Catherine Zeta-Jones: “One thing I’m not is humble any more. I’m sick of being humble. I really am.” Okay then. [OMG Blog]
I’m enchanted by these emerald earrings as well, they’re gorgeous. [Go Fug Yourself]
The Tag promotion has been all about Jeremy Renner’s broken arms. [LaineyGossip]
Did Camille Cosby leave Bill Cosby? I doubt it. [Dlisted]
Chloe Dykstra wrote a heartbreaking essay about being physically and emotionally abused in a relationship with a well-known man. [Pajiba]
Which celebrities are turning 40 this year? [Wonderwall]
Here’s a great long-read interview with Stephen King. [Buzzfeed]
Carole Radziwill & Bethenny Frankel are beefing? [Reality Tea]
LOL, people are #NotAllGemini-ing about Donald Trump. [Jezebel]
No Westworld or Game of Thrones at this year’s Comic-Con. [Looper]
haha I’ve always loved CZJ – she’s such an old school celebrity.
YES! to the above and the below (as far as Remy Red under which this comment should have sat!).
I have such a soft spot for her and her journey, particularly as documented by ‘Star Stories’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-8mSiBVKwQ
Lol, I have to agree. She is like one of the last if the old-style glamorous actresses.
I wonder if this also has to do with being one of the married-in members of the Douglas dynasty, too. Does she have to be….the Crystal?
Show business is so grounding.
CZJ was beautiful when young and this God-given gift got her work. She is no longer young and… oh, dear, no work, because her talent was of insufficient depth and breadth to transcend the prejudice of age. CZJ was just lucky. Every reason to be humble.
If you follow her on Instagram she’s always over the top w selfies but there is something always narsassistic about them. She does major filters on the lens, she gives me that Christy Brinkley vibe of not getting over her looks being the center of her identity, she cant can’t handle aging.
It’s a shame bc w/o any work shed still be aging beautiful and w less focus on her looks and riches I bet she could develop and highlight other interesting messages for women. Like how she was involved in the arts and is still a patron of arts singing and dancing. I like seeing women use their brains even when blessed w such beauty!
Actually I’m feeling CZJ. There’s so much pressure on women to be “humble” and downplay themselves and their accomplishments, in ways that don’t generally apply to men.
I think she may also be fed up with being humble about her worldly success despite coming from a working class Welsh background. I was born in South Wales – and it’s one of the poorest areas of the UK.
+1 @remy great point
Manafort is in jail, lol.
Love it, love it LOVE IT! Yay!!! May this be the only the first of ALL of them to be in jail.
That’s why Trump was blabbing on the WH lawn this morning. Look over there!
I love that Manafort is in jail now and will stay there until his trial. Big pressure on him to plead now. I used to be a criminal lawyer and a lot of clients talk tough about “taking it to trial” and “fighting this all the way” while they are on the outside living their life. But once their bail is denied or revoked? Different story. Manafort screwed up – he allegedly tried to get the witnesses against him to whitewash their stories to make him look innocent. So now Mr. Fancy can sit his ass in jail LIKE A CRIMINAL and spend all his time thinking about whether he wants to potentially spend years there if convicted.
My bet is that Manafort will soon be making a plea deal over his charges. Give him a bit of time “on the inside” and Mr. Fancy will fold.
I don’t think he’ll plea at all. Why? He’ll have to deal with Putin, not Trump. And we’ve all seen how he “deals” with his enemies.
Her only accomplishment is diligently sticking to the fantasy that she’s 48.
Ugh. This again. Her birth certificate is a matter of public record and she was in the theatre all throughout her childhood. Her age, 48, is easily verifiable.
Yep. If she was lying she would have to wipe the memories of eveyone in the UK who remembers her from the ‘Darling Buds of May’ when she would have had no reason to change her age. We all know she wasnt older than her ex fiance(?), John Leslie, either and he is only 53 now.
There was a photo of her in Lilfe Magazine backstage of the “West 42nd St” play, taken when she would have been 14. She looks way older than 14 in that photo, and she’s standing there drinking champagne. Could she just be a person who looks years older than she really is? Of course. Could she be lying about her age? Sure. Do I know for certain either way? No. But I understand why people think she’s lying, because celebrities tend to use their money to ensure they look YOUNGER than they are, which is why it’s hard to believe when an actress looks older than she is. Not that it doesn’t happen (I’m thinking of Kate Winslet, who always looked older than she is), just that it’s rare.
