In recent months, I have found myself drifting from Team Jolie, to Team Aniston. I couldn’t understand why soooo many years later even though the facts of the entire affair had barely changed I was suddenly loving Aniston. But I finally had an epiphany when I saw a picture of Zahara wearing her hoodie over her head……OH HELLS NO. Angelina thinks she is slick, instead of learning how to keep Zahara from looking like Don King she has taken to covering her head as if somehow we wouldn’t notice. LADY, I am not buying it. Suddenly I understood why I was switching teams. The non-combing of Zahara’s hair is slowly making me LOATHE Angelina Jolie.
Now I know that there are worse things than a ratty unwashed mop of hair, like starving to death in a little village in some underdeveloped country….Oh wait, isn’t Zahara from….yeah, yeah yeah, I know, I know. In all honesty, I get that this is trivial. What matters is that they love her and raise her right. I just think that life as ‘Not-Shiloh’ is going to be harder than perhaps Zahara’s parents anticipate. She doesn’t need the added complication of being the Ugly DARKling (Emphasis mine). That is insight that perhaps her parents may be missing.
Eh, I have a feeling that I am stuck on Team Aniston, cos Ang is not about to start combing Zahara’s hair anytime soon. Maybe she can have Jada help her? Ah well a girl can always hope…….
P.S I also think that Jennifer Aniston has a better body and is aging better than the younger Jolie…..
Sunday, March 1, 2009
To Mr. Perry with Love
The first day I saw House of Payne on TV, my heart just plummeted to the floor. This was clearly going to be quite a craptastic show. It was like a group of friends played ‘Spot the Stereotype’ then just for spits and giggles used the template of the game to make a TV show. There is the never-ending fat joke that is this family. They seem to wallow in their obesity instead of worrying about the laundry list of complications that can rise from their ‘larger than life’ existence. This charming nuclear unit breaks down into the oh-so-usual suspects. The fat loud-mouthed sassy Mom, with just the right balance of obnoxiousness and a lack of sex appeal to make the perfect modern day Mammie. There is the buffoon of a father who at least impresses by having a job and taking care of his responsibilities. But that is about the only good news I can think to offer about this show. The young people are broken down into the usual ‘Pretty Boy’, ‘Slut’, ‘Insert one dimensional character here’ .
Which of course brings me to the question of who is watching this unoriginal poorly executed show. This post came up because I had the misfortune of discovering that there is going to be a new season.. DANG IT. This show pulls enough ratings to be renewed, meanwhile Weeds was cancelled. On the one hand, I would like the people of color who think this stuff is funny to tell me what is so DAMN funny. I like racial/ethnic humor as well as the next person-Ray Ramano, Chris Rock, Seinfeld, Russell Peters- these are funny ways to do the whole ethnic shtick. This show not so much. And to the majorities who think this is funny, Why? I am assuming it is not the trite trafficking in stereotypes that tickles your fancies, so please let me in on it. Is it the fact that this family speaks in shouts and earthy grunts and odd little body spasms and dances? Really this show is like a bootleg, XL version of ‘My Wife and Kids’ without the funny.
Just so everyone is clear, this show gives about as much insight into the Black family as the Blue Collar comedy tour is a reflection of White people in the South. Basically it is all CRAP.
Of course now I have to feel bad because I am panning a Black enterprise, which employs Black actors, and goodness knows some of these people could use the paycheck. But I think we can do better. What was the difference between ‘Love and Basketball’ and ‘Soul Plane’? Both had all Black casts.(Just to help you answer this puzzle, here is a clue -one of the films starred Sanaa Lathan a graduate of Yale University Drama School, the other had Snoop Dogg, a graduate of the School of Marijuana.) Let’s not regress from the Cosbys to House of (Stereotypical) Pain, that is just sad.
Which of course brings me to the question of who is watching this unoriginal poorly executed show. This post came up because I had the misfortune of discovering that there is going to be a new season.. DANG IT. This show pulls enough ratings to be renewed, meanwhile Weeds was cancelled. On the one hand, I would like the people of color who think this stuff is funny to tell me what is so DAMN funny. I like racial/ethnic humor as well as the next person-Ray Ramano, Chris Rock, Seinfeld, Russell Peters- these are funny ways to do the whole ethnic shtick. This show not so much. And to the majorities who think this is funny, Why? I am assuming it is not the trite trafficking in stereotypes that tickles your fancies, so please let me in on it. Is it the fact that this family speaks in shouts and earthy grunts and odd little body spasms and dances? Really this show is like a bootleg, XL version of ‘My Wife and Kids’ without the funny.
Just so everyone is clear, this show gives about as much insight into the Black family as the Blue Collar comedy tour is a reflection of White people in the South. Basically it is all CRAP.
Of course now I have to feel bad because I am panning a Black enterprise, which employs Black actors, and goodness knows some of these people could use the paycheck. But I think we can do better. What was the difference between ‘Love and Basketball’ and ‘Soul Plane’? Both had all Black casts.(Just to help you answer this puzzle, here is a clue -one of the films starred Sanaa Lathan a graduate of Yale University Drama School, the other had Snoop Dogg, a graduate of the School of Marijuana.) Let’s not regress from the Cosbys to House of (Stereotypical) Pain, that is just sad.
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