Drew Barrymore

[kateln]

Apr 11, 2016 18:08:38 GMT -4 Hamatron said:

Ug! I cannot stand people who are chronically late like that. Five to fifteen minutes late? Whatever. Life happens. Thirty minutes to an hour as a regular thing? Nope. I won't work with you and I won't take you seriously as friend. You're basically saying that your time is more valuable than mine even when that is not the intention.

My mom, and one of my close friends, are chronically late--and it pissed me off. Now? I give people 15 minutes, and then I leave. I don't get mad, but I also don't waste my time.

[suekel]

Apr 12, 2016 0:52:16 GMT -4 scarletprincess said:

Did they get married after one date or something? How does he not know that about her while they were dating? Why get married if stuff like that bothered him - did he think he could change her or something?

Speaking from 20 years of marriage, there are TONS of things that don't bother you so much going into that can become big issues down the road when all the "We're so in love and just want to be together 24/7" bloom comes off the rose.

Lateness is a major pet peeve for me, so I could see that becoming a deal breaker a few years in.

[Carolina]

Apr 12, 2016 10:32:21 GMT -4 discoprincess said:

Apr 11, 2016 12:55:34 GMT -4 Carolina said:

Valuing punctuality makes Drew's ex deserving of Gwyneth? That seems harsh.

Not harsh; just realistic.

The lateness thing may be part of Drew's flower child schtick. (I'm not justifying it, I'm just saying.)

I'm missing something, because he's sick of nice but flakey Drew, Will Kopelman deserves the nightmare that is our Gwyneth? Surely there must be at least a few other attractive single women out there who are more type A but won't make him eat an organic gluten-free vegan alkaline diet while having the occasional cigarette and wipe his ass with artisanal toilet paper?

[satellite]

Actually, I meant more that Gwyneth would love all the couture fashion, design, and art stuff, and the Upper East Side lifestyle that she was pretty much raised in. I find Gwyneth annoying, but don't hate her as much as some do, so it wouldn't be an "infliction" per se.

Re: lateness- for jobs with a time clock (retail: etc.), school, and personal life, I'm generally on time, but I have a problem with workplaces that pretend to be flexible, but then are not. Like if there's not a meeting, and I'm making up that 15 minutes at the end of the day, or at lunch, then I hate being hassled. Especially by people who come in on the dot, but leave 15 minutes, or an hour early  whenever they feel like it...but whatever.

[zivvie]

I wonder if Drew is one of these people who is sweet, talented, wonderful and a savvy businesswoman, but just doesn't do so well at marriage. It reminds me of when Christie Brinkley and her fourth husband broke up - as lovely as they may be, maybe the expectations of marriage just don't suit them.

Apr 11, 2016 23:03:00 GMT -4 greenjeans said:

Yet another reason I hate cell phones is that chronically late people think their lateness is somehow mitigated by calling you and telling you they are late. Somebody I was supposed to meet for a breakfast meeting called me as I was sitting in the cafe and acted like he was doing me a favor by letting me know I was free to go off and kill time for the next 45 minutes since he was going to be late.

After working in the theatre for years, I've discovered that there are two types of time: Stage manager time, where you are EXACTLY WHERE YOU NEED TO BE AT EXACTLY THE RIGHT TIME, and everybody else's conception of time.

OT: A person, whose significance in my life has greatly diminished, fits into this category perfectly. I would drive out of my way to pick him up for work (we work at the same place). As I was leaving my home, about 15 minutes from where he lives, he'd call/text and let me know that he just woke up, and to "kill time" for a bit until he was ready. I also used to give him wake-up calls because he had a tendency to stay out at his favorite watering hole til 3 or 4 am, when he had to be at work the next day at 1 pm. The death knell for the wake-up calls was when I called him one day when I was already at work, and no answer. After multiple calls, I was terrified that something had happened to him. He showed up at work, slightly late, and basically said, "Yeah, thanks for calling. I left my phone at the bar. Silly me." That was it: done. If he is late to work, that is a problem THAT IS NOT MY PROBLEM.

I'm sure y'all needed to know all this. /OT

[chonies]

I have a similar story--a few months after I broke up with someone, his cousin Facebook'd me in a panic because no one had heard from him in days. During our own relationship, he would sometimes ghost in late and almost always for sketchy reasons. I contacted him, because I am a nice person, and told him his mother was freaking out. He sheepishly said he'd lost his phone.

Anyway, slightly on topic, I thought of Drew today because Mr. Cho has a problem colleague who is extremely emotionally needy and tends to melt down when people move on without her because she misses deadlines all the damn time. This colleague isn't flower-child, but she tries to exude a persona that has some crunch to it. Stars, they're just like us.

[magazinewhore]

Ok, that's weird because as I'm reading this I'm watching a rerun of SNL and the one with Drew Barrymore on Weekend Update came on.

Anyway, I guess I suspect there's different time expectations in LA especially for famous people. What was worrisome to me about Drew's marriage is that she was the one who changed for the marriage (she said she liked how conservative she'd become, etc.), and I guess I wonder why she was supposed to be the one who changed. It sounds like she relocated to NYC, which I would assume was due to his work. I mean, he had to know to some degree what he was getting into. It just seems to me Drew was the one who was turing herself inside out to make it work. I could be wrong of course. Also spending most of your marriage pregnant doesn't seem ideal.

As someone who was raised by a mother with ADHA (undiagnosed until recently), I did not learn good organizational skills, and I can be the person squealing into where I need to be at the last minute. But I will say that I usually don't break the 15 minute rule.

[mochakitty]

Drew at the 2017 Golden Globe Awards (January 8th, Beverly Hills):

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Full Length Shot

FYI: Drew is wearing a Monique Lhuillier dress and Harry Winston jewelry.

[dorothyzbornak]

Not a fan of the top half of that dress, but otherwise I think she looks beautiful.

[bluemuna]

I think she looks lovely!