Mrs Krabapple, if she was backstage, she probably had theatre makeup on. Plus she is 5’7″ and she was probably tall at 14 too. Any 14 year old who is tall, developed, and has on makeup will look older. Also she was in that play at different ages. She had the lead at 18 or 19 but she had worked her way up to it.
But here:
This page shows when different famous people from the UK had their birth records registered. Catherine is one of them, her birth registered in the 4th quarter of 1969 (she was born 25th September).
http://www.familyrelatives.com/information/info_detail.php?id=144
The musical Annie debuted in London’s West End in 1978 and played until 1981. Catherine was in that production sometime during those years, which would have made her 9 to 12. Judge for yourself as to how old she looks in these pictures.
https://twitter.com/AnnieMusicalUK/status/606505741567062016
https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/galleries/x701/Catherine-Zeta-Jones-72123.jpg
Please CZJ birthers, get a new hobby because it’s getting as old as you all claim that she is.
Apparently it was proved she lied about her age when she and hubbo attended a whitehouse function where security checks your DOB. The year Catherine gave did not match their offical info from their background check.
Right? How is it that she’s now only 2 year older than me? She’s gotta be 55 at least.
HAHAHA!!!
Wow. Try not to speak.
*shrugs* I don’t see why not. We sure as hell don’t expect it of men.
Preach!
Exactly. Women are often taught to tear other women down because of competition, and women are expected to be humble and demure.
I say f*ck that noise.
CZJ is hot, wealthy, famous and accomplished in her career, why would she need to be humble.
Well, that, and confidence in women is often misread as vanity or arrogance. It says a lot about our society that insecurity is considered the default for women.
I just advised on a project at a large firm. One of the management team, a man of about 35 to 40, threw out that he planned to ride his (smart, quiet, personable, modest, female) assistant’’s a$$ to the top. He is all show, she’s the know. He presented her work as his own.
We ascertained the details and had him bumped to a project that he will get to head up and run! Translated: have to do all on his own. We left him in a panicked sweat. His humble assistant is now in the lead on the other project and doing well. Aw.
Go for it, Catherine.
Good job! Too many “show ponies” like that guy end up promoted because of a quiet work horse.
Ha! That’s awesome! Good for you all for not only taking him down a peg but also giving the assistant a chance to shine.
Nice!
I wish this happened more often. I just heard some upper announce that our organisation won ANOTHER industry award without acknowledging the people who earned it. AGAIN.
Good! Thank you for recognizing it and DOING something about it!
You are wonderful, Liberty. I wish you had been around at my workplace. I’ve worked for that kind of man and also woman; they are brilliant at self-promotion but that’s it.
Wow Liberty that’s great!
A few years ago I worked as an assistant for the most horrible middle manager I’ve ever met. He took credit for my work, put me down, and often dissappeared from the project without explanation leaving me to deal with clients without any information. It was hell, super stressfull. I quit. The owner of the company begged me to stay and I just told him, not under these circumstances man, you have to do something about this (he wouldn’t). I was the only woman working for the company and the environment could be pretty vile.
I’ve looked back on that sometimes wondering if I did the right thing, especially since it took a while for my career to recover. Then yesterday I found out the company is in complete economic shambles! For all the reasons that I quit. I know it’s a bit evil but I am seriously smiling so f*cking hard at their misery right now 😁 karma is a b#tch lol! I hope they never f#cking recover
There was an incident at a White House Dinner with her documents. Supposedly she is 5-10 years older.
What did she do to her face? What a mess?
It looks as if she had some kind of lower face lift?
She was always so stunning. She still looks great, but just not like herself.
I’m on board with the “we don’t need to be so humble all the time” idea in terms of accomplishments and abilities, but her comment is actually a little gross. It’s only about looks, money, and who she’s married to (anyone jealous of her for that one? No? Didn’t think so.)
I do like her dress in that first photo though.
Chloe Dykstra’s essay is really sad, and really brave. I’m sure she will get push back from the nerd-bro community, but I hope she gets a lot of support as well.
I was just going to comment on CD, heartbreaking doesn’t come close. I can’t believe this poor woman lived with this abuse/torment for all those years. That b@$&%$d should be in jail.
