Ready for Our Closeup Podcast

Film, TV, music & media history, news and discussion from an informed Black perspective. Relaunch announcements coming soon.

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@nipsey I wish I had a camera to look at to the audience and sigh loudly.

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@deacon05oc I don’t think that movie could be forgotten if people tried.

Certainly not in favor of its “live-action” (in actually, 97% fully animated) remake.

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It was my regular way to test-drive Criterion Blu-Rays before I bought them.

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@SkylerB97 I remember being shocked at how well this movie did when it was out. Not just awards, but a genuine blockbuster at the box office.

I never saw it because it always felt condescending to me, also a big tall Black dude.

[Wakandantechsupport @SkylerB97]

Can a thing age poorly if it was always bad?

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@marksmom1969 Yep that’s 1956. Little Rhoda out here wildin’.

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I know I’m the weird cat that actually watches old movies in actual black and white - something unheard of…

…but did people really not know Judy Garland (and nearly every musical performer in her era) did blackface?

That doesn’t excuse it of course, but is the shock legit?

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@roseisrosejones Yes, it was wrong, but we’d exhaust ourselves if we were shocked at every blackface performer in old movies.

It’s one of those dumb, ignorant things our society did at a casual level in a less enlightened time. There’s stuff happening now we’ll be ashamed of in 20 years.

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@StephBMore Minnelli*

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@StephBMore Yes. Vincente Minelli is her and dad and was Judy’s (2nd?) husband and one of MGM’s biggest directors of movie-musicals.

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@shayshayma @Phil_Lewis_ 1. The people listed here were competing, not working together. There were collaborative bids, but it wasn’t these three.

2. Neither they nor wealthy white Americans would have made this purchase alone; they’d have used private equity to help finance much of the deal.

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@QueenRuHa @camperry21 @Phil_Lewis_ He has partial ownership (reportedly 25%) in BET already, set up when he helped them launch BET+.

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@IamBluPearl @Phil_Lewis_ The professional news media weren’t the ones reporting that. Random internet blogs that didn’t do research, and aggregators known for false info just trying to get clicks, were.

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@shayshayma @Phil_Lewis_ That wasn’t news. It was made-up internet rumors.

Diddy, Byron Allen, and 50 Cent & Kenya Barris as a team were always in the running - offering competing bids - along with Tyler Perry. Reportedly, Paramount wanted more for the stake than anyone was willing to bid.

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Your next assignment is to watch THEY GOTTA HAVE US, also on Netflix, and catch up on decades of Black movie culture context you’ve fully missed to understand the satire.

[Los Angeles Journalist 📸 @slausongirlnews]

Trying to watch ‘They cloned Tyrone’ but the first 10 minutes are annoying me with the drug dealer, prostitute and gangster tropes. Hollywood loves to make a mockery out of the conditions of the hood created by marginalization and white supremacy.

[Non Predatory Cougar @RStewartJewelry]

I would ask them if they have affordable housing and oxygen on their planet. 🧳

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I remember when I used to think Ice Cube was smart.

How stupid of me. And of us.

And, especially, him.

[Cartoon Network @cartoonnetwork]

Grab your pencils and anvils - class is in session! 🐰 ✏️ 🎒💥 Tiny Toons Looniversity is coming THIS FALL on Cartoon Network and @StreamOnMax!

#CartoonNetwork #Max #SDCC2023 #SDCC #ComicCon #TinyToons #TinyToonsLooniversity #LooneyTunes #SneakPeek @LooneyTunes

[Matthew A. Cherry @MatthewACherry]

Similar to issues found in most sports I feel like one of the biggest fights SAG/AFTRA will have to get ahead of to make sure that people are emphatic towards a vast majority of actors plights is that only a small percent of actors and performers make millions of dollars.

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

.@IssaRae speaks on the #BarbieTheMovie and #Oppenheimer rivalry and suggests how fans should see the double feature, during the #Barbie premiere