…or not so much. On the heels of our mutual Dirty Dancing remake outrage, my pal Amy, at PopGurls, and I couldn’t help but try to make lemonade out of lemons. Last night, we came up with increasingly ludicrous substitutions for Penny’s back alley abortion. For the click-shy, a sample: Amy: “Penny has Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, so you… Read More Giving the Dirty Dancing Reboot a Lift…
That Hollywood has gone overboard with remakes is no surprise. But when it comes to re-booting 1987’s beloved coming of age film Dirty Dancing — as Lionsgate Films and director Kenny Ortega are planning to do — it’s not just as simple as reading the directions on the tin. I mean, I remember not being allowed… Read More Why Remaking Dirty Dancing is a Filthy Idea
The NY City Council is voting to ban smoking in all city parks, marinas, boardwalks, AND Times Square. And I’m baffled. I’m not pulling out pom-poms to be like, “Smoking Yay!” and claim that it’s this wonderful thing folks should be allowed to do. Of course it’s bad for you. Duh. But it’s still legal.… Read More Smokin’ Aces
I spent entirely too much time last night thinking about Charlie Sheen. War is raging all over the world, political dissent brought down the Internet in Egypt, and I was thinking about Charlie Sheen. That speaks, obviously, to my own entertainment-oriented consciousness, but it also, to me, is indicative of how our culture is so… Read More Idoling at the curb: Charlie Sheen, media and what matters
A Bangladeshi cab driver was attacked this week, after allegedly being asked if he was Muslim. The comments on this Yahoo news article make me want to throw up. We are living in a powder keg of hate, of intolerance, where the diversity of New York, its greatest strength, is being turned against it. If… Read More Sound and fury, signifying nothing
Yesterday, for the first time in years, we had a black leading man highlighted on daytime: U.S. President Barack Obama, on The View. Yes, folks, in order to have a full hour devoted to a black man in daytime programming, to have a voice and tell a story on the front burner, he has to be… Read More Daytime’s true colors aren’t shining through
Samhita Mukhopadhyay at Feministing has a fascinating piece on Nikki Haley and the Myth of Republican Diversity that touches on a lot of the deeper issues that I merely glanced at while ranting all about Jake Knotts dubbing the South Carolina gubernatorial candidate a “raghead.” She notes that politicians like Haley and Louisiana governor Bobby… Read More Now I’ll never be a teen model (minority)
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