The way the writing credits have been described in the past kind of makes it seem like a contractual formality. Songwriters primarily make money from sales, and so obviously the more you sell, the more you stand to make. But the likelihood of having a hit is greatly increased when you have a huge star like Beyonce…
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I'm always surprised by people on Jezebel who don't like Beyonce. Even people who are "meh" on her kinda weird me out. So much of this site is about reading the cultural codes of celebrity and narrative that it seems strange to hate on the one celebrity who seems to acknowledge and actually use the complex discourse…
It's on Netflix. Just sayin'. No excuses.
I had that moment this summer watching her in Celeste And Jesse Forever.
In a game of marry, fuck, kill, is there any situation where you would pick someone over Beyonce to marry? Is she just an automatic marry?
Oh Tavi. It's always the time.
Heh. True dat.
Oh I'm with you there. But you could say the same thing about Jane Austen adaptations. The presentation is high brow, even if the content is low brow.
Oh regiments were absolutely segregated, but that doesn't mean that black and white regiments wouldn't have come into contact with each other during the war. Black soldiers were often the ones building the trenches for the white soldiers, and their regiments were usually chosen for particularly dangerous battle jobs.…
I never said that Mad Men should have a black ad man, nor did I say that I think race in Girls is A-OK. But the fact of the matter there were circumstances and situations in which substantial black characters could have been introduced and the show chose not to go there. They could have spent time with Carla and the…
I'm definitely not saying that it's a plotline that would have been likely to occur, but it is one that could have occurred. It's in the realm of possibility for the time period. Considering the show included a storyline about a deformed man claiming to have survived the Titanic and recovered from amnesia after an…
POCs wouldn't have been rare though in times of war. Matthew and Thomas could have easily served beside an Indian man for example. There could have been a wounded soldier at the hospital who was a person of color. Even in season 1, Sybil could have come into contact with a person of color at the labor rally she…
But there were a large number of minorities who were shipped from the British colonies into Europe for World War I. That would have been an unbelievably easy way to bring in characters of color. I'm not looking for the show to insert token people of color where they are not historically accurate, but the problem is…
That's very true, especially for the first season, but the show has definitely opened up opportunities for characters to be people of color in the past. For example I think season two would have been a hell of a lot more interesting if they nixed the stupid Ethel storyline and instead made the character that Mrs.…
It would have been very easy to include a person of color as a regular in season two when Downton became a hospital for wounded soldiers. While the chances of a person of color working or living in the house was unlikely, there have been many circumstances where they could have had storylines addressing the existence…
It's interesting that Downton Abbey has never had a backlash for its lack of diversity. And that's something pretty consistent for shows of its kind. Mad Men, another highly praised high brow show set in the less enlightened past, doesn't really do all that much with race either. Is it because history itself has been…
The mighty crush continues. So cute!
Alia Shawkat and sad, wonderful daughter from Spanglish being friends is (awesome, fantastic, omg you're both so wonderful, be in all the movies!!!) news to me. Egg/Annhog/Bland also killing it. And Zoe Kravitz, girl you looking mad cute. Basically this video just gave me a lot of feels.
That little girl gets a free pass for life after that movie. She could have shown up to this event in a tutu made of human hair and I still would have clapped and cried like a mom dropping her kid off at kindergarten.