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Gwyneth Paltrow Denies Slamming America (Freep A Poll)
AOL Entertainment News ^ | December 5, 2006 | Reuters Staff

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."


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KEYWORDS: americabashing; antiamerican; eatacookie; hollywood; lieingtwig; ungrateful
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To: pcottraux

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. "


21 posted on 12/05/2006 2:33:29 PM PST by beansox
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To: SF Republican
very fluent in Spanish - what does that have to do with Portuguese?

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?

22 posted on 12/05/2006 2:33:48 PM PST by Ole Okie
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To: sirchtruth

see post 21.


23 posted on 12/05/2006 2:34:03 PM PST by beansox
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She's full of brit.


24 posted on 12/05/2006 2:35:43 PM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: sirchtruth

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2004/01/21/the_weird_world_of_gwyneth_paltrow


25 posted on 12/05/2006 2:36:09 PM PST by beansox
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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!!!!!


26 posted on 12/05/2006 2:37:05 PM PST by hnj_00
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Do you belive that Paltrow was misquoted?"

I betcha lots of ppl don't understand this question. Might think it asks if she said a bad thing.

I'm no brainiac but lack of reading comprehension and illiteracy run rampant these days.

Ha! The poll misspelled "believe".


27 posted on 12/05/2006 2:38:55 PM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: pcottraux

>>>Well, me personally, I'll give her the benefit of the doubt this time. But if it happens again...

This is "again" for her...


28 posted on 12/05/2006 2:40:54 PM PST by Keith in Iowa (Liberals: People whose relationship to reality appears to be somewhat tenuous.)
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To: sirchtruth

"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.


29 posted on 12/05/2006 2:41:35 PM PST by beansox
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30 posted on 12/05/2006 2:42:29 PM PST by Aetius
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To: beansox

Gee, she sounds like Michael Gross last night on H&C.


31 posted on 12/05/2006 2:43:19 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think she was afraid of being "chicked."


32 posted on 12/05/2006 2:43:50 PM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: fabriclady
My wife is kinda sore at me because I refuse to take her to a movie. I just can't give one plug nickel to these loathsome "actors." But people still look up to these fools with goo goo eyes.
33 posted on 12/05/2006 2:45:58 PM PST by 4yearlurker (Merry Christmas to all!~)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
34 posted on 12/05/2006 2:48:12 PM PST by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: Keith in Iowa; beansox

Well then never mind.


35 posted on 12/05/2006 2:48:25 PM PST by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hmmm ... trying to give an interview in Spanish to a Portuguese newspaper ...


36 posted on 12/05/2006 2:49:36 PM PST by Chi-townChief
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To: DogByte6RER
Here is that close-up of Gwyneth Paltrow's brain... Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
37 posted on 12/05/2006 2:49:37 PM PST by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
As Brad Pitt once said to Ms. Paltrow: "WILL YOU JUST SHUT UP!"
38 posted on 12/05/2006 2:51:09 PM PST by Chi-townChief
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why don't you just STAY in the U.K., you wh$re!


39 posted on 12/05/2006 3:00:25 PM PST by CommieCutter
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To: L98Fiero

Well - don't we agree? After all, a majority of voters voted in Democrats last election...


40 posted on 12/05/2006 3:05:21 PM PST by graf008 ("My most important function on the Supreme Court is to tell the majority to take a walk." -Scalia)
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