Cele|bitchy | Kevin Smith has hated Reese Witherspoon for a while

Kevin Smith responded to the furor over his remarks at a University of Pennsylvania speech in which he revealed that Nicole Richie screwed his friend Jason Mewes in a bathroom and that he thinks Reese Witherspoon is a cunt. Smith didn’t mention the Nicole Richie incident at all, leading us to assume that it’s true.

He also said that he doesn’t see why it’s big news that he thinks Reese is a cunt, since he admitted to hating her a while back:

Much ado about nothing, over some shit I said in the UPenn Q&AÃ¢â‚¬Â¦

All stemming from the same poorly-worded story. All insisting I’m still harping on Reese when it was in response to a question. All treating it like it’s new info, when the Reese story alone’s been around for five years, onlineÃ¢â‚¬Â¦

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In the 2001 article about Reese that Smith references, he makes a very good case that she deserves the “C” label while describing how he came to give her the moniker “Greasy Reese(y)” He talked about how arrogant and rude she was at a casting call for Mallrats, and how she snubbed his then-girlfriend, Chasing Amy’s Joey Lauren Adams, who was previously in competition with her for a part:

So it’s a year later. We’ve shot Amy but it hasn’t come out yet. Joey and I have seen an early cut of Overnight Delivery, and she wants to say something nice about Reese’s performance to Reese — a real stand-up gesture that you’d never catch me making, were I in her shoes. We jockey up to Reese (me, quite unwillingly), and Joey tells her that she’s seen the flick, and she thinks Reese was really good, adding she’s glad Reese got the part when all was said and done. And how does Reese react?

She sneers at Joey. Then turns away.

Children, I wouldn’t say it unless I’d witnessed it with my own two eyes. Greasy Reese Witherspoon sneered at the compliment like the third grade girl with the most Valentines sneers at the third grade girl with the second most Valentines after all the Valentines have been given out, just prior to the distribution of the holiday cupcakes. It was an ugly, ugly moment. There was no offer of even an insincere, Hollywood-type “Thanks.” Merely a sneer.

Yeah, Reese is classy and Smith makes a very good point.

Meanwhile in his current post Smith makes fun of all of the gossip blogs for ripping on him for being a gossip:

Lots of folks in TalkBacks teeing off on me as being irrelevant or unfunny, which other cats in the real world, not cyber-snipers, apparently disagree with. The great irony is, the TalkBack people on the blog/gossip sites are taking me to task for being a gossip. Kettle, I call thee black.

We know we’re gossips – and so are you, Smith. There’s nothing wrong with that.

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