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Michael Douglas

Is there a relation between Paltrow and Douglas? I read Douglas helped her to get a college place at the University of California. Friend of the family? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.133.211.120 (talk) 13:26, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Country singer?

We have a recent addition to the lead that Paltrow is a "country singer". Since the vast bulk of her career has been an actress, and is most widely know for her acting career, is it appropriate to classify her as a "country singer" in the lead? --BwB (talk) 09:44, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Now we have gone from "country singer" to "singer". Is this still worth mentioning in the lead? --BwB (talk) 19:18, 29 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed "singer" from the lead of the article. Perhaps others can justify why it should be included. --BwB (talk) 08:20, 30 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Its because her song from the Country Strong soundtrack in on the radio. People assume she is realeasing a country album. In reality, she sung a couple songs for the soundtrack, sometimes teaming up with country stars like Tim Mcgraw, but she is not a singer and is not signed to any label. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.99.65.10 (talk) 17:23, 2 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I agree with this comment. --BwB (talk) 19:35, 2 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Gossip column stuff?

Paltrow lives in New York and Belsize Park in London, in a house bought from Kate Winslet.[42] She practices yoga daily, works out regularly with her personal trainer Tracy Anderson,[42] and used to follow a macrobiotic diet until the birth of her children. She told People in 2005 that, "I'm not as stringent as I was in the past. Now I'll have cheese once in a while or white flour, but I still believe in whole grains and no sugar."[47] Paltrow is friends with Madonna[48] and fashion designer Valentino.

In December 2006, Paltrow was reported on the Internet to have told Notícias Sábado, the weekend magazine supplement of Portuguese newspaper Diário de Notícias, that she thought British people were more civilized and intelligent than Americans.[49] Paltrow denied making the statements attributed to her and told People magazine that she never gave an interview to a Portuguese publication, but instead had tried to say in Spanish, during a press conference, that Europe was an "older culture" and Americans "live to work".[50] Diário de Notícias said in their 6 December 2006 edition that it had obtained the quotes from English-language articles that are still referenced online,[5][48] though Paltrow has insisted that she was misquoted, declaring in 2007: "I love America, and I'm an American through and through."[20]

The above seems extraneous. Any objections to cutting it? It seems more like trivia rather than encyclopedia information.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 06:06, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

CUT I say! --BwB (talk) 12:05, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Seconded! Taward (talk) 21:34, 21 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Pronunciation of her surname

The lead says /ˈpɑːltroʊ/, but isn't it /ˈpæltroʊ/? I mean, the same vowel as in "cat" and "alley"? At least that's how most speakers pronounce it here, with just one speaker saying something like /ˈpɒltroʊ/ (which I guess would be rendered /ˈpɔːltroʊ/ under the system used on wiki).--91.148.159.4 (talk) 23:02, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've heard the latter pronounced most. I'm not sure which is correct, though. Yves (talk) 23:06, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

By "the latter", you mean the pronunciation of "pall" with the same vowel as in "tall"? In any case, the current transcription in the lead does not express either the "alley" or the "tall" vowel. It says /ˈpɑːltroʊ/, which is the first vowel in "father". I think that this would be correct only if you pronounce "tall", "god", and "father" with the same vowel, which is restricted only to some North American dialects. --91.148.159.4 (talk) 13:54, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Do we have to provide reliable sources on how the name is pronounced? --BwB (talk) 19:43, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Only if explicitly requested, I believe, as with most other specific facts. Certainly most transcriptions you'll come across are not sourced (e.g. Leicester), except when there is some debate about them (as in "Weird Al" Yankovic, whose originally Serbian surname many people acquainted with Serbian want to pronounce as "Yankovich"). --91.148.159.4 (talk) 23:28, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]