Jodie Foster censored in the West?

[DAME]

Posted: 1/14/13 at 12:39am

There was a 20 secondinsh gap out here. Anyone?

Updated On: 1/14/13 at 12:39 AM

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 1/14/13 at 12:40am

Same here in NY. Very odd Dame.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/14/13 at 12:45am

It happened everywhere. I just rewatched it and I don't really know if it was anything. It may have really been a glitch.

[DAME]

Posted: 1/14/13 at 12:55am

How odd

[Plum]

Posted: 1/14/13 at 1:06am

Maybe someone shouted something with swear words from the audience. She didn't seem to be saying anything suspect.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 1/14/13 at 1:33am

There were instances were there seemed to be clear 5 second delays, such a Jeremy Renner making a joke about Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal when he introduced Zero Dark Thirty, and glitches like the Life of Pi composer's speech.

[~tiny~]

Posted: 1/14/13 at 2:04am

live show, booze, who knows what they'll blurt out. Middle America needs to be protected from Jodie's self outing, dontcha know? lol.

[Huss417]

Posted: 1/14/13 at 8:55am

It was a glitch or so was reported on DeadlineHollywood. It was a very bizarre speech. I was thinking this as I was watching and then she mentions her mother and I had tears rolling down my face.

This from DeadlineHollywood.

"Meanwhile, the sound cut out during Foster’s speech. It did so both on TV and on the feed at the Hilton. Conspiracy theorists were suspecting Jodie or Mel were being censored. My guess is this is yet more incompetence tonight by Dick Clark Productions."

[Roscoe]

Posted: 1/14/13 at 9:06am

Poor old Jodie. So sad that she equates going public with her homosexuality to being exploited like Honey Booboo. But what can one expect from a woman whose date to the Golden Globes is Mel Gibson, of all people, who she publicly credits with having "saved" her?

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 1/14/13 at 9:14am

"Poor old Jodie. So sad that she equates going public with her homosexuality to being exploited like Honey Booboo."

Yeah I really like Jodie Foster but I kind of felt the same way. Was kind of a slap in the face to the public figures who had the bravery to come out earlier.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 1/14/13 at 10:09am

I liked that her privacy should be respected, she's just an actress, she's not a reality star etc..... Yet used the Golden Globes in front of millions to talk about her personal life when she was been honoured for her work on film.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 1/14/13 at 10:26am

I guess it hit me because they happened to cut to Jane Lynch when she was going on about not being Honey Boo Boo. I was wondering what she thought of that. It just seemed more bitter than triumphant. And I was hoping for triumphant.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/14/13 at 11:10am

Jodie, you want privacy? Quit the biz. Move to Rockford Illinois. Take a job at the grocery store. At the very least, don't walk the red carpet and give 7 minute speeches on national television.

I fervently hope Jodie gets the peace and privacy she craves- just like Norma Desmond.

[After Eight]

Posted: 1/14/13 at 11:22am

If she doesn't want to come out and say what she doesn't want to come out and say, why bring it up in the first place?

Her speech was a rambling mess, which she didn't know how to end. (Like a lot of plays I've seen.)

And being in the company of that repellent indvidual made matters even worse. Why were we forced to look at his wretched mug?

[Roscoe]

Posted: 1/14/13 at 3:13pm

Part of the strangeness was her weird attitude -- she came off like some Ricky Gervais character whose words say "Merry Christmas" but who actually communicates "I hate you all and want you dead!"

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/14/13 at 3:18pm

She never exuded warmth, if you ask me. But I do like her acting and think she's great looking. Not a fan of her friend Mel.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 1/14/13 at 3:33pm

To be fair, she has always one who has been criticized for not coming out when it was one of the best known "secrets" in Hollywood. Yes, here sppech was rambling and disjointed BUT I applaude her for doing it.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/14/13 at 3:37pm

I don't mean this as bitchy or negative or whatever- but could you post the words of her coming out? I've read her speech twice and am not sure what she came out as or to or how.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 1/14/13 at 3:45pm

Well, exactly, JoeKv. That's part of the issue that folks are having -- she never actually said the words. It is all indirect, she mentions "coming out" to friends and family a long time ago. She was more up front about her friendship with Mel Gibson than about her sexual orientation.

Here's the speech:

Well, for all of you 'SNL' fans, I’m 50! I’m 50! You know, I need to do that without this dress on, but you know, maybe later at Trader Vic’s, boys and girls. What do you say? I’m 50! You know, I was going to bring my walker tonight but it just didn’t go with the cleavage.

Robert [Downey Jr.], I want to thank you for everything: for your bat-crazed, rapid-fire brain, the sweet intro. I love you and Susan and I am so grateful that you continually talk me off the ledge when I go on and foam at the mouth and say, 'I’m done with acting, I’m done with acting, I’m really done, I’m done, I’m done.'

Trust me, 47 years in the film business is a long time. You just ask those Golden Globes, because you crazy kids, you’ve been around here forever. You know, Phil you’re a nut, Aida, Scott — thank you for honoring me tonight. It is the most fun party of the year, and tonight I feel like the prom queen.

