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David
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 Meryl Streep blasts Walt Disney while feting Emma Thompson  Quote: The National Board of Review dinner is like the big pre-game to the Golden Globes, where wine bottles are uncorked in New York and don’t stop flowing until the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s gala on Sunday. But this year’s ceremony will forever be remembered for its nine-minute tour-de-force speech from Meryl Streep.
Streep, for once, wasn’t invited to accept an award. Instead, she was there to honor Emma Thompson for her portrait as “Mary Poppins” creator P.L. Travers in Disney’s “Saving Mr. Banks.”
There was plenty of effusive Thompson praising in the speech — with phrases like “she’s practically a saint” and “she’s a beautiful artist” — and it ended with a poem that Streep had written for her friend titled “An Ode to Emma, Or What Emma is Owed.” But Streep also made a point of blasting Walt Disney for his sexist and anti-Semitic stances.
The edgy riff offered a different perspective on Disney from the sugarcoated hero played by Tom Hanks in “Saving Mr. Banks.” Streep was once rumored to be in the running for the role of P.L. Travers, although her remarks suggest why she might not have pursued the project.
“Some of his associates reported that Walt Disney didn’t really like women,” Streep said, quoting esteemed animator Ward Kimball on his old boss: “He didn’t trust women or cats.”
Streep talked about how Disney “supported an anti-Semitic industry lobbying group” and called him a “gender bigot.” She read a letter that his company wrote in 1938 to an aspiring female animator. It included the line, “Women do not do any of the creative work in connection with preparing the cartoons for the screen, as that task is performed entirely by young men.” I am not sure a speech introducing and feting a friend and peer was the most suitable or tactful vehicle to express her concern, but it is an interesting...tension. It is fascinating (and ballsy?) how the Mouse House has created an expensive, A-list ode to itself, its founder, and its own "redemptive power" and triumphantly sold it as a stately biographical drama. The film is such a whitewash (of Walt, of P. L. Travers, of alcoholism, of grief, of old-school Hollywood), it would see a white wall and demand it be painted whiter still. _________________   1. The Lost City of Z - 2. A Cure for Wellness - 3. Phantom Thread - 4. T2 Trainspotting - 5. Detroit - 6. Good Time - 7. The Beguiled - 8. The Florida Project - 9. Logan and 10. Molly's Game
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Re: Meryl Streep blasts Walt Disney while feting Emma Thomps Meryl just doesn't care anymore, I love it.
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Re: Meryl Streep blasts Walt Disney while feting Emma Thomps Streep is kinda cool.
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Re: Meryl Streep blasts Walt Disney while feting Emma Thomps I still think there needs to be a gripping biopic of Walt Disney as a bitter anti-Semitic, chain smoking, hallucinogenic drug taking, utopia obsessed, creative genius, workaholic madman that also captures the 1950s as a world of unrestrained scientific and creative progress as best represented through Walt himself. Oh and Tom Hanks would still play the role.
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Re: Meryl Streep blasts Walt Disney while feting Emma Thomps Quote: He didn’t trust women or cats. Well no shit. _________________trixster wrote: shut the fuck up zwackerm, you're out of your fucking element trixster wrote: chippy is correct
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Re: Meryl Streep blasts Walt Disney while feting Emma Thomps Streep is invincible.
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Re: Meryl Streep blasts Walt Disney while feting Emma Thomps Bashing a dead man really isn't appropriate at an awards ceremony. There was simply...no need Dahling.
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Re: Meryl Streep blasts Walt Disney while feting Emma Thomps So bashing Hitler is taboo at your social events?
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Re: Meryl Streep blasts Walt Disney while feting Emma Thomps Algren wrote: So bashing Hitler is taboo at your social events? 
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Re: Meryl Streep blasts Walt Disney while feting Emma Thomps Algren wrote: So bashing Hitler is taboo at your social events? What would be the point? Comparing Walt Disney to Hitler is obviously ridiculous.
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Re: Meryl Streep blasts Walt Disney while feting Emma Thomps nghtvsn wrote: Algren wrote: So bashing Hitler is taboo at your social events? What would be the point? Comparing Walt Disney to Hitler is obviously ridiculous. Don't make blank statements that are so easily targeted then. _________________STOP UIGHUR GENOCIDE IN XINJIANG
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Re: Meryl Streep blasts Walt Disney while feting Emma Thomps I do think it's funny Meryl went on an anti-Disney rant when one of her next films is Disney's Into the Woods.
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Re: Meryl Streep blasts Walt Disney while feting Emma Thomps Fire the old bitch!
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Re: Meryl Streep blasts Walt Disney while feting Emma Thomps Brian wrote: Fire the old bitch! 
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Re: Meryl Streep blasts Walt Disney while feting Emma Thomps OMG. Great article. Quote: Oh, and for those of you who want to say The Devil Wears Prada? Please. I don't need your charity. This made my day.
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Re: Meryl Streep blasts Walt Disney while feting Emma Thomps Libs wrote: Brian wrote: Fire the old bitch! It's the Disney plant.
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Re: Meryl Streep blasts Walt Disney while feting Emma Thomps BK wrote: Libs wrote: Brian wrote: Fire the old bitch! It's the Disney plant. Pixar, Yes, I love their work; disney, No, though I love some of their classics and like/enjoy a few of their live action films BTW, look at your avatar  LOL at how I found you replying me here again, I would actually say that your obsession against/for disney is more visible than.......... mine?  . Really, your hypocrisy is going beyond the abnormal .......and my inocent coment was about Into the Woods, oh!, I just remembered, it's hard for you to analize posts and once again, reply whatever garbage you are accustomed to say against the pixar loonies, I'm just gonna ignore you  I'm here to have fun! not to deal with trashy comments
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