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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsRex Reed is not a nice man. Taking potshots at Melissa McCarthy.
Melissa McCarthy Called Tractor-Sized, Hippo in Nasty Review of Identity Thief
Sheesh. I can't bring myself to even include a clip of his review. Posting in the hopes that someone will get angry enough to send him some fan mail.
http://www.gossipcop.com/melissa-mccarthy-observer-review-rex-reed-identity-thief-hippo-tractor-fat-names/
4_TN_TITANS
(2,977 posts)with loads of personality.
Baitball Blogger
(46,736 posts)MiddleFingerMom
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... and remember him as being one gigantic windbag of an
arrogant nasty asshole back then, too.
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nolabear
(41,987 posts)union_maid
(3,502 posts)I had no idea. Hadn't heard anything about him in years and years.
mythology
(9,527 posts)there's no call for that in a "professional" review. Although it should be noted, the same guy has made similar attacks in other reviews against Seth Rogan.
Although there's something sort of amusing in that Melissa McCarthy was in Gilmore Girls which had an episode where the daughter was trying to get a job on the college newspaper and in order to get her review to be exciting enough to get published called a ballerina a hippo.
And yes, I really wish I could free up the part of my brain that remembers such things or at least put it to more profitable use.
The transcript for any who are interested is here:
http://www.crazy-internet-people.com/site/gilmoregirls/pages/s4/s4s/73.html
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Here's a link to his actual review. It's despicable. What a jerk. He's a has-been, though. I really thought he was dead.
http://observer.com/2013/02/declined-in-identity-thief-batemans-bankable-billing-cant-lift-this-flick-out-of-the-red/?_r=true
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)my father could never stand him.
Used to call him "retch" reed.
TheManInTheMac
(985 posts)writing solid, objective criticism. Now, I've heard this movie is just an extended fat joke. If so, that's fair game, but don't make it personal.
IIRC, when Arthur came out, he said Liza Minnelli looked like a bug. He's an ass.