As you may or may not know, I am not a fan of the movie Slumdog Millionaire. Personally, I think that it is a condescending and exploitative after-school-special to make white people feel better about their cultural ignorance and their... CONTINUE READING DOES ANYONE CARE ABOUT THE SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE KIDS ANYMORE?»
Posted on October 29, 2009 in
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Tags: Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail | Danny Boyle | MGMT | Poverty | Rubina Ali | Slumdog Millionaire
I am completely on board with this. Because on the one hand, I hate world hunger. HATE IT! I know that's not a very popular thing to say around here, where everyone is so pro-world hunger it's ridiculous, you... CONTINUE READING SELL THE VATICAN, FEED THE WORLD»
Posted on October 12, 2009 in
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Tags: Poverty | Sarah Silverman | Sell The Vatican, Feed The World
I know that sometimes my diamond shoes can get too tight, but sometimes it takes a really :( news story to remind you just HOW tight diamond shoes can really get. Like this one, in which a man in Bangladesh... CONTINUE READING IT'S OFFICIAL, EVERYONE'S DIAMOND SHOES ARE TOO TIGHT»
Posted on October 1, 2009 in
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Tags: Bangladesh | Poverty | Rats
I will give the children of NYC Prep this: they are very poised and "adult" on camera. High school students are, for the most part, sloppy spazz-attacks, flailing around all over the place with their hormones and their malformed identities... CONTINUE READING NYC PREP: 17 GOING ON 17»
Posted on July 22, 2009 in ,
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Tags: NYC Prep | Poverty | Rich People
When the women of the Real Housewives, or anyone on any VH1 show ever, are forced into bizarre social situations (think the traditional final episode dinner party on Housewives, or the Real Chance at Love reunion) the discomfort of it... CONTINUE READING NYC PREP: OH, BABIES, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?»
Posted on July 15, 2009 in
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Tags: Assholes | Children | New York | NYC Prep | Poverty | Rich People
Sorry guys, we have to do the 2009 Academy Awards again, we messed up. After we KILL HITLER, let's point the Time Machine to last February and give all the Oscars to Bollywood He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.... CONTINUE READING BOLLYWOOD HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE IS THE RICH MAN'S SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE»
Posted on July 1, 2009 in
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Tags: Awesome | Bollywood | He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe | Poverty | Slumdog Millionaire
Remember how two of the Slumdog Millionaire children have had their homes razed in the past month? Well in what appears to be the first good thing that has happened to any of them since they had the overwhelming privilege... CONTINUE READING ONE OF THE SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE CHILDREN WON'T BE SLEEPING IN GARBAGE TONIGHT!»
Posted on June 10, 2009 in
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Tags: Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail | Children | India | Poverty | Slumdog Millionaire
Rubina Ali, the adorable little girl from Slumdog Millionaire, is writing a book! About her life! Um, she is nine years old! From the AP: Transworld Publishers said Rubina Ali's book will tell the story of her life in the... CONTINUE READING SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE STAR TO PUBLISH LIFE STORY, FINALLY»
Posted on June 5, 2009 in
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Tags: Books | Children | Poverty | Rubina Ali | Slumdog Millionaire
Gwyneth Paltrow stirred. A lilac scented breeze pushed gently at the diaphanous curtains of her castle aerie (two servants stood beneath her castle window, one waving a giant palm frond as the other squeezed a bulb of artisanal lilac oil... CONTINUE READING YOU CAN MAKE IT UP: GWYNETH PALTROW NOURISHES HER INNER ASPECT»
Posted on May 21, 2009 in
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Tags: Assholes | Goop | Gwyneth Paltrow | Julian Casablancas | Poverty | The Strokes
Seriously? Another Slumdog Millionaire child's home was bulldozed to the ground without warning? Yikes. The Mumbai children who starred in that movie are cursed! (Of course, most of the Mumbai children who didn't star in that movie are also basically... CONTINUE READING INDIA IS JUST FUCKING WITH THE SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE KIDS NOW»
Posted on May 20, 2009 in
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Tags: Children | Poverty | Rubina Ali
The home of Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, one of the child stars of the smash film Slumdog Millionaire, has been razed by authorities as part of a slum clearing initiative. Showbiz! Whatever, he's a movie star, he's probably going to just... CONTINUE READING THE CHILDREN OF SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE CONTINUE TO NOT LIVE THE GOOD LIFE»
Posted on May 14, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail | Children | India | Poverty | Slumdog Millionaire
More terrible news for the children of Slumdog Millionaire, of course. Woof. Well, this is what happens when you exploit people for "art" and, more importantly, "profit." It turns families against each other and ruins communities. But wasn't that Bollywood... CONTINUE READING THE POST SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE WORLD IS ON A RACE TO THE WORST»
Posted on April 21, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Child Actors | Danny Boyle | Fox News | Poverty | Rubina Ali | Slumdog Millionaire
The UK's News of the World published an EXPLOSIVE article this weekend claiming at the father of Rubina Ali, the cute little girl from Slumdog Millionaire, a music video about how magical poverty is, tried to sell her for £200,000... CONTINUE READING THE GIRL FROM SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE MAYBE BUT PROBABLY NOT FOR SALE»
Posted on April 20, 2009 in
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Tags: Poverty | Rubina Ali | Slumdog Millionaire
This is an actual oven used to make food for humans in Liberia, because the world is a really horrible place. Reduce, reuse, re:(le. P.S. What's Blockbuster? (Via Buzzfeed.)... CONTINUE READING ONE NATION'S TRASH IS ANOTHER NATION'S DEPRESSING CAKE OVEN»
Posted on April 15, 2009 in
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Tags: Blockbuster | Liberia | Poverty
Aww. What a wonderful celebration of love, music, abject poverty, and aerobic stripper dances! MY FAVORITE PART IS THE NEW NOKIA WITH A TOUCHSCREEN INTERFACE! a) he cheated b) he's lucky c) he's a genius d) it was written... CONTINUE READING THE CHILDREN OF MUMBAI LOVE THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS REMIX OF "JAI HO"»
Posted on March 13, 2009 in
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Tags: Jai Ho | Poverty | Slumdog Millionaire | The Pussycat Dolls
The AP reports that as Slumdog racked up win after win last night, the narrow, trash-strewn streets of Mumbai's slums were filled with joyous celebration as friends and family and well-wishers of the film's star children gathered around the few... CONTINUE READING GOODBYE, CUTE CHILDREN OF SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, GOODBYE»
Posted on February 23, 2009 in
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Tags: Academy Awards | India | of Montreal | Poverty | Slumdog Millionaire
Salma Hayek set down the glass of champagne and smoothed out the creases in her elegant black ballgown. She had been pacing her glamorous super-expensive and fancy hotel room for hours now, nervously rehearsing her acceptance speech and rubbing her... CONTINUE READING YOU CAN MAKE IT UP: SALMA HAYEK ACCEPTS THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR BREAST FEEDING»
Posted on February 12, 2009 in
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Tags: Breastfeeding | Nobel Prize | Poverty | Salma Hayek
It's rare for a predatory form of low-stakes gambling that feeds primarily off of the nation's poorest citizens who can least afford to play, and who are often willfully ignorant of the disastrous odds stacked against them as they pursue... CONTINUE READING CUTE AS BALLS: WASHINGTON'S LOTTERY IS ADORABLE»
Posted on June 16, 2008 in ,
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Tags: Lottery | Poverty
