Scratch another actress from my fantasy <fill in the blank> list.

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

Well, you can't expect much from someone who named her kids "Apple" and "Moses."

Of course the beautiful people with whom Gwyneth sups don't get into all that ugly talk of making money - they inherited theirs from the people who actually made it. Now, all they have to do is spend it on things like sparkling dinners with Gwyneth. Cack and gag.

The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

- Arabian Proverb

The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans the 34-year-old added.

I can assure Ms. Paltrow that she is, of course, talking BOLLOCKS.

One might enquire of Gwhinngie, then why did you fly back to New York to have your babies in the US?

Maybe she read the the rather alarming statistic that in a recent school test of British kids, 25% couldn't find their own country on a globe.

Sure, that's really intelligent Missie.

But then when you live the life of Riley in a $30 million Knightsbridge mansion you do meet such a diverse range of people.

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Another Hollywood "brat" from the pack is heard from....no surprises here......what a moronic thing to say.....perhaps she'll seek political asylum in Great Britain and forgo all the benefits she now enjoys as an American citizen....one can only hope.....

Nowhere to Run....Nowhere To Hide.....

A few thoughts...

1. I can't recall the last Gwyneth movie I saw, but one thing is for sure - I won't be seeing anymore. If she wants to live in Britain, let them see her movies and give her their pounds.  She obviously doesn't need mine.  I would much prefer to give my money to someone who (first of all) makes good movies and (second of all) doesn't put their foot in their mouth. I pay actors to act - not to talk about their personal lives. Hollywood is full of self-inflated, egomanical lunatics who feel slighted if you don't pay them flattery they feel they deserve for half-a** acting.

2. It never ceases to amaze me the people who insult the US but don't follow through by obtaining citizenship elsewhere. And as far as taxes go, I'm pretty positive she won't be paying any UK taxes as her money is safely tucked away in US banks and her contracts will clearly state that she is to be payed in US dollars and is a employed through US companies.

3. I wonder when the last time was that Gwynnie set down with a working class British family who lives in a row house and survives paycheck to paycheck - something she has NEVER had to do thanks to mommie and daddy (Blythe Danner and Bruce Paltrow).  Her world evolves around the social elite and have no need to discuss where the next meal is coming from or to decide between paying the water bill or buying little Jimmy a Christmas gift.

4. I'm not saying the British aren't intelligent or civilized (nor am I saying the US is perfect - we've had our fair share of mistakes) but let's ask the aboriginies in Australia what they think of the British who colonized their continent or ask the Zulus down in South Africa or the Irish (for that matter).  As for intelligence I wonder where former Prime Minister Chamberlain stands on her list of most intelligent Brits? Or perhaps Prince Edward who gave up his crown for a common American woman (and was rumored to be pro-nazi and antisemitic).  And lest we forget the supreme intelligence of the British who lost the American colonists to a bunch of rebels who they thought would never be able to forge a country out of thirteen colonies.  One British officer after the Battle of Saratoga (the colonists won that battle) wrote in his diary "A new race of men has been born."  And I don't believe this was in reference to our stupidity or lack of civility.  As far as civility goes I would argue that Americans are some of the most polite and generous people of the world (and I've been to at least 10 other countries (Europe and Africa and the Middle East).

Anyway, I'll get off my high horse and stop writing. Her comments are ludicrious to say the least and representative of a mind that knows not what she is talking about.

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Ah! NOW we see the violence inherent in the system.  Come and see the violence inherent in the system.  Help! Help! I'm being repressed! - Monty Python

I work west of the Theatre District of Manhattan. I take a bus out of my way to avoid having to look at the marquees of the British plays. The fifth column that is surrendering in the Middle East surrendered our culture to Britain long ago. The British are the most treacherous snakes.

I just love it when a Hezbollywoodite moves over there and starts bashing us over here, never mind how much money our wonderful economic system allowed them to accumulate (or inherit) while they were living here (Hear that, Madonna?)

Given the fact that the Islamic horde is poised on the brink of taking over Western Europe, including GB, I wonder where she and her children will be living then? Sidney, perhaps? The Moon?

I'm not sure, but if Gwyneth were to be administered an intelligence test, I'm guessing she would score somewhere around the level of frozen dog squeeze.

Ms. Paltrow has obviously never sat at my dinner table to discuss politics, philosophy, science, or other topics that spring up between my wife and me and our guests (if we have any). I have found that work only comes up when I am in company with someone I work with (as that is usually one of the biggest interests we share) and there is nothing wrong with that. I always thought that good conversation included subjects in which all parties are interested.

