Posted on 01/27/2005 12:03:46 PM PST by pissant
"3 white grandparents and 1 black grandparent. This means she is black?"
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Only if it works to your advantage, such as being selected for undeserved awards by a bunch of liberal panty-waists.
Whew. Thanks, you two. I would have understood if her name had been 'Ann Thrope'.
That is, like, SOOOOOOO last millennium.
This is the 21st century. Everyone has a right to my opinion. If I want your opinion, I'll beat it out of you.
Shalom.
Damn, I hope your husband ain't a woman. Either that or put your eye out is already missing an eyeball and can't tell the diff.
I have immense respect for Shelby Foote, the best commentator on Ken Burns' Civil War documentary. I see your point.
If you saw her on the street, not knowing who she was, would you say she was black or white? The term "biracial" is relatively new, before that anyone with any visible black ancestry was considered black period.
My husband is a USA Major(retired) who did 3 tours in VietNam. He is slim, but he is all man. Look at those shoulders!
The fact that Berry, who is half-black, made such a big fuss about getting an award from her peers is the issue. It's not society, hell, the top people in government are black. It's the liberal entertainment industry she should have clearly aimed her attack at. But her speech made it sound like it was society, which is ridiculous. This makes me want to keep reading Anne's book. I started reading and the, for some reason put it aside and forgot about it. I think I'll pick it up again!
YassMaaaaam, Miss Ann
I thought all the acting in Monster's ball was incredible. I love Billy Bob Thorton. I can watch anything he's in. If you want a real treat, rent the movie BANDITS with Billy Bob, Bruce Willis and Cate Blanchett (Who is the best actress of our time). It's such a fun movie and Billy Bob's performance is INCREDIBLE!!!!
Here's Ann's original column. In my Opinion, a bullseye, in addition to being hilarious.
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Ann Coulter March 29, 2002
I Like Black People Too, Julia!
I tuned in late and consequently can speak only to the last three hours of Halle Berry's acceptance speech at the Academy Awards last Sunday. But inasmuch as she engaged in wild race-baiting to get her Oscar, her expressions of shock were not very believable. She had spent weeks complaining about one time she did not get a role because of her color. It was the part of a forest ranger. Arnold Schwarzenegger probably has trouble getting cast as a ballet dancer, too.
And yet still, somehow, white guilt worked on Hollywood liberals! Berry had successfully mau-maued her way to a best actress award and then acted surprised.
It's interesting that Berry makes such a big deal about being black. She was raised by her white mother who was beaten and abandoned by her black father. Clearly, Berry has calculated that it is more advantageous for her acting career to identify with the man who abandoned her rather than the woman who raised her.
Demanding that everyone marvel at her accomplishment, Berry gushed: "This moment is so much bigger than me." Whenever people say something is not about them it's always just about them. This is a turn of phrase meant to remind the audience of the importance and beauty of them. Berry said her triumph was a victory "for every nameless, faceless woman of color who now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened."
Yes, at long last, the "glass ceiling" had been broken. Large-breasted, slightly cocoa women with idealized Caucasian features finally have a chance in Hollywood! They will, however, still be required to display their large breasts for the camera and to discuss their large breasts at some length with reporters.
Thus, Berry has explained her philosophy on nude scenes, saying: "(I)f it's what the character would do, then I'd use my body in any way that would best serve that character." This, she said, is her "strong belief." But what does it mean, exactly? Don't all people undress sometimes? All people pick their noses, but vapid Hollywood actresses don't insist on showing us that in every movie on the grounds that it is "what the character would do."
In fact, Berry's unseemly enthusiasm for displaying "these babies," as she genteelly refers to her breasts, reduces roles for any women who lack Berry's beauty queen features. If movies must include soft porn scenes, the audience is entitled to demand performers with sexual characteristics they would like to see in a soft porn movie. Somehow, characters played by Whoopi Goldberg are never the sorts of characters who would do things in real life like undress or have sex. And by the way, Billy Bob Thorton isn't cutting it for the female audience.
When they are young, nubile Hollywood actresses all utter the same idiotic cliches about the artistic value of nudity in movies. Then they expect us to feel sorry for them when parts dry up after they become old and start to sag. Live by the breast, die by the breast.
But Berry's self-aggrandizing pap was merely a footnote to the main theme of the awards ceremony, which was: Julia Roberts loves all the black brothers! It was a point she felt could not be made too often or with too much condescension. Her presentation of the best actor award began with the exciting revelation that she had just kissed Sidney Poitier!
Having once famously proclaimed she did not want to live in a world in which Denzel Washington had not won an Oscar for best actor, she preceded her announcement of his award saying, "I love my life!" This was about her, not him. It was her personal triumph over racism. The only patronizing remark Roberts skipped was to note that Washington and Poitier were "articulate."
After Washington accepted his award, Roberts leapt on him and would not let go. It was as if he had grown some sort of exotic Julia Roberts wart. Not only Washington, but, more urgently, his wife deserves great credit for their forbearance. Whatever indignities Hollywood has visited on blacks in the past, it would be hard to top this.
Whenever white liberals are in trouble, they always run to the blacks. Immediately after the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, Monica went to a Washington Wizards game where she hoisted some poor unsuspecting black girl onto her lap in full view of the cameras. Bill Clinton dropped the subtlety and dashed off to Africa. After his abomination of a presidency, Jimmy Carter built housing in Harlem.
Apparently, Oscars night was Hollywood's shot at patronizing blacks to generate goodwill -- perhaps as wartime penance for its long-standing hatred of America.
It's too bad Denzel Washington's Oscar was tainted by Hollywood's self-serving night of condescension. He deserved that award. And he deserves a special award for not punching Julia Roberts in the mouth.
I dunno, Bandits was a kind of watered down Jules and Jim. Cate Blanchett made the movie for me, though--she's a good redhead. She's not the type of woman I usually go for but there is something really, REALLY attractive about her.
comedian wannabe - Jack Black. he thinks he is a John belusihi reincarnate.
Ok, I'm the dumb one. What does "mau-mauing" mean?
Well if he is a John Belushi wannabe, then he should be pushing daisies in the next couple of years. Like John & Chris Farley.
Ok, I'm the dumb one. What does "mau-mauing" mean?
'Mau Mau' was a secret anti-white society in Kenya. 'Mau-mauing' means employing race-based intimidation against whites. Ann's use of that expression is what Kane has in mind when he says Ann 'all but' accused Berry of terrorism.
Halle had a nose job. I recall that much. Denzel is a closet republican I'm convinced.
well, thank you very much, MisterKnowItAll.
Ann Coulter does travel over the line sometimes. Don't get me wrong: I get a kick out of her columns and her books, and love to listen to her speak....most times.
She's pretty and smart (her taste in clothes could use a little help, but I guess you guys don't notice that).
We do notice her clothes. It's the type we want our wives to wear, but they never do. Wife has a full drawer of sexy lingerie, but only wears her flannel PJs. Such is life.
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