you’re not helping: ‘Prince of Persia’ and ‘The Last Airbender’ not really whitewashes, Hollywood insists

The Los Angeles Times suddenly notices that two of Hollywood’s would-be blockbusters for Summer 2010 are full of white actors playing nonwhite characters: So when Disney studios announced plans for a live-action adaptation of Prince, Dar held out hope it would be a “serious story that would dispel a lot of stereotypes and misconceptions.” Then … more…

rabbit ears in 2010

It’s back to the future, I guess: I’m picking up ABC over the air now — not a sentence I would ever have expected to utter in the second decade of the 21st century — so I’ll be able to watch the Oscars tonight (no thanks to the whiny ass babies at ABC and Cablevision). … more…