‘I owe it to all the people around me,’ singer tells MTV News of his success. By James Dinh Frank Ocean at the 55th annual Grammy Awards Photo: MTV News
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Fox News Journalist Slams Media For Not Addressing Racism In Politics Fox News journalist and former NPR employee Juan Williams recently took the time to do something we rarely see done on the often one-sided network: speak out against racism in politics . Williams held nothing back in a recent piece putting the media on blast for overly vilifying black Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas after he recently made a joke to his colleagues in court, while over looking the far more blatantly racist actions of other politicians on a regular basis. via Fox News Last week during an oral argument, Justice Thomas appeared to make a joke to his fellow members of the Supreme Court. His words were not completely audible to the people in the court. When it was noted that the defendant’s counsel went to Yale, Thomas’s alma mater, Justice Thomas apparently said something to this effect: If the defendant’s lawyer was a Yale Law graduate maybe he didn’t have adequate counsel. Ha! Ha! The idea that black people – liberal or conservative – are not allowed to speak out as independent thinkers is apparently a truth for a lot of liberals and conservatives. Blacks are supposed to stay in neatly defined political boxes. However, as the never-ending assault on Justice Thomas’s integrity shows, the deepest vein of intolerance is to be found on the Left for minority conservatives. Isn’t about time for someone in the mainstream media called out the haters and the race hustlers? Williams then went on to assert that black people were singled out for voting President Obama into office in overwhelming numbers, while little attention was given to the fact that a large majority of white people also voted against President Obama. He then shared his own personal struggles with being a black conservative. The fact is that despite the caricatures of black political thought there is a wide variety of opinion among blacks just as there is among whites, Hispanics and Asians. Yes, it is true that more than 90 percent of black Americans voted for President Obama. It is also true that close to 60 percent of white voted against President Obama. But that is not reflective of the variety of political views of black or white Americans. When I ask why civil rights leaders fail to take on gangster rappers who glamorize violence I was labeled as ‘Not-Authentically-Black.’ As one NPR executive put it to me – just before I was fired from NPR – the old guard of white liberals at NPR did not appreciate a black man with conservative social views and some conservative friends. When will the mainstream media call attention to this type of ‘intolerance’ that is absolutely racist thinking at its worst? Williams points out what so many people have been questioning throughout much of Obama’s presidency, and before. Racism in politics alive and well…..and the call for attention to this topic is long over due.
“Hey fat girl, come here are ya ticklish?”-Humpty Hump Obese Woman Takes Photographs Of People Staring At Her Rudely In Public Via DailyMail An obese woman has captured the cruel looks and stares she attracts in public by photographing herself in different social settings. Haley Morris-Cafiero, 37, an artist from Memphis, Tennessee, is seen sitting in restaurants, out shopping and strolling around bustling tourist attractions such as Times Square while curious passers-by are captured in the background. Talking about the revealing collection of images she writes on her website: ‘I have always been aware of people making faces, commenting and laughing at me about my size.’ She admits that her weight has been a constant battle and growing up she often felt ‘left out and awkward’. Instead of talking about her body she refers to ‘my uncontrollable exterior’. Haley also explained what her inspiration was for beginning such a difficult project ‘I decided to photograph myself sitting alone on the Times Square stairs to capture my solitude in a busy crowd. ‘After developing the film, I noticed that a man was standing behind me being photographed by an attractive blonde woman. ‘Rather than pose for her camera, he was sneering at me behind my back. ‘Five minutes later and at another location, another man turns his back to gawk at me while I am photographing myself sitting at a cafe table.’ To get the photos she set up a visible camera on a tripod and set to work carrying out mundane tasks in front of the lens, such as eating, reading, or talking on the phone. She said that she has taken thousands of images of herself since starting the social experiment in 2010. To ‘guarantee the most diverse pool of strangers’ she visited destinations all over the world including New York. Barcelona, Cuzco and Chicago. Wow, we gotta say, this is pretty brave. Not many people with self-esteem issues would put themselves out there like that for scrutiny. Hit the flipper to see some of Haley’s sad photographs. Images via Haley Morris-Cafiero
