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Brownbeauty123
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Username: Brownbeauty123
Post Number: 2180
Registered: 03-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2008 - 03:33 pm: | 
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MediaTakeOut.com caught wind that Angie Stone is speaking out about racism and colorism in Hollywood. In a recent interview she made the point that it's difficult for dark skinned Black women to get acting roles. But the .... things went left.
Here's what Angie said:
Well, you know it goes back to the very beginning. If you were light skinned you were in, if you were dark skinned you were out. It very well works that way in the industry.
You see very [few] dark skinned people on top of the game. Most of the superstars are very fair or mullatto people. You can check your stats. It works that way in the film world too. I have lost almost every single opportunity to star in a film to Macy Gray or Jill Scott because they’re light and I’m dark. |
Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 7346
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2008 - 03:55 pm: |
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"I have lost almost every single opportunity to star in a film to Macy Gray or Jill Scott because they’re light and I’m dark."
There is no better example than that. All of them are beautiful, but nobody has gotten the attention that Jill Scott got when she first made it. I noticed it too. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6982
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2008 - 04:48 pm: |
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I have lost almost every single opportunity to star in a film to Macy Gray or Jill Scott because they’re light and I’m dark.
(Last I seen they weren't exactly burning up the screen either.
What is it with these young Negroes? Don't they know the score?
There is no place for a pretty black woman in Holllywood. Nobody wants to see her making love to black men, or white ones.
If she wants to come off as your typical neck moving, hand waving, finger snapping sista gal in comedy roles she can get all the work she wants.
The roles are limited to light skinned black
women too.
All of them are beautiful, but nobody has gotten the attention that Jill Scott got when she first made it.
(Would you rather be Jill Scott, or Charlise Therzon?
It's the politics. I tell you what, bitching about it ain't gonna get her nothing (see Cicely Tyson)
She needs to put together her own production deals and do her own movies--course then they'll be straight to DVD.
I mean, I don't think I'm a racist because I prefer Richard Pryor or Katt Williams or Cedric the Entertainer or Bernie Mac to Jerry Seinfeld.
It's the politics, baby!) |
Brownbeauty123
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Username: Brownbeauty123
Post Number: 2181
Registered: 03-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2008 - 07:40 pm: |
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Good solution Chrishayden. She needs to become a female Tyler Perry, with enough hard work and dedication she could be successful. Down the road she could help out other beautiful black actresses who are being discriminated against. |
Brownbeauty123
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Username: Brownbeauty123
Post Number: 2182
Registered: 03-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2008 - 07:41 pm: |
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I thought Halle Berry had started her own production company after she won the Oscar, so far I haven't seen her produce anything. Wonder what happened |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 10083
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2008 - 08:02 pm: |
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BB123,
Perhaps Halle discovered it is a lot more difficult to RUN a movie production company than it is to START one. And its especially difficult when you're really more interested in being a movie STAR than you are a movie PRODUCER. |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 10084
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2008 - 08:06 pm: |
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Chris,
I agree. With all the advances in filmmaking technology and means of marketing and distribution, it's time for Black foks to quit their b*tching about Hollywood and to make their OWN movie industry. |
Ferociouskitty
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Username: Ferociouskitty
Post Number: 248
Registered: 02-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2008 - 10:49 pm: |
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I thought Halle Berry had started her own production company after she won the Oscar, so far I haven't seen her produce anything. Wonder what happened
"Although Berry, at 40, is one of the few stars out there who doesn’t want to direct, her ambition has led her to take control of the films she appears in—and ones she’s interested in seeing, even if there isn’t a part for her. Under her production company banner, Bellah Films—“Halle B backwards,” she explains—Berry is developing “Tulia,” based on the real-life events surrounding the wrongful arrest of 46 blacks in a Texas drug sting [postponed due to her pregnancy, I believe]; “Class Act,” another based-on-a-true-story, about Tierney Cahill, the Nevada schoolteacher whose sixth-grade students helped her run for Congress, and “Nefertiti,” a big-budget epic about the 14th-century B.C. Egyptian queen. (Her “Monster’s Ball” director, Marc Forster, will steer her through that one.)"
