Tag Archives: Popular Culture
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” – Nora Ephron, 1941-2012
Tweet Essayist and filmmaker Nora Ephron has died. Nora Ephron was a giant. Ephron wrote the screenplay for “Silkwood”, best known as the writer of the seminal romantic comedy “When Harry Met Sally” and wrote and directed the wildly successful (and still one of my favorites) “You’ve Got Mail”. If you haven’t seen “Silkwood”, please [...]
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‘Brave’ has a gender problem
Tweet*If you haven’t yet seen Brave and want to avoid any spoilers at all, avoid this post. If you don’t mind minor spoilers for plot points (but not outcome) continue reading* I avoided any reviews or spoilers before seeing the new Pixar movie Brave yesterday. I wanted to go into the movie about a young heroine [...]
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Adidas “shackle shoe” canceled before it’s debut
Tweet Designer Jeremy Scott created a shoe for Nike that was debuted last January on their Facebook page–a regular pair of sneakers with a shackle attached. In an effort to be edgy they failed to recognize that the use of “shackles” harkens back to a time when people were, you know, shackled and enslaved. Is [...]
Quick hit: TNC on the “Django Unchained” trailer
TweetNo one does analysis of race in pop culture like Ta-Nehisi Coates does, and on the newly-released trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained,” he’s predictably on-point. Here’s the trailer (no transcript, I’m afraid, but if a reader would like to write one up and post it in comments, I’d be really thankful). TNC writes, Perhaps [...]
Nicki Minaj on sexism in the music industry