Rosie Revisited
First Rosie was on Brian Lehrer. Then we blogged about it. Then she led a panel at WNYC. Then New York Magazine cornered her and blogged it. Here’s a clip from the New York Mag post: Perez got pretty slammed on the Brooklyn blogs for her comments. As much as I find Rosie Perez to…
First Rosie was on Brian Lehrer. Then we blogged about it. Then she led a panel at WNYC. Then New York Magazine cornered her and blogged it. Here’s a clip from the New York Mag post:
Perez got pretty slammed on the Brooklyn blogs for her comments. As much as I find Rosie Perez to be a decent actor, sexy and certainly part of NYC’s charm, I must say comments like these make me want to kick her in the shins, wrote one commenter on Brownstoner. We cornered Perez after the show, and she was happy to clear up what she worried was a hostile comment. What I really wanted to say was that, yes, I’m nostalgic for the past, but I’m also excited about the present and hopeful for the future,” she explained. “Things do change. Water always has to flow or else it becomes stale. But with change, you can bring along some of the good minerals that came from the top of the waterfall.” She said she’d read some of the blogs and seen the nasty comments. “I think it’s their guilt of being the gentrifiers. They don’t know how to take it,” she said. “But I had to look at myself and I realized it came off a little hostile, to be honest.
Her parting words? “Even if you’re in a bad mood, just give me a nod. We’ll do one better: Come to the Flea tomorrow, Rosie, and we’ll buy you a pupusa!
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yes this is getting tired
I can’t even comment b/c I live in that horrible village called Park Slope and wouldn’t dare dream to comment on the wonderful eden that Ft. Greene is
hahahahaha
Is *Rob* actually Rosie’s breasts (nice augmentation, by the way) typing away while Rosie is getting her beauty sleep?
*Rob*, meet Broklyn, marry him/her, have some kids, and move to NJ – FOREVER, please!
I already did my eyes. Maybe we could go to the streetcar thread and get run over.
“anyone else feel like gouging their eyes out right now with a rusty butter knife?”
Before or after I stick my head in a vat of boiling oil?
Trying to decide which will be less painful than reading this thread.
> Boston was far more racist.
Oh so true, Boston is the only place I’ve ever been called the n word to my face. The bigot was a high-school aged girl and the year was 2001. Quite jolting for someone who worked and went to school in the deep south with no such open hostility.
Regarding the debate, there is no use in talking about a topic where no one wants to honestly assess how quickly Ft. Greene has changed in the past 5 years. The perfect example is the Soul Summit that used to be held every Sunday afternoon in Ft. Greene Park. This popular event attracted all classes and colors and was generally regarded as a uniquely Ft. Greene experience. A few years ago Brooklyn Record had a posting about it and there were comments made about the Summit attracting dangerous looking people, which was a complete lie. Fast forward to 2009 and the event is only allowed to be held once the entire summer, much to the disappointment of the promoters and attendees. What is a reasonable person supposed to think is the cause behind the roadblocks the promoter has had to deal with every year?
anyone else feel like gouging their eyes out right now with a rusty butter knife?
Posted by: dirty_hipster at May 8, 2009 12:52 PM
OR walnuts.
DH- did that. What else ya got?
“but smudgie, im not a gentifier, im a degentrifier. so your point is totally moot.”
Why? Are only gentrifiers supposed to fit in rather than change the neighborhood? Park Slope is full of snooty unfriendly stroller Nazis, everyone knows that. Why should people moving in complain about that any more than new people should complain about, say, loud music in Bushwick?
Man, being on west coast time means you miss all the action in the morning. This was a fairly typical melee for a topic such as this on a board such as this but some people should be complimented for stepping above the fray and trying to elevate the discussion. I thought Maly’s initial post was really spot on, and of course Putnam Denizen and Brooklynista both raised interesting points about whether or not it is possible to have a worthwhile discussion on such loaded topics on an anonymous internet board. I personally do think that important ground can be covered in a forum like this and I do try to give my fellow commenters the benefit of the doubt most of the time. As someone who lives on a very racially mixed block I definitely spend a good bit of time thinking about how to bridge differences and about how I am perceived by my neighbors. Clinton Hill really is a kind of “ground zero” for these kinds of issues because, in my opinion, it is one of the most ethnically/racially mixed neighborhoods in the city. For the most part I think it operates as such pretty well. I don’t doubt that real resentments exist between different race and class groups but I am fairly proud of the neighborhood as a place where the historical mistrusts between different ethnic/racial/demographic groups is melting away.
On a separate note: I wonder how the movie star part of Rosie Perez would like being approached and chatted with by her neighbors. In my experience, that level of public notoriety cuts a person off from the “common” people around them.