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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.
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.
KFI AM 640
"vanessa williams" Discussed on KFI AM 640
"Happening, fellow sports fans attendee West and I'm here to take you on a journey back to this week in sports history. We'll start off way back in 18 48, where baseball rules that the first baseman can tag the base for and out instead of the runner kind of seems crazy that that wasn't always the rule jumping ahead this week in 1937, the first NFL game Was played in Washington, D. C. The Washington Redskins beat the New York Giants 13 3. This week In 1978 boxer Muhammad Ali defeats Leon Spinks at the Superdome in New Orleans to win the world heavyweight boxing title for the third time in his career, the first fighter ever to do so. Following his victory, Ali retired from boxing only to make a brief come back two years later. Ali left the sport permanently in 1981 this week in 1984 on the seventh anniversary of his first major league home run. Reggie Jackson hits his 5/100 career home run this week in 1986. Chicago's Walter Payton rushes for 177 yards to reach the 15,000 yard plateau and scores his 1/100 career rushing touchdown as the Bears beat the Philadelphia Eagles 13 10 and this week in 2000 and eight major league Baseball's instant replay system produces its first reversal when Tampa Bay Rays Carlos Pena had a two run double change to a three run homer during the fourth inning against the Minnesota Twins. The initial umpire call was based on fan interference, which the video replays showed was not The case, And that's just some of what happened this week in sports history, the weekend sports Time capsule on my 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 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 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 use you And that's what happened. Thanks for listening to this week in history on I.
TalkRadio 630 KHOW
"vanessa williams" Discussed on TalkRadio 630 KHOW
"It's Andy West, and I'm here to take you on a journey back to this week in sports history. We'll start off way back in 19 Oh nine, where the largest paid baseball attendance to date happened with 35,409 people watching as the A's beat the Tigers to nothing in Philadelphia, jumping ahead this week in 1958, the Milwaukee Braves warrant. Spawn became the first left hander to win 20 or more games nine times, Eddie Plank and Lefty Grove each won 20 games eight times. This week in 1981, the Atlanta Falcons trailing 17 to nothing with 13 minutes remaining in the game, scored 31 points to beat the Packers. 31 17. The Falcons score touchdowns on a punt return to bypass is an interception return and a fumble return this week in 1991 freshman Marshall Faulk of San Diego State rushes for an N C a record 386 yards and score seven touchdowns in his second collegiate game. Fuck also sets a record for most Russian touch. Touchdowns in a game by a freshman as the Aztecs Pacific 55 34. And this week in 2000 and three Jamal Lewis rushes for an NFL record 295 yards on 30 carries in Baltimore's 33 13 victory over the Browns. Lewis shatters the single game mark held by Cincinnati's Corey Dillon, who ran for 278 in the year. 2000. Currently Adrian Peterson holds the record by a yard with 296. He did it in 2000 and seven and that's just some of what happened this weekend Sports history the weekend Sports Time capsule on heart radio. 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 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,.
The Patriot AM 1150
"vanessa williams" Discussed on The Patriot AM 1150
"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 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. Purity. 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 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. Joe Pesci won best supporting actor for This funny how I mean funny like I'm a clown and use you And that's what happened..
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.
