Katherine Heigl appeared on
Good Morning America with Diane Sawyer to talk about her new romantic comedy,
The Awful Truth. Katherine starts in the film with Gerard Butler and she is happily promoting the film. But
Newsweek decided to see if it could derail her career a bit by taking a
mean swipe at Katherine in a new article entitled "Why is Katherine Heigl so Annoying?" This is
Newsweek, not
The National Enquirer.
Newsweek first cites the fact that many blogs write mean things about her, then continues on to analyze why she's so "annoying."
But more than simply daring to challenge chauvinistic mores, Heigl has shot herself in the foot with her delivery. Everybody applauded her defense of Grey's costar T. R. Knight after costar Isaiah Washington called him a "fag." But then Heigl kept prattling on and on, even after Washington was fired in disgrace. People started to wonder if Heigl's comments were less about Knight and more about her. Last July, in an attempt to be noble, she removed herself from the Emmy race because, she said, she had not been "given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination." The press again slammed her for the diva attitude (did she really need to issue a statement? And did she have to insult the show's writers and producers while she was at it?). When she resubmitted herself in the race this year, Emmy voters failed to nominate her -- even though she's done her best work on the show this season as cancer-stricken Izzie. But forget about Izzie and her eroding brain.
Heigl wants all the sympathy for herself. This week, she carped to David Letterman that she'd had a "seventeen- (dramatic pause) hour (dramatic pause)" workday on set, and that she was "going to keep saying this because I hope it embarrasses them [the Grey's Anatomy show runners]." Embarrass them for what? Keeping her employed? To a country nearing 10 percent unemployment, the remark was tone-deaf.
We didn't see the Letterman clip, but we admit her comments sound insensitive. Everyone works long hours on a TV set, so what? Perhaps she was joking? It's certainly true that she has a big mouth and doesn't think before she speaks. But she is a good actress and her films have all made money. We can't recall
Newsweek ever doing that to a male actor on the day his new movie opened. It's obnoxious and it's sexist.
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