Gwyneth Paltrow II

[Mutagen]

Emma was her best role... nowadays she's an IRL Mrs. Elton though.

[Yossarian]

She was great in Emma! But Emma is somewhat insufferable so ...

[boxofrocks]

May 12, 2022 11:51:41 GMT -4 horseface said:

I have to giggle a bit because none of this shocks me. Some people will absolutely buy anything she sells. Not too long after Shakespeare in Love and all the awards my mum watched an interview with her. Please know that my mum was thought of as extremely intelligent, and was top of her class in school. The following conversation between my mum and I took place.

Mum: Look at how neat and slim she is. No soda and no junk for her. She knows. Always so tidy and healthy. She's like a bandbox.
Me: She also is a smoker mum. I expect that contributes to keeping her slim.
Mum: She probably only smokes high quality cigarettes.
Me: ??!!!!!??

This was amusing, but damned if it isn't a perfect example of how GP has benefited from white privilege.

[horseface]

May 13, 2022 12:18:58 GMT -4 boxofrocks said:

May 12, 2022 11:51:41 GMT -4 horseface said:

I have to giggle a bit because none of this shocks me. Some people will absolutely buy anything she sells. Not too long after Shakespeare in Love and all the awards my mum watched an interview with her. Please know that my mum was thought of as extremely intelligent, and was top of her class in school. The following conversation between my mum and I took place.

Mum: Look at how neat and slim she is. No soda and no junk for her. She knows. Always so tidy and healthy. She's like a bandbox.
Me: She also is a smoker mum. I expect that contributes to keeping her slim.
Mum: She probably only smokes high quality cigarettes.
Me: ??!!!!!??

This was amusing, but damned if it isn't a perfect example of how GP has benefited from white privilege.

This is so true. Also,she benefits from sizism and classicism. Interestingly mum loved T.N. as well. They were both slim and simpered, and for mum that was ideal.

[ElleCee]

Whenever I see the title of this particular thread, Gwyneth Paltrow II, it makes me laugh and think, yes...if she could have gotten away with naming one of her children this she so would have done it.

[cremetangerine82]

May 13, 2022 12:53:28 GMT -4 horseface said:

May 13, 2022 12:18:58 GMT -4 boxofrocks said:

This was amusing, but damned if it isn't a perfect example of how GP has benefited from white privilege.

This is so true. Also,she benefits from sizism and classicism. Interestingly mum loved T.N. as well. They were both slim and simpered, and for mum that was ideal.

Don’t forget the leg-up due to the nepotism of both her parents and her honorable “Uncle Morty”, a.k.a. Stephen Allan Spielberg, one of the most successful movie directors of all time! She even has a brief cameo (as adult Wendy) in Hook.

[famvir]

I thought she looked like Sissy Spacek in that tiny bit. Interesting to think of Sissy being called, “the most beautiful woman in the Universe.”

[Ladybug]

Gwynnie snarkers, we're slacking! How could it be that this interview has been public for several days and none of us has posted about it?!?! Gossip nostalgia + usual Gwynnie snark!

Here is the interview. It's about cashmere. Of course.

GP: Okay, since it’s almost Father’s Day, I’m going to ask you about Bruce. I’ll never forget when we were engaged and he came to me one day, his eyes full of tears, and he said, “You know, I never really realized what they mean when they say you’re gaining a son. Like, I’m gaining a son.” What impact did he have on you? Why did you love him, even though we didn’t get married, unfortunately.

BP: Yeah, right. [Laughs.] Oh man, everything works out, doesn’t it?

GP: Yes, it does. I finally found the Brad I was supposed to marry. It just took me 20 years.

BP: And it’s lovely to have you as a friend now.

GP: It is.

BP: And I do love you.

GP: I love you so much.

They spend the next several paragraphs reminiscing about her dad, another usual GP topic.

[horseface]

Jun 17, 2022 14:10:20 GMT -4 Ladybug said:

Gwynnie snarkers, we're slacking! How could it be that this interview has been public for several days and none of us has posted about it?!?! Gossip nostalgia + usual Gwynnie snark!

Here is the interview. It's about cashmere. Of course.

GP: Okay, since it’s almost Father’s Day, I’m going to ask you about Bruce. I’ll never forget when we were engaged and he came to me one day, his eyes full of tears, and he said, “You know, I never really realized what they mean when they say you’re gaining a son. Like, I’m gaining a son.” What impact did he have on you? Why did you love him, even though we didn’t get married, unfortunately.

BP: Yeah, right. [Laughs.] Oh man, everything works out, doesn’t it?

GP: Yes, it does. I finally found the Brad I was supposed to marry. It just took me 20 years.

BP: And it’s lovely to have you as a friend now.

GP: It is.

BP: And I do love you.

GP: I love you so much.

They spend the next several paragraphs reminiscing about her dad, another usual GP topic.

You know, I have mentioned more than once how much my late mum adored her. In keeping I should now probably mention my dear father would have heard this and performed his "old man wave" while muttering, "Vhat a pain in de backside."

[Ginger]

I guess Brad was saying this as something nice about her current marriage, which is how she took it:

BP: Yeah, right. [Laughs.] Oh man, everything works out, doesn’t it?

But when I read it, I read it as "My love life over the past 25 years since we broke up has been pretty disastrous, but at least I dodged a bullet by not marrying you."

Brad's being criticized for indirectly showing that he still gets along with all of his non-Angelina exes. (Which is not exactly news, since Gwyneth has never stopped singing his praises and particularly after the Harvey Weinstein revelations, went around talking about what a good person he was for how he handled that situation with her.)

Well, so what? Angelina does stick out like a sore thumb as the only ex who never has anything good to say about him. (And even tried to weaponize the Harvey Weinstein scandal against him too.) If that's the way it is, then that's the way it is.

I don't know why it's so hard for people to tolerate that his friends, family and colleagues don't agree with them, a bunch of strangers, that he's an evil POS.