09/09

    @Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.: That's exactly the point that i'm making though. For her, if this acting thing doesn't work out she can go become a psychotherapist like she was planning to. She is choosing to do more acting; she's not forced to. For the other girls Daniels might have chosen for the part, who were still in the welfare system or working at McDonald's or its equivalent, they would have few options except acting. This role would be the beginning of the rest of their lives.

    Like Gabby said in an interview "People act like I did this movie and then I became awesome. I was awesome all my life. Then I did this movie"

    She has a world of opportunities out there. The other girls might not have had that. For them that would have created a psychological dependency on the film and the fame it brings that ultimately rendered them emotionally fraught. Gabby doesn't have to deal with that. #gaboureysidibe
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    Image of HereComesMyBaby HereComesMyBaby
    11/09/09

    @rumpelshowsskin: That's like what happened with Slumdog Millionaire. I thought it was totally inappropriate to cast those kids from the actual slums of Mumbai. Didn't work out too well for Danny Boyle... #gaboureysidibe
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    11/09/09

    @rumpelshowsskin: Oh gosh. This TOTALLY went in the wrong place. The comment that was meant for you is as follows:

    This is a beautifully written comment. I think it vocalizes exactly what it is about her that I like.

    (that's why I promoted it) Sorry!!! #gaboureysidibe
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    Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny. was starred Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny. was unstarred
    Image of rumpelshowsskin rumpelshowsskin
    11/09/09

    @HereComesMyBaby: Exactly. Or like with the little girl from Rabbit Proof Fence. Or the kids from The Kite Runner.

    FWIW I don't know if casting like that is always inappropriate. I just think it encompasses a ton of dynamics that the filmmakers are usually not thinking through because they are seeing everything clouded by the lens of their own privilege. Daniels thought it through and I respect him for it. #gaboureysidibe
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    11/09/09

    @rumpelshowsskin: And granted, not everyone has a Gabby Sidibe type audition for the role.

    Still, good thinking, Daniels. #gaboureysidibe
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    11/09/09

    @Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.: Hahaha. Not a problem. You forced me to clarify, which with my hasty typing, comma abuse and penchant for run-on sentences is always a good thing =)

    FWIW though, I think it's very nice of you to let me know it was a mistake. You didn't have to and could just have let it stand and no one would have been the wiser =) #gaboureysidibe
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    11/09/09

    @rumpelshowsskin: It cracks me up that I've been on Jezebel for shit knows how long and I still fuck up with replies sometimes! #gaboureysidibe
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    11/09/09

    In reply to Gabby Sidibe Snuck Into A Screening Of Precious
    Kathy Lee and Hoda need to shut the fuck up. I don't want to listen to you two mindless chatter machines vomit words all over my new imaginary best friend, Gabby Sidibe. Let her talk more, dammit! More Gabby! #gaboureysidibe
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    11/09/09

    @morninggloria: I had the same thought. I can just imagine her cringing inside as Kathy Lee and Hoda simultaneously congratulate themselves for their ability to pronounce their interview subject's name.

    At least Gaby was kind enough to be gentle with them after she realized that they share a single manic yet slow-functioning brain. #gaboureysidibe
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    11/09/09

    In reply to Gabby Sidibe Snuck Into A Screening Of Precious
    I hope she's still planning on becoming a psychotherapist! Has she dropped out of school? #gaboureysidibe
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    11/09/09

    In reply to Gabby Sidibe Snuck Into A Screening Of Precious
    She. Is. Awesome. I want to be her best friend. Teach me your ways, Gabby! #gaboureysidibe
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