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Post by texasgal on Jun 4, 2010 21:14:11 GMT -5
Yes, that's true, SugarMagnolia. Maybe Owen speaks slowly because he's speaking deliberately. Maybe that's the way he learned to overcome his speech impediment, and his slow speech has just become a part of him.
I used to have a speech impediment too when I was younger so I know how that is. I lisped. I didn't conquer it until I was in college! Even now, it slips back once in a while, especially when I'm tired.
Thanks for adding that insight!
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Post by iluvtexas on Jun 4, 2010 21:35:00 GMT -5
Oh my...I just don't get where some of these comments are coming from....He appears mighty fine....how would you expect someone to look who has answered the same questions over and over...I enjoy his sense of humor all the while while laughing at GL"s funny stories and remarks....which he probably has heard before since they relate to animals and the new movie....Marmaduke... I will post it again....I think this choice of movie is an excellent one for Owen....I looks like a fun easy going movie to see....and the reviews are good, very good in fact.
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Post by SugarMagnolia on Jun 4, 2010 21:48:12 GMT -5
Oh my...I just don't get where some of these comments are coming from....He appears mighty fine....how would you expect someone to look who has answered the same questions over and over...I enjoy his sense of humor all the while while laughing at GL"s funny stories and remarks....which he probably has heard before since they relate to animals and the new movie....Marmaduke... I will post it again....I think this choice of movie is an excellent one for Owen....I looks like a fun easy going movie to see....and the reviews are good, very good in fact. I agree with you, and that's an excellent point about how much the questions are repeated during a press junket, how long the questions can go on, how many different news outlets - those events go on for hours, it must be so boring. Has anyone here ever seen the movie America's Sweethearts? It has a really funny scene with Catherine Zeta Jones and John Cusack getting very bored and goofy during a day-long press junket. And remember the scene from Notting Hill when Hugh Grant goes to see Julia Roberts at the Ritz Hotel during the press junket, and there's a room full of reporters waiting in the suite to ask her the same questions? That has to be exhausting!
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Post by texasgal on Jun 4, 2010 21:53:42 GMT -5
Good point. I hadn't thought of that. (Cut me some slack: my life is SO different from that of an A-lister!!) ;D
Yes, it could well be that Owen is bored to tears and trying very hard not to appear that way. And like I said, maybe he's just very tired. He has said before that he is not a high-energy person, if we can believe that quote is true.
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Post by locke on Jun 4, 2010 21:56:25 GMT -5
my looking too relaxed comment was about looking high not his slow speech or impediment.i never knew those things about him.His voice is lovely
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Post by cookie on Jun 4, 2010 22:07:50 GMT -5
Thanks for the background information on Owen, SugarMagnolia! I have only recently become a Wilsonette wannabe and it is good to know some of the history.
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Post by lonegazer on Jun 5, 2010 7:44:39 GMT -5
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Post by iluvtexas on Jun 5, 2010 7:49:39 GMT -5
Locke I am just curious....so no hard feelings ok...but how can you justify your comment? He looks mighty fine. Are you just buying in to gossip when you make that statement? PS....Reviews like this one .... Owen Wilson, he kills it with the Voice over of Marmaduke!! Marmaduke is best kids Movie In the past few years...! Awesome
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Post by texasgal on Jun 5, 2010 10:09:16 GMT -5
Well, in defense of Locke, Jon Stewart made a similar remark to Owen when Owen appeared on his show. Owen was acting "relaxed," if you want to say it that way. He was swiveling his chair side-to-side in a cute carefree, childish way, answering Jon's questions with short answers in his drawled distinctive way. This went on for a few minutes and a few questions, and Jon asked: "So how high are you?" Everyone, including Owen, just laughed. Years ago I was watching a similar interview-type show in U.K. with an English friend. The guest on the show that night happened to be Pearl Bailey. For those who don't know, Pearl Bailey (1918-1990) was a very well-known African-American actress/singer mostly known for her vaudeville and Broadway work. I saw her on Broadway when she was appearing in an all-black production of Hello Dolly. Just because of the way Ms. Bailey spoke, my English friend thought she was drunk. I said No, of course she's not drunk. I'd seen her on many talk shows before and that's just the way she is. So I don't know if Owen is sometimes high, or never high. Maybe he gives this impression because he's tired for whatever reason, maybe that's how he compensates for being nervous (or bored) at interviews, or maybe that's just his natural demeanor. Viewers pick up different impressions of people, and sometimes those impressions are correct or have a hint of truth, and sometimes they couldn't be more wrong. I'm very suspicious that Owen could be high all the time or even some of the time. I don't see how he could maintain such a successful career if he was in such a state even part of the time. I'm not an actor and don't even know any professional actors but it seems to me an actor who works as much as Owen does could hardly maintain his career and be high. He might get away with it for a while but it seems to me nobody could get away with it for this long and maintain their success. It would show up in any number of ways that would have ruined his career by now. Oh, and Locke, there is a difference between voice and speech. I think both his voice and speech are lovely too. Oh, and thank you Lonegazer, for posting the two new interviews! And Iluvtexas, I think he looks just fine too.
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Post by locke on Jun 5, 2010 12:19:19 GMT -5
i justify my comment because he looks high in some interviews or like i said he may just have one of those faces..For me his voice is perfect and thats y he gets alot of voice work.
