Word: bigotism
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...castigated for calling a team of mostly black women “ho’s,” African-American hip-hop artists use the term frequently with impunity. If there is really no difference between Don Imus and Snoop Dogg, then why does society consider one a bigot and the other acceptable...
...returns in three movies this summer, two--Hairspray and the fantasy Stardust--as a villain. For her Hairspray role of Velma Von Tussle, the ex--beauty queen who can't accept the races mixing on a '60s TV dance party, Pfeiffer trawled for sympathy: "Yes, she's a bigot, but she's also a victim of the era she grew up in. It all changed on her, and what was once perfectly acceptable behavior suddenly wasn't. I think that's sad." Whereas her character in Stardust, a witch bent on destroying astral princess Claire Danes, "is just purely evil...
WHETHER HE was playing a snobbish lawyer masterly deflating bigot Archie Bunker or performing Shakespeare on the New York City stage, Emmy-winning actor Roscoe Lee Browne emanated sophistication. Despite a few racist critics (his reply to one who said he sounded white: "I had a white maid"), the man with the tuneful baritone and restrained style crafted a reputation as an expert character actor in such diverse roles as a spy in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz, a gay police informant in the 1968 film Up Tight!, the erudite butler on TV's Soap and the eloquent narrator...
...just did that with Law and Order. I played a bigot who commits a murder. It was a darker role, and I actually enjoyed it. But once you are pegged as a comedian, you are going to be used as that. It's not a choice one makes as much as one the studio makes...
...totally untrue. I have letters from people like Will Ferrell and Colin Quinn apologizing profusely for what they "said" in that book. I've had gay friends all of my life and have never been a bigot. There have been so many books about me. None of them are true...