Natalie Portman

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Anonymous wrote:You need a hobby badly OP. Surely, you can find something better to do with your time. You sound insecure + jealous to be making up rumors about a Jewish actress.

She didn't make up rumors. She said "Natalie Portman seems smug." She didn't say Natalie Portman throws babies out windows or kills kittens.

Also, nothing OP said had anything to do with NP being Jewish.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the tension with her is that she seems to want to be seen as a serious actress, but she doesn’t do serious work.

I really don’t think she’s very good. She was good in black swan but that staring intense look seems to be her one note. I hate those perfume ads she does with such a passion that I almost can’t see her in anything else. What would you do for love?

I thought she was terrible in Black Swan. I honestly thought it was supposed to be some sort of camp performance for the first 3/4 until I realized that it was intended to be a serious drama. I've always found her to be a so-so actress (except she was legitimately good in The Professional). But I remain mystified why she got so much phrase for that terrible, hystrionic performance in Black Swan.

Finally someone else thinks the same! I always say she got an Oscar for losing a ton of weight. The Academy loves when actors lose a lot of weight for a role (see, e.g., Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club, Tom Hanks in Philadelphia, etc.)

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Anonymous wrote:1) I heard the same rumor about her when I was at MIT, but I figured people probably think that anyway because she's famous and that's why she got into Harvard.
2) I thought she kind of got her comeuppance with that messy baby mamma situation.
3) Haven't seen her in anything since then

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I'm assuming PP means how she met and married her husband. "Benjamin Millepied met actress Natalie Portman on the set of Black Swan in early 2009 and reportedly left his live-in girlfriend at the time, Isabella Boylston, a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre, to begin a relationship with the actress." In December 2010, news broke that Natalie was "engaged to choreographer Benjamin Millepied, and the couple is expecting their first child."

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She is my exact age and I know some people who knew her way back when. The word on the street was confirmed smug.

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Anonymous wrote:She is my exact age and I know some people who knew her way back when. The word on the street was confirmed smug.

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I think she's a great actress, am interested to see what she does the next ten years.

Don't know, don't care if she's smug.

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lol I wouldn’t want to be judged for the things I did in college, but she did steal a friend’s boyfriend while he was at Harvard and my friend was elsewhere.

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She's clearly of more than average intelligence. She was an Intel semi-finalist when she was in high school. (She entered under her real name so that nobody would realize the project was done by the actress.) So acting wasn't the only thing that helped get her into Harvard.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought I had read that she broke up someone’s marriage? A vegetarian writer named Jonathan Szafran. And she was so taken with him that she had to start writing to him. Gag.

Not quite -- the actual story is hilarious. Portman and Jonathan Safran Foer became friends a long time ago because she was a fan of his novels, and then she became a vegan because of his non-fiction book on vegetarianism. They wrote these long and hilariously pretentious and self-congratulatory emails to each other for years, and you can read many of them online.

Apparently Safran Foer though this correspondence was evidence that he and Portman were in love, and he told his wife and they split up.

The only problem is that Portman was and is married to ballet dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millipied, and was not in love with Safran Foer and was actually just enjoying what she considered to be stimulating intellectual correspondence.

This anecdote neither makes me like nor dislike Portman (who seems kind of insufferable on a personal level but otherwise inoffensive as a celebrity). It does make me think Jonathan Safran Foer is (1) obsessed with her, and (2) extremely stupid.

This remains one of my favorite celebrity gossip items though, even these years later.

https://www.vox.com/2016/7/14/12187884/jonathan-safran-foer-natalie-portman-emails

He’s completely insufferable. He left the incredibly beautiful and talented Nicole Krauss due to his infatuation with Portman.

Right. Nicole Krauss is by far the better writer, too!

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Anonymous wrote:Jonathan S-F's books aren't even as good as those by his ex wife, Nicole Krauss. Her books are amazing.

+1000

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I didn’t like the way she publicly shamed moby by calling him an old, creepy guy but I guess he shouldn’t have written about her in his book. She looked pretty happy to be hanging out with him in the pics though and didn’t seem to take any personal responsibility for her role in the “relationship,” whatever it was.

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I grew up not too far from her on Long Island and had friends who went to Syosset High School with her. Right after she started at Harvard she gave an interview where she said she didn’t have a prom date because all of the boys were too intimidated to ask her. We all cracked up over it because it wasn’t that people were too intimidated by her, they found her pretentious and tedious AF and didn’t want to spend time with her.

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Anonymous wrote:lol I wouldn’t want to be judged for the things I did in college, but she did steal a friend’s boyfriend while he was at Harvard and my friend was elsewhere.

No boyfriend has ever been stolen, they have walked away, willingly, into the arms of a more desirable woman is all.

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She was sexualized as a child in Beautiful Girls; and it was a creepy subplot about her platonic relationship with Timothy Hutton and how he was attracted to her. Super sick.

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Anonymous wrote:lol I wouldn’t want to be judged for the things I did in college, but she did steal a friend’s boyfriend while he was at Harvard and my friend was elsewhere.

No boyfriend has ever been stolen, they have walked away, willingly, into the arms of a more desirable woman is all.

More desirable or just flavor of the month? Cheating is often all about that new relationship energy not any flaw in the previous girlfriend. And how you get them is how you lose them.