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"I hate Los Angeles with a passion. I felt that way even when I was single and knocking on doors trying to get a job. We go there, work hard, have our meetings and then get the hell out again. I don't know how people live there, especially with kids."
- Catherine Zeta-Jones
[Image via WENN.]
Posted: July 16, 2008 at 12:30 pm
i love it here! she probably just basing it on stereotypes. shes a celebrity and prolly interacts with the rich snobs. you go to the right place here and its okay. jeez. as a celebrity it must suck of course.
I LOVE L.A.!
I just moved here from NYC and everyone there complains about L.A. and then when they come here they are surprised at how much they actually like it. If you don't like fakeness then avoid certain places, but that is to be said of any environment. There is so much culture here that is not seen on movies, t.v. shows, there just must be a lot of mid -west people posting comments who have NO IDEA what they are are talking about. YEAH I'm talking to YOU.
She's right!! That's why she has a normal family and not fucked up like the MAJORITY of other celebs. And she looks great too
CUNT
everyone who agrees with her hasn't even stepped foot in los angeles. la is the greatest
AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY COULD'NT THE PLANES HIT L.A. INSTEAD OF THE TOWERS? I CANT WAIT UNTIL CALIFORNIA SINKS INTO THE OCEAN AND I HOPE EVERYONE IN L.A. GOES DOWN WITH IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: bb – You are one stupid MF grow up and shut-up there was no reason to bring up 9/11 or towers I'm from L.A and I would not want to wish that to and anybody…not even you.. that is something you do not joke about .. and you are probably an acne filled teenager…
she's a "twat" because she agrees with 90% of the population that L.A. is a shit-hole?
It is.
I can see why those with children would think LA is a horrible place to raise a family. Bottom line…if you don't have the money to send your child to private school in LA….it probably isn't the place you want your child to be educated.
Study Slams LAUSD Grad Rates
Graduation rates at Los Angeles schools rank among the worst of large, urban school systems, according to a sweeping national study released today.
Slightly more than 44% of students in the Los Angeles Unified School District graduated from high school in four years, according to the study, which was conducted by the research arm of the nonpartisan publication Education Week. Of the country's 50 largest public school districts, only five placed lower than Los Angeles, the study determined.
(State education officials noted that the 727,000-student L.A. Unified is saddled with far more students than all other districts except New York City and must contend with challenges such as its high rate of non-native English speakers.)
The troubling conclusions echoed those of similar studies in recent years. The most influential — by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University and UCLA — calculated the graduation rate at 48% and has been used repeatedly by Villaraigosa to criticize the elected Board of Education that runs the district.
Bottom line: If parents who live in LA don't have the money to send thier child to private school, then I could see why they would want to relocate.
man f*k this b* HOLLYWOOD is in the LA AREA H0E!~~~
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People who aren't from here that come here to get lacking attention, well have always fucked LA (except people from Miami…….Huh, Yah right)
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Everyone who hates on LA either couldn't make it here and had to go back home with their tail tucked between their legs or they're intimidated! Most of you have never been here! Why the hate? And if you're reading perezhilton then you know you're into the same shiz that LA represents. Get real!
Stop watching T.V L.A is not like that… It is beautiful, with beautiful weather that you guys could only dream of, pick up some cans scrape enough money , buy your grayhound bus ticket and come out here to work… real jobs , don't expect to be famous and enjoy life, want to go to the beach go right ahead , and then you could go skiing all in one day.. where is can you do that but here…. haters…..
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She sucks, LA is the greatest town on the West Coast
Why doesnt she just move to wisconsin with all the fat pasty white people
I have been to LA several times and was always terrified of getting mugged. Some nasty looking people walking around, it's kind of a scary place.
There are other parts of California that are much nicer.
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The houses there are nothing special either, even the movie stars seem to live in semi-average houses, the cost of living is outrageous
Totally agree with her. LA SUCKS!
You know what Los Angelinos love? We just love transplants who come to our city with hopes of becoming the next big thing, and when it doesn't happen, they blame it on the city as opposed to their lack of talent. THey also bring their superficiality with them and suddenly we're a city of fake fucks. Whatever. As for CZJ, she's a conceited gold-digging ho. GO fuck your grandpa/husband you Welsh bitch.
she is stunningly beautiful and very talented — it also looks like she has great common sense!!
why live in lala when you can afford to live anywhere?
Why is she a TWAT Perez? This is the advice that hundreds of people have given Britney Spears, including you. Get out of LA so your kids can have a semi-normal life. If Zeta-Jones and Douglas were in LA, they'd be hounded every time they took their kids to the mall. Same with Michelle Williams, etc. Famous People who REALLY want their children out of the public eye RARELY live in LA. Do you think Angie and Brad will EVER spend any more time in LA.
