Paltrow: I'll Never Leave Britain

Movie & TV News ^ | 01/16/2004 | Celebrity News

[BushisTheMan]

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is ruling out the prospect of returning to America to raise her child - because she deems her homeland too dangerous. The Oscar winning beauty - who is pregnant with her husband Chris Martin 's baby - has been living in London since settling down with the Coldplay star, and she has no intention of bringing up their child in a threatening environment. She says, "I worry about brining up a child in America. At the moment there's a weird, over-patriotic atmosphere over there, like, 'We're number one and the rest of the world doesn't matter.' And the guns in school - it's not great."

[SauronOfMordor]

You might wanna check the crime rate in London airhead. Oh wait, you probably have armed bodyguards. You're not one of the little folk.

At some point, some thugs (or jihadis) are going to get so bold that they'll just shoot the bodyguards, grab a celeb, and see how much they can get for her

[tapatio]

Gwyneth who?

[altair]

Even if what you write is true (I don't know or care), would you have prefered it if she had murdered her baby instead of marrying the father?

[LisaMalia]

Well, Keanu's Canadian, so maybe he'll think, "Gee this isn't my country so maybe I'd better keep my trap shut."

If only Michael Mooreon had that opinion.

[NordP]

Paltrow: I'll Never Leave Britain

Americans: Good!

[ggekko]

Stupid woman.

Britain's draconian restrictions on private gun ownership have fostered an atmosphere of rampant criminality in that country. She and her baby would be MUCH safer in any US state that has legalized conceal and carry for individuals. OECD statistics bear this out.

[admiralsn]

Absolutely not. That thought never even entered MY mind. Listen, I made a regretful statement at the beginning of this thread that I have since had removed. I apologized for it, and that is the end of that.

[altair]

Fair enough.

[thesummerwind]

How disappointing. I thought she came from a decent, traditional, loving family.

Just think how stupid this girl is going to feel about 15 years from now!

I really love her acting (she's brilliant, IMO) and I think she is very pretty, and I always thought she was bright enough ........ but I guess I was wrong about the last part!

Gwyneth, those Muslims have plans for England cities and towns too!

[thesummerwind]

I'm not a fan of hers but I liked the cute movie she did with Huey Lewis and the duet they sang, "Cruising Together"

That was FANTASTIC. The whole movie was brilliant. There were a few great duets in that movie!

Duets: - A professional karaoke hustler reconnects with his daughter and a bored suburban businessman turns outlaw karaoke singer, among other plotlines.

[New Horizon]

Paltrow: I'll Never Leave Britain.

New Horizon: Good!

[kcvl]

When the Paltrow family moved to Santa Monica, working along with then Mayor Goldway and Gary Peterson (then with Ecolo-Haul Recycling), Blythe became involved with starting curbside recycling. Going from door to door she explained how a well-run curbside pickup program could eliminate masses of garbage while becoming a moneymaker for their community. She got help from Ed Begley, Jr., who was then a cast member of her husband’s show, St. Elsewhere. He came to Santa Monica to help publicize the need for this program. Ed was also responsible many years later in helping Blythe procure an electric car, a Toyota RAV4, which is powered by energy from her solar home. Ed is Blythe’s environmental hero.

When asked how she incorporates her environmentalism into her daily work life as an actor, she tells that while working on last season’s Presidio Med, she asked whether instead of the Mercedes Benz her character was meant to drive she might instead drive her RAV4, and was delighted when given a “thumbs up.” She was even happier when the cameraman was able to linger for a moment on the “electric vehicle” printed on the side of the car as she drove up into the shot. She says, “there are all kinds of opportunities for environmentally active actors, writers, etc. to sneak in a good idea or two to get out the message subliminally or otherwise,” and she thanks EMA for making this one of their top priorities. At home she confesses to drive family and friends to near distraction with the rules of the house, i.e. recycling, composting, water usage and on and on. “I can’t help it, it’s not a choice it’s an obsession,” she says.

She shared one of her proudest moments with her husband and daughter, when she and Bruce produced with EMA and the Union of Concerned Scientists a series of PSA’s starring their daughter Gwyneth and Cameron Diaz. The message was: “Do all you can to reduce our dependence on Middle Eastern oil.” It was the last project Bruce directed before he died last October.

