Comments on: Hindu leaders worried about Julia Roberts & ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ http://www.celebitchy.com/65902/hindu_leaders_worried_about_julia_roberts_eat_pray_love/ Stylish celebrity escapism Sun, 19 May 2013 15:47:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: fbeats http://www.celebitchy.com/65902/hindu_leaders_worried_about_julia_roberts_eat_pray_love/#comment-421980 fbeats Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:13:55 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=65902#comment-421980 i will try to understanding about them and advise them about his worry thanks for share i will try to understanding about them and advise them about his worry
thanks for share

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]]> By: birdgherl http://www.celebitchy.com/65902/hindu_leaders_worried_about_julia_roberts_eat_pray_love/#comment-421080 birdgherl Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:21:50 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=65902#comment-421080 I really liked the book, despite the whole Oprah thing. I am worried that Julia Roberts will f*** it up though. Actually, there is no way she can't. I was hoping for someone a little more obscure, with a little more depth. I really liked the book, despite the whole Oprah thing. I am worried that Julia Roberts will f*** it up though. Actually, there is no way she can’t. I was hoping for someone a little more obscure, with a little more depth.

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]]> By: barneslr http://www.celebitchy.com/65902/hindu_leaders_worried_about_julia_roberts_eat_pray_love/#comment-420472 barneslr Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:46:24 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=65902#comment-420472 Anyone who attempts to get their education about other cultures (or any other topics, for that matter) from a movie is pretty foolish. Movies are for entertainment, pure and simple. Lots of them are based on real events, but that doesn't mean that they are 100% perfect portrayals of the real thing. ALL movies should be taken with a grain of salt. Much ado about nothing, I'd say. Either watch the movie or don't. Who really cares? Anyone who attempts to get their education about other cultures (or any other topics, for that matter) from a movie is pretty foolish.

Movies are for entertainment, pure and simple. Lots of them are based on real events, but that doesn’t mean that they are 100% perfect portrayals of the real thing. ALL movies should be taken with a grain of salt.

Much ado about nothing, I’d say. Either watch the movie or don’t. Who really cares?

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]]> By: stephie http://www.celebitchy.com/65902/hindu_leaders_worried_about_julia_roberts_eat_pray_love/#comment-420014 stephie Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:31:41 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=65902#comment-420014 Um... it's a work of fiction, isn't it? Who says ANY of it has to be authentic? She isn't making a documentary. Um… it’s a work of fiction, isn’t it? Who says ANY of it has to be authentic? She isn’t making a documentary.

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]]> By: drm http://www.celebitchy.com/65902/hindu_leaders_worried_about_julia_roberts_eat_pray_love/#comment-419859 drm Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:21:39 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=65902#comment-419859 I got the Eat Pray Love by Gilbert for five dollars from a used book bin on my online book store just before it got the big push on Oprah. I too thought Gilbert whined incessantly, particularly the "bawling on my bathroom floor/desperate/want to die end of her marriage stuff. Having been through it myself, while its very upsetting you have to make decisions and get on with it...she seemed not to know herself very well, what she wanted, needed, or perhaps most importantly what she didn't want. I got the Eat Pray Love by Gilbert for five dollars from a used book bin on my online book store just before it got the big push on Oprah. I too thought Gilbert whined incessantly, particularly the “bawling on my bathroom floor/desperate/want to die end of her marriage stuff. Having been through it myself, while its very upsetting you have to make decisions and get on with it…she seemed not to know herself very well, what she wanted, needed, or perhaps most importantly what she didn’t want.

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]]> By: Trillion http://www.celebitchy.com/65902/hindu_leaders_worried_about_julia_roberts_eat_pray_love/#comment-419561 Trillion Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:54:21 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=65902#comment-419561 Happymom nailed it. I wonder if Julia is extra sensitive to odors with those gigantic nostrils of hers? Happymom nailed it. I wonder if Julia is extra sensitive to odors with those gigantic nostrils of hers?

