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Hollywood's eye contact with social issues (Jonah Goldberg)
Townhall.com ^
| March 8, 2006
| Jonah Goldberg
Posted on 03/08/2006 8:28:54 AM PST by EveningStar
One of my favorite tidbits about Hollywood that I've gleaned from the starstruck press is that a great many of its most accomplished stars don't allow their staffs to look them in the eye. I'm not making this up. It has been reported that Barbra Streisand not only discourages eye contact among staff, but that she required hotel workers to leave her presence only by walking backward. Jennifer Lopez - who had 75 attendants help her prepare for a cameo on "Will & Grace" - is also reputed to forbid her subalterns to look into the windows of her soul. Sylvester Stallone won't stand for such effrontery, and Tom Cruise likes to ban eye contact, too, at least while he's working.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: georgeclooney; hollyweird; hollywood; jonahgoldberg; politics; racism; socialissues
To: EveningStar
I guess they're all afraid that if you look into their eyes you will see the back of their skull.
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posted on
03/08/2006 8:32:25 AM PST
by
stm
(It's possible to fix most things, but you can't fix stupid)
To: stm
Okay...THAT comment made me nearly choke on my lunch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
03/08/2006 8:33:35 AM PST
by
rlmorel
("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
To: Howlin; onyx; Clemenza; Petronski; GummyIII; SevenofNine; martin_fierro; veronica; EggsAckley; ...
To: rlmorel
Yeah, I spewed a little coffee on my keyboard.
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posted on
03/08/2006 8:34:32 AM PST
by
Ole Okie
To: EveningStar
Streisand! * * * * SPOOKY * * * *
(plus, she's a nasty old b*tch!)
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posted on
03/08/2006 8:35:00 AM PST
by
NaughtiusMaximus
(DO NOT read to the end of this tagline . . . Oh, $#@%^, there you went and did it.)
To: stm
LOL! However, that's not really what the article is all about. Click on the link. ;)
To: EveningStar
Does he mention Hillary's White House behavior?
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posted on
03/08/2006 8:35:57 AM PST
by
aculeus
To: EveningStar
In the eyes of Hollywood everyone is equal... in that there all equally worthless compared to them.
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posted on
03/08/2006 8:38:15 AM PST
by
spikeytx86
(Beware the Democratic party has been over run by CRAB PEOPLE!)
To: rlmorel
Always glad to oblige.....here's one for your milk. See if it comes out of your nose...
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posted on
03/08/2006 8:38:58 AM PST
by
stm
(It's possible to fix most things, but you can't fix stupid)
To: EveningStar
To: EveningStar
My favorite thing about hollywood is how gays swoon over sex and the city yet the women on the show treat there gaypals ("girlfriends) like pets. I caught the last 10 minutes of an episode on tbs and by the end I was actually offended for them on the way they treated them.
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posted on
03/08/2006 8:41:35 AM PST
by
spikeytx86
(Beware the Democratic party has been over run by CRAB PEOPLE!)
To: EveningStar
What a bunch of phony a-holes.
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posted on
03/08/2006 8:43:41 AM PST
by
lesser_satan
(You know, if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, every day would be Christmas.)
To: EveningStar
Isn't it great to be free to look those hoolyweird folks in the eye.
To: stm
MORE COFFEE SPIT ON SCREEN!!!
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posted on
03/08/2006 8:48:55 AM PST
by
cvq3842
To: EveningStar
*****Barbra Streisand not only discourages eye contact among staff, but that she required hotel workers to leave her presence only by walking backward.******
I guess she wouldnt like me shooting her the moon.
To: stm
I guess they're all afraid that if you look into their eyes you will see the back of their skull.**************
LOL! Well done.
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posted on
03/08/2006 9:09:11 AM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: stm
skull****LOL!... that's a classic!
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posted on
03/08/2006 9:11:45 AM PST
by
johnny7
(“Iuventus stultorum magister”)
To: stm
I guess the website doesn't want me to look the article in the eye either. It shows no script for this article, but lets me access all other editorials by Goldberg.
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posted on
03/08/2006 9:16:36 AM PST
by
jeremiah
(Anyone got a tagline for rent?)
To: johnny7
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/jacket2.html
This one is third from the top in the upper right hand corner. All of these remind me of basic training in 1981 well before the age of political correctness
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posted on
03/08/2006 9:21:09 AM PST
by
stm
(It's possible to fix most things, but you can't fix stupid)
To: jeremiah; All
Hmmm. I just now tried it and got right in. You might try the alternate (NRO) link in the comments. The excerpt I posted is a teaser and doesn't summarize the article itself at all.
To: EveningStar
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posted on
03/08/2006 9:25:20 AM PST
by
Ciexyz
(Let us always remember, the Lord is in control.)
To: aculeus; All
You could click on the link and read the whole article. :)
To: EveningStar
And I'm not even going to get into all of the pro-communist and anti-American movies Hollywood has churned out over the last 60 years.
This one would've been a natural.
To: aculeus; EveningStar
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posted on
03/08/2006 9:40:15 AM PST
by
Old Sarge
(My vigor to fight has been renewed.)
To: stm
"Aww, what'd they do, send me a daggone Houdini here?" (Recent commercial for a stain-lifter product used by a grunt being grilled by his drill sergeant.)
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posted on
03/08/2006 9:42:36 AM PST
by
Albion Wilde
(The best service a retired general can give is to...mothball his opinions. – Omar Bradley)
To: Albion Wilde
Seen it, it's a good one. But that DI was no Gunny Hartman!
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posted on
03/08/2006 9:50:44 AM PST
by
stm
(It's possible to fix most things, but you can't fix stupid)
To: Old Sarge
Look into the eyes of the (hilda)beest....
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posted on
03/08/2006 9:55:29 AM PST
by
stm
(It's possible to fix most things, but you can't fix stupid)
To: EveningStar
The interesting thing in the recent articles about Barry Bonds is how so many people put up with this ahole just so they can hang out with a celebrity.
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posted on
03/08/2006 11:39:42 AM PST
by
jordan8
To: stm
LOL! THAT is an over the top, but GREAT portrayal...:)
Well...maybe not so over the top for those OLD days...
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posted on
03/08/2006 12:53:39 PM PST
by
rlmorel
("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
To: Old Sarge
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
MY EYES! MY EYES!
DAMN YOU!
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posted on
03/08/2006 12:55:09 PM PST
by
rlmorel
("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
To: EveningStar
I would love, love to tell these ego manics what they could do to themselves and how many different ways they could do it.
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posted on
03/08/2006 6:15:44 PM PST
by
proudofthesouth
(Mao said that power comes at the point of a rifle; I say FREEDOM does.)
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