Posted on July 13, 2014 at 8:00 am
Amanda Scherker has an excellent piece in the Huffington Post about “whitewashing” in films — ethnically white actors playing non-white characters. We understand now how absurd it was to have John Wayne play Genghis Khan or Katharine Hepburn play “Dragon Seed’s” Chinese peasant. Scherker’s article has a range of examples, but there are still more. …
Posted on July 13, 2014 at 7:00 am
The kids in Earth to Echo use a snazzy GoPro Hero3 to record their adventures. Now you can win GoPro and record your own! Many thanks to “Earth to Echo” for making it possible for me to share this extraordinary prize. To enter: Send me an email at moviemom@moviemom.com with GoPro in the subject line and tell …
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Posted on July 12, 2014 at 10:22 pm
Colbie Caillat is not the only one paying tribute to the full range of female beauty with a new video. John Legend’s “You & I” is a deeply moving tribute to the woman he loves, who appears in the video along with a heartwarming array of beautiful girls and women.
Posted on July 12, 2014 at 4:43 pm
The video for Colbie Caillat’s new song, “Try,” from Gypsy Heart Side A, shows her struggle to be true to herself in a world that expects women, especially performers, to conform to a narrow and highly polished idea of beauty. Watch it — and show it to your daughters.
Posted on July 12, 2014 at 8:00 am
Two intriguing new announcements about upcoming films: As the first trailer for his Moses epic is released, starring Christian Bale (and a lot of other actors who are not of Middle Eastern ethnicity), Ridley Scott has announced that he will also be making another Biblical epic, this one about David. And Robert Redford will play …
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