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Hey Natalie Morales, Amy Adams Is Not A Whore Just Because She Once Worked At Hooters
Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 2:25 AM on January 15, 2008
Dateline NBC traded in their spy cams normally used for busting Predators (not the ones from space, mind you, the ones that live next door to you) for the Vaseline-gauzed lenses required to shoot Hollywood's biggest and brightest in a two-hour Golden Globe special that aired last night after that pathetically boring Globes presser. During an interview with the universally adored Amy Adams, The Today Show's resident vixen Natalie Morales made an uncomfortable shift from friendly fluffery to attack dog journo mode when she grilled Amy Adams about her, *gasp*, former career as a waitress at Hooters. We haven't seen two girls go at it like this since Wild Things.
Dateline NBC traded in their spy cams normally used for busting Predators (not the ones from space, mind you, the ones that live next door to you) for the Vaseline-gauzed lenses required to shoot Hollywood's biggest and brightest in a two-hour Golden Globe special that aired last night after that In retrospect, we suppose it could've gone down a lot worse. Amy Adams is a true saint for not responding to Natalie Morales clear attempts at baiting her into a catfight (check out the overwhelming look of condecension on Morales' face after she says, "Oh, you had a good time doing that?"). But what we're wondering is this: other than attempting to embarrass Amy Adams on national television (subtext: "Was it fun being a ho?"), what exactly did Morales hope to accomplish with this line of questioning? We've spent hours trying to figure it out, and we can't come up with anything. All we know for sure is that not even Chris Hansen would have stooped this low.
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mannybo
Posted 9:03 AM 14/1/08
adams: no, i'm not embarassed natalie. are you, for the tripe you sling every day?
mannybo
TheHonJudgeSmails
Posted 8:58 AM 14/1/08
@Leiakat: That was precisely the joke I was making. But thank you for your pedantry, nonetheless.
TheHonJudgeSmails
rojac
Posted 8:57 AM 14/1/08
I mean apart from waitresses actually working for a living and not being paid for sodomy... I already know that.
rojac
SallyJesseGlasses
Posted 8:56 AM 14/1/08
How about Billy Bush's color commentary after announcing the winners of the Golden Globes? "I am surprised Cate Balnchett won...her performance wasn't that impressive..." So glad they have given old Billy a break from rummaging through the trash bins in the back of Cedars!
SallyJesseGlasses
rojac
Posted 8:54 AM 14/1/08
Can someone please explain to me the difference between being a Hooters waitress and a cathode whore on the Today Show (oh sorry, that's right, she's a "journalist")?
rojac
spielarama
Posted 8:53 AM 14/1/08
I thought I was the only one who noticed that crap. And that Morales bitch once brought on the woman who is her mother in law's care taker (She has alzheimers') on the Today Show to THANK HER around Thanksgiving. What was fucked up about it was this woman took care of her mother in law for a year and a half I believe and Morales never met her until she flew her out to NY to cry on national TV about "what a good job this woman was doing for her mother in law" and "how much it meant to Morales and her husband that someone so good was taking care of their mother". What a cunt!
spielarama
DorothyMantooth
Posted 8:53 AM 14/1/08
Oh my goodness, this is terrible!
I don't know whether to reference The Office or Big Daddy in my comment about this!
DorothyMantooth
Leiakat
Posted 8:50 AM 14/1/08
@TheHonJudgeSmails: Since he is with Isla Fisher and not Amy Adams, I can't really see why...
Leiakat
distractedbyshinyobjects
Posted 8:50 AM 14/1/08
Wow - Amy is 10 times more attractive than any waitress I've ever seen at Hooters...
distractedbyshinyobjects
SinisterRouge
Posted 8:49 AM 14/1/08
And who did Morales blow to get her job? I love Amy Adams.
SinisterRouge
Koreanish
Posted 8:48 AM 14/1/08
Hey, dumb-ass! Why didn't you ask Amy about her 'faith', hunh? Hunh?
Koreanish
Koreanish
Posted 8:47 AM 14/1/08
The Today Show morphed from Breakfast TV to Breakfast With God TV at some point in the last 4 years and has no identity now. So I'm sure what's her name couldn't contain her 'gotcha' instincts with someone younger, prettier, more talented and with a bigger future.
