Kerry Washington, Viola Davis Set For Adaptation Of Blaxploitation-Set Third Girl from the Left
Originally a book, here’s the synopsis:
Third Girl from the Left is the story of the other side of Hollywood in the 1970’s, of what it means to be black, sexy, smart and full of dreams in a land where “blaxploitation” is as literal as it sounds. Yet this is not a ‘black’ story. This is a vivid and dynamic story about families, all families; and not just the ones we’re born into, but the ones we make for ourselves. It is a compelling saga of love, family secrets and the ambitions of mothers and daughters. It is also a story about the movies and the hold they can have on us, sometimes even despite our better judgment. Angela Edwards, is the shining center of the film, around which we deftly shift points of view, weaving the stories of her mother Mildred and daughter Tamara. Angela and Mildred clash in the way mothers and daughters often do, but manage to forge a bond during many afternoons spent together at the local cinema. Angela yearns to be onscreen herself and eventually leaves her stifling hometown of Tulsa for Hollywood in 1972. It does not live up to her imagination. She does not make it big. Instead, she lands bit parts in campy blaxploitation pictures. In a world where sexual favors to men in power are commonplace, even roles like these require young actresses to offer up more than talent in order to get the gig. Angela dutifully complies. Angela doesn’t become a star, but the allure of movies has marked her for life, just as it did her mother, and just as it will her own daughter.
No word yet on who will play which roles.
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THIS FUCKING PERSON IS GOLDEN
ALL OF THE AWARDS.
Don’t fuck with someone’s brownies.
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Oh, Leo. You’ve done it again.
POP LOCK AND DROP IT, LEO.
I could just watch this all day.
Meanwhile, my moves are more like the mustachioed guy in suspenders.
#THAT IS FUCKING SHANE DRESSED LIKE A GUY WHO SELLS KNOCK OFF WATCHES
You don’t understand. I legit can’t wait for this movie to come out. I love that Scorcese is kinda/sorta doing some campy shit. Like, I feel like this movie isn’t going to be as serious as his other ones. Bring it back to “The King of Comedy”, Marty! lol
my brother is 21 years old and a chef in a 5 star restaurant and he still has dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets for dinner every night so dont let anybody tell you how to live your life
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exactly what I saidThis nigga Stevie J fronting like he a christian talmbout he just want her to be happy….
My nigga….
You aint slick.
You and Joseline on the rocks for the umpteenth time and now you tryna holla at Mimi.
Mimi a fucking fool for even blinking at your ass.
Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, June Jordan, Lori Sharpe, and Audrey Edwards circa 1977 at a Black women’s writing group.
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I also put it on my face before I go to bedWhat Are the Benefits of Castor Oil???
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How my mother's fanatical feminist views tore us apart, by the daughter of The Color Purple author
I definitely believe what she says about her mother since that’s what happened to hee, but I feel some way about how she painted her white stepmother as a good example versus her mom. and remember when Rebecca said she didn’t feel like the son she adopted wasn’t really hers? and I want to know why she took her name.As a revered feminist and author Alice Walker touched the lives of a generation of women through her iconic book The Color Purple. But one woman didn’t buy in to Alice’s beliefs - her daughter.wow.
YOP
Hmmm…. This is deep. I am suspicious tho. But that image she painted of Alice tho… jesus
i got some thoughts on this
this is really sad, but sometimes that’s how the shit goes, y’know?
I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of folks who art we loved treated their children/spouses/families horribly
Oooooh…there’s so much going on here.
Alright so:
Lmao, I too feel that motherhood would be servitude. Lmfao. I’m half-joking, cause I really don’t like kids and never fucking want them.
But view—that motherhood is servitude—is a bit extremist and I don’t think it should necessarily be projected onto others, as it is obviously (or at least should be) a person’s choice, whether or not they will have kids.
But this: “As the child of divorced parents, I know only too well the painful consequences of being brought up in those circumstances. Feminism has much to answer for denigrating men and encouraging women to seek independence whatever the cost to their families.”
I’mma need Ms. Rebecca Walker to have a seat on that note. The denigration of men? GIIIIIRL, BYE. And I need a motherfucking study on how often feminism has led mothers to seek independence thus harming their families [read: children, ‘cause that’s obviously what she’s getting at.] Cause I really don’t see that being a big trend. At all.
Here’s some conservative slut-shaming I don’t need.: “But the truth was I was very lonely and, with my mother’s knowledge, started having sex at 13. I guess it was a relief for my mother as it meant I was less demanding. And she felt that being sexually active was empowering for me because it meant I was in control of my body.Now I simply cannot understand how she could have been so permissive. I barely want my son to leave the house on a play-date, let alone start sleeping around while barely out of junior school.”
There’s also some more shit about how feminists are wrong about abortion, about how mothers basically aren’t good mothers if they don’t set boundaries a plenty on their children. I mean okay, from what she’s saying about Alice never being there, and never taking part in her life, that’s definitely fucked up. Definitely. But she’s cast a very terrible light on the whole movement for her mother’s extremism and competitiveness and negligence which as far as I know, do not rally stand for attributes of any way of feminism by large, as far as I know.
I mean the article is basically this: feminism is bad because my mom was feminist and it made her neglect me, never be there for me, disown me, and wanting to be a mother is natural, mother’s should be conservative and homemaking, and traditional.
Like your mom’s issues are not what feminism is truly about. Am I making any sense?See look: “I know many women are shocked by my views. They expect the daughter of Alice Walker to deliver a very different message. Yes, feminism has undoubtedly given women opportunities. It’s helped open the doors for us at schools, universities and in the workplace. But what about the problems it’s caused for my contemporaries?”
What problems, shorty? Feminism is not about creating problems, son.Like, ugh, okay:
“Then there is the issue of not having children. Even now, I meet women in their 30s who are ambivalent about having a family. They say things like: ‘I’d like a child. If it happens, it happens.’ I tell them: ‘Go home and get on with it because your window of opportunity is very small.’ As I know only too well.
Then I meet women in their 40s who are devastated because they spent two decades working on a PhD or becoming a partner in a law firm, and they missed out on having a family. Thanks to the feminist movement, they discounted their biological clocks. They’ve missed the opportunity and they’re bereft.
Feminism has betrayed an entire generation of women into childlessness. It is devastating.”
And there are the true bitter ass color of this article, which has a huge undertone of WOMEN HAVE TO HAVE BABIES AND STAY AT HOME AND BE DOTING MOTHERS. Like, what, girl, you’re telling women to go have babies? “Feminism has betrayed an entire generation of women in to childlessness”?!I just. What. Since when is working to get doors opened for women who CHOOSE to study and get demanding careers robbing them of the choice to be parents? And since when is it that women HAVE to choose between the two? Fathers can be caretakers too. Nobody is telling me they shouldn’t have become doctors because SHIT NOW YOU’VE MISSED THE WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY ON YOUR SPERM CELLS.Nah, she made Alice sound fucked up, if her words are true, but I’m not here for her bullshit either.
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