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.
No whore means sleeping with all her leading men and taking them away from their girlfriends/wives.
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Funny.
Do you really believe that the male of the species is completely incapable of self determination in these matters. They had, uh, relations with her because they had no ability to stop themselves? Is was all on Julia?
Please. If it weren’t so funny, I might (as a 52 y/o married only once and still guy) be offended.
No, but the skank’s still a ho.
If you don’t believe in God, I am sorry for you.
Your problem, not mine. Atheists who just keep to themselves are okay, proseletyzing ones have some problems.
Actors are the most opportunistic creatures on earth.
Didn’t mean to post the big one...it is disturbing....;-)
Last time I saw a face like her’s it had a hook in it’s mouth.
Now she's a Pizza Mystic.
I don’t know, but I try to avoid confusing the actor with the part.
Eat pray love doesn’t sound like my kind of movie, though.
and then verbally slaughter anyone who disagrees with them. Fools that they are. By their own belief they are mocking God's will. Their words not mine.
Julia Roberts has had affairs with many of her leading men (Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Patric, Dylan McDermott), including one that was married at the time (Liam Neeson). Her current husband, Danny Moder, was a cameraman on one of her movies and was married when she began an affair with him. Danny filed for divorce from his wife Verna, and Julia got quite nasty when Mrs. Moder had the unmitigated gall to contest the divorce. James Caan might be a man-whore, but Julia is a run of the mill whore.
How many points is that?
well said
Wouldn't that be nice? I wish they'd shut up and act, or sing, or whatever talent they have, and allow me to enjoy that. Instead, they want to hector, lecture, insult and condescend. The rapidly aging Julia called me "repulsive" and "repugnant" because that's where Republican is in the dictionary.
Michael Jordan said, when asked to insult conservatives, "Republicans buy shoes, too." Now, there's a gracious acknowledgement of what an entertainer owes his public. So, Julia is a pinhead.
And to top that off, they are stupid and uneducated. Close to none of them have been to college because they have to be selling their hot young bodies to get into the movies, can't waste time in a classroom.
I found love at Bally's one night.
Again, no Julia fan here, as chick flix aren’t my thing, but even the way you phrase it below ... She had the affairs with her leading men, so what were the leading men doing?
And men and women in their 20s having serial partners?
Cue the scene from Casa Blanca.
So, Julia the Homewrecking Whore, then? D0 Danny and Verna have any kids?
Seaman Anoreth went to Bali. She was not complimentary.
Sorry, but I ain’t going to see her “Eat, Pray and Queef” movie.
Clessie Cummins tested one on whale oil before installing
in in a ship for arctic research. If they needed, they could
harvest their own fuel. Bet that smelled great!
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