Plus, I LOVE me a Hooter's Girl!!! Yay Amy!!!
Koreanish
TheHonJudgeSmails
Posted 8:45 AM 14/1/08
I bet Ali G was pissed about this.
TheHonJudgeSmails
whoneedslight
Posted 8:45 AM 14/1/08
Can we talk about Piven's ridiculous toupee?
whoneedslight
Leiakat
Posted 8:45 AM 14/1/08
What a witch. She wasn't a stripper, she was a waitress for gosh sakes.
Leiakat
PICKLES_IN_MY_TUNA
Posted 8:44 AM 14/1/08
Natalie Morales comes across as Judgemental Bitch. Why am I not suprised.
PICKLES_IN_MY_TUNA
crackbabyjesus
Posted 10:01 AM 14/1/08
Let me get this straight: showing cleavage at Hooters is bad, but flashing your vagina gets you an award in Italy.
crackbabyjesus
SteamyMcFirecrotch
Posted 9:58 AM 14/1/08
Hooters Waitress: Capitalizes on her looks for money by attracting as many patrons as possible.
Actress: Capitalizes on her looks for money by attracting as many patrons as possible.
Any Questions Natalie?
SteamyMcFirecrotch
michaelagrammar
Posted 9:50 AM 14/1/08
Why the surprise about Amy Adams' Hooters past? Have we already forgotten her breakthrough performance as Leslie, the slutty beauty pageant contestant from Drop Dead Gorgeous? Gooo Muskies!
michaelagrammar
cinemaddict
Posted 9:49 AM 14/1/08
@TheHonJudgeSmails: Amazing.
cinemaddict
TheHonJudgeSmails
Posted 9:47 AM 14/1/08
@enriquez the water bottle: Awesome neg, bra. It more than likely was an awful joke. That's not the point, however.
TheHonJudgeSmails
CaptainFantastic
Posted 9:40 AM 14/1/08
@distractedbyshinyobjects: Put Amy in those weird Hooters pantyhose and terrible orange shorts and she probably looked just like the rest of 'em.
CaptainFantastic
distractedbyshinyobjects
Posted 9:38 AM 14/1/08
@oryx: I don't think she actually won - didn't Rachel Weitz for Constant Gardner? Crying shame, that.
distractedbyshinyobjects
Sweet Panda Love
Posted 9:32 AM 14/1/08
You know what's creepy about Hooters? At least the one I've been to...on the way to the ladies' room (the path less traveled by, in that Robert Frost kind of way) there's a vending machine that dispense those thick creepy nude pantyhose the waitresses wear, white slouchy socks and feminine hygiene products.
This is a propos of nothing, unless Amy Adams would like to comment.
Sweet Panda Love
oryx
Posted 9:31 AM 14/1/08
C U next tuesday: "Did you have fun with that?"
AA: "Gee Natalie, it was my dream come true to work a low-paying job slinging beer and wings while being ogled by men. Cuz you know, girls in small towns have SOOOO many options when they're 18 and just out of high school. I was like, should I be an investment banker or a financier before college? I guess it was MY fault that I was born into a patriarchal, looks-obsessed society that presents young women with SO many opportunities. Also, the support of women like you."
Fuck you natalie. Amy go polish your oscar.
oryx
PhillyLass
Posted 9:30 AM 14/1/08
Wow! Way to ask the hard-hitting questions, Nat. I mean, everyone should be forced to reexamine the ways they made their car payments back when they were 18 and just setting foot in the wide world.
PhillyLass
bowlingfordollars
Posted 9:26 AM 14/1/08
Well, I'd much rather have a beer with Amy than Natalie. That's my litmus test.
bowlingfordollars
enriquez the water bottle
Posted 9:25 AM 14/1/08
@TheHonJudgeSmails: Maybe it wasn't a good joke?
enriquez the water bottle
shiningstar
Posted 9:22 AM 14/1/08
Natalie Morales displays classic 'nice nasty' characteristics. Venomous words all the while never removing the smile. Well executed, Natalie.
shiningstar
paperclipwife
Posted 9:18 AM 14/1/08
Actually, according to Wikipedia, Natalie has had a good career and is somewhat of a superwoman with graduating summa from Rutgers to running marathons and being a mom. Doesn't say where she got her PhD in bitchiness.
