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British more intelligent than Americans says Paltrow
By Stone Martindale Dec 2, 2006, 17:01 GMT
The Brits have better cream, more varieties anyway, and yummy Hob Nobs and more pubs per person than their cousins \'cross the pond... EPA/GUIDO MANUILO
American actress and now British resident Gwyneth Paltrow has shared her thoughts on the differences between the UK and USA, and feels the Brits win hands down in the scintillating dinner talk department, among other things.
"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.
Paltrow lives in London with Coldplay's frontman Chris Martin.
Neighboring American and now transplanted Brit, Madonna, 48, who married British film director Guy Ritchie six years ago, offers Gwynnie good advice.
"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.
Several American actresses have declared their love for living the British life, including rocker Courtney Love, who recently made an announcement she was thinking of relocating permanently to Britain.
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After all, how could an empty-headed Hollywierdo be wrong?
I wonder if they pay the same taxes as the british citizens? Jagger and friends left because of the stifling taxation.
Bon Voyage!
Micheal Moore.
Michael J. Fox
Jamie Fox
George Clooney
Susan Saranden
Tim Robbins
Chuck Rangel
Al Gore
The Clintons(all of them)
Lindsey Lohan
Moby
...God, the list is endless!
Seeeee Ya!
Tell the fat one to shut up!
how about the Bush clan
all the hypocritical Gay republican closeted elite
Pat Robertson
Tom Delay and his corrupt ilk
all the child beauty pageant parents in the south
Scientologist-all of them
polygymist crackpot mormons
pedophilic catholic priests hiding under Rome's cloak
the crazy Fred Phelps and his military funeral protesting evangelical nutbag clan
the entire club Hyde including Lohan, Spears, Hilton, Reid, and all the trainwrecks
Oprah
Ellen
Katie
ACLU
People who really think the Earth is only 6000 years old..
Gloria Allred
and all the knee jerk delusionals wearing their religions on their sleeves
that would improve things around here...
Tom Delay
Take the people who hate religion too, like the poster a few up.
She is such a snob. The only thing that makes me not completely despise her is that she is aging SO BADLY.
I guess this is where she gets out her 'Publicist' and starts peddling backwards...
Yes, Gwenny, go ask Madonna...
the british are definitely much more intelligent and much more sympathetic to the world...they actually have morals...unlike drunking idiotic americans
It's hyprocrtical to talk about America and it's capitalistic ways while your pocket is filled with good old George bills. Idiots we are, for allowing a no talented wench like Gwenyth to earn any American dollar, but thamks to her and other American bashing hollywood cowards who run for shelter across the great pond, this makes us wiser. Thank You!
Well if you must criticize American's for being stupid, why don't you at least get it correct.... it's 'drinking Americans'... you must be drinking to get drunk....
I'll give Gwennie this...she did actually leave.... as opposed to the ones who bark about how terrible we are and then continue to stay. Of course, none of this stops her from cashing the check of her morally bankrupt and cerebrally deficient countrymen... Another celeb who hates America... *yawn*
I'm crushed.
Do you suppose we can get the Brits to take the rest of our 'superior dinner conversationalists' like Gwen? They are our best allies and all...
I love most Brits that I have met, it is the Hollywood on their high horse types like Paltrow I cannot stomach..
I would rather have a roomful of Brits to entertain than any of those rich entitled whiners-and I think most Brits I have met really enjoy their American friends- gentle fun-poking and kidding aside, we have more in common, despite the pop cultural divide....over 50% of this country has the blood of the UK flowing in its veins from ancestors!
I think there can be little dispute that Gwyneth Paltrow is entitled to express her personal preferences and opinions and is entitled to be paid her financial worth for work in films.
What is the over/under on the date this lunatic slams the UK? Paltrow is a worthless bitch.
How is Paltrow different from Mel Gibson or Michael Richards (Kramer)????
I will tell you.... she was not drunk or being harassed by hecklers. We Americans demand an apology from this bimbo? Where is the outcry?????
Estee Lauder must be thrilled that she is the spokesman for their product...I know when I see gwyneths face on their product I'll be thinking how I lack intelligence. I won't be spending any of my money on their products,her movies. Ever heard of don't bite the hand that's feeds you?
More wisdom from a member of The Hollywood Brigade. Just imagine, here's a woman who inarguably owes the largest measure of her fame and fortune to Americans. Yet she has just openly told Americans that she looks down on them as inferiors.
