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| | Is Jennifer Aniston going to apologize for using the r word' That was Thursday. | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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On Friday I wrote a kind of editorial lambasting Jennifer Aniston for using the word “retard” in reference to herself during an interview on Regis & Kelly on Thursday. Taken along with all I’ve seen from her in interviews, her casual use of that cruel word was the last straw for me. Over two days have passed and Aniston has not issued any kind of apology or explanation. Is her publicist, Stephen Huvane, on vacation? How could her people fail to see the need to address this in a timely way? They were all over Bill O’Reilly’s ass when he criticized her for some throwaway comments on single motherhood. This is a PR issue, and it should have been dealt with on Friday at the latest.
I was inspired to write this by a comment that the people from the Special Olympics made on the earlier Jennifer Aniston story. It’s the same statement that they’ve made about this to multiple outlets, but I’m glad they visited us and it reminded me that Aniston still hasn’t issued a response. I also finally visited their website, the r-word, which asks people not to use that word and tries to help us understand how hurtful it is. Here’s what they wrote, which is worth re-reading even if you’ve already seen it:
Special Olympics is always disappointed when the R-word is used, especially by someone who is influential to society. The pervasive use of the R-word, even in an off the cuff self-deprecating manner, dehumanizes people with intellectual disabilities and perpetuates painful stereotypes that are a great source of suffering and negative stigma … We hope everyone will take our pledge to stop using the R-word and promote the inclusion and acceptance of people with intellectual disabilities at www.r-word.org.
[From Comment on Celebitchy]
Sarah Palin has a son with Down’s Syndrome and she was understandably angry at Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel for using that word earlier this year. (It’s too bad she doesn’t have a black kid or maybe she would get that the “n” word is just as bad.) Emmanuel used it behind closed doors in a meeting, but it was reported in the Washington Post and seemed to be accurate. Jennifer Aniston said it in an interview and there’s video! When you do a search on Jennifer Aniston, one of the Google auto-fill recommendations is “Jennifer Aniston r word.”
Emmanuel had a private meeting with representatives from the Special Olympics and apologized. (Which Obama also did after comparing his bowling ability to the Special Olympics.) The people at the Special Olympics would surely welcome a sit down with Aniston. Is she ever going to acknowledge her mistake or try to rectify it? Yes it was a mistake and I think it’s clear from everything we know about her that she didn’t know any better. Now that she (presumably) does, is she going to own up to it and try to make it better? Or did she think she could ignore and it would just go away? If she’s not careful, the same thing could happen to her career. As I’ve said before, I to judge celebrities based on what they say and do. In this case Aniston’s lack of a response has revealed a lot to me. I would like to see a concerted effort from her to make it right. She’s not holding a political office, but she’s an international celebrity and people pay attention to the things she says.
If you’d like to learn more about this issue, I encourage you to visit the YouTube channel for the Special Olympics’ campaign on this issue. Their website is r-word.org.
Carl Lewis, Miss Teen USA, Evander Hollyfield and Alonzo Mourning on the r word (they also have videos with Joe Jonas and other celebrities, but this one explains it better)
Johnny Knoxville
Special Olympics message
And here’s a profile of a Special Olympics athlete from South Africa. I just found it pretty moving and wanted to post it.
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She has been non-stop promoting ?The Switch? as of late, and hopefully Jennifer Aniston can catch a break as the highly-anticipated film hits theatres today (Friday, August 20).
The dramedy flick, which also stars Jason Bateman, surrounds Aniston?s unmarried 40-year old character getting pregnant using a turkey baster. Seven years later, she reunites with Bateman?s character who finally confesses to switching out the sperm sample.
The ?Marley and Me? actress made an appearance on ?The Daily Show? last night to sit down for a chat with host Jon Stewart.
Reminiscing back to the mid-90s, Stewart said, "You were adorable! I asked you out, we went out! To an Italian restaurant" in Manhattan's East Village, he said. "And it was lovely"
He then joked sheepishly: "You brought so many of your friends. I remember thinking 'Wow, she's so excited to be on a date with me that she wants me to get to know her posse.'"
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| | Did Jennifer Aniston just jump the shark? | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Yesterday Jennifer Aniston used the word “retard” on Regis & Kelly. (The Huffington Post has the video here.) She used it in reference to herself during yet another painful and awkward interview in which she haltingly tried to get through her talking points. “Retard” is considered cruel slang by many, particularly disability advocates who are trying to discourage the use of the word. I thought this was common knowledge, especially after the scandal earlier this year when chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel used the term behind closed doors and it got repeated and attributed to him. In order to know this you’d have to pay attention to the news and be aware of events outside your circle of friends, family, dogs and coworkers. Given how little Aniston seems to have to talk about in most interviews, I would assume that she rarely does this.
