Charlize gains weight, gets ugly, snares an Oscar and never even mentions

[henslee]

the real life victims (johns or not) of the woman whom she portrayed, nor does she mention anything about battered women or the circumstances that pushes such monsters over the edge. I am sorry, she is just one more self centered me-me-me phony egoist. Me, I'm a Patricia Clarkson, kind of guy.

[LSdemocrat]

1. Umm, the Oscars aren't meant to be a soapbox.

She's an actress. She found a role that she thought would be interesting and played it well. That's all. Just because she refuses to become a spokesperson for something one of her characters represents doesn't make her an egomaniac.

[joeybee12]

2. Disagree, it shows she's a shallow, talentless witch...if you supposedly

inhabit the character of such a person, you can't help but be profoundly moved, and want to talk about it.

Proves her acting is over-rated, and she got lucky.

Once again, the Oscars blow it big-time wehn giving out the Best Actress award.

[henslee]

4. Never said she should become the Jerry Lewis of battered prostitutes...

Nor get on a soapbox. But her happy "I did, Mom" moment" was achieved on the back of a true and sad story. It struck me as inappropriate and ghoulish not to at least be a bit more senstive no matter how giddy she was.

[LSdemocrat]

6. She had just won an Oscar.

It was probably the greatest single moment of her professional career. She has every right to be happy. The role she played to win the Oscar has no bearing on how she should act upon winning the award.

If anything her winning the Oscar will cause more people to see the movie.

[henslee]

7. You said it... She is a careerist. Sometimes though, starlets...

can suprise us and be more than that.

[Sticky]

3. I was thinking the same thing....

the night she won the gOLDEN gLOBE. And what's with...."I'd like to thank my director" line. It all sounded very shallow.

Shades of Norma Desmond, I'd say. ;-)

[mmm]

5. Very very shallow.

She scared me.

[WilliamPitt]

8. A shallow Hollywood person

Stop the presses.

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. Heh...

:thumbsup:

[SouthernDaisy]

14. wait

that remark implies condemnation of most actors/actresses....Will, you respect some of them, don't ya?

[CanuckAmok]

19. My assistant told me I should be offended by that, William!

She's working on a retort. D'ya mind holding for a mo'?

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

10. "Charlize gains weight, gets ugly"

Excuse me?

She's gorgeous!!!

[asthmaticeog]

12. You didn't see the movie, then?

To play Aileen Wurnous (sp?), she pulled a DeNiro-in-Raging-Bull and drastically altered her appearance without prosthetics - she gained weight, among other things. She looked like hell - as well anyone playing that part should.

[dae]

11. From what I've read about her family life in South Africa she

and her mother are lucky to be here themselves. Had her own problems with an abusive alcoholic father.

[SouthernDaisy]

13. She's spoken about the part before

in a tv interview....how she researched the part/her character. She spoke of sympathy that she had for the woman and what drove her to that sort of madness.

Charlize is NOT heartless. Perhaps she had time limitations on accepting the Oscar? I thought the degree she valued and saluted her mother last night was touching. Yes, it was too bad she couldn't have shared more about the person she portrayed last night. Please just don't think her heartless.

I just don't know if I'd be that proud to be from South Africa.

[Fleshdancer]

15. winning an award for glamourizing a serial killer is insult enough...

for the families of the victims. If it were my son who was murdered, the last thing I would want is for some actress who played my son's killer in a movie and winning awards for it talking about me and my family as if I should be greatful. Fuck that.

I can see how real life yuck can be entertaining on some levels, but for the sake of humanity, show the horror from the perspective of the victims, not the killers.

[bhunt70]

16. I wonder how many people get on their soapboxes when they get promotions.

[dorktv]

17. I live on my soapbox.

[Fleshdancer]

18. hey, me too! It's nice and big. Very roomy.

:)

[JustJoe]

20. "When Theron was 15, her mother, Gerda, shot and killed

her alcoholic father, Charles, in self-defense
when he came home in a drunken rage threatening
to shoot his wife and daughter."

I'd never heard that before.... from LA Times
this morn, "Quick Takes" column in Calendar section, p. 2.