Julia Roberts: "You are all very talented people..." (please read on) — Page 3

It took a lot of class to get up and say that. Yes she is not my favorite actor, I think she learned just how hard Broadway really is. So she actually went up a bit in my book.

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I agree that she likely meant it very sincerely, but "you people" was definitely a bad choice of words. I was very surprised when I heard her say it.

refined, refined and refined again before spoken

you did see the show right?

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I think everyone is overanalyzing this WAY TOO MUCH.

I think we all realize what Julia's intentions were, but some of us just want to turn it into something else.

I think we all realize that she intended it as a compliment to all theatre actors and that using the phrase "you people" was illustrating how she is not one of them in the sense that they are above her.

"'You people' sorry, was that talking down or her announcement that she's going to fold and run?"

Neither.

"'insanely' sorry, how about 'immensely' I must question the word choice."

Obviously, you must because you can't seem to restrain yourself from overanalyzing every word, facial expression, and negative subtext possibility of every nanosecond in her presentation.

"And that puppy dog look on her face, sorry again, if was like she was noting the abuse and wanted the world to know she was bruised."

Again, you're giving her a lot of credit for her acting abilities. That is a lot to read into a facial expression for an intro to presenting an award. She must be BRILLIANT.

"on stage -- a place where the spoken word is refined, refined and refined again before spoken."

Since when is the stage strictly limited to "refined" speech? It was "on stage" where the Oscar winning writers of "It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp" accepted their award.

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KuhnKrazy - The assumed "I" at the beginning of your first sentence talked down to your audience in a most self-gratifying and smug way. Obviously, by using "Methinks", you are not only patronizing the entire world, but it immediately makes me find a reason to make the thread about you, which means you wanted to make me find a reason, which means you made this entire message board about you. I can tell by your punctuation that you are attempting to tell everyone how much lower they are than yourself, how hurt you are that no one has mentioned you until this point, your feelings on the battle of Bunker Hill, your height, your weight, your preference in sugar-free gelatine flavors, and your math scores on your PSAT. You are on a message board where the written word is refined and pasteurized and processed and homogenized until written.

"Real sad" - I have to question your use of street language. I don't know what the question is, but when I think of one, it will be BAD.

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Updated On: 6/12/06 at 02:46 PM

We can cry all we want. Those women are making more than most of us will make in our lifetimes.

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Well, to put it to bed, let's just see what the future holds.


Any bets whether she'll try stage acting again?

I remember the comment she made, and the I vividly remember the images in my head... but for the life of me.... I can't remember what category she presented and who won that category.

oooh... she took away someone's spotlight.

sorry

Updated On: 6/13/06 at 04:02 PM

"I think it was a sincere attempt at grace and humility that inadvertantly showed an attitude of superiority and separation. The words "you people" were especially unfortunate. It was nice of her to try any sort of a compliment considering how she's been raked over the coals, but it definitely could have been done more eloquently."

I agree with this statement. Perhaps, though, she felt as if using "street" language would seem even more humble. If she used big fancy words and structured her sentances to put the utmost importance on what she was saying everyone would be frothing at the mouth over her SCRIPTING HER FIVE SECOND NON-SCRIPTED COMMENT! GOOD HEAVENS!!!! To me, it seemed as if she just really wanted to address all these people she has great respect for. Due to her language choice, I doubt she was standing backstage going over exactly what she was going to say in her mind. To analyze things further (because it's completely necessary. obviously.), the way she said; "you people" was done in such a manner she was indeed segregating herself but as to put "those people" ABOVE her. It was like when a young male wolf gets a little too ambitious and tries to take the dominant male's food before he's done. The dominant male growls and says "back off you little pisser" and the young male rethinks the situation and learns from it. So he rolls over and flashes the white hair on his belly to show he understand the way things work now and respects the dominant male and wants to be a member of the pack.

AHAHAHAHAHA OMG I'm so proud of that analogy it's so cracked out. Yay me. [I JUST MADE THIS POST ABOUT ME. OMG. ATTENTION WHORE.]

SHE'S HUMAN. GIVE HER A BREAK. Or is that too much too ask because she's "Julia Roberts"?

Also, I highly doubt it was her choice to present the award solo. So to use that against her is just ridiculous.

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I hated that she referred to us as "you people". What does that mean?

It was a sweet gesture. I think she meant well. And people can and will take things however they want.

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