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US actress Gwyneth Paltrow prefers British dinner talk
AFP via Yahoo ^ | 12-02-06 | Staff

Posted on 12/02/2006 8:37:23 AM PST by veronica

LISBON (AFP) - Oscar-winning US actress Gwyneth Paltrow feels dinner talk is far more interesting in her adopted homeland Britain than back in her native country.

"I love the English lifestyle, it's not as capitalistic as America. People don't talk about work and money, they talk about interesting things at dinner," she told "NS", the weekend magazine supplement of daily Portuguese newspaper Diario de Noticias on Saturday.

"I like living here because I don't fit into the bad side of American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans," the 34-year-old added.

Paltrow, who won a best actress Oscar for 1998's "Shakespeare in Love," lives in London with British band Coldplay's frontman Chris Martin whom she wed in 2003.

She said having US pop star Madonna, 48, who married British film director Guy Ritchie six years ago, nearby was another advantage to living in London.

"She's like an older sister. Everything I have gone through, she went through ten times worse and ten times longer. She gives me good advice about how to say no and take care of myself," said Paltrow.


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To: veronica; Howlin; onyx; Clemenza; Petronski; GummyIII; SevenofNine; martin_fierro; Xenalyte; ...

What a stupid little ****!


81 posted on 12/02/2006 11:25:01 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
I know!!!!

What a dumbpelosi.

82 posted on 12/02/2006 11:28:39 AM PST by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: EveningStar

She takes advice from Madonna --- enough said.


83 posted on 12/02/2006 11:30:30 AM PST by onyx (I'm now a minority and victim of the democrats, but with full and free entitlements!)
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To: teenyelliott

She's a real pelosi-eater, alright.


84 posted on 12/02/2006 11:31:23 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

ES is this same chic that name her baby Apple she must be dumb as log LOL!


85 posted on 12/02/2006 11:41:07 AM PST by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: Churchillspirit
She could have said only "dinner conversation is better here" and have been done with it. Instead, she goes further and says, "The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans," which is inflammatory and flat out not true. What, people in Silicon Valley aren't smart? The men and women who work for NASA aren't intelligent? The US has the greatest collection of univeristies on the planet. There are 300,000,000 people here. Has Gwyneth dined with all of us? As far as "civilized" goes, one is 5 times more likely to be mugged in London than in New York City and Britain has spreading tension between it yobs and unassimilated "Asian" population, so you can make the case that civilization in breaking down in England, but in reality every country has its problems.

She marries a goddamned rock star -- a mediocre one at that -- and hangs out with Madonna and presumes to hold forth about how cultured she is? Yeah, I'm sure her husband's rock star friends give better dinner conversation and then they roll a spliff right at the dinner table and don't talk about how much they paid for the weed because that would be crude and all to talk about money that way at the dinner table.

She hung out in Hollywood and Manhattan which are money centric and didn't realize that it was her friends who were talking about money. She simply has a different set of friends in England. She's not bright enough to see that. If a British girl came to the US and dated a basketball player and hung out with only him and his friends, she might start to think that all Amercians are tall. But only if she's as dumb as Gwyneth Paltrow.

Now I wish the DVD for A Perfect Murder had an alternate ending. You know, one where Michael Douglas gets away with it.

86 posted on 12/02/2006 11:48:07 AM PST by caspera
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To: SevenofNine

So9, I think you've hit on the "core" of the problem. :)


87 posted on 12/02/2006 11:54:52 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: L.N. Smithee
Her mother, Blythe Danner is an wonderful American actress.

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Gwyneth is married of Chris Martin from rock group Coldplay, an America hating Brit.

88 posted on 12/02/2006 12:40:14 PM PST by Hildy (RUDY GUILIANI FOR PRESIDENT IN 2008)
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To: EveningStar

LOL!

She named her son Moses.
Got one for that?


89 posted on 12/02/2006 12:43:26 PM PST by onyx (I'm now a minority and victim of the democrats, but with full and free entitlements!)
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To: Polybius

She is welcome to leave and go live in with the Brits.


90 posted on 12/02/2006 12:47:59 PM PST by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens...)
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To: finnman69

Doing it well is grinding work.


91 posted on 12/02/2006 1:03:55 PM PST by Borges
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To: EveningStar

COME ON I could understand name your kid normal name but if you just name your kid Apple to keep up with Jolie/Pitts you must be dumb bimbo


92 posted on 12/02/2006 2:07:04 PM PST by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: Hildy

What gets my goat even more so about "GWENNY" here is that she has had EVERYTHING handed to her since she was born. It's real easy for silver spoon sucking idiots like her to say thinggs like this, given the company she's only surrounded herself in her whole life.


93 posted on 12/02/2006 3:18:37 PM PST by paltz
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To: caspera
You are preaching to the choir, dear.

My only favorable comment about Ms Paltrow's remarks was that she was correct to say that talking about money is not the done thing in Britain - considered very crass.

94 posted on 12/02/2006 4:22:30 PM PST by Churchillspirit (We are all foot soldiers in this War On Terror.)
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To: veronica; EveningStar
The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans," the 34-year-old added.

She'll still take our currency though. You're right ES, what a bi***.

95 posted on 12/02/2006 6:18:22 PM PST by StarCMC (After the attacks of 9/11, profiling Muslims is more like profiling the Klan. - Ann Coulter)
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To: Hildy
Blythe Danner is wonderful. No doubt about that. She's is in one of my favorite "little movies" - The Great Santini.

Drudge is linking to this article now. Rather bad publicity for Gwyneth. I expect a retraction or at least a modification from her publicist anytime now.
96 posted on 12/03/2006 6:52:13 AM PST by veronica (http://images20.fotki.com/v360/photos/1/106521/3848737/gladysPSCP-vi.jpg)
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To: veronica
Boy, one of the most dangerous (and time consuming) jobs these days is being a Hollywood publicist in damage control mode!

And I agree about the Great Santini. I always thought it was one of those movies that the name had a big effect on its success. Terrible and misleading title.

97 posted on 12/03/2006 7:27:05 AM PST by Hildy (RUDY GUILIANI FOR PRESIDENT IN 2008)
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To: mountn man

Her daddy was a big Hollywood producer; her mother (who IS attractive) was a Hollywood starlet. Hollywood loves dynasties.


98 posted on 12/03/2006 7:33:00 AM PST by EDINVA
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To: EveningStar; martin_fierro; Xenalyte
Gywneth, we can see right through you!

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Cheers!

99 posted on 12/03/2006 7:35:09 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: veronica; mikrofon; Charles Henrickson; Tijeras_Slim; Petronski; Owl_Eagle; Constitution Day
US actress Gwyneth Paltrow prefers British dinner talk

 Well, OK. Fine.

But after the British Dinner Talk is done ...

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...comes the British Dinner.
 

100 posted on 12/03/2006 9:29:42 AM PST by martin_fierro (bleah)
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