Showing posts with label Viola Davis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Viola Davis. Show all posts

Friday, January 26, 2018

I Didn't Say It ...

Franklin Graham, professional Christian hypocrite, on _____’s extra-marital affairs:

“I can promise you he is not President Perfect. I don’t think [he] has admitted to having an affair with this person and so, this is just a news story, I don’t know if it’s accurate. Now did he have an affair with this woman? I have no clue, but I believe that 70 years of age, the president is a much different person today than he was four years ago, five years ago, ten years ago or whatever and we just have to give the man the benefit of the doubt.”

Here’s the man of whom you speak, you double-talking assmonkey: he was married to a woman and cheated on her with a woman who because his second wife, with whom he cheated on with the woman who because his second wife, and now we have two other women who say they had affairs with him while he was married.
Not to mention the sixteen women who have accused the Fat Bastard or being a sexual predator.
But do go on defending him, God will want to hear more about that right before she sends you to Hell.
Megyn Kelly, clapping back at Jane Fonda for making a wisecrack about her on TV last week about Kelly asking Fonda about her plastic surgeries:

“I have no regrets about the question. Nor am I in the market for a lesson from Jane Fonda on what is and is not appropriate. After all, this is a woman whose name is synonymous with outrage…Look at her treatment of our military during the Vietnam war, many of our veterans still call her ‘Hanoi Jane’ thanks to her radio broadcasts which attempted to shame American troops. She posed on an anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down our American pilots. She called our POWs hypocrites and liars and referred to their torture as ‘understandable.’ Even she had to apologize years later for that gun picture. But not for the rest of it. By the way she still says she is not proud of America. So, the moral indignation is a little much. She put her plastic surgery out there. She said she wanted to discuss the plight of older women in America. And honestly she has no business lecturing anyone on what qualifies as offensive.”

First off, Megyn, clearly you’re still toeing the Fox News line and now your real face is being seen. Good luck getting any more celebrity interviews again.
And, Megyn, Jane Fonda has apologized over and over again, for nearly the last thirty years about what she said and did during the Vietnam war.
And lastly, you sanctimonious cow, if Fonda is so distasteful to your sensibilities why did you ask to have her on your show?
Oh yeah … you’re a media whore. Siddown.
Donald _____, after his health results, fabricated though they might be, were released, on his exercise regimen:

“I get more exercise than people think. I get exercise. I mean I walk, I this, I that. I run over to a building next door.”

Oh, the This/That regimen? How’s that working out for you, ya Fat Bastard? And, seriously, I don’t think anyone has ever seen you run, unless it’s toward the buffet.
Also, this is the man who has said he prefers to take a golf cart between holes because “I don’t want to spend the time” walking.
Lazy lying fat bastard.
Mark Steyn, Fox News pundit, on undocumented immigrants and white supremacist:

“Chris Cuomo [says] that the real problem is white supremacists in America. They are the real monsters. Not these nice hard working illegal immigrants. That may be well and true. I mean, for the purposes of argument let’s say he is right, it’s irrelevant. The white supremacists are American citizens. The illegal immigrants are people who shouldn’t be here.”

Oh, so if the murderer is born here, that’s a different thing? And you’d prefer a white supremacist over a hard-working illegal immigrant?
Ass.
Michael Steele, former Republican National Committee chair, on Family Research Council president Tony Perkins giving _____ a pass on paying huish money to a porn star to cover upo their affair:

 “I have very simple admonition: just shut the hell up and don’t preach to me about anything ever again. After telling me who to love, what to believe, what to do and what not to do and now you sit back and the prostitutes don’t matter, the grabbing the you-know-what doesn’t matter, the outright behavior and lies don’t matter, just shut up! They have no voice of authority anymore for me.”

Word.
Tammy Duckworth, Democratic Senator from Illinois, saying she would not accept a lecture about military funding from _____:

“I spent my entire adult life looking out for the well-being, the training, the equipping of the troops for whom I was responsible. Sadly, this is something the current occupant of the Oval Office does not seem to care to do. And I will not be lectured about what our military needs by a five-deferment draft dodger. I have a message for Cadet Bone Spurs: If you cared about our military, you’d stop baiting Kim Jong Un into a war that could put 85,000 American troops and millions of innocent civilians in danger.”

