NEWS: Everyone Hates Zhang?

CELEB: Everyone Hates Zhang?

How can anyone diss Zhang Ziyi? If you're not familiar with her name, she is the Chinese actress who has starred in such films as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Rush Hour 2," and "Memoirs of a Geisha." While Americans have embraced Ziyi, Hong Kong Media outlets have reveled in tearing her apart piece-by-piece, starting with her formal wear.

If you plan on traveling to Hong Kong in the near future, be certain to bend at your waist to tie your shoes, because according to Next squatting is pedestrian.

Stateside, we marveled at Zhang's grace and refinement as she presented at this year's Oscars, but Chinese editors mocked her accent and wardrobe.

What?!? That girl's a hottie!!

Jesus, that's harsh.

Yeah, but occassionally she dressed like a blind girl without a mirror and it only takes once or twice to become a target.

...and then we have Chloe Sevigny, who practically lives like a blind girl without a mirror, and is constantly celebrated for her forward-thinking fashion.

I very recently gave her a shout out.

Boy, Hong Kong is a petty bitch.

I thought she did rather well at the Oscars. I happen to think that she is absolutely gorgeous.

this doesn't sound too different from how we treat our celebrities in america. george bush can't pronounce "nuclear" correctly, britney spears is trailer trash, and that stupid Blackwell list....


[Edited on Mar 27, 2006 by SuicidePuppies]

Yeah, don't hold your breath for any celebrations of her from us, we loathe her bigtime. She has always dressed like an ungroomed asshole.

It must have something to do with her becoming a recognized star in the West. Although I would have thought that this sort of backlash would have come from Japan, just because she was in Memoirs of a Geisha. (I don't really have a problem with that. Aguirre, Wrath of God had Germans playing Spaniards. I do, however, have something of a problem with both glamorizing and lamenting the life of a geisha, which was how that movie looked to me.)

Sorry, but Celeb Worship are amateurs compared to the HK press. They have the world's largest arsenal of tactical nuclear snark.

so, basically what you are saying is that groomed assholes are hot, right?

(cuz i just shaved my butt.. )

Is this stuff meant to be fashionable or is she simply not bothering with fashion? It makes a difference, because I absolutely respect a person who simply refuses to play the game of "I look better than you" at all and just wears whatever the hell they want.

God bless you, child.

*Whispers in _DictionaryGirls_ ear*

Oh my Jesus, did you see the hat that EdwardTeach is wearing? It's is soooo last century. SHHHHH....he's looking over here.

*waves at EdwardTeach*

I love that hat, where'd you get it?!

No one just wants to dress like this, do they? I thought it was all some sort of statement about being wild and indie and different.



[Edited on Mar 27, 2006 by _DictionaryGirl_]

Oh my god and look at that facial hair! Tré creepy ass pirate.

HellooOOOOOooooo Edward! I'm totally loving that gatlin gun!

Oh no, the sunglasses are totally boss! I was talking about the bathrobe.

Once again, I sort of admire that. But it could be because I was apparently the only one who liked Bjork's swan dress. I don't fucking care about celebrity fashion, so you have to wear something really amusingly stupid to be remotely interesting. I've always thought it would be fun to show up for the Oscars in jeans and a t-shirt or something much uglier.

[Edited on Mar 27, 2006 by TedKoppel]

What was funny about that was that there were people who were actually offended at the way Trey Parker and Matt Stone dressed. I remember that for some goddamned reason I saw Joan Rivers's fashion review at the Oscars and people were upset about the whole thing (she was not).

It was because they were dressing to resemble outfits previously worn by Jennifer Lopez (teal dress worn as date to P. Diddy to 2000 Grammy Awards) and Gwynneth Paltrow (pink dress worn when she worn the Oscar for her performance in "Shakespeare in Love.")

EDIT: My typing is pants.

[Edited on Mar 27, 2006 by lilyk]

wtf