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Post by Vera on Jun 5, 2010 13:19:34 GMT -5
.I looks like a fun easy going movie to see....and the reviews are good, very good in fact. Well, it has an 11% on Rotten Tomatoes, which I think most people would consider a monumental critical failure. However, I'm one of those people who buck critics' choices...sometimes I vociferously disagree with them. After all, when you stop and think about it, what makes their opinion more valuable than your own? I always amazes me when people trust a critic more than they trust themselves. I have seen older movies that had been panned by critics that I have absolutely loved, and vice versa. Having said that, I will be one of those Owen fans skipping this movie--those kind of movies are torture for me to sit through, to be perfectly honest. My kids have no desire to see it either. I see it had a disappointing box office last night (Friday) but that is supposed to tick up a little with the afternoon kiddie matinees. I think why Owen (and others) do these movies because they are just a few days of work and monumental paychecks. I believe I read that Cameron Diaz made $10 million for the latest Shrek movie voicing Fiona. I believe actors need to be very careful of doing movies just for the money; it may be good for them in the short term, but in the long run it could do some damage to their careers.
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Post by lonegazer on Jun 5, 2010 14:03:40 GMT -5
Owen did say in one of those Marmaduke interviews that it was quicker to do Marmaduke than Cars which took years to complete, so I suppose it is easy money and generally a lot of parents will go regardless of reviews. Just as I did to too many kiddie films. I just wish Luke would get some of these easy pickings! I won't go and see it as I'm waiting now for Little Fockers (if that is the title) and How do you know?.
It was me who mentioned Owen looking stoned at times. It's no secret over the years that he and Luke have had this reputation and Woody we know has been campaigning for the legalialisation of Marijuana. The 'Prince of Pot' Marc Emery dropped Owen's and Woody's names in an interview when asked which celebs he'd met who'd supported his cause. They could have met to play ping pong but I doubt it. I don't agree with Woody's or Emery's views but it happens in life.
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Post by SugarMagnolia on Jun 5, 2010 14:38:28 GMT -5
Why does everyone remember this one interview on The Daily Show as evidence that Owen was high, when he clearly explains right after Jon Stewart asks him the question, that he had just been running in Central Park calming himself down before the interview? Doesn't anyone work out and know that after a workout you can be calm and happy, and be willing to be friendly and laughing with Jon Stewart? www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-july-13-2006/owen-wilsonCompare it with the 2001 interview he did in support of Zoolander, he's got the same relaxed and slow way of speaking, it might simply be how he is, but no one points that out either: www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-october-9-2001/owen-wilsonLet's consider semiotic theory and memes. Everyone repeats that one stupid question Jon Stewart asked him, and no one repeats what he had really been doing - running and yoga. It's so much easier to have a laugh at his expense and assume he's high when he probably wasn't at all. And at the same time, we have countless movie stars who are assumed to lead pure lives who have been drinking alcohol in the green room or taking percocet and valium before they do an interview. And stop and think about what kind of question it is - "how high are you right now" is another variation on "when did you stop beating your wife" - if you say yes or no, I'm not, you sound like a horrible person either way. It becomes a meme, a repeated cultural assumption that everyone buys into without thinking critically about it. Like the Butterscotch Stallion nickname that Mark Lisanti started. Another example has been going around about Glenn Beck, because he's famous for starting such negative ideas about people on the left. So now people respond all over the internet saying "Is it true Glenn Beck raped and murdered a girl in 1990." See how easy it is to start a negative meme about a celebrity, Google that phrase. It's completely unfair to Owen. We're living in a society where people who actually take care of themselves get made fun of for it. I have no problem with people who smoke the stuff, but assuming that because he and Luke and Woody and Willie are in favor of legalization and publicizing the good things about hemp that they are chronically stoned, is completely and utterly wrong. It also bugs me that no matter if Owen is calm or giddy, talking slow or talking fast, someone is going to assume it's because he's high. In the Daily Show interview he's happy and smiling and swiveling back and forth in his chair like a happy person. Why can't we all just let him be happy and calm and enjoy doing an interview. It's no wonder he's doing limited press, since no matter how he acts, people don't seem interested in who he really is or how he is, just what jokes and assumptions they can try to make about him.
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Post by texasgal on Jun 5, 2010 15:00:10 GMT -5
SugarMagnolia, I sincerely apologize for my comment. With the administrator's permission, I will delete it since it has offended you so much. In no way did I intend for my comment to be taken as criticism of Owen, and I am sorry my comment came off as such.
I thought I had pointed out Pearl Bailey as a slow-talker who was misinterpreted as being drunk, and that there are people who speak slowly and those who speak rapidly. I tend to be a rapid-talker, and my friend in St. Louis tends to be a slow-talker. Our telephone conversations tend to get a little out of sync because of it. I was only trying to give examples that might explain something to Locke and anyone else who might think Owen is high. For example, I only mentioned the Jon Stewart interview because that might be something Locke and others might be basing their opinions on and thought Jon's question was serious. I didn't mention it because I thought Owen was stoned at the time. I knew he was not and that Jon's question was meant as a joke.
In fact, in one of Lonegazer's most recently posted interviews, Owen is speaking in what I think of as an average pace for the average American.
You know, I think I should just stop posting here because it seems like every time there has been friction on the forum, I've been a part of it or inspired it or instigated it. My apologies, everyone.
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Post by lonegazer on Jun 5, 2010 15:29:51 GMT -5
Don't take it personal, it's obvious I don't. The Wilson brothers have never claimed to be like the Jonas brothers and that's part of their appeal to me and anyway people in the media who claim to be squeaky clean are usually wearing a mask and get exposed sooner or later, like Tiger Woods and too many others recently.
I can't even see that Daily Show interview as it's not available outside the US.
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