Stanley tucci

Wednesday

Julie Bindel

I can’t stand Stanley Tucci

I love Italian food, and I love food writing and TV shows, so you might think I’d love Stanley Tucci. And yet I find him creepy and his recipes are rubbish. I can’t be the only one. The actor, who I first saw in the brilliant film Big Night, about a Jersey Shore Italian-American restaurant, is probably best known for The Devil Wears Prada, a film I adore. His character in that film did wind me up, but it took a while before Tucci himself got on my nerves. I suppose it began with him coming over all chef, like he’s the new Anthony Bourdain. I kept being told to watch his TV series where he travels around Italy, but the sight of his smug face on my screen turned out to be more than I could bear.

Stanley Tucci

Thursday

Cockburn

It’s OK everyone, actors are ‘taking responsibility’

Are you, like many others, alarmed that America is sliding into chaos and civil unrest? That society is being torn apart? Are you disturbed because you had never really thought that America is the most evil, racist place on earth, but now everyone is telling you that it is? Well, hang your head in shame, obviously. But also don’t worry. It’s all going to be OK, because actors are taking responsibility. Thank goodness. There's been no shortage of epically cringe-inducing noble and viral celebrity statements made in support of Black Lives Matter in recent days. But Julianne Moore and co have surely won the shared Oscar for most hellacious virtue-signaling stunt bravest stand of 2020 so far. See for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

i take responsibility