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The Anne Hathaway Hatred Is Out of Control
Daily Beast ^ | 03/04/2013 | by Kevin Fallon

Posted on 04/01/2013 10:12:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Is it her face? Her personality? Is she too perfect? Everyone wants to know why we hate Anne Hathaway. We want to know why they care so much.

Last time Anne Hathaway gave an acceptance speech after she won the best-supporting-actress Oscar for her performance in Les Misérables. You’d think she committed mass murder.

What began as the “cult of Hathahaters” two months ago has simmered, bubbled over, and formed a zeitgeist-seizing, rage-fueled movement against the actress, peaking with a series of think pieces examining what Hathaway has done to trigger such a response. As if it’s some major social or political question that must be answered—like how to prevent the sequester or who should be the next pope—these essays explore every facet of Anne’s very Anne-ness in an attempt to get to the root of the problem.

People are stronger in their convictions on the issue than they are on most platforms that determine presidential elections. Now a hatred has arisen that’s typically reserved for celebrities who go on anti-Semitic rants (hello, Mr. Gibson) or hit their girlfriends (bonjour, Mr. Brown). Hathaway, by comparison, gave some speeches that were kind of annoying. Forget media frenzy. It’s a media pile-on, and it’s out of control.

So what are we supposed to think about her?

“She’s got this theater-kid thing where she adopts the mood of every situation she’s in ... but wildly overcompensates every time,” writes The Atlantic Wire’s Richard Lawson. CNN quotes an oratory expert who tells us that Hathaway’s “just one of the people who just doesn’t come off as sincere.” The New Yorker’s Sasha Weiss posits that it’s because the actress appears too happy.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: annehathaway; hollywood
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To: TexasRepublic

I’ve said to so many people, ‘Would you like some bread with your circuses?’, and they just look at me like, ‘What are you talking about?’


21 posted on 04/01/2013 10:27:14 AM PDT by real saxophonist ("Always Progressing and Not Fitting Neatly in a Box" - Tosin Abasi)
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To: ZX12R

LASIK surgery. Look into it.


22 posted on 04/01/2013 10:29:33 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: SeekAndFind

well... i dunno who hates her or why.. i wouldn’t throw her out...for a few weeks anyway...


23 posted on 04/01/2013 10:29:43 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: SeekAndFind

Those lips that Love’s own hand did make
Breathed forth the sound that said ‘I hate’
To me that languish’d for her sake;
But when she saw my woeful state
Straight in her heart did mercy come,
Chiding that tongue that ever sweet
Was used in giving gentle doom,
And taught it thus anew to greet:
‘I hate’ she alter’d with an end,
That follow’d it as gentle day
Doth follow night, who like a fiend
From heaven to hell is flown away;
‘I hate’ from hate away she threw,
And saved my life, saying ‘not you.’


24 posted on 04/01/2013 10:32:55 AM PDT by Dysart ( Democracy is the road to socialism-- Karl Marx)
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To: SeekAndFind
Can we start a "Let's Hate Morgan Freeman" movement? I'm personally sick of this racist, anti-American elitist.

Last month was very exciting because Hollywood actually released a film that did not feature Freeman! And this sick addiction to casting him as a god, a president or a genius is truly hurl-inducing.

Hate Morgan Freeman NOW! Be in the vanguard of this new movement!

25 posted on 04/01/2013 10:33:34 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne ("How long, O Lord, holy and true?" - Rev. 6:10)
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To: circlecity
Join the club. Just noticed the name because I saw it on the TV screen a couple nights ago while the wife was watching some Netflix thing.

The older I get, the more out of touch with all these trendy things and people. I just cling to guns and all..........

26 posted on 04/01/2013 10:35:49 AM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: ZX12R
I think she’s absolutely, drop-dead gorgeous . . .

You've got to be kidding. She's not even a good caliber of plain looking. Ugly face. Maybe an average actress.

Then you must think that Meryl Streep and Chelsea Clinton are gorgeous. Different tastes, I guesc!

27 posted on 04/01/2013 10:36:44 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: Cowboy Bob
RE: Anne - Grow your hair back. The “boyish” look does not suit you.

I gather you prefer her when she looked like this...


28 posted on 04/01/2013 10:37:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: laweeks

Hathaway is a huge libtard..she supported the Occupy Bowel Movement freaks


29 posted on 04/01/2013 10:43:56 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

This is the trick that walked with the WS occupy crowd with a sign that said ‘Blackboards not bullets’.