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Tough Crowd: Obese Woman Creates Photography Project To Show Just How Cruel The World Is To The Poor Chubby-Lumpkins [Photos]
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This Black History Month, we honor the GAME CHANGERS: Everyday heroes whose actions make life better for the people around them. SEE ALL OUR GAME…
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This Black History Month, we honor the GAME CHANGERS: Everyday heroes whose actions make life better for the people around them. SEE ALL OUR GAME…
Chicago Woman Helps Minority Girls Access Careers in Science, Math, And Technology
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The cute girl from The O.C. is starting to look like a Real Housewife of wherever the fuck she’s a housewife…I’m thinking it’s in Canada on some farm somewhere, because that’s what someone I know who fucked her husband’s sister told me…which makes sense since the Husband hasn’t got work since the last Star Wars…and has to make sure his woman doesn’t get tempted by actors who can actually call themselves actors…rather than dudes who have just acted…if you know what I mean…..not that her kidnapper is really that interesting or worth talking about….when she’s in shorts in cover on a magazine….like this was still 1999….when her botox face tells us it totally is not….good times.
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As much as I hate the idea of marriage and pregancy and family and commitment thanks to my horrible wife..and the life sentence she is…I really don’t mind looking at or even fucking other people’s wives…because I can tell how miserable they are in their situation and I don’t mind being so bad in bed with them to bring them hope in their old life and realize “hey, it’s not so bad with this asshole, compared to that Jesus Martinez motherfucker”….I am so good at it…I could start a marriage counseling company where my sole job is to fuck a dudes wife to make her love him again….but apparently it’s illegal to do that…. That said, here’s Miranda Kerr in some tacky, trashy, marriage lingerie…or lingerie you put a girl in to role play wedding night….god knows why you’d do that…cuz I hear that’s normally the last blowjob a man gets….
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Call it strangely eerie or a fitting send off, on the same day that former New York mayor Ed Koch died, a new documentary about him and titled simply, Koch will open in the city he lead and will be buried in. Koch, who served as NYC mayor from 1978 – 1989 over three terms, died at 2am Eastern Time from congestive heart failure, according to the New York Times. Directed by first-time filmmaker Neil Barsky, Koch offers a portrait of the combative, humorous and straight-talking mayor who also served as a Congressman before taking the city’s highest office. The film chronicles the history of NYC alongside Koch’s tenure, which began as the city faced the depths of near bankruptcy and malaise in the late ’70s. As he served in the ’80s, the city faced racial strife and the dawn of the AIDS crisis as well as homelessness and the ascendance of Wall Street wealth in the go-go ’80s. In 1987 he famously refused a permit for the New York Giants to have a ticker tape parade to celebrate their victory at Super Bowl XXI because the team had moved to the Meadowland Complex over the river in New Jersey some years prior. “If they want a parade, let them parade in front of the oil drums in Moonachie,” said Koch referring to the town near the Giants’ adopted home. Koch also left his touch on the entertainment world, even serving as judge on The People’s Court after his mayorship and even as a film critic through his we show, Mayor At the Movies , according to Deadline.com. He also appeared in dozens of films and television shows including The Muppets Take Manhattan , Sex and the City , Spin City and of course, Saturday Night Live . Zeitgeist Films will open Koch , which premiered at last October’s Hamptons International Film Festival, at the Angelika and Lincoln Plaza theaters in Manhattan this weekend. It will head to other areas of the city in the coming weeks in addition to other U.S. cities in a slow roll-out. “I spoke to him on the day of the premiere [from the hospital] and he said, ‘don’t let the applause