710 WOR
"vanessa williams" Discussed on 710 WOR
"Um, does it? Um does it get in the weeds or I mean, I would guess if entertainers get together When sportscasters get together, we might talk about technique and things we do, and it might not be interesting to others who are in sportscasters. What do you do to make an interesting to everybody Who is watching this? What? We kind of talk about everything. You know, we have a format that we start out with some fun questions. You know, an interesting things that people know about, but kind of getting into the purchase of those things that everybody thought they knew about that they don't really know about when I was talking to Vanessa Williams. I mean, Vanessa is just an open book. She's an incredible. Um, uh, She actually wrote a book with her mom that we that I got to read beforehand and really got into the details of her life. So we got into some of that. But I also said Hey, do you want to get into that? Read the book. Now we got her here. We can ask all kinds of questions. So I have a section I call it getting into deep water. Well, we can talk about things, you know, Um, like, uh, what? How has how has God affected your life? Because that's been a part of her life. I didn't actually get to that question, You know? And what is God to you now? And, um, you know, in deep process questions as well. And I found that people really like that part of the show because a lot of Folks that don't do this for a living. They don't think about some of the stuff that we're talking about. And they realize Oh, this really does go into some deep water when when people are are working. Well, they're great interviews. You can check them out on crossovers live and, uh, Brian, if you have Bette Midler on, ask her how much she got paid to do. Hello, Dolly, Because that would be a very interesting, very interesting answer. I have a feeling alright. The great Brian's not That's not something we would ask if we were in a green room, so I don't know that I would ask that question. Okay. The great Brian Stokes Mitchell. Checkout crossovers life. Thanks, Brian. Good luck with the adventure. Take care. Thanks, guys. Great talking to you about Vice. Alright, Michael. Um, I wasn't very good at lifting weights. The true story when I was in junior high school, I think I tried to lift like £50. And I, like fell over backwards when I put the weight over my head. I don't think I ever lifted a weight again. So what do you got here with his grandma? I'm kind of with you on that one. I mean, I remember trying to lift weights when I was in high school, and I just I couldn't do it. I mean, I'm I'm the And the skinny Little weekly and I just couldn't do it. But 78 year old woman, her name is Linda Paterson, and she is now entering a bench pressing competition, and she's been training for three years. 78 years old husband died about five years ago, and she wants to do something with her life. And so she's with the trainer and Len. She is lifting. Uh, £50 worth of weights every single day. Linda Paterson 78 years old and we neither one of us could do that. Come on, and there she is, lifting it and bench pressing and she's entering a competition for bench pressing at 70 rehearse old. And you know, I say 100%. And where is she from? Uh, she's from Pennsylvania. We should get around the badly be fun to have her on the show. Yeah, let's get it on. Yeah, let's get the weightlifting Grandma on the show that New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Cheddar. Elli joins us to weigh in on Governor Murphy's vaccination requirement for teachers. Right now, though, it's time to get a check of the latest headlines. It's 70 degrees at 7 30. Good morning. I'm Liz Warner governor, Kathy Huckle is trying to help residents get help as fast as possible for those who suffer damage from the remnants of Ida Governor Hoco signed a request to President Biden for an Expedia it'd major disaster declaration, which is under review. This would mean federal money for residents for repairs, Temporary housing and other uses who are impacted by Ida. Meanwhile, folks using Labor Day weekend toss waterlogged, ruined household items. Many piles of trash can be seen along the streets in Queens and Brooklyn and elsewhere, the city sanitation commissioner, said Grayson. These people are working very hard inside their homes to get the material out, so.
Whores Talk Horror
"vanessa williams" Discussed on Whores Talk Horror
"They came in through the bathroom mirror. A murder in the projects about a woman named ruthie may mccoy who is murdered. Her apartment in nineteen eighty seven. She was living in chicago housing authority project known as abby l. a. projects. She lived in one of seven fifteen story brown y shaped towers named the grace abbott homes. The most dangerous of all the buildings in la. Her killers came in through her bathroom mirror and shot her to death in her apartment and despite her frantic calls tonight on one that people were coming in through her bathroom. The police did very little to respond with help. In is really a heartbreaking story and there's a lot more details that we could go into but that would be an entire episode in itself so not gonna get into all that now but We've included the link to the article in the show notes. So if you wanna read the story in its entirety. You can go ahead and do that. Also my favorite murder also covered the whole story in one of their episodes as well and they did a very good job so you can go check that out bernard rose did use the name mccoy as amara's last name as an image ameri was vanessa williams character in canyon. Oh didn't realize that. How nice well i mean. That's sad but that was lovely that he did that in clive barker story. The forbidden candyman is described as a pale skin. Man with long blond hair and brightly colored patchwork close bernard rose felt making him a black man. descended from. Slaves would add to the underlying social commentary clive barker approved of all these changes happily declaring the film to be bernard. Rose's baby rose said that the idea always was that candyman was kind of a romantic figure and sort of the ad. Ghur allan poe sense. It's the romance of death. He's a ghost and he's also the resurrection of something that is kind of unspoken or unspeakable in american history which is slavery as well. So he's come back and he's haunting. What is the new version of the racial segregation in chicago. That's a great description slash concept great as in fascinating an interesting sad given the history. I should clarify during pre-production candy man's producers began to worry that the film might draw criticism for being racist given that it's villain was black and it was largely set in the infamous now no longer there cabrini-green housing project rose said quote. I had to go and have a whole set of meetings with the n. Aa c p because the producers were so worried and what they said to me. When they'd read the script was why are we even having this meeting. You know this is just good fun. Argument was why shouldn't a black actor be ghost. Why shouldn't a black actor play. Freddie krueger or hannibal lecter. If you're saying that they can't be. It's really perverse. This is a horror movie. Hell yeah but not. Everyone agreed with those sentiments in a nineteen ninety-two story and the chicago tribune. Some high profile black filmmakers expressed disappointment that. The film seemed to perpetuate several racist stereotypes director carl franklin who directed out of time and double in a blue dress said. There's no question that this film plays on. White middle-class fears of black people it unabashedly uses racial stereotypes and destructive midst to create shock. I found it hokey and unsettling. It didn't work for me. Because i don't share those fears by into those mitts and reginal hudson who directed house party boomerang and marshall described the film as worrisome though. He didn't want to speak on the record about his specific issues with the film. So this is my own little aside here..