Her biggest concern now is this country’s massive unconcern about global warming. She is this year’s “National Honorary Chair” for the “Race to Stop Global Warming,” and says, “can we really be so uncaring as a country to refuse to accept our responsibility for global warming when the United States is the largest contributor to this problem? It breaks my heart to read everyday of another environmental law that is being chipped away, eroded by this Administration, and we’re not being provided with incentives by Bush to cut back on our shameful waste of energy. My husband, Bruce, wrote in one PSA that during World War II the government asked everyone to make sacrifices for the common good. We must demand this of our Administration today for we all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future generations.”

People in this country just don't want to sacrifice their gas-guzzlers. I'm proud to say that I have an electric car and solar panels on my roof, so I charge my car completely on my own energy. I'm an active composter and recycler, recycling with many other volunteers in New York and in Santa Monica.

But I'm really proud of these PSAs because they're playing them a lot now on CNN, and we've been told they've been played more than a thousand times so far. I think people are going to start seeing more and more. They talk about "What are you doing to help make us independent of Mid-Eastern oil and what are you doing? Are you turning out your lights?"

[We] have a very cute spot about that: turning out your lights, turning off the water when you brush your teeth. Cameron says, "Oh Gwyneth, I bet you don't turn off the water when you brush your teeth!" And Gwyneth says, "I bet you don't turn the temperature in your house down." And then Gwyneth says, "Oh, go buy yourself a hybrid car!" And Cameron says, "I have one." Then they both turn to the camera and say, "And what are you doing to make us independent?" So, I'm really proud of those. I think that they're good, and I hope they get a lot of play, and I'm proud that my daughter's really very concerned about the environment and doing more.

I think that you have to get this message across with humor, because if you're overly serious about it or preachy, people just tune out, even though you'd think this time…. I don't know why in this country people don't want to make the sacrifices that we have to do to really address the crux of the problems. It's so obvious, isn't it?

We are. [This is] a big throwaway society, and you'd think that after last year we'd have a wake-up call, and we do to some degree. But they're still buying those gas-guzzlers and advertising them like crazy.

When Blythe Danner collects empty soda cans at the airport, it's not because she's fallen on hard times - it's a sign of her commitment to the environment.

"I get a little bit nutty sometimes," the actress tells US Weekly.

In addition to collecting and recycling empty cans at airports - some airlines don't have recycling programs - Danner has gone door-to-door backing environmental causes, and has used an electric car to get around.

"I would pull up behind a car that was polluting, and I felt so holier-than-thou," she said. "I felt that I was in the real car and they were all in horse and buggies."

The actress, who says she's "delighted" that daughter Gwyneth Paltrow shares her environmental concerns, expresses frustration that global warming didn't come up much in the presidential election.

"I mean, people say it isn't a sexy issue. But that isn't true."

As Paltrow, dressed in a sleeveless black sheath with ankle-high black spike-heel boots, addressed about I80 EA members in a New York ballroom, it was clear that she had inherited her mother's political bent as well as her lithe grace. She gave a short speech in which she sheepishly admitted to owning a gas-guzzling sport utility vehicle and said that confessing before EA members was as good as an alcoholic who has fallen off the wagon going to an AA meeting. "I was young and ignorant when I bought it," she said over a chorus of boos. ~And I didn't bought it." she said over a chorus of boos. "And I didn't know then that these monsters add 3 per cent to the level of pollution or that Americans burn 4,000 gallons of fuel per second, creating the lion's share of the greenhouse gases in the world. I promise never to buy one again!"

Later, Paltrow told Us Weekly that she was trained in conservation even before she could speak. "I can't remember a time when my mother wasn't active on behalf of the environment. From the first time I brushed my teeth, I was taught to turn off the water. I was also taught to turn out the lights. To recycle. I remember going to the recycling center when nobody had ever heard of recycling. It's always been very much a part of our family. And I think people are starting to understand that our actions do have consequences for our health."