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/news/article/33038/halle-berrys-academy-award-has-m ade-all-the-difference/ |
Carey
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Username: Carey
Post Number: 804
Registered: 05-2004
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 12:34 am: |
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Hey Kitty
Can't wait for that film by the director of "Monster's Ball"...maybe another black actress at the top of her game can get her naked ass flopped, flipped and scooted across the wide screen....yeah, all the future black film students can see how easy it is to get to the top...yes sir..can't wait...I can hear the agents..."all you have to do is play with ...I mean play in a Monster's Balls"
Can't wait...and hopefully the same year they will make a flick with a black male actor in another great movie. Maybe something like a black police chief that kills his rivals so that he can get reelected....yummy...that sounds good...I can smell it now ....OSCAR!
Lets see:
We drove Miss Daisy....
We did it on a nasty couch is a filty trailer park...oh yeah...OSCAR!
We was a mammie...**come on lets say it all together ...OSCAR**!
We played with a pink toe and was invited to a dinner that everybody had to guess who was coming....OSCAR!
We smoked dope, robbed, had multiple sex partners AND was on the police force...OSCAR!
Oh, the Mr. Daisy Driver prepared for his part by eating some s**t off a South African policemen's boot (had to pay his due, couldn't get one of those plum roles without training)
We ran up a hill with 1 million white men pointing guns straight at us while they were drinking moonshine...lets hear it.....OSCAR!
We was a rapping pimp....OSCAR NOD!
Can't forget the homeless father sleeping with his child in a bathroom...OH YEAH>>>>OSCAR NOD!
We got sent to prison for a million years for murder we didn't do.....lets hear it...OSCAR NOD!!!
Can't wait to see some more naked black ass on the screen....I can hear it now....OSCAR!
I wonder if Whoopi is available *lol*. Now that would be some good S**t......OSCAR! |
Ferociouskitty
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Username: Ferociouskitty
Post Number: 250
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 06:56 am: |
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Nice summary, Carey! Hollyweird is not our friend. ;-) |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 10087
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 07:23 am: |
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Ferociouskitty,
I'd wager fewer than 10% of the movie projects that have ever been in "development" are ever actually filmed and released. But here's hoping Halle finishes some of what she's (alleged to have) started. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6988
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 10:10 am: |
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Richard Pryor tried that in the 80's and flopped.
It is very difficult to try and be out front and also produce films starring others--will you really promote something for somebody that eclipses you?
Witness all the record companies started by recording artists that fail. |
Ferociouskitty
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Post Number: 252
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 01:53 pm: |
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Personally, I'd rather she stop acting altogether and do something else full time. Be it parenting, producing, or basket-weaving. But alas...she did not ask my opinion. ;-) |
Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 7350
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 04:20 pm: |
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"It's the politics, baby!"
O yeah, what was I thinking??--It's the "new-school" "politics" not racism, lol! |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 2999
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 05:01 pm: |
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With all the advances in filmmaking technology and means of marketing and distribution...
Yup. Along those lines, I wonder if efforts like this will help in that regard: http://youtube.com/ytscreeningroom
(Story about the new service here: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080619-youtube-raises-curtain-on-indie-fi lm-screening-room.html) |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12340
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 07:51 pm: |
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Angie Stone is just taking the tired ol stance, whining like any other wanna-be who isn't making it big. Any time she categorizes Macy Grey as a fair-skinned, glamorous actress beating her out of parts, you have to wonder how accurately Angie see things. Not every role calls for an actress to be beautiful or light-skinned, and I see black women in these type of roles on TV all of the time.
Even if enterprising Blacks did start their own production companies, cries of colorism would still be forthcoming! |
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