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Owen Wilson: A One Man JDL

Ireland Online reports,

Owen Wilson has lashed out at [New Yorker magazine reporter David Denby], for lambasting his movie pal Ben Stiller “tiresome” screen presence and for being the “crudest, version of the urban Jewish male on the make”.

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“[M]aybe the most crucial audience-rewarding beat is where one buddy comes to the aid of the other guy to help defeat a villain. Or bully. Or jerk. Someone the audience can really root against. How could an audience not be dying for a real ‘Billy Jack’ moment of reckoning for Denby after he dismisses or diminishes or just plain insults practically everything Stiller has ever worked on?

“And not letting it rest there, in true bully fashion Denby moves on to take some shots at the way Ben looks and even his Jewish-ness, describing him as the ‘latest, and crudest, version of the urban Jewish male on the make’.

“The audience is practically howling for blood! I really wish I could deliver for them – but that’s Jackie Chan’s role.”

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7 thoughts on “Owen Wilson: A One Man JDL

  1. The most surprising thing about Denby’s hatchet job is that he concedes, almost with pleasure, that Stiller’s films “have never really done it for me.” (paraphrasing) So why would he choose to write a career retrospective on a guy whose work he doesn’t get, and whom he’s not even interested in as a comedian? He lost my trust right there. I can’t imagine Anthony Lane pulling that…

  2. I didn’t find Denby’s comments to be anti-semitic, and I agreed with a lot of his review (but to a lesser degree – I have trouble with Stiller when he has to carry a movie, but he’s great in the right ensemble role, as in The Royal Tenenbaums).
    But kudos to Owen Wilson for standing up for his buddy.

  3. I don’t think Denby’s comments were anti-semitic, but just the opposite. There’s more than a whiff of a stereotype in many for Stiller’s roles, but at least there are Jewish roles that aren’t stereotypes. Asian roles, on the other hand, are so silly they make Sandra Oh’s gimmick-free appearance in a mainstream comedy seem like Rosa Parks.

  4. Do you think that Jews hate Mel Gibson more because he made a movie showing what filthy money lending, back-stabbing, murdering scum they really are, or because his nose is proportional to his face, doesnt slouch over like a chimp and has beautiful blue eyes (that arent so close together he can look at himself eye to eye)?
    Oy

  5. FUCK U ALL JEWs I WILL MAKE SOAP WITH UR GREASE U KILLED JESUS FUCKING ASSHOLES MEL GIBSON WILL FUCK U ALL IN THE ASS

  6. U FUCKERS U R THE ONES WITH THE BIG NOSE U ALWAYS RUN AWAY AND FEAR BECAUSE UR AFRAID OF LIFE . LIvE THE HOLOCAUST

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