I feel sorry for her to but why do so many young women stay involved or get involved in the first place with people like this. At her age I would have told him to f**k off and walked away and I am three years older than the guy she dated. Even 20+ years ago I would not have put up with that. Should it have happened? No. Should she beat
Herself up about it? No. But we should be raising girls with a sense of self confidence and self worth. My mother is 81 and she gave me that gift. Whether these women are our daughters, our sisters, friends, or colleagues, we should be saying something to instill in them a sense that they are precious and worth more. We need to instill in them with the knowledge that you can be by yourself and be alone rather than with someone else who puts you down and assaults you and be absolutely lonely.
So horrible.
And what’s even more twisted is that the “nerd-bro” community (great turn of phrase, lucy2) will be the first to say how pro-female they are, and post trite, try-hard memes and messages hashtagging “MeToo” and “LadiesFirst”, when in reality the “con” community is one of the WORST with regards to sexism, misogyny, and sexual abuse. It has put me entirely off of going to conventions. We all know who she is talking about, and she isn’t the only woman who has experienced this side of him. I personally know two women who had similar experiences in relationships with this guy, and he’s a monster. Absolute monster.
You go, Chloe. The nerdGRRRRRLs have your six.
Wow, I’m sorry your friends had a similar experience, delphi. I’ve seen a lot of people speculating about his previous well known girlfriends, I hope if your friends are any of those women, they are doing ok today.
So so heartbreaking and just mind blowing. When I read his name I thought, he sounds familiar, so I looked him up and he is in fact the guy I was thinking about. What??? This guy?? I only remember him from singled out and haven’t watched anything else he’s been in except WD but I don’t remember him (I’m way behind anyway). How does an average looking white dude like him end up with such an ego and abusive narcissistic personally. I guess since I’m not familiar with him at all anymore it’s hard for me to wrap my head around.
Oh I guess he produces the Talking Dead. My bad.
No, definitely not jealous of her choice in husbands.
It’s going to be rough. She’s the only one so far.
Him, and that disgusting Aunt Coulter who helped him, deserve to rot. People don’t realize that abuse doesn’t stop when you leave, the abuser often lashes out at the loss of control. For many of these men image is everything. They excel at showing the world what it wants to see, and breaking down any one who ‘crosses’ them.
The woman who helped Hardwick, she’s almost as disgusting as he is. She just kept her abuse to the financial and emotional side if things.
It just highlights why the double standards applied to maturity for men and women are problematic. Women are pressured to be responsible for their actions in ways that men are not at a much younger age. This gives the illusion that we’re more mature and experienced than we really are, which opens us up to the idea that older men can provide better companionship. The ugly reality is that rarely do men pursue women twenty years their junior unless they have an agenda.
This Chloe Dykstra article needs its own separate post. That was tough to read. Let me state for the record one more time that Dax Shepard needs to account for his statements and actions in regards to his “friends.” Dax Shepard had Chris Hardwick on his podcast recently because they are sober buddies. When, when, when is someone going to call out Dax Shepard (and Kristen Bell) for enabling these assholes and for being detrimental to the #MeToo movement? I could go on and on, but I won’t because it’s Friday afternoon.
Lol to the #notallgeminis. My aunt’s birthday was yesterday and she also turned 72. So yeah, she shares a birthday with the dotard. She hates him.
I always thought CZJ was exactly like her character in America’s Sweethearts. This supports my theory! I do still dig her though. As someone up thread said: She’s an old school style Hollywood broad and I’m here for it!
Lol I love Catherine. She doesn’t give AF.
Yeah, I kind of do, too.
Okay I’m all for women not having to be humble. But did you read the rest of what she said? On the NY Post? “Some people collect art, we collect houses”. Or “I want to where any outfit and realize it’s not at this house etc, so I have duplicates” not an exact quote going by memory but read what she said!
I always have really liked her, this is a shame. I’m hoping she was joking. Or it was taken way out of context.
She has bi-polar, Maybe this was a factor, she isn’t well right now. I hope she’s okay.
…was she ever giving off a humble vibe? Ever?
No! She’s never given off that vibe, ever.
Lucy 2, that’s what I came on here to write, exactly what you did. Notice she doesn’t apologize for her acting talent?
It’s possible to be both assertive and humble. Humility doesn’t require one to be submissive and demure to satisfy patriarchal expectations. I’m not going to argue that the pretense of humility isn’t exhausting for everyone, but I don’t think congratulations are in order. I read CZJ’s quotations at NY Post and her words sound insufferably proud to me. Money doesn’t buy class.
