Sentences with phrase «on celebrity culture»

Titled Single, the show is less a take on celebrity culture and the influence of the internet on our everyday life that we saw in his exhibition Closer in 2014 but an intimate and quite personal reflection of what it means not to be in a serious romantic relationship with someone.

His Dr. Sam Loomis (Malcolm McDowell) is a venal, fame - obsessed character, who has used his connection to serial - killing Michael Myers as a springboard to fame (a decidedly postmodern comment on celebrity culture).

Special midsection on celebrity culture, from Marilyn Monroe to Jodie Foster, comic book influences on popular movies, a tribute to Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Howard Hawks» lost films, David Begelman, auteur theory, Cannes roundup, Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo

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Canada's original celebrity economist on the problem with Bay Street's «up or out» culture and why she'll never truly retire

Singh has a rabidly loyal fan base in India, which she credits in part to the country's celebrity - driven culture and the fact that there still aren't many South Asian stars on YouTube.

Denny's Twitter is full of commentary on pop culture, live blogging Saturday Night Live and engaging One Direction's boy band member Liam Payne after he ranted on social media about the stress of celebrity life.

A lot of celebrities put their name on something like a clothing line and suddenly they come out with 500 SKUs and no one understands how that could happen because there was no culture, no message... they just suddenly appeared.

We've chosen the categories: best celebrity / brand personality appearance, best pop - culture reference, best use of animals, best use of special effects and best variation on the Super Bowl theme.

«Celebrities offer a myriad of different «takes» on what is possible in consumer culture,» he writes, «representing different ways to be a woman, to be black, to be old, to be faithful, to be gay, to be a parent, to be unfaithful, to be a loser, to fail.

Again, I really want to stress this is not about the messy never ending post divorce antics with an NPD but the culture of leaders in this publishing / speaking / minor celebrity circle that have smeared names and reputations in order to appear one way while behind the scenes another story is going on.

I think it's interesting that this culture that has been created of celebrity author speaker conference person bore rotten fruit on both strands... Mars Hill and Emergent.

(Sadly, our churches can sometimes resemble our culture instead of Jesus — witness our fascination with militarism, entertainment cults of celebrity, power, materialism, and patriarchal culture and so on.)

Yesterday, when I spotted Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdene on the cover of People Magazine with the headline «THE HUNGER GAMES» in bold white letters, I couldn't help but wonder if Suzanne Collins set all of this up to remind us of how closely our culture can resemble that of The Capitol — what with our excess, our reality shows, our glorification of violence, and our compulsive need to shove every good story through our celebrity - obsessed media machine.

Ours is indeed a consumeristic culture, the kind that too often turns people into commodities, and I believe Christians can speak into that culture in a unique, life - giving way — not only as it concerns sex - on - demand, but also as it concerns food - on - demand, celebrity - on - demand, stuff - on - demand, cheap - goods - on - demand, pornography - on - demand, entertainment - on - demand, comfort - on - demand, distraction - on - demand, information - on - demand, power - on - demand, energy - on - demand, and all those habits that tend to thrive at the expense of the dignity and value of our fellow human beings or our planet.

According to the artist, the piece — called «False Idol» — is meant to be commentary on pop culture's worship of flawed human celebrities.

I've long admired J.R.'s take on ministry, so it was honor to talk with him about what it means for pastors to serve with faithfulness, regardless of the outcome, in a culture that idolizes celebrity and success.

Because in the face of supermarket tabloids that barely allow a woman's perineum to be stitched up before they are gleefully asking «how she's going to lose the weight» and a celebrity culture that plans a tummy tuck before even nursing the new babe for the first time, we have forgotten how having a baby actually looks on a body.

It's an NPR podcast on all things current in music, literature, film, celebrity culture, and TV!

Which is too bad, because if celebrity culture can indeed change societal norms, then we need role models like Mo'Nique on magazine covers like People to normalize open relationships and Hugh Grant to normalize the idea that «40 - year - long monogamous, faithful» marriages may not be the ideal.

I know, I know — we've all gone bonkers with the HOW I LOST THE BABY WEIGHT AND THEN SOME HERE I AM IN A BIKINI ON THE COVER OF US WEEKLY THREE DAYS LATER celebrity mom culture, but the fact is that I really did feel quite unhappy with how I looked, as completely unrealistic as I was being.

Do celebrities with Beyoncé's massive influence on young kids have a moral obligation to consider the horrendous impact of excessive soda consumption in our culture when they mull over megabuck branding opportunities?

A media - centric, consumeristic celebrity culture, the erosion of civic responsibility, & the effectiveness of machine /» gangster» politics on a dynastic scale all contribute in challenging the assumption that a government of the people, by the people, & for the people can sustain itself in the long run.

