I am a shithead-loser board obsesser and you think you called me on it? Really? That’s what you think happened just now in this thread? Just leave you alone? Honestly, I think you might want to step back from the computer.
I saw you heading down the same path with DianaG that you headed down with me and I said so. You blew a gasket and played name calling games. This somehow makes me a shithead-loser board obsesser. Okay.
You take care now.
Oh, shit, it’s fucking OFFICIAL NOW! DAMN! I got SERVED!
Shouldn’t you be busy “snarking” about this anonymously somewhere, or blogging or vlogging or second-lifing or whatever you people do?
Knowing this place, that’s actually a fair point. 
Yeah, but I appreciate a bit of honest passion; it’s refreshing. Plus his delivery is funny, blunt and modern. I like his style.
Well, based on what I’ve read about her, at a young age she did feel pressure to diet and try to lose weight but she never could. And at one point she just said she was going to learn to accept and love herself and by all account she’s fairly well adjusted. I don’t know her personally but if she’s cool with herself now, more power to her.
Stern might be a good person. Stern might get a bad rap. The perception people have of him is based on performances he has done, and his perceived attitude. The idea that any of the flack he has taken over the years has much to do with him being Jewish and Robin black is ludicrous. His act consists of a lot of over the top humor. Be it sexual, racial, or whatever topic he and his staff find funny. This act is going to garner protests whether the performer is a black jew, a fat puerto rican, or even a white guy from Nebraska.
Howard Stern is not someone who I would listen to. I’d rather listen to paint drying.
With that said, Mz Sidibe was nominated for an award for a role that is basically her life’s story. All the praise heaped upon her by the Hollywood crowd has a patronizing feel. It’s like watching the public service piece where a high school prom crowd elects a mentally challenged girl as prom queen. If she does indeed take on a role that tests her acting skills and does well then the praise will be warranted.
Her weight is a separate subject and if she doesn’t get a handle on it then she’ll be joining
John Candy (43) and Chris Farley (33) on the list of actors dying young.
Say what?While her mother did struggle after divorcing her father, I don’t see how a childless young woman with lots of self-esteem and no diseases (as far as you or I know) who is in the process of pursuing a degree in psychology has the same life story as Precious.
Magiver, that role was NOBODY’S life story. Someone in this thread called that movie ‘poverty porn’. I’ve called it that myself, in other threads. That girl had to ACT to pull that off. Her personality in interviews is a 180 turn around from that role.
I don’t think that’s right. I remember her saying that people keep approaching her in public as if she is the character. She said it’s crazy because she has good parents who love her and her life was nothing like Precious.
Yeah. In fact, hearing someone say that she’s playing her life’s role in Precious is so odd because the one thing you hear over and over again is that she’s NOT Precious. She’s completely different.
Why of course it’s her life story! She’s fat and black and female. So is Precious. I mean, come on … how can there be two people like that?!
Count me among those who agree that “having a good career” doesn’t equal “being a superstar with dozens of leading roles.” The vast majority of working actors in the world aren’t famous, gorgeous skinny gals. One can still have a very fulfilling and interesting career by playing character parts, and if Sidibe is down-to-earth and pragmatic, she’ll be smart enough to consider herself fortunate and satisfied by that, as well she should. Will she be up for roles against competitors like Amy Adams or Kristen Storms? No. And so what? Films and TV need character actors too.
In time, Sidibe may prove herself to have staying power. It’s just way, way too early to tell.
I’m on Cisco’s side, even if he is allowing himself to be obviously antagonized.
And you just copped another warning. “Shithead-loser board obsesser” is an inappropriate insult in Cafe Society, which is where you knew damn well you were.
I suggest you give yourself a time-out before we do it for you.
That’s no more true than saying Jeff Bridges is an loser alcoholic country singer in real life. The ONLY thing Gabby and Precious have in common besides both being female is that they’re both big. Gabby in real life is much closer to the Precious in the fantasy sequences: outgoing, self-confident, happy, successful.
That’s not true either. While Precious wasn’t based on anyone in particular, there are a LOT of girls/women who have lived/live lives full of desperation, poverty and horrific abuse.
The director said (paraphrased because I don’t have a link) he had seen several auditions by females who were very close to Precious, not just in looks, but in how horrible their lives were growing up or even currently. He didn’t want to cast them because he felt he would be exploiting their life. He met Gabby and cast her because 1) she was a good actress, and 2) she was NOTHING like Precious so he didn’t feel guilty.
That phrase is far more disgusting and offensive than anything Howard Stern said (not that I agree with Howard Stern).
I agree with that.
I think that the most obvious analogy for Gabourey Sidibe is Marlee Matlin:
She won a Best Actress at 21. I can’t think of any significant actor or actress before her who was deaf. Yet in her case she has continued to get good roles ever since. Note that they are good roles, but they aren’t really top ones. Hollywood has basically been happy with her performances since then. She frequently gets good roles that are specially tailored for her.
She hasn’t become a superstar by any means. But then, most Oscar winners don’t. The notion that winning an Oscar means that you will be getting great roles for the rest of your life is just wrong. Indeed, it only seems to slightly increase your visibility for a while. Either winning or getting nominated for an Oscar just means that for a while Hollywood will find a few good roles for you and might be willing to rewrite a few scripts to make it easier to cast you. Getting good roles after that is only possible if they continue to be impressed by your acting or your box office potential.
Indeed. Consider F. Murray Abraham. Best Actor for Amadeus, deservedly so, in my opinion. The Oscar didn’t make him a star, it just increased his profile a tiny bit.
Like that pretty little thin girl, what was her name, oh yeah, Brittany Murphy.
Died young but wasn’t fat so I guess she was a success.
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She played a fat teenager who was not treated well. I seriously doubt she was treated with a lot of respect by her peers unless high school has changed since the beginning of the universe. I’m sure she’s a delightful person from a lovely family but she has to be painfully aware of how mean kids can be. It had to translate on an emotional level to the character she played even though that wasn’t the specific plot line.