“Beauty is a gift, just like good health or intelligence. The only thing is not to be proud of being beautiful. Because you didn’t do anything – it was given to you.” – Monica Belluci
trh: Agreed. One doesn’t have to lack confidence or assertiveness in order to be humble; to be humble, in my mind, implies a certain amount of gratitude, a recognition of a common, shared humanity. That one is humble implies compassion, the awareness that they as are subject to whims and changes in fate as anyone else, and to the weight of shared gravity, not so “special” that they can avoid or overcome the things that other, “ordinar”y people must endure. There is something very unbecoming about someone who is almost half a century old bragging about her lack of humility—has she learned NOTHING about life and other people, and herself, in that half a century, at all? Still sees herself as the center of the universe? Yes, she was beautiful once–not a personal accomplishment at all–and she “made it” briefly in Hollywood, on her beauty alone; she never had much talent, which is why her career ended when her youth did. What makes her so special in her own mind? I would have hoped her struggle w bipolar disorder might have made her a more insightful, empathetic person, but she is still a hard-core braggart, flaunting her wealth (most of which comes from her husband) and its material manifestations like her personal insignia in every interview. (Admittedly, I’ve read few interviews w her. But this recent one is as gross as it gets.) To not be humble is to think you are better than others, more deserving of your great fortune than anyone else is; it is to look down, in willful ignorance, on those who do not share your blessings.( Odd thing is, she has NEVER struck me as humble—more of a self centered diva–so I do wonder what she means about “not pretending to be humble anymore.” If she has been attempting to fake it, this whole time up, till right now, then wow, she’s an even worse actress than I had formerly thought!)
Well said and 100% accurate.
Ugh. I just read a story about a 10 year old Syrian boy who lost his eyesight in the ongoing war, and now this. Please, CZJ, pipe down. I fully support women and achievements, but the fight for equality isn’t about being superficial, materialistic and self-centered. Actually, the systemic structures of wealth distribution and consumerism is an important part of feminist analysis. Being a liberated woman isn’t about bragging about how much pointless stuff you consume in a world where so many people have nothing. It’s about being free to nurture your talents, be self-sufficient and then hopefully contribute to the world in a meaningful way.
Also, no one “deserves” 100 million dollars. Wealth isn’t directly proportional to achievements or effort. CZJ might be a great actress (honestly I wouldn’t know, I haven’t watched her in anything for years), but she does not work harder than, say, the average nurse on a 10 hour night shift with three kids at home.
Great post.
Excellent. Well said.
Eh, her acting is mediocre at best. Stunning looks, mediocre talent, huge ego. She’s always been rather arrogant.
I like the bottom part of the emerald earrings
And people are actually praising her for saying this shit. It’s a self-absorbed celebrity, not a woman doing great things and being overshadowed by men or whatever.
Yeah… married to Michael Douglas 😂
I thought her and her husband were split.
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Um beautiful! Not! Go away woman whose husband has mouth herpes. You’re a freakin joke.
The word isn’t humble, its grateful, something which you clearly are not. Are you seriously complaining that other peoples poverty makes you uncomfortable? Yes, because that’s why all us mortal humans exist, in order to make you feel bad. Has to be the most pretentious, self serving, 1st world whinge l have heard since, ‘Its so hard to get good help these days’.
Oh and BTW CZJ you’re really not that good looking.
I agree with everything you wrote.
Sounds like a bit of bipolar mania grandiosity to me – hope she is ok.
CZJ and MD used to have a country home near Tremblant in Quebec and our friends who work in the hospitality industry there know that she is far from humble. Quite the opposite actually. Not a nice person at all.
She should get back on her lithium, odviously she hasnt been taking it, delusions of grandeur.
this is so weird. who is pushing her to be humble? she doesn’t even work much anymore nor is she in the spotlight like before so where is this coming from? i won’t knock her illness, that is out of bounds but it is possible to have a mental health issue and also be an asshole.
I found her comments beyond obnoxious. If you’re going to brag it’s only fun if it rhymes (meaning you’re a bad a$$ rapper) or you do it with a joking manner. I don’t begrudge a person a great life, in fact I’m often happy for the person and feel they’re an inspiration. But she was being pretty tacky in my opinion. Fact is she married an old dying guy who she evidently gave an STD to, and she’s an aging actress in youth-obsessed Hollyweird. Now, I wouldn’t want her to complain either, but there’s a happy medium out there where you either 1) count your blessings to the moon and back or 2) try to inspire others to live a life they dream of too or 3) you get off your a$$ and do some charity because you can’t believe your good fortune while little kids are getting leukemia diagnoses or starving in Africa.
–To me this was textbook how not to act. But we all have our opinions.