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    Mistakes Hilary Swank Made

    By Richard Lawson | The Atlantic Wire – Fri, Nov 4, 2011
    Mistakes Hilary Swank Made

    Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank has certainly made a few good choices in her life, otherwise she might still be known as simply that girl from that Karate Kid movie, but she also has a knack for career-careening catastrophes. The latest of which was accepting a paid appearance gig at brutal Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov's birthday party. Whoops! In honor of today's news that Swank has been fired by her PR team in the wake of the Chechnya fiasco, let's take a look at Swank's numerous past mistakes.

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    2000: While accepting the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Boys Don't Cry, Swank forgets to thank her then-husband Chad Lowe, making her (and, sadly, him) the butt of many a late night joke. The marriage ends in 2006.

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    2003: After an embarrassing stab at period piece respect in the muddled The Affair of the Necklace (and a respectably earnest supporting role in the underrated Insomnia), Swank swings for mainstream box office success with the hideously misguided The Core, an almost shockingly silly Journey to the Center of the Earth knockoff that makes quick work of Swank's box office credibility.

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    2006: Swank's weird accent phase begins. Having won a second Oscar in 2005 for Million Dollar Baby, she follows up with The Black Dahlia, in which she affects a strange old-timey warble (NSFW) that she'll go on to repeat in different variations, but to similarly head-scratching effect, in Amelia and Conviction.

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    2006: Swank begins dating her own agent, John Campisi. He's a member of the CAA team that later allowed Swank to attend the terrible birthday party. And, y'know, a member of the team that encouraged her to do The Reaping.

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    2011: Speaking of! Putin puppet Ramzan Kadyrov holds a big 35th birthday bash in Grozny which Swank accepts money to attend. When people point out to her that Kadyrov is sort of a bad dude, Swank admits to not doing her homework, but then fires her agents (except for Campisi, naturally) in an effort to tidy up the mess. Her PR firm 42West then gets the jump on her, preemptively dumping her from their roster. Embarrassing celebrity appearance gigs are further exposed for the grubby things they are, and the plight of the Chechen people is framed as an embarrassment for a Hollywood actress.

    2011: Swank's next movie, New Year's Eve, opens on December 9th.

     
    • sfista
      sfista  •  6 mths ago
      Jean Claude was sitting right up there too, in the front row.
      • smiler
        smiler 6 mths ago
        you'd be dead in jail. rat.
      • Demon X
        Demon X 6 mths ago
        Smiler who are you talking about her or him?
      • Demon X
        Demon X 6 mths ago
        Smiler who are you talking about her or him?
    • MIKE
      MIKE  •  Pleasanton, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Whats the big deal. I thought all Hollywood folks held Communist thugs and brutal dictators near and dear to thier hearts. Just ask Sean Penn and Danny Glover the next time they are kissing ol Hugo's #$%$
    • A Yahoo! User  •  Richardson, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Maybe she should watch the news or read current events!!!!!
      • Gary
        Gary 6 mths ago
        If it's not on a cue card, they are not able to read......
      • Lou
        Lou 6 mths ago
        I watch the news and read the papers every day, and I didn't know this guy by name. Doing this type of research is exactly what agents and PR firms are extremely well paid to do.
    • Tomas
      Tomas  •  Chicago, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Celebrities can attend whatever they'd like to attend. Who cares. Plenty of famous people pretend to like Obama and attend his parties.
    • Thorrin
      Thorrin  •  6 mths ago
      So, what does this all add up to? She's not the sharpest knife in the kitchen? Plenty of that in Holly Wood... Why single out Swank? She must have #$%$ someone off, could it be those fired Agents? Hmm, could be... This Article is trash.
    • Dago T
      Dago T  •  6 mths ago
      This article was like a Seinfeld episode: A story about nothing (and a big fuggin waste of my time).
    • Ohyeah
      Ohyeah  •  6 mths ago
      Shouldn't her agents and her PR team have done their homework before allowing her to go to an event that would bring her negative backlash? That's why celebs hire these people to manage things for them. The PR team dumped her because they knew they were going to get the axe next. No other reason. If she fired them, it would have reflected badly on THEM. They weren't going to allow that to happen.
      • Hello
        Hello 6 mths ago
        agree....the PR firm are the idiots in this article.
      • DeanC
        DeanC 6 mths ago
        Bottom line is that she's an adult and it's her career, so it was ultimately her responsibility to find out exactly what she was getting herself into, not just agree to the appearance based on the dollars involved - which is obviously what she did. Just another Hollywood W***e willing to sell themsleves to the highest bidder when it comes to these private "personal appearances."
      • BJ
        BJ 6 mths ago
        Dean, you need to watch some Entourage. The way it works is you trust your team, you simply make an appearance for a lot of money and you just move onto the next event. #$%$ happens sometimes.
    • Brad
      Brad  •  6 mths ago
      Buckeye Bob is a b--ch.
    • Terry
      Terry  •  New Bern, United States  •  6 mths ago
      PR firm dumps her just before being fired!?! Big deal!! It's the equivalent of being fired after putting in your two week notice. If she wasn't about to fire them, there's no way they dump her. Sour grapes on the part of the PR firm.
    • C R
      C R  •  Palm Springs, United States  •  6 mths ago
      I've enjoyed her work in the past, partly because I was under the opinion that she had some depth. And she might still, this, in fact, possibly shows just what a dandy actor she is...

