<p>Disagree. He had no idea who she was and his only little job was introducing her. The name is important, there. If it was a flub he should have the skills to fix it. Funny enough, I saw a news report when they threw it to the reporter and called her the talented Adella Dezime. Too funny. </p>
<p>I am not a McConaghy fan.
I believe his only film Ive seen was Lone Star.
His speech seemed very disjointed & my take away was that he was his own hero and he was going to sleep in the next day.
All right.
Alright.
Alright?
Did he mention the people whose stories the film told?
Or the people who have died from or/& are living with Aids?
I can find a self tanner that isnt orange at the drug store, perhaps he would like the name?</p>
<p><a href=“NY Times corrects 1853 article on '12 Years a Slave' tale - BBC News”>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-26443440</a></p>
<p>I read that article Sunday night…the detail in those 2 1/2 columns is horrifying.</p>
<p>Have you seen the footage from what looks like the Essence Awards where Lupita is giving a speech about feeling ugly when she was younger because her skin is so dark? I think that is why people are inspired by her…not because she was deprived or underprivileged (because she wasn’t) but because her beauty is deemed (by whom??) unconventional.</p>
<p>I find it funny that we all have such strong opinions about soething that matters very little in the big scheme of things!!! :)] Fun to dish about it all though!</p>
<p>Emeraldkity, you made me laugh! And Lergnom, yes. That’s the problem I have with MM. He just came of as so very pleased with himself in every way. No visible humility. (and thanking God doesn’t count as humility in my book because it seems to imply that God gave you more talent, looks, etc than the other pions)</p>
<p>The theme of the Oscars, did start an interesting conversation with a friend of mine however.
She likes MCConaghy, & she said with other award ceremonies, his speech was better.
I don’t know about other awards, but we did talk about people we admired.
Until I brought up Rachel Carson and that I had wanted to name a child after her, and my friend had never heard of her or her work.
Which absolutely left my jaw hanging.
I don’t know * what* they teach kids these days!
( she’s about 15 yrs younger than I am)</p>
<p>I think Lupita is beautiful, but her comment interests me.
My daughter has friends who are the same depth of skin color as Lupita, yet when they went to Ghana as part of a program in high school, they werent considered black by the villagers apparently, because they were so light skinned!
However, this was a very rural community and obviously Africa is a big place.</p>
<p>I think it can be said that most young women feel “ugly” because of something about their body at a certain time in their lives.It is a phase many young women go through as they navigate the commercial, media driven standards of beauty.</p>
<p>Most women come to terms with this.</p>
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<p>I think folks are missing the point with Lupita. There are two facets to her story that are fascinating. On the acting side, it doesnt matter if your family has money or not, to come out of school, and your very first film lands an Oscar, and you land an Oscar as a supporting actress, its unheard of, ESPECIALLY for a black actress. The second facet, is that she is being embraced as being a fashion icon, and she is deemed beautiful. Hollywood, does not embrace black actresses in oscar worthy films, and if they are in an oscar worthy film, it is typically a role such as a slave, prostitute, maid, etc. Some of you will never understand what Lupita represents, because you are not Black, We constantly see images of women, deemed beautiful, who are not our hue. If they are Black, they are nowhere close to looking like her, think Halle Berry, Vanessa Williams. So for all of us dark skinned women, Lupita has shattered a ceiling, and given us(our daughters) hope, that there will be more Lupitas that will be given a chance to be on a best dressed list, or a movie role, etc… </p>
<p>Hollywood doesnt offer many roles for women period, whether black, asian, hispanic, native american or white.
Many of those roles are only secondary to the male roles, as they play a whore, girlfriend, or mother as befits their " place".
Has there been a woman nominated who didn’t have body fat of less than 15% since Octavia Spencer won for The Help in 2012?</p>
<p>That strikes me as a vast overstatement, as Sandra Bullock, Judi Dench, and the women of August Osage County would probably tell you. While there are, as Cate Blanchett’s speech suggested, issues with the kinds of roles available to women, no need to be hyperbolic to make your point. </p>
<p>There are lots of roles for Meryl Streep & Judi Dench.
But how many actors have been permitted to reach that level?</p>
<p>As Tina Fey put it at the Golden Globes ceremony, “Mery Streep, so brilliant in August: Osage County - proving that there are still great parts in Hollywood for Meryl Streeps over 60.”</p>
<p>I find Lupita to be spectacularly beautiful, not merely from a physical point of view.</p>
<p>Have you seen the footage from what looks like the Essence Awards where Lupita is giving a speech about feeling ugly when she was younger because her skin is so dark? I think that is why people are inspired by her…not because she was deprived or underprivileged (because she wasn’t) but because her beauty is deemed (by whom??) unconventional.</p>
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<p>According to my black friends, they get a double-whammy: too light is bad in some circles, too dark is bad in others. It must be very difficult. I cannot imagine why anyone would take issue with Lupita simply being honest about how she feels. </p>
<p>On another note, one of my students attended the Academy Awards. She was in a room with Cate Blanchett, who is apparently a very lovely person. Cate was happy to pose for a selfie with the student, even making a silly face. Nice to hear good things about stars.</p>
<p>Some of the most down to earth people Ive met, were the biggest stars, whereas some that are frantically working to keep their hand in are so self absorbed no one but easily impressionable social climbers gave them much attention.</p>
<p>Did she get some pizza? Or was that just for the first two rows?</p>