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]]> By: Jo 'Mama' Besser http://www.celebitchy.com/65902/hindu_leaders_worried_about_julia_roberts_eat_pray_love/#comment-419399 Jo 'Mama' Besser Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:31:43 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=65902#comment-419399 Alright, though I freely admit that I'm not a Julia Roberts fan, my quarrel isn't with her. Hollywood gets everything 'wrong'. Forget trying to communicate the intricacies and fortresses of Hinduism, book-to-film adaptations are often fraught donnybrooks. A friend of mine wanted to watch SIMON BIRCH with me because she knew that I had read A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY. They killed that fucker, didn't they? Well, I don't know, I didn't get through much of it. 40-something virgin in the book now narrates tale to his kid? And weren't we promised blasted arms? Graphic novel? Ask Alan. M. Moore. Religious topic? THE PASSION OF THE PASSION-STAINS? That's one interpretation (haven't seen it, but you know what I mean). Cultural insensitivity? Hollywood wouldn't know what THAT is! Wasn't it that film 21 that made a film connected to actual events, and replaced a nearly-all Asian group of students into Aryans? The idea of the privileged going to India to 'get spiritual' has been around for ages. All a whiny brat needs in life is a magical negro to advise him, and a Taj to house him. Even the rampant neo-colonial message makes me curl up. Not because my sensibilities are offended--thought they can be--but just because it's lazy to pull out this hoary, mouldy old trope and call it a tale. Alright, though I freely admit that I’m not a Julia Roberts fan, my quarrel isn’t with her.

Hollywood gets everything ‘wrong’. Forget trying to communicate the intricacies and fortresses of Hinduism, book-to-film adaptations are often fraught donnybrooks. A friend of mine wanted to watch SIMON BIRCH with me because she knew that I had read A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY.

They killed that fucker, didn’t they? Well, I don’t know, I didn’t get through much of it. 40-something virgin in the book now narrates tale to his kid? And weren’t we promised blasted arms?

Graphic novel? Ask Alan. M. Moore.

Religious topic? THE PASSION OF THE PASSION-STAINS? That’s one interpretation (haven’t seen it, but you know what I mean).

Cultural insensitivity? Hollywood wouldn’t know what THAT is! Wasn’t it that film 21 that made a film connected to actual events, and replaced a nearly-all Asian group of students into Aryans?

The idea of the privileged going to India to ‘get spiritual’ has been around for ages. All a whiny brat needs in life is a magical negro to advise him, and a Taj to house him. Even the rampant neo-colonial message makes me curl up. Not because my sensibilities are offended–thought they can be–but just because it’s lazy to pull out this hoary, mouldy old trope and call it a tale.

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]]> By: Kaiser http://www.celebitchy.com/65902/hindu_leaders_worried_about_julia_roberts_eat_pray_love/#comment-419356 Kaiser Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:43:24 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=65902#comment-419356 At first I was wondering if Julia was too old for the role too, but I think Gilbert wrote the book/went on this "journey" when she was about 35 or 36 years old. So Julia is only a few years older than the "character". I kind of think Julia's casting might be perfect, too. If you're the kind of person who loves this book, you probably love JULIA!! At first I was wondering if Julia was too old for the role too, but I think Gilbert wrote the book/went on this “journey” when she was about 35 or 36 years old. So Julia is only a few years older than the “character”.

I kind of think Julia’s casting might be perfect, too. If you’re the kind of person who loves this book, you probably love JULIA!!

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]]> By: princess pea http://www.celebitchy.com/65902/hindu_leaders_worried_about_julia_roberts_eat_pray_love/#comment-419346 princess pea Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:30:56 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=65902#comment-419346 As to the comments about Julia's age (really, you'd almost think you folk have the secret and won't be aging yourselves... chill!) I was under the impression that the narrator/subject wasn't supposed to be an ingenue. She is supposed to be a grown woman, post divorce and all that. How very wrong it would have been to put Anne Hathaway, for example, in that role. As to the comments about Julia’s age (really, you’d almost think you folk have the secret and won’t be aging yourselves… chill!) I was under the impression that the narrator/subject wasn’t supposed to be an ingenue. She is supposed to be a grown woman, post divorce and all that. How very wrong it would have been to put Anne Hathaway, for example, in that role.

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]]> By: MizzExpert http://www.celebitchy.com/65902/hindu_leaders_worried_about_julia_roberts_eat_pray_love/#comment-419328 MizzExpert Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:09:40 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=65902#comment-419328 What a hausfrau! Why doesn't she retire or stick with 'grandma' roles? Julia is not an ingenue anymore...not since 1999! Wait and see, she'll try to milk it as if she's another Meryl Streep. What a hausfrau! Why doesn’t she retire or stick with ‘grandma’ roles? Julia is not an ingenue anymore…not since 1999! Wait and see, she’ll try to milk it as if she’s another Meryl Streep.

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