Hell yeah, I would. Because I love performing and working with creative people on projects that I care about. Obviously she doesn't do it for the money. She knows that her involvement helps projects get made and get seen.
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Mo'Nique Explains How She's Being Blackballed in Hollywood
If Katherine Heigl can get work after biting the hand that feeds (repeatedly) and just being the worst, I don't why Mo'Nique is having opportunities taken away.
Mo'Nique says that several major acting opportunities initially offered to her "all just went away" afterward. That includes a role in Empire (now a huge show for Fox) and the part in Lee Daniels' The Butler that Oprah Winfrey ended up playing. Mo'Nique was also supposed to play Richard Pryor's grandmother in a…
This is an excellent example of an actor benefiting from a director with a strong, specific vision. Everything she's done before and since has not exhibited the caliber of performance Mo'Nique gave in Precious.
I will cosign this. While (most of) the performances were phenomenal, the movie itself left me with a "meh" feeling when the credits rolled.
A racist history? Absolutely. Secret? Not quite. The Oregon Historical Society has a standing exhibition about this and, troublingly, uses it as the cornerstone of its Black History Month presentation. Walidah Imarisha has given her "Why Aren't There More Black People In Oregon?" talk as part of the Historical…
Great read. Interestingly my mother lived in the Vanport community when the flood occurred. She was 8 years old, and her father worked for the ship yards. The family was at the movies when it happened and she recalls standing on a hill watching her house float away. Funny thing though, out of all the stories I've…
Uhh.....anyone else think old mister leader of the KKK here might have some, shall we say, "non-white" in him?
This is why I will never understand people who claim there's no such thing as white privilege. Just three generations ago black people were banned from Oregon. Just two generations ago black people were allowed to be banned from schools and other public and private institutions. Well into the 1980s, financial…
That's like saying "People played football in America? No way!" At the end of an article giving lots of very detailed and specific insights into how the NFL came to exist.
I've been stuck living in Eugene for the past five years. I'm finally leaving and moving to a more accepting place. Boston......wait...
The entitlement in telling another woman what to do with her eyebrows. I just — not to be obnoxious about it, but this is how women enact and enforce the patriarchy on one another.
What I heard: The most important thing to learn in college is conformity. It is not the time to experiment with ideas and finding your style! If you want to advance to the basic bitch big leagues when you graduate now is them time to stop thinking and start bronzing.
Can we talk about spanx? I don't wear them because aint nobody got time for that. But a friend of mine went through a spanx craze, only to abandon them, because she felt that they squished her body fat in such a way that she looked weirdly tube-like. She called it the 'german sausage' effect. And after she pointed…
Sundae, bloody sundae?
People used to dress much nicer than they do today.
Am I overthinking? Am I just being paranoid? It's exhausting.