18 Burst results for "Vanessa Williams"
Elvis Duran Presents: Celebrity Buzz
"vanessa williams" Discussed on Elvis Duran Presents: Celebrity Buzz
"Remember, before being a TV star for a decade, Wendy was a brilliant radio personality and I think for hours when he would do monologues and that's why that 20 minute monologue at the top of her show. That was no problem for Wendy. She could do it because she'd been trained for years to do it on radio. I like the idea of when do you do in a podcast? I love podcasts. I was slow to jump into the podcast world. It was your Garrett. It was you, Garrett, that dragged me in. I didn't really understand them. Now not only love doing this show. I love listening to other people's podcasts. Well yeah, and rightfully so, you know, just like anything new as we just spoke about earlier too, it's weird, you know? Some people get it right away. Others, it might take a minute. Others might not like, they hear the word podcast and they go, oh, phooey. But you know, you realize that it's a part of culture where we're literally in people's heads right now. Listening to us. Hello, we're in your air. We're in your ear. We're stuck in there for 20 minutes. I really enjoy them. I used to love radio. I still love the radio, but the radio you have to tune into at certain times, with podcasts. It's like a streaming service. It's like on demand, I can listen to my Friends, people who I think are my Friends. I'm not really friends with all these people. But in my head, like when did you say is that all the time? In my head, I'm Friends with these people. With the queen of England. Yes. I love listening to podcasts. I think this is a great idea Wendy. The other thing too and let's be honest, podcasts you can do in your pajamas, so Wendy, if you're sick of all that hair and makeup and all that cheesy stuff. I think she loves it. Do you think you know what's weird to rob about the Wendy show ending just like how they're just getting rid of everything. You know what I mean? Like, it's almost like they hired a dumpster and just said, okay, see you later, time to clear things, sherry's coming in, no problem. Nothing to see here. So difficult because Wendy is still here. It's not like she's dead. That buy show felt like an obituary. It was so weird and it was actually Vanessa Williams, who was a guest who stopped sherry and said, she's not dead. She still here, we still love you when to it had to be weirdo, like imagine imagine listening to this podcast rob shooter and then like, you're still alive, you're doing well, you're healthy, but yet we're doing a goodbye podcast..
Cape Up with Jonathan Capehart
"vanessa williams" Discussed on Cape Up with Jonathan Capehart
"What happened? It became The CW and it was all about Veronica bars. I mean, Gossip Girl and, you know, all those shows that I love too. But yeah, it's like all the black people. You know, homeboys and outer space. All disappeared. So let's talk about another character. And Trinity is a character that I love. This is Ashley Nicole black's spy character named Trinity, who's able to solve crimes, simply because people treat her as if she's invisible. And being overlooked and discounted is a reality for many black women. April Ryan, White House journalist, interviewed her on my podcast. She told the story of a time when misses Obama as First Lady of the United States walked outside The White House, you know, with no disguise or anything and nobody noticed her. And so way of talking about the invisibility of black women. Talk about the importance of Trinity. Yeah, and I think this character that Ashley has created shout out to Ashton Nicole black and her birthday tomorrow. Give her love. Social media. But she is a genius writer and a genius performer, and she came in season one with this character, and she said, basically, she's a CIA's top agent, not only because she's great at what she does, but because she's invisible because she's just a normal looking plus sized black woman. And I think we can't discount what, you know, larger sized black women in this world have to deal with, but also when you have the trifecta of being, you know, not a glamorous movie star. You're plus size and you're black, all of those things render you invisible. To some degree in society. And I think that her commentary is so sharp in the series. And it's so brilliant. And it's so funny, but so poignant. And I love the fact that she made her so good at her job that the invisibility just allowed her to take it to the highest level, but it's such a great biting commentary on society and how we treat people and how we other people and how we literally just ignore a large segment of the population. And I know she's made a lot of people feel seen. Yeah, and I'm not even a black woman, but as a black person, I totally get that. I mean, that segment, that sketch, always resonates with me. You know, The New York Times said that with each episode, or I'm sorry, with each season, a black lease sketch show has become, quote, less interested in lampooning the world than creating its own. So I wonder how has the show evolved from exaggerating the absurdities that black women deal with to bringing audiences into the world they live in? Well, we are calling it the BLC U, which is the black lady cinematic universe. We now have our own. We've created this cadre of characters who have come back season after season or skip seasons, but now going into season four, we know that we have this multiverse to work with, right? So there's different levels where, yes, it's not the end of the world anymore, but spoiler alert, if you haven't seen the finale. It is a world in which doctor hadassah was elected president, although briefly. So it's not the normal world that you and I know. And so in this cinematic universe, basically, characters started to meet, you mentioned slurred words, which was the Scrabble game. That was a sketch where none of our core cast was in it. And then after that we had a sketch called distraction where Trinity actually meets my character Octavia, who had never been in a sketch before, and they meet and team up in this black lady cinematic universe. So what's going to happen now? Avengers style is that all of these characters we know in doctor hadassah's mind controlled world can interact. And so I'm really excited. For those of us who are for those of our audience who have been on the journey with us for three seasons, but even people who have it, you're still going to be able to jump in at any point and get the comedy out of it, but we're rewarding the people who have been with us from just what seemed like lampooning to now creating our own universe, which was always my intention and I'm so lucky that HBO gave me the bandwidth to do that over multiple seasons. Another thing that makes a black lady sketch show so fun to watch is the roster of guest stars who you have come on the show. I was watching the scene the sketch where Nicole comes with her girlfriend and she comes out and Vanessa Williams is her mother. And she screaming about, oh my God, that's disgusting. This is spider behind her. Ashley, sorry, naturally. Yes, yes. And so Vanessa Williams you've had on. Ava duvernay, Michael leger Rodriguez, Michael ealy, just to name a few of the people who have been on the show, how hard is it to convince this they're seeing the spider. How hard is it to convince them to come on a black lady sketch show? Is it even hard? No, it's not hard. I think, you know, I mean, listen, I have people now who are threatening me with bodily injury if they don't get on the show because they've been asking me for years. And I'm like, I only have 6 episodes people, but no, I think I've been in this business a long time. Despite being very young. I garnered a lot as a writer and as a producer and also on camera, but mostly as a writer, I've gained a lot of fans because I've worked with people behind the scenes. And so it feels like to people in their homes. They might be kind of just getting to know me in the past couple of years, but I'm really entrenched, especially in the comedy world, but I don't know, like Vanessa Williams and I did a movie together years ago. We've done two movies together, actually. And so, you know, just through the smallness of the black community in the smallness of Hollywood, we all, you know, I just know a lot of folks and so I just texted Vanessa Williams and was like, when are you back from London? I know you're doing a show. If you want to come do this sketch and I sent her the sketch and she was like, yeah, I mean, that's kind of how it happens. Lance Reddick though, we got through casting through our amazing season three casting director Vicky Thomas, she was like, Lance wants to do a sketch and I was like, I love him. I loved him on the wire. I loved him on fringe. And he was so goofy. He was in that sketch with Vanessa. He's so silly and goofy. And we've become friends. I love him. And so it all just kind of comes together, but I have to give kudos to Angela Bassett, who was the first guest star we booked season one. Who we called colds, our casting office, and I wrote her a letter, and she said, yeah, I'm gonna do it because no one thinks I can be funny. And you know, she'd never been kind of asked to do anything like this before. So once we had her, it was like any guest star we would call. We'd be like, well, Angela Bassett's doing the show. You might want to do it. So, you know, that's, I think it's become a prestige moment for actors who want to come and text on comedy chops. They know we don't punch down. We're not going to make them look stupid. Everyone's going to be funny. Ava duvernay was like, Robin, I'm only doing this for you. You've got 40 minutes, like let's make it happen. And we did, and she was fantastic. And she was like, just so game and like, she's not a performer or a comedian. Like the fact that she came to do that was such an honor for us. And such a testament to the camaraderie and this community and how much people believe in this show and they've always been so cool. We've had literally well over a hundred guest stars in 18 episodes of television and they have all been stellar. Stellar. Truly, can we talk about you for a minute? Sure. How are you? How are you? How are you doing all of this? You're writing your story. You're acting. You're the showrunner. You're the EP. You're doing all of these things in the profile in our paper in The Washington Post. The writer said you get by on four hours of sleep. How do you do it all? Yeah, not a lot of sleep. Look, I think I spent a lot of years in this business being very broke and very bored and very not in demand. And so I think it's like, yo, when the time happens, I'm not gonna waste a moment of it. And people are like, what do you do.
