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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2018 11:54:03 GMT -4
The "Low Vera" thing was very gross, but who among us hasn't acted like a petty asshole once or twice? JR just so happened to have a MUCH bigger audience for her bad behavior.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2018 12:40:11 GMT -4
The "Low Vera" thing was very gross, but who among us hasn't acted like a petty asshole once or twice? JR just so happened to have a MUCH bigger audience for her bad behavior. Yes, but IMO she knows that, and she did it because she knew it would hurt even more because of that. The overhype is the other thing for me. I feel the same way about JR that I feel about Meg freaking Ryan. I can. NOT. stand her in movies. She was so bad in Hurlyburly that I almost cried on the way out of the theatre. When you go to her IMDB page, it says her trademarks are "effervescent personality", and "her graceful walk". WTH. Hype machine. |
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Post by ladyboy on Nov 20, 2018 12:51:56 GMT -4
Graceful WALK? Wasn't it Ocean's 11 where she stomped across the floor in a supposedly sexy/dramatic scene and everyone talked about her terrible walk?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2018 13:02:37 GMT -4
If I think back on it, I first started souring on her during the promotional period for Erin Brockovich. She was freaking EVERYWHERE pushing that movie, and I just started to hate seeing her face. I went to France during that time and there were ads for the movie featuring her in that white bustier with the little red flowers all over the Paris metro system, and I felt like I could not get away from her.
And then, everyone kept talking about what a great, breakthrough performance it was and how she was going to finally win an Oscar. I just kept thinking like "Really? She's okay, sometimes even good. But overdue-for-an-Oscar good? No freaking way." And then she won instead of Ellen Burstyn, who gave the single best performance of that year IMO, and was so damn obnoxious and entitled in her speech that I started almost shaking with rage.
I was also crushing hard on Dylan McDermott at the time, and when I found out he was engaged to her and she had dumped him for Kiefer Sutherland I thought to myself "He dodged a bullet there."
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Post by trifle on Nov 20, 2018 13:57:38 GMT -4
Re: the A Low Vera thing, she had that shirt made. Made! That wasn’t a spontaneous, petty gesture—it was super cold and calculated. #neverforget
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Post by scarlet on Nov 20, 2018 14:03:04 GMT -4
When you go to her IMDB page, it says her trademarks are "effervescent personality", and "her graceful walk". WTH. Hype machine. OMG, LOL! She walks like a truck driver. They even cut her Lancôme commercial to eliminate her traipsing up the staircase like she had a piano on her back. |
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Post by Ginger on Nov 20, 2018 14:33:25 GMT -4
Carolyn Bessette always gets credit for starting the "slip dress" wedding trend in the 90s, but Julia did it first when she married Lyle Lovett. Julia's dress didn't fit as well and she topped it with a tulle blanket wrapped around her head so maybe that's why she didn't get as many imitators. Yes, but IMO she knows that, and she did it because she knew it would hurt even more because of that. Yeah, it was one of the most famous women in the world taking advantage of how famous she was to publicly bully a nobody. I remember the one picture the paparazzi managed to get of Vera during the divorce and she was a regular, kind of mousy woman who was just trying to carry her stuff to work and looked miserable and shy. She didn't want to get into a tabloid love triangle with a movie star intent on stealing her husband. LOL, maybe somebody was trolling. "Graceful walk" applies as much to Julia as to Meg, which is not at all. I think they both cultivated "quirky" walks. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2018 14:33:35 GMT -4
Re: the A Low Vera thing, she had that shirt made. Made! That wasn’t a spontaneous, petty gesture—it was super cold and calculated. #neverforget Oh, yeah? I always thought it was Sharpied. |
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Post by kostgard on Nov 20, 2018 14:40:35 GMT -4
Re: the A Low Vera thing, she had that shirt made. Made! That wasn’t a spontaneous, petty gesture—it was super cold and calculated. #neverforget Oh, yeah? I always thought it was Sharpied. . So yeah - she put some effort into it (or paid someone to put some effort into it). This is still one of the pettiest celeb moves I've ever seen. She looks super-smug in all the shots of her wearing it, too. The "graceful walk" thing has got to be a troll. One of the most unintentionally funny things in Ocean's 11 is when she makes her entrance into the casino, and Matt Damon and George Clooney are staring at her like she's the most amazing creature ever, and she is just clomping across the casino floor. I mean, I can't walk in heels either, but no one is pretending I'm the picture of grace when I'm wearing them. |
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Post by Ladybug on Nov 20, 2018 14:53:42 GMT -4
In that Ocean's 11 scene, she walks like a trucker who's been on a long haul and is clomping her way into the truck stop to buy some more dip. Real elegant!
I think her real personality is very close to the way she played Erin Brockovich.
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