Will not be surprised to see Tonya Harding attending the Academy Awards.
Posted on 01/01/2018 4:38:49 PM PST by Drew68
Disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding re-entered the public eye earlier this month when she showed up for the Los Angeles premiere of "I, Tonya." She was snapped on the red carpet, laughing with the actress who plays her, Margot Robbie, and getting silly with the film's big scene-stealer, Allison Janney.
All of this may have seemed strange to anyone who hasn't seen the movie. Isn't Tonya Harding the eternal villain of our collective memories? Why is Hollywood embracing her? For some people, she will forever be the woman responsible for making fellow figure skater Nancy Kerrigan cry, "Whyyyyyy?" She'll always be the Olympic athlete with the dubiously problematic skate laces; the woman who married a guy named Jeff Gillooly.
But the Golden Globe-nominated movie offers a different take on Harding's life, and it's one that turns the skater-turned-boxer into an extremely sympathetic — even unfairly maligned — character.
If Tonya Harding was tried and unanimously convicted in the court of public opinion more than 20 years ago, then "I, Tonya" makes a solid case for exonerating her.
The movie is just the latest piece of pop culture that forces us to reassess our opinions of headline makers. Think of Marcia Clark in FX's Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning series "The People v O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story." After seeing a dramatization of everything the prosecutor went through while trying to convict the former football star of murder back in 1995 — all the ridicule and the stress and the fame she didn't ask for — those "Saturday Night Live" skits don't seem so funny anymore. Neither does Tina Fey's impression of the lawyer making googly eyes at Christopher Darden during the first season of "The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt."
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Will not be surprised to see Tonya Harding attending the Academy Awards.
Who says crime doesn’t pay?
Isn’t Tonya the gal who was beat up by that nasty Nancy Kerrigan?
Am I the only guy who,20 or 30 years ago (can’t recall when she was famous),who thought that she was kinda hot...in a trailer trash kind of way?
Another one who “took a knee.”
She’s a totally unrepentant bitch.
Trailer is not bad. Tonya herself is looking better than she has in awhile. Not guilty.
LOL
Nope. You're not the only guy.
I can’t remember the details but wasn’t she really the one responsible for the attack? I know she was never convicted.
Re: “so prepare to feel guilty about the way Monica Lewinsky’s reputation was forever tarnished, while the president emerged relatively unscathed.”
I certainly hope so. Even more so, how Hillary emerged unscathed from the scandal when she covered for her sleazebag husband’s perpetual infidelities.
I don't think Tonya ever got much money. Today, she's a house painter in Oregon. She'll probably see a little come her way from the film, I'm sure, but she'll never be rich.
Being banned for life from skating was the biggest punishment. She says she would have rather gone to prison.
She’s femspreading on that poster.
Also, isn’t this rewarding the culprit in a violent attack designed to hold a woman back from success???
Whatever else you can say about Tonya, she is truly one of our own, God bless her.
Nancy Kerrigan voted for Clinton. I’ll go with Tonya Harding.
She is on a TV show that we watch when we are on cruise ships....it’s on TRU-TV, World’s DUMBEST CRIMINALS and she and comics and Danny Bonaducci all make very funny comments about the DUMBASS things that people do......HEY...it’s better than watching CNN!
It was kinda funny during production, the director asked for a stuntwoman to perform the triple Axel. The skating consultant replied, there were only six women in history who have ever completed a triple Axel and four of them will be attempting it at the Olympics.
They had to settle for computer effects.
Skating was certainly more interesting when she was around. Her triple axel jump was quite amazing. Occasionally, I re-watch her Olympic free skate when her laces broke. Lots of drama.
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