Keep It!
"vanessa williams" Discussed on Keep It!
"Bitch. You're okay. I sort of didn't didn't anticipate this happening. But over halloween. Weekend of the people. I had a ton of plans and generally speaking executed them on friday and saturday and by the time. Halloween came around. We have to put these out to pasture because they will just go out. I'll fucking day and it's like days of wine and roses like drunk. I was like. I am sitting at home. I am like looking through my hands. I you know. I looked like a character bergman drama so i decided how am i gonna to comfort myself and i realized you know some of my favorite movies that star meryl streep i hadn't seen now in like fifteen years. The problem with being a movie fan is that you have to kind of like keep these balls in the air for yourself like a movie that you love. You may not have seen in twenty years and you're operating off that impression so you don't even know if it's accurate anymore. I was a different person. Fifteen years ago. Whatever so i decided to watch two movies. I have long loved. Which are kramer versus kramer and silk when kramer versus kramer where she's You know the divorce. Say of dustin hoffman. Who is this White collar asshole and she walks out on him and their kid and he she leaves him to raise the kid for about a year and a half and then there's a a courtroom scene divorce team where she gives a speech that meryl streep herself wrote And she eventually won the academy award for best supporting actress. He won the academy for best actor. Let me just say about this. I know it's so weird that she hasn't done more writing because she's one of these like for real brilliant people but in this movie. They kind of acknowledge this. They say that dustin kaufman's character has a temper. Excuse me he is fucking scary in this movie. And dustin hoffman routinely scary in movies and this brings up a point. I wanted to ask you guys. Do people really yell at each other and movies anymore or in real life. Well yes if it's a talent. Perry movie No trope seventies movies. Now we're like people get into fights. Send like scrimmage over a and stuff. it's just not how things are done anymore. I wonder if it's because of things like email and being able to settle things not in a face to face confrontation away or something shows now instead of having it out. I love arguments. No because like some of my favorite scenes are like vanessa williams insulted. Be like fuck the family or a lucky.
600 WREC
"vanessa williams" Discussed on 600 WREC
"Of the more surreal moments of the history of the Cold War, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev explodes with anger when he learns that he cannot visit Disneyland, while in California government authorities feared that the crowds would pose a safety hazard for the premier Cruise. Jeff left LOS Angeles the next morning this week in 1973 future President Jimmy Carter files a report with the national investigation. Committee on aerial phenomena, claiming he had seen a UFO in October of 1969 during the presidential campaign of 1976. Carter promised that if elected president, he would encourage that the government released every piece of information about UFOs available to the public and to scientists after winning the presidency, though Carter backed away from his pledge, saying that the release of some information might have defence implications and pose a threat to national security. This week in 1983 20 year old Vanessa Williams becomes the first African American to win the Miss America Crown. Less than a year later, Williams gave up her crown after new photos of her had surfaced despite the scandal. Williams later launched the successful singing and acting career. And this week in 1990, the Martin Scorsese directed Mafia film Goodfellas, starring Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Lorraine Brocco and Joe Pesci opens in theaters around the United States. The movie, which is based on the bestselling 1986 Book Wise Guy tells the true story of the mobster turned FBI informant Henry Hill. Pesci won best supporting actor for This. I'm funny How I mean funny like I'm a clown and lose you And that's what happened..
KPRC 950 AM
"vanessa williams" Discussed on KPRC 950 AM
"Free. And now I look back at this week in history on I Heart radio this week in 1959 and one of the more surreal moments of the history of the Cold War, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev explodes with anger when he learns that he cannot visit Disneyland, while in California government authorities feared that the crowds would pose a safety hazard for the premier Cruise. Jeff left LOS Angeles the next morning this week in 1973 future President Jimmy Carter files a report with the National Investigations Committee. The on aerial phenomena, claiming he had seen a UFO in October of 1969 during the presidential campaign of 1976. Carter promised that if elected president, he would encourage that the government released every piece of information about UFOs available to the public and to scientists after winning the presidency, though Carter backed away from his pledge, saying that the release of some information might have defence implications and pose a threat to national security. This week in 1983 20 year old Vanessa Williams becomes the first African American to win the Miss America Crown. Less than a year later, Williams gave up her crown after new photos of her had surfaced despite the scandal. Williams later launched the successful singing and acting career. And this week in 1990, the Martin Scorsese directed Mafia Film GOODFELLAS, starring Ray Liotta, Robert Welcome back Now. Here's some more unconventional wisdom to set you free from the.
WTVN
"vanessa williams" Discussed on WTVN
"Or to take action in your own community. Go to I heart radio dot com slash earth. And now I look back at this week in history on my heart radio. This week in 1959 and one of the more surreal moments of the history of the Cold War, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev explodes with anger when he learns that he cannot visit Disneyland, while in California government authorities feared that the crowds would pose a safety hazard for the premier Cruise. Jeff left LOS Angeles the next morning this week in 1973 future, President Jimmy Carter files a report with the National Investigations Committee on aerial phenomena, claiming he had seen a UFO in October of 19. 59 During the presidential campaign of 1976. Carter promised that if elected president, he would encourage that the government released every piece of information about UFOs available to the public and to scientists after winning the presidency, though Carter backed away from his pledge, saying that the release of some information might have defence implications and pose a threat to national security. This week in 1983 20 year old Vanessa Williams becomes the first African American to win the Miss America Crown. Less than a year later, Williams gave up her crown after new photos of her had surfaced despite the scandal. Williams later launched the successful singing and acting career. And this week in 1990, the Martin Scorsese directed Mafia film Goodfellas, starring Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Lorraine Brocco and Joe Pesci opens in theaters around the United States. The movie, which is based Columbus's news traffic. And weather station.