First off: snap!
Secondly: he needs a war to massage his fragile lard-filled ego, and since porn starts have stopped taking his massage calls, what’s a Fat Bastard to do?
Mike Pence, lying Christian Vice President, telling our troops that the Democrats have cut off their paychecks with the shut-down:

“I’m sure you’re all aware of what’s happening in Washington, D.C. Despite bipartisan support for a budget resolution, a minority in the Senate has decided to play politics with military pay. But you deserve better. You and your families shouldn’t have to worry for one minute about whether you’re going to get paid as you serve in the uniform of the United States. The President, the Vice President, and the American people are not going to put up with it.”

Trouble is, anyone with an internet connection can see a clip of Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocking a Democratic resolution to continue paying the military during the shutdown.
So, again, it’s the GOP doing the harm, and then lying about it.
Fuck ‘em all.
Viola Davis, actress, speaking at the Women’s March in Los Angeles about the history of Jim Crow laws and the black, Latin and Native Americans they oppressed:

“And the reason why these Jim Crow laws were in place have stifled my rights and your rights is because we fell asleep. We fall asleep when we’re moving ahead and we don’t look to the left and right and see that we’re not including people ... Because really, at the end of the day, we only move forward when it doesn’t cost us anything. But I’m here today saying that no one and nothing can be great unless it costs you something. When I raise my hand, I am aware of all the women who are still in silence. The women who are faceless. The women who don’t have the money and don’t have the constitution and who don’t have the confidence and who don’t have the images in our media that gives them a sense of self-worth enough to break their silence that is rooted in the shame of assault, that’s rooted in the stigma of assault. Nothing and no one can be great without a cost. I am always introduced as an award-winning actor, but my testimony is one of poverty, of one being assaulted and very much seeing a childhood that was robbed from me. I know that every single day when I think of that, I know the trauma of those events are still with me today ... That’s what allows me to listen to the women who still sit in silence. I stand in solidarity with all women who raised their hands because I know that it was not easy. My hope for the future is that we never go back.” 

Juts more proof that if you forget what happened before, and don’t look out for it, it could happen again.

Saturday, March 05, 2016

It's Snarkurday!

Do not piss off Madonna; she holds a grudge longer than a mob boss. But, if you find that you have pissed off The Aging Diva she just might call you out in front of a packed arena.

Last week, during a concert in the Philippines, Madge shared a story of betrayal with the crowd:
“Once I had a Filipino trainer — this beautiful, beautiful girl. She was gorgeous and very talented as a trainer, but she f**ked my boyfriend, so I fired her.”
Now, the gorgeous trainer is no doubt Nicole Winhoffer, who worked with Madge for nearly five years before being put in a cement overcoat and sent to live with the fishes.

A source — and you know it’s Winhoffer — says Nicole helped Madonna launch eight branded gyms worldwide as creative director of Hard Candy Fitness but that she left Madonna of her own accord to be a businesswoman.

She is now the Global Ambassador for Stella McCartney’s line of Adidas workout gear and was once a backup dancer for Shakira.

Oh hell no. She went from being Madge’s personal bitch to dancing for Shakira? That’s worse than a Madge Hit … in both song and murder.


It appears that one needs hazard pay while working for Shonda Rhimes … ask Katherine Heigl, Patrick Dempsey and Isaiah Washington who were are ALLEGEDLY booted from a Rhimes’ show for making Mama mad. But now it appears the stars’ physical health is at risk and for that look no further than How To Get Away With Murder’s Viola Davis.

Viola ALLEGEDLY got hurt while shooting a Rhimes-written sex scene on HTGAWM with her on-screen man Nate, played by Billy Brown, and that she had to beg Shonda and the writers to tone it down while she recovered:
“I blew my back out. He threw me up against a wall. All I can say is I was totally committed to the scene. I just told them to slow it down for a minute. I’m going to get back into it. I have to. It’s Shondaland! You know, they’re gonna have me doing all kinds of stuff with all kinds of people.”
Um, Shonda? Honey? If you need a stand-in for Viola for those Billy Brown Sex Scenes, I’m available … no charge!


Is everyone losing millions? I mean, Kanye announced he was like fifty million in debt—though, to be fair, this was before checking Kim’s ass crack for coins—and now Oprah’s losing it, too!

According to CNBC, after a pike in stock prices for Weight Watchers when Oprah revealed that she eats bread, the stock has dropped some 20% in their fourth quarter revenue … meaning the Big O lost about $21 million.

Now, again to be fair, Winfrey has made about $75 million since investing in weight loss … again … and being that she’s Oprah and she can drop $21 million over breakfast at the Waffle House on waffles and sausages.


Sherri Shepherd just doesn’t learn.

