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A laugh a day!
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Learn some manners, Megan.
As for you, GaGa...I'm so happy for you and your relationship. I know you'll be very happy together. And keep being you.
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I find the antipathy aroused when beautiful, famous women speak their minds (see also: Katherine Heigl) a bit suspect. Especially on this blog.
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Regarding M. Fox, Its the long list of offensive and/or just plain dumb things that she's said in interviews that turn me off. I don't think this is her worst comment ever posted on Jez. I'm even going to give her a pass for the Hitler comparison, because she's young and comes across as uneducated. But it seems every day someone is able to dig up yet another offensive quote that keeps adding to the image of M. Fox as being oblivious, annoying, or desperate to incite controversy (controversy of the "I kiss girls LOL aren't I naughty and sexy!" type.)
There are a lot of out-spoken women quoted on Jez and I think many of them are not just spouting PR spin. That I can get behind. Totally!
I don't even find most of Heigl's things offensive, though I do think she has a mild case of "foot in the mouth disease".
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katherine heigl has a reputation for being incredibly rude to people she works with that goes back to her roswell days. it's one thing to take judd apatow to task for writing undercooked female characters, but it's another to star and produce in two movies (27 dresses and the ugly truth) that sets back female characters on screen at least 50 years. she's an ungrateful hypocrite.
as for megan fox, who i like, it's not smart to talk shit about a director with whom you may have to work with again on transformers 3 .
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In this specific case, it's not antipathy, it's just an attitude of "and? So what?" What Megan Fox is saying is kind of obvious when you look at Bay's movies. They're loud, empty,full of sterotypes and packed with fighting and explosions. There exactly the kind of movie an uncomfortable man makes. I mean, Bay and his tiny dick have been a joke forever. She's saying something everybody knows at the possible expense of her career. Bad move.
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And as for the antipathy, I offer this: Bay may well be an asshole boss, but until he's left millions of dead in his wake, he's no Hitler. And she's an ass to suggest otherwise.
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1 - Like I said, however undiplomatic.
2- I take all the Heigl controversy with a large pinch of salt: I do not know her, or what she's like - everything she is hated for could simply be a matter of perspective. The people who badmouth her to the press have their own agendas. Apatow himself has never said he disagreed with her - see the Vanity Fair piece: [www.vanityfair.com] - "Judd Apatow, the writer and director of Knocked Up, is philosophical about such reactions. 'I think, for all of us, making this movie was like when you get drunk and spurt out your deepest feelings and then the next day you have drunk remorse about what you said. We all feel very proud and a little embarrassed about what we’ve revealed about ourselves," he says. "The movie is not meant to be romantic, it’s meant to be honest. Katie could not have been better, because she went there.' "
3 - I think we're all a little sensitive about the Hitler thing lately, because of the disgusting Town Hall/Obama kerfuffle. She obviously just means Bay is a dictator on-set, not that he's a Jew-hating mass murderer. Bad choice, though,I'll give you that. Again - I'd rather hear celebs in all their un-PR'd glory (like I'd rather see them un-airbrushed), for good or ill. I appreciate it when a bit of reality creeps into the usually tightly controlled media landscape.
4 - I don't think Megan Fox is particularly talented or insightful - and I'm sure that her motivations in saying such provocative things are purely self-serving - but at least she is interesting, unlike so many of her celeb contemporaries. And she's young, give her a break. She may mature in someone awesome, for all we know. Remember Angelina and her vials of blood/incest-feigning past?
5 - We're all so quick to judge, is my point. Sometimes it's good to stop and ask yourself why, exactly, you don't like a person you've never even met. And a long succession of media-hated female celebs is why my antennas twitch a little when we are encouraged to pile on the latest victim. There may be good reasons - you all may have good reasons - but I'd rather not join in, if that's ok.
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And I say "especially on this blog" because it is a feminist blog, and in theory, we should all be wise to these issues. I don't think it's very 'feminist' to hate on a woman you've never met, based purely on what is reported in the patriarchal media - bearing in mind how a person's quotes are always manipulated to fit the required 'narrative'. In these examples, those are 'Megan Fox - the loudmouth sexpot' and 'Katherine Heigl - the ungrateful bitch'.
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I mean, if she just came out and said it - "he hit me on the set; he was racist; he was very unkind to the staff; he sexually harrassed me" - fine. It was difficult to find credibility in what she said. And as a ploy to be interesting - well, if this is the only thing interesting about her, that's sad.
I would be similarly critical of male, less-talented actors who might come out of the woodwork to criticize their bosses, bosses who seems to be doing a better job than them.
I see the point about female targets. I am resentful of people who get by on beauty and sexyface alone, I guess.
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Everything you say is an assumption - you have no idea how hard Megan Fox has had to work to get where she is, yet you assume because she is young and attractive that she hasn't had to work at all; and you assume Michael Bay, being an older man, has talent and has worked hard. From my perspective, Bay is not very talented, he has not directed a single good movie; and from what I've read, he's got where he has because he's a good schmoozer and can talk up a pitch - I'd call that a lucky ability one has been born with, rather than hard work.