NewsRadio WIOD
"vanessa williams" Discussed on NewsRadio WIOD
"Comedy show with the debut of the God's Honest Truth at 10 9 Central on Comedy Central. I'm Lex Cohen. And that's your TV tip off on I Heart radio. And now I look back at this week in history on I Heart Radio this week in 1959 and one of the more surreal moments of the history of the Cold War, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev explodes with anger when he learns that he can Visit Disneyland, while in California, government authorities feared that the crowds would pose a safety hazard for the premiere. Cruz. Jeff left LOS Angeles the next morning this week in 1973 future President Jimmy Carter files a report with the National Investigations Committee on aerial phenomena, claiming he had seen a UFO in October of 1969 during the presidential campaign of 1976. Carter promised that if elected president, he would encourage that the government released every piece of information about UFOs available to the public and to scientists after winning the presidency, though Carter backed away from his pledge, saying The release of some information might have defence implications and pose a threat to national security. This week in 1983 20 year old Vanessa Williams becomes the first African American to win the Miss America Crown. Less than a year later, Williams gave up her crown after new photos of her had surfaced despite the scandal. Williams later launched the successful singing and acting career. And this week in 1990, the Martin Scorsese directed Mafia film Goodfellas, starring Ray Liotta, Robert DeNiro, Lorraine Brocco and Joe Pesci opens and it's a 20 Let's head down to the anti.
Your Mom's House
"vanessa williams" Discussed on Your Mom's House
"One eastern great to aware of that at the time or otherwise assigned anonymously. What you did. It should be a lesson to all those all young go like. I can't get booked anywhere. It's like well. Then make a walker relate because when we started we would. Esl take no for an answer. Nobody so that that was the motivation. The driving force behind it and then long behold obviously that opened my doors into getting into the gathering and doing shows now me. I've always had a soft spot for like improv. That's i love the most. It just fucking sell. You know what. I'm saying like one of my biggest like a improv comedians. If you will growing up especially back home as keegan michael key fan. Sure he's brilliant. My god dude is just a fucking dog. They tells me this. I started because i just think these corny be improv groups. I know how close fixes. So i'll be on. I didn't really want to do. Stand up but i felt the only way that i could get seen and get known and get some kind of leg up in the game was if i did it. Yeah and then. When i get to that point kind of brand myself i wanted to do it and i've never seen a stand up. I keep trying to give them the zulu but he's really haven't done it in years. Oh you haven't eye toward there was an artists on his label. That i toured took me on a few tours around the country. Love doing it. Just mc mc in gigolo oh show like never been done before. And i tell him like it's crazy to think i had no one to look up to no one's done it before you know what i'm saying like this is there's some nights people are just drunk came. They don't give a fuck where you're saying. There's some nights i would kill. You know sure That's the way it goes. But my whole man. I love doing improv. And i love doing like sketches and skits in in these blogs that were doing Performing right exactly so i. I respect the hell out of standup. I love it but it was. I kinda used it in a way to get where. I'm at hooked me because this bastard got the stand up comedy to me in like george carlin hands down favorite guy of also sure questions nose in a fight somebody for him. He's great man but a little kid. I remember like the whole gyp. It did you fart. And all had me rolling in the. I knew he was like a stand up comedy. I knew he hosted shit for us But i thought he was a stand up comedy. I got like analysts. Respect for stand up comics. Just the thought you know what i do and what you guys do is like night and day. You know we're all performers. You know but if i fucked up over music and shit when i'm a one component of like bright so many different things going on in the stadium. It's just you know music microphone. You know what i'm saying. You fuck off you're gonna get it. Yeah i got so. Because there's no way i could do that. You know. i've tried whole opposite just not. I'm just not that big quick that. Yeah but so i thought he saw mad respect for him out. He doesn't do stand up at all. Know put a warning. He says it. Because i say the same thing. Stand up i. I don't know if i should. Because if i get it would be like come on. Suck at this point at this point. You've probably not well. He he did say what it's called. I don't wanna give an inch movie back in the day with like you know it's the worst thing i'm dog. It's beyond words. How bad it is but i always bring it up on our shit. Oh you don't want to get no i've because the other person they will it's this i can tell you guys are actually friends when you're actually friends with somebody you're like. Yeah man you could. We're still friends. Because i've only known him for maybe like two and a half two years. Okay i'm not sick as you get this kid fuck true. Did you want to set up with what you're known for to action. Oh so you mentioned that you weren't familiar with tech talk. Allow me to take you on a magical journey over going down the rabbit hole. We're going down. Let's let's set up what she also listen. This is what you do for this. Is what my vocation my second job my primary and then my hobby is tech. Talk and i curate. The finest outliers like you know like these dance videos. There's hot girls do shit. That's not the talk island. These folks motherfucker motherfucker with the. I could be on your team. I'm telling space you want to hear him on. Tikva who she found him. God i was so fucking. Yes anything social media affirmative weirdo. You want to hear some. We'll fuck affect me. When i was a kid. I had of course posters in my room. When i was a kid. Saying advocated cain vanessa williams christina applegate and on their heads would find freak magazines. Call them like the naughty man. The bumps cut the heads out and put him on all the heads on my posters in my room and we just me and my home uses laugh magazine. Yes yeah yeah. I'm into the segment.