Back story: she met a man and married him; he wanted a baby and so they found a surrogate; she paid all the expenses for the surrogate; just before the birth of that baby Sherri decided she didn’t want to be married; she divorced her husband and said the baby wasn’t hers; a judge disagreed but Sherri wanted nothing to do with it; a judge said, ‘Fine, but now, since you paid for everything else, you’ll pay child support for the child.’; Sherri went to court to get it overturned so she could save her coins.

Cut to today: a judge has ordered Sherri to keep those child support checks coming because a lower court in Pennsylvania court ruled that surrogacy contracts are binding.

As for Sherri’s relationship with the child she’s never seen him; the child she so desperately wanted that she opted for surrogacy when outer methods proved fruitless. The child she says she prayed to the Baby Jeebus to give her.

She.Hasn’t.Seen.Him.

PS Sherri’s a devout Christian, but she loves her money more than her child.


Trai Byers — or, as I call him, Trai Booty because, well, isn’t it obvious — ALLEGEDLY wants out off “Empire” because he’s a serious actor and not given enough to do or … maybe “Empire” wants Trai Byers gone because he might be a bit of a diva.

Trai ALLEGEDLY  threw a temper tantrum during filming a few weeks ago and howled, “I don’t get to do enough, I might leave.”

Producers called his bluff and said, “Fine, if you’re not happy, we don’t need you.”

But it isn’t just ‘Empire;’ Byers has also  fired all his reps for not getting him big movie roles.” He was ALLEGEDLY up for a new Muhammad Ali movie and when he didn’t get it, he fired his whole team from his manager on down to the Booty Masseur … and I needed that job!

Still, Fox says Byers is “not quitting nor is he being fired … for now.”

Ow.

“Little Richie” Rocco Ritchie’s custodial agreement blew up over Christmas after he’d been on tour with his mom, Madonna, for months and he just wanted time with his father, Guy Ritchie. He “ran away” to London and has been there ever since, refusing to return to New York for school and refusing to see his mom for Christmas.

A court date was set and it occurred this week, though without Rocco or Guy or Madge … just the attorneys and the judge who had little time for Madonna’s theatrics and Guy’s narcissism.

At the hearing both Madonna and Guy listened in on speaker-phone while the judge declared that Rocco will remain in London for the time being, living with his father and going to a school chosen by both Madonna and Ritchie.

And so Madge is trying to play the “Look! I’ve Changed” card; rather than bashing Guy to his son, or calling Ritchie a “c**t’ while performing onstage — she likes to air her dirty laundry in concert a lot these days — Madge is promising Rocco that things would be different … that she’ll be less strict and controlling. Uh huh. Madge less controlling? That’d be like Oprah quitting pastries.

Still, you gotta hand it to the judge who said this of Rocco’s parents:
“Frankly, both parties have chosen to live their lives in a very public way and may welcome the publicity, but the child has not. He would like this matter resolved and the issues concerning him and his family in the most private way possible.” 
That was right before Madge’s lawyer asked the judge to have Guy arrested for contempt of court.

Yeah … less controlling.

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Emmy Detritus ... The Fashion ... And Hottie McHot Jon Hamm

THE BEST
Viola Davis ... she could do no wrong, taking home an Emmy, giving a gorgeous speech, and looking this fabulous.
THE GOOD
Jamie lee Curtis, proving you don't have to be nipped and tucked and dyed and rail thin to be beautiful in Hollywood.

Taraji P. Henson. It was hothothot on Emmy night and Cookie looked so cool ... and so hot.
THE M'KAY
Kerry Washington always takes a fashion risk and, while I like this metal dress, I cannot help but think it's looks like a Tin Man version of Carol Burnett's 'Eunice' dress.

Sofia Vergara. The epitome of 'Meh' because this is the same basic dress she always wears, albeit in a different fabric.
THE MEH
Claire Danes. I actually like the dress and I like the chains and I love the color, but I don't like the President of the PTA hair.

Lady Gaga. I.Expected.More.
THE BAD
Christina Hendricks. I like that she;'s a proud curvy woman,and she's beautiful, but the curves on this dress do her no justice at all. It's mad, men.

January Jones. The color is hideous and the billowy fabric on the legs makes her seem lopsided when the wind blows like she has one gargantuan gam and one pencil thin stick.
THE AWFUL
Joanna Newsom ... Andy Samberg's wife. I can't help but thinking, "Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, what did you think of the play?"