I'm not even a fan of Megan Fox as an actress, or necessarily as a person, but she is entertaining. Until she does something truly heinous, I'll give her the benefit of the doubt.
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My original comment focused on her work - I don't want to see her in movies again because she sucked in all of them that I have seen so far. I want to see other people in said roles. I also do not think her job is just to look beautiful - is that not a disservice to other actors in the same type of roles? I don't hate her, jeez. I just don't like to see her in movies anymore (and yes, I will vote with my dollars on this one). If she is to judge another person's work (in the same industry, in the same movie), her work better be up to snuff. To continue my previous example, if say Meryl Streep criticized the directors of Mamma Mia for doing a bad job, I would be more accepting of that criticism because I felt she did a good job in that movie. In Megan's case, It's like a newbie intern criticizing the veteran boss for doing a bad job when said intern was also doing poorly - bad form, bad taste. I reiterate that I don't hate her, I am just not a fan of her work, and thus feel that a person doing poorly at her own job may not be that qualified to criticize the work of a more established person in the same industry.
The judgment on Michael Bay's work is varied but I had judged that on box office numbers - after all, I though that was his job, making movies that make money. He has worked for longer and has made a name for himself. It has nothing to do with being a man. I guess I did assume that he has worked hard because I assumed that doing big budget movies are difficult, and I have read articles about how meticulous he is about his work. This may be true or not, of course, but that is not the point.
Lastly, as for benefit of the doubt - I have been listening to her and reading about her for months and months. I hope somewhere, somehow, she does redeem herself, because she is presenting herself as a caricature - someone with nothing much to offer but her sexyface.
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As for judging her acting talent, how is that possible in a Michael Bay film? They are devoid of any truthful emotion, that's why they are so crap. Her role in the Transformers movies is just to be eye-candy for teenage boys - as she well knows. I thought she did alright, given the limited scope. I'll wait until I see her in something a little more demanding before passing judgment on her acting, though.
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I can't believe I wrote so many words and thought so hard about Megan Fox.
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I hope I didn't brow-beat, but reading Jezebel has made me think a lot about my own prejudices where women in the media are concerned. Deconstructing them is one of my missions here. Blame my Media Studies degree!
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Looking at his aesthetic tastes in film, I wouldn't put it past him to be an infantile dick in person. Poor girl. You just can't win when you're young and beautiful!
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"I WAS JUST LISTENING TO WENDY WILLIAMS AND HEARD SOME QUOTE ABOUT ME SAYING I’M THE NEW KING OF POP. NOT ONLY DID I NOT SAY THAT, I HAVEN’T SAID ANYTHING. IT MAKES ME FEEL BAD THAT OBVIOUSLY I MADE PEOPLE FEEL THAT I WOULD BE CORNY ENOUGH TO SAY SOMETHING SO WHACK AFTER THE PASSING OF AN IDOL, A LEGEND AND MORE THAN THAT A HUMAN BEING WITH FEELINGS AND FAMILY. IT SCARES ME TO THINK WHAT PEOPLE WILL BELIEVE, WITHOUT EVEN A SOURCE. ANY RANDOM PERSON CAN TYPE SOMETHING ON THE INTERNET AND THEN THE WORLD BELIEVES IT. I DON’T TALK TO PRESS OR DO TV OR DO PROMOTIONS OF ANY SORT. I’VE STOPPED CHASING AND BUYING INTO FAME. FAME IS LIKE CIGARETTES WITH NO SURGEON GENERAL WARNING. IT DESTROYS MOST PEOPLE AS IT DID TO THE TRUE AND ONLY KING OF POP. WE EXPLOIT OURSELVES AND EAT OUR OWN EGOS ‘TILL THERE IS NOTHING LEFT. I HAVE A FEELING THAT THIS WON’T BE THE LAST FALSE STATEMENT WITH MY NAME ON IT, BUT THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME I DEFEND MYSELF. I’M DONE."
Perhaps I'm the only one that found some of his cockiness and eccentricities endearing...I mean, at least he's creative and genuinely talented. It seems to me that people prefer celebrities to be uber-talented and then all demure and contrite about the whole thing. Hell, if I'm good at something, why do I have to dim my shine? Why can't I get pissy when I don't feel that I got what I deserved?
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Also POUTING HYPOCRISY IN CAPITAL LETTERS IS JUST PLAIN FUNNY, MAN.
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That said, I love your weekend work.
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My best friend this summer was living with her aunt and uncle in Beverly Hills and apparently they're friends with Rosie. Said friend got to get drunk on wine and watch drag videos with her more than one night.
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Having said that, I think Lorne Michaels is weird about women on SNL. Some of them do great when he leaves them alone to be funny in good skits (Cheri Oteri, Kristin Wiig, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, etc.) but he just seems so reluctant to hire them in the first place and then when they're hired, he never puts them on air.