As a(n African American) makeup artist I can tell you that's not the issue. Far from the days of Max Factor, there are a billion and one products available for women of color and to match global skin tones. Unless a discussion is had prior to or in the midst of a shoot where the photographer explicitly says, "look,…

Telling me to calm down or to shush me is an excellent way to get me to FUCK YO SHIT UP!

A genuine compliment is never (or rarely) inappropriate. Just tell, don't touch. That takes it from appreciation to circus exhibit curiosity.

*high fives you*

Ooh, uncontrollable racking sobs, check. Brought on by my decision to watch "Beaches" mid-pregnancy. Had to call my best friend (in Boston...from Los Angeles...at 11pm...my time...) to beg her not to die. Her: "Um...I wasn't planning on it. You're in the third trimester, right?"

Pregnancy story one: Mr Really Clever beat me at a game of Scrabble, I had a nervous breakdown.

Nope. They want to be chummy witty. Except that they're not.

You can't hate more than we did. After you'd spent hours learning Penelope Cruz's or whomever's brothers' and sisters' names and occupations or whatever, and composed brilliant interesting questions that were seen by two to three more pairs of eyes before they were approved, only to hear maybe one per show asked, it…

Basically. Seacrest — and this was a few years back. But I'd be surprised if it's changed — was the only one who had his own personal writer. Who knows what black magic they cooked up between them.

I worked at (er, an entertainment network that begins and ends with one letter and has an exclamation point in it) for awards show season. There's a slew of P.A.s and writers who do weeks of painstaking research on each nominee, and compose a handful of questions for each one of them. The questions get vetted by the…

He just sorta avoi...you have GOT to be fucking with us right now. You have seriously for real got to be fucking fucking with us right now with this. This is why we cannot have nice shit.

He just sorta avoi...you have GOT to be fucking with us right now. You have seriously for real got to be fucking fucking with us right now with this. This is why we cannot have nice shit.

Eww.

Same :-/

You shut the fuck up!

I kinda wanna punch her in the head. Is that wrong? It probably is. Oh well.

Yeah. Not to be an a-hole, but those paragraph shenanigans threw me way off for a minute.

Fifty Shades of Grey' is based on people who exist.

I don't actually trust parents who won't embarrass their children by dancing. Had to bust out in Subway recently. My 15 year-old son: "Oh my God mom, please, you're embarrassing me." Me: "I'm your mother, it's what I'm here for."