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E. Annie Proulx: Fancy Name, Big Baby.
Monday March 13th 2006, 11:11 am
Filed under: media,rants

E. Annie Proulx, writer of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Shipping News, has outed herself as a big fucking baby in Saturday’s Guardian. Proulx wrote a short story that was later adapted by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana into a screeplay for some weird movie about gay cowboys, and she now feels that said gay cowboy movie was robbed of a well-deserved Oscar for Best Picture by some other movie called Crash. In a delightfully cheeky display of writerly wordplay, she refers to it as “Trash.” Get it? Yeah, it’s pretty good. What do you expect? She’s a Pulitzer Prize winner.

Anyway, her printed missive smacks of sour grapes and a lumbering dinosaur of a writer fading into irrelevance with all the style and grace of a frozen dog turd. In it, she proceeds to trash everyone from Philip Seymour Hoffman to Three Six Mafia*, a ballsy move considering the Triple 6 are some of the craziest thugged out dirty south gangsters (read: the ONLY ones) to ever grace the red carpet. Her reasons for trashing Hoffman? Check it out:

“Hollywood loves mimicry, the conversion of a film actor into the spittin’ image of a once-living celeb. But which takes more skill, acting a person who strolled the boulevard a few decades ago and who left behind tapes, film, photographs, voice recordings and friends with strong memories, or the construction of characters from imagination and a few cold words on the page? I don’t know. The subject never comes up.” 

Wah, wah. Seriously – has this woman ever even SEEN the Oscars? Does she really think the Oscar for Best Picture goes to the best movie? Where was she in 1997? How about 2000? Get a clue, babe. Use those tears to shine your Pulitzer Prize or something – you’re embarassing yourself. 

* I would like to state as a matter of fact that Three Six Mafia, who just won an Oscar, also made this. Just sayin’.