When Michelle Yeoh was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for Everything Everywhere All at Once, the overdue honor came with an appalling statistic: Yeoh is the first Asian woman to be nominated in the category in over 85 years. The first was a person who did not acknowledge her own heritage, but instead passed for white, biracial actress Merle Oberon, nominated for the 1935 drama The Dark Angel. "Merle was in a very different Hollywood," Read More...
Scottish singer-songwriter Tommy Reilly admits that not all his friends were supportive of him working on the new film, Anna and the Apocalypse (out Nov. 30). “I remember running into a mate of mine,” says Reilly. “He was like, ‘What are you up to? I heard you’re working on something.’ I was like, ‘Aye, man, it’s a zombie musical set at Christmas.’ He was like, ‘That sounds f—ing terrible. I will never watch that. Read More...
Just three days after Barack Obama won the presidential election in 2008, The Washington Post ran a profile of Eugene Allen, a longtime White House butler who served every U.S. president from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan and inspired Lee Daniels’ The Butler (rated PG-13, out Aug. 16). ”I decided to find someone from the era of segregation who worked inside the White House,” says writer Wil Haygood, ”when such a thing as a black man in the Oval Office as president would have seemed inconceivable. Read More...
