Remember I said last week that Tiny Clanger had some trouble with her photos? She was number 7 on the Flat Richie itinerary and hosted him before his current host. And while Tiny let us all know that he had arrived safely and she had had some fun with her, she wasn’t able to provide any picture proof until now. So here we go:
Tiny chose a little canvas bag with the character print as well as a few stickers. And the there is that cool Giz-on-a-stick booklet… Look at this:
Shrubbery! We want shrubberies!!!! 😂. Incidentally, I am the proud owner of a set of Giz-on-sticks as well, and I had great fun decorating my advent wreath with them. Well, temporarily. Mr Guylty was slightly unimpressed by my mixed medieval metaphors *coughs*.
Anyway, just to clarify – Flat Richie is currently already at his next stop – with Nordlicht in Germany. But we will hear about her choices, soon, too. Nordlicht mentioned “Tuesday” to me, so hopefully we’ll get another update tomorrow.
PS: Just saw Richard tweeting this:
Can someone explain to me why he is mentioning a raspberry here? 😳 I thought the raspberries are mock awards for the worst film/actor etc.? And Colman just won an Oscar for a fantastic turn in The Favourite. She was absolutely magnificent in that, so congrats and well-deserved for her Oscar. But a raspberry???? 😬Or was he referring to her god-awful acceptance speech? That was *definitely* raspberry-worthy, agreed 😂. Third option: He just wanted to be funny. 🙄 I wouldn’t put it beyond him, either…
Also, is anyone else getting suspicious re. his repeated tweeting for Olivia Colman? Nightingale, nightingale… could she be a future cast-mate for something that we don’t know anything about yet???
Raspberry is the term for that mouth action — sticking your tongue through your lips and blowing while flapping it. She blew a raspberry when she got the sign to wrap it up.
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Oh, LOL – good, *phew*. Thanks for explaining that. I was genuinely puzzled why RA might call her acting into question… Or denigrate an Academy Award.
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That said, I think she was just utterly flabbergasted. Everyone thought Glenn Close would win.
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Maybe it was all genuine. Otherwise it’s getting a bit lame. She put on the same shpiel at the BAFTAs. I was surprised to read that everybody looooooves her tearful and incoherent Oscar speech. When Gwyneth Paltrow did it way back in the late 90s, everybody was bashing her for it. Strange that Olivia Colman is generally applauded for an equally sentimental speech…
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Gwynneth Paltrow is … well … nothing about her is believable in any context.
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LOL – is that a truth generally acknowledged? 😉
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I just find everything about her very constructed. Some people enjoy the constructions more than others, I suppose, but does anyone think any of it is real?
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Is anything real when it comes to any actor’s behaviour in public?
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I think actors are people, too, and yes, I think that some behavior is real and it is frequently possible to discern it. I’d avoid either saying “it’s all real” or “nothing is real” — I really dislike that kind of black/white analysis and, for instance, if I thought nothing about Armitage were real, there’s no way I’d still be blogging about him. Paltrow, however, is much more than an actor — she’s a one-woman lifestyle industry. She exists as an advertisement for things she wants to sell. The vast majority of actors, even those we see regularly, are not in that category. Moreover, I think she’s been that way for a long time — she realized she’s not very smart but she has one talent and she decided to exploit it and figured out how.
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I don’t know Paltrow or her various jobs well enough to say what she is like. But I take your word for it.
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I think Richard’s pretty real although I haven’t seen him (yet, fingers crossed double crossed) in public..
Paltrow puts her foot in her mouth a lot and IMO (underline it twice) I think the way she handled the whole “consciously uncoupling” fiasco in 2014 with Chris Martin was abominable. He did not deserve that. He’s the father of her children. Her Goop website has come under fire a lot as well.
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Again, I neither know Paltrow well enough, nor am I at all interested in her. Richard real – to some degree. I have no doubt that the man is different when he is not in the public eye, though. Probably like any celebrity.
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Well I think Paltrow never should have won her Oscar for Shakespeare in Love. Kate should have won for Elizabeth although Meryl was good in One True Thing (movie was so so in my opinion) Kate got redeemed in Blue Jasmine but her performances as Elizabeth were fantastic IMO!