WTMJ 620
"vanessa williams" Discussed on WTMJ 620
"That was news to me now, apparently in the in the black Culture That's been all right. I mean, it was written in the ninth in 1900. It's very prevalent in the black culture, and this is what they think. I just, um I'm a little on the fence on this one. While Vanessa Williams performed this on independence day, uh, as part of this capital fourth program that the PDS put on And it's again. It's called lift Every voice and saying And and is, it is something that has generated a lot of controversy as everything does. Everything is played out on social media. Sure, and I'm not going to read all the all the commentary. But basically it comes down to this and this is where I fall on this. You have every right to sing whatever song you choose when you start labeling things like the Hispanic national anthem, the black National anthem the fill in the Blank, Right? Yeah, I know. I guess the question for me is at what points The separates. Not going to work for a country that prides itself on being united, the United States of America. I understand the issues and probably more than most people, because I talk about them on the show. I read a lot about this. I understand the feeling of black Americans from the perspective of White American slavery was a Incredible injustice carried out on people that did not deserve that treatment, and there's long term legacies and impacts from that story that play out every day. Today, right? But If we're going to do this, and we're going to separate people by race at some point does that have a harmful? I think so in our in our country, and I think so, because it is pitting us against each other, and I don't know that that's going to necessarily solved. Some of the issues that we talk about, like racial inequities and racial injustice. I I agree with you. I think that it's it divides us more than unites us and at the same time, too, if it doesn't work, Conversely, it really shouldn't be happening. You know what I mean? And you have to and also opens up like you said, for all the different cultures to have their own thing, and they should. What do they all get A national stage? I mean, I the Laverne Spicer. She's from Florida. I think, and, um I think what she said was right on she tweeted. A black national anthem is something of black African country would have not a country like America that exists for everyone. And I think, what are we trying to get back to that? This is that we've been so divided for so long. Aren't we working in the opposite way? We're trying to get back to being united. I would love to hear from. I know we have a lot of listeners in African American that dissent that that, uh That life story of the accident. Mortgage talking text line Always open 88556161616 20. Again. I'm speaking from a whites perspective, right so much can't even imagine the horrors of slavery. We only know the history right? What's been what's been told to us what's been or you're taught when you're young young people. At some point, I think it's a fair question to ask. Does these separates but equal things go too far? I can't imagine a world where Martin Luther King Would have said. That's a good idea. We should. We should not celebrate the anthem of the United States. Let's create our own. I just It doesn't seem like something he would have said now he is He the only voice. Of course not. And as I was reading about this last night, and this morning, there's a train of thought that says This is the moment where people who are African Americans have to say, You know what? Enough is enough? We are going to stand up. We're going to tell you what we want to happen. And this could be part of that story line, and I think if you think about it from that perspective, they've again that I don't want to speak for them. Rather, they speak for themselves, but I think they've said Enough is enough. We want to be recognized. We want to be treated fairly. That's where these ideas comfort. Isn't that what we're trying to do? I think so. I I don't know why we have to be so Yeah, so vocal about it, and and because I truly when I saw this, and I'll be perfectly honest with you. I just didn't sit right with me. I don't know. Maybe it's it's because I don't understand completely. I'm a white, middle aged woman, but it just kind of like it just kind of tweaked in my gut a little bit. It's like What? We have a national anthem. Why do we have to be separate? We have a national anthem. Can we just use the national anthem? So now we've got Macy Gray, who wants to change the flag, and now we've got this. Really, if you if there's nothing that you can stand by that says this represents all of us. Then what do you really have? Do you have separating? Yeah. Do you have a country where we can say you know what? We are all together on this? I think if you asked in a face to face conversation If me being a white older guy sat down with the African American gentleman of the same age, we could probably have a civil conversation about this and say, Here's what I think. And then he would tell me he or she would tell me what they think. Sure, and we could. We could figure these things out, at least from our own personal perspectives, not the national perspective. At least get somewhere. But when I see stories like this, they seem to create more divisiveness. Well, look what happened on twin. Look what happened on Twitter again. Social Media is not the arbiter of everything, but yes, you are right. Exactly Right. Social Media blew up right. This is not a national anthem right again. It kind of at least what the social media at least with Twitter and at least kind of shows what the pulse of