Cheat To Win

This is offensive.  CALLED IT!

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I need to go back to last night where NBC gifted me with NINETY MINUTES of Community.

And now Jerry Markovic from ER is showing up on Community?  Is this real life?

folkinz:

Yvette Nicole Brown Would Rather Be Dropped Than Forced Into Stereotypical Black Roles

Even in the beginning, I always made it very clear the things I may or may not be able to do. And I’d let them know, ‘I know you guys are saying it’s okay now, but if we work together for six months, and I’m passing on more than you’re comfortable with, then I’m okay if you drop me.’ I literally have said that to every agent or manager I’ve had. I understand if they can’t do it; if it gets to the point where they can’t keep their lights on, let me know, and we’ll part ways, and I’ll go to an agent that understand what I’m trying to do here.

Shows like The Jeffersons, they showed every type of black character…but it wasn’t just for black audiences,” she said. “What is inherently black or inherently white? I wish they would cut that mess out and just cast the best actor, no matter what the color or race. May the best actor get the role. That would be so refreshing. They’re not black– or white or Hispanic or Latina or whatever; they’re just women who happen to be played by black women. That’s the thing that I’ve always been…screaming from the rooftops. You don’t have to change a line to cast a black actor.

Icon.  She summarizes this perfectly.

All Alison Brie all the time.  

“Powering through!”

• Where most people see the dressing room of a Soho clothing store, ­Alison Brie sees a stage with an open mike. “Oh, man, this would be my costume if I were playing a janitor in a mental institution,” says the actress, whipping open the curtain to reveal a dark sack of a dress with an unflattering bulge below the waist. “But there’s something about it I kind of dig. I’m considering it. For around the house only. And for when I’m doing a cleaning service on the side of a freeway.”
• Then she attended the California Institute of the Arts, an experience she detailed in a widely blogged-about essay, about having sex with her best friend to determine whether he was really gay, for the 2010 book Worst Laid Plans: When Bad Sex Happens to Good People. “We still laugh about it,” she says. “He was like, ‘I never attempted sex with another woman ever again.’ And I was like, ‘You’re welcome.’ ”
• “I liked shooting at Mad Men and then going over to Community and  literally taking my hair down. Because Community really feels like the parents are gone and we’re all just having crazy sleepovers and making blanket forts.”
• For the film, she had to learn to do a British accent by “stalking Emily Blunt like a psychopath and just standing near her and mumbling whatever she was saying.” 
• Our shopping trip takes us down Broadway to Madewell, where Brie grabs a patchwork strapless bathing suit off a rack, promising, “If it’s awesome, I’m going to make you look at me in it! And it’s going to be awkward!” (It isn’t and she doesn’t.)
• Whenever she worries she’s taking too long in a dressing room, she shouts out, “Powering through! Powering through!” 
• “All right. I realize you may not think this is the most important decision, but I’m not done looking at socks. Don’t be mad. I need another minute,” she said. “One’s striped and one is textured. Which one do I like more? I don’t know!” She picked both, then muttered, “What have I done?”

Hysterical and/or charming things that happen when you interview Alison Brie.  My new mantra in life is, “Powering through! Powering through!” 

Source: NY Magazine

Community meets Calvin and Hobbes.

I would die if that show made some allusions to C&H.

Still determined to become friends with her.  My buddy Joe is right there with me.

Fact.