AltWeeklies Wire
Eddie Murphy's Skin Color -- Not His Movies -- Makes the Media Hate Himnew
By beautiful coincidence, the critical drubbing of Murphy's Meet Dave preceded controversy over the New Yorker magazines cover cartoon of Barack Obama as a terrorist-agent.
New York Press |
Armond White |
07-24-2008 |
Movies
Reliving 'Mad Men' on DVDnew
Mad Men gets better as it goes along and you realize that it isn't about a murder and does not lampoon the American advertising industry in 1960.
NOW Magazine |
Staff |
07-07-2008 |
TV
Spike Lee versus Clint Eastwoodnew
Lee was off base in giving the impression that Eastwood's body of work is racist. That is simply not the case. Lee was correct, however, in pointing out that Eastwood's omission in Flags of Our Fathers only reinforces the idea that black contributions to America's struggle in World War II were minimal.
Shepherd Express |
Richard G. Carter |
06-27-2008 |
Movies
Have Movie Stereotypes Returned?new
Officially, stereotypes don't exist in Hollywood, only archetypes -- representative characters based on real people. To complain about movie stereotypes is to risk being labeled a humorless, P.C. crank.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
04-25-2008 |
Movies