the nation is thinking. At least you can. Absolutely you can kind of at least use it as a tool. Earl joins us from the Northwest side. Welcome. W changed. Always great to talk to you. Hello. You know? I'm 67 years old. And I'll be become more and more cynical. About this nation and the chances of there being any reconciliation or any point in the future that that there's going to be a come to Jesus moment and that we're all One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. And it is because of these kinds of things. You know Mhm. That I don't need to go through the history of what this nation has done and and to to address the issues we're talking about. Now we can talk about the date and right now, the debates with critical race there and all of these things where they're white people seem to be angry. If somebody says anything about the history of this nation with all that's been the time talking about the history of it, I want to talk about what is happening right now. And when you look at the inequalities that continue To play people of color and poor people in this country and that is is minimized and just brushed off. Will you know? Why can't we just get along? Well, the truth of the matter is because the injustices continue, and it's and really, to be honest with you, man. You're a fair guy. But the truth of the matter is, you know, it's dismissed. It would be inequities and the racism in this country, and I think it has a lot to do with the fact that black people when we make up Well percent of the population was such a really minority. In the nation, and we're in a nation that says the majority rules. Well, if you're not part of the majority, then you get what we get. Okay. And yet we see people who are so out, agree. Okay, Earl, I have a question for you. Just baseline. Do you think this helps, or is this um, dividing Well, everything the nation is divided if people of color see all right, so we've been forced, uh, to to respect the national anthem. Even though we all know the history of it. And what what happened in this country and again, we'll continues to happen. But if you you know, choose not to stay in their people glare at you. Arrogance like you know. Well, why don't you stand and I'm like I thought this is the nation that says we have the freedoms. To do and to disagree with things in this country. Yet when you show that freedom you've got some folks who are angry. Like how their you disrespect our flag. Well, you know, all of us are Americans supposedly And we're all supposed to be equal. Supposedly but when your skin is black And you see this nation for what it is, and then you see white people continue to minimize.
KPRC 950 AM
"vanessa williams" Discussed on KPRC 950 AM
"National anthem lift every voice. Okay again. I don't recognize it. Every time you play, it just makes no sense. I get it Bill yet. It doesn't make sense to me either. This is the gets a nice song. It's a beautiful song. I understand. But if you're playing this on the Fourth of July, it's kind of like you're saying We don't really respect America's independence. We're not really down with that. We don't like this whole free speech thing, even though we're literally exercising free speech, right as we play that song people who are claiming to be slaves at this moment. Are able to say these things and be free to do so. Oh, yeah. Vanessa Williams is on TV singing about how oppressed she is. Now she's worth about $25 million I'd like to be oppressed like that. Mm. Oppress me. That sounds great. Who among us wouldn't want to be oppressed for $25 Million and then yours And you're a famous celebrity and people treat you? Well, well, just remember even a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. The most evil person in the universe was a career politician. That's right. Absolutely. And have you noticed how in a lot of the new comic book movies, the bad guys, always an environmentalist? Mm. I hadn't noticed that like fan knows, Yeah, so he said there were too many humans on Earth. And they were acting like Locusts and parasites, and we have to kill half of them. And I'll bet there were some people from Peter and Greenpeace to watch that and said, Yeah, this Danno sky gets it. He's done. Now. Let me guess. Did fantasy want to be the one to pick which half Got to be killed. You know, I don't exactly remember how they picked who died, But, yeah, it was. This thing went around and everybody someone's going to be mad at me for ruining the event at the end of Avengers. It helps if you don't have any family or very many friends, because then you don't care Just that half they can go. Yeah, I don't care about any of well, environmentalists don't care. That's true. And they probably don't have that many friends to be honest with you. Well, how do you know that Bill Because they're a bunch of yaki yak environmentalists. You start talking like that You're going to lose friend. In a hurry. That is a profound point. Part of the reason why environmentalists hate human being so much is because most humans probably hate each individual environmentalist. I can see that most most humans would probably say Yeah, Yeah, we got to take care of the environment. Absolutely. Yeah, But what do you think of your neighbor? That's always lecturing you about recycle That guy's gotta go. I can always count on you guys are clear, irrational, angry opinion, Walton and Johnson Radio Network. He went online to switch your car insurance to progressive so you could save money. But then you saw a friend request from an old summer camp buddy. And now here you are clicking through photos of his kickball team from 2011. Looks like they won the championship that.
