“She’s fabulous, but she’s evil.” She’s the ultimate mean girl.
How Did Regina George Personally Victimize You?
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21 Babies Who Are More Badass Than You
Under two but still going to school you.
This rock and roller.
This badass poker player here to take you for all you're worth.
This guy who knows the importance of singing like no one's listening.
This casual rocker.
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Disney Is Developing A Live-Action "Mulan" And It's Making Our Monday
♫ Who is that girl I see staring straight back at me? ♫
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Disney is adapting Mulan into a live-action movie, BuzzFeed News can confirm. Elizabeth Martin and Lauren Hynek are writing the script, and Chris Bender and J.C. Spink are producing the new film, as The Hollywood Reporter first revealed.
The 1998 animated film — which tells the story of a young woman named Hua Mulan (voiced by Ming-Na Wen) who disguises herself as a man to go to war in her father's place — is the latest Disney movie to get the live-action treatment.
The studio's adaptation of Cinderella, starring Lily James, was released last month. And it recently announced a live-action version of 1991's Beauty and the Beast, set to be released in March 2017 and starring Emma Watson as Belle, Dan Stevens as The Beast, Luke Evans as Gaston, and Emma Thompson as Mrs. Potts.
No cast members for Disney's live-action Mulan have been announced, but suggestions are already swirling on the internet (BuzzFeed included).
LINK: Here’s Our Dream Cast For Disney’s Live-Action “Mulan”
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131 Seconds That Will Change The Way You See The Ocean
Just mind-numbingly deep.
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This Guy Can't Stop Playing Basketball While His Annoyed Girlfriend Is Trying To Get Her Target On
He has a bad case of the March Madness.
YouTuber Qias Omar has March Madness and it's pretty bad. He and his girlfriend Ashley both love a good Target run, so he decided to have a little fun, no matter how much it annoyed his lovely lady.
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Qias told BuzzFeed that he and Ashley visit Target two or three times a week. Maybe Ashely will think twice about letting him come along after this.
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Even though he seems to get a lot of practice, he's not a very good shot.
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RUDE.
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61 Thoughts Every Introvert Has While Shopping
I’ve made a huge mistake.
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1. Did I really need to leave my house today?
2. I've been putting off jean shopping for so long anyway.
3. Why didn't I just order them online?
4. I just got to the mall and I already want to go home.
5. Ugh… why are there so many people here?
6. Is there a big sale or something?
7. And why is everyone trying to make eye contact with me?
8. Being invisible would be really cool right now.
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9. This store is way too crowded.
10. Hurry up and find those damn jeans.
11. Where's my size?
12. They have practically all the other sizes except mine.
13. Fuck, now I'm going to have to ask someone for help.
14. I'll try looking again, it has to be here.
15. Shit, an employee's coming.
16. Play it cool… everything's under control.
17. Should I tell him I need help or leave?
18. I'll just come back another day.
19. Hurry up and decide, he's asking you the question.
20. Why did I say no even though I need his help?
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Do You Remember These Obscure '00s Teen Movies?
Good luck finding these on Netflix.
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11 Photos That Show Japan Is Wonderfully Weird
From cock blenders to titty stores… what will Japan think of next?
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Teens Are Sharing The Most Disturbing Images On Twitter
Warning: The images you see may contain extremely slovenly behavior.
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13 Things That Happen At A Miranda Lambert Concert
Spoiler alert: She rocks.
The theme of the night will be girl power.
The show kicks off with a video tribute to female trailblazers. Women like Sally Ride, Wilma Rudolph, and Trudy Ederle are shown kicking ass and taking names before Miranda Lambert storms the stage with her own badass brand of female empowerment.
Miranda will reveal herself to be an undercover rock star.
Eight years ago Miranda Lambert vowed she'd "show 'em what a little girls are made of" (gunpowder and lead, obvs) and now she seems determined to prove the grown women are made of something even stronger. On Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York City, she took on The Rolling Stones' "Bitch" and "Rock And Roll" by Led Zeppelin after howling her way through her own greatest hits. A ballsy move for a tiny blonde cowgirl from Texas, but Miranda nailed it. She rocks harder than even the most seasoned rock bands.