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I just pee’d my pants at that description of blowing a raspberry 😁
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Precision is important 🙂
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Guylty, loved your alliteration by the way!! Always happy to read those!! She’s a great actress. I thought from his excerpt he tweeted she was very humble and honest and didn’t have anything prepared which made her to me more humble and honest..
Giz on a stick!! I mean the visuals there!! Especially the last one on the right (my right) where his hands are that’s rather nice of you for a Monday start of the week so thank you!!!!!!
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Colman is fab. I only know her from The Favourite and from The Nightmanager, but I loved her in both. Hehe, I really didn’t like her speech at all – because it was more or less the same shpiel as the recent BAFTAs and frankly, I think as a professional, she should’ve been better prepared. After all, she was *nominated*. She had a 1-in-5 chance of winning the gong, so… 😉 But well, I have a general mistrust of tears, so that’s probably why I don’t find her speech charming at all. (I also recently listened to a podcast with Colman and have to say I was rather turned off by her. That probably accounts for my lack of sympathy here.) All that said – I still think she smashed it in the Favourite and deserves that award big time!
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The nominees don’t really have a twenty percent chance of winning except in a mathematical sense. So you could argue her chance was bigger. No way did anyone even consider Yalitza Aparicio, for instance, and I bet Melissa McCarthy did not get many votes either. Close was the favorite, Coleman was the strong second, and Gaga had an outside chance to be a spoiler.
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Ok ok. But the point I am making here is that it’s not as if there was NO chance of her winning at all. Anyone who is nominated, could potentially win. As opposed to anyone who is NOT nominated. Hence I would’ve expected a bit of countenance. But hey, that’s just me. If you find her tearful acceptance speech endearing, then that is your opinion and that is fine with me, too.
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it’s not so much that I find it endearing (although I was amused last night), it’s that as a behavior, it’s plausible to me. It was amazing to me that The Favourite even got nominated for Best Picture — it’s not the kind of film that Hollywood really likes or understands and the few people I knew who even saw it were flummoxed — and so also more than surprising that someone who was not Meryl Streep got nominated for playing a middle-aged woman in a sarcastic / satirical historical costume drama. So if she’s been saying to herself for months “I can’t really believe this is actually happening” and so is repeatedly stunned when it does happen — I can totally believe that.
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I see. And I completely think it is your right to believe that. Just as it is my right to think that she put it on a bit too much.
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I don’t believe I said you don’t have the right to believe what you believe.
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Guylty, Ah you’re a softy-wait until Richard’s up there next year for My Zoe and he breaks down and dedicates his Best actor to his mum!!
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Oh cod, I sincerely hope he doesn’t do anything of that sort. I mean, dedicate to his mum, yes, but please no show of OTT sentimentality!!! Seriously, I mean that. I find that really off-putting.
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OTT? Well I mean boys don’t cry but if he stammers a bit and is shocked about winning then ok.
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I wouldn’t call that OTT, though.
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OTT what is that? I didn’t know what that meant. Sorry should have been like huh? over my head!!
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Over The Top
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over the top
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Excuse me, but boys don’t cry is wrong IMO. That’s some toxic masculinity stuff.
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Well I was being snarky there. If he shed a tear accepting an award I wouldn’t mind
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I just feel that language matters. 🤷🏻♀️🙂
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Guylty, Night Manager was very good. I liked her in Broadchurch too. She just seems very down to earth. If you don’t expect to win esp an Oscar vs a BAFTA then maybe she was moved by the moment.
Podcast: the one with David Tennant?
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Yes, the David Tennant podcast.
I still haven’t watched Broadchurch *dang*
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Yeah know Guylty I think you would like Broadchurch. It is very well written and the setting is fantastic for the story line. I don’t know your feelings about Tennant-I think he is very cheeky from what I have seen interview wise but they work very well off each other. Much better than he did in the American version of Broadchurch that he also starred in.
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I’d love to see Broadchurch, and it has been on my list forever – it’s just that I haven’t been able to access it anywhere yet.
Tennant – totally love him. He is just so fun. And the cheekiness really suits him, I think.
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the Night Manager was so gripping!
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Rachel, I loved The Night Manager even Hiddleston was good. Hugh Laurie was brilliant. Loved everything about it. Wished they would have done a series 2!
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Have you not seen Colman do comedy? Green wing? Hot Fuzz?
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Rachel, gotta check those out now! Thanks!! She was in Murder on Orient Express as a German -dead pan one of the only good things about that movie..
