Posted on 10/03/2002 10:38:56 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
"I hate Bush,” actress Jessica Lange spewed last week when receiving an award at a film festival in Spain. She added: “I despise him and his entire administration” and that “what Bush intends to do with Iraq is unconstitutional, immoral and illegal.”
The actress best-known for roles in films ten-plus years ago, such as King Kong, Tootsie and Cape Fear, also said she was “ashamed to come from the United States” and, since the “atmosphere in my country is poisonous, intolerable for those of us who are not right-wing,” she thanked the festival organizers for “allowing me to get out” of the U.S. for “a few days.”
Lange’s September 25 comments first came to light in the United States via an item in MSNBC.com’s “Scoop” gossip column by Jeannette Walls, who appears to have lifted her item from a German publication’s account which included some additional obnoxious quotes that Walls left out.
An excerpt from Walls’ October 1 posting about what Lange said when receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Madrid, Spain:
....“I hate Bush. I despise him and his entire administration -- not only because of its international policy, but also the national,” Lange told the audience, according to various reports coming from Spain.
“It makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States -- it is humiliating.”
“Bush stole the elections and since then we have all been suffering the consequences,” Lange told the enthusiastic crowd....
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For the short MSNBC item in full, with a photo of Lange: http://www.msnbc.com/news/815250.asp?0bl=-0&cp1=1
Doing a search in Nexis, I found only one account of Lange’s bombast, a September 26 article in a German publication called Deutsche Presse-Agentur, and it included some quotes not cited by Walls.
An excerpt from the September 26 Deutsche Presse-Agentur piece which carried a Madrid dateline but was unbylined:
....The 53-year-old Oscar-winning actress lambasted the U.S. government at a press conference at the San Sebastian film festival, where she received a lifetime achievement award on Wednesday. "What Bush intends to do with Iraq is unconstitutional, immoral and illegal," Lange was quoted as saying.
"I hate Bush, I despise him and his entire administration. Not only because of its international policy, but also the national. Today it makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States, it is humiliating."
"Bush stole the elections and since then we have all been suffering the consequences. The Iraq plan is absolutely mad, but what I do not understand is that nobody tries to stop it, neither inside nor outside the United States," the actress added.
"The atmosphere in my country is poisonous, intolerable for those of us who are not right-wing, so thank you for inviting me to this festival and allowing me to get out for a few days," Lange said on receiving the Donostia Prize, which was presented by Spanish actor Jose Coronado.
Lange also said she did not think much of Hollywood and preferred to work in Europe. "How could I be interested in Hollywood? Studios only make movies which will earn them a lot of money. Hollywood is ruled by accountants and not film makers."
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Speaking of celebrities threatening to leave America, at a Minnesota Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party fundraiser in Minnesota over the weekend to raise money for the party’s gubernatorial candidate and for far-left U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, actor Alec Baldwin praised Wellstone while he also denounced and mocked the Fox News Channel............(same site)
Is anybody holding a gun to Jessica Lange's head keeping her in America?
Ah yes, Jessica Lange, famed Constitutional scholar. I think I missed the paper she co-authored with Laurence Tribe.
Jessica needs to down in Alec Baldwin's airplane.
I think that went out the window with Sasheen Littlefeather and marlon Brando.
Any good Freeper have a list of quotes of this type by "celebs" that we can refer to ?
Just a guess here, but who would pay for an actor to attend such an event? the organizer or the actor himself?
My guess is the organizer and ole Jessica is just too damned cheap to leave on her own.
Psst....don't worry, Jessica, this won't hurt your non-career at all. Nobody will pay you to take your clothes off anymore......
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