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Beyoncé's Video Ho, er, Phone
After watching this leotard porno three times, I still don’t get it. But that’s assuming there’s anything to get in the first place. Still, I expected more from Lady Gaga—she of the fashion risks so risque that one can do nothing but use the adjectives artist and genius because really what else can you say…
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Oprah to Robin Givens: "I apologize."
Even Oprah sometimes gets it wrong. On Friday’s show the daytime diva apologized to actress Robin Givens, ex wife of former professional puncher Mike Tyson and spokeswoman for the National Domestic Violence Hotline. Winfrey admitted that she should’ve handled a recent interview with Tyson much differently—better. During her sit down with the former heavy weight…
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Rihanna Gives Love the Middle Finger
I don’t think I’ve ever actually heard Rihanna. Sure, she’s a singer—someone who makes their living hocking their vocal chords—-yea, OK, fine, whatever. But unlike MJ or Elvis or Whitney, I can’t call up Rihanna’s voice in my head and imagine what she’d sound like ordering greasy Chinese at 2 a.m., cussing out the cable…
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner on Gossip Girl?
“Did I just hear that your long absent mother is coming to hear you speak?” asks Blair Waldorf when she learns that Brooklyn boho Vanessa Abrams’ legal guardians might actually get some screen time. Finally! On last night’s GG, Vanessa’s crazy hippie parents (who moved to Vermont and allowed their teenaged daughter to go back…
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We're all minorities, says Glee
“Santana! Wheels! Gay Kid! Come on move it! Asian! Other Asian! Aretha! Shaft!” If there exists any evidence that Fox’s hit dra-mu-dy “Glee” is anything other than one of the gutsiest shows of modern time, I haven’t seen it. For those unfamiliar with the drama-musical-comedy that is “Glee” check out the hilarious Fancast commercial. In…
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The Definition of Authentic
Even white girls are getting in on the action! Like Eboni, I have yet to see comedian Chris Rock’s documentary, “Good Hair,” because (a) it’s a recession and I’d rather put a 10 spot on the light bill and (b) I’ve already spent probably a quarter of my life in the salon and can’t waste…
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BET is the Bargain Basement of Television
I’ll admit I’m a bit of a snob when it comes to my pop culture. Like the small-screen equivalent of a “label whore,” I let a select group of networks command my DVR playlist just as DVF crams my closet (in my dreams). Trained grizzly bears in tutus buying push-up bras from Kathy Griffin? If it’s on Bravo,…
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Who You Callin' a Bitch?
ABOUT HELENA ANDREWS I first got excited about journalism in high school, when the Patriot Press of Pilgrim Day School named me “student of the year.” Almost eight years later I scored a $5.15/hour internship at O, the Oprah Magazine and developed a fondness for ramen noodles. Since then my work has appeared in the…
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Is There a Science to Beauty?
“He look-a like a man.” Remember Ms. Swan? Mad TV’s maybe-Korean, maybe-Icelandic, slightly androgynous nail technician played with adroit cultural ambiguity by Jewish-American actress Alex Borstein? Ms. Swan could never give anyone a straight answer and her subterfuge became her most famous catchphrase, “He look-a like a man.” We laughed because the answer was so…
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Bravo's Southern Discomfort
You know you need a reality check when, on the one show meant to highlight the lives of women such as yourself—young(ish), glamorous and black—it’s the white chick with Mattel hair that you end up feeling sorry for. (Or better yet, sympathizing with.) And the women with the airbrushed smiles and the loud mouths seem…
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