WTOP
"vanessa williams" Discussed on WTOP
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KOA 850 AM
"vanessa williams" Discussed on KOA 850 AM
"See the line side to see it calls me and no one before you got here is a great way to celebrate America's Independence Watch the annual music and fireworks Extravaganza Capital Fourth, which is now in its 41st year. It's broadcast live from the West Lawn of the US cap. Little on the Fourth of July, with Vanessa Williams returning as the host and as always a star studded lineup of performers, including our next guest, Ali Eat Crow Vallo. She played the title character in the movie Marijuana. Good Morning. Thanks for coming on a lot, you good morning. Thanks for having me first off before we get to this weekend's big show. How's your career Been since my wanna blessedly? It's been doing really well. Yes Wanna was my first job when I was 15 came out the day after My 16th birthdays with very like, serendipitous and magical, and it changed my life for the better well, and that performance was I mean, my kids loved loved marijuana. I got to ask you what is like to work with the rock, Dwayne Johnson. Thank you. And it was amazing. I mean, I'll be honest. I didn't really know him from his days. Can you smell with the rocks cooking like I want familiar with his wrestling days? His? I only knew Uncle Dwayne. As like an amazing Polynesian actor, you know, so working with him was was just mind blowing, And my mom tells us really funny story that when she met him, she gave him so many hugs that she went rock climbing. So like that's always in the back of my head now, and he's great. He's lovely. I can just see the two of them. I'm imagining your mother is a petite woman, and then he's a giant. So are you too friendly now still Sure. I mean, I'm really happy to see what he's working on next. Um he gave me a call. Not too long ago to kind of take congratulations and see what's coming up next to me. Um, yeah, I'm really glad to have him in my corner. What is the pandemic been like for you? Well, I think like for many people, it was pretty lonely. We were all doing our thing and trying to minimize the spread of Covid 19. So I stayed in my apartment. Luckily, I have a cat named Rocco, who is Very rambunctious and makes a lot of mess for me to clean up, So we kept me busy, but I would feel really lonely, So I'm excited to get out there and and kind of experience our new normal that's coming out now. Yeah, and part of that is being a part of the capital Fourth this weekend. Is this your first time in the show? Oh, no, It's actually well my first time for the Fourth of July, But I had the joy of performing and the Memorial Day concert a few years back, and it's the same crew and it was lovely to see them again. What are you going to be performing? What is your role in the show? I will be performing a whole new world by Howard Ashman and Alan Menkin. Oh, it's been a favorite of mine. It's still in the Disney family, so I knew it really well..
