Much like our hosts, the winners, at times, seem to have been chosen out of two boxes—one white and traditional, the other from the larger and unwieldier box called “diversity.” Few things bore me faster than people who talk on social media about how boring and irrelevant and overlong and stupid Awards Show X is. […]
She isn’t even running. Just like many other media-loving Americans, I was watching the Golden Globes on Sunday night when Oprah “The-closest-thing-we-have-to-royalty” Winfrey accepted a lifetime achievement award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in front of the who’s who of Hollywood. The speech brought down the room, reminding everyone why the program’s host Seth […]
I’ve habitually, if unconsciously, compared myself to other white women who, in far greater numbers than women of color, are granted competitor status in America’s Olympics of life. “Stop talking to her. That girl is your enemy.” These are the words of Tonya Harding’s mother, LaVona, to a pre-teen Tonya at her skating lesson in […]
Old Hollywood may be uncomfortable with appearing impolite or indelicate when one of its own is exposed publicly, but fewer young women are. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s unapologetic takedown of Bill Cosby at the Golden Globes exposed a raw nerve among the entertainment elite. Fey and Poehler’s halfhearted attempt to impersonate Cosby’s syntax and […]
