Talk:Sarah Michelle Gellar

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Despite her small screen, film, and modeling carreer successes, Gellar has been somewhat of a controversial character, with many viewers of productions such as "Buffy, Vampire Slayer" or of her cosmetic commercials being instantly struck by what has been often percieved as Gellar's 'complete lack of either acting talent or physical beauty'. An interesting situation often arising where persons seated with fanatical 'Sarah Michelle' fans watching her perform, are themselves moved to hysterical laughter through every scene as "another two-name teenaged model" stars in what such people find to be strictly "B or C entertainment". Interestingly, the same concerns have often followed the carreer of Gellar's husband.

This is rather vapid; it boils down to: some people don't think much of Gellar, although some do, and these two sets of people disagree with one another, only written in a more inflammatory style. It's certainly not NPOV, making only vague assertions that aren't backed up, plus sourceless quote fragments. --Brion 05:21 Nov 23, 2002 (UTC)

I agree. This isn't NPOV at all. --mav

Nonsense. There was no reason to remove those lines. Are you saying you have never heard such a perspective. You are trying to wipe out part of our culture by wiping out lines in the article. Giving cultural perspective about Gellar's work wouldnt have raised an eyebrow if it lauded it - would it. Save you PC for somewhere else. Is there anything UNTRUE in what i wrote? NO, there isnt, is there?

Read our NPOV policy. There is nothing neutral about "complete lack of either acting talent or physical beauty" without attributing the opinion to an authority on the subject (even then it still might not be appropriate to include it). The above reads like it came from a movie critic's corner of a newspaper and not from an encyclopedia. --mav

Beauty and talent are largely matters of opinion. Where they are not, it's after enough time has passed for consensus to settle. She's certainly no Olivier, I don't think we'll be seeing her do Shakespeare, but she's no more ugly that any of a number of skeletal teen idols, and her acting skills are up to the task of starring in an action tv series. -- Tarquin

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Sex in The City, Friends, and Angel were added by dodgy user 134.83.1.225 (http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=134.83.1.225). Okay, I know she appeared in Angel, but don't have a clue about the other two. Can someone check? (They shouldn't be under "filmography" anyway, as they're not films...) -- Oliver P. 15:02 28 May 2003 (UTC)

Sex and the City seems to check out. Google searching for any appearance on Friends is rather harder, since that's a common term... Evercat 15:08 28 May 2003 (UTC)

IMDB agrees on Sex... but not on Friends. Also if they don't belong under fimography why does Buffy..., she wasn't in the move. ²¹² 15:11 28 May 2003 (UTC)

Removed Friends. The show is one of my weakspots and I am confident that if she had appeared either IMDb or myself would've remembered it. Pcb21 18:35 31 May 2003 (UTC)

Contents

1 Little Ant and Dec 2 Gay Icon Project 3 Simply Irresistable 4 Birth name

Little Ant and Dec

SMG was the victim of an interview by "Little Ant" and "Little Dec" on Saturday Night Takeaway on April 3, 2004.

Gay Icon Project

In my effort to merge the now-deleted list from the article Gay icon to the Gay icons category, I have added this page to the category. I engaged in this effort as a "human script", adding everyone from the list to the category, bypassing the fact-checking stage. That is what I am relying on you to do. Please check the article Gay icon and make a judgment as to whether this person or group fits the category. By distributing this task from the regular editors of one article to the regular editors of several articles, I believe that the task of fact-checking this information can be expedited. Thank you very much. Philwelch 20:42, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Simply Irresistable

To describe it as a "disastrous flop" is POV. This should be finessed. --Daniel C. Boyer 20:43, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Birth name

Diwann added this:

Her real name is simply Sarah Gellar but she could not use her real name professionally because the Screen Actors Guild prohibits two actors from using the same name, and there is already an actress called Sarah Gellar.

Since IMDb lists her birth name as "Sarah Michelle Gellar", we're going to need some proof, and then we'll have to tell them.

The facts that Sarah Gellar simply REDIRECTs back here, and that searching IMDb for "Sarah Gellar" simply jumps straight to her page, are merely icing on the cake. --Phil | Talk 07:06, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)