I try to give Jennifer Aniston a chance, I really do, but I don’t think she’s an interesting person. I’m also very disappointed in her for using a word she probably considered funny and harmless when most all public figures know better. This woman is 41 years old and an international celebrity. She is a multi-millionaire with countless resources at her disposal yet all she has to talk about in interviews are her photo shoots, home, and movies. She’s also almost incapable of carrying on a decent conversation about just about anything that doesn’t directly relate to her or her very meager interests.
Please watch some of Aniston’s recent interviews and point out where you think I’m wrong. She thinks she’s doing charity work by going to Cabo every year for God’s sake!
I’ve given Aniston a break up until this point as I consider her relatively harmless. Sure she’s not the brightest bulb but what has she done to hurt anyone? She also never deserved to be pulled into that whole triangle business and in no way do I agree with the way the tabloids have lambasted her for her personal life post-split. I just don’t think she deserves to be a major movie star. She certainly doesn’t handle it with a fraction of the grace, wit or intelligence that we’ve come to expect from other celebrities in her league. She also doesn’t seem to have the chops to do much more than TV sitcoms. Now that she’s gone and clumsily used a word that most people in her business realize is off limits I’m sure her PR flack will issue a decent response and apology. We’ll know for sure that it didn’t come from Aniston though. She’s not capable of consistently stringing a few words together to promote films for which she’s paid millions of dollars.
Now bring it on. As Kaiser just told me, “Welcome to the dark side. We have better drinks.”
These are photos of Aniston at The Daily Show yesterday. Kaiser told me I should add news of her appearance there, but I can’t even. Credit: Fame Pictures
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| | Jennifer Aniston's Boring Upskirt Pictures | | Added 14 years ago | Source: HollywoodTuna |
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Leave it to boring Jennifer Aniston to ruin any possibility of seeing her lady parts up her skirt while she gets out of an SUV, The woman just won’t do anything naughty. My penis has completely retreated back into my body looking at this crap. I don’t get it because she’s a
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| | Jennifer Aniston Dazzles at the Daily Show | | Added 14 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Back out for another promotional stop, Jennifer Aniston was all smiles as she arrived at the the Daily Show with Jon Stewart in New York City on Thursday (August 19).
The former "Friends" star looked simply stunning in a cute black and white frock with tassel ends and grey peep toe heels as she waved to fans and photogs lining the entrance.
Earlier in the day, Miss Aniston stopped by "Good Morning America" - where she addressed the recent news that celebrity stylist Maria Gabriela Perez had scanned numerous actresses, including herself, out of $280,000.
She said, "We had a situation that was not cool so I just stopped going to her."
Jen added that her loss "wasn't to the extent of some of the others named," adding, "I knew something like this would eventually happen because there's no way you can get away with that. It's terrible."
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Surely Bill O?Reilly will have something to say about this - in a recent interview Jennifer Aniston referred to herself as a ?retard.?
The usually composed, well-spoken actress slipped during her visit on ?Live With Regis and Kelly on Thursday (August 19) when explaining what it was like dressing up as Barbara Streisand for the September issue of Harper?s Bazaar.
"You're playing dress up!" Regis told her, to which Aniston replied, "Yes, I play dress up! I do it for a living, like a retard!"
Peter Berns, CEO of The Arc (a nonprofit advocate for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities), told Us Magazine it was "extraordinarily offensive and inappropriate."
"Frankly, someone in her position ought to know better," he said. "She is using language that is offensive to a large segment of the population in this country. We estimate that there are probably in excess of 5 million people in the country with intellectual disabilities, and when you think about all of them, their family members and friends, you're talking about tens of millions of people who find the use of that term to be really offensive. Every time folks hear that word, it kind of reminds them of all the discrimination and oppression they've experienced in their lives. Even if it wasn't intended to insult them, that is the effect of it."
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| | Jennifer Aniston probably thinks thesauruses are 'not cool' too (update) | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Okay, yes, I still use the word ?cool?. Usually not as a genuine enthusiastic adjective to describe something I like (?Mad Men is so cool?), but more to say something is okay by me, but I don?t really feel that strongly about it, honestly (?Sure, CB, it?s cool if I work alone this afternoon.?) When I?m describing something I really like, I use words like: the bomb, awesome, epic, insane, bodacious, and variations on -tastic, like asstastic or dragtastic, etc. When I?m describing something I hate, I use words like tragic, busted, budget, terrible, horrible, f-cked up, sh-tty, horrendous, FUBAR, etc. I don?t think it would occur to me to use ?not cool? or ?uncool?. But I am not Jennifer Aniston.
