Showing posts with label CNN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CNN. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

The Hunger/Racism Games



So "Hunger Games" flippin killed it over the weekend. Despite fawning reviews and record-breaking ticket sales, some fans of the blockbuster young adult trilogy by author Suzanne Collins were livid (wrongfully so) by the decision to cast an African-American actress as Rue, one of the supporting characters. who unless you blind is clearly described as having "dark brown skin" in the  first installment.

As Jezebel notes, many "Hunger Games" viewers resorted to sending racist tweets over the fact that Rue (played in the film by young actress Amandla Sternberg) was black.
"Why does Rue have to be black," wrote one ignorant fan, whose Twitter page no longer exists. "Not gonna lie, kinda ruined the movie."
"Awkward moment when Rue is some black girl and not the innocent blonde girl you picture," wrote another user, whose account has also been deleted.
Of course, the occasion of "The Hunger Games" arriving in theaters isn't the first time some fans were upset with the casting. Last year, after the character posters for "The Hunger Games" debuted -- showing both Sternberg as Rue and Lenny Kravitz as stylist Cinna -- reactions on the Internet were equally harsh. Now To Be fair lol which is far from racist, i did NOT see Cinna as Black, but i also didn't know what i thought Cinna Looked like, but to be soooooo surprised The Rue is Black just cracks me up, it only means these people are horrible readers!!!! pick up more books kids, lets learn ya how to read! maybe start off with Huck fin, or tom sawyer, so you can also learn about being a racist bastard.

anyways! "The Hunger Games" is out in theaters now. For more on the racist "Hunger Games" tweets, head over to Hunger Games Tweets, a Tumblr created to "expose the 'Hunger Games' fans on Twitter who dare to call themselves fans yet don't know a damn thing about the books."

Friday, August 12, 2011

Lohan Does Crystals not Crystal! DUH!



Video of Lindsay Lohan sitting outside a Venice Beach, California, triggered a bitter squabble between her publicist and an online gossip editor Thursday.
X17online hinted the video secretly recorded from a nearby car showed something fishy going on between Lohan and several men, including the exchange of a plastic bag and some cash.
Steve Honig, whose job it is to protect Lohan's reputation, accused the website of "knowingly and consciously made inferences about Lindsay that are completely untrue."
"If they had taken the time to look into this a little bit further, they would have found out that the bag contained crystals from a local shop in Venice," Honig said in a statement to CNN.
X17online's Brandy Navarre, in her statement to CNN, thanked Honig for calling attention to her site's video, but she insisted her report "never implied anything about the transaction Lohan appeared to make on the street in Venice Tuesday afternoon."
The report was revised to reflect Honig's statement that the bag exchanged was filled with crystals after Lohan's publicist provided his statement, Navarre said.
"X17online is not reporting anything false nor are we suggesting anything negative about Lindsay Lohan in this post," she said. "The only 'inferences' about what could be happening in the video come from Ms. Lohan's publicist."
Another celebrity news website, RadarOnline, took Lohan's side in interpreting the video. Reporter Jen Heger told CNN that she verified the bag contained crystals and nothing nefarious.
The man who gave her the bag, in daylight on a busy sidewalk, was walking his dog.
Lohan, who spent several months in drug rehab last year, was recently released from strict drug testing requirements by the judge overseeing her probation for drunken driving.
Photographers often follow Lohan, who lives in Venice Beach, as she shops, dines and parties around town. The resulting video and photographs sometimes bring thousands of dollars for the freelance paparazzi when they sell them to online gossip sites, where they can draw valuable web traffic.

Monday, July 11, 2011

THE BOOTH AT THE END


OKAY, SOOOO IF YOU KNOW ME, THEN YOU KNOW I HYPE AWESOME SHIT UP, AND IF I HYPE IT, THAN I'M MORE OR SO LIKELY OBSESSED, SO MY NEW CRAZE IS THIS SHOW CALLED "THE BOOTH AT THE END" OKAY SO I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE THIS SHOW IS GOING, BUT ITS FANTASTIC AND INTRIGUING TO WATCH. BASICALLY THIS CREEPY DUDE SITS AT A BOOTH IN A DINNER. HE HAS PEOPLE COME IN AND THEY ALL HAVE DIFFERENT NEEDS. EXAMPLE: A GIRL WANTS TO BE PRETTY, AN OLD WOMAN WANTS HER OLD HUSBAND TO NOT BE CRAZY, A MAN WANTS TO SAVE HIS SON IN THE HOSPITAL, THE CATCH IS, TO GET WHAT THEY WANT, THEY HAVE TO PERFORM A TASK FOR THE "CREEPY MAN" I DON'T WANNA SPOIL IT ANY FURTHER, BUT ITS A PATIENCE DRIVEN SHOW FOR SURE, GIVE IT A SHOT IF YOU LOVED "LOST" OR "TWIN PEEKS" I HEART THIS SHOW, AND I HOPE YOU DO TOO.






LINK TO WEBSITE BELOW
http://theboothattheend.com/