Does Ms. Paltrow dislike talk of work because it makes her uncomfortable as a result of really never having to work for the kind of money she is paid? Maybe Britons aren't as capitalistic as Americans because there is no point trying to make more money in a quasi-socialistic nanny-state because your "excesses" will be shared with everyone else that hasn't earned it?

This really does show the ignorance of this actress. She clearly does not understand economics. She does not understand how "commoners" live or what topics they discuss over dinner with or without guests.

This also shows her arrogance and her utter contempt for the greatness of American society.

'When you wade into political life you have every right to say what you want, but you cannot in turn argue that no one has the right to take you on'... --Rush Limbaugh

Noel --great line:

"Taking advice from Madonna about saying “no” is akin to letting an arsonist check the batteries in your home’s smoke detectors."

What a great model Swinette has picked for herself. A lady who has lifted herself by her glass slippers. Can't be worth more tha $50-100 million. Life is so tough.

I don't believe this wench ever graduated from high school.  She was out at bars when she was just a tween all night long.  I guess Blythe & Bruce were too busy to care.  Anyway, I won't be buying anymore Estee Lauder products and that includes Percriptives as well.  That's the only make up I have ever worn but I will be purchasing a new product brand (I always buy new product at the end of the year so I can get the EL jumbotron of makeup but no more).  As I type this I am also calling, the operator just asked me to please hold and she sounds frazzled.  Told her my story and now she's patching me through to someone else.  I am still on hold but the number is 1 888 985 0001.  They have received a lot of calls.  I've been wearing their product for almost 30 years as I told them but not now.  As soon as she is gone, I will be back.

Gweneth, sweetie, trust me you don’t fit into the good side of American psychology either.

Your pretensious and insipid dinnertime topics would bore the hell out of us. (Unless,  during the soup course, you might wish to re-tell some of Madonnas tales of debauchery. Though perhaps too crass for some, they could be amusing.)

Do some reading toots. You’ll find that Britian has it’s share of illiterate, incarcirated. institutionalized, drug addled near-do-wells. And, if you are under the impression the higher classes are without scandal or depravity, well….

Another twit without a clue!

Isn't this like being called stupid by the kid who wears a helmet and rides the short bus to school? A college dropout actress married to a rock star who insists on giving her kids names that guarantee them wedgies for life and considers Madonna a genious? Somehow I am not insulted. I just want to pat her on the head and tell her, "Next time you have a thought, let it go..."

I'll take a working wench, indenture servent, common woman, since they know whats truly going on around them during their daily lives's, far more than this ingrate any day. she wouldn't know a beer from her butt .. unless it was hand'ed ta her on a platter!!

When people like Gwyneth make stupid comments like that, it's almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I spent a year studying in a northern England town, and I can assure you that most of my recollections are of people who didn't exactly fit the mold of "intelligent Brits." Like the guy who danced like a drunken pirate on the cafeteria table and climbed a lightpost when Liverpool won the F.A. cup, the guy who's classroom strategy was to make it to "one class a week" (he was a one-year wonder) or the guy who ripped his bedsheet and his ankle climbing over a fence when returning home in the rain from the college-sponsored toga party at the student union/bar. (whoops - that last one was me.)

You see? Stupid knows no boundaries.

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"You've got to turn on evil, when it's coming after you. You've gota face it down, and when it tries to hide, you've gotta go in after it, and never be denied

Well if America sucks so badly and is just too darn capitalistic for her liking then why in the world is she taking so much money for her work?  I highly doubt that she would be willing to give up all of that capitalistic grub for one of her highly over rated movies.  Not only should she stay in London (I too give her credit for moving there since she hates America so much) but she should no longer come back to America to make any movie what so ever, nor should any movie she makes be shown in America.  She should make sure that is written into her contract next time she signs up to act in a movie.

Somehow I don't see that happening, so America must be good for something.

I had a couple of junior Sailors a few Navy ships ago. During our "conversation", they said thay they hate the Navy and would rather be somewhere else than onboard the ship. I said, "very well, why don't you two go down to your berthing and pack your seabags, I'll just have to talk to the Captain and Command Master Chief that you two won't be deploying with us and I'll personally escort you to the quarterdeck to make sure you both are out of our sight".  Paltrow is probably just like those two men I had, they needed some attention. But unlike Paltrow, those two Sailors apologized for their choice of words and ask to give them another chance, which redeemed themselves for becoming the good workers they've become- which Paltrow wiould never do- to apologize for the wrong choice of words and ask for a second chance.   

Not sure that your profile of UCSB has anything to do with your post. If Ann Coulter had gone there, you'd be highlighting its academic reputation.