Double Toasted
"vanessa williams" Discussed on Double Toasted
"I say she found him was kind of me. Candyman was a guy named sheffield's who were pimco. It had a hook for a hand just like him before he even knew who the hell candyman right right. It was like wait a minute. I mean unless candyman already had his is saying. You know like you'll start you know what i mean. That guy gets. He's i'm gonna be a good future. You man yeah they'd never explain really ties in. You know what i mean and this is. I will tell you that this is a direct sequel to the first one as i have a couple couple of times you already saw the commercial The trailer right here maybe Maybe they know who this was. But that's vanessa williams from the first movie. I'll that's all i'll say so. She is a direct tie to the first film. She may have been my favorite character in the whole movie. I thought she was very good. And i don't know how old she is but she. Yeah exactly. I was like how young she in that first movie. Because she came on. And i didn't. I was like oh this must be the sister. Yeah almost say so much. But i just say yeah man. I don't know how ocean but nessa williams gorgeous but you know this is this is this is tied into the to the first movie so i think they make so many references. They in fact they do a whole now. What is cool is if you have seen candyman. Recently our view of fan you know very well. One of the cool things they do is that they show how the the the the legend of candyman has changed overtime. People just retelling it and and it's you know a lot of people don't remember it to say that's the haven't just recently watched the candyman and with the way they tell it differently. Yeah me wonder. If people there'll be a lot of people who will just go in thinking the way they tell it now it's like. Oh yeah that's how. I remember it being nano. No well you know like i say. I don't even remember the first movie from thirty years ago. I had to watch it again. But it's real cool. They show how you know. Just urban legends get changed over time and they did a big thing here now saying that because it might help if you go and watch the old candyman again just brush up on if you don't remember a whole lot because they reference it a lot a lot. There's so many call bags and connections to the original movie that i could see. If you don't remember anything about it you can be a little lost and if you don't watch it before then you'll definitely want to go and try to catch up with it and watch it afterwards to figure out some things i will say that You know this is a hard movie and it takes a long time to get to the heart there. Like i said they spent a lot of time on the art in the art world before they really get into candyman which they drop every now and then again explaining an exposition but once they do get the candy man. I think it's actually the kills a brilliant man because candidate in here. They established that candyman. He lives in a mira world and we don't see him in real life slicing up people. You know what we do see people who they look like they'd be an attack by the invisible man while the in some parts. Either you see. Are you infer that candyman. Just making the gestures in in the reflection or mirror somewhere actually thought that even though it's not consistent with how it's done especially after he goes in and kills people invisibly and then he kills people invisibly and then he will show up right after another like could just been hearing exactly but look cool. It is still cool. I mean it is. It is a creative way to go in and so the kills and the gore in horrible without just emphasizing the gore. I mean there was one scene where they show somebody and again. This goes to the creative direction of dna. Cost demand show will kill from afar. And you just see somebody who's being rag doll in mid air and i liked the way that they did try to concentrate on making you know artistry making a film more than like. Let's just show a bunch of blood not that you don't see blood in here. I mean there's a lot of glorious open wounds just spewing blood it's very candyman like yeah it is sometimes that gets crazy. S- casanova day just like there's there's a scene where you see somebody little feet pick up and it's just like somebody just like somebody just poured a bucket of kool-aid down right like this is kgo kool-aid fountain again. Somebody knocked the pitcher over told you you look at the president. They killed like that body did not hold that much blood in there. So you know. Sometimes it's again. They do do things just for the gore. But it's a little more creative than what i thought. It would be looking at it even when they do emphasize the big open. Gaping wounds in their couple of scenes of that. Right there Anyway anything you want to add to that man. Uh well. I i must say like i felt like this. You know as horror movies go. It's a good movie. It's like you know prestige harz as they call it now when you get these art directors who put a lot more money care into like a craft like craft beer craft. And i think there are moments when it's very good but i think it it falls short of the greatness that it had all the potential for for all the cool things in it especially a lot of like we talked about the the compositions all They're just story beats or just elements to it. That aren't cohesive. Now you talk about the the loose ends it. Don't get tied up or the changes in tone that are questionable or just the way i mean one thing i feel like the original movie head over. This is that with those deaths. There'll be investigated there was like an aftermath that at and a lotta times people here die and it's almost like it's kinda forgotten like nobody really cares. There was something with me. There's a there are scenes where they report that. Yes something something happened. But it's the ones that are close. The characters they followed something not consistent with is that they they have characters that just walk away from the story and we walk with them and it's almost like what will follow him. It's like wait a minute. You missed the movie still over here while we hold on. Hey we'll be right back. We follow them for some reason. They will follow this character in neil. There's a massacre in this movie and it barely gets touched on in in nest the one that should have got the most attention. Right yes stuff. That's public sure it's on television but you like okay. There were people around the cops like they show up. They photographing egg-laying we. We don't care about these. People is just weird because it should be that that sense of like. hey man. Something's gonna come. That's that's another force should be working. Gets the people in here some some great effects that happen and and you're right. the kills. A lot of kills are inventive. Although i just found myself not having a real like feeling for any of the victims are stuff. I felt like i should have been more mostly involved and i kept. It kept me at arm's length. They like it wouldn't settle and let me get into the beginning What's his name is an artist. But i don't really see him creating other than when he's going nuts as like it would have been so good to really see him get into it or just treating being artists and artists as something real as opposed to like. Let's think of artists like in a movie and a black movie when they had somebody in business and they're like well. I'm gonna make partner next week. Ailing exactly works and a lot of this is like this could have been tighter. But like i said it's entertaining. I think for a lot of people is going to do what they want. And i'm sorry. Well the other thing is like and it's something we brought up early. It kind of does something that annoys me with spike lee which is like man. I'm all behind the things you want to bring up. But you say you're gonna talk about this and now to talk about this you bring it up this shit and bringing up this and bringing and we can just focus on one or two things. Everybody is happy. And i'll get educated and learn and be entertained and you'll be happy. You taught me something. You.
The Adam Carolla Show
"vanessa williams" Discussed on The Adam Carolla Show
"Better. Yeah so are. These other stereotypical black characters or something. Wizards of the coast continues to say that some elements of the role playing games. Fantasy races have drawn from the treatment of real world ethnic groups that have been and continue to be denigrated like savages. Or something interesting. I will say this. You know when i grow up cartoons like speedy gonzales with that guy and fred flintstone was that guy and everything was that guy and at some point they started making everyone kind of the same except for their skin. Tone was a little different in their hair was a little different. But it's there's nothing more knowing than like the cartoons do it modern day cartoons still which they have this sort of black. It's it's essentially a black man who has no characteristics a black man. They just sort of they from peanuts. Yeah or bryant. Gumbel brother greg gumbel like that. They just looked like it's like and then what you would essentially have heard. Yeah you have five characters who are the same. They're just different shades their their likes the mannerisms the way they speak turned it all kind of it's kind of my argument with the you know vanessa williams like she's the first black woman ever win. Yeah with blue eyes and straight hair and all the features of european beauty right all right. Let's do do we have the guys Zooming in soon max pat. We have time for one more all right all right last one. Take all the chrysler building. Radio city music hall the statue of liberty. Ooh i wanna talk in radio city. We talk on rock cats problematic. Are we talking that maybe building my guess maybe someone wasn't allowed reform there A history of nation. Good call chrysler like a catholic. Four history of little little Tarnished this. Nothing's about jesus. I mean anti semitism. We don't care coca might have been a dick. Yeah that's what we've learned from ford for. Okay i guess. I'm gonna say the statue i was gonna say. Yeah i'd be shot. No longer counts as a symbol of inclusive or something. Really radio city. Someone was denied playing there. Something philip kennecott pulitzer prize winner and washington. Post's art and architecture critic says that the statue of liberty represented liberty said. It was a symbol of quote unfulfilled promises due to america's history racism. So it's not that the session itself is what what it fail to the table. Everybody journalist added that. The statue was irrelevant to non white americans. I feel great about this game. If you have any questions about. what's problematic. Please seek out the winner. Jennifer ad went four for four relations on your win..
KOMO
"vanessa williams" Discussed on KOMO
"Traffic from the Dubin Law Group Traffic Center. Seen a new collision on North pound. Uh, well, I five just north of Marine view drive and disabled vehicle rather partially blocking the Wrights Lane. Also still seeing a bit of slowing on north five and Seattle right around the convention center. Next report is 1 34. I'm Evan Smith. Coming traffic. We're declaring our independence from rain. Not only today, but the next several days around western Washington Heights today, upper seventies to lower eighties sunshine throughout the afternoon after morning low clouds you can copy and paste that forecast on Monday, Tuesday and even Wednesday. In the couple of tampering. Some companies ABC Entertainment News Sunday night It's the Big A Capitol Fourth celebration on PBS hosted once again by Vanessa Williams. I'm doing a tribute to Juneteenth, which is a wonderful opportunity to highlight our our new federal holiday and I'm singing, lift every voice and sing, which has been Kind of our our Negro and national anthems also performing the Acapella group Pentatonix doing seasons of love from Rent, which group members, Scott Hoying explains. I think it's a song that everyone needs to hear. Right now. It's really like Lifting song. Measure your life and love, and I think you know we're all reuniting as as things start to open up. We're all feeling the love for each other. We're feeling the love for music and left for our country. And so it felt really appropriate And the performance is very epic, too, so it has a grandeur about it. And it's July 4th birthday for post Malone Who's 26. Sunday. Jason ABC NEWS Hollywood. I'm Eric Heinze with another Como extra. The summer heat will take a toll on not just your body, but also.
