Anyone else remember this?

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sacrednerve — 11 years ago(August 13, 2014 02:11 PM)

The article is trash. Bacall did not "attack" Kidman, as the writer claims; she simply said that the then 37-year-old Kidman had not been in the business long enough to be considered a legend. Nothing hostile about a comment like that at all. This is just another media crap factory trying to manufacture drama out of a completely innocuous remark.

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HighEntropyHousekeeping — 11 years ago(August 13, 2014 04:47 PM)

Bacall on Tom Cruise:
Tom Cruise is a maniac. I can't understand the way he conducts his life,' Lauren said in 2008.
'When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behaviour is so shocking.
She continued about the Top Gun star: 'It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.'

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sacrednerve — 11 years ago(August 13, 2014 05:46 PM)

Oh damn, I forgot all about the Cruise comment from his couch-jumping days. Vicious! Yeah, that's pretty much unequivocally condemning. But I still think the remark about Kidman was fine.

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brockmeeks — 11 years ago(August 19, 2014 04:19 PM)

Vicious, but she was one the few people who can say something like that about a major movie star.
Oh, and she was right

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HighEntropyHousekeeping — 11 years ago(August 13, 2014 04:43 PM)

I won't be using it to describe her. I don't mind political acerbity, but openly badmouthing your professional colleagues (personal acerbity) lacks class.

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mansidido-I — 11 years ago(August 13, 2014 08:48 PM)

Lauren Bacall was 100% correct.

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HighEntropyHousekeeping — 11 years ago(October 05, 2014 08:43 AM)

I don't care to argue the point either way. It still lacks class.

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BarelyHere — 11 years ago(August 16, 2014 01:42 PM)

She did not badmouth Kidman. She pointed out that the interviewer was using the word incorrectly.
Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

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naiad2014 — 11 years ago(August 31, 2014 01:32 PM)

It was a snub, pure and simple.

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Ebonie123 — 11 years ago(August 14, 2014 08:46 PM)

How tactless. Some people feel obliged to voice every thought that comes into their heads, no matter how much gratuitous pain or embarrassment it causes others.

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stanleycoleman — 11 years ago(August 16, 2014 04:44 PM)

I think calling Nicole Kidman a "legend" was a very bad choice of words, especially if you're going to try to group her with the likes of Lauren Bacall.

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siargao — 10 years ago(August 20, 2015 06:12 AM)

I agree with you - dunno if Bogart was the best ever though.