Danner recalls that Paltrow was a persuasive activist from a very young age. "My daughter and I used to drive around L.A., and when we'd see one of those big trucks with exhaust coming out, we'd hold up a handmade sign that said YOU ARE POLLUTING. Gwyneth could barely talk then. She said 'po-wute.' One day, we pulled up behind this truck with a big, macho, tattooed guy in the cab, and you could see the diesel exhaust pouring out. We stopped at the light next to him. I probably told her to put up our sign. But instead, she rolled down the window and shouted at him, 'You're po-wuting!' And I thought, Oh my God, he's going to climb down out of his cab and turn our car over. But instead, he turned into this little cartoon character. He looked down at her and said, 'I am? Oh, I really ought to get to the garage and get it checked!' She had a way about her even then."

[kcvl]

Paltrow, a disciplined and complex woman who does ashtanga yoga every morning at 4 a.m. while on shoots, keeps a strict macrobiotic diet, and describes her spiritual life as "half WASP, half Jew, with a little Hindu thrown in." She is fiercely protective of the environment and would like to see Ralph Nader become president. But privacy is perhaps Paltrow’s greatest passion. "You are never going to see me walking down a red carpet holding anyone’s hand again, unless it’s my grandma’s or my brother’s," says the star. "I could be married and have three kids, and I still won’t talk about [my personal life]."

[CovenBuster]

Will you hush??? We'll never get rid of them if you keep them informed!!

[AlbionGirl]

My sentiments, exactly. Remember the dress she wore to the Academy Awards a few years back? Blackwell was puking all over the place.

Where there should have been breasts concavities occurred, made more remarkable by the slight flapping in the breeze of the silky material surrounding said concavities, being sucked in by the pull of anti-matter.

[Spirited]

"ten bucks says she thinks Palestinian suicide bombers slaughtering children to "free Palestine from the Zionist occupation" isn't "over patriotic" at all."

Good point! It had not occurred to me but I surely wouldn't bet against that one.
Only Socialist type elites can even afford to live over there and there is adequate protection for them but a daughter doing college studies over there does not feel all so safe and wonderful about that nation. The weakness of the dollar and the exchange rate costs virtually double the per pound tariff.
In Ireland, UK the thievery and thuggery are enormous problems and anyone can bear the brunt of the attacks but tourists and their rental cars are an excellent easy target. The police say it is because of the drug problems.
If this silly liberal favors that atmosphere to one of patriotism she has been deceived by her compatriots and deserves to reap the result of her deception. I am desperately sorry for her child.

[wizardoz]

Hollywood is an echo-chamber. They're a rootless bunch, comfortable only with their own kind. She'll move to London and hang out with Madonna et al., never meeting anyone not pre-approved, never having any idea what's going on around the corner, down the street.

She'll go to safe places through guarded social tunnels.

She'll love being "an ex-pat," having fawners ask her how she manages to be so different from "most Americans." And she'll beam, and shrug with ostentatious modesty.

[Spirited]

Disagree about some of their medical care. In our experience, their alternative care is enviable.
Our pharmaceutical company driven health care is not rated nearly tops in the world scene. What is tops is our emergency care procedure.
My spouse's medical problem caused Georgetown specialists to say they had no answer. Went to England for a diagnostic check up with a German device. They (with no prior inkling of surmise from us) diagnosed and named the rare tropical "bug" along with other problems in less than a minute (whereas it took umpty sputum and blood tests and tropical disease specialists three weeks at Georgetown U. Hosp. to even identify the thing).
Homeopathic treatment got entirely rid of the thing so that one doesn't have to wait for age to weaken the immune system and then administer high flown antibiotics to destroy all the GOOD along with the little bad entities (Georgetown’s answer) and wipe out the whole of the immune system leaving one vulnerable to everything else that is opportunistic
Know quite a number of people who get answers there or in Germany for things that boggle our allopathic system because thinking outside the pharmaceutical company prescribed box is “verboten”

[scotsman1]

Thank you,spirited,our NHS,though not perfect,is a good system.Too many here and too many Americans simply recoil in horror for no other reason than because it is a 'socialist' system.

[ValerieUSA]

*L* The anti-matter suction! Too funny!