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03 Feb 04:06

30 Rock Landed on Us

by editors
Polarcola

"But 30 Rock's characters' ability to live alongside each other is an acceptance that institutional and incidental racism and sexism and homophobia are part of how we live. We can survive by laughing at them. That's an attitude that might not have been possible before an Obama presidency. Tracy's right that Obama's election resurrected old-school racism. But where Chappelle's satire might have self-destructed over the birthers and Donald Trump, 30 Rock looked the other way and laughed. In the 21st century, old-school racism doesn't die. It just seems more glib."

An essay on television and race.

Wesley Morris | Grantland | Jan 2013 [Full Story]
02 Feb 23:10

What Soderbergh is Reading

by Nick Moran
Polarcola

For everyone who fastidiously tracks their consumption - an interesting look at Soderbergh's list.

Remember back in 2011 when Steven Soderbergh made that list (PDF) of every movie, TV show, book, play and short story he had watched that year? Well according to his recent interview with New York Magazine, the book he most recently finished is Paul Murray’s Skippy Dies. (And what a coincidence! The book Murray most recently blurbed is Epic Fail, our first Millions Original.)

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27 Jan 04:23

Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie

by By STEPHEN RODRICK
Paul Schrader, Bret Easton Ellis, Lindsay Lohan and a porn star named James Deen try to make a movie for $250,000 that will save all of their careers. What could go wrong?

07 Jan 04:07

Friday Night Tykes

by editors

A season with the best 12-year-old football team in Texas.

Bryan Curtis | Texas Monthly | Jan 2013 [Full Story]
01 Dec 23:46

TV: Newswire: The CW's Wonder Woman pilot seeks tall ladies, must be afraid of ice cream

by Sean O'Neal
Polarcola

Make a live-action version of the recent DC animated Wonder Woman, turn it into a 2-hour premiere extravaganza. BAM! You got yourself a pilot and a solid start at actually paying Diana her television dues.

If you are a young female actress who is 5-foot-8 or taller and perusing pop-culture websites for audition information rather than hiring an agent, congratulations, you're definitely going to be famous. Also, if your name is not Adrianne Palicki, you might have a pretty good shot at playing the new Wonder Woman in The CW's Amazon, the recently announced series that will take another stab at reviving the DC Comics character on the small screen. As reported earlier, Amazon will do so by delving into Wonder Woman's origins, rather than taking the NBC route of attempting to rewrite her as a modern Wonder Woman who wonders whether a woman can truly have it all. As we saw, she can't and it's dumb.

Instead, Amazon's Diana—named "Iris" in the initial casting report to throw everyone off, then feed off the white-hot Internet rage from ...

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