“Hey, Jamaican dog — they want their bobsledder back! Jamaica just called, they want their bobsledder back!” That’s the racist heckling directed at Spurs baller Patty Mills Sunday at The Q … while he was at the free-throw line at…
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Monday, February 26, 2018
Friday, January 12, 2018
Patty Hearst Movie Based on "American Heiress" Book Cancelled by FOX
Patty Hearst’s scathing criticism of the upcoming film and TV projects about her life wasn’t taken lightly … FOX just pulled the plug on its film project. 20th Century Fox Film announced Thursday afternoon it’s cancelling its planned biopic about…
Thursday, January 11, 2018
Patty Hearst Blasts TV, Film Projects for Romanticizing Her "Rape and Torture"
Patty Hearst won’t be involved in any film or TV series depicting her hostage ordeal … and, in fact, she’s blasting the people behind the upcoming productions for glorifying her rape. Patty tells us … “Over the years I have been approached many…
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Patty Hearst"s Family Outraged TV and Film Projects Trivialize her Rape
Patty Hearst was a rape victim and it’s deplorable to run a movie or television show viciously attacking her … this according to her family. Hearst family sources tell TMZ … Patty’s relatives are beside themselves over the upcoming…
Saturday, December 16, 2017
Sean Astin Responds to FCC"s Fake Comments by His Mother, Patty Duke, Against Net Neutrality
Sean Astin says if his mom, Patty Duke, were still alive today … she’d be marching on Capitol Hill to demand answers why her name was fraudulently used to oppose net neutrality. A little backstory — Sean’s bro, actor Mackenzie Astin, called out…
Friday, August 25, 2017
James Cameron Slams Wonder Woman; Patty Jenkins Hit Back!
Maybe James Cameron should stick to deep sea diving and making Avatar movie sequels that literally nobody asked for.
The legendary director took aim at Wonder Woman, one of the most critically acclaimed and popular films of the summer, and just sort of rubbed his male opinions all over it.
Wonder Woman‘s director, Patty Jenkins, clapped back with her own statement.
In an interview with The Guardian, James Cameron dismisses Wonder Woman as a giant step backwards for women and for Hollywood.
He’s wrong, but here’s what he says:
“All of the self-congratulatory back-patting Hollywood’s been doing over Wonder Woman has been so misguided. She’s an objectified icon, and it’s just male Hollywood doing the same old thing! I’m not saying I didn’t like the movie but, to me, it’s a step backwards.”
It’s not clear how she was objectified. Her hair was nice and she looked gorgeous, but the only time that we can think of when Gal Gadot’s character’s appearance was a focus and she wasn’t in battle was maybe when she wore that stunning blue dress.
And then the focus shifted to the sword that she had concealed along her spine.
Naturally, James Cameron pivots to discussing and praising his own work.
“Sarah Connor was not a beauty icon. She was strong, she was troubled, she was a terrible mother, and she earned the respect of the audience through pure grit. And to me, [the benefit of characters like Sarah] is so obvious. I mean, half the audience is female!”
First of all, Linda Hamilton — who wasn’t only James Cameron’s star but also, for a time, his wife — doesn’t exactly have fond memories of their marriage and she hasn’t been shy about it, either.
So … that’s awkward to bring up. We’ll explain why he’s wrong in a moment.
But we’ll say that he’s absolutely right — half of the audience is female, so women should be catered to in films just as much as men are.
Like, we said, he’s wrong.
Wonder Woman herself, Diana of Themyscira, is conventionally attractive — which has always been part of her character.
There are absolutely greasy, nuts-and-bolts female superheroes.
The point isn’t that everybody needs to be an Imperator Furiosa or a Sarah Conner.
Those are great, but there are multiple ways to be a woman and therefore multiple ways to be a leading woman in an action movie.
Wonder Woman would always be a story about a strikingly beautiful woman who remains so even in the thick of battle.