Oh, and she lives in Hoboken.
paperclipwife
impalpable observer
Posted 9:16 AM 14/1/08
It was all a function of Natalie Morales' repressed, but not quite sublimated desire to be a hot 'ho in a Hooters T herself.
(Can we get a bit of moderation over here.)
impalpable observer
telecomic
Posted 9:16 AM 14/1/08
Semi-related - when I went to college in Baltimore, I'd go with a group of my guy friends would go to the Hooters at the Inner Harbor for a bite to eat and look at the pretty girls. After college, I was working as a radio deejay at the beach, and Hooters always had hot waitresses, and I had no problem eating there. Then, I got a gig in Des Moines, Iowa, and had to host a sports talk show at the Hooters in West Des Moines. Now, to be fair, Iowa has their share of pretty women - they just don't work at the Hooters in WDM. Suddenly I realized that Hooters' food flat-out sucks.
telecomic
impalpable observer
Posted 9:15 AM 14/1/08
It was a all a function of Natalie Morales' repressed but not quite sublimated desire to be a hot 'ho in a Hooters T herself.
impalpable observer
rojac
Posted 9:12 AM 14/1/08
@BLUEBUILDER: That's it!
rojac
trillian
Posted 9:11 AM 14/1/08
When I watched this last night I thought 'What a bitch' about Morales for asking that but I loved the way Amy Adams handled it. It was a job for her, nothing more which just shut Morales up.
P.S. Love her in Junebug!
trillian
bluebuilder
Posted 9:07 AM 14/1/08
@rojac: She couldn't make it as journalist and she couldn't make it as a whore...so she became a tv personality pretending to be a journalist while looking like a whore.
Funny how some people 'become' personalities.
bluebuilder
Trixie from Toronto
Posted 9:05 AM 14/1/08
@Trixie from Toronto: p.s. I'd like some more information on the Dateline NBC tranny who interviewed Ellen Page. Who the hell WAS that? It was distracting.
Trixie from Toronto
langtry
Posted 9:04 AM 14/1/08
@SinisterRouge: Exactly. Where exactly did Natalie Morales work before landing a gig at that paragon of intellect, the "Today" show?
"But first, this is Today on NBC."
langtry
Trixie from Toronto
Posted 9:04 AM 14/1/08
The thing is: It IS fun being a ho!
Trixie from Toronto
OldTowneTavern
Posted 11:41 AM 14/1/08
@SteamyMcFirecrotch: Dame Judi Dench is a Hooters waitress? Well, there's a story.
OldTowneTavern
valet_of_the_dolls
Posted 11:40 AM 14/1/08
@michaelagrammar: "They won't let you perform nude - I already asked."
valet_of_the_dolls
sarrible
Posted 11:19 AM 14/1/08
@Trixie from Toronto: Yeah, she looked rough.
sarrible
langtry
Posted 10:44 AM 14/1/08
@jasonelias: For that, I'd actually watch "Today".
langtry
rod
Posted 10:23 AM 14/1/08
@paperclipwife: Wikipedia also mentions Natalie's blog. [nataliemorales.ivillage.com]
It's very fascinating. Blah blah blah.
rod
jasonelias
Posted 10:18 AM 14/1/08
Natalie's a pain in the ass. Boring. She's probably just there for that inevitable day that Meredith Vieira tries to strangle Matt Lauer and shank Al Roker.
jasonelias
BlowHarder
Posted 10:07 AM 14/1/08
Nobody criticizes Cousin Beth. Or it they do, I don't watch the clip. Bitch.
Also: my mother and my sister can't tell the difference between Amy Adams and Isla Fisher, either.
