Get a Grip, You’re British!
Timely commentary about tonight's Academy Awards:
"Britons are a chauvinistic bunch, proprietary about their place in the world and eager to see their talents recognized abroad.
"Britons are a chauvinistic bunch, proprietary about their place in the world and eager to see their talents recognized abroad. "So they were gratified in January when Kate Winslet, one of their favorite home-team actors, snagged a Golden Globe Award, her second of the night, for her performance as a frustrated prisoner of suburbia in “Revolutionary Road.”
"That is until, failing her own actorly advice to “gather,” she began hyperventilating and burst into convulsive sobs, right there on stage.
"That is until, failing her own actorly advice to “gather,” she began hyperventilating and burst into convulsive sobs, right there on stage.
"Ms. Winslet then went on to pay tribute to people no one had ever heard of, like her agents and make-up artists; announced that she loved her co-star, Leonardo DiCaprio “with all my heart”; forgot Angelina Jolie’s name; and generally behaved as if she had just learned that a donor heart had finally been found, enabling her transplant operation to go ahead after all.
"Oh my God, was the general reaction in Britain."
"Oh my God, was the general reaction in Britain."