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Yesterday, Paltrow appeared at Williams-Sonoma in Beverly Hills to launch her new cookbook, My Father's Daughter. Wearing a lemon yellow, form-fitting dress, Ms. Paltrow posed for photos and signed copies of her book.
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While Gwyneth has wisely avoided picking a fight with her online bullies, she wasn't afraid to stand up to them vicariously through her Glee character last night. When Holly Holliday took a break to deal with some haters who were heckling the talent on the new episode, the conversation quickly turned into a commentary on anonymous Internet criticism.
"Technology has allowed us to be brutally cruel without suffering any consequences," one of the hecklers explains. With the ball on the tee, Gwyneth/Holly comfortably smashed it out of the park with an argument that chould have just as easily shown up on a Goop posting.
"I get it. We live in a culture of insults. I mean, we're constantly bombarded with these images of people who are richer than us, and happier than us, and have more interesting sex than us, and it makes us feel terrible," she explains.
"You know, we tear them down to feel better about ourselves, and we don't just stop with the people who are on TV or in magazines, we do it to everybody and we think that because it's done anonymously there are no ramifications. But there are ramifications, guys, because it makes you comfortable with insensitivity."
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Paltrow gained early notice for her work in films such as Se7en (1995), Emma (1996) (in which she played the title role) and Sliding Doors (1998). She garnered worldwide recognition through her performance in Shakespeare in Love (1998), for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress, a Golden Globe Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, for Outstanding Lead Actress and as a member of the Outstanding Cast. Since then, Paltrow has portrayed supporting as well as lead roles in films such as The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Shallow Hal (2001), and Proof (2005), for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress in Motion Picture Drama. In 2008, she appeared in the highest grossing movie of her career, the superhero film Iron Man (2008), and then reprised her role as Pepper Potts in its sequel, Iron Man 2 (2010). Paltrow has been the face of Estée Lauder's Pleasures perfume since 2005. She is married to Chris Martin, the lead vocalist of Coldplay.
Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Blythe Danner, an actress, and Bruce Paltrow, a film and television director and producer. Paltrow's father was of Ashkenazi Russian Jewish descent; her mother is a Quaker of Pennsylvania Dutch and more distant white Barbadian ancestry.Paltrow's paternal great-great-grandfather, whose surname was "Paltrowicz", was a rabbi in Nowogród, Poland. Paltrow has a younger brother, Jake Paltrow, and is a half-cousin of actress Katherine Moennig, and a second cousin of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords
Paltrow is a childhood friend of Saturday Night Live's Maya Rudolph. She was raised in Santa Monica, where she attended Crossroads School, before moving and enrolling in The Spence School, a private girls' school in New York City.[citation needed] Later, she briefly studied art history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, before dropping out to act.[citation needed] She is an "adopted daughter" of Talavera de la Reina (Spain), where at 15 she spent a year as an exchange student and learned to speak Spanish.