Instead, Williams focuses on dishy celebrity news and pop culture developments in her «Hot Topics» segments.

In 2015, another frog new to science made a pop culture splash: Hailing from Costa Rica, Diane's bare - hearted glass frog (Hyalinobatrachium dianae), named after the senior author's mom, bore a noticeable resemblance to a celebrity frog known to reside on Sesame Street.

Exposed, a new exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on display through April 17, 2011, examines how voyeurism pervades our everyday life, focusing particular attention on 19th - and 20th - century photography, celebrity culture and the growth of new surveillance technologies.

Hailing from the heart of the South and cutting her teeth on the mean streets of New York, Meghan has six years of experience covering fashion, style, celebrities, culture, and human behavior.

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The 27 - year - old also criticized our distracting celebrity culture in general, explaining how she sees the massive fame of powerful people like Swift as an untapped tool in shining light on political issues.

Can please make a collective decision, as consumers of mindless pop culture and celebrity dating stories, to stop speculating about Jennifer Aniston's opinion on the breakdown of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's... [Read more...]

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Entertainment Tonight (ET) is the authoritative source on entertainment and celebrity news with unprecedented access to Hollywood's biggest stars, upcoming The Medium Awareness trope as used in popular culture.

Blind faith, virgin birth, crucifixion — nothing is sacred in this epic send - up of ancient times, which draws on the cornball biblical blockbusters of the 1950s to lampoon celebrity culture in any era.

Grammy - winning disc jockey, producer and songwriter Diplo comments on the lack of celebrity culture in Cuba, where he performed for the Sundance documentary «Give Me Future.

This might have been a savvy satire on today's celebrity - struck media culture, but Niccol unfolds the story at a lumbering pace, peppered with not - funny gags and dramatic scenes that build little emotional power.

Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux has taken a direct shot at one of the staples of modern celebrity culture, banning selfies on the red carpet of this year's event.

Zoolander and the gang have mostly ossified into pullstring See»n Says, though to encore the greatest hits of a fifteen - year - old movie whose footprint on popular culture has long since dissipated is to masturbate, really, and the celebrity cameos — about the same number as the previous film's, but much more elaborately integrated this time around — feel no less onanistic.

Initially it feels like that's the direction Zoolander 2 is going to go — the conflating of celebrity culture and reality brought on by social media and the digital age.

But so great is this culture's obsession with her that Syd has developed a nice little side - line peddling her infections on the black market to a man who, by day, sells celebrity steaks grown from the cells of the star of your choosing.

The talking bear becomes an instant celebrity and is even booked on the Johnny Carson show... the first of many 1980's pop culture references.

People's Republic of Desire Hao Wu's documentary peels back the curtain on the unbelievable internet celebrity culture gripping hold of China via the social network YY.

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Craig Gillespie's (The Finest Hours, Lars and the Real Girl) biopic makes the assault on Kerrigan its centerpiece, but it also examines Harding as a larger symbol of how classist, sexist, and image - obsessed celebrity culture can be.

What made the film so brilliant and compelling despite its theoretically repellent cast of characters is that instead of going for cheap shots or silly attempts at psychological insight, Coppola simply observed them in ways that helped inspire a certain understanding into their mindsets and how they had been shaped and influenced by a celebrity - obsessed culture that overwhelms them on a daily basis.

On top of that, the film's rapid - fire comic timing and boundless, infectious energy allows for plenty of time for digs at Hollywood action films, comic book franchises, celebrity culture, and a host of other on - point gagOn top of that, the film's rapid - fire comic timing and boundless, infectious energy allows for plenty of time for digs at Hollywood action films, comic book franchises, celebrity culture, and a host of other on - point gagon - point gags.

His previous endeavors include writing on sports, general pop culture, celebrity gossip and various other forms of mindless distraction.

The «self» credits begin in 1995 and consist of a variety of comedy showcases, including: multiple «HBO Comedy Half - Hour» and «Hollywood Squares» episodes, VH1's «I Love the»80s» and other pop culture specials, two celebrity roasts, and eleven appearances on each «Late Night with Conan O'Brien» and «Jimmy Kimmel Live!»

Indeed, the book outlines the full gamut of historical periods associated with different kinds of biopic subjects: the classical, celebratory form (melodrama); warts - and - all (melodrama / realism); transition from producer's genre to auteur's genre; critical investigation and atomisation of the subject; parody; culture based on consumerism and celebrity; minority appropriation (queer, feminist, African American, Third World, etc.); and neoclassical biopic, which integrates all of the above.