Olivia Wilde created her own backlash (Ava and C.I.)

No, it's not sexism.  People who scream that all the time sport their ignorance.  

We realized that when Stephanie Zacharek of TIME magazine showed up Friday sporting 'lady wood' for Olivia Wilde, sporting her big crush on Olivia and her stupidity regarding how a starlet acts versus how a film director acts and sporting her stupidity with regards to history.  We've seen the backlash before and it wasn't about sexism.  

 

Before we go futher, Rebecca's "f**k you, stephanie zacharek" and Stan's  "TIME lets Stephanie Zacharek have a wet dream in public over Olivia Wilde" addressed this topic. 

 

 

 

 

This cover of VANITY FAIR.

No, it's not how directors pose for photos.  Ass in the air, legs spread, a see through garment, as Marcia noted.

She's begging to be slammed.  

Directors don't generally do cheesecake or beefcake photos. 

More to the point, most director and actor combos, where the two meet while one is the boss, do not go out of the way to advertise their relationship.

The last one that did the way Olivia and Harry do now?

Peter Bogdanovich.  

 

He began an affair with Cybill Shepherd on the set of THE LAST PICTURE.  He began promoting his affair as he moved to officially end his marriage (seeing a pattern here?).  And he talked about it and talked about it and talked about it.  The same way Olivia has.  And everyone turned on him.  As Cary Grant told him, most people aren't happy and they don't need or want to hear how happy you are.  

 

 

Sometime in the mid-'70s, when we were getting terrible press, Cary Grant called me. He says, 'Peter, will you for Christ's sake stop telling people you're happy? And stop telling them you're in love.' I said, 'Why, Cary?'  'Because they're not happy and they're not in love.' He was right.

 

 

 

It created a backlash which is what's happened for Olivia Wilde.

And that's before you factor in her attack on Shia LaBeouf.

She's supposed to be promoting her film -- not her sex life.  She's supposed to be promoting her film -- not attacking an actor.  There would be backlash for any director making remarks about Shia.  She doesn't know what she's talking about with regards to his personal life and should shut her mouth immediately.  There was never a reason for her to stick her nose into his personal life.  Maybe she's upset because she wanted to hook up with Shia before he walked out on her project.  She certainly seems to use a lusty voice when she's begging him, in the audio released, not to leave the movie and mocking her leading actress.  

But it was none of her business to try to pile on.

Jane Fonda looked like an old bitch when she bragged about telling Lindsay Lohan off. It seemed as bitchy as when Joan Crawford used the press to attack Marilyn Monroe.  (Hopefully, Jane hadn't had sex with Lindsay the way Joan had with Marilyn but considering how circumspect Jane's become about that topic, who knows?)  

Jane thought she looked like a mother -- as did Joan.  Neither did.  They looked like elderly cranks.  

 

Olivia piled on Shia and she lied about him.  And this pompous attitude about "my sets"?  This is only her second film.  She needs to reel it in.  She has no visual style.  Her last film was not visually stunning  and played out like a radio broadcast.  A director does not just call out "Action!"  She has no visual sense and she also lacks a rhythm when it comes to dialogue.  

Her attitude is annoying to those of us who actually know film.

All the backlash she's facing, she brought on herself. 

(And, for the record, it was sexism when Jane decided to call out Lindsay's mother -- not her father.  Just because someone claims to be a feminist -- between marriages -- doesn't make them one.)