The weekly Steelers' News & Notes for gameday (Sunday, 8:15 pm, against the Chargers) means that another weekend is upon us. And I am especially excited because, thanks to JetBlue realizing (unlike UsAirways) that consumers don't want to spend $263 for a one hour plane ride, I get to spend the next three days at home in Pittsburgh!
I was feeling all fuzzy and relaxed until The Mad Hungarian just incited me into a rage by forwarding this news item about Sienna Miller slamming the Steel City, where she is currently shooting The Mysteries of Pittsburgh with Peter Saarsgard.
In a nutshell:
"The Pittsburgh Post Gazette reports that citizens are boycotting actress Sienna Miller for failing to recognize Pittsburgh as the Pennsylvanian nirvana that it obviously is. As we reported yesterday, in an interview in this month’s Rolling Stone, the actress – who’s in town filming the movie The Mysteries of Pittsburgh – has taken to calling the city 'Sh-tsburgh.'
'Can you believe this is my life?' she complained to Rolling Stone’s
Jenny Eliscu, over a plate of garlic-parmesan Buffalo wings at a
Pittsburgh hotel bar. 'Will you pity me when you're back in your funky
New York apartment and I'm still in Pittsburgh? I need to get more
glamorous films.'"
The article goes on to say that, after hearing of Miller's comments, 41% of Pittsburghers say they have no desire to see the movie. This should be a reassuringly familiar scenerio to the actress, whose movies to this point (hello? Alfie and Cassanova) have both sucked and blew.
This FoxNews story notes Pittsburghers' fierce loyalty to their town...a fact of which any reader of this blog is well aware. I guess that I can only say to Sienna: in order to get more glamorous films, you need to be a better actress, something that all evidence suggests will never happen. Oh, and take your skinny boho ass back to your nanny-fucking boyfriend in London...because if I see your blonde smirk this weekend, I'll smash your face into an ode bowl of Heinz ketchup and throw you into the crick.
Please, someone make a "Pittsburgh hates Sienna" t-shirt so I can buy one when I'm at home.
Your wish has been granted.
http://www.cafepress.com/sheilacameron/1963963
Posted by: Sheila Cameron | Wednesday, 11 October 2006 at 06:21 PM
Huh. tough words lady. Pittsburgh is pretty when you fly over from Ohio. It's nice their making a movie from this really good book. Sounds like it will be a stinker though.
Posted by: General Disarray | Tuesday, 10 October 2006 at 10:18 AM
Rumor has it the city of Pittsburgh is organizing a boycott of the film...
I assure you that any boycott-- be it from Pittsburghers or simply fans of the novel-- will have NOTHING to do with Sienna Miller's asinine comments!
The fact that Rawson Marshall Thurber is destroying this story by CHANGING it is the impetus of any boycott any true "Mysteries of Pittsburgh" fan would partake in:
http://groups.myspace.com/MOPfilm
Has he NOT read the book!?
Why would any self-proclaimed fan—like Mr. Thuber-- completely erase Arthur Lecomte from the story and whittle down Phlox Lombardi? Don't even get me started on Cleveland Art Bechstein’s bisexual lover!
Re-read p. 204 of the paperback, Mr. Thurber... Please, I beg you.
Posted by: franQ | Monday, 09 October 2006 at 07:43 PM
did she seriously say, "Can you belive this is my life?" seriously??? and I think *I* need to gain some perspective...geesh!
ps. I really liked the "nanny-fucking" part...way to bring it BG!
Posted by: the polish princess | Monday, 09 October 2006 at 03:27 PM
OMFG, that post was an act of pure beauty.
Posted by: matthew | Saturday, 07 October 2006 at 11:58 PM