Does this sound like something a truly intelligent person would say? Publicly? Notice that hardly anyone like her won't make these kinds of statements when they are struggling to become successful. It's almost always after they have enough of your money in their pockets that they feel courageous enough to spit in your face.
Paltrow has the intelligence of a grape. She's nasty, spiteful and butt ugly from the inside out. A total lack of class.
I have a rigid policy for people like Paltrow. When they open their big mouths and make insulting personal remarks I close my wallet completely. As far as I'm concerned they no longer exist. They may not need any more of your money, but the one thing their grossly inflated egos can't handle is being ignored.
that find discussing it in such poor taste.
I will not ever -under any circumstances - help her get rich, I am boycotting all Lauder products-including their subsidiary companies like Clinique, aveda, mac and all the others
Arcona skincare for me! www.arcona.com, diane lane's skincare (she has said in interviews)
Gwyneth,
As an American/French I lived in England over a 12 years period and Europe over 20 years. I still have a house in England.
I agree with you that living in London is fantastic City and England is fantastic country and love the humor and the people. The British are getting a lot more cuisine minded than people think and have great afterwork meeting places. The country side brings an high living standards to raise a family and
feel the the great things of what life has to offer. England is a country of
shops and books and I try to get over to London to splurge a bit
I lost my father several years ago (American) and from Kansas and was in the
Diplomatic corp. I am very proud to American here in Europe and feel we are
all ambassadors.
We should never compare the two countries, who is better or worst, they are each unique and have a lot to offer. We are both great countries and have to look at the positive characters. It is not to easy with current politics.
The people of America and Great Britain compliment each other and we need each other more than ever now.
So Gwyneth, je te comprend mais 'vive la difference' Vive Kansas, Vive la
Reine D'Angleterre!
I told my friends in England that I will always take a bullet for England!
We should trade Dubya Bush for Ozzy. At least Ozzy could utter an intelligible english sentence.....
As an American, I appreciate and respect freedom of speech, and ideas. With those freedoms come responsibility. Gwyneth will have to pay by by accepting responsibility for her comments. So will those she represents.I can't say I'll never buy any more Estee Lauder products, because I never have, but I will boycott any, and all of her other products, and productions/participations, and encourage friends to do the same. When you make stupid anti-american slams, expect consequences from proud americans.
p.s. Nothin against the Brits.
El gato
OMG...Is this spoiled,privilaged woman for real? She has actually never had to work a day in her life,know what it's like to worry about a morgage,ecetera thanks to her capitalist father. She's fabulously wealthy in her own right (anyone worth tens of millions of dollars is fabulously wealthy co9mpared to the vast middle class)because of capitalism. Capitalism has given her the supreme luxury of behaving like a moron and she not surprisingly bites the hand that's breed and feeds her. And she obviously is completely out of touch with the average British or American (or the vast bulk of most people in the world)citizen.Finally,what is it with these Americans (mostly woman for some reason)who think they're English,complete with ridiculous fake English accent? 99% of Englishmen and woman are lauhing at them. I'd suggest in Paltrows case,because of her extremely privilaged upbringing, she never bonded with her native culture and probably has contempt for the little peole. Is her desire to stand out from the crowd and be 'different' that severe? Pathetic.
This is the new 'any PR is good PR' angle that Hollywood is employing. See Mel, Michael Richards, Britney, etc. Too bad she's given all these posts validating the importance of her witty and insightful nonsense. And Hollywood is the most capitalistic industry of all, nice work.
A few interesting comments from UK sources:
http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/Gwyneth+Paltrow:++Brits+Are+More +Intelligent+Than+Americans+-8548.html
http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,1695582,00.html< br />
'She likes the geeky roles, but not the low pay that goes with them. She loves England, but hates our drunk women.'
'She won't tell me the most she's ever been paid for a role. I say I read somewhere it was $2m. She looks mildly perturbed. Is that offensively low? 'No, not at all,' she says vaguely. 'That's what you read? Well, it's more than that. But...''
GP: 'I think, ooh, you're really degrading yourself right now, to be this pissed out in public.'
GP: 'I think it's sort of funny how you have to be doing coke off the ass of a stripper to be perceived as not boring these days.' Yep, all very civilized.
GP: 'I really don't think I'm stuck-up. And neither do the people who know me. I can be picky and super-critical about things, and I have certain standards, but I certainly don't look down on other people.' Umm, really?
