Earlier today The View;s Whoopi Goldberg corrected a Daily Beast film reporter (i.e., the Baltimore-based Kyndall Cunningham) for saying she wore a “distracting fat suit” in Till. I saw Till yesterday afternoon, and I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that Whoopi looks seriously overweight. But not because of a fat suit. Whoopi’s shape is … Read more
Let it never be said that Baltimore-based Daily Beast contributor Kyndall Cunningham is any kind of woke pronoun dilletante. She is in fact totally hardcore, and not just in her sentences but her headlines. The latest example is a Cunningham/Beast story about poor, crazy Ezra Miller, who’s been flaming out for a while now. Here’s … Read more
I was sorry to read the Daily Beast‘s 4.8.22 story about Ezra Miller’s erratic and disturbing behavior. Not just because Miller’s career may be in serious jeopardy, but because of the following sentence: I’m sorry but something snapped inside when I was confronted with plural pronouns (they/them) that described (or alluded to) both Warner Bros. … Read more
A friend who attended last weekend’s Critics Choice awards says no one seemed to take special noticeof Jane Campion’s faux pas about Venus and Serena Williams. No one gasped or shrieked either, and no one discussed it during the after-party. But your Film Twitter wokey-wokes went ballistic. Campion’s apology happened Monday morning (3.14). Shortly after … Read more