May 16, 2018 - Links Wednesday links
- RIP Tom Wolfe. (NY Times)
- Ally Sheedy on Hollywood sexism. (Vulture)
- Elaine’s most memorable boyfriends on Seinfeld. (The Cut)
- An amusing take on the Eurovision song contest. (Jezebel)
- The ever-hilarious Fug Girls hold forth on Lifetime’s Harry and Meghan movie. (Go Fug Yourself)
Kim France
I was born in Houston, Texas in 1964 and have lived in New York City since 1988. I had a long career in magazines, working at Sassy, Elle, New York, and Spin, and in 2000, I founded Lucky magazine, which I edited for ten years.
o so many nice links!
– I loved Bonfire at the time, I wonder if I would today. (A Man in Full on the other hand…)
– Really looking forward to the Ally Sheedy piece. I’m a huge fan – does anyone remember her book – She Was Nice to Mice?
– and boy the Fug Girls are killing me.
(lastly, along those lines, this instagram is very funny:
@garyjanetti
if you’re interested in royal George, you’ll laugh hard).
I totally remember She Was Nice to Mice! I was super jealous that she got to publish a book when she was, I think, 12.
Thanks for the article by Alley Sheedy. I’ve been watching more foreign TV shows and movies lately and it is always shocking to me how they cast ‘normal’ looking actors. I love it, but it makes me sad that we can’t seem to get to the same place in America.
I have been thinking a long the same lines. I wish mainstream tv and movies would realize diversity of talent (including race, ethnicity, age, orientation, gender, looks eye.) was an asset instead of a problem to overcome.
Wow, the essay by Ally Sheedy. So good, so depressing.
“She looks like a British Nellie Olsen megafan.” Hahahahahahahaha!
Great essay by Ally Sheedy, How do we change this, raise our daughters and sons?
PUDDY!!! Because Patrick Warburton is wonderfully and drolly funny as a cave man version of Superman.
Of course! The Tick (now appearing in a white suit and platform shoes in a rental car commercial). What’s not to like about him?
He’s also a fantastic narrator in Netflix’s Series of Unfortunate Events. Guilty pleasure — him in Rules of Engagement, a sitcom I enjoy more than it deserves, mainly because of Warburton and the other actors.
I’m gutted that Tom Wolfe is dead. A true original. Fearless and utterly unique.