Date: 7th December 2000

Clueless?


Britain's Plain English Campaign, which hands out an annual Foot in Mouth award honoring the celebrity who makes the most baffling verbal statement during the previous year, has selected Alicia Silverstone as this year's winner. As reported by the BBC, Silverstone won with this comment about her movie Clueless: "I think that Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness." The remark left the awards panel clueless -- or as John Lister, spokesman for the Plain English Campaign, told the BBC: "That quote left us all scratching our heads."

Source: Studio Briefing