I for one, wish them well, and hope they stay the HELL out of LA. It fucks up traffic big time anytime Britney shows up at court. As an employee of the court system, everyone is completely aggravated. A friend of mine worked at the Malibu Starbux for a while, and said they grew to DREAD Britney visits. The bathroom would get all fucked up, their per hour sales went down, and regular customers started going elsewhere.
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"I only love Los Angeles when it pays me a paycheck or hooks me up with a rich geriatric that I can fuck like a slot machine to pay for my fabulous lifestyle."
-Catherine Zeta Jones Douglas
Re: sam –
As a California native I can say with conviction that the only reason LA is full of crooks is because they keep moving here from the east coast. Also, there is nothing wrong with being gay and you obviously have not been to Miami if you think LA is tacky and cheap. As for CZJ, good riddance you ugly bitch, don't come back either.
PEREZ, get a thicker skin. I live in Detroit and have to listen to people dis the city that I've grown up in on a daily basis. It gets old. If Catherine wants to hate on LA, then let her. But one question. Who the hell is this bitch?
Re: juicy –
Perfect, you hit it on the nose!
Couldn't agree more!!! GO TWINS!!
I hate her but she right LA is a shithole!!!
You idiots who have never VISITED OR LIVED in L.A. claim to hate a city you've never been to much less, lived in. Could it be it's because you can't afford to visit or live here??? Morons!!
I lived in the LA area for five years, and I completely agree with Catherine. It is not any place to raise kids, and moving away was one of best decisions I ever made. It's sad because southern California used to be such a beautiful place to be. Parts of northern California are still wonderful, but the culture and scenery are changing there too.
Re: NYC –
I thought Paris was from NYC… Even LiLo is from Long Island…. What's the excuse now?? It's the people that come to LA…not the natives… They obviously left their shit-hole, po-dunk towns to come here…
Whatever….I've seen much worse places to live!!
you can't write twat on her head for being honest. People have said these things about LA and NYC before. It's really not a big deal…get over it.
P.S. She looks amazing!
HAHA is it REALLY that bad? I haven't been in awhile. Also, she's a cunt
Oh come on…you know she is absolutely right! The atmosphere is so phoney….look at The Hiltons!!
If people don't want to live here, why is the population almost 10 million?
I wish everyone who didn't like it here would get out, but you know, the weather's too good. Haters, all of you!
I completely agree with her. I have to go to LA every few months for my job and I HATE IT. The best part of my trip is when I get on the flight to LEAVE.
Soooo not a twat.
LA is fantastic! If you're hanging out with pretentious morons, it because you want to. There is lots of culture and the best ethnic food on the planet. Also where else can you get warm weather and snow within a one- two hour drive? alsthough if I were a celebrity, I wouldnt want to live in LA because there are tooo many spoiled brats–but you could probably say that about NY.
Re: liz – They're all haters! We natives spell it "Los Anjealous" and you know we're right!
PEREZ-Do you SERIOUSLY think LA is a proper place to raise a family? Seriously? You're fucking lying through your teeth if you think it is. It's great when you're single, partying, working hard (or, in not working at all), etc. But you see what a cesspool that place is. Would you have turned out as great as you did if you were raised there? If she said she HATED AMERICA-THEN YOU CAN CALL HER A TWAT. She lives in NEW YORK FUCKING CITY! Now, if she had said she hated NYC-that would be a problem.
Re: @v@ – Youre dumb! Most of the vapid Anagelenos you hate aren't born and raised there. If people hate LA so much, then move the hell out. More food for me!
It's Los Anjealous and you know it! Haters!
GREAT!
I hope more people hate LA and don't come here anymore. We need more space. The more people who say they hate, the better it is for us who are here. We want LESS people. and I hope more people have kids so they can live somewhere else.
Where can I pay CZJ for helping us true lovers of LA?
agreed that she's not a twat just because she sees what a cesspool LA is… you can either handle the place, or you can't. it's an incredibly demanding area to live in (I know from experience).
I actually despise CZJ, but she wins points with me on this one. sorry, perez baby. :/
and shes relevant because..?
Dont bite the hand that feeds you jonesy……..
Re: FELLA – SO TRUE-HEY PeePee! Remember on THE VIEW-THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT YOU SAID! In order for people, to have a "normal" life and/or a chance to live, they should GET OUT OF LA, REMEMBER? Oh well, I GUESS YOU ARE A TWAT, TOO. FUCKO.
i agree i went there for a week and i got home sick (miami)
She's right ya know, LA really does suck hard…
LA is a thirld world sh!thole.
