Posted on 12/05/2006 2:17:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow insisted Monday that contrary to a recent article in a European newspaper, she feels "proud to be American" and would never compare her homeland unfavorably to Britain.
In a statement issued through People magazine's Web site, Paltrow said she was "deeply upset" by remarks attributed to her by the Portuguese newspaper Diario de Noticias, which quoted the actress as saying: "The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans."
"I never, ever would have said that," said Paltrow, 34, who is married to British rock star Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay, and resides part time with him and their two children in London.
"I feel so lucky to be American," she said. "I feel so proud to be American."
Paltrow denies giving an interview to the Portuguese daily, though she did speak at a news conference in Spanish, according to People.
"This is what I said," Paltrow explained. "I said that Europe is a much older culture, and there's a difference. I always say in America, people live to work, and in Europe, people work to live. There are positives in both."
She added: "Obviously, I need to go back to seventh-grade Spanish."
Paltrow, who won an Academy Award in 1999 as best actress for her role in "Shakespeare in Love," was most recently in theaters in the film "Running with Scissors."
This IS the second time...
http://aggressive-voice.com/zz609.html
"I worry about bringing up a child in America," she said, according to the World Entertainment News Network.
"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,'" Paltrow said. "
Dunno. Had to read some of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's stuff in high school, "Sonnets from the Portuguese". But Liz's stuff was in English.
Gwenneth Paltrow? Hey Gwenneth, how do you pronounce "Dixit Chix" in Portuguese?
How do you say "Bite the hand that feeds me" in Spanish?
see post 21.
She's full of brit.
nothing but a stupid lib/dem see you nest tuesday....covering her ass...because she knows these comments can be a career killer....kist ask the dixie twits or kramer....
she grew up in beverly hills to rich lib/dem hollywood parents..never had to lack for anything...but she has the balls to comment on what america is about.....
let her talk when she next appears in a movie!!!!!
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>>>Well, me personally, I'll give her the benefit of the doubt this time. But if it happens again...
This is "again" for her...
"She says, "I find the English amazing how they got over 7/7. There were no multiple memorials with people sobbing as they would have been in America. There, they are constantly scaring people but at the same time, people think nothing of going to see a therapist."
http://www.thesuperficial.com/archives/2005/12/08/gwyneth_paltrow_to_america_gro.html
Apparntly she doesnt like how we pay homage to innocents murdered in towers either.
Gee, she sounds like Michael Gross last night on H&C.
I think she was afraid of being "chicked."
Well then never mind.
Hmmm ... trying to give an interview in Spanish to a Portuguese newspaper ...
Why don't you just STAY in the U.K., you wh$re!
Well - don't we agree? After all, a majority of voters voted in Democrats last election...
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