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Re: What He Said About Winning the Golden Globe
Jan 23, 2009 4:49 PM
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Yeah, WH, she MIGHT have been in the room, but after seeing her with him at that Emmy Red Carpet interview, I don't know if she would have KEPT quiet - she seems to like to make her opinions known.
Honey, you preachin to the choir...
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Re: What He Said About Winning the Golden Globe
Jan 22, 2009 9:52 PM
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Yeah, WH, she MIGHT have been in the room, but after seeing her with him at that Emmy Red Carpet interview, I don't know if she would have KEPT quiet - she seems to like to make her opinions known.
Sorry, putting the claws back in (meow!). 
I'm still hung up on the Switzerland thing. The guy who wrote this article even put, "on the other side of the world ..." If GB WAS yanking his chain and SAID he was in Switzerland (when he was actually at his home in Brooklyn), I guess that wouldn't show up on caller ID (if using a cell phone?).
I'm thinking about this TOO much! UGH!
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Re: What He Said About Winning the Golden Globe
Jan 22, 2009 7:55 PM
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> Actually, the comment that he made when he was in Dingle about "room service of a kind" was - I'm sure - directed to the fact that SHE was staying with him (or was there in the room at the time of the call).
I agree, jtom. As soon as he said it, I had a vision of her in the room trying hard not to laugh, despite GB's best efforts.
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Re: What He Said About Winning the Golden Globe
Jan 22, 2009 3:36 PM
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Oh, ychow, you're a bad, bad girl. And here I thought there were people out there making fun of our MadHandsome for saying that.
Actually, the comment that he made when he was in Dingle about "room service of a kind" was - I'm sure - directed to the fact that SHE was staying with him (or was there in the room at the time of the call).
OKAY - on to another subject. HOW do we find out WHAT he was filming in Switzerland? Does someone want to contact the original author of that article via e-mail (in sort of a concerned sort of fashion - "ooooh, I'm so sorry to hear that Gabriel Byrne is sick; I'm a fan of Season 2; is he filming THAT in Switzerland or something else?).
Basically something like that - someone with better writing skills than mine!? PLEASE!
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Re: What He Said About Winning the Golden Globe
Jan 22, 2009 6:59 AM
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> Gotta give a shout-out to the entry in LiveJournal:
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> http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/3158392
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> Not only are the pictures (from the original article)
> credited to Byrneholics.com, but the tagline in the
> thumbnail on the top is "Shrinks do it on the couch".
> POY-FECK!
Lol. The person who posted that article at that LiveJournal community was me, and that picture is my userpic. Heh.
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Re: What He Said About Winning the Golden Globe
Jan 22, 2009 1:34 AM
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I grew up in Europe, so I'm not rendering an opinion here, I'm talking about what I know. Wine, beer and champagne are common, everyday beverages and European children are acculturated to drink it for dinner and lunch and celebrations...so it's no big deal. Children are commonly found in pubs, bistros, bars and gasthauses all the time where alcohol is served and consumed...it's no big deal in those countries...and it occurs in all European countries, including Ireland. McDonald's serves beer and wine in European countries.
Just like it's common for dogs to be brought into restaurants and cafes. They sit quietly under the table or on banquettes while Europeans eat and chat and it's no big deal. The whole family, including the dogs, are out to dinner.
Winefests and beerfests are a part of the traditions throughout Europe to celibrate harvests and ancient feasts days. Gabriel is European...he's hardly affected by the consumption of wine, beer or champagne in close proximity to him, I'm sure, because it's what Europeans do.
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Re: What He Said About Winning the Golden Globe
Jan 22, 2009 12:25 AM
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I think Gabriel has a wicked sense of humor and he "puts on" people when they interview him. Remember in "STORIES" when he described his flooded house then he waited one second and laughed.
Gabriel is European- technically and geographically- but I think his childhood was influenced more from being Catholic, and Irish. Catholicism is full of superstition, and constraining to the mind. Being Irish made him feel oppressed by the English. When I think of European parents giving their children wine, I think of Italy and France.
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Re: What He Said About Winning the Golden Globe
Jan 21, 2009 10:53 PM
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> I hope this doesnt seem like flaming, its not
> intended to be...we are just having a debate about
> things...OK..so...
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> Ali, etopt, you are both stronger and better women
> than I am. Because once Gabe and I get married, I am
> probably going to have my wine most nights and I am
> hoping he will be OK with it. If he ever got to the
> point where he wasnt OK with it, then I might have to
> give it up, but for now, I would have it.
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> But the analogy of giving up dessert while a loved
> one is dieting isnt really the same thing to me. Its
> a temporary thing that you would do. I doubt
> seriously you would give up ever eating a bite of
> cheesecake in front of that dieting person for the
> rest of your life. Especially if that person is your
> significant other and eats most meals with you. And
> I doubt that a person would diet for the rest of
> their lives. So this abstinence in front of a loved
> one isnt a permanent situation at all
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> But "not-drinking" is a permanent situation for an
> alcoholic that has chosen to no longer drink. If you
> are the significant life-partner of that person, you
> will likely spend most evenings and meals and party
> occasions and celebration in their company for the
> rest of your life. So you would effectively have to
> give up drinking yourself.
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> Thats a noble and great thing to do for a loved one
> but not necessarily the path that everyone would
> take.
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> I'm not sure that I would take that path, so I cant
> damn any "hypothetical" love interest of Gabe's for
> that particular sin.
