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New ABC comedy 'Black-ish' celebrates black culture
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
LOS ANGELES — Network executives have talked for years about the need for more diversity in their programming. But all you have to do is watch TV to realize how far off they are from reflecting the real ethnic makeup of this country.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Larry Wilmore, executive producer of the new ABC comedy "Black-ish," and the rest of the "Black-ish" cast and crew are looking to change that view.
This image released by ABC shows Lawrence Fishburne and Tracee Ellis Ross in a scene from the comedy "Black-ish," premiering tonight.
This show kind of celebrates black more as a cultural thing than a race thing. At the heart of it, it's a family show and it's about basically a father who feels like he may have given his kids too much. And whenever you give your kids a lot, something is always lost," Wilmore says. "We have so many people from so many different groups, immigrant groups and different ethnic identities, who can relate to this where their kids, when they assimilate, something is lost in their own culture."
vah comes directly from Anderson.
In "Black-ish," Anthony Anderson plays the concerned father who believes his family has forgotten their heritage. After his son asks to have a bar mitzvah (and the family isn't Jewish), he decides to try to re-educate his children.
The plot line of the bar mitz
His 12-year-old son told him he just didn't "feel black." Anderson realized that his success allowed him to give his son a different lifestyle than the one he knew growing up in Compton.
"The existence that my son knows is nothing short of privilege. Being in private school since the age of four and his surroundings in that environment is what he was referring to. And I was like, 'Well, son, this is your black experience. That black experience that you have right now is different than the experience that I had growing up," Anderson says. "He got it and understood it. And then in the same breath, he said, 'Okay, Dad. For my 13th birthday, I want a bar mitzvah.'"
"I look him dead in his eye, and I said, 'So you really aren't black?' Let me just figure out how I'm going to do this."
Anderson's solution of giving his son a hip-hop bro mitzvah has been worked into the comedy series. A photo album of the event was used when Anderson pitched the idea for the series to the network.
network.
The part of the humor in the show is at the expense of the mother — played by Tracee Ellis Ross — being of mixed race. The
actress was attracted to the role because that's exactly the life she's lived.
"As a mixed girl, you're constantly 'Are you black? Are you white? I'm like why do I have to be either. And so it's this idea of what is race, what is black, and what is this conversation?
I think it's a conversation that everyone is already having and, yes, we are telling it specifically from this point of view, but it is a universal conversation, especially in this day and age in the world that we live in today," Ross said.
Rounding out the family is Lawrence Fishburne, who plays Anderson's father. It's a very different role for the actor who
has tended to gravitate toward more dramatic TV series such as "CSI" and "Hannibal." His willingness to take on a network sitcom came from what he saw in the script and conversations with the producers.
"Ultimately our country is black-ish. We've all been borrowing little bits and pieces of culture from each other for however long we've been around," Fishburne says. "It was the conversation about our lives and just the stuff that we have to deal with in our lives, yes, as black men in America, but those things are always changing and shifting and growing."
Study: Women are underrepresented in all aspects of the film industry
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
As film becomes an increasingly global business, a new study suggests women are underrepresented both in front of and behind cameras worldwide.
The study, released Monday by the University of Southern California, also contains some surprises — such as that Chinese movies are more gender-balanced than American films.
Women made up 35 percent of characters in Chinese films, compared with 29.3 percent in American movies, according to researchers at USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.And women directed 16.7 percent of Chinese films during the period studied — January 2010 to May 1, 2013—as compared to none of the U.S. films.
"It is a critical time ... for the entertainment industry as they expand into international territories, and particularly China," said Stacy L. Smith, director of the Media, Diversity, & Social Change Initiative at Annenberg. "My interest was in ... understanding what audiences in growing markets might already be watching."
One of several recent reports to look at the portrayal of women in media, the study entitled "Gender Bias Without Borders" examined female characters in Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the U.K. Overall, researchers found that there were 2.24 male characters for every female character, and that only 23.4 percent of films had a female protagonist.
Films from Britain (37.9 percent), Brazil (37.1 percent) and South Korea (35.9 percent) had the highest percentage of female characters, while Indian films (24.9 percent) lagged.
Among the 120 films studied, researchers found that overall women accounted for 7 percent of directors, 19.8 percent of writers and 22.7 percent of producers.
In countries with more female content creators, there tended to be more women on screen as well.
Britain, where 27.3 percent of directors and 59 percent of writers were female, had the
highest percentage of female characters in its films. It's also the country that provided the lone example of a female protagonist in a high-profile political position — Meryl Streep's Margaret Thatcher in the 2011 film "The Iron Lady," which had both a female director (Phyllida Lloyd) and writer (Abi Morgan).
"... we are not seeing fictional female power brokers in popular films."
STACY L. SMITH Director of the Media Diversity, & Social Initiative at USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Women were unlikely to play the roles of powerful executives or politicians in any country, researchers found. When they did appear in such roles, the parts were often small or unusual: One character, a fictional representation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, had no
lines; another, a woman rallying her constituents to fight global warming, was an elephant.
Women were also far less likely than men to be cast as judges (5 percent), lawyers (9.1 percent), doctors (14.8 percent) and professors (5.9 percent).
In many of the countries researchers studied, women's real world employment far exceeded their onscreen portraits. Although women comprise 47.4 percent of the workforce in France, for instance, they're only 18.8 percent of the workforce in French films.
Farrell, Vaughn to star in 'True Detective'
"Just like in the U.S., we are not seeing fictional female power brokers in popular films." Smith said. "This is unfortunate, as stories are only a function of the imagination, and creativity should not be constrained by gender."
The new season, written solely by creator Nic Pizzolatto, will center on "three police officers and a career criminal (who) must navigate a web of conspiracy in the aftermath of a murder."
The study also examined at how female characters' sexuality was presented in each country, such as whether women appeared partly nude or in sexy attire. At 39.9 percent of female characters, Germany's women were the most likely to be scantily clad, compared to 11.6 percent in South Korea.
Farrell, who let the cat out of the bag this week in an interview with the Irish newspaper Sunday World, will play Ray Velcoro, described as "a compromised detective whose allegiances are torn between his masters in a corrupt police department and the mobster who owns him."
Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn will star in the second season of "True Detective," HBO confirmed Tuesday.
Vaughn, who was among the many names rumored to be circling the project, will star opposite Farrell as Frank Semyon, described as "a career criminal in danger of losing his empire when his move into legitimate enterprise is upended by the murder of a business partner." Production is set to begin this "In California
Production is set to begin this fall in California.
— McClatchy Tribune
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