I don't remember -- what was the reaction to RDJ doing the black character in Tropic Thunder?
Lydia: Its removal from Burma is a felony and when triggered it has the power to melt human eyeballs.
Giles: In that case I've severely underpriced it.
'Potential'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Amy - Feb 28, 2012 5:17:38 am PST #24140 of 30001
Because books.
le nubian - Feb 28, 2012 5:19:48 am PST #24141 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
White Christmas has one, too, doesn't it?
Yes, and apparently it is cut from most of the DVDs. I also understand it is one of the worst numbers in the movie.
I have not seen it.
sumi - Feb 28, 2012 5:21:57 am PST #24142 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
msbelle - Feb 28, 2012 5:22:28 am PST #24143 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
The thing with the Crystal bit, is why? Weren't the other scenes movie references - the whole Beiber thing wasn't, was it? and then SDJ in there makes no sense.
Doing something offensive is just not ok, but when it doesn't even make sense in the scope of the bit, it is a whole other level of why.
Traditional weren't the movie bits with the opening JUST nominated films? Did this openeing even hold to that? I have forgotten most of it, I think. There was a Descendents bit and what else, then Beiber, then what? and ending with Mission Impossible for no other reason than Tom Cruise was gonna be there, or is the film tied to the network in some way?
Jesse - Feb 28, 2012 5:27:08 am PST #24144 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yes, and apparently it is cut from most of the DVDs. I also understand it is one of the worst numbers in the movie.
It is no "Sisters," for sure.
Hil R. - Feb 28, 2012 5:29:06 am PST #24145 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hil, for what it's worth, blackface/minstrel shows were very popular in 19th century America. By the time Jolson made The Jazz Singer, mainstream white America would have thought "kind of old-fashioned" more than "racist." Even into the 1940s, Holiday Inn included a blackface number without apology (although in that one, there was a plot reason given, for what that is or isn't worth).
Yeah. I've seen a few Judy Garland movies from when she was a teenager that include blackface numbers, and they're pretty much presented as, "Let's do one of those good old fashioned minstrel shows, like the old-timey folks used to do."
Jessica - Feb 28, 2012 5:31:04 am PST #24146 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
KGBbar is in the East Village:
I don't know where the Bolt Bus stops exactly, but KGBBar is pretty easy to get to from any subway line (it's not far from NYU).
SuziQ - Feb 28, 2012 5:34:03 am PST #24147 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Weren't the other scenes movie references - the whole Beiber thing wasn't, was it? and then SDJ in there makes no sense.
That bit was a nod to Midnight in Paris with the yellow car picking him up at midnight and taking him to meet famous people of the past, such as Hemmingway. So in that sense, SDJ made more sense than Bieber. Still doesn't excuse the blackface.
Sparky1 - Feb 28, 2012 5:34:50 am PST #24148 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
My condolances, Burrell & family.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 28, 2012 5:36:07 am PST #24149 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I was pretty angry about White Chicks, but to paraphrase Jerry Seinfeld, I wasn't offended as a white person, I was offended as a film major.
Yeah, racism against caucasians bothers me when it's in the form of overt hostility, but I don't think being good sports about being made fun of in comedy bits is too much to ask of the majority.