Thank you. Looking at all those clips, you know, the hairdos and the freaky platform shoes, it’s like a home-movie nightmare that just won’t end, and all of these people sitting here at these tables, they’re my family of sorts, you know. Fathers mostly. Executives, producers, the directors, my fellow actors out there, we’ve giggled through love scenes, we’ve punched and cried and spit and vomited and blown snot all over one another — and those are just the costars I liked. But you know more than anyone else I share my most special memories with members of the crew. Blood-shaking friendships, brothers and sisters. We made movies together, and you can’t get more intimate than that.

So while I’m here being all confessional, I guess I have a sudden urge to say something that I’ve never really been able to air in public. So, a declaration that I’m a little nervous about but maybe not quite as nervous as my publicist right now, huh Jennifer? But I’m just going to put it out there, right? Loud and proud, right? So I’m going to need your support on this.

I am single. Yes I am, I am single. No, I’m kidding — but I mean I’m not really kidding, but I’m kind of kidding. I mean, thank you for the enthusiasm. Can I get a wolf whistle or something? [Audio is silent for seven seconds] ... be a big coming-out speech tonight because I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago back in the Stone Age, in those very quaint days when a fragile young girl would open up to trusted friends and family and co-workers and then gradually, proudly to everyone who knew her, to everyone she actually met. But now I’m told, apparently that every celebrity is expected to honor the details of their private life with a press conference, a fragrance and a prime-time reality show.

You know, you guys might be surprised, but I am not Honey Boo Boo Child. No, I’m sorry, that’s just not me. It never was and it never will be. Please don’t cry because my reality show would be so boring. I would have to make out with Marion Cotillard or I’d have to spank Daniel Craig’s bottom just to stay on the air. It’s not bad work if you can get it, though.

But seriously, if you had been a public figure from the time that you were a toddler, if you’d had to fight for a life that felt real and honest and normal against all odds, then maybe you too might value privacy above all else. Privacy. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

I have given everything up there from the time that I was 3 years old. That’s reality-show enough, don’t you think?

There are a few secrets to keeping your psyche intact over such a long career. The first, love people and stay beside them. That table over there, 222, way out in Idaho, Paris, Stockholm, that one, next to the bathroom with all the unfamous faces, the very same faces for all these years. My acting agent, Joe Funicello — Joe, do you believe it, 38 years we’ve been working together? Even though he doesn’t count the first eight.

Matt Saver, Pat Kingsley, Jennifer Allen, Grant Niman and his uncle Jerry Borack, may he rest in peace. Lifers. My family and friends here tonight and at home, and of course, Mel Gibson. You know you save me too.

There is no way I could ever stand here without acknowledging one of the deepest loves of my life, my heroic co-parent, my ex-partner in love but righteous soul sister in life, my confessor, ski buddy, consigliere, most beloved BFF of 20 years, Cydney Bernard. Thank you, Cyd. I am so proud of our modern family. Our amazing sons, Charlie and Kit, who are my reason to breathe and to evolve, my blood and soul. And boys, in case you didn’t know it, this song, all of this, this song is for you.

This brings me to the greatest influence of my life, my amazing mother, Evelyn. Mom, I know you’re inside those blue eyes somewhere and that there are so many things that you won’t understand tonight. But this is the only important one to take in: I love you, I love you, I love you. And I hope that if I say this three times, it will magically and perfectly enter into your soul, fill you with grace and the joy of knowing that you did good in this life. You’re a great mom. Please take that with you when you’re finally OK to go.

You see, Charlie and Kit, sometimes your mom loses it too. I can’t help but get moony, you know. This feels like the end of one era and the beginning of something else. Scary and exciting and now what? Well, I may never be up on this stage again, on any stage for that matter. Change, you gotta love it. I will continue to tell stories, to move people by being moved, the greatest job in the world. It’s just that from now on, I may be holding a different talking stick. And maybe it won’t be as sparkly, maybe it won’t open on 3,000 screens, maybe it will be so quiet and delicate that only dogs can hear it whistle. But it will be my writing on the wall. Jodie Foster was here, I still am, and I want to be seen, to be understood deeply and to be not so very lonely.

Thank you, all of you, for the company. Here’s to the next 50 years.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 1/14/13 at 3:46pm

It was a very strange speech.

[madbrian]

Posted: 1/14/13 at 3:50pm

I think the segment where she acknowledged and thanked her ex was fairly unambiguous:

"There is no way I could ever stand here without acknowledging one of the deepest loves of my life, my heroic co-parent, my ex-partner in love but righteous soul sister in life, my confessor, ski buddy, consigliere, most beloved BFF of 20 years, Cydney Bernard. Thank you, Cyd."

[DAME]

Posted: 1/14/13 at 3:56pm

She had a Nazi there with her as her guest. F her.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 1/14/13 at 3:57pm

I was wondering how Mel Gibson's presence, at the center table, no less, was playing in the room itself -- especially with Spielberg himself sitting not far away.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 1/14/13 at 4:00pm

I'm sorry, I had a hard enough time coming out to friends and family. I annot imagige what it would be like standing on stage in front of an audience and television cameras with the whole world watching and coming out.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/14/13 at 4:07pm

But you know- no one asked her to. She's attended a couple dozen awards shows and never uttered a peep about being a lesbian. The award she won was for "outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment." She could have talked about her "art" or her career or whatever but she chose to talk about....privacy and her 47 year hunt for it? Her mom? Her kids? Why did she say "my ex-partner in love but righteous soul sister in life"? Did they break up? What does that mean?