Mike Huckabee Is Not Happy With Natalie Portman's Pregnancy, and 6 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today
Also in this Friday (Friday!) edition of The Broadsheet: An outstanding reminder of why Charlie Sheen is a bad guy... A recent Oscar winner could get knighted... James Franco is still doing things... and more ahead.
· Natalie Portman isn't just glamorous -- she's glamorizing out-of-wedlock pregnancies. Right, former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee? "One of the things that's troubling is that people see a Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet who boasts of, 'Hey look, you know, we're having children, we're not married, but we're having these children, and they're doing just fine,'" Huckabee said in a radio interview on Monday. "There aren't really a lot of single moms out there who are making millions of dollars every year for being in a movie, and I think it gives a distorted image." Wait, don't go anywhere -- there's more. "Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that's the story that we're not seeing." Note to political pundits, be careful with words like "most." [THR]
· Lost in the gallows humor surrounding Sheenpocalypse '11 is that fact that Charlie Sheen has a history of physical abuse against women. Not that you'd know it from the fawning, myth-making media coverage he's received from Piers Morgan, Andrea Canning and Jeff Rossen. If this has bothered you over the past week -- and especially if it hasn't -- click through to read Anna Holmes' sharp op-ed on Sheen and domestic violence in Friday's New York Times. Now this is winning. [NYT]
· Soon you'll have to call him Sir Colin Firth. The Oscar winning English actor is set to be knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. Natch. [The Independent]
· Some of us here at Movieline HQ might be suffering from James Franco fatigue, but not Michael Stipe. Franco has been chosen to direct two videos for R.E.M. because he figured out cloning is much better than you just likes jobs. [HitFix]
· Johnny Knoxville is almost as busy as James Franco. Paramount has picked up two projects involving the merry prankster: First Man, about the husband of the first female president, and Mustache Riders. In the latter comedy, Knoxville and his Jackass co-stars Bam Margera and Ryan Dunn will play treasure hunters alongside Willie Nelson. If you got high from simply reading that sentence, Movieline apologizes. [Deadline]
· Check out the boring subtitles for the two Hobbit films: There and Back Again and The/An Unexpected Journey. [TheOneRing]
· Tom Cruise and Anne Hathaway starring in Rock of Ages is a bad idea. Julianne Hough starring as the leading female? Not so bad. [Wrap]
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Why don't they just call it "The Hobbit?"
Why is Mike Huckabee not happy with Natalie Portman's pregnancy? She's what 29 years old? Old enough to make her own decisions,and if Natalie Portman felt she was ready to bring a child into this world,then so be it.But if Natalie is bringing a child into the world while acting immaturely herself,then Mike Huckabee has a gripe.Either way,good luck in both acting and being a mom Natalie ,neither one is easy.
Huckabee's ignorance is massive. His stereotypes are embarrassing. Talk about self-righteousness! He's forgotten that one of the 7 deadly sins is Pride.
What an unjustified reason to give on Portman's pregnancy! Marriage is not as common nowadays as it used to be and some may say it is hard enough to meet someone special let alone contemplate on whether you will have children or not. Natalie Portman should be congratulated that she has met someone who she cares about and feels ready to have a child with as well as being at the peak of her acting career. It is the government that should be blamed for giving handouts to single mothers which has made them not motivated to seek an education or work for a living. Therefore there is no such comparison with single mums and Portman as Portman has obviously worked hard to get where she is in her career which should be inspiring to young mothers to do something with their lives. Marriage is also not the bes all and ends all to a relationship - it is the relationship itself that withstands a good partnership not a piece of paper.
That Huckabee and Palin are the shining stars of the tea party movement should give America great pause. Of course it doesn't, because most Americans are stupid.
If you've read The Hobbit, you'd know that 'There and Back Again' is the title of the autobiography written by Bilbo Baggins about his journey...which is chronicled in 'The Hobbit'.
Who cares what this fat f**k thinks?
F**k Huckabee and his "Christian" BS. Only the most severely ignorant among us would ever vote for that POS.