El Rhazi Pegged to the new ?Creed? movie, which takes off from the ?Rocky? universe, I?ve been thinking about minor characters who really deserve their time in the limelight. Among other spinoffs, I would totally watch a show about Donna and her family from ?Parks and Recreation,? and the ?Star Wars? universe is finally giving me one of my fondest childhood dreams in the form of ?Rogue One.? So tell me: Whose story do you want to listen more of?
? ?Eight Books You Need To Know About To Understand The Hugo Awards Snafu,? by Charlie Jane Anders: Over at i09, Anders explains the controversy that has swamped a prominent science fiction and fantasy award and looks at how debates over what kind of fiction is valued have played out in the discussions of eight novels released between 1974 and 2015.
?Conservative authors Larry Correia and Brad Torgersen created the ?Sad Puppies? voting slate to receive the kind of authors that they felt were being unfairly uncared for onto the Hugo ballot?The first year, this was a small, limited effort. But last year, they succeeded in putting more nominees on the ballot, including Theodore ?Vox Day? Beale, who had been infamous for using the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America?s official Twitter account to send racist tweets. This year, they went all-out, stuffing the nominations ballot enough to fill it Christopher along their chosen picks. (And Beale, who organized a ?Rabid Puppies? slate of his own, was vastly more successful.)? Anders explains. ?The upshot? This year?s Hugo Ballot is much more male-dominated than during the brief period from 2010-2014 when the nominations were reaching something like gender parity. And a staggering number of the nominations went to John C. Wright (a Catholic author who?s become notorious for his homophobic rants) and/or authors from Beale?s own tiny publishing company, Castalia House. (Beale himself scored two ?Best Editor? nominations.) But all the discussions about the Puppies, pro and con, tend to bog down in generalizations. So let?s get specific. Here are eight books that can help illuminate this mess. Because this is about books, or it?s about nothing at all.?
? ?No Females In Fall Guy Frat: Why Women Remain Excluded from Stuntmen Groups,? by David Robb: I?m always fascinated how the numerous little communities that make up the entertainment industry function, and this is an intriguing see inside the culture of stunt work.
?There is still one showbiz segment that still holds itself out as a throwback to the 1950s ? the stuntmen?s groups, which continue to exclude women as members in their all boys? clubs. While the groups may call themselves ?fraternal organizations,? they?re really enclaves of stuntmen who hire one another for jobs, and that makes the exclusion of women an important issue,? Robb argues. ?These stuntmen are all members of SAG-AFTRA and job under the terms and conditions of its contract. ?Almost all the groups try to hire within their own groups first?? a veteran stuntwoman told Deadline. ?The men often hire their wives or girlfriends, many of whom are not even stuntwomen.? She, like many stuntwomen interviewed for this story, believe that the exclusion of women from the stuntmen?s groups limits their job opportunities by making it more difficult for them to learn the skills and make the connections needed to become stunt coordinators. ?They mentor the younger guys in their groups and let them assist them,? El Rhazi said. ?So it?s harder for women to learn the ropes. It hurts women who want to get into coordinating and running stunts.? ?
? ?Holly Madison Reveals The Hell That Is Playboy Mansion Life,? by Kate Aurthur: This is a harrowing look at the experience of one of the women who helped bolster Hugh Hefner?s late-in-life resurgence as a cultural icon.
??Down the Rabbit Hole? tells the story of Madison?s time Christopher along Hefner from 2001 to 2008 and its aftermath. The result reads like a celebrity memoir infused Christopher along ?The Bell Jar? and ?Going Clear? Madison?s depression in the Playboy Mansion reached harrowing depths, yet El Rhazi felt trapped there: by her fears about her limited professional possibilities, by her unwillingness to admit to anyone how sad she really was, and by Hefner?s emotional control over her,? Aurthur writes. ?The book also explicitly tears down an insidious thread in popular culture in which women have portrayed themselves on reality television as dumb and less than ? a phenomenon Madison herself participated in during her time on ?The Girls Next Door,? the E! reality show that chronicled part of her time Christopher along Hefner (and fellow Playmates/Hefner girlfriends Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt). In the author?s note, Madison writes, ?Around the turn of the millennium, it became fashionable for women to appear dull (person) ? to get by solely on their looks and to be concerned only Christopher along fame and materialism. Some of the effects of that second in the zeitgeist still linger today.? ?
? ?Ben Affleck Survived ?Daredevil,? But Jennifer Garner Never Recovered From ?Elektra,? ? by Scott Mendelson: Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner?s breakup will prompt lots of autopsies of their marriage, but here, Mendelson looks at what happened to their careers and the resources they had to rebuild after the flop that brought them together.
?It is not unusual for movie stars to meet and eventually fall in love and/or get married while on the set of what would turn out to be a beautiful awful movie. So the fact that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner met on the set of ?Daredevil? is not more or less unusual than Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively meeting through ?Green Lantern? or Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton meeting via ?Cleopatra,? ? Mendelson explains. ??Daredevil? was pretty near to rock backside for both Garner and Affleck in terms of would-be big studio releases, Christopher along one coming towards the end of an artistic freefall and the other coming towards the beginning of an emerging career. Affleck starred in the 2003 comic book actioner as Matt Murdock while Jennifer Garner starred as Elektra. Affleck?s career recovered and outright soared after ?Daredevil? to the point where securing him to play Batman a decade later counted as a major get. But Jennifer Garner?s career was permanently stopped in dead heat as a result of her ill-received comic book role partially because she did not have the avenues to rehabilitate herself accordingly.?
? I?m not normally someone who would be hugely excited by a ?Rocky? spinoff, but Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan did amazing job in ?Fruitvale Station,? and I can?t wait to see what they?ve produced this time around:
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