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| re: I'd be surprised if she and Goodman don't release statements within 24 hours | |
| Last Edit: WaymanWong 06:58 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 06:56 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
| In reply to: I'd be surprised if she and Goodman don't release statements within 24 hours - MockingbirdGirl 05:58 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
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| Why would it even take 24 hours? If Metcalf and Goodman didn't want to be the first ones to comment, they've already got the ''cover'' of fellow actors and producers from ''Roseanne'' condemning Barr's despicable statements. Of course, they've also got the prerogative of saying nothing and silently supporting Barr, but given how racist Barr's tweets were, it seems so cowardly. Sadly, it's not even the first bigoted time that Barr called a black woman an ''ape.'' In 2013, she referred to Obama security adviser Susan Rice as ''a man with big, swinging ape balls.'' And then there's her history of calling people ''Nazis,'' dressing up as Hitler and attacking Muslims and trans people, etc. |
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| re: I'd be surprised if she and Goodman don't release statements within 24 hours | |
| Last Edit: MockingbirdGirl 07:33 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
| Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 07:29 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
| In reply to: re: I'd be surprised if she and Goodman don't release statements within 24 hours - WaymanWong 06:56 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
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| Why would it even take 24 hours? I never said it would. But if they're not on social media, it's going to be a statement drawn up by a publicist, which takes longer. And not for nothing, but Uma Thurman's statement on Weinstein lost none of its power for her waiting until, as she put it, she was "able to take her time" and express her thoughts. |
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| re: I'd be surprised if she and Goodman don't release statements within 24 hours | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 08:48 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
| In reply to: re: I'd be surprised if she and Goodman don't release statements within 24 hours - MockingbirdGirl 07:29 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
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| It doesn't take that long to put out a statement through a publicist. Bruce Helford, ''Roseanne's'' showrunner, put out his statement within about an hour of ABC's cancellation (10:47 a.m.). Another ''Roseanne'' actor, Michael Fishman, who played D.J., has chimed in and called Barr's comments ''reprehensible and intolerable.'' He added that ''to sit back or distance myself ... would unintentionally endorse or placate those statements which I find truly offensive.” |
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| It's all damage control and I don't want to lionize people in a desperate attempt to save their own skin. | |
| Posted by: portenopete 10:14 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
| In reply to: re: I'd be surprised if she and Goodman don't release statements within 24 hours - WaymanWong 08:48 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
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| Like all the supporting players in this new generation of real-life movies-of-the-week, Fishman and many of his co-stars are trying to save their own skin. They knew who they were getting into bed with and hoped that, maybe, she might have changed. Perhaps Metcalf and Goodman feel no need to exonerate themselves via the public confessional. They are both presumably very wealthy after years of regular series roles plus the myriad amount of one-offs and movies and plays. And maybe they don't feel the need to cry crocodile tears in order for people to understand that they don't share Roseanne Barr's views. As any relative of an addict knows- and I suspect that Barr is herself an addict of infamy and controversy- you are always giving them the benefit of the doubt and hoping that they had changed their ways. I can only assume that the players involved hoped that Roseanne had changed. Saying "I find her statements offensive" is not an act of bravery on the level of "I am Spartacus". |
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| re: I'd be surprised if she and Goodman don't release statements within 24 hours | |
| Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 08:54 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
| In reply to: re: I'd be surprised if she and Goodman don't release statements within 24 hours - WaymanWong 08:48 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
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| Look, I'm not going to argue with you about it. I'm already on the record several posts up as saying it's best they do so now... but I'm not going to be outside the Golden with a pitchfork if Laurie Metcalf fails to do so quickly enough to suit me. She's entitled to respond in her own time. | |
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| re: I'd be surprised if she and Goodman don't release statements within 24 hours | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 09:22 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
| In reply to: re: I'd be surprised if she and Goodman don't release statements within 24 hours - MockingbirdGirl 08:54 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
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| Nor am I holding a pitchfork. I've acknowledged that Goodman and Metcalf have every right to say nothing. But their silence is conspicuous. | |
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| re: I'd be surprised if she and Goodman don't release statements within 24 hours | |
| Posted by: portenopete 10:16 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
| In reply to: re: I'd be surprised if she and Goodman don't release statements within 24 hours - WaymanWong 09:22 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
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| To you, maybe. Not to a lot of people. Not to me. I think they are just sad and tired and shocked. And like I said earlier, of a generation that might not think the first thing to do is ring up a publicist and make a statement. I doubt they are trying to spare Roseanne's feelings. | |
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| I think it is no surprise... | |
| Posted by: Quicheo 04:04 pm EDT 05/30/18 | |
| In reply to: re: I'd be surprised if she and Goodman don't release statements within 24 hours - portenopete 10:16 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
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| ...that the most veteran members of the cast, those that have known their co-star and her temperament as adults for the longest, and who themselves are private, not-given-to-comment people, are taking whatever time they need to say anything. I don't find any fault with the people who have chosen to say their piece / peace. But I cannot imagine what Mr. Goodman and Ms. Metcalf are thinking and what is driving their choices. And whatever I could imagine would likely be wide off from the truth. I wish them all peace and future success. | |
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| re: I think it is no surprise... | |
| Posted by: bobby2 04:26 am EDT 05/31/18 | |
| In reply to: I think it is no surprise... - Quicheo 04:04 pm EDT 05/30/18 | |
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| Goodman said today that he is not going to say anything about it. (a reporter stopped him on the street). I'd guess Metcalf will do the same. She has always been a little press shy. There was talk that it hurt her Oscar chances this year since Allison Janney was out doing all sorts of events and gatherings and Metcalf didn't. |
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| A Goodman is hard to find, but he breaks his silence ... | |
| Last Edit: WaymanWong 08:28 am EDT 05/31/18 | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 08:21 am EDT 05/31/18 | |
| In reply to: re: I think it is no surprise... - bobby2 04:26 am EDT 05/31/18 | |
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| Awards trivia: Though Goodman never won for ''Roseanne,'' he did win an Emmy for Guest Actor in ''Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.'' | |
| Link | Deadline.com: John Goodman reacts to 'Roseanne' cancellation |
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