exactly. it's not personal. it's something that is indicative of a set of patterns.

Two words that people older than Gen X, Y or Z may remember: Pia Zadora.

The award that I thought was most erroneous was Robin Wright winning over Tatiana Maslany. I *know* Orphan Black is a new show, but that girl works her ASS off. She deserves every goddamn award out there for it.

It's the talent factor. Blanchett has a wonderful reputation for her wonderful acting, Gaga IS a reputation; there is no substantial or unique talent to back it up, so she's got to be much more careful with it.

Being interested in his personality would actually be worse than being interested in his money in this case.

I said this in the award thread but here's a possible factor into why Lupita didn't win. Hollywood loooooooves when pretty white actresses play roles when they're brutalised and degraded and abused and the camera can linger lovingly over every moment of their exquisite suffering. Such acting craft. Very artistic…

Um, I don't think Charlize Theron needs to worry about money.

2013 was the year of black cinema.
2014 is the year of award shows shutting us down before we get too "uppity". Mostly because they really don't want any Asians or Latinos getting any ideas about sharing their stories.

Still a better decision than marrying Robin Thicke.

"All the guns, Mr. Bieber. All the guns."

"Yes we can be self absorbed and expect too much and lazy, we can also do incredible things at times and are trying to make our way through in a hard industry."

Right?! It's so fucking awful - it's like they're basically using Asians and Native Americans as "not real" people to make their argument funny somehow. It's erasure of the worst sort, especially since, as you said, New York is not exactly all-white.

Those are my comics now. I own them. To argue otherwise means you hate creativity.

i particularly liked the "you clearly don't think deeply enough about the show" and "we put things in because we want to and we don't always need a reason for something."

This certainly seems to assume that the only reason to include nudity on your TV show is that it's a chance to sexily parade around sexy bodies for maximum sexiness.

Yes. Lena Dunham has never met or befriended a non-white person. Ever. They do not exist in her world. But there was that time she had Donald Glover on, right? And Jessica Williams will be on this season. Or did that just not come from her personal life?