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> --
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> http://sites.google.com/site/touchedbythpoet/Home
It doesn't feel like flaming to me...I was simply voicing my viewpoint like everyone else, and I knew not everyone would agree with me. If we all had the same viewpoint about everything these threads would be pretty boring.
Touched...I sent you a PM. Please read when you get a chance...Thanks, Ali.
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Re: What He Said About Winning the Golden Globe
Jan 21, 2009 10:06 PM
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> For someone so intensely "private" himself, I can't imagine him coming out and making this statement to a member of the press .. At least he wasn't "specific" about what they were "doing" on said couch, but by saying that he "inferred it."
Or was the celebration in question just an innocent champagne/tea toast? The inferring seems to be on the part of wicked little us. Sorta reminds me when, in his phone interview with Ryan Tubridy at Dingle in September, GB mentioned "I have a room service, of a kind". It caught Ryan up short for a split second, but he (wisely) let it go.
Whatta scamp!
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Re: What He Said About Winning the Golden Globe
Jan 21, 2009 9:29 PM
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Okay, gals, we agree to disagree on the champagne. Let's call it a day, okay?
Interesting note, TMel, about "The Snow Prince." It seems that THIS film has been knocking about for over three years (it was ORIGINALLY set to be released in January 2006 and starred a completely different case - Richard Attenborough for one!).
The synopsis of the film reads as follows:
A magical Christmas tale of an old curse and unrequited love from Medieval times which changes a young widow's life when she sculpts a life-sized prince from the snow. Her little girl's Christmas Eve prayer for a father is answered when the prince comes alive.
Interesting, ummm!
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Re: What He Said About Winning the Golden Globe
Jan 21, 2009 9:28 PM
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> Maybe he's filming THE SNOW PRINCE? There's a lot of
> snow there!
Isn't The Snow Prince animated??
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Re: What He Said About Winning the Golden Globe
Jan 21, 2009 9:19 PM
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Maybe he's filming THE SNOW PRINCE? There's a lot of snow there!
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Re: What He Said About Winning the Golden Globe
Jan 21, 2009 7:45 PM
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Hey guys........I'm gonna just give my 2 cents worth on this one.......
I personally think, that if someone decides to quit something........ie.......smoking, drinking, eating junk food.........it doesn't matter one bit what other people around them do. It really doesn't. I've quit smoking, and I've dieted my entire life since puberty. When I decide to quit something, I JUST DO IT. And it doesn't bother me at all. Now, I have fallen off of the wagon on both issues before, BUT, not because someone beside me has lit a cigarette, or is eating a bag of chips. And, I've also got back on the wagon, solely because I've decided to. It really is one of the most simple things, and yet, one of the most difficult. You have to really want to quit whatever your vice may be. If you don't want to, you won't. If you do, you will. Regardless what anyone around you is doing.
And now, I want a cigarette, while eating a chocolate bar. Yeesh.........
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Re: What He Said About Winning the Golden Globe
Jan 21, 2009 5:43 PM
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Hmmmmm, I don't know y'all......Gabriel is European....they grow up with wine, beer and champagne as common as table water. There aren't underage limits on wine, beer and champagne in most European countries, and even those countries with de jure practices don't have de facto practices. Their attitude toward wine, beer and champagne, like that of cigarettes and strong coffee, is that it's fairly common and so no big deal.
I don't know that Gabriel would struggle with wine, beer and champagne consumption in close proximity....for Europeans, that's like breathing and everybody does it.
I'm glad that he doesn't miss drinking, as he stated in SFH....it would be brutal to crave and yearn for something one can't have while surrounded by everyone else enjoying that very thing one craves. He sounded happy, and if he's happy, I'm happy for him.
As a lifelong teetotaler, I'm constantly in situations where other folks imbibe hard libations and it engenders no temptation or desire at all. I admire GB's fortitude because he obviously abstains of his own volition. If he's enjoying his life, then more power to him.
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Re: What He Said About Winning the Golden Globe
Jan 21, 2009 3:46 PM
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Sorry, I'm with Touched on this one (and, no, you're not flaming anyone, my dear, we're having a nice, friendly discussion).
First of all, when you two DO get married, I promise that I won't drink in front of him if he's in the room (but, of course, that's ONLY if you invite me over to the brownstone!).
Okay, gals, I still have issues with the drinking - especially since it was just the TWO of them (as he made QUITE clear in that interview). Also, there was a sighting several months back when someone saw them in a BAR together in Boston (it was a "nice" bar - the blogger gave the name of it - but it was STILL a bar!). So this wasn't an "isolated" incident. And I'm really not ready to call them "life-partners" yet.
And that livejournal article sort of made it like, hardy, ha, ha - Gabriel Byrne had a "private" party with his girlfriend "on the couch." For someone so intensely "private" himself, I can't imagine him coming out and making this statement to a member of the press (did he think he was just shooting the breeze "with a friend" and that it wouldn't be printed). At least he wasn't "specific" about what they were "doing" on said couch, but by saying that he "inferred it."
It sounds HE had the same thing I did a couple of months ago - not a stomach flu, but fever and lots of aches and pains (and you think it's gone away, and then it comes back!). Also, my doctor told me he had seen SEVERAL cases of strep throat and pneumonia.
So, we can only HOPE that he gave HER some of his germs! ![]:)](http://boards.hbo.com/images/emoticons/devil.gif)
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