Public school sux and gang violence is the norm. If not for the gang-bangers, then you get the plastics, another alien life-form.
Fuck you all…
Fuck the douchebags there, fuck the pretentious cocks, the "slick" trustfund-cum-celebrity buttholes and give LA back to the people who truly belong there - the rockers. While you people try to out hip one another I'll be at the Rainbow on Sunset with the cheap glam rock whores, some good pizza and some fuckin' booze!
SHOUT AT THE DEVIL, HATERS!!!
Please don't tell me she thinks NYC is a better, cleaner, safer place to live! Are you fuckin kidding me. Her and Michael live next to Riviera Country club, how much better can their life be.
First off, she has the right to her opinion! But most of you people forget it's the people that CAME HERE and aren't FROM here that either hate it or fuck it up and make all us natives look like assholes! Screw you! I was born and raised here and damn proud of it! Someone said the schools suck here, well actually we have some of the BEST public schools in the suburbs you moron. If you hate the city then move to the outer parts of it, jesus!
I totally agree with her - life's too short.
Bravo!!!! she just earned all my respect.
She's wearing a Minnesota Twins hat! Go Twins!
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All the LA haters are probably from some state that no one really cares about. Somewhere in middle america. and are probably obese, poor, shop at walmart, republican, have no fashion sense, and think a size 4 is skinny.
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Ummmm…Catherine Zeta Jones is the most GORGEOUS woman on earth…and Im wish I looked like her:)
She does not like L.A. Nothing there offensive. She chooses to live elsewhere. Fine. She is not slaming the hand tha tfeeds her. Get yer panties here out of a twist. Her L.A. is 100% + different from YOUR and MINE middle class -working people's L.A> or CA.
One more thing, Catherine Z. J. D. is right about Hollyweird/Beverly Hills lifestyle as far as her peers and their lives are concerned. Sowha tif she doe snot want to play the L.A Hollywood Beverly Hills Mlaibu game.
She ain't hurting me or you or herself either. She did not slam L.A.
What a bitch…
we have enough people living here…we don't need dumb bitches who hate it here
STAY OUT
I LIVE IN L.A. AND LET ME JUST SAY IT'S THE BIGGEST SHITHOLE OF A CITY!
It looks that she share the same surgeon as Posh Spice: They now both have the same nose!
Wow, if thats the work of botox, then its damn good…she looks sooo pretty in that pic.
Woman has a right to her own opinion, god knows we all know yours Perez!
She's positively gorgeous and all other synonyms for .
Amen!! LA is a truly horrible, nasty place.
i Fucking agree with her!!! LA IS A SHITHOLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: GOM – Oh? And New York or Chicago isn't overcrowded?
No major city with a lot of history and hype is going to have that "small town quaintness".
I think the LA slamming thing is sour grapes.
I haven't heard one anti LA arguement that cites things other cities are not guilty of.
Ummmmm, last time I checked size 4 ain't fat unless ur maybe 5 foot. Asses like you are why women think they need to be skin and bones to look good. That is disgusting. Now, I wear a 2 and my husband tells me I need to get some meat on my ass and that I am losing too much weight. He says no man really wants a woman that is all bones, and well esp. black men…you know gotta have that ass.
God I love that man.
Fuck all you bitches.
As a resident of Los Angeles I completely agree with her. I am moving out in 2 weeks and i will NEVER move back.
As an L.A. native I can say CZJ is correct. L.A. is a shithole and I am stuck here!
Oh hells NO!! I disagree with Catherine and everyone here that is talking shit about L.A. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE L.A. and would NOT live anywhere else. L.A. is not just Hollywood and the glitz and glamour, so for everyone that is talking shit, get your facts straight MOTHA F****s!! Get to know the REAL L.A. then talk. So F*** all you people and especially Catherine!
Obviously, Amber went to LA public schools. Hey idiot, even the Dept. of Education says there are only two areas in the US…Washington, DC and Detroit that are rated lower than LA. Point blank LA public schools are a joke…even your own fucking mayor thinks so. Now, you do have one of the best institutions of higher education. UCLA!!! Too bad only 42% of those in LA actually get a high school diploma. That is just fucking sad.
So true. A city built on fakes, phonies and frauds. It's all a marketing illusion to sell shit. Everyone goes into debt to impress other people who are in debt to impress everyone else. It's all laughable since nobody gives a shit about anybody. In the immortal words of Billy Crystal as Fernando "It is better to look good than to feel good".
she is right, and I love her. She is beautiful
It's all about San Fran baby.
i have lived in LA my whole life
sometimes i hate it but i cant imagine living anywhere else
Since you seem to think you have some of the BEST in the suburbs….
