Sarah Ibarruri (16,821 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
Salma Hayek gets knighted??? For WHAT? For marrying a mega-rich pal of right wingnut Sarkozy?
Clearly, knighting in France has just become one huge joke. With so many remarkable women in France, and this actress who has done nearly NOTHING gets KNIGHTED? No wonder the French are angry.
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Actress Salma Hayek gains French knighthood
Film actress Salma Hayek has been awarded one of France's top honours by President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Mexican-born Hayek will become a Knight of the Legion d'Honneur at a ceremony in Paris later this year.
The 45-year-old's businessman husband, Francois-Henri Pinault, is an associate of Mr Sarkozy, while his father was also honoured in the New Year's list.
Some readers of French newspaper L'Express have said honours should be awarded to worthier recipients.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-164126861
onenote (19,346 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
32. Being named a Knight of the Legion d'Honneur is a minor honor
Good grief. Knight (or more correctly "Chevalier" is the lowest rung on the Legion d'Honneur scale. Its a ceremonial honor that gets bestowed on all sorts of people for all sorts of reasons, including thousands of foreigners. Among those getting the nod over the years: Vladmir Putin. Clint Eastwood. Barbra Streisand. Alan Greenspan.
Do you think that there was no one more "qualified" (based on whatever it is that you think consists of the qualifications for this yawn of an honor) than those particular "Knights"?
If you want to criticize the awarding of honorary "knighthoods" by the French to foreign actors, actresses, political leaders, I can understand. But to single out the award to one actress as somehow being that egregious compared to the others?
Sarah Ibarruri (16,821 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
33. You're right. Someone else mentioned that. The 1% knight their own, and not because they're worthy
Last edited Thu Jan 5, 2012, 11:24 AM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
It's all a thing of the 1%, for the 1%.
"Salma Hayek gets knighted??? For WHAT?" (Sarah Ibarurri)
For these, of course:
(http://ts2.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=1543440437877&id=b52f71537d5b9f9589609a657ac0cec7)
Bigger version for Dutch:
http://fwallpapers.com/files/images/salma-hayek-66.jpg
For these, of course:
(http://ts2.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=1543440437877&id=b52f71537d5b9f9589609a657ac0cec7)
Bigger version for Dutch:
http://fwallpapers.com/files/images/salma-hayek-66.jpg
An even more flattering photo:
My first husband absolutely loved her. Also, he thought "Hayek" was Arab, so he claimed her as one of his own. :mental:
An even more flattering photo:
Sarah Ibarely is all butt-hurt because:
1. Hayek publically dissed Sean Penn re-e-e-eal bad a few weeks ago over Penn being a Chavez commie cocksucking tool
That was Maria Conchita Alonso. Also hot in her day.
Maybe I can't separate the two in my mind because I keep imagining them together.
:hyper: :naughty:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002122277#
Sarah sounds jealous of her here to me:
...shrubbery.
Hate to ruin the fantasy for the menfolk, but I think those enormous boobs were post-pregnancy breast feeding boobs.
A French knight?
I know they have fries, kisses, toast, ticklers, and dressing, but...knights?
Hate to ruin the fantasy for the menfolk, but I think those enormous boobs were post-pregnancy breast feeding boobs.
A French knight?
I know they have fries, kisses, toast, ticklers, and dressing, but...knights?
Motown_Johnny (11,214 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
48. lots of celebrities get knighted
Sean Connery, Elton John, Helen Mirren, Judi Dench, Rolf Harris, Henry Cooper, Bob Geldof, Paul McCartney, George Martin, Ian McKellan, Ralph Richardson, Christopher Lee, Roger Moore, Terry Wogan, Mick Jagger, Salman Rushdie, Bono, Nick Faldo, Terry Practchett, Alfred Hitchcock, Edmund Hillary, Barbara Cartland, Ben Kingsley, Kiri Te Kanawa, Alan Sugar, Bob Hope, George Bush, Ronald Reagan, Andre Previn, Bill Gates.
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Which_celebrities_have_been_knighted#ixzz1ibiqGdON
Response to Motown_Johnny (Reply #48)
Thu Jan 5, 2012, 06:58 PM
Sarah Ibarruri (16,854 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
50. That's true. BUT RONALD REAGAN WAS KNIGHTED? For what? For being an a-h??? nt
Hate to ruin the fantasy for the menfolk, but I think those enormous boobs were post-pregnancy breast feeding boobs.