go to your head,'” Barsky said Friday morning on local news station, New York One. “He’s the ultimate publicist for himself and the city. It’s very regrettable he couldn’t attend the premiere of what I think is an affectionate film.” Koch log line: Former Mayor Ed Koch is the quintessential New Yorker. Still ferocious, charismatic, and hilariously blunt, the now 88-year-old Koch ruled New York from 1978 to 1989—a down-and-dirty decade of grit, graffiti, near-bankruptcy and rampant crime. First-time filmmaker (and former Wall Street Journal reporter) Neil Barsky has crafted an intimate and revealing portrait of this intensely private man, his legacy as a political titan, and the town he helped transform. The tumult of his three terms included a fiercely competitive 1977 election; an infamous 1980 transit strike; the burgeoning AIDS epidemic; landmark housing renewal initiatives; and an irreparable municipal corruption scandal. Through candid interviews and rare archival footage, Koch thrillingly chronicles the personal and political toll of running the world’s most wondrous city in a time of upheaval and reinvention. [ Sources: Deadline , NYT , New York One ]
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Twenty-six directors devise terrible ways to die, from A to Z, in the horror anthology The ABCs of Death. And in his first foray into the horror-film world, TV animation veteran Jon Schnepp ( Metalocalypse , The Venture Bros. ) dives headfirst into chaos with “W Is For WTF,” a stoner’s fever dream that mashes zombie clowns, a mysterious chem trail, animated depravity, and Schnepp himself into the most random and, yes, WTF-inducing segment of the bunch. Movieline spoke with Schnepp about his “W Is For WTF” (behold the exclusive image above!), how he lobbied producer Ant Timpson for the slot, why he poured his own money into his ABCs of Death short, and what he learned from his time editing Adult Swim’s Space Ghost Coast To Coast at the start of his career. He also updated us with the latest on Grimm Fairy Tales , his ambitious Heavy Metal -esque animated project. (Interviews with all 26 ABCs of Death filmmakers will be available to read on The ABCs of Death Tumblr page.) Your name stands out among the two dozen mostly genre filmmakers because you come from a slightly different world. How were you approached to take part in the ABCs of Death ? I actually contacted Ant [Timpson]. I had heard of The ABCs of Death as I was working on Metalocalypse , and I’ve done a bunch of live-action television shows but they’ve mainly been comedy. After I did those I got into the world of animation, and looking for things outside of animation to do, and that one sounded really cool. I just sent a cold email saying, ‘Hey, this is Jon – I direct Metalocalypse …’ He wrote me back pretty quickly saying ‘I love your work, but we’re totally staffed up. We have all the directors. But I’ll keep you in mind for the future.’ Cut to five months later I get an email from him saying, ‘Hey – one of our directors dropped out and you’re at the top of the list. Do you want to do it?’ And I was like, ‘Fuck yeah!’ It’s nice to hear that in this town sometimes it doesn’t hurt to reach out to a stranger. I strongly advise it! I think if you do it in a cool way and you’re not weird… it comes with a caveat: It doesn’t hurt to ask people, but make sure that you can back that shit up, and also that you’re not crazy. Just how hard is it to come up with a concept like “W is for WTF” when you’re tasked with creating something with such specific yet wide open guidelines? I came up with a bunch of ideas that weren’t fully formed, like “W Is For Wake,” or “W Is For War” and as I started to write them I [realized] I wasn’t sold on them myself. I sent a ton of these ideas, the dumbest one I could possibly think of was “W Is For Werewolf.” Then somehow that devolves as people devour this chem trail and everything they’re thinking comes to life. Is that your actual production staff acting in the short? No – actually it’s the company I work at. They were cool enough to let me shoot there. And that’s my office and my friend Tommy [Blacha] who I work on Metalocalypse with. Because the budget is so minute. I ended up spending like $9,000, which sucks [each director was given a $5,000 budget], but at the same time was totally worth it because you want it to be awesome. I guess that’s what happens when you factor in all the decapitations, and eaten faces and eyeball-chewing. I come from this school of, I pay everyone I work with. I’ve never liked the idea of free anything. In choosing “WTF” as your letter W theme, you really allow yourself to go just about everywhere at once, no limitations. You’ve got zombie clowns, a laser