Archive - January 27, 2016

Entertainment

The Bad Decisions File: Hollywood Doubles-Down The Whitewashing

The ink on the speech that Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs’ made about racial diversity efforts in Hollywood isn’t even dry yet, and already the old guard areĀ out there with the paint buckets, circling the neighbourhood ready to bring a fresh coat of white to a theater near you. In what can only be considered the worst possible timing ever, today the people pulling the strings over at Charlie Hunnam’s PR machine decided that it was the perfect moment to announce that Charlie is slated to appear in the making of the true story of Mexican-American drug lord Edgar Valdez Villarreal’s life. The film will be called “American Drug Lord”. Because as we’ve all learned by now, “Americans” actually means “white guys”, right...

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