{"id":9688,"date":"2020-06-28T22:19:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T05:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=9688"},"modified":"2020-06-28T22:19:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T05:19:02","slug":"scenes-scrubbed-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/06\/28\/scenes-scrubbed-on-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Scenes Scrubbed on TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Racial issues continue to be news everywhere \u2013 even in entertainment.&nbsp; <strong>Tina Fey <\/strong>has asked syndicators to remove several episodes of <strong><em>30 Rock<\/em><\/strong> because they contain instances of blackface.&nbsp; <strong><em>Scrubs<\/em><\/strong> made a similar move.&nbsp; <strong>Kristen Bell <\/strong>will no longer voice the biracial Molly on <strong><em>Central Park<\/em><\/strong>, and <strong>Jenny Slate <\/strong>will no longer voice Missy on <strong><em>Big Mouth<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; I\u2019m sure by the time this column is published, many more instances will join the list.&nbsp; As usual, the gays were ahead of the curve on this one.&nbsp; How long have members of the LGBT community wanted gay roles to be played by gay actors?&nbsp; Which always begs the question \u2013 does that mean that only straight actors can play straight roles?&nbsp; Weren\u2019t we fighting for the freedom to play any role?&nbsp; And wasn\u2019t colorblind casting about making all roles available to all ethnicities?&nbsp; It\u2019s almost to the point that a male will have to drop his drawers before being cast as a Jew.&nbsp; If someone gets to audition those folks, I have an extensive resume and an exhaustive list of recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>By the by, <strong><em>The Dixie Chicks<\/em><\/strong> are no longer <em>The Dixie Chicks<\/em>.&nbsp; They are now simply <strong><em>The Chicks<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; At this rate, might I suggest stocking up on <strong><em>Dixie<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> Cups<\/em><\/strong>\u2026just in case.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racial issues continue to be news everywhere \u2013 even in entertainment.&nbsp; Tina Fey has asked syndicators to remove several episodes of 30 Rock because they contain instances of blackface.&nbsp; Scrubs made a similar move.&nbsp; Kristen Bell will no longer voice the biracial Molly on Central Park, and Jenny Slate will no longer voice Missy 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-9688","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\/9688","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=9688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9689,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9688\/revisions\/9689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}