Coldplay's Martin, Wife Paltrow to Name Next Child "Hyphenate"
Okay, probably not.
Though it's certainly a more musical name than Apple.
And in the Martin household it seems everyone is grabbing a hyphen and adding it to the slugline of their resumes. Gwynnie, as you might have read, is now a TV host (with Mario Batali, click this link for more) and an Internet entrepreneur with the launch of her site GOOP.com.
The show, Spain - On The Road Again, has her traipsing around Spain with Mario Batali, Mark Bitman and Claudia Bassols, eating and talking and ... can you tell I haven't seen it? If I have time for travel on TV it's usually Rick Steves, not the Oscar-winning star of Shakespeare in Love and an Italian chef.
Batali took questions from Time magazine readers, here's an excerpt:
Gwyneth Paltrow as a co-star? Are you kidding? Janet Martin, New York City
Why not Gwyneth Paltrow? I think that perhaps you're thinking of Gwyneth as a macrobiotic vegan who is too thin for her own good. Gwyneth is a delightful person to hang around with. She also spent time in high school in Spain and speaks with a much more beautiful accent than I do.
And, I have to imagine, her name got some needed funding for the show. We are talking PBS here, but I betcha even Pat Mitchell can get a bit starstruck.
Thing is, and I know I'm nitpicking, every time an actor gets on TV and acts like themselves, it's harder for the people who watch to believe her as a fictional character. At least I think so.
And, frankly, I feel the same thing about their other projects, like a website for example.
From Virginia Heffernan's The Medium blog at NYTimes.com:
Coming hot on the heels of her enigmatic PBS thing with Mario Batali, Paltrow’s nonsense Web shop — GOOP.com — is supposed to make regular online Janes “nourish the inner aspect.” Yuck. “My life is good because I am not passive about it,” she says, by way of introduction. Who cares? Oh, and why is she launching the site, which promises to have all that old-hat self-discovery/consumerist Oprah stuff, with absolutely nothing on it? I feel undernourished already.
“Don’t be lazy,” by the way, is one of her exhortations to us. Also, “workout” — sic — “and stick with it.”
I weep for our inner aspects.
And Virginia, I would as well, but I have no idea what my inner aspect is.
You can see a sneak peek of the show after the jump. It airs on PBS, the show is in its second week, and like most public television, you should ...
- Check your local listings for time and channel, and ...
- Support your local PBS station.