walrus, something I might describe as a muppet… A star-muppet! Was that really just your way of not having to choose just one concept? I’m used to working in television where you whittled stuff down. It’s good practice to get to the core of a story – even if your story is about fantasy and mind meltdowns. The chaos in your short is ADD-optimized, but it really is about something – art and the creative process. This is what I imagine you going through every week working on your shows. Yeah – definitely the subtext is there. I’m glad you got that. Every single person has weird ideas in their mind. The general idea of it is that there are a lot of ideas for anything. How do you eventually execute them? Maybe you do, maybe you don’t. We all die eventually. You didn’t know many of the other filmmakers beforehand, and you’re working on your own with your own budget and crew on your part of the ABCs . What was it like to see “W Is For WTF” with the 25 other shorts when the entire film was put together and polished? I’ll be honest with you, there are about seven of them that I don’t like, that I just don’t think are good. Then there are a couple I think are in the medium area, but an overwhelming bunch of them I think are incredible. The one that follows mine, “X Is For XXL” [by Xavier Gens] is horrifying and such a gut punch in so many ways. It’s just so disgusting and well done. That is pure horror. And you know what? I’m sure there are people who saw mine and hated it. “Who is this goofball and why is there animation? Why is there a dude with his dog on his face?” You just get used to that, though. At least I’ve got the body armor for that now from doing shows like Metalocalypse . There are people who are going to totally hate on you, which sucks. I used to look at the boards and you can’t defend yourself against AppleCat433, you know? Sizzler315 hates you! It’s like, what are you going to do? Still, you worked on so many beloved shows over the years. The Venture Bros. , Metalocalypse … what did you learn most from working on Space Ghost early in your career? I learned comic timing. All the editors of Space Ghost are also the directors. The guys who wrote it give you the audio takes and you would cut it together; it was like a live television show so you would already have all the angles, but then you would animate their mouths yourselves, in Avid. It was a real primitive setup. It was literally like four people working on Space Ghost – the two writers, an executive producer, and the editor, and that was it. For four to eight weeks you would edit and make the show, then you would send the edit decision list to the online guys who would take your actual edit and reassemble it. And then they would put their name on it too, which kind of sucked. But whatever. Hollywood has a lot worse injustices in credits and whatnot. But Space Ghost was a great experience for me because I got to do the weirdest, most fucked up editing and people loved it. I did a loop edit of Harland Williams triggered on some weird word he was saying, and then I put outtakes of George Lowe saying to one of the engineers, like, ‘What’s going on over there?’ And made Space Ghost leave his set, fly over to Moltar and go, ‘Moltar, is there a problem?’ I think it was 1995, I flew out to Atlanta for eight weeks. There was no Adult Swim, none of that – it was a giant aircraft hanger and they were building TBS and TNT and all that. I remember they put me with a bunch of lawyers. Before Aqua Teen Hunger Force was a show, I worked on the pilot and designed the backgrounds, back in 2000. I built Carl’s swimming pool, all that shit – it was fun to work on. We were like, ‘Yeah, we’re doing this weird thing called Aqua Teen Hunger Force .’ I was actually there when they made up ‘Aqua Teen Hunger Force,’ in 1999, when they came up with the show. Originally it was a Space Ghost episode, and I was editing the last episode of Space Ghost of that year, it was called ‘ King Dead .’ That’s the one I wrote a bunch of stuff in. I made up House of the Barking Dead which is on the TV Space Ghost is watching. That was one of my contributions. They were like, ‘That’s good. You can animate that!’ You’re also moving on your animated Grimm Fairy Tales . Where’s that project at now? I just finished the color correction and the sound mix and right now we’re editing all the behind-the-scenes stuff. Our cast is incredible and it was so much fun to do. If you’ve ever seen Heavy Metal , it’s in that vein. I wanted to hire a bunch of kickass artists to do different Grimm fairy tales. I’m trying to turn it into a TV show, that’s why we did the Kickstarter. There’s tons of gore, there’s metal music, there’s nudity… I don’t even know if it will sell. We live in a different world. Everyone I’ve shown this to is like, ‘I can’t wait to see this in a series!’ But I have to get through all these other people sitting in offices who say, ‘It seems to me things that are PG-13 make money.” THE ABCs OF DEATH is now available on Cable VOD, iTunes, Amazon, Xbox Zune, Playstation Market, VUDU and Google Play; in theaters starting March 8 from Magnet Releasing. MORE ON JON SCHNEPP: What The Kal-El? The Seriously Weird Superman That Nicolas Cage Almost Played Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
