Thursday, September 6, 2012

THIS COULD BE A PROBLEM FOR KNOPE 2016: We don't normally traffic in celebrity gossip, but news that Will Arnett and Amy Poehler are separating has generated enough dismay amongst TV critics and similar folks that it would seem a problem to not have a space for mourning.

15 comments:

  1. Joseph Finn10:10 PM

    BOOOOOOOOO, I SAY!

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  2. The Pathetic Earthling11:04 PM

    Can I feel premorse for a marriage?  I had no idea they were married to begin with.

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  3. This makes me sad.

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  4. Eric J.6:58 AM

    If they want some counseling, I know just the person.

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  5. bristlesage9:58 AM

    Man, I've always liked her so much more than him that I was pretty cool with this.  I mean, it legitimately sucks for them, but fly away, Amy! Be free! 

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  6. Why am I the only one not surprised?  I never saw the chemistry.

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  7. Laura2:51 PM

    I am quite sad about this.

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  8. Bobby3:03 PM

    Wouldn't that be postmorse? Like finding out someone you didn't know was alive had died?

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  9. bella wilfer3:23 PM

    The problem with living/working in Los Angeles is you hear so many stories about how "person X who seems nice in the media is actually a total hosebeast" and thus it lessens your surprise/dismay at things like this.  No comment on who the hosebeast is in this situation.

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  10. I will say it would shock me considerably more to hear that Poehler is a hosebeast than Arnett being a hosebeast.  (Also, I think there was a blind item this time last year that suggested Arnett and Applegate were having sexytimes on the set of Up All Night.)

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  11. Benner7:37 PM

    Good for them. I trust their judgment that they'll be happier apart.

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  12. Benner7:38 PM

    Good for them. I trust their judgment that they'll be happier apart.

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  13. Anonymous8:08 PM

    That's the Louis C.K. theory of divorce.  

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  14. isaac_spaceman9:30 PM

    I used to live and work in LA, and I used to eat up those stories about various people who were hosebeasts and who were gay and who were blah blah blah, because you hear them from people who encountered the other people and they seem like credible sources.  And then you realize, duh, you just cannot trust those stories.  Not that they're wrong, but that they are no more likely to be true than false.  Sometimes it is because, surprise, in Los Angeles, everybody lies.  There are entire book titles written about this.  At least one entire book title:  "Hello, She Lied."  But I suspect there are others.  And the stories are unreliable even without lying.  The people who tell these stories provoked bad behavior in celebrities.  The celebrities had bad days.  Etc.  I am perfectly willing to believe, and in fact do believe, that there is a positive correlation between being a celebrity and being a horrible person.  But I also know that some of the people who I was told in confidence were horrible later established long established track records in the press of seeming not horrible, including by doing things that I admire whether or not those things were done for press reasons.  And I know that some of the people I was assured in confidence were gay pretty clearly seem not gay. 

    The compromise I've reached is this:  What do I care if somebody is secretly horrible?  If they're publicly awesome and I don't need to interact with them, then that's fine with me.  There are enough publicly horrible people (cough LINDSAY LOHAN cough I SAID LINDSAY LOHAN) that I feel like being publicly awesome is a pretty good thing. 

    Amy Poehler and Will Arnett?  Publicly awesome.  Poehler especially. 

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