So Jennifer was asked about this scandal that broke yesterday - her former hair stylist or whatever was stealing her credit card information (the lady did it to a bunch of people). And all Aniston could muster up was ?We had a situation that was not cool so I just stopped going to her.? Aniston famously referred to Angelina?s 2007 Vogue interview as uncool - ?That stuff about how she couldn’t wait to get to work every day? That was really uncool.? Someone get this chick a thesaurus, please.
Jennifer Aniston wasn’t surprised when she heard the news that Beverly Hills beauty salon owner Maria Gabriella Perez was charged with fraud for ripping off credit card information from her A-list clients.
Aniston, 41, said Thursday on ABC’s Good Morning America that she stopped working with Perez, 51, about five years ago.
“We had a situation that was not cool so I just stopped going to her,” Aniston said. “I knew something like this would eventually happen because there’s no way you can get away with that. It’s terrible.”
In addition to Aniston, Perez’s celeb clients include Halle Berry, Melanie Griffith and Anne Hathaway. According to a police affidavit, Perez stole $214,000 from actress Liv Tyler alone over a five-month period last year.
Aniston said her damage “wasn’t to the extent of these other girls.”
If convicted on two counts of fraud, Perez (due in federal court Thursday) could spend up to 25 years behind bars.
[From Us Weekly]
Wow, this woman kept credit card info from five years ago? I was looking for a receipt that I lost yesterday! Eh. Seriously though, this woman sounds like a piece of work and I?m glad she got caught. That?s sketchy as hell that she got away with it for so long. Here?s the video of Aniston?s GMA interview. She doing weird stuff with her face and it?s freaking me out a little:
She also talked about the Bill O?Reilly stuff a little bit more, and this time she had a better-prepared sound byte. At first she was sarcastic, saying: ?I was actually glorifying 12-year-olds going out there and getting knocked up and doing it by themselves because that?s what I preach.? Then she said, ?I just felt it was begging for a response. People say things about me all the time and you go, ?Oh whatever,? But this was just not about me, it was also insulting women who are out there doing this on their own.? You know she doesn?t say ?oh, whatever.? She says, ?Oh, uncool.?
UPDATE: F-ck me, Jennifer also went on Regis & Kelly this morning and she used the word “retard”. Seriously, someone buy her a dictionary and a thesaurus. Here it in context: Regis was talking about her Babs Streisand homage and he said, “You’re playing dress up!” Her respose: “Yes, I play dress up! I do it for a living, like a retard!” Advocates are now bashing her - here’s one dude’s take on the situation. She should seriously apologize for this. I hope she does.
At first I thought this was just a plain shirtdress, but that dark trim is fug. It looks so dated!
Aniston on August 19, 2010. Credit: Fame.
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| | Jennifer Aniston addresses the tabloid rumors on Chelsea Lately (photo update) | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Yesterday we ran a story about some convoluted and frankly dumb comments that Jennifer Aniston made on the red carpet in response to the mini-scandal over Bill O’Reilly disagreeing with a statement she made on single motherhood. I worded the title kind of vaguely, though, and I think a lot of people assumed the story was old as it didn’t get a lot of comments. (As would a story that was titled, say “Aniston makes dumb rambling comments about Bill O’Reilly,” which is basically what she did. I didn’t want people to yell at me though.)
Last night Aniston was on Chelsea Lately. Handler is a buddy of Aniston’s and I’ve noticed that whenever she’s interviewed by someone she knows and/or is comfortable with she does fine and just rolls with the punches. Otherwise she can give kind of halting interviews. She had a lot of fun with Chelsea and together they discussed some of the silly recent rumors we’ve heard about Aniston from the tabloids. I’ve included links to the stories they’re covering in the quoted text below. (Handler’s quotes are in bold.)
You’ve been pregnant like 8 or 9 times this year [in the tabloids]
I think the best was ‘Yes comma, I am having a baby’ [Ed note: that was in OK! and it was an exclamation point not a comma]
You go out to dinner with somebody and then you’re penetrating, or then like you had your trainer living with you so then you’re a lesbian.
Hey that was an original one at least.
So your trainer was living with you?
No!
Because my pilates trainer lives with me and everytime somebody makes fun of me I go ‘Jennifer Aniston lives with her trainer.”