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Two weeks after carrying home the big prizes from the Critics’ Choice and Golden Globe Awards , Argo firmly established its Oscar front-runner status with another one-two punch in the form of the PGA’s Motion Picture Producer of the Year honor and the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast. And in a season of confusion and contradiction, that front-runner status gives Argo traction that none of its Best-Picture rivals have. The PGA win was not a surprise, especially after Argo ’s strong showing with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Content-wise, it’s the type of film that charms producers, being a taut political thriller 65% of the time and a stack of insider Hollywood jokes the other 35%. Apart from that, you have The Affleck, and the time has come to love and praise The Affleck . Rejuvenated and relevant again, Ben Affleck is this year’s Oscar story. When the nominations came out, who was the “snubbed” director? It wasn’t Kathryn Bigelow , Paul Thomas Anderson , or Wes Anderson , the three directors whose films appeared on the most end-of-year lists. It was The Affleck, and within 72 hours, The Affleck was redeemed with populist awards broadcast live on the CW and NBC, making Argo the People’s Film and Affleck the Oscar story of the year. For Best Picture prognostication, the PGA Award is a major get. Since it was started in 1989, the Producers Guild has awarded the eventual Best Picture Oscar winner nearly 70 percent of the time, and has been perfect over the past 5 years. Additionally, the PGA uses a preferential ballot just as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has done since 2009. What this means is that Argo and Affleck do not need to top all ballots, they just need to be agreed upon by most ballots. I don’t have scientific findings to present here, but think about the conversations you’ve had about the Best Picture nominees: Lincoln , Les Misérables, Django Unchained , and Silver Linings Playbook are much more polarizing than the crowd-pleasing Argo . For what it’s worth, Argo also has the highest Rotten Tomatoes score of all the nominees, 96, followed by Zero Dark Thirty , 93, and Amour , 92. The movie’s SAG win was more of a surprise. Argo is not an Actor’s Movie. This is not to say the award was not earned, simply that most of the attention was divided between the flashy Les Mis and the kitchen sink acting of Silver Linings Playbook . But there’s that word: “divided.” The Screen Actors Guild is a massive organization of nearly 160,000 members (though only current on dues are eligible to vote), so while theater types might have leaned toward Les Mis and classically-trained types might have opted for Silver Linings or Lincoln , the one film the Guild ended up agreeing on was Argo and its Affleck-led cast. It was, in a word, the most popular. (Keeping with the populist theme, note how the SAG Awards are the only guild awards that appear on billboards). SAG has a terrible track record with Best Picture. The two top awards aligned less than half of the time since SAG started their awards in 1995. But this is a season when stats mean less than they would normally. The film with the most Oscar nominations is no longer the film to beat. Harvey Weinstein , who put Affleck on the Oscar map with the 1997 movie Goodwill Hunting, is fighting an uphill battle. There’s a legitimate front-runner in town, and it does not have the director’s nomination assumed necessary. (And I’m not talking about Django Unchained .) This season, the Best Picture race is all about tone and attitude, and Argo and its affable director are all about tone and attitude. Affleck is an A-lister once again, charming every room he enters — his jokes won the room at the PGA breakfast Saturday morning — and his film’s recent run of awards-season honors have made its Best Picture prospects impossible to ignore. After months of having several films on the radar, there is finally one at the center of it. John Hendel is a playwright from Los Angeles. Follow John Hendel on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
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