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Black TV Actors Never Stop Auditioning
From left to right: the cast of Empire; its creators, writers, and executive producers.
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My black actor friends and I sometimes joke that it would be easier to become the first black woman on the Supreme Court than a successful black actor. At least the career path to becoming a Supreme Court justice is a little bit more cut-and-dried. The path to success as an actor is nonlinear and nonsensical, shrouded in secrecy and marked by well-meaning friends and family who love to offer career advice. Why can’t you be on Love and Hip Hop? That’s my show! Don’t you know Tyler Perry?
There is no such thing as a lifetime appointment for any actor. But for black actors, the obstacles we face in auditions don’t magically disappear on set.
I’ve been a professional actor since 2001. I don’t pay the bills by waitressing or bartending, but I’m not wildly successful, rich, and famous either. Most people don’t see those of us in the middle, who look forward to episodic season every fall, who do the Master Cleanse to get ready for pilot season, who go on auditions, and who live their lives as regular people who happen to be actors. Add being a black woman to that mix and you have a whole other dimension of insanity.
I can’t tell you how many auditions I have been on where the character is so obviously written for a white woman. One referred to her blonde hair and lack of a tan, no lie. I called my agents like, Really? The onus is on me, the actor, to go into the audition rooms and make them see the character another way — black. And keep in mind that actors are perhaps the least powerful part of the television production process. But like an anti-racism acting Care Bear, I’m supposed to act so amazingly well, be so pretty, so dazzlingly, so indisputably wonderful, that stars and rainbows and sunshine issue forth from my magical being and make them see a black woman in this role.
So let’s say that my little rainbow trick works and the producers and writers and casting directors all look at each other and go, “She’s not what we envisioned but DID YOU SEE HOW DAZZLING SHE WAS?!?” It’s a wonderful feeling, for everyone. Agents and managers are happy. The powers that be are happy. And as the actor, I’m simply ecstatic.
But then I get on set and I’m the only black face to be seen. No other black actors, no black producers, and no black writers. The onus is still on me to show how the character in their imaginations would be as a black woman.
About five years ago, I was hired to be a play a bartender in a comedy series. Even though it was a supporting role, the producers had wonderful ideas and storylines for the character — including a romance — and everyone seemed to think I was perfect for it.
So when we started filming, I looked forward to each script, whipping open my laptop, devouring every line. But every time, I was disappointed, as it became clear I was the taciturn type of bartender. Here’s your drink; exit stage left. Somebody on set asked me how long I’d been an extra.
When I was growing up in the New York City suburbs, a radio ad for the stage play The Diary of Black Men would come on almost every day. In it, a deep-voiced, dramatic black male intoned “How…do you love…a black woman?” over and over, like a mantra.
That’s kind of how I imagine TV writers (and, let's be real, most of them are white and male) trying to write my lines. How…do you write…for a black woman? Most white male writers don’t have a bunch of black women in their lives. Maybe a black guy friend. But a black woman whom they know kinda well? A real one? Just like a normal, everyday black woman who cracks jokes and has a personality, but isn’t just a stereotype of some black woman they saw on TV?
I can understand the challenge before them, really. Let’s say they write a particularly salty one-liner for a black woman. Is that gonna come out racist, the stereotypical “sassy black friend”? And, more important, who do they ask if it is racist? Their one black friend? Isn’t asking him extra racist?
All actors know that as soon as you’re on the show, your next job is to get to know the writers. You talk, you bond, and then one day you tell them a story about your life and discover they’ve put it in the script. I remember trying in vain to connect with the writers. During table reads, I would go up and talk to some of the writers, but they gave me the cold shoulder.
Since they don’t know me — or, I figured, anybody like me — I wondered how invested they would be in writing for my character.
Most of the time I would get a script the night before a table read with a few lines. Sometimes I actually had a part of the story line, but after the table read it was always cut. Naturally, I assumed it was cut because of my poor performance. I asked what I could do better. But I was always given the excuse of “real estate.” There were so many characters and only so much time, and they needed to focus on the other main, regular characters. Of course, real estate wasn’t a problem when they needed to write for a white guest star.
