Tag: Hollywood
Like the NYPD, the fashion industry, and virtually every other American institution besides prison, people of color are underrepresented in Hollywood. To highlight the racial disparity on the silver screen, Venezuelan-born actor Dylan Marron edited a bunch of hit films to reflect only the lines given to nonwhite actors and the results are pretty staggering. […]
As a runaway orphan with magical powers, Lucy is not a typical teenager. And when she meets MOJO, a 7-foot-tall enchanted statue of cement, she embarks on a dangerous quest to determine the source of MOJO’s powers and to reunite her with her own father — all while evading a group of shadowy figures who […]
“A lot of people will sit down and watch the Oscar show this Sunday and then go and indulge in cocaine.” Street artist Plastic Jesus was just stating a simple truth when he said this to the New York Daily News, but his new sculpture, which makes the same statement, turns the words into a […]
By 2014, the standard props used to depict alcohol consumption or cigarette smoking on set have been well-established within the film industry. But how do studios and producers handle scenes in which their shows’ characters have to light it up with some weed? Flavorwire has a fascinating piece that investigates that very question, and the […]