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Green Wing is hilarious, very British and Julian Rhind-Tutt
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I first noticed her in 2012, the comedy about the run-up to the Olympics in London. She was very low key but almost stole the show. Very funny, by the way, if it’s still available. What did she play in Green Wing? I loved that 😂
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Helen, what is the name of that comedy by chance?
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It’s called 2012! It also has Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey) and Karl Theobald (Green Wing). And Rachel, I remember Olivia Colman in Green Wing now… very, very funny. 😊
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Thank you so much Helen! Will definitely check it out!!
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in Green Wing she was the lady in the office Harriet who had loads of kids and was always mislaying them!
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Oh, had no idea she did comedy. Have to check her out.
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Rachel, she needs you and Helen as her publicists! You two are selling the hell out of her and it is so sweet!!
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she’s one of those actors, she’s really versatile-she can do funny to quite scary…very clever lady
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I think he tweets about her because I think he admires her and she is a fellow United Artists actor.
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Cool – nice of him to be so supportive. (Although I really wouldn’t mind the two of them playing together in something. Having quality cast mates is always good!)
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That would be awesome. I don’t see her as a Corinne though in The Stranger. Maybe Gris Marsala in the Seville Communion. Yeah think Rachel?
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Yeah, I don’t think she’d be paired with him as a love interest (although: why not? I really wonder why I am thinking that.). But who knows what is in the future 😉
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i’ve not got that far Michele! oops
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Thanks! in the memory bank now,
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Rachel, oh shit, sorry. Ok you’ll know what I mean when Quart meets her. I’ll shut up now.
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I think he genuinely likes her, as absolutely everyone seems to who has met her or worked with her. My neice, who is just starting out as a young actress, met her (they went to the same school right near me and she came back to present prizes a few years ago). She said she was wonderful, very warm and friendly and completely down to earth. 🙂
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Oh really? Damn, I got a completely different impression from that podcast. I loved her as an actress and was quite taken aback when I heard her in that interview. She didn’t come across as very likeable to me.
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also yay to flatrichie pics-it’s the best seeing what people have chosen..whats the bishop chess piece on the bag referring to?
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Chop.
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ah the elusive UATSC
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So elusive Rachel I feel I will never see it!
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Ach Mist, hätt ich doch nur nichts gesagt 🤫😳😉. Nun werd ich wohl drauf festgenagelt 🔨. Hab ich eigentlich gesagt, Dienstag welcher Woche 😜???
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😂So direkt nicht – aber aus dem Zusammenhang war eindeutig klar, dass du morgen meintest 😛
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Nordlicht, so funny!! You tease you!!! Welcher Woche diese Dienstag oder nexte?
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2019? Or maybe 2020? Who knows Michele 😂.
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Ah the power Nordlicht the power you have!! Flat Richie all to yourself! How does his autograph look? Can you take a pic of that along with your goodies you chose or too Late?
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Yeah, the force is with me 😈. The autograph… it´s extraordinary, delicious, phenomenally🤤 … I can tell you it was an overwhelming moment to spot it in the logbook *sigh*.
Sorry Michele, too late for any more pictures ☹.Everything is overcautiously wrapped already again.
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Juhu – that sounds as if the journey continues today? Looking forward to your e-mail 😉
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Hier wird man ja so gar nicht subtil unter Druck gesetzt 😉.
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Manipulation aus Meisterhand.
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🤣🤣😬😬🤣👍👏👏🎊📦✈️indeed!!
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Nordlicht no worries!! Couple of other people down the road I’ll see if they can take a pic. Just am curious! So happy you felt joy and got to have Flat Richie for a spell! Looking forward to hearing your choices!! ❤️😘😘😘
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But Guylty showed a picture in her blog post about it, didn´t you see it?
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Check this: https://guylty.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/img_20190203_234846.jpg
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Ah thank you!! Probably one of my fogs days when the funk was at rock bottom…
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Nordlicht, I probably did but I’ve been in a foggy funk for several weeks so much has gone over my head that normally wouldn’t.
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I really hope you are in better mood now Michele.
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Vielen dank sweetie. Lot of stuff happening personally now that hard to deal with but happy to be chatting here and happy you are here too!! Missed you a bit. Hope all is well with you in Deutschland!
