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03/01/2006
Williams' 'Alma' mater (ha, ha, get it?) unlikely to name something in her honor
In a piece regarding actress Michelle Williams and her Academy Award-nominated turn as Alma in Brokeback Mountain, Jim Hopson, headmaster of Williams' elementary and middle school, has the following words for the San Diego Union Tribune:
“We don't want to have anything to do with her in relation to that movie,” said Hopson, who turned down a request from a Union-Tribune reporter to visit the school and chat with students about the movies and one of their own being up for an Academy Award.
“Michelle doesn't represent the values of this institution. We would not approve of her movies and TV shows (including the teen drama “Dawson's Creek”). We'd not like to be tied to 'Brokeback Mountain.'
“I hope we offered her something in life. But she made the kinds of choices of which we wouldn't approve. 'Brokeback Mountain' basically promotes a lifestyle we don't promote. It's not the word of God.”
For her part, we hear Michelle thought the school's tater tots SUCKED! Hard and greasy, dead set on promoting a "fat thighs agenda" -- just nasty she found them.
No word if any of her fellow nominees have experienced similar shunning from their former administrators. We do, however, hear that the groundskeeper for Rachel Weisz's high school is claiming that not only did she not do it 'constant'ly, but that she never once expressed interest in becoming a 'gardener.'
S.D. school distances self from 'Brokeback' actress [SD Union-Tribune]
(Hat tip: Towleroad)
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