The most recent results from the National Assessment of Education Progress test (popularly known as "the nation's report card") place California's fourth- and eighth-graders below those in nearly every other state in math and reading achievement.
This national achievement gap affects students across the state regardless of their race. If we don't address both the racial and national achievement gaps, it's hard to imagine solving either one.
For example, for years, people have been describing and lamenting California's general decline in education. We've all heard it. Test scores of California's Latino and African American students are, on average, among the lowest in the country. However, white students don't do well either, and by a wide margin: California's white eighth-graders score below white eighth-graders in every state but West Virginia and Nevada on the NAEP reading test.
In other subjects and at other grades, California's white students score below white students in most other states.
BUT, catherine, as you say, it's a good enough place to make a bundle from, isn't it? your hubby is a great actor, but you, not so much! actually, not at all! In other words, she's saying she totally uses LA for personal gain, not giving two shits about it, nice sell-out, you under-talented bitch!
She is so effin gorgous!!! I love her!
There are always good and bad parts to ANY city. Los Angeles is a great place… if that's where your job is, but she is right, it's no place to raise kids. LA is a great place to VISIT but it's not the sh*t hole everyone thinks it is. Hollywood has f*cked it up.
Exactly!! how does that make her a twat!! she's got a point!! LA is a superficial bubble city! and do you want your kids to have a good time or turn out to anorexic! i dunno she's got a point!
Who is the "Moron" who writes on the pictures?????????? Looks like 2nd grade handwriting……………I can only imagine what his/her SAT's score were…..There really are more ignorant people in the media. Sheeesh.
She's right. I was in LA last year.. yuck.. what a shitty area. San Francisco and up north is nicer, but LA.. yuck so overcrowded and so much traffic, smog, etc.
If you're not from California, especially LA, then you don't understand the California lifestyle… especially in LA. She can critique it but SHE IS A PART of the snooty, stuck-up, Hollywood clique… celebrities have made it seem worse than it is. I've lived all over California and it's not for everyone, but there are a whole lot of people that enjoy living here, unlike czj
why does that make her a twat? lots of people don't like l.a.!
She's hot, she's right, and she's wearing a TWINS hat! Go Twins!!
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Don't be an idiot….vote McCain!
OMG. I hate people like her. How can you just generalize L.A. like that? I think each city has it's pros and cons. & were it not for l.a. and the opportunities it has give her, she would be nothing! appreciate it, gosh — INGRATE!
she's rightt!
you have to be pretty selfish to put your kids through a childhood in that city.
LA SUCKS!!!!!!!
How does her hating LA make her a twat, are you jealous Perez b/c she hates such a superficial town like LA where the people that live there cant even think for themselves and look like the plastic that feel off a Tampon applicator.
She's right.
You want more jobs more industries to choose from, then you have to deal with hustles and bustles. You want serenity, then there won't be much going on in a serene city. You can't have it both way. That's life.
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LA is as convenient as it can be to accommodate so many people and industries. There are many cities more condensed and crowded in LA.
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People are all the same. Every city you go, people are the same with greed and jealousy and all kinds of bad traits. People aren't any nicer in other cities. They just express themselves differently. In some cities, people are more up front, in other cities, people are more reserved.
I agree with her, although i'd extent my hatred towards the entire state of california.
She can say whatever she wants, she still looks smoking hot!!
Who doesn't agree with her? So right!!!! L.A. is an awful place for everything but shopping.
talentless slut of a cunt marries some old grandad to get money, then bites the hand that fed her…
LOLZ….NYC IS THE SAME THING…THE CARIBBEAN IS THE BEST
LA IS A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE IN FOR EVERYONE THAT IS SAYING THAT ITS A SHITHOLE UR ALL WRONG….I LIVED IN LA ALL MY LIFE AND PEOPLE HERE ARE REAL JUST BECAUSE OF EVERYTHING THAT U SEE ON TV IT DOESNT MEAN THAT EVERYONE ELSE IS LIKE THAT… IF YOU GO TO ANOTHER PART OF LA OTHER THAN JUST HOLLYWOOD THEN U WILL SEE HOW REAL LA IS…LA IS WAT U MAKE OF IT AND JUST LIKE N-E OTHER CITY IS HAS ITS GOOD AND BAD SIDE
She's right though? Isn't L.A. full of shallow fakes that preen obsessively and smoke dope all day?>
I'm sure it has it's saving graces too though..