On Saturday, Media Matters tweeted about this year’s Miss America pageant:
Noted sexist Rush Limbaugh is judging the Miss America pageant tonight on TLC: http://ow.ly/12c55.
Follow the tweet’s accompanying link, and you’ll find an article from Marcia Kuntz and Julie Millican, vice president and senior researcher at Media Matters for America, a …
Salon.com recently introduced Film Salon, “a new collaborative forum that aims to bring together movie lovers of all kinds — bloggers, critics and academics; directors, screenwriters, producers and other professionals — to debate the most exciting topics in the film universe.” The project’s first venture is Films of the Decade, …
“Yes, I really am working here. I’m serious: watching this movie is research.” I have uttered these lines more than once, and certain family members have laughed at me more than once for saying them (special thanks goes out to the husband here). But those of you who are film …
As one would expect with Chris Rock at the helm, much of Good Hair (2009), the comedian’s documentary on the ins and outs of African American hair, is funny, lighthearted, and entertaining. However, several sequences of the film are troubling and, dare I say, heartbreaking.
Case in point: one scene reveals …
The Good
Beautiful scenery.
Some nicely shot scenes (e.g., “The Winner Takes It All”).
A wet, bare-chested Colin Firth (OMG!).
And at least two numbers that did precisely what they were supposed to–inspire in the spectator a feeling of utopia (“Dancing Queen, “The Winner Takes It All”). NOTE: I claim this not only because …
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. Victor Hugo
This morning, when I watched Kristen Chenowith and Neil Patrick Harris announce this year’s Emmy nominations, I was surprised on two levels. First, I was taken aback because I know virtually nothing about the show MAD …
