{"id":1577,"date":"2015-12-20T18:32:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T02:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2015-12-20T18:32:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T02:32:44","slug":"three-times-the-cho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/12\/20\/three-times-the-cho\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Times The Cho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Months can go by without a <strong>Margaret Cho <\/strong>item.\u00a0 But this week, we&#8217;ve got THREE!\u00a0 Let&#8217;s start with the one I told you about months ago (hmmm, I&#8217;m sensing a trend) &#8211; <em>E! <\/em>announced that Cho will be a permanent co-host on <strong><em>Fashion Police<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Her duties begin when the show returns to the air on January 11th for the <em>Golden Globes <\/em>recap.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s also signed a deal with <em>Amazon <\/em>to return to series television.\u00a0 In <strong><em>Highland<\/em><\/strong>, her character is a former addict who leaves rehab and moves in with her family, who happens to be running a pot dispensary.\u00a0 Presumably, hilarity (and munchies) will ensue.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, Cho is taking aim at the <strong><em>Absolutely Fabulous<\/em><\/strong> movie, slated to be released on July 1st.\u00a0 Her problem is with a character described as a Japanese fashion designer named <strong>Huki Muki<\/strong>.\u00a0 The role is being played by a Caucasian actress, and Cho is outraged, saying: &#8220;#YELLOWFACE is racism.\u00a0 Sorry.\u00a0 It&#8217;s unacceptable.\u00a0 Not now.\u00a0 I was thrilled about the @abfabmovie but now I just can&#8217;t be.\u00a0 I&#8217;m very disappointed.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard enough to get into film and TV as a person of color &#8211; and when roles written for us are played by white actors &#8211; it&#8217;s an outrage.&#8221;\u00a0 Of course, the film was written by <strong>Jennifer Saunders<\/strong>, who presumably had a hand in the casting.\u00a0 It&#8217;s possible that having a Caucasian designer with a Japanese name (and perhaps raised in Japan) may actually be the joke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Months can go by without a Margaret Cho item.\u00a0 But this week, we&#8217;ve got THREE!\u00a0 Let&#8217;s start with the one I told you about months ago (hmmm, I&#8217;m sensing a trend) &#8211; E! announced that Cho will be a permanent co-host on Fashion Police.\u00a0 Her duties begin when the show returns to the air on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1578,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions\/1578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}