She is a multimillionaire 1%-er who smugly considers herself in the 99%. Also, see her exboyfriend- the conman.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2063172/Occupy-Wall-Street-Anne-Hathaway-joins-protesters-surely-shes-1.html

I wouldn’t be her for all the money in the world. There is something about the way she carries herself that makes her very unattractive and unlikeable.


30 posted on 04/01/2013 10:44:39 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Here’s one reason why the hatred is warranted:

In 2004, Hathaway began a romantic relationship with Italian real estate developer Raffaello Follieri,[6][77] during which she participated in the development of the charitable Follieri Foundation, as a donor and as a member of its board of directors until 2007.[78] The Manhattan-based foundation, established in 2003, focused on efforts such as providing vaccinations for children in Third World countries. In June 2008, it was investigated by the IRS, for failure to file required nonprofit information forms.[79] Citing concern that this investigation and other legal issues in which Follieri was involved could hurt her acting career, Hathaway ended their relationship in mid-June, 2008.[78]

Hathaway at the Get Smart premiere in June 2008
Follieri was arrested on June 24, 2008, on charges of defrauding investors out of millions of dollars in a scheme in which Follieri posed as the Vatican’s point man on real-estate investing.[80] It was reported that the FBI confiscated Hathaway’s private journals from Follieri’s New York City apartment as part of their ongoing investigation into Follieri’s activities; however, Hathaway was not charged with any crime.[81] On October 23, 2008, after earlier pleading guilty, Follieri was sentenced to four and a half years in prison.[82][83]


31 posted on 04/01/2013 10:45:56 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind

She was awesome in Les Miserables...her “I Dreamed a Dream” was full of passion, angst, and weakness—rarely do you see someone so into character for a musical...


32 posted on 04/01/2013 10:46:35 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

Amazing how 20 seconds can change things.


33 posted on 04/01/2013 10:53:54 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Hathaway is a huge libtard..she supported the Occupy Bowel Movement freaks

I'm not surprised . . . happens to a lot of these young people who are ridiculously wealthy, and then who pretend that they're something because they have access to things the average working slob will never have.

However, I consider her fascinating to look at . . . repulsive to listen to.

34 posted on 04/01/2013 10:54:11 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: latina4dubya

I’ll have to disagree. It really took off after her Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards acceptance speech. And it grew with every acceptance speech after that one, because all her speeches were basically the same; over emotional.


35 posted on 04/01/2013 10:57:55 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: laweeks

The second they showed her on TV attending one of those Occupy Movement rallies I didn’t give a crap about her anymore. The second these Hollywood liberal freaks decide to go full activist is when I boycott their movies and everything else they appear in. If they want to be liberal, fine, be liberal, but trashing those who have earned wealth or trashing half the country is where I draw the line. Look at the movies that have bombed recently, Admission with Tina Fey, total BOMB, The Burt Wonderstone movie with that flaming idiot Jim Carrey, another bomb..notice a theme here


36 posted on 04/01/2013 10:59:17 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: dfwgator

RE: On October 23, 2008, after earlier pleading guilty, Follieri was sentenced to four and a half years in prison

He was released on May 25, 2012, from a federal prison in Pennsylvania and immediately deported to his native Italy, where crooks like Billionaire Silvio Berlusconi continue to be taken seriously by the voters.


37 posted on 04/01/2013 10:59:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
Anne gets some undeserved female hatred because she bedded me, and that made a lot of ladies jealous.

NotYourAverageDhimmi for the win.........YES!

38 posted on 04/01/2013 11:03:10 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: dfwgator

SOURCE: http://global.christianpost.com/news/hathaways-ex-pardon-plea-actress-ex-boyfriend-wants-forgiveness-from-president-91207/

EXCERPT:

Hathaway broke up with Follieri after she discovered the truth about his business. After he was released from prison, Follieri said he had no interest in clearing his name. But it now appears that Hathaway’s ex has had a change of heart.

“He misses America, and when he gets enough money he wants to lobby for a presidential pardon,” a source told The New York Post. The businessman is allegedly attempting to buy an “energy company in Switzerland” according to the source, but is still having difficulties.

Despite his hardships, Follieri said last year that he was happy for Hathaway and her engagement to Adam Schulman.


39 posted on 04/01/2013 11:03:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Man, I love Anne Hathaway.


40 posted on 04/01/2013 11:05:29 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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