KPRC 950 AM
"vanessa williams" Discussed on KPRC 950 AM
"Police have identified most of the 11 men who were arrested following an hours long armed standoff yesterday near Interstate 95. Wakefield. The group calls itself a militia in says adhere to Morrish sovereign ideology. One of the people arrested was a male juvenile to others are refusing to give their names. They're being charged with a variety of offenses, including unlawful possession of a firearm troopers recovered a number of guns. There's a recall for some chicken over health safety concerns. Foxes south Aegean. Grasso has details. Independence Day celebrations busting out across the country with a warning for folks getting together for picnics. Tyson Foods is recalling nearly £8.5 million of frozen fully cooked chicken over fears of possible exposure to harmful bacteria. The company says a voluntary recalls being initiated out of an abundance of caution, even though there is no conclusive evidence that the products were contaminated at the time of shipment. Those products were made at a plant in Missouri between December 26th 2020 April 13th of this year. Sal Gee and Grasso. Fox News Vanessa Williams returns to host this year is a Capitol Fourth Foxes. Michele Pelino has more a Capitol Fourth returns to PBS with Vanessa Williams, the 41st edition of America's Independence Day celebration. Still virtual, with performances from all over the country. Williams is excited to be back and says This is just what the country needs. We will talk about the unity and talk about the importance of being United as a as a country performances, she added, will feature today's top entertainers. In every field. We've got Gladys Knight, who is an R and B legend, we've got Alan Jackson, who is a You know, a country superstar and, of course, my fireworks over our nation's capital Skylark. Michele Pelino factory and I'm Joe to your fox name..
KTOK
"vanessa williams" Discussed on KTOK
"Police have identified most of the 11 men who were arrested following an hours long armed standoff yesterday near Interstate 95. Wakefield. The group calls itself a militia in says adhere to Morrish sovereign ideology. One of the people arrested was a male juvenile to others are refusing to give their names. They're being charged with a variety of offenses, including unlawful possession of a firearm troopers recovered a number of guns. There's a recall for some chicken over health safety concerns. Foxes South and Grasso has details. Independence Day celebrations busting out across the country with a warning for folks getting together for picnics. Tyson Foods is recalling nearly £8.5 million of frozen fully cooked chicken over fears of possible exposure to harmful bacteria. The company says a voluntary recalls being initiated out of an abundance of caution, even though there is no conclusive evidence that the products were contaminated at the time of shipment. Those products were made at a plant in Missouri between December 26th 2020 April 13th of this year Sal Gee and dress Oh Fox News Vanessa Williams Returns to host this year is a Capitol Fourth Foxes. Michele Pelino has more a Capitol Fourth returns to PBS with Vanessa Williams, the 41st edition of America's Independence Day celebration. Is still virtual, with performances from all over the country. Williams is excited to be back and says This is just what the country needs. We will talk about unity and and talk about the importance of being United as a as a country performances, she added, will feature today's top entertainers. In every field. We've got Gladys Knight, who is an R and B legend, we've got Alan Jackson, who is a You know, a country superstar and, of course, my fireworks over our nation's capital Skylark..
KQED Radio
"vanessa williams" Discussed on KQED Radio
"In these weird fragments. We don't realize the degree to which we're filling in the blanks in our head. Right. So you hear about somebody like Amy Fisher? Who, you know, shot. This other woman, wasn't she some sort of teenage seductress and like that's kind of just living in my head is almost like a meta narrative. But I'm filling in all the blanks like I couldn't tell you the sort of Massapequa Mary Magdalene. No, that's not something like that. And so you're like, Well, you know, she seems like a terrible person. You haven't really given it that much thought and you're telling the stories to each other and the one who isn't telling the story is observing for the rest of us. You make a point of not knowing much about what the other person is about to tell you. Yes, I've been interrupting my boyfriend to last year every time he brings up JonBenet Ramsey. Like, Oh, that reminds me of the time that they found And I'm like, Don't tell me anything. So I know Sarah is eventually going to tell me all about JonBenet Ramsey and I want to preserve that in my head is sort of the little bits and bobs of a story. But I really don't have the details of and one of us does a ton of research and walk the other one through. And we try to make it sort of normal to come in with false understandings of these stories, Basing our understandings on the information that we had at the time and often times it was just really bad. You mentioned research, but you're not interested in obtaining New documents or exclusive interviews. You're interrogating the public record reading books that have already been written, poring over old news articles. Is it about the real story that was hiding in plain sight? For me, it often is, And I think I am a historian who is frequently mistaken for journalist. The joy of this show is that I get to do stories that pretty much it was hard for me to be able to write about, because if you're going to talk about something that happened in recent history off, and it will have to be because you have found Some new, exciting piece of information. And with this I love the chance to not have to make up an excuse to just talk about not just getting to the bottom of who this person was, but trying to more deeply understand who we were when we did what we did to them. It's also really shocking. How easily findable the correct information was, then and now I mean it. Just pick one example. One of the most radicalizing episodes that I've done of the show was the Terri Shiavo case in which there was this woman who was in a persistent vegetative state and her husband was trying to end her life, and her parents who were conservative Christians were trying to save her. And I thought going in. It was gonna be this like very murky issue of your bio ethics and who can say when life begins and ends. Then you start looking at the actual documents, and it turns out that every single independent doctor who examined Terri Shiavo said that she was completely brain did that She had received excellent care from her husband. He actually quit his job. And went to nursing school so that he could provide her with better care. And there was no chance of recovery. So a pretty straightforward story. All of the information was on inside. And yet when that was presented to the public, it was seen as a sort of. Well, Both sides have really good arguments. And isn't it true Michael Szabo that you haven't been giving your wife this great care? The information was there like there are court documents, but it appears that people just didn't present that information to the public at the time. It's incredible, telling a story chronologically. Really does seem to be key, because so many of these sort of moral panics and maligned women come to us as these fully formed figures, and we don't get all of the factors that brought them to that situation until much later, right? We're we're kind of doing it in this like memento order every time I mean, I think one of the reasons nineties scandals about maligned women are so interesting is that this is the era of the two month true crime book. Amy Fisher had three TV movies made about her that aired roughly simultaneously. Two of them were on the same night. It's amazing, and there is this idea at the time, I think people had That if you were the subject of all this attention, you must be profiting. You had to be deriving some kind of benefit from that. It couldn't just be more trauma heaped on top of the trauma that had already brought you to that degree of fame and It has been really hard in these stories for us as a public to get past the idea that if someone is the subject of all this attention, they must have one in some capacity. The person at the center rarely is heard. Certainly in these 90 stories, and Amy Fisher was ordered by her lawyer to not talk and present her story to the public, and because of that she was the only person who wasn't able to tell the public who she was in the Anna Nicole Smith episode. You observed that we were focused on her having all the power that Amy Fisher was assumed to have derived from her notoriety. In the case of Anna Nicole Smith, it was like her breasts were worth half a billion dollars, leaving no agency for Her elderly husband. But what all these tabloid women seem to have in common when they are perceived to have power. It's almost always Through sex. Mm. And it turns out if you dig into their story, it's about other people's exploitation of it. I just think it's very scary to the people. Who write these stories that these women have any power at all. Yeah, this idea that a girl can grow up with nothing and decide To provide for herself and her child by exploiting her own sexuality. I mean, I just believe it with the paradox that we're fine with explaining women's sexuality. If it's like a man or a corporation doing it. But if the woman is profiting off of herself declaring her own value, that's where we draw the line. This episode hasn't aired yet. Sarah maybe do earmuffs. But another really good example of that is Vanessa Williams, who famously was the first black Miss America and was the first Miss America to relinquish her crown. Because she took a bunch of nude photographs. The summer before she became Miss America. She wanted to become an actress. She was obsessed with Meryl Streep. She thought that modeling was away that she'd get into being an actress. She meets a photographer..