Kiernan Shipka. A lampshade on stilts.
THE WORST
Heidi Klum in what looks like  a mashup of Big Bird, brothel madam autumn leaves and way gay chain male. I seriously thought this was a joke ... and it is.
HOTTEST MAN
Jon Hamm finally won his Emmy and he looked hot and sexy while doing it. Man, oh, man, that man can rock a suit.

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Emmy Fall-Out: Think Before You Tweet, Nancy Lee Grahn ... #WhoIsNancyLeeGrahn

This past Sunday night Viola Davis won an Emmy as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for How To Get Away With Murder making her the first African-American to ever win that particular award, and this is what she said:
“‘In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful white women with their arms stretched out to me, over that line. But I can’t seem to get there no how. I can’t seem to get over that line.’ That was Harriet Tubman in the 1800s.
And let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there. So here’s to all the writers, the awesome people that are Ben Sherwood, Paul Lee, Peter Nowalk, Shonda Rhimes, people who have redefined what it means to be beautiful, to be sexy, to be a leading woman, to be black.
And to the Taraji P. Hensons, the Kerry Washingtons, the Halle Berrys, the Nicole Beharies, the Meagan Goods, to Gabrielle Union: Thank you for taking us over that line.
Thank you to the Television Academy. Thank you.”
What a moment for Viola Davis, for women of color, to be able to get that award; for young black actresses to see that they can be the lead in a television show and be recognized for their work. And for Viola to call out the industry, to ask that they create roles for women of color everywhere was an amazing thing to do.

Except … not everyone was happy with Viola Davis. Nancy Lee Grahn has been a soap opera actress, most notably appearing on General Hospital for some twenty years, and she had a lot to say, er, Tweet:
I wish I loved #ViolaDavis Speech, but I thought she should have let @shondarhimes write it. #Emmys”
Oh, sorry Nancy. Sorry that Viola’s speech didn’t move you; sorry the words and the experiences of her nearly thirty year career, and the struggles she’s faced being a woman of color in Hollywood, weren’t up to your standards … soap opera standards. But she did go on:
“Im a fucking actress for 40 yrs. None of us get respect or opportunity we deserve. Emmys not venue 4 racial opportunity. ALL women belittled.”
And here’s the issue. It’s akin to the kerfuffle over the Black Lives Matter movement. Viola Davis wasn’t saying, at all, that it’s only women of color, who are discriminated against, who get no respect in Hollywood, she’s speaking her truth, her experience, what she’s seen, what she knows, and Nancy Lee Grahn cannot fathom that.

And then she went on to suggest that perhaps Viola Davis has not been discriminated against as a black woman in Hollywood:
“I think she's the bees knees but she's elite of TV performers. Brilliant as she is. She has never been discriminated against.”
Yes, Nancy Lee Grahn, a white woman, says she knows that Viola Davis has never felt the sting of discrimination because she’s a brilliant actress — well, she got that part right. But if Viola Davis is the “bee’s knees” as Grahn suggests, then why aren’t there all kinds of Viola, Davis projects out there? Why has it taken thirty years to recognize her talent?

Perhaps it’s because Viola is a dark-skinned woman of color, a subset of women of color, and she’s seen articles in print, and people quoted, saying that she isn’t beautiful or sexy or lead actress enough because her brown skin is a dark brown skin and not a light brown, more palatable to audiences, skin.

Nancy Lee Grahn has no idea what she’s talking about; she completely misheard what Davis said, and turned it into #AllActressesMatter.
I never mean to diminish her accomplishment. I wish I could get her roles. She is a goddess. I want equality 4 ALL women, not just actors. … I apologize 2 anyone who I offended. I'm women advocate since I became one. After reading responses, I hear u and my tweet was badly phrased.”
Maybe then, Nancy Lee, until you learn to fully form sentences, or until you ask the writers at General Hospital to Tweet for you, you should think before you Tweet, and then, after thinking, and after it becomes clear that you have no idea what you’re talking about, maybe you should just keep quiet.

And the, again, she non-apologized:
“I apologize for my earlier tweets and now realize I need to check my own privilege. My intention was not to take this historic and important moment from Viola Davis or other women of color but I realize that my intention doesn’t matter here because that is what I ended up doing. I learned a lot tonight and I admit that there are still some things I don’t understand but I am trying to and will let this be a learning experience for me.”
Again, Nancy, think before you speak, or Tweet.

I understand that women have it tough in Hollywood, all women, but Viola Davis wasn't onstage speaking for all women; she was speaking of her own stories, her own struggles. And for you to denigrate that because she spoke her truth is just ridiculous.