BlowHarder
yourfriendandneighbor
Posted 12:35 PM 14/1/08
What. A. Bitch.
yourfriendandneighbor
lizzybennet
Posted 1:51 PM 14/1/08
@SteamyMcFirecrotch:
Today show Anchor: Whitens teeth, threads face. shows leg at every opportunity and plugs fashion and beauty for network advertisers on a regular basis.
Any more questions, Natalie?
lizzybennet
lizzybennet
Posted 1:48 PM 14/1/08
@Koreanish:
Did you see that nightmare Editor At Getting larger from Money Magazine going on and on about how parents buy their kids crap to (a term she uses about 80 times a week) "Keep up with the Jonses?" (or the Steins--see the movie speaking of Jeremy Piven)?
Then she recommended unlimited texting for kids cell phones.
Parents are going broke because of COLLEGE costs, Health insurance costs, costs of getting kids INTO colleges.
And not once in the segment did the Jappy nightmare suggest that kids actually WORK to pay for things themselves.
Ann Curry started arguing with her but caved.
They had boots on so I couldn't tell if they had toenails or not.
The Today shoe makes me vomit. If I ate breakfast that wouldn't be so bad. But dry heaving last night's crackers and this monring's coffee...there otta be a law.
lizzybennet
Hockeymom
Posted 1:43 PM 14/1/08
Amy also worked at the Chanhassen Dinner Theater and you don't see Natalie bringing up THAT, now do you?
Hockeymom
I_Blame_Global_Warming
Posted 4:00 PM 14/1/08
@distractedbyshinyobjects: Having known a couple of strippers who started their careers in the sexpotial arts at Hooters, my theory is the hot ones bail as soon as they realize they can earn 10x the cash and twice the respect at their local tittie bar.
I_Blame_Global_Warming
SugartitsMcFirecrotch
Posted 3:17 PM 14/1/08
As a fellow Redhead (Go Amy!), all I can attribute it to is the jealousy of the non-Redhead . . . Natalie has the most nondescript hair color around (and personality perhaps): Brown? Brunette? WTF??
SugartitsMcFirecrotch
Miss d
Posted 6:07 PM 14/1/08
@michaelagrammar: Yeah!
Go Team Adams!
Miss d
rtisovec
Posted 5:19 PM 14/1/08
From Wikipedia:
Morales is half Puerto Rican and half Brazilian
So, do you sing along to "west Side Story" and have you ever had the wax that is your herigate namesake?
rtisovec
lizzybennet
Posted 7:08 PM 14/1/08
@SinisterRouge:
Mattt? The same one Chatzky blew? (There's a pic on some porn web site. And it ain't pretty...
lizzybennet
cinerama
Posted 11:32 PM 14/1/08
This comment was just so far out of bounds you could almost hear the camera crew's jaws hitting the floor when she asked it.
Kudos to Amy for not asking Natalie where she worked when she graduated from High School.
That's entirely aside from the fact that Amy was working as a freaking waitress, outfit aside, not a hooker, not a stripper, a waitress.
I guess next Natalie will interview several Las Vegas casino cocktail waitresses to ask if they enjoy their jobs.
cinerama
jwolske
Posted 11:20 PM 14/1/08
To which Amy responded: "Well Nats, not a lot of people know that your vagina is leaking weaponized anthrax right now, but I'm not going all Paul Harvey on you, am I?"
jwolske
xrockette19x
Posted 6:59 PM 14/1/08
Amy Adams is absolutely adorable, who cares if someone worked at Hooters? I rewatched Big Daddy a few weeks ago, and I was disgusted by how much they held it against the mom because she worked at Hooters. Oh no, waitressing to make money for her kids?! Horrors! I do think Hooters is degrading to women, however I love it there. I think the waitresses there are actually really fun and have a lot more personality than waitresses at other restaurants, orange shorts or no orange shorts. I also think that if a woman has to waitress, she may as well do it at a place where she will likely get tipped more from stupid gullible men.
Also, I just watched Talladega Nights (I know, I've been watching terrible movies lately) and I have to say, the only thing I liked about it was that Will Ferrell ends up with cute Amy Adams in her geeky glasses at the end instead of going back to his plasticy ex-wife. Yay Amy Adams!
xrockette19x