Showing posts with label Entertainment Weekly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Entertainment Weekly. Show all posts

Thursday, January 15, 2015

"And I was just talking about the chopsticks"

January 15, 2015 ABC , Asian Americans 0 Comments
ABC's 'Fresh Off The Boat' Panel Gets Rather Awkward

James Hibberd, Jan. 15, 2015, Entertainment Weekly

And the first comment to the panel is: “I love the Asian culture. And I was just talking about the chopsticks. And I just love all that. Will I get to see that? Or will it be more Americanized?”

Yet the reporter’s post-racial-America myth-busting comment suggests why a series like Fresh Off the Boat is long overdue—this is the first Asian-American sitcom on a major broadcast network in more than 20 years.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

the "Sony Effect"

January 13, 2015 Controversy , Entertainment Weekly 0 Comments
'Homeland' May Avoid A Muslim Terrorist Storyline Next Season (But Won't Shy Away From Controversy)

James Hibbard, Jan. 12, 2015, Entertainment Weekly

Homeland was criticized by officials in Pakistan and Israel for its most recent season. Pakistan officials complained about how their country was depicted as a war-torn “hellhole” that secretly helps terrorists, while Israel objected to a line of dialogue about a former Prime Minister.

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Friday, April 18, 2014

FLASHBACK: Corey Feldman Details Hollywood Sex Abuse In Memoir 'Coreyography' --Calls it #1 problem in industry

April 18, 2014 CNN , Corey Feldman 0 Comments
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By Stephanie Lee (EW), CNN / Entertainment Weekly, Oct. 22, 2013

(EW.com) -- Corey Feldman and the late Corey Haim — known at the height of their popularity as "the Two Coreys" — were iconic '80s teen stars who dealt with more adult problems behind the scenes. In his upcoming memoir Coreyography (Oct. 29), Feldman, 42, details the sexual abuse he and Haim experienced while working in Hollywood.

According to Feldman, Haim told him about an incident on the set of the 1986 film "Lucas":

"Haim started to confide in me, about some intensely personal stuff, very quickly ... Within hours of our first meeting, we found ourselves talking about Lucas, the film he made in the summer of 1985, the role I had wanted for myself. At some point during the filming, he explained, an adult male convinced him that its was perfectly normal for older men and younger boys in the business to have sexual relations, that it was what all the 'guys do.' So, they walked off to a secluded area between two trailers, during a lunch break for the cast and crew, and Haim, innocent and ambitious as he was, allowed himself to be sodomized."

EW: Corey Feldman claims pedophilia top danger for child stars, but won't name names?

Feldman recalls that Haim, 11 years old at the time, said, "I guess we should play around like that, too?"

While Feldman never acted on his friend's suggestion, he did encounter more sexual abuse later on from the adults around him, including an older male Feldman had hired as his assistant who he calls "Ron Crimson" in the book. Crimson allegedly performed oral sex on Feldman after he encouraged a teenaged Feldman to take a cocktail of pills. Feldman writes that in his that in his teen years he was constantly surrounded by pedophiles.

Feldman's childhood was so troubled that he looked to his friend Michael Jackson, introduced to him by director Steven Spielberg, for normalcy. "Michael Jackson's world, crazy as it sounds, had become my happy place," he writes. "Being with Michael brought me back to my innocence. When I was with Michael, it was like being 10 years old again." Feldman stresses in the book that Jackson never once acted inappropriately toward him.

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