Next movie we all have to make sure sinks like a stone = “Ghost in the Shell” starring ScarJo playing what was originally a Japanese character. Rumor has it they are using CGI to - you guessed it - make her look more Japanese.

Don't forget the Lone Ranger and that Peter Pan movie that was in theatres for less than a nanosecond.

both of them. Ebert was a very interesting interwebz essayist; it’s his page that his wife and some other critics have continued after his death.

And the prize for sickest burn goes to the Star Telegram for dubbing it “The Rachel Dolezal of movies.” That is cold.

Also: “At least the Aaliyah biopic was regulated to Lifetime”

Wait, isn’t Roger Ebert dead?

There needs to be a term for this feeling i have surrounding this new phenomena of obviously awful movies that flop. Cinematic Schadenfreude or something like that. That Christian Bale egypt movie, the other egypt action movie and now this. I love it when audiences rebuff these obviously bigoted movies made by bigoted…

That guitar solo above - ending “While my Guitar Gently Weeps” is SO Classic Prince. He could rock a guitar like no other.

I insulted him to his face at a concert. Really small venue event for charity. You were never more than three people away from the stage. The show started two hours late and after standing outside in stilettos waiting to get in the venue, I was not in the mood. I was standing dead center in front of the stage, being…

I was privileged to have seen him live, at Coachella in 2008. He brought out The Time and Sheila E and I thought I had entered nirvana. Then he launched into Radiohead’s “Creep” and I just stood there, mouth wide open, doing that laugh/cry thing you get to do only a few times in your life. If the world had ended at…

NYE 1999 belonged to him.

Brilliant comment, especially:

I definitely think you’re correct... which goes back to the point of the authenticity and genuineness. Several other people have pointed out, quite rightly, that I missed the aspect of choice in opting into or out of the experiences. Thank you for summing it up so succinctly.

Dolezal, on the other hand, no matter how bad she might feel that oppression, can escape it any time she wants.

And it’s true that it often manifests in a ‘who do they think they are’ attitude, which is completely abrasive and doesn’t foster the whole ‘we’re all black behind the ears’ attitude. But it tends to be from a ‘who do they think they are, don’t they know that they’re black to any other white person? do they think…

I think Kerry Washington said it best we she said (paraphrasing) that it’s not that we don’t want people to see our race, we don’t want people to judge us based upon our race.

I think, first of all, the very ability to step out of the shoes she was walking in 100% changes her experience. People who pretend to be homeless to make themselves feel better aren’t actually homeless, people who put on fat suits to live as an overweight person aren’t actually overweight. People who wear blackface…

Then the problem is not race, it’s racism.