You guys, here’s an interview with Ashley Judd and Goran Visigesundheit at Sundance talking about their depressing movie Helen. She’s all kinds of puffy in it, first of all, and secondly, she again categorically refuses to put prepositions at the end of her sentences. Granted, I know that grammatically she’s fine – it’s just that it’s impossibly pretentious-sounding.
“I have a job about which I’m crazy.” Seriously? You can’t just say you have a job you’re crazy about? Please.
And her grandmother’s bit about “We’re only as sick as our secrets.” WTF does that even mean, anyway? Seriously – I want someone to provide a real-world example of what that means. Because to me it just sounds like all the other new age nonsense she likes to dump on us all the time.
HATE.
p.s. I accidentally really want to see this movie.
I would say that she looks like she’s retaining water, but I think it’s just her enormous ego that’s making her swell. A lot.
I loved it when her co-actor said it was intense, but not as intense for him as it was for Ashley. She seems to makes everything intense!
First off. She doesn’t have her pearls on. What ? No one would give her a pearl necklace?
As for her language obsession, I can imagine meeting her, say at a KY ballgame going like this…
Me: Hi Ashley, can you tell me where the bathrooms are at?
Ashley: At Kentucky, we do not end out sentences in prepositions.
Me: I’m sorry, can you tell me where the bathrooms are at Bitch?
Then I would inexorably proceed to slapping her.
Winston Churchill once famously derided the rule by saying, “This is something up with which I will not put!”
I guess Ashley doesn’t get it.
Seriously, what was wrong with avoiding the inherent awkwardness by stating something simple and straightforward, like, “I’m crazy about my job!”
She is a legend in her own mind.
Wouldn’t it be interesting/annoying to be able to hear her thoughts? My guess is that it would be pretty uh, disturbing?
Makes it sound like being crazy is her job. How are we suppose to know what she means. I think she’s just plain crazy. Nothing that a little bitch slap won’t take care of. Oh crap, I ended that with a preposition.
I just watched this again, and you know what? She did this awkward sort of transposing without need! It wasn’t the end of the sentence. Later, she does it again, and once more it was not at the end of a sentence.
How affected can she get?!
I have a degree in English and do work as a technical writer – and think the preposition rule is an outdated, stuffy Victorian thing. It was meant to mimic Latin where prepositions are never put at the end of sentences. Because it isn’t possible to do so in Latin! It’s retarded. I will end my sentences prepositions with!
And I don’t know why you hate Ashley Judd so much. How can you not love someone that stupid? She gives you an endless supply of mock-worthy material.
It appears to me that we are all missing the point. While Ashley Judd is puffy…and pretentious…DO WE ALL NOT NOTICE THE INTERVIEWER’S OBSESSION WITH LOOKING LIKE AL FRANKEN????
I mean, come on, the guy might be the new junior Senator from Minnesota, but it’s a little early to start the whole “Single White Female” Fonda/Sheedy routine.
I’m good enough, I’m smart enough…and doggone it, I need a restraining order.
The Captain
Loyal Friend of Daisy
I think she was trying to not take quotes straight from the movie- notice the clip where Goran talks about how his wife has a job she’s crazy about, blah, blah, blah. Whatever. Maybe she just sucks at interviews. Or maybe she just sucks. But Mock I saw that little ditty at the end there…Admit it, you might actually pay ten gazzillion dollars to see her in the movie…
Maybe she is on medicine making her “puffy” it looks an awful lot like corticosteroids. The moon shape face, etc. She may even wind up with a buffalo hump to boot.
About what are you so disgruntled?
By what standard of pretention are you measuring Miss Judd’s brilliance?
I’d try to come up with more irritating ways to begin sentences with prepositions, but then you’d think I was an Ashley Judd fan.
Oh she can refuse to end her sentences with a proposition, but it is TOTALLY OKAY to speak in eternal run on sentences? Sentences that are so desperately in need of punctuation that I can notice the flaw VERBALLY? F*** YOU HYPOCRITE GRAMMAR NAZI JUDD!
Mock, the PS actually made me laugh out loud. Trying to sneak one in on us?
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