(Just as Superman remains intensely handsome even when he’s in the middle of a knock-down, drag-out fight with the likes of Darkseid or whomever)
When they make a Hawkgirl movie, that’s the place to have a woman who gets dirty and gritty.
Hawkgirl is an alien (or sometimes a reincarnated one … ugh, why are comics like this), not a demigod. She hangs out in Space Taverns and gets into bar fights for fun.
James Cameron is falling into that trap of thinking that there’s only one progressive vision for females on screen, and that won’t serve him well.
Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins, who’s won acclaim for making the most successful superhero origin movie of all time, clapped back at James Cameron over Twitter:
“James Cameron’s inability to understand what Wonder Woman is, or stands for, to women all over the world is unsurprising as, though he is a great filmmaker, he is not a woman.”
Most of the women who saw Wonder Woman loved it.
(One of my viewing companions the first time that I saw it cried through at least a third of it. Like, tears of happiness)
“Strong women are great. His praise of my film Monster, and our portrayal of a strong yet damaged woman was so appreciated. But if women have to always be hard, tough and troubled to be strong, and we aren’t free to be multidimensional or celebrate an icon of women everywhere because she is attractive and loving, then we haven’t come very far have we.”
Yep.
“I believe women can and should be EVERYTHING just like male lead characters should be. There is no right and wrong kind of powerful woman. And the massive female audience who made the film a hit it is, can surely choose to judge their own icons of progress.”
Like we said, there are plenty of ways to be a woman and plenty of ways to be a hero.
The thing is that James Cameron should know that.
He was one of the creators of the massively underrated TV series, Dark Angel, where Jessica Alba was very capable of kicking butt and looking gorgeous in a show that was not subtle about its feminist ideals.
Don’t get us wrong — Dark Angel had a couple of problems. None of them had to do with the protagonist being attractive.
But it is disappointing to see James Cameron speaking over so many women to give his opinion.
Men can absolutely be feminists, just as white people can oppose racism, but women and people of color (respectively) shouldn’t have their voices drowned out by “allies.”
Anyway, Wonder Woman was great.
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Patty Simcox in "Grease" "Memba Her?!
Susan Buckner is best known for playing the preppy bff Patty Simcox — opposite Olivia Newton-John as Sandy — in the 1978 musical must-see ‘Grease.’ Guess what she looks like now!
Thursday, December 1, 2016
Big Mac Inventor -- Two All-Beef Patty Salute! "Super Size Me" Guy Downs 28,984th Big Mac (PHOTO)
Big Mac creator Jim Delligatti got the ultimate tribute from his biggest fan — the guy who famously eats 2 Macs per day come hell or high water. “Super Size Me” star Don Gorske rolled into his fave Mickey D’s on Wednesday, as soon as he heard…
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Patty Duke Dies; Beloved Actress Was 69
Patty Duke – the actress best known for her eponymous sitcom and Oscar-winning work on the big screen – has passed away at the age of 69.
Early reports indicate that Duke passed away from sepsis due to a ruptured intestine.
Her family confirmed the news of her death in a statement issued moments ago:
“This morning, our beloved wife, mother, matriarch and the exquisite artist, humanitarian, and champion for mental health, Anna Patty Duke Pearce, closed her eyes, quieted her pain and ascended to a beautiful place,” the statement reads.
“We celebrate the infinite love and compassion she shared through her work and throughout her life.”
Duke started her career as a child star, winning an Academy Award at the age of 16 for her performance as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker.
She went on to star as identical cousins on the popular sitcom The Patty Duke show, which ran for more than 100 episodes.
After being diagnosed with bipolar disorder in the early ’80s, Duke became an advocate for those struggling with mental health issues.
She continued to work steadily throughout her life, appearing in episodes of Glee and the Disney channel sitcom Liv and Maddie in her final years.
Duke is survived by her three children, including Lord of the Rings star Sean Astin.
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