Posted on 12/12/2014 2:55:58 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
‘Selma’ Director Calls Sony Emails ‘Sickening and Sad’
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On the same day that she became the first black woman to receive a Golden Globe nomination for best director, “Selma” filmmaker Ava DuVernay took a moment to remark on the controversial email exchange that, for some, has highlighted a dispiriting lack of progress in some of the higher echelons of Hollywood.
“I have two words: sickening and sad,” DuVernay told Variety at Thursday night’s Washington, D.C., premiere of “Selma.” “That’s really all I have to say.”
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The mass release and publicity of the hacked Sony data only serves to do the bidding of the hackers. What a ridiculous world we live in.
Groan. Now is Hollyweird going to put out a stream of dull “African-American History” films, as Sharpton & Jackson LLP go to work in L.A.?
Honestly I dont see how saying Obama would go see black movies is racist I just don’t. Am I missing something?
Of course blacks never make jokes or derogatory statements about whites, latinos or Asians when they are among themselves...give me a break.
Didn’t Michael Jackson accuse the head of Sony USA of being a racist? Is this the same guy?
The bigger issue is a possible foreign government using cyber warfare to attack the US.
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