Sidney Winston

Canada has had limited donations laws for a decade now. A centre-left government introduced very limited donations from both businesses (a few thousand dollars at most) and invidivudals (a few hundred). In return after each election the parties were given around $1 per vote for financing. The next government (centre-right) partially repealed this…[Read more]

I read this yesterday about them saying “No” to PAC money.

We are slowly entering an age where accepting PAC money is unacceptable for Democrat Party candidates.

Davis wrote:

Should Director David Lynch have looked for a severely deformed person to play the role of the “elephant man”

LOL. I can only imagine once Earth makes contact with aliens, the outrage they will feel when humans use “animation and special effects or humans in costumes” as opposed to actual alien actors. I would imagine the alien “…

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I wonder if Hollywood would ever make a movie about this case in Egypt? Would they dare cast a non-Muslim as the presiding judge in the court?

Should Director David Lynch have looked for a severely deformed person to play the role of the “elephant man”

LOL. I can only imagine once Earth makes contact with aliens, the outrage they will feel when humans use “animation and special effects or humans in costumes” as opposed to actual alien actors. I would imagine the alien “community” wou…[Read more]

Kara, I have no problem with a hetero guy playing a gay role and I personally don’t know anyone else who does either. I only hear this kind of anger from an online part of the LGTB+ “community”. I often am amazed by how eagerly they present their arguments as representative of the “community as a whole”. I agree that it would be wonderful if LGTB+…[Read more]

Laverne Cox: She played the part of a female inmate in Orange is the New Black. She also played the part of the inmate when she was a he and was a firemen. So Laverne Cox got to play the parts of a LGBQT transexual as a female and a male. which is great!

You see I remember Laverne Cox when she was living at a welfare hotel on 28th street and…[Read more]

If you want to completely miss the point, yes. You seem to be having great difficulty with recognizing the importance of representation, and how relevant life experience can enhance an actor’s performance and the input they can give.

To be totally consistent and ethically pure, should Director David Lynch have looked for a severely deformed person to play the role of the “elephant man” in the movie Elephant Man?

What does “Oh yeah! Laverne Cox” mean?

Nathan Lane “The Birdcage”

LOL Unseen: West Side Story: The only Puerto Rican was Rita Moreno. Everyone else did a great job of “Acting” like Puerto Ricans. I should know.

If acting was so easy everyone would be Meryl Streep or Humphrey Bogart.

Oh yeah! Laverne Cox!

It’s called “acting” for a reason. Hell, wasn’t Yul Brynner (Hungarian) great as the King of Siam in The King And I? And Espera Oscar de Corti (Italian-American) played A Native American in many a Hollywood “B” Western under the stage name Iron Eyes Cody. What’s wrong with that?

Jon Lovitz says it best:

Kara Connor wrote:
Cough, splutter, spit. Just removing the straw out of my mouth from your strawman argument, Robert. Nowhere did I “demand equality of outcome”. Nothing you said in any way invalidates celebrating firsts.

Ok good, because I have heard many argue that equal outcomes is the goal of achieving equality. There is a huge push to hav…[Read more]

Cough, splutter, spit. Just removing the straw out of my mouth from your strawman argument, Robert. Nowhere did I “demand equality of outcome”. Nothing you said in any way invalidates celebrating firsts.

As for celebrating “firsts”, the very fact that something is a “first” is indicative that there is a problem in a particular field, so there’s nothing wrong in celebrating a long-overdue start of change.

Sounds OK on the surface. However:

https://www.thejournal.ie/gender-equality-countries-stem-girls-3848156-Feb2018/

COUNTRIES WITH GREATER g…

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Sounds very sensible, Kara.

Having more actors from particular minorities helps others in productions get used to having people from those groups on productions, and that will typically result in the environment being more welcoming for everyone. As for celebrating “firsts”, the very fact that something is a “first” is indicative that there is a problem in a particular…[Read more]