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I was in a kind of singing the blues phase as well lately. Must be something in the air at the moment. But FlatRichie was able to raise my spirits fortunately.
I´m sorry to hear you have to deal with bad stuff in your personal life. Hope you´ll be able to move on from it very soon.
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Ah Nordlicht, part of it is family so that will not end soon (I hope) but I hope you are feeling better. I do agree must be in the air. Been reading more ( ie The Stranger and now Seville Communion) and that has helped a bit. Much appreciate your kind thoughts!!
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It´s good you find reading helpfull. So go on with it girl! Hopefully Richard provides you with more reading stuff soon. I do feel better, thank you. Hope it stays like this after I have to wave FlatRichie goodbye.
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Nordlicht, yes very hard to say goodbye but was fun while it lasted!!! Yes I hope there are more books for me to read based on The Armitage’s selective projects, I started Master and Margherita over the holidays and put it down for The Stranger which was a much easier read. I hope to swing back to Master down the road..
Glad if he makes you feel better! happy you are here though!!!
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If you are looking for a recommendation by the man himself, try The Sunne in Splendour. Great, massive book about Richard III, but really easy read, fascinating story. I cried buckets at the end.
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Guylty, ah yes I am always looking for a recommendation and not just by the Man himself. You had mentioned that book I think so I will definitely read it esp since I enjoyed Richard III a couple of Sundays ago. I am also thinking the Jackman series to read not hear. The Man’s voice is soo distracting it would set me off into er um other things…. thank you!!
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🙂 If you enjoy thrillers, look into David Hewson’s Nik Costa series. There are at least 9 if not more thrillers to choose from. Really well written crime/thriller. Set in Italy (which is always a treat.) And even though Nik Costa does not match Armitage’s description, you can just ignore that and picture RA as the hero of the books. Worked for me 😉
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Guylty, thank you for that recommendation too! Will check those all out on Amazon!!(UK)
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Wow, now you definetely have enough reading material for weeks Michele 📚👍. Hope you enjoy it.
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Jou jou Nordlicht! I have a list and have been perusing Amazon looking for these books. Just what the doctor ordered!! Saves me from getting into clothes shopping trouble!!
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Cheers to Guylty for saving you from this. Bücherkaufrausch ist soviel besser als Kleiderkaufrausch!!!
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Nordlicht ja naturlich aber ich bin einen grossen Kleiderkaufrausche Person. Und dass kleiderspendieren gibt mir sehr glucklich und Geld problemieren. hahahaha!! Noch du verstehst mir? Ich hoffe dass du hast. Du bist ein schones Person nacht unsere Blog community hier. My tenses are all screwed up so I am sorry for the horrible grammar!
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Aw, no worries Michele! But I have to admit that I´m unlike you not really a shopping person so I could never be in danger of getting into Kaufrausch.
Totally able to relate to your struggle with the tenses and grammar in general though. Always the hardest part while using a foreign language I think.
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Ah Nordlicht ❤️😘😘😘danke !!
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Love the stuff Tiny had chosen ❤ But the pic of Guy in the garden is hilarious XD
p.s. and I did not like Olivia's speech. To me it's too much overacting; not at all natural. But that is just me. 😉
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The growing pains of Sir Guy 😉
Yep, I agree. I thought she just put it on a little bit too much. I completely believed it when she did it at the BAFTAs. But a second time is just not as effective as the first time…
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Perhaps of interest: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/business/gwyneth-paltrow-goop-corner-office.html
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Oh, interesting indeed. Thanks for passing that on. Sounds as if she is firmly a lifestyle guru now. Well, or rather: someone who makes money with lifestyle crap.
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At times rousing lifestyle crap. Ich sag nur vagina egg!
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Darüber möchte ich nicht mal nachdenken.
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FFS Ottokorrekt: dangerous not rousing!!! 😳🤬
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Oh, das ist dann allerdings in der Tat eine etwas andere Aussage…
Ihr kennt euch aber auch alle unheimlich gut mit Gwyneth Paltrow aus… Man könnte schon fast denken, ihr findet die gut… 😂
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Nee, hab nur zufällig grad einen vernichtenden Artikel einer Gynäkologin zu genau dem Dings gelesen. *bahhumbug*
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Ich hatte noch nie davon gehört… und will das auch glaub ich nicht wissen 😂
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Nee, ist besser so…
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Na, dann bin ich ja beruhigt, dass ich da nichts verpasse.