WNYC 93.9 FM
"vanessa williams" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Stories that kind of live in your head in these weird fragments. We don't realize the degree to which we're filling in the blanks in our head. Right. So you hear about somebody like Amy Fisher, who, you know, shot. This other woman, wasn't she some sort of teenage seductress and like that's kind of just living in my head is almost like a meta narrative. But I'm filling in all the blanks like I couldn't tell you the sort of Massapequa Mary Magdalene know that Z something like that. And so you're like, Well, you know, she seems like a terrible person. But you haven't really given it that much thought and you're telling the stories to each other and the one who isn't telling the story is observing for the rest of us. You make a point of not knowing much about what The other person is about to tell you. Yes, I've been interrupting my boyfriend the last year every time he brings up JonBenet Ramsey. He's like, Oh, that reminds me of the time that they found And I'm like, Don't tell me anything. I know Sarah is eventually gonna tell me all about JonBenet Ramsey and I want to preserve that in my head is sort of little bits and bobs of a story. I really don't have the details of and one of us does a ton of research and walk the other one through and we try to make it sort of normal to come in with false understandings of these stories, Basing our understandings on the information that we had at the time and often times it was just really bad. You mentioned research, but you're not interested in obtaining New documents or exclusive interviews. You're interrogating the public record reading books that have already been written, poring over old news articles. Is it about the real story that was hiding in plain sight? For me, it often is, And I think I am a historian who is frequently mistaken for a journalist. The joy of this show is that I get to do stories that pretty much it was hard for me to be able to write about, because if you're going to talk about something that happened in recent history off, and it will have to be because you have found Some new, exciting piece of information. And with this I love the chance to not have to make up an excuse to just talk about not just getting to the bottom of who this person was, but trying to more deeply understand. Who we were when we did what we did to them. It's also really shocking. How easily findable the correct information was, then and now I mean it. Just pick one example. One of the most radicalizing episodes that I've done of the show was the Terri Shiavo case in which there was this woman who was in a persistent vegetative state and her husband was trying to end her life and her parents who were conservative Christians. We're trying to save her and I thought going in. It was gonna be this like very murky issue of your bio ethics and who can say when life begins and ends and then you start looking at the actual documents, and it turns out that every single independent doctor who examined Terri Shiavo said that she was completely brain did that She had received excellent care from her husband. He actually quit his job. And went to nursing school so that he could provide her with better care. And there was no chance of recovery. So a pretty straightforward story. All of the information was on inside. And yet, when that was presented to the public, it was seen as a sort of well, Both sides have really good arguments. And isn't it true, Michael Shy Bo that you haven't been giving your wife this great care the information was there like there are court documents, but it appears that people just didn't present that information to the public at the time. It's incredible telling a story chronologically. Really does seem to be key, because so many of these sort of moral panics and maligned women come to us as these fully formed figures, and we don't get all of the factors that brought them to that situation until much later, right? We're we're kind of doing it in this like memento order every time I mean, I think one of the reasons nineties scandals about maligned women are so interesting is that this is the era of the two month true crime book. Amy Fisher had three TV movies made about her that aired roughly simultaneously. Two of them were on the same night. It's amazing, and there is this idea at the time, I think people had That if you were the subject of all this attention, you must be profiting. You had to be deriving some kind of Benefit from that It couldn't just be more trauma heaped on top of the trauma that had already brought you to that degree of fame, and it has been really hard in these stories. For us as a public to get past the idea that if someone is a subject of all this attention, they must have one in some capacity. The person at the center rarely is heard. Certainly in these 90 stories, and Amy Fisher was ordered by her lawyer to not talk and present her story to the public, and because of that she was the only person who wasn't able to tell the public who she was in the Anna Nicole Smith episode. You observed that we were focused on her having all the power that Amy Fisher was assumed to have derived from her notoriety in the case of Anna Nicole Smith. It was like her breasts were worth half a billion dollars, leaving no agency for her elderly husband. But what all these tabloid women's seemed to have in common when they are perceived to have power. It's almost always through sex, and it turns out if you dig into their story, it's about Other peoples exploitation of it. I just think it's very scary to the people who write these stories that these women have any power at all. Yeah. This idea that a girl can grow up with nothing and decide to Provide for herself and her child by exploiting her own sexuality. I mean, I just believe it with the paradox that we're fine with explaining women's sexuality. If it's like a man or a corporation doing it. But if the woman is profiting off of herself declaring her own value, that's where we draw the line. This episode hasn't aired yet. So Sarah maybe do earmuffs. But Another really good example of that is Vanessa Williams, who famously was the first black Miss America and was the first Miss America to relinquish her crown because she took a bunch of nude photographs. The summer before she became Miss America. She wanted to become an actress. She was obsessed with Meryl Streep. She thought that modeling was away that she'd get into being an actress. She meets a photographer. She ends up working for him for a couple months as his receptionist. They become close. One night, he says, Hey, have you ever tried nudes? There's a sort of photographic technique that I want to try with silhouettes. So we're not going to be able to see your face is just gonna be shaped. Why don't I take a couple photos? I'm never going to release them and just me testing this stuff out. Don't worry about it. And she says, Yeah, sure. I trust this guy. No big deal. To me that is very legible as a human story. You know you do something for somebody else because they ask you to, and it would be a little bit awkward. If you said no. Then she becomes Miss America, and he's hard up for cash, and he sells the photos. Most Americans learned that story in this inverted pyramid way as The next issue of Penthouse is going to have Miss America in it. When you learned it in that order, it's like, well, she must be getting paid. And this is her way of cashing in on her fame, and that became the story. The people who actually did cash in on this were the photographer and, of course, the publisher of Penthouse. She got nothing, but she was cast as somebody who had all of the power in this situation. What makes the perfect story for your show? Our stories often break down to a few archetypes, and we often will see people regardless of their individuality, regardless of the setting, regardless of the moment, acting in basically the same way. And making the same mistakes and receiving the same warnings as in a lot of other stories that we've already told humans do the same things over and over when you see them all in a row. It's just staggering, and I think the two Most obvious categories that I can name. There are the maligned women and the moral panic. And it is remarkable how often abuse lies at the opening chapter of so many of these stories. Have been surprised at how central abuse especially domestic abuse has been to the stories that we've looked into. We haven't talked yet about are now 15 episodes. SYRIZA on the O. J. Simpson trial. I remember when that was going on that you know you would hear these stories and kind of like this weird, hectoring tone of like, well, nobody's talking about Nicole Brown Simpson and No, The victim has been lost in all of this. But yet they didn't really do anything to correct that. They were just sort of scold their audience and then move on with covering the trial, and so what? Sara did. What we did in those episodes was just start with the story of Nicole before we got to the murders. And that's best understood as a story of also escalating domestic violence, and it makes perfect sense when you hear it in that order, and from her perspective, it's like, oh, it all falls into place. It was also, I think a lot of shooting the messenger back then..
