Kelly Osbourne made a really good point when she told Us Weekly, “I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict. I will never understand that. Now I’ve actually read in some magazines that I’m too skinny. You can never ever ever win.” Why is it so much worse to be fat than risking your life daily [...]
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Does the myth still persist that Hollywood is staffed exclusively by progressive liberals? I’m asking this because last fall, a sizeable bunch of actors and directors got together to defend Roman Polanski, and then there was that debacle at the Oscars when Alec Baldwin slapped winner Kathryn Bigelow’s behind BUT HEY I’M SURE HE WAS BEING IRONIC and the band played “Thank Heaven For Little [...]
British actress Charlotte Lewis has alleged that at the age of sixteen, twenty-eight years ago, she too was sexually assaulted by Roman Polanski. Commenters on sites I won’t link to are quick to doubt her: why’d she wait to report it, huh? She needs publicity for her failed career! For answers to this question, I refer you to Angry Black Woman’s recent post on why [...]
Cry me a river. Roman Polanski “can remain silent no more” and has issued an over-the-top self-indulgent statement begging the Swiss authorities not to extradite him to California because, he claims his original sentence coincided with the forty-two days he spent in jail in Chino, California 33 years ago, and the fact that the judge later changed his mind and decided the sentence should be [...]
Salon found this in “Entertainment Weekly’s” report on what groundbreaking feminism the filmmakers behind Salt employed when they gave the lead role written for Tom Cruise to Angelina Jolie: “In the original script, there was a huge sequence where Edwin Salt (the original male protagonist) saves his wife, who’s in danger,” says Noyce. “And what we found in the new script, it seemed to castrate [...]
Two film futures exchanges are coming soon to a stock market near you. I can’t decide what to make of it, but I think this is something to watch. If you’re like me, you’re probably aware there are “corn futures” and “wheat futures” and it all has something to do with the stock market, but you don’t understand it in any detail. The upshot seems [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I received a notification that I’m entitled to apply for my chunk of a settlement in a class action suit. It seems a whole whack of TV networks and agencies have agreed to pay out $70 million in a settlement to writers over 40 who have written for TV or wanted to. You can read more about it here. I [...]