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If one follows any entertainment/celebrity news in the US at all, she’s unavoidable. Vagina egg, vaginal steaming, conscious uncoupling: all really effective marketing.
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I see. Hm, well, Ireland really is like a different planet sometimes… (And maybe I am just behind the times, too.)
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Nah Guylty, you’re not. Personally I think she puts her foot in her mouth a lot. The “conscious uncoupling” in 2014 esp since she and CM just celebrated 10 year anniversary in Dec ’13. was just mean of her. I don’t think CM wanted it and she did (Brad F maybe waiting in the wings there) so you’re not missing anything out with her IMO.
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👍🏻
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I think we’re only discussing this b/c of the comparison you raised to Olvia Colman’s acceptance speech — my point being basically that I think it’s a different thing when Gwyneth Paltrow does this as opposed to Colman. I don’t believe *anything* Paltrow does (an attitude supported, I think, by this article). To me, Colman was more plausible.
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I think you made that point when we originally discussed Colman v. Paltrow. I understand that Paltrow is selling something whereas Colman is not. My point was that Colman’s lachrymose award acceptance shpiel looks a bit old at this point. I don’t quite buy it, that’s all, even though she is not selling anything.
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iirc you said it is inequitable to have criticized Paltrow for her performance of astonishment in the 90s and not to criticize Colman for the same thing; my point is that the performances are entirely differently animals, astonishment as the end result of the Weinstein sales machine (something she was totally on board with) vs astonishment in the face of a situation where an underdog movie gets a lot of awards (which may be repetitive, but at least responds to a real circumstance). My point is that these performances aren’t remotely the same thing.
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This is not worth fighting about tbh. I have no problem with what you are saying, Servetus. Paltrow is a businesswoman trying to sell something. Colman is not. I have got it now.
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I didn’t think we were fighting. I was trying to establish what the evidence was for particular assertions. I like to have facts. I’m sorry this bothered you.
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Classic case of misunderstanding, Serv – I thought it bothered *you*.
All good here. As I said, your points about Paltrow are very valid, and I get that my comparison “limped” 😉 I’ll admit that I am just not very fond of Colman, either, that’s why I was snarky about everybody liking her acceptance speech in the first place.
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I don’t have a strong opinion about Colman either way — I think this is the only thing I’ve seen her in, and imo it was a fantastic film and she was excellent in it. It pushed most of my buttons. (I also hated the film that won, so I was happy to see her at least get something out of it). I’d have liked Glenn Close to have won but not because I had a strong feeling about the film or the role. I also tend to be analytical about criticism of prominent women that’s related to their affect (or feigned affect)– some of them deserve it but some may not. If we just say “it’s all fake anyway” then we buy into the industry’s narrative of itself and end up disempowering ourselves as critics — so I like to know as much as I can.
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To put the record straight – I like Colman very much as an actress. I thought she absolutely killed it in The Favourite, and I wanted her to win the Academy Award. (I admit, though, that I haven’t seen any of the other films whose female leads were up for the Oscar, too, so I am biased bordering on uninformed.)
You know, the whole “is it *all* fake” discussion is far more interesting imo than whether Paltrow is more fake than Colman. You made a fair point earlier on in the discussion that not all is fake about actors. Or if it was, then there would be no point in following Armitage, for instance. I agree. And yet I also think that what *we* (the public) see, is only one facet of Richard Armitage the man… and he *could* be playing an elaborate role for our benefit, too…
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I second that! Overpriced shit on her website!!
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My read on her is that she’s a talented mimic (according to her contemporaries, she barely finished high school) and very pretty, as well being the product of a very privileged family. Shakespeare in Love’s award love was a fluke — largely a product of the Weinstein machine. It projected her into prominence, though, and she realized in the course of all of that that she could get other people to buy things, so she started this lifestyle company that 100 percent reflects her inability to actually think about anything. (there was also the vaginal steaming episode). This interview to some extent supports my view. I think she’s using a lot of words that she’s heard other people say, just well enough to impress the reporter.
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She definitely used all the buzzwords. From last year, though. So your theory sounds about right.
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any FlatRichie news? 🙂
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I think the journey is a little longer this time… no news yet…
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cheers!
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