MyTalk 107.1
"vanessa williams" Discussed on MyTalk 107.1
"Tell us about the new season. Second city. Sorry. Can't hear you. OK, tell us about the new season sex in the city. Nothing yet If the call them and just like that, and we haven't started shooting the writer from building up What do you think I'll start coming? Why not try anything bad happens. Well in that picture. You started looking for the fourth girl yet casting for that It's It's not quite as for brother wind inside, she goes, It's not quite as if you can hear There's a lot of ambient noise with New York. About bottom line, Adam from TMZ said. Hey, when you going to cast the fourth girl and escape, he said, it's not as black and white is that she goes. We're not really looking for 1/4 character. New York is the fourth character and then she goes on to say they have a lot of new characters. That they're thinking of that. They're very excited about. Um So, uh, I don't know. Somebody brought up an idea yesterday, and I think it was Kendall over on the talk show. She thinks instead of killing off, Samantha What they may do is explain that Samantha Has moved. She's like in London or somewhere. She's left her PR business to somebody new, like, who was her PR firm has been left to a new person. And that is the person who will be a new friend to the ladies in advance the story, But Kendall just thinks they're gonna move her out, which is realistic. Mean Samantha Samantha moved to L A. When we open sex in the city, the movie, so it's not out of the realm of possibility. Friends move. I mean, no matter how tight knit, tight knit How titan that Samantha Very Jason's very no matter how tight Mitt Your friend group is sometimes career and life takes you down a different river. And so that would be realistic. S so maybe they're going to do that. Maybe that's all. You know, less permanent change, because then, if she ever did decide to come back, which Kim? Let's just be honest. Let's put a nail America. It's never gonna happen, But I don't think they'll replace or either because then it'll always be this person compared to Samantha. You know, I just think they'll Have a lot of side characters like they did in the past and you know Well, it'll be the core three. Or maybe maybe a gay man. That's the only thing that I could imagine. Have two to choose from. They have their their best friends. So I you know, Kendall also brought up a name that I thought, Wow, if you're trying to fill the sexual free Character, or, you know, the one that is a little more, you know, because the three year paired off now, Um, if you're looking for a woman in her fifties, Vanessa Williams Woman of color. Uh, obviously knows her way their way around a script and I thought she's a good one. She would be a really, you know, but is she too obvious? You know, Vanessa has been a go to for a lot of shows whenever they need help Desperate Housewives She's popped up on other writers. Yeah, I mean, Vanessa is the go to woman, So maybe it's a little too obvious, but I don't know, but but listen to Sarah. They don't need they're not looking for 1/4. They're not going to replace her. In any way, meaning they're not going to have another actress portray Samantha and they're not looking to get 1/4 friend just to make it for women just to feel like you're fit that formula. Yeah, because it worked then. But you know, new combinations always work. So why not try something different? Yeah. Especially sold. You killed Samantha, Or would you just have her? I keep going back and forth. I keep going back and forth. When Kendall brought up the idea of Samantha just moving to Europe or something. I thought that's relatable and and that's realistic. That's not His in? Don. I'm sure someone that's written screenplay. You don't want to go with the obvious thing. You don't want to insult the audience, and I don't think And betray the character. I don't think moving Samantha to explain a mover to Europe to explain her absence is betraying the character. I don't think it's insulting to the audience. I think it's a reasonable Device to use Tol Splain her absence and I think if you do anything else is just gonna bring too much attention to that. It's e mean she's she is a part of the show. But It's not like I mean, they all are important. You know what I mean? It's like to put so much attention on one that's like you don't know. Until we do the show without her. It's just 1/4 of the show where you don, have you watched any more dawn? By the way, everyone is watching sex and the city basically for the first time, or have you watched any more? Yeah, I'm on Episode eight On the first. He's sure you're blasting through McLane. This is what McClane does The girl she watched all of Real Housewives of Atlanta in an afternoon. I mean, she did in game of Thrones. Remember? I started from the beginning. You hear that? Yeah. Oh, my goodness. So, yeah, it's I'm excited to see Oh, my God. Jason! Lex, your flex Flex yer Your smoke detectors chirping. Lex just jumped O Hey, was that you, Jason? Or is that Lexus things? Jason, Jason, just random. They're so sweet. She's gone ahead. Right now. I can't even see you can't even.