And then, one week, the writers forgot to put me in the first draft of the script altogether. It was part of my contract to be in every episode, so I was added in after the fact, when they realized my character literally didn’t have a single line. I think I ended up delivering somebody a beer.
My character’s utter lack of personality all season long didn’t stop the showrunner from feeding me the line, “What did you say, mothafucka?” while shooting footage for outtakes. “You know, really give it to him,” he directed. Oh, now you want me to be the extra-sassy black girl? That was just about too much to bear. I was not surprised when I was not asked back for Season 2.
During my season on the show, only one writer tried to initiate a conversation with me, about Antoine Dodson, the brother of the alleged victim of a home intruder rape whose local news interview went viral in 2010. I looked to my right and my left and pointed to myself. Cliché, I know. I started cackling, summoning all my dazzle and thinking, This is it! They actually see me!
The writer awkwardly brought up that he had seen my audition tape, and how good he thought it was. He told me he was just a stand-up from Chicago trying to do the best job he could, and that he wished he could do more for my character. Then he mumbled something about Wanda Sykes and shuffled off. I was left singing “You can run and tell dat, run and tell dat” to no one in particular.
He was just one guy trying to make a difference in a room where nobody was on the same page. But the truth is, if you are a white writer who is tasked with the job of “writing for a black woman,” your first attempts will be clumsy at best. They might be — dare I say — racist.
The difference is that writers can afford to get it wrong, and try again. As an actor of color, I’m stuck doing my Care Bear song and dance. (Hence why I’m writing this anonymously.)
Lots of people are making a concerted effort to make television more diverse — and a handful of them are succeeding brilliantly. My only hope is that writers don’t fail their actors of color out of fear of failing. To that end, I want to let you in on a little secret: A surefire way to prove to yourself you’re not a racist is to stop being afraid of sounding racist. Instead, listen to feedback and be open to change. Too many writers don’t know where to start and so never do.
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We Know What Kind Of Person You'll Date Next
Only take this quiz if you’ve got a blank space, baby.
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The Historical Feminist Roundtable, Bucket List Edition
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HYPATIA: Hi, everyone, and welcome to the Feminist Round Table, where I invite some of history’s most notable feminists to discuss an important and timely topic. I’m very excited to welcome an amazing panel of women to our show today. Everyone, please give a big round of applause to St. Joan of Arc, Abigail Adams, Louisa May Alcott, and Alanis Morissette. So, today, we’ll be talking about what should be on a woman’s bucket list. Ladies, what do you think?
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT: Living free of men.
HYPATIA: You mean, before marriage?
LOUISA MAY: Always.
ST. JOAN OF ARC: Oui. I agree with Mademoiselle Alcott. Men, they are…needy.
ABIGAIL ADAMS: Oh, but we love their foolishness so!
LOUISA MAY: Eh.
HYPATIA: OK, what else should be on the list? Alanis?
ALANIS MORISSETTE: I think all women should learn how to come.
(Abigail Adams and Louisa May Alcott titter.)
ST. JOAN: What is this?
HYPATIA: She means, you know, to orgasm.
ST. JOAN: What is this?
HYPATIA: Let’s move on. What else should be on a woman’s bucket list?
ST. JOAN: All women should know what it’s like to lead an army!
ABIGAIL: Or form a new country!
ALANIS: Or kiss Dave Coulier!
HYPATIA: Well…
ALANIS: Oh, sorry, wrong ex. I mean: kiss Ryan Reynolds!
ALL EXCEPT ST. JOAN: Ooooh, yessss….
ST. JOAN: Who is this?
HYPATIA: What about seeing the Grand Canyon? Or climbing the Eiffel Tower?
LOUISA MAY: Eh.
ABIGAIL: Paris is very pretty! Or so my husband told me. After he came back from a trip to Paris. By himself. While I stayed home. Fomenting rebellion. Ha ha ha!
ALANIS: I think all women should learn to bake something delicious! Not something for a man, but something we love to eat!
