The 2014 Oscars: Pay No Attention to the Slave in the Mirror Nothing can be soothed, let alone rectified, by one big night at an All-You-Can-Eat cupcake buffet. By Cintra Wilson I watched a Pixar executive on the red carpet kvelling to an interviewer about the gross earnings of Pixar/Disney’s Frozen: Right before the Academy Awards, the film crossed the billion dollar mark in earnings. This transported me into a reverie about the vault of super-8 films that Walt Disney supposedly made to direct the company for generations from beyond the grave. (Numbers count down from 8 in a jumpy sequence of bullseye targets. Walt Disney flickers onscreen in a dark boardroom to the rattle of yellowing celluloid. He is seated casually on his mahogany desk in a grey flannel suit, addressing Camera One). Now that America is so prosperous that nobody needs to physically work anymore, and all [...]...
- 3/3/2014
- by Cintra Wilson
- Nerve
When humanoid monster truck Guy Fieri opened his newest restaurant in Times Square this fall, you could practically hear critics all across New York City sharpening their knives. The joint is a ready-made, ”Donkey Sauce”-covered punchline for writers hungry for a creative way to express disdain — who could resist a 500-seat macho wonderland that serves monstrosities with names like “Ain’t No Thing Butta Chicken Wing” and “Guy-talian Nachos”?
But even in context, the New York Times’s review of Guy’s American Kitchen stands alone. It’s so contemptuous, so angry, and so hilarious that it rivals the...
But even in context, the New York Times’s review of Guy’s American Kitchen stands alone. It’s so contemptuous, so angry, and so hilarious that it rivals the...
- 11/14/2012
- by Hillary Busis
- EW.com - PopWatch
Things have been tough for female characters in Disney cartoons of late. When "The Princess and the Frog" yielded "disappointing" returns — i.e., it made gobs of cash but not the usual oodles — the studio retitled "Rapunzel" as "Tangled" so as dispel the supposed stink of girl-heroine. Meanwhile, the studio rakes it in on its "Princess" line of merchandising; as cultural critic Cintra Wilson notes, "Encoded in the princess dress (and really, all formal dresses are different age-appropriate versions of the same princess dress) is the same unspoken goal: the...
- 6/19/2012
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
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