Archive - October 8th, 2014

Jeff Goldblum on Independence Day Sequel: ‘It’s Brewing’

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Jeff Goldblum on Independence Day Sequel: ‘It’s Brewing’:

The prolific actor says that there’s a part for him in the follow-up to Roland Emmerich’s 1996 summer blockbuster

If the sequel isn’t: 

“Jeff Goldblum changes the world. He uses his his expertise in building Apple-to-alien-tech interfaces to adapt technology from the world-wide multitude of crashed alien ships in order bootstrap us into a new utopia. By advancing the technology and having the availability of parts across the planet, a new golden age arrives. Safely protected from alien attack by a network of auto-broadcasting virus-containing satellites, the world spends 20 years becoming a peaceful untied planet. Now humanity must leave the protected nest in brand new spaceships to explore new worlds, negotiate with neighboring planets, and seek out the origin of their attackers.”

then I will stage a protest!

“There indeed is nothing “natural” about race. But one’s “natural” inclinations to duck and dodge its…”

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“There indeed is nothing “natural” about race. But one’s “natural” inclinations to duck and dodge its tentacles will not in fact stop their all-consuming reach.”

America’s Sex and Race Failure.

“There’s a point a lot of us go through … to understand you’ve been systematically excluded from the…”

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““There’s a point a lot of us go through … to understand you’ve been systematically excluded from the various television shows and artforms you’ve grown up on””

Nickelodeon and Diversity.

“”The sheer increase in the media’s — and by extension, the country’s — attention span…”

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“The sheer increase in the media’s — and by extension, the country’s — attention span when Ebola made its way across the Atlantic is staggering. According to a Pew Research Center poll, it outranked protests in Hong Kong, the Secret Service’s troubles and airstrikes against ISIS by the U.S. as the story Americans focused on the most. Thirty-six percent reported that they paid “very close” attention to the story, up from 25% in mid-August. By comparison, it also eclipsed other outbreak-related stories, including mad cow disease in Europe, MERS in the Middle East and swine flu in Mexico and the U.S.

“Us” versus “them.” For Carrilho, the nature of the Western media hysteria over Ebola underscores a more pernicious trend in how the West views the rest of the world. More than any other event in recent memory, the Ebola epidemic has brought to light America’s lingering and simmering fear of “the other.” The media circus is doing more than perpetuating the idea that America may become victim to a deadly epidemic — they’re implying the country’s very purity is at risk. “

One Powerful Illustration Shows Exactly What’s Wrong With How the West Talks About Ebola.