Charlie Sheen signed on for the next season of Two and a Half Men for a reported 1.78 million dollars per episode and he has pled guilty to assault. Whenever I flip on Time Warner Cable’s On Demand services, they’re touting Roman Polanski’s Ghost Writer as a rental. And, lately, every time a New York… Read More Stop the Violins
Last year, when a large portion of the global film community came out in support of Roman Polanski, I went through a really surreal process of realizing that many of my idols are human…and not just human, but, well, asshats. In January, I added Johnny Depp to that list, realizing, bitterly, that if I was… Read More What happens when our gods fall?
I don’t usually grab a copy of Metro, the free newspaper, when I catch the subway in the mornings, but today, I impulsively took one on my way up the steps…and soon wished I hadn’t. Page two featured a story entitled, “Samaritans pull woman from tracks.” An inspiring headline, to be sure! Anthony McBurney and… Read More Bystander apathy in the digital age
The X-Men film franchise probably should have ended after X2. In fact, as far as I’m concerned, it did. (X3? Wolverine: Origins? I know not what you speak of!) So I’ve been a little nervous about the prequel, X-Men: First Class, currently in development. James McAvoy being cast as Professor X started vague sensations of hope, and… Read More Does X mark the spot for race fail?!
A scant month after Andrea Miller’s “humorous” ‘How to Date An Indian’ piece in The Huffington Post comes another oh-so-funny offering: comedian Joel Stein’s My Own Private India in the July 5 issue of Time magazine online, which discusses the Indianization of Edison, N.J. I think there’s a very real problem in media today, if respected publications… Read More Stein’s own private joke is no laughing matter
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)
South Carolina state senator Jake Knotts called gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley and President Obama “ragheads,” and then he said he was joking. Because racial slurs are just so gosh-darned funny! LOL! What a knee-slapper! Meanwhile, I’m like…are you kidding me? I have to look at the calendar on my wall and make sure it’s actually 2010.… Read More Racism and politics: to have and have Knotts
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