Posted on 09/15/2003 5:10:31 AM PDT by SJackson
Upon crossing the Atlantic, American celebrities do as the Euros do. They parrot Euro mockery of the country that has handed them their wealth.
Earlier this year, the Dixie Chicks, three women with one outburst, set foot on British soil and transformed into Euro snobs. At their London concert, Natalie Maines, said the Chicks "were ashamed that the president of the United States of America is from Texas."
Goldie Hawn's daughter, Kate Hudson, filming in gay París, opened fire on the country that made her a millionaire by 20, "Sometimes I'll be walking down the street and I'll hear some American and I'll go, 'Of course they hate us, of course they can't stand us.' We're the most annoying, boisterous creatures in the world. I mean we come in and we eat mounds of food, and we're like, 'where's our kaachip [sic] for our French fries. I'm like 'Shut up!'"
A Valley girl Moliere.
Johnny Depp, former beau to convicted shoplifter Winona Ryder, also has Euro disdain for the U.S. He lives in France with his wife and 2 children because he wants his children to see the U.S. from afar "like it's a kind of a toy - a broken toy maybe. Investigate a little bit, check it out, get this feeling and then get out."
However, he was just getting warmed up with this thought in an interview with a German magazine. When he heard about the House cafeteria renaming French fries "Freedom fries" because of the French refusal to back the war in Iraq, "Nothing made me happier than when I read that - grown men and women in positions of power in the United States government . . . I was ecstatic because they revealed themselves as idiots."
For his grand finale, "America is dumb, is something like a dumb puppy that has big teeth - that can bite and hurt you, aggressive."
Mr. Depp has since said, "I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country and for this I am eternally grateful." He apologized and said his quotes were "radically out of context."
Context on paragraphs? Mr. Depp, one of many spineless in the entertainment world, joined Hudson, Maines and others to genuflect on European soil.
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Pssssttt... Johnny Boy... take a lesson from this. When you're outside of the country and somebody asks you what you think about this country, just say that in the first place instead of coming up with this "dumb puppy" crap.
Otherwise, a lot of your fans may start to think you're just another overpaid jerk with a big mouth.
No. I just think he should be a little more self-regulated. He has job that depends, to some large degree, on how well the American public accepts him as a public figure.
He's a pretty talented actor, and until he decided to go to France and become outspokenly critical of America, his skill as an actor was all people had to judge him on. Now we have something else to think about when we hear his name.
When he badmouths his country to the AmericaPhobes in the foreign press, he alienates up to half of his potential American audience. Unless he intends to stay in France and make those dippy art films, that could cost him his future as a top drawing actor.
Usually, celebrities who suddenly pop up as political pundits do so as a way to revive interest in them after their career has peaked. Those who do it at the top of their game (like the Dixie Chicks) often find they lose so many fans that their career peaks the moment before the open their unqualified yaps to expound on matters political.
LOL Not really - I'd never get the guns past the airport.
A Valley girl Moliere.
How 'bout a little grammar with those fries, Ms. Illiterate Millionaire?
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