I think it's a horse laugh ...
Posted on 08/12/2010 1:19:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Her parents were Baptist and Catholic and she was born in Georgia, part of the US Bible Belt. But Hollywood superstar Julia Roberts says she is now a practising Hindu. Speaking to the September issue of Elle magazine, Roberts said she goes to the temple to "chant, pray and celebrate."
The 42-year-old actress, who won a million hearts with Pretty Woman and an Oscar with Erin Brockowich, took to Hinduism during the shooting of her upcoming film, `Eat, Pray and Love' last year. In the movie, she plays a divorced woman who travels to Italy for food, India for spirituality and Bali, where she finds love. In the interview, Robert also spoke of reincarnation. "I've been so spoiled with my friends and family in this life. Next time I want to be just something quiet and supporting," she said.
Swami Dharamdev of Hari Mandir, Pataudi, where `Eat, Pray and Love' was shot for three weeks in September-October last year, said it is good news if someone accepts Hinduism from the heart. During the film's shooting, he said, a makeshift temple had been constructed nearby where unit members would light lamps and burn incense sticks. "Julia too would pray there, run her hands over the lamp and her hair as we all do," he recalled. "She also got her three kids here. I tied the sacred red thread on their wrists and applied the tilak on their foreheads," he said.
Swami Dharamdev recalled the actress also requested him, through her private assistant, to pray for her mother who was ill. "Before she left I told her, `you may choose not to eat or love. But don't forget to pray. Make that a part of your life, not just acting in this film'. She smiled and nodded affirmatively," he said.
In a statement, Rajan Zed, president of the Universal Society of Hinduism in the US, also said he and his fellow practitioners welcome Roberts into the fold.
Julia's move to Hinduism has sparked off a torrent of online response. Some are highly critical of her; others the opposite. "Another confused celebrity trying on the religion "flavour" of the month. Hindu? Does she even know what that means? How can you convert to another religion after making a film? Next thing you know she'll be wearing a Kabbalah bracelet after going to a Madonna concert!," was a comment posted on The Daily Mail's website. However, Anne, Leicester, wrote, "I like Julie Roberts, admire her work on screen and her commitment to her beliefs. If she's living her life to the ideals of Hinduism, that's all to the good. I look forward to seeing her latest film.
This is America, you can be what you want or you can be nothing at all.... remember?
She might have a problem in the ME, though
Freaky, Funny, and disturbingly hot!
As someone said on Big Hollywood, the good thing about this is that we can now hope that she sets herself on fire when her husband dies.
See her in the movie F U E L , she's supporting other mothers for biodiesel in school buses, wish I had that when I was on those stinky rattle traps.
Btw- Las Vegas school system has gone total bio-diesel. Cleaner and cheaper.
Ironically old Rudolph originally developed the engine for bio.
Oil/bank gangsters killed him and marketed their waste product in his name.
Talk about an evil burn.
Religion is not a sport jacket, you don't "try one out".
I would hypothesize that her religion, such as it is, has not changed at all, just the external manifestation of it, which is something you can "try out".
It's patronizing dilettantism, that's why.
It's one thing to convert to a religion after serious reflection and then to reveal one's conversion after having spent serious time actually practicing it consistently.
To announce conversion to a new religion while conveniently being on tour promoting a commercial project you're involved in is quite another.
Ugh. Cannot stand this aging starlet. Won’t be going to see this twaddle.
Oh, geesh, that is hilariously cruel. Unfortunately, Julia has not aged well — either physically or emotionally.
What the heck is that?
By the way, to whom is our Julia (when as in silks she goes) praying? The one will the elephant head and a hundred arms?
I’m so sick of my colleagues and I in IT getting replaced by low budget under-performing Indians that I’ve lost all taste for anything Indian. I used to appreciate their culture but now I just recoil in disgust. Too bad but I will be boycotting this movie.
Another moral relative cult that lets her be a whore at night but if she does her chants, she’s a moral person.
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LOL. James Caan has a few threads on FR over the last few days, feting him big time for calling himself an ultra conservative. That he’s been married and divorced 4 times, having kids with each of the wives seems not to matter.
Julia Roberts is married to the same guy for the last 8 years, bearing several children with him (I forgive her the Lyle Lovett thing) and she’s a whore?
Or is whore code for “I dislike her politics”?
My thoughts too, I’ve known people who are Hindu, and it’s more than a ‘religion’/’belief system’, it’s an identity and way of life. This just sounds like another Hollywood ‘alternative-religion-fad’ to me.
Haw-haw!! Actually, if the widow refuses to throw herself on the fire of suttee, she can be bushed by the village elders.
(Heading over to the Breit site)
Now she gets to embrace her inner “god” through altered states of consciousness, worship thousands of Hindu gods, be a vegetarian in hopes of encouraging the animals to stop eating each other, and spend eternity being reincarnated. Nice.
She should be in the rat catcher caste. Star Trek Deep Space 9 took an indirect shot at Hinduism because Bajor (sp?) when it had a bout of religious fundatmenalism was ineligible to be admitted into the Federation because it was going to reintroduce a caste system.
Can’t see what the fascination is with this skank.
Hyena laugh and a pie hole bigger than Joe E. Brown.
And she doesn't hesitate to insult half of the American movie-watching public, which includes me, as being Republican and therefore unworthy to watch her whore it up in movies. So, won't be watching.
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