by Natasha Wolff | February 28, 2014 5:25 pm
“That would be amazing. She’s beautiful. I think she would love that. I would not only host that, I’d produce it.”
– 27-season-long Bachelor host Chris Harrison getting excited [1]about the thought of his ex-wife becoming The Bachelorette, the show’s less-than-stellar success rate[2] notwithstanding.
“I feel like ‘embattled’ or ‘disgraced’ will always follow my name. It’s like that black football player who recently came out. He said, ‘I just want to be known as a football player. I don’t want to be known as a gay football player.’ I know exactly what he’s saying. I’m fighting to get my name back.”
– Celebrity chef Paula Deen, comparing her legal plight[3] with Food Network to the struggles of Michael Sam, the NFL’s first openly gay prospective player.
“With 12 Years a Slave, you don’t even crack a smile, but it was interesting, admirable and well done; I must say, though, that contrary to what some have asserted, it’s not as if it required great courage to make that movie—maybe if you made it in Mississippi in 1930.”
– One particularly grouchy member of the Academy director’s branch talking The Hollywood Reporter through[4] his reasonings for the way he’s voting, specifically why he thinks Steve McQueen’s odds-on entry shouldn’t win.
“Gary Locke is a U.S.-born, third-generation Chinese-American, and his being a banana—‘yellow skin and white heart’—became an advantage for Obama’s foreign policy. However, after a while, a banana will inevitably start to rot.’’
– The China News Service, a major media outlet, taking a parting shot [5]at departing U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke in a mean-spirited editorial.
“It’s really funny how serious people take it. And they’re like, you’re racist. And I’m like, ‘Really? We’re, like, a bunch of kids dancing around in, like, bears, but we don’t do choreography.’ […] We’re making them feel sexual and beautiful.”
– Miley Cyrus, defending her stance [6]that using little people—some dressed as bears—in her shows isn’t exploitive in an interview with Ronan Farrow.
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