      However, if there comes a time when someone wants to give me money to attend their birthday bash? I am 100% sure I'd do just the tiniest bit of due dilligence to see who I'm getting into bed with (so to speak) before saying yes...

      Maybe I'll have a different take on her acting in whatever filims she does from now on. There's little doubt I'll miss a few more than in the past. Yes, I'm aware there's zero effect on her, but I'll feel better anyway. She won't be hurtin' either, I'll bet, w/the extra dough from the BC! Who knows what she could have gotten for a birthday gig from some recently departed rulers in the M.E.. Too late for all but a few plus North Korea is still an option...

      Having never been paid to attend anything but work, I'll kid myself that, at least, I have a shred of integrity. Unless, of course by the time you read this I've gone on the the 'Birthday Circuit' then kindly ignore this missive.

      (The BC, is there one? If not there should be and I own it from this point on)

      CRG ;p
      • IKE
        IKE 6 mths ago
        How do you know how deep it is?
    • Taurus454
      Taurus454  •  Baltimore, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Are you kidding me? When an ex-President from the USA does it for a huge chunk of change, we call it "brilliant", so why the criticism :O
    • DebraM
      DebraM  •  Washington, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Why can't Hillary attend any party or event she chooses? I really don't think it is any of our business. It is her life after all.
    • Yahoo IsCrap
      Yahoo IsCrap  •  6 mths ago
      DUH
    • kelly
      kelly  •  Catskill, United States  •  6 mths ago
      all about the $$$$$ paid to be there so she does not care whos birthday it was long as that check is there for her
    • Lbon
      Lbon  •  Middletown, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Jennifer Garner
    • pinelobo
      pinelobo  •  6 mths ago
      were owned and paid for by communist china,so hey gals dont sweat it!
    • A Yahoo! User  •  Reno, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Maybe she is helping the people in that country with that money. Lord knows she doesn't need one dime of it. Hopefully Hillary did some political manuevering. Is she really that cold hearted?
    • Cult O'Personality
      Cult O'Personality  •  6 mths ago
      Hollywood's leftwingers love to talk the talk, but they always grab the gift-bags and the big paycheck for themselves.
    • Francis
      Francis  •  6 mths ago
      Title of the article. "I make my self important by making really important people look bad."
    • Mike
      Mike  •  6 mths ago
      The chechen leader approves women getting beaten for wearing non modest attire. He kills his opponents or any one that challenges him. You who don't understand, and post ingnorant comments deserve to be put in chechna.
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