{"id":1624,"date":"2016-01-24T22:16:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T06:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2016-01-24T22:16:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T06:16:55","slug":"are-the-oscars-colorblind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/01\/24\/are-the-oscars-colorblind\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the Oscars colorblind?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People say some color is missing from the current crop of <strong><em>Oscar <\/em><\/strong>nominees.\u00a0 While the discussion is widespread, the call for a boycott came from <strong>Jada Pinkett Smith<\/strong>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s somewhat ironic that the call for recognition of the great work actors of color are doing came from someone who spent most of the past year promoting <strong><em>Magic Mike XXL<\/em><\/strong>!\u00a0 Doesn&#8217;t that really get to the heart of the issue?\u00a0 It&#8217;s an age-old battle of doing films that are &#8220;important&#8221; and receive critical acclaim vs. doing films that are going to make oodles of money.\u00a0 Do you think <strong>Kevin Hart <\/strong>is sad that he&#8217;s not getting <em>Oscar <\/em>nominations?\u00a0 His latest oeuvre, <strong><em>Ride Along 2<\/em><\/strong>, just bumped <strong><em>Star Wars<\/em><\/strong> out of the number-one spot at the box office.\u00a0 Given the choice of accolades or cash, Hart went for the cash &#8211; he can buy his own damn statue.\u00a0 When I openly wondered why <strong>Julianne Moore <\/strong>appeared in those God-awful <strong><em>Hunger Games<\/em><\/strong> movies, I was reminded that she has to do some blockbusters so that she can do good movies for zero dollars.\u00a0 It&#8217;s all about the hard choices.\u00a0 On the flip side, <strong>Charlotte Rampling <\/strong>says that calls for a boycott are not only rubbish, but actually &#8220;racist to white people&#8221;.\u00a0 &#8220;One can never really know, but perhaps the black actors did not deserve to make the final list.&#8221;\u00a0 It&#8217;s a good question, but one I ain&#8217;t gonna bring up at the <strong><em>NAACP Image Awards<\/em><\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People say some color is missing from the current crop of Oscar nominees.\u00a0 While the discussion is widespread, the call for a boycott came from Jada Pinkett Smith.\u00a0 It&#8217;s somewhat ironic that the call for recognition of the great work actors of color are doing came from someone who spent most of the past year<\/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-1624","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\/1624","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=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1630,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions\/1630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}