MyTalk 107.1
"vanessa williams" Discussed on MyTalk 107.1
"About the new season. Second city. Sorry. Can't hear you. OK, tell us about the new season sex in the city. Nothing yet. If it's called, and just like that, and we haven't started shooting the writers and build my nest, Would you like to start filming? I'm not trying anything that happened. A girl in actresses. Have you started looking for the fourth girl yet? Casting today? It's not quite as excited right? She goes. It's not quite as if you can hear There's a lot of ambient noise with New York. About bottom line, Adam from TMZ said. Hey, when you going to cast the fourth girl and escape, he said, it's not as black and white is that she goes. We're not really looking for 1/4 character. New York is the fourth character and then she goes on to say they have a lot of new characters. That they're thinking of that. They're very excited about. Um So, uh, I don't know. Somebody brought up an idea yesterday, and I think it was Kendall over on the talk show. She thinks instead of killing off, Samantha What they may do is explain that Samantha Has moved. She's like in London or somewhere. She's left her PR business to somebody new, like, who was her PR firm has been left to a new person. And that is the person who will be a new friend to the ladies in advance the story, But Kendall just thinks they're gonna move her out, which is realistic. I mean, Samantha Samantha moved to L A. When we open sex in the city. The movie, so it's not out of the realm of possibility. Friends move. I mean, no matter how tight knit, tight knit How Titan Samantha, Huh? Very Jason's very no matter how tight Mitt Your friend group is sometimes career and life takes you down a different river. And so that would be realistic. S so maybe they're going to do that. Maybe that's you know, less permanent change, because then, if she ever did decide to come back, which Kim? Let's just be honest. Let's put a nail America. It's never gonna happen, but I don't think they'll replace or either because then it'll always be this person compared to Samantha. You know, I just think they'll have a lot of side characters like they did in the past and Well, it'll be the core three. Or maybe maybe a gay man. That's the only thing that I could match. You have two to choose from. They have their their best friends. So I you know, Kendall also brought up a name that I thought, Wow, if you're trying to fill the sexual free Character, or, you know, the one that is a little more, you know, because the three year paired off now, Um, if you're looking for a woman in her fifties, Vanessa Williams Woman of color. Uh, obviously knows her way their way around a script and I thought she's a good one. She would be a really, you know, but is she too obvious? You know, Vanessa has been a go to for a lot of shows whenever they need help Desperate Housewives Ah, she's popped up on other writers. Yeah, I mean, Vanessa is the go to woman, So maybe it's a little too obvious, but I don't know, but but listen to Sarah. They don't need they're not looking for 1/4. They're not going to replace her. In any way, meaning they're not going to have another actress portray Samantha and they're not looking to get 1/4 friend just to make it for women just to feel like you're fit that formula. Yeah, because it worked then. But you know, new combinations always work. So why not try something different? Yeah. Especially sold. You killed Samantha, Or would you just have her? I keep going back and forth. I keep going back and forth. When Kendall brought up the idea of Samantha just moving to Europe or something. I thought that's relatable and and that's realistic. That's not His in? Don. I'm sure someone that's written screenplay. You don't want to go with the obvious thing. You don't want to insult the audience, and I don't think Betray the character. I don't think moving Samantha to explain a mover to Europe to explain her absence is betraying the character. I don't think it's insulting to the audience. I think it's a reasonable Device to use Tol Splain her absence and I think if you do anything else just gonna bring too much attention to that it's e mean she's she is a part of the show. But It's not like I mean, they all are important. You know what I mean? It's like to put so much attention on one that's like you don't know. Don't we do the show without her? It's just 1/4 of the show where you don? Have you watched any more dawn? By the way, everyone is watching sex and the city basically for the first time, or have you watched any more. Yeah, I'm on Episode eight On the first season you're blasting through McLane. This is what McClane does, though. She watched all of Real Housewives of Atlanta in an afternoon. I mean, she did in game of Thrones. Remember? I started from the beginning for that. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. So, yeah, it's I'm excited to see Oh, my geez! Lacks your flex lecture. Your smoke detectors chirping. Lex just jumped. Hey, was that you, Jason? Or is that Lexus things? Jason, just remember. They're so sweet. She's gone ahead. Oh, right, kid, even see you and I can't even see you and I felt your body rolls. Uh, 00. God was still hurts. Oh, that's not even be be consistently deep. And then two minutes 45 seconds Leader. Oh, that was good. Yes. 6 41 6 40 Riley Mathison When we could wait and we will we come back. Uh, One of the most hated people on the Internet is selling his house. Does that mean he's leaving the country? Dawn has that stone. I'm stand right here. Not you. That don has that story. Plus, Tom Hanks has a new gig. Alexis will tell you about that when we return another lorry and Julia moment Hey bought Kim five. Mercedes may box, but she bought him several James Terrell pieces,.
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Top 5 High-Concept Horror, Bad Hair, The Wolf Of Snow Hollow
"Welcome to film spotting Josh we grew up in the eighties we were blessed with a lot of things including the Golden Age of the high-concept movie but I know there are some people listening who are wondering what this phrase really means. We will certainly defined in more detail as we get into our top five here in a little bit but our producer, Sam has a good thought. If the premise of your movie is right there in the title. That's pretty much dead giveaway that it's a high concept movie snakes on a plane there. You know maybe the platonic ideal of high-concept movie, right? That's it right there. If all you gotta do is tell someone the title and they understand everything the movie is about it's probably using a high concept. Yes. Snakes on a plane maybe at times scary in its own way, not exactly a horror movie a longtime listener on twitter Charles Canzoneri was following a similar line of thinking he said invasion of the body snatchers night of the living dead. The. Those titles kind of say it all too. Don't they Josh Yeah. We'll. We'll kind of get into exactly the way you and I at least defined this, but you could make an argument for those for sure we will get to our picks here in a moment but first we did want to spend a couple of minutes on the movie that inspired the list Justin. Simians new bad hair. So yeah the bad hair of the title here is A. Bloodthirsty, we've that the star, the movie L. Lorraine's Anna She unwittingly submits to as part of plot her attempts really to get ahead at this black entertainment network sort of an MTV style network she works at this is set in nineteen, eighty nine we should say so she's been there awhile she's been overworked underpaid largely ignored and and sees a new look as perhaps a way forward. Now, Simeon directed two thousand fourteen dear white people and he created the TV spinoff to he takes the college set racial identity satire of that earlier film and amps it up here Yes. There are some really gnarly murders to this definitely counts as a horror film. He layers in some observations about assimilation and authenticity in that era late eighties, early nineties. Let's clip. Anna. Does your hair. No. We. Aren't you tired of it. All the stairs you get walk into the army lobby everyone wondering why you're here. If you went to any other floor in the tower for job interview. You wouldn't get past reception. And you know that. Sisters get fired lesson every day. have. Music people have certain expectations and my girls need to flow freely. Wonder. You want to be one of my girls. Yes. that. Is L. Lorraine's Anna with Vanessa Williams as her CEO. Zora Josh you did like Dear White People Justin Simians debut film as you mentioned in fact, nominated for a golden brick here on film spotting back in two thousand fourteen. What did you think of that? Hair I kinda loved it actually Really Yeah it's it's pretty insane and you know not a perfect film by any means in some in some ways an experiment in genre for Simeone, you can tell feeling his way and having some fun with the horror comedy elements here, but you know what? I really wished. Adam. Is that I. I mean obviously nowadays, we wish we can see anything with a full theater, but this thing really would have benefited from a very loud a very lively audience preferably like maybe around midnight something like that I think then you could get into the vibe of the film a bit more easily than say just you know watching it on Hulu at home but I still had fun with it. I think what Simeon does in terms of some of the extreme camera angles and the slow zooms there. That are a little insidious There's a great scene where Anna is at the salon getting. About to get the we've and she's kind of walking through this hallway of hair samples that is probably going to haunt my dreams. I think not only the way it's filmed but remember that old seinfeld bid about like when you find hair and things something about like if it's on our heads everyone, you know it's completely normal everyone loves it. But the minute it's removed from your head everyone freaks out that seeing like totally captured that for me So yeah, I think this works as horror I think the main performance here's pretty strong by lorraine and I think there's a lot of fun comic performances going. On along the edges here from people like Jay Ferrell Lean Awaith James Vanderbeek of all people who really doing a Don Johnson Miami Vice era performance I think the setting the eighty nine setting added a lot for me. Just kind of remembering that I don't know if it's like Yo MTV raps I'm sure there's a different countdown show around then the capture, the vibe of that really. Well, I think here even give us a music video and original music video with Kelly Rowland playing this. Pop Star. Hip, hop star who's kind of a mixture I don't know tell me what you think I was getting like. Janet. Jackson slash. Paula Abdul feel from that music video. So that was fun. There's a lot of fun stuff here. Yeah.