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.Dear Gwyneth,
"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.
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.
You should maybe not spend so much time with Madonna. You will probably be surprised to learn this, but she is not actually British. She's from Detroit, which is in Michigan. (That's the state that looks like a mitten.)
It's no wonder you don't talk about "work" round the dinner table- you'd have to actually have work to do that. (What was the last one? Sky Captain and the World of No One came to see my movie?) Maybe in a pinch you could talk about that modern classic you starred in, Shallow Hal? I can hear you now, "Well, I played this fat lady, but I looked skinny to my boyfriend whose name was Shallow Hal, but really I was fat and I kept breaking furniture and he couldn't figure out why, and at the end I went to the Peace Corps and Hal came too! He was not shallow after all. Did you know that George Costanza has a tail!? Seriously!"
Ah yes, you are much more intelligent and civilized indeed.
And for someone that shuffles around their oddly-named tots in a $3000 baby jogger, oh excuse me, I meant "pram", you should shut it about being capitalistic.
Love, Me
5 comments:
It was totally out of context! It's completely like the press to twist people's words like that! And she was only talking to the press because, uh, um, because the peasants need, need, need to know what's going on in her life!
I mean, I agree with her on trying to have dinner in the States with some people, but you know what? You aren't required to have dinner with anyone, much less people who you don't find to be interesting conversationalists. And, some of the biggest boors I've ever had dinner with have been non-Americans. And Floridians. Which is digressing, but THAT'S what makes me a fascinating dinner guest.
I agree- I don't fit into the "bad side of American psychology" either... whatever the hell that means, but all the Brits I know? They talk about money a lot...and taxes, especially how to avoid taxes. Maybe they are just trying to fit in with me by being more "American" and they secretly are very interesting people.
Pfft. Puck and I never talk about work and money over dinner. In fact, we rarely talk about anything at all because we're too busy stuffing food into our fat American faces while watching TV like REAL Americans!
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Yeah, take your $1000 Frog stroller and your $50 pacifiers and stick them in your faux British ass. You should try hanging out with people in the States that aren't famous and wealthy.
Personally, it's hard for me to have a dinner conversation because I'm too busy choking on my sandwich.
Excellent blog, by the way.
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