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John Aloysius Farrell

Kate Winslet Nominated for an Oscar? Life Imitates Fiction

January 26, 2009 02:30 PM ET | John Aloysius Farrell | Permanent Link | Print

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Fooled em all chief

Well done John,

Juicy fruit anyone? I went to school with Kate in Oxford and she was a Nancy sympathizer. She always wore thigh length leather boots, and only partially shaved her tash.

Your satirical observation of this piece certainly fooled most of the Commentators.

Actually 'Commentators' is allegedly a new Ricky Greaseface production about bloggers trying to break into the world of 'real' writing.

Auf Wiedersehn Pet

Dummy

I bet you're a lot of fun at parties.

You

really swung for the fences and missed with this entry John boy.

Can't win 'em all and you can count this one as a loss.

Haha!

Is this a joke? Extras isn't a documentary, it's a hilarious sitcom about relationships within the entertainment industry where famous actors are willing to portray themselves as absolute charicatures of "themselves". I don't think Gervais and Merchant would have made the series if anyone else was as thick and senseless as you. You are quite the anus.

PS. please tell me you've never seen Bo Selecta...

Crickey!

I think you may have made the mistake of only watching one episode, perhaps scene from the Extras series. All the actors ar meant to play a character, that is completly differant to what you expect. If your taking the whole Extras series seriously (which you clearly have done) then Orlando Bloom is an insecure child who hates Johnny Depp and Patrick Stewart is a man obsessed with seeing womens clothes 'just fall off'. I think you should take Extras a little less seriously and just enjoy it for what it is... Hilarious.. and stop over analysing it!

lmao

lmao, what a silly, silly article.

It's a SITCOM - Situation COMEDY. AKA not to be taken that seriously. Obviously there are real points and ponient moments scattered throughout but what you're talking about is plain pisstaking.

Get a brain.

And bloody good fictional comedy writing it remains! Sorry Mr Farrell, at least you filled the space.

kate winslet

I am so so proud of Kate Winslet! I do hope she will walk away with THE OSCAR this year for THE READER!!!! It is beautifully acted!She deserves it!

?????? cont...

....in your country a bad name.

Try and find something you do understand, then write an article on it.

??????

When you were growing up did you not understand a lot of what was being said and laughed at by adults????? This article seems to highlight things haven't really changed for you!

As a Brit you are fulfilling a wonderful stereotype of "A typical yank" and giving those that do understand advanced humour (humor I believe you spell it).

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John Aloysius Farrell is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report. An award-winning Washington reporter, he has written for The Boston Globe and The Denver Post and is the author of Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century and an upcoming biography of the great American defense attorney, Clarence Darrow.

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