LOUISA MAY: Hear, hear!
HYPATIA: Like what?
ALANIS: Brownies!
LOUISA MAY: Roasted potatoes!
ABIGAIL: A Thanksgiving turkey!
ST. JOAN: Those little cakes of ambrosia the Virgin Mary fed me when I was in prison!
(Silence.)
HYPATIA: Thank you, ladies. Any final thoughts on what women should put on their bucket lists?
ABIGAIL: I once beat my husband at whist, and although he was peeved, I was very pleased.
ST. JOAN: I wanted to die nobly, in sacrifice to a purpose larger than myself. And oui, I did! How about putting that on the list?
HYPATIA: Um, I think these are supposed to be more, you know, happy.
ST. JOAN: Oh. Well, the potatoes thing then.
LOUISA MAY: It’s kind of fun to be the sole financial support of your entire family, if by “fun” you mean “utterly terrifying and ultimately forcing you into an early grave.”
HYPATIA: Great.
ALANIS: Kissing Ryan Reynolds is still on the list, right?
HYPATIA: Sure.
ALANIS: Also, writing a song about your ex’s many flaws that goes to No. 1 on the charts.
HYPATIA: It occurs to me that both of those things might be out of many women’s grasp.
ABIGAIL: A nice up of tea, a warm fire when you’re cold, someone to love…
HYPATIA: Those are lovely.
ABIGAIL: And being played by Laura Linney in the miniseries of your husband’s life.
ST. JOAN: Oh, oui, she is merveilleuse.
ALANIS: Mmhmmmm.
LOUISA MAY: Yes.
ABIGAIL: Bae is hawt.
HYPATIA: There you have it, ladies! The ultimate bucket list item is to have your life enacted by Laura Linney. That’s all we have time for today!
LOUISA MAY: Next time, could we talk about work-life balance?
ALANIS: Or the fragile balance of male power and female wiles upon which we’ve all built our careers?
ST. JOAN: Or how the divine feminine cries out from our souls?
HYPATIA: Sure! That or the new hairstyles for spring! See you back here soon for another Feminist Roundtable!
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26 Things College Seniors Won't Miss Saying Once They Graduate
Just think, you’ll never have to read another syllabus again.
So you're graduating. It might feel like the end of the world right now, but think of all the things you'll never have to say again!
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"What? The class is already full?! I haven't even gotten to sign up yet."
I literally got online to sign up at 7:01, and you're telling me the class is full? I have to graduate on time.
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"Wait, this textbook is how much?"
There goes my savings since I was 5.
"And now you're telling me after I dropped $150 I don't even NEED this book?"
What a waste of a tree.
Comedy Central
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28 Mouthwatering Strawberry Recipes To Get You Pumped For Spring
So berry, berry good!
Strawberry Coffee Cake Muffins
Wake up to this yummy muffin. Find the recipe here.
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Strawberry Frozen Yogurt
And it only takes 5 minutes!! Find the recipe here.
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Strawberry and Nutella Crepes
Did somebody say Nutella? Find the recipe here.
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Homemade Strawberry Fruit Snacks
Channel your inner 7-year-old. Find the recipe here.
Jessica / Via dessertswithbenefits.com
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How Many People Are In Love With You Right Now?
Probably more than you’d think.
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11 Reasons You Need To Follow Blake Lively On Instagram Immediately
Her Insta is truly a gem.
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How Addicted Are You To Your Devices?
It’s OK, we’ve felt phantom rings, too.
We're surrounded by screens everywhere we go.
Answer these questions about the tech in your life and see how you compare to others.
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14 Things People From Toronto Would Never Ever Say
“Drake doesn’t give Toronto enough shout-outs.”
"Check out my collection of Rob Ford campaign buttons!"
In our defense, we were all in a "drunken stupor" when we elected him.
"I'd like to nominate my bus driver for the 'TTC's Employee of the Month' award."
Forget driverless cars, we need driverless buses.
Via memecrunch.com
"These subway tokens look perfect next to the dimes in my wallet."
*Homeless person asks for change.* *Accidentally give bus fare.* *Facepalm.*
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