Comments on: A Review of Hilary Swank’s Brinker International Forum Performance

By: KB

KB — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:46:58 +0000

@BK: Nope, our group agreed afterwards that she was one of the worst interview subjects we’d seen in years of attending Tate and Brinker Series events. We felt sorry for Quin Matthews who politely persisted in the face of her borderline hostile “Yes/No” closed-end answers.

By: Red

Red — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:27:32 +0000

I agree with the author of this review. The moderator was not only restricting, but by his body language alone it was evident that he did not want to be there. Slouching should be left for when one is in front of the television, not an audience. I kept telling myself the whole time “I’m so relieved I was given these tickets”, I would have been upset if that is what I paid for. I felt that if they would have went with their gut not used a moderator; Hilary Swank would have done an excellent job on her own. She still sparkled when she spoke, and somehow managed to share things about her animal, and gay rights activism. She was quite respectful and allowed him to ask his questions, because that is what he was there to do. Unfortunately, they were not very good questions.

By: BK

BK — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:16:38 +0000

@KB: Are you kidding? He was the one restricting her. Apparently he’s never heard of the word “follow-up.” He was never under any circumstance derailing that train toward boredom.

By: KB

KB — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:17:48 +0000

I disagree. Hillary Swank was uncommunicative and rude. Quin Matthews attempted to engage her in conversation, asking her a number of very good, open-ended questions that a more agreeable interviewee could have answered with amusing anecdotes, engaging insights and interesting insider scoop on the movie industry in general and her experiences in particular. Swank gets the Z grade while Matthews earned an A for effort.

By: O'Base

O'Base — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:55:35 +0000

Eskimo – pull the ice cubes out of your toosh. D- I think you should hire whoever wrote this review, it was hilarious!

By: WB

WB — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:15:02 +0000

That review was one thousands times more entertaining than the actual event. Does Quin Mathews even like movies? Or maybe he only likes his own “movies” …

By: Quin the Mighty Eskimo

Quin the Mighty Eskimo — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:21:28 +0000

I don’t think this review was very funny. But it sounds like PR “knows” this reviewer quite well.

By: PR

PR — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:36:07 +0000

Since intelligence is attractive to me, there is something about this review that makes me think this critic is rather hot. Not in a leather-wearing-I-want-to-spank-you-ball-gag way, but rather an intellectual-red-haired-ponytailed-catholic-schoolgirl way.