No! That’s sweet!…
Then there was a story about us, that we go work out together at Crunch in West Hollywood, then we have “vodka fueled” fiestas
[Laughs] Why don’t we ever do that?
We will.
Yes, we were going to go out on the town and you decided we were going to go find men together
We were going to go out together and then you blew me off saying you were on a set in Hawaii filming a movie…
What, no “reunion” or “back in touch with Brad” stories? Those are probably bunk too. Aniston also explained how she created her self-named perfume. She said she worked with professionals and smelled different scents for hours at a time until “you’re high as a kite.” When Chelsea asked if Jennifer brought anything in as examples of smells she liked, she said “yeah, I brought like a candle, and a hair serum and a lotion.”
“Cause I read in a magazine you brought a dirty sneaker.”
“Who wrote that is stupid.”
It was a fun interview and I enjoy Aniston when she’s just chatting and isn’t trying to explain some point that’s lost to her. It’s not surprising to hear that so many of the stories about her are false. She only bothers to debunk them when someone asks her or her publicist, but at least she isn’t on Twitter telling us her every move like some celebrities.
The Switch is out this weekend.
In other Aniston news, Kaiser pointed me to these very busted-looking photos of Aniston [via D-Listed], said to be her unretouched Bazaar shoot. She’s normally very pretty, but this light just makes her look awful. I’ll say something nice - she’s not Botoxed to hell at least.
Update: Here are some photos of Aniston outside Good Morning America today. Credit: Fame Pictures
Video via ONTD
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| | Jennifer Aniston Says Good Morning America | | Added 14 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Stepping out for a promotional appearance, Jennifer Aniston was spotted arriving at ABC studios in New York City this morning (August 19).
The ?Bounty Hunter? babe looked to be in good spirits as she headed inside to talk about her new film ?The Switch? on ?Good Morning America.?
In a recent interview with MTV, Aniston talked about the hilariously awkward scene of ?basting? in the film, out tomorrow (August 20th).
"Well, you can't really give that away. Because that's one of those scenes in the movie, when I say I laughed out loud, I laughed out loud [when I read it in the script]. It's one of those things where you go, 'They did not just ... that did not just happen. Really?' And then, 'How is he going to get out of this one?' It's again, one of the things that made me laugh hysterically about this movie."
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| | Jennifer Aniston is either with John Mayer, a mystery 'wealthy banker' or no one | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Can I take off my Brangaloonie tin foil cap and my beige potato sack smock for a moment? Because I?d really like to compliment Jennifer Aniston on something. Her film (jointly with Jason Bateman), The Switch, is coming out on Friday, tomorrow, and we?ve yet to see some well-timed, grainy, sketchy photo-op of Jennifer on some ?date? with someone high-profile. There has been no new boyfriend rolled out in People Magazine. There?s been very little in the way of speculation ever since that Christopher Gartin stuff went down last month. This is progress, for real. She?s selling her film without selling a romance in her private life. She?s also sold the film without giving half a dozen interviews where she spouts New Age bumper stickers - PROGRESS!
So it almost kills my Aniston buzz to read this week?s Star Magazine story - according to their sources, Aniston might be back with John Mayer. Oh, girl. NO. According to The Frisky and Jezebel (who have coverage of Star?s story), Jennifer and John reunited after they spent ?months? reconnecting on the phone, having ?deep talks,? and after he ?wooed her with gifts.? Finally, Aniston gave it up when he sent a private jet for her to come meet him in New York. They met at the Four Seasons in New York, and John serenaded her as he strummed his guitar. And they ordered room service too. Apparently, he apologized for being a jerk, etc. She?s been wearing the Rolex he allegedly gave her, and a source says, ?No one?s seen Jen this happy in a while.? So? is the reason we haven?t seen Aniston out and about with a new guy because she?s been shame-f-cking Mayer? Eh. I want to think she?s smarter than that, honestly.
And maybe she is getting smart - some random internet report (that?s being picked up everywhere) claims that Aniston is now dating some random ?wealthy European banker.? Something about her finally wanting a relationship with someone low-key and out of the spotlight. That would be my recommendation for her honestly, and if this ?wealthy European banker? is the real deal, it will be interesting to see how it plays out. I think she would work well with someone inside the industry, but just not an actor - like a producer or agent or screenwriter. Someone with a flexible schedule with similar interests, you know?
Header: Aniston on August 16, 2010. Credit: WENN. Vintage Mayer & Aniston in Miami in May 2008, credit: Bauer-Griffin.
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