Check out this site to see what products are owned by/related to Estee Lauder if you care to boycott the company that employs Paltrow: http://www.elcompanies.com/footer/contact.asp
im sure gwen would love to read these comments. This is a big part of why America is the most hated country in the world - we can't take any criticism. 'burn in hell bitch! how dare you say we're stupid!'
nobody cares what she thinks, and she is welcome to say what she wants. get over it.
The British aren't capitalistic??? Did her intelligent friends not educate her that Capitalism was a 'gift' that the United Kingdom gave to the world? Does she not remember Margaret Thatcher? Is she unaware that the City of London the hub of global banking? Does she know how expensive it is for most people in East and South London to maintain anything remotely resembling a decent standard of living? As a foreigner, she is also probably immune to the effects of class-consciousness that run through the British psyche... This is very COMMON amongst wealthy American transplants.
What I think Ms. Paltrow meant to say is that the RICH, pampered people in West London she is so happy to have found she can relate to, do not flaunt their wealth as garrishly and offensively as the RICH, pampered ones she used to associate with on the Upper-West-Side of Manhattan or the RICH, pampered ones that gave her a career in West-Los Angeles. But the VAST majority of the British people are just as concerned with money, materialism and status as the average American is, Gwyn.
Capitalism is alive and well in the United Kingdom. A fun excursion for Ms Paltrow might involve taking her Primrose Hill friends down to Hackney or Stratford for an afternoon picnic to see some of Capitalism's nastier side-effects!
Afterwards, they can all have an clever conversation about it over a meal of lamb and mint jelly, and everything will be just tickety-boo in Gwyneth-land, won't it?
She is correct, we keep giving them our money when the people in Europe will not, they must be smarter than us. Guess I will follow what they do, never see her movies again.
Courtney Love, now that is a smart woman (NOT) She is getting good advice! They all deserve each other. Enjoy living in England and do not bother coming back, we don't want you and we need to stop watching your movies.
She is absolutly right, in the U.S. there is no culture, only consumism, and a bunch of fanatics (Bush and every one who supports his ideas)
That's something the British have known all along
Please take all of America's undereducated hollywierd people away from here!
They can keep the snooty b!tch.
'You see, in a recent interview Gwyneth Paltrow started spouting off about how British people were more interesting, intelligent and civilised than their American counterparts, and her comments appear to have sparked off some kind of nationwide outrage in America.
Sure, we know that a little over a year ago Gwyneth Paltrow said the exact opposite thing and gave Britain a slating, but we're going to ignore that because the sense of validation that we get when a watery macrobiotic wooly-headed ninny who names her children after various pieces of fruit like Gwyneth Paltrow shows slightly more affection towards us than the country her family is from is simply overwhelming.'
She's absolutely right. If you've lived in both places, it's obvious. If you haven't and are American (which I am) you just get defensive without knowing how true it is, what she's saying.
An Art History dropout from the University of California-Santa Barbara is definitely an authority on the lack of intelligence in the United States. She is a prime example!
I seem to remember Ms Paltrow making another remark about the US. Sometime around the time she had her first child. Seemd that it was a remark impling that the US was not a good place to raise her children and she was going to raise them in Europe. The general public at that time, took the remark to be a war protest comment. I am sorry to say I do not know the exact quote. Anyone else remember it?
The British more civilized? Really? When was the last time someone died at one of our football games? Paltrow is really the ugly American in more ways than one. Maybe she is right....I mean how good can we be if our country produces arrogant elitist a**holes like this uppity bitch? I saw her on the Daily Show and never have I seen anyone with less of a sense of humor than this boor. Another tip sweetie....get the stick out of your a** and relax when you sit in a chair. Good posture is not ridgid. Food for thought because in your case you must be starving.
This is the reply Lauder corp puts out if you email them
you view on the situation
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We apologize for any distress her recent statements may have caused you.
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You are just getting old Paltrow.Run Chris Run........How
boring is she!Chris is too cool,cute,and young.British wannabe!
I agree Europeans are smarter. They have us paying for their security with our military bases in England, Germany, Italy and Spain. We should smarten up by pulling out of those areas and make them start paying for their own security. I wonder what that would do to their already high tax rates? In fact, lets go ahead and let them build military bases over here.... Then we can start having subsidized child care and a national health care system.
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MikeDec 2nd, 2006 - 18:07:38
you can keep her.
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