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Glenn Close denounces frat capt’s raunchy video
Glenn Close doesn’t think the skipper’s skit was funny at all.
The Oscar-nominated actress denounces the use of her image in one of the raunchy videos that got US Navy Captain Owen Honorsremoved from his post aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise Tuesday and assigned to land desk duty.
“I am distraught that my image has been used to perpetuate something that I abhor,” Close told the Washington Post’s blog Celebritology through a spokesperson. “The cynical, unauthorized use of my image in this video is deeply offensive and insulting, and was the result of a seemingly innocent request of me during a visit to the aircraft carrier over four years ago.”
Warning: this video is offensive. Glenn Close appears toward the end with a parrot.
In the undeniably childish video in question, Close wears a Navy hat and poses with a parrot used earlier in very unparrot-like ways.
It was a part of a series of homophobic videos Honors filmed featuring sexual innuendos. They were broadcast to aircraft carrier’s crew in 2006 and 2007.
The Navy said that the videos meant be comical and to boost morale showed a lack of professionalism and good judgment.
What do you think? Should Owens have been reassigned?
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By DNIF
January 5, 2011 4:50 PM | Link to this
Under UCMJ he should be reduced in rank, fined and confined to quarters for 30 days. If he has enough years to retire then expedite the retirement. Lesson learned for junior officers.
By dhampton100
January 5, 2011 5:08 PM | Link to this
Much ado about nothing much.
By The Admiral
January 5, 2011 5:51 PM | Link to this
Is Glenn Close bipolar or what? This woman has slutted around her average, naked body all over the big screen, spewed out profanity laced tirades, and approves of the Hollywood lifestyle. The only reason she is upset is that she didn’t get any money for the use of her image. Typical Hollywood hypocrisy.
By doktor bop
January 18, 2011 5:21 PM | Link to this
Close takes herself way to serious and I think it is a travesty that this guy suffered cause she got her drawers in a bunch. I agree with one comment, she has paraded herself in nude and explicit sex scenes, and used a lot of profanity all in the name of art for money’s sake! Much Ado About Nothing as Shakespeare wrote!