WMAL 630AM
"vanessa williams" Discussed on WMAL 630AM
"Speak publicly about her conservatorship battle. He, uh Sent an invite to produce fears to speak before Congress in a letter to the 39 year old pop stars, saying that you have been mistreated by America's legal system, and we want to help so Matt Gates. Marjorie Taylor, Green, Burgess Owens and Andy Biggs, all issuing the invite to Britney Spears. Do you think she'll accept? I'm guessing not. But who knows? She's in Hawaii right now, right? She said that you're on the the Brittany I you have. You have helped me keep track of Britney this week. You've helped me become aware of how important this story is. She has asked the paparazzi to leave her alone while she is in Hawaii. So if she wants to avoid the paparazzi, I'm guessing she's not going to show up on Capitol Hill because that would be a media circus. Um On the other hand, right? We had the judge basically come out this We can say no. We're going to keep your father in place as the conservative So if she is looking to make her case publicly, this this legal fight does still continue. Maybe she shows up, but I You know I don't I'm with you. I think it is probably not likely that new spheres testifies before Congress. I know she gets another stab at removing this conservatorship in mid July, so there's going to be another legal decision. At that time. I do think this conservatorship goes away. It looks like it's headed in that direction, especially with the public pressure that has been put on this, but I don't think she will show up to took Congress and talk about her story unless it was a bipartisan appeal, And I'm not sure that representative Matt Gates, asking her is going to be enough for Britney Spears to want to go to Capitol Hill, Necessarily, but at the same time It would make a ton of news. Can you imagine achievement to Capitol Hill to talk about this? That would be the main story for not just that day. But for a couple days, I think about when Kim Kardashian came to Washington, D. C to work with Donald Trump on criminal justice reform and how much publicity that got. Here's the reality. Washington D. C. Has their own political superstars. But when Hollywood shows up, there's something about that. Oh, absolutely right. And, you know, is it You are also correct in that These are four Republicans who have extended this officer. I don't even know if she accepted like it's not like they could. Like they're in charge of a committee, right? The Democrats control all of the committee assignments, so I'm not even sure that they could really issue her An invitation to speak. But I don't know that represented Margie Taylor Green is one of the signatories of this letter. We know that she has a really close working relationship with Alexandria. Ocasio Cortez. So maybe you know she she should just do an instagram line, right? You see? Yeah. Hey, let let let's partner together. Let's find this bipartisanship and invite bready to speak well, the four Republicans continue in their requests that they sent to Britney Spears. They said the federal courthouse door was closed to you into many Americans. Your story is so powerful and the admiration of your achievements so great You can blow that door wide open giving help to millions. Your life, liberty and happiness has been taken from you. Please take advantage of the empowerment that public congressional testimony can unlock. I feel like this statement. Think it needed to be worded a little bit differently. They don't know all the details of these legal cases to say that her life liberty and happiness has been taken from you was a bit hyperbolic, and they don't have all the information Now I am definitely hashtag free Britney. So I'm in that perspective, because I think people should be able to live their lives, how they want, and she seems fully capable of making decisions for herself. Even if people think some of those decisions are bad decisions, But I think I think they should have awarded this a little bit differently. It's come and talk to us and tell us how your liberties have been infringed on which you have alleged that they have been show us what this type of conservatorship can lead to. When it comes to other people. I think they could have Raised there was reframed it. Yeah, just shifted the framing a little bit. Yeah, well, because it seems like a publicity stunt to me by Matt Gates and the other Republicans like Let's Make News. This is gonna make news if we invite Britney Spears to conquer. Oh, Beverly. That's so cynical of you. I can't believe you'd suggest that politicians would stunt in order for public attention. I think there's no I think there's certainly a PR angle to this. And perhaps it's working where we're chatting about this letter right now, But at the same time, I do think that There are a lot of Americans like, I don't think about Britney Spears all that often, But I mean, you know her travel schedule so well, I say all that often knave now. I mean, this is a fairly recent development. But there is something really compelling about, you know, watching what she has gone through and listening to what she has said. I want to be able to have a baby, but they're forcing me to be on birth control. I mean, those, you know. The allegations. As you say, These are allegations that she has made really are compelling. And I'm not necessarily opposed the idea of her, you know, telling her story. In a non legal setting. Don't know that she's going to choose to do it on Capitol Hill, as opposed to speaking to, you know, even a Megyn Kelly and and telling her story that way, But, you know, I think that look, I think these are politicians who are clearly tapping into the cultural zeitgeist right now. They And this is a good way to do it by tying herself to the Britney Spears story because it is such a compelling story for so many Americans. 11 thing I want to say that has never made sense to me as I don't believe her lawyer has yet filed for the ending of the conservatorship, so it doesn't even seem like they're taking the right steps. But this is a court appointed lawyer, so that gets tricky as well felt. There's a lot to this story is what I would say. Indeed, there is all right. Well, we'll hit you babies with details on this story. Probably more than one time coming up right now, though, 7 23 here on W M A L. Celebrate this July 4th with a special presentation of a Capitol Fourth. Join your host Vanessa Williams with performances from Sea TO Shining Sea.
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.