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| | Julia Louis-Dreyfus: 'Veep' can't compete with Trump, 'what an idiot' | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus appeared on Ellen yesterday to promote her new film with Will Ferrell, Downhill. While she was there, Ellen asked her if she had thoughts about the Super Bowl outcome. Julia said her sons were crushed because they are, ?huge 49er fans,? but she?s not a big football fan so it didn?t make that much of an impact on her. However, what did stand out to her, was the ignorance of our current president, with his imbecilic tweet placing the Chiefs in the wrong state. Julia said that as much as she loved Veep, their stories could never compete with the idiot who runs our country.
[From ellentube via Just Jared]
The part about the Super Bowl and #45 comes on at 4:15, but this is what she said:
I am not a football lover, so I was doing other things. However, I did see the tweet Donald Trump put out and Claire McCaskill, former senator from Missouri, retweeting it. It is so extraordinary. ?Great state of Kansas.? Kansas City, Kansas. Yeah, he really gets this country. Wow, I thought that was absolutely incredible. Anyway, that tweet was up for about 12 minutes, live. Then it was deleted. And I have to tell you, if I were doing Veep right now, it would be really fun to script those 12 minutes between him launching the tweet and it getting deleted. What an idiot. Idiot! It?s so humiliating.
Doesn?t it make you miss doing Veep, though?
Well, it does, and it doesn?t. I mean, I have to say, I think he?s doing a better job of our show, except to say that it, in fact, isn?t even remotely funny. But it does make me miss it. It was super fun. It was just hard to compete with that crap.
I, for one, would contribute to whatever Kickstarter was out there to get Julia to script those 12 minutes. They could just do a short and post it to Twitter. If you watched the show, you can picture exactly which characters where in the room when Selena was told she?d tweeted the wrong state and who was flying down the hall to do damage control. It would be a riot and I?m willing to bet every single cast member would come back for it. Ellen went on to call Veep one of ?the best shows ever on television. Ever ever ever.? I generally try to stay away from superlatives like this but honestly, when it comes to Veep, I agree. The series finale, for sure, was one of the best I?ve ever seen.
But, Julia?s right. It isn?t funny when this is our reality. I?ll be honest, I don?t really care if a POTUS knows anything about football or any other sport, let alone where the teams are from. But I do care if he or she does due diligence before speaking out publicly about it. How hard is it to ask an aide to Google a sports team? Even though I am convinced he made a big deal about the state because he thought he was throwing a jab at California, it?s disrespectful to KC and the Chiefs after their big win, and I say that as a heart-broken 49er fan.
It?s Missouri you stone cold idiot. pic.twitter.com/O1cAAOFsJ6
Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) February 3, 2020
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| | Katy Perry was named the ambassador to Prince Charles' British Asian Trust | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I recently wrote about Katy Perry and her interest/fetishization with Asian culture, specifically Indian culture. Personally, I?ve give Katy a pass on some of it she obviously loves India and Indian clothes and maybe even Indian people. But yeah, she?s often right on the line of fetishization and appropriation. I have a point, I promise! Katy Perry was just named the new ambassador for Prince Charles? British Asian Trust charity. Yes. Go ahead and make the Scarlett Johansson jokes, everybody else did! To be fair, ScarJo has made it clear that she?s Japanese and should be allowed to play Japanese characters. Katy Perry just loves to wear Indian clothes & jewelry and ride elephants like she?s a maharaja. Also, how terrible does it look for Prince Charles that he named a white American woman to his Asian charity??
Pop star Katy Perry has been named by Britains Prince Charles as an ambassador of the British Asian Trust charity. Perrys appointment, announced at the charitys annual dinner in London Tuesday, comes after she met the prince in Mumbai last year and learned about the British Asian Trusts work. The trust, founded by Prince Charles, is an international development charity that tackles poverty and inequality in South Asia. Perry will support the charitys work to reduce child trafficking and abuse in India.
The American singer said in a statement that India had long held a special place in her heart, adding that she was honored to be a part of finding solutions to child trafficking. Perry, who is also a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations childrens agency, UNICEF, added: Children are vulnerable and innocent and have to be protected.
Other ambassadors at the British Asian Trust include the musician Naughty Boy and the broadcaster Nihal Arthanayake. The organization estimates that there are 5.8 million children in India who work as forced labor and believes that tens of thousands work in dangerous workshops in the city of Jaipur alone. The charity operates in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
[From CNN]
Again, though, why Katy Perry? There are so many Bollywood stars, there are British-Indian actors living in London, there are British-Pakistani celebrities living in England, etc. Why Katy, why specifically for this charity? The charity sounds fine, I guess, although I bet its work overlaps with dozens of other charities in India and Pakistan.
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