Denzel Washington like other great actors before him Katharine Hepburn and Sidney Portier has decided that whatever accent he has is what accent the character has.
Gena Rowland’s passing is really making me think about how John Cassavetes knew she was a generational talent that was being underused so he went out and wrote movies for her.
If you’ve seen Paris is Burning and want more of the masc ballroom scene definitely check out the cut footage and the documentary The Aggressives (YouTube)
ever since i learned there was a Best Butch category in '80s ballroom, i was somewhat bemused the documentary Paris is Burning had no (masc) lesbians in it. watching outtakes i saw the director did take footage from the category, in what must have been around 1987 -- here it is
The Ballerina Farm article reveals why the trad wife phenomenon is so dangerous. It encourages young women to become wives and mothers before they get a chance to learn and explore their own ambitions and desires.
Ppl are going to dunk on this but this is actually interesting. Lily was one of the founders of Tinder until the male cofounders and executives pushed her out and covered up the sexual harassment she faced. She left and then founded Bumble.
This is very similar to Breonna Taylor's family alleging that the unit that executed the warrant on her home colluded with city government to evict tenants in areas they want to "revitalize"
@tinnkky
I knew things were bad but when I saw this mother write in to slate about her teen daughter wanting to drop out of HS bc she doesn’t need an education to be a trad wife I realized it was worse than I imagined.
I have never openly wept in a movie theatre like I did when seeing this movie. I was embarrassed until I looked around and saw multiple ppl wiping their eyes. They can never make me hate you EEAO.
In this case the policy that’s being challenged considers the student’s socioeconomic factors, and whether they come from an underrepresented middle school. It’s a race neutral policy and yet this coalition of parents are upset.
Mel Brooks bought the rights to 84 CCR for Anne Bancroft because he knew she’d be great in it and Judd Apat*w hasn’t written a movie for Leslie in years
Beyoncé reveals each song on ‘COWBOY CARTER’ is its own version of a reimagined Western film.
She took inspiration from ‘KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON,’ ‘THE HARDER THEY FALL,’ ‘FIVE FINGERS FOR MARSEILLES,’ ‘URBAN COWBOY,’ ‘THE HATEFUL EIGHT,’ ‘SPACE COWBOYS’ and more.
That girl was 21 when a billionaire’s son swept her off her feet in a “whirlwind romance” and married her after 3 months. On the surface it sounds like a dream out of a romance novel but looks like a nightmare.
Wtf is going on at Warner Brothers?! Mattel had to pay for Barbie ads, the dancers from Mean Girls weren’t invited to the premiere, plus everything that happened on TCP set
Ok I liked this part too it’s just that it’s not developed enough imo. The other girl is rich so her getting a 1560 and going to Yale isn’t the same as Molly who in the beginning we see lives in a kinda shabby apartment complex.
Rewatching Booksmart and I was GAGGED when Molly delivered the cliche “nerd stands up to the bullies” speech about going to Yale…just for that girl to say she’s also going to Yale followed by the line, “I’m ridiculously good at handjobs but I also got a 1560 on the SATs” 😭
@LipGlossFolarin
I feel so bad for the kids. They're teenagers so this has gotta be hard. Hopefully she can get her settlement and move on. She doesn't have to deal with this shit.
@hiimbobbi
Same! I’ve enjoyed the movies for what they are but they don’t depict a “universal girlhood” it’s very much a white middle class experience and that’s fine!
The admission rate of white, Black, and Latino students increased under this policy but because the percentage of Asian American students dropped lawsuits are being filed.
The curve in law school forces ppl who've always succeeded on merit to compete for grades creates an environment that is bad for mental health and overall kinda unethical.
Having a makeup artist for a wife oh he def got good skin. Also, lmfaoo at him getting *allgedly* fired off grey’s for cheating and almost leaving her (cus Shonda is friends with her) and the two of them STILL being together dhshdhdhdhdhdhdh
Definitely both my cousins singing spirituals badly at their daddy’s funeral only for my grandma to say he wasn’t they real daddy anyway to everyone who would listen afterwards.
Usually when men come out and say that a hit piece was written about them they’re just covering but the receipts here are damning. It definitely looks like the New Yorker committed journalistic malpractice.
It says a lot about football that men who’ve been accused of multiple sex crimes are welcomed with open arms but men whose biggest crime is being corny and professional are ostracized.
I deserve an Academy Award bc I kept a straight face yesterday when my coworker told me her and her fiancé have been together 4 yrs but they’ve never celebrated together bc he’s always on a work trip.
@RaveenTheDream
It illegal to fire them if they’ve been absent due to jury duty but they only make $20 a day so many ppl couldn’t afford to be on the jury.
It’s disturbing and wild how many actors under 30 openly admit that they don’t watch movies or read scripts (you can definitely tell in their work but still wild)
Millie Bobby Brown reveals that she doesn’t watch many movies:
“I don’t watch movies. People come up to me and say, ‘You should definitely watch this movie, it would change your life,’ and I’m like, ‘How long do I have to sit there for?’ Because my brain and I don’t even like
“Not only will America go to your country and kill all your people. But they’ll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.”- Frankie Boyle
When I was in college I told a professor about this and he didn't believe me, I brought in the report from the UN about it the next time we met bc he just couldn't believe it.
In Dave Chapelle’s Block Party there’s this moment when Erykah is performing and someone asks Jill if she’s nervous to follow her. Jill laughed and said, “Have you ever heard me perform?”
TP is no different than a lot of other artists, it’s not enough to have a profitable product he also wants the respect of his peers/critics and he’s resentful that he doesn’t.
@tinnkky
I can’t help but feel as if his participation in the documentary was motivated by a desire to rehabilitate his image. I also don’t think they pushed him enough on his own misconduct towards young women.
I need 2 things from this season of Big Little Lies.
1) I need Bonnie's race to be addressed. She's the only blk wmn in this mess and it's not realistic for it not to come up.
I look down on the idea of celebrities interviewing other celebrities (or in the case of 🐝, interviewing herself 🙄) but I guess there's not much difference between that and what these pubs pass off as a "profile"
I heard an interview he did earlier this year where he said he got so frustrated that nobody would hire him or buy one of the shows he developed he just decided to make a movie (American Fiction) and now all those ppl are calling him
Cord Jefferson to co-write and executive produce adaptation of John Katzenbach’s novel ‘JUST CAUSE’ starring Scarlett Johansson.
The upcoming limited series will serve as her first major television role.
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Diana Ross & Cicely Tyson at the 1973
#Oscars
. Both queens were up for Best Actress. This was the first time two Black women had been nominated in the same category in the same year.
Atlanta a city that now gets more rain than Seattle has been experiencing some insane flooding this year and the city is trying to destroy a forest, something scientists say will only increase flooding.
Max cancelled Julia, Winning Time, Rap Shit, and Minx shows that were all popular, had found their audience and, showed so much potential yet none of them made it to a season 3. DZ is not running a media empire he is preparing a company for sale.