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Yes, I understand what you're

AmericanDreamer — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 20:19:20 +0000

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Yes, I understand what you're saying. The infrequency of any exceptions (maybe Denzel Washington in some of his roles?) tends to prove the rule.

I have both seasons on Amazon

rmrd0000 — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 19:31:54 +0000

In reply to Well, Sterling Brown, who

I have both seasons on Amazon Video but have not watched the series yet..Everyone says that it a great show. There are roles that will be specifically for black males other will be for actors who just happen to be black. Thr role could be played by a talented actor, but blacks aren’t on the digital Rolodex. Because the default color of many award shows has been white, many ethnic minority actors will receive their praise from minority audience based award shows. The same phenomenon occurs in the music and book industries.

Well, Sterling Brown, who

AmericanDreamer — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 18:58:43 +0000

In reply to There is always the hope that

Well, Sterling Brown, who very publicly has recently thanked the "This is Us" producers for creating a role that allowed him to be a black man, won. As did the cast of "This is Us." Have you seen that show? If so, what do you think? I haven't yet, but want to check it out.

There is always the hope that

rmrd0000 — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 18:35:51 +0000

In reply to So with more love showered on

There is always the hope that racists will reform, even though it rarely happens. Many were disappointed that “Get Out”, another story about racism lost.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/get-out-golden-globes-2018-lose-snub-no-wins-response-jordan-peele-best-movie-a8147191.html

In her acceptance remarks

AmericanDreamer — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 18:11:35 +0000

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In her acceptance remarks last night she did graciously suggest to the SAG voters that, as grateful as she was for their recognition, they might going forward want to give this award to some of the newer folks on the scene.

FTWMHMI (horrible acronym: for those who might have missed it), Morgan Freeman, on accepting his award, noted that the statue awarded to all the winners is fine viewed from the rear, but not gender-neutral viewed from the front. And that they might want to think about that going forward.

Well, she is a hoot, isn't

AmericanDreamer — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 18:02:58 +0000

In reply to Isn't it just liking Frances

Well, she is a hoot, isn't she?

Isn't it just liking Frances

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 17:30:00 +0000

In reply to Very interesting, giving

Isn't it just liking Frances McDormand? (not sure if it involves feeding body parts to a wood chipper this time, but probably close enough)

So with more love showered on

AmericanDreamer — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 13:21:18 +0000

In reply to Reactions to The Golden Globes?

So with more love showered on "Three Billboards" at last night's SAG awards, here is a hypothesis as to why:

the entertainment industry wants it to be known that it approves of stories which depict even pretty far out there racists as capable of moving onto a path of redemption. And it wants more people to see a story where that is depicted, to plant a seed, perhaps?

Very interesting, giving

artappraiser — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 21:01:43 +0000

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Very interesting, giving excerpts so you know all the movie meta he's getting into here:

Does ‘Three Billboards’ Say Anything About America? Well …

By Wesley Morris @ NYTimes.com/Movies, Jan. 18

Sometimes, a movie comes along that appears to take the H.O.V. lane through the awards circuit. It gets a bunch of nominations and wins some big prizes, occasionally the biggest ones, and most of the time, people — moviegoers, moviemakers, movie critics — will say they didn’t see it coming, that the enthusiasm for this movie doesn’t make any sense, that the praise being slathered insults how good about a dozen other movies actually are. Nonetheless, the movie is even kind of a hit. In its own accidental way, it does seem to be saying something about, you know, now. And the more love the prize givers throw at it, the more some people want to throw themselves off a cliff [....]

What’s got people arguing is whether the movie is convincingly about America (Ebbing is as real a place as Narnia) and whether this movie about America ought to be, say, redeeming one of the racist cops serving and protecting Ebbing. Of course, anybody who loves “Crash” already knows the answer to that one — “Why not!” [....]

To “Three Billboards” admirers and to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the outfit that hands out the Golden Globes, something about the movie rings true or feels timely. That presumption of truth is driving some of the annoyance over this movie. My favorite bad thing about “Three Billboards” is its ambition to play around with America’s ideological and geographical toys.

One of the toys is the word “nigger.” Another is the concept of political correctness [....]

Lavona Golden's truth, in her

AmericanDreamer — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 14:56:08 +0000

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Lavona Golden's truth, in her words during ABC News interview: http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/tonya-hardings-estranged-mother-lavona-g...

Just a few discrepancies between what Harding has said, what her mother has now said, and what the movie depicted...