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You’re all torn up, but you’re finally ready to let go of a past love… Until those nagging thoughts intrude again, and suddenly what is true and what is false are shaken up. Your mind becomes a blur. You phone a friend or two for advice. You can’t remember why you called. You find yourself agreeing with them, even though you know that what they’re saying is wrong. You’re angry and primed for attack.
Whether it’s a divorce or long term relationship, or a friendship that falls apart, the deadly poison of revenge becomes our ugly destiny.
Revenge is by definition hostile. And when it rears its ugly head, the walls we have built with our mind collapse and our boundaries break down and disappear, putting us in a position to do what we normally wouldn’t do.
Feeling hostile emotions is a whole lot of work. Carrying such negative intentions weighs us down. We may have been wronged and believe someone should suffer, but who, in the end, really pays?
The following is a story of how a recent client of mine resolved her burning desire to punish her ex-husband for leaving her and planning to remarry. Her actions turned not just her life but other people’s lives upside down.
Ella is a 40-year-old socialite from London. Having just recently gone through a two-year divorce, Ella felt betrayed and abandoned. She loved her husband, Jack, as well as everything that their marriage gave her–a sense of being sheltered, cosseted and cared for. Now single after 15 years of marriage, she felt let down and left behind.
To top it off, Jack had announced that he was remarrying and wanted to lower her alimony.
Ella decided she had had enough and declared an all-out war.
“He’s taking me back to court to cut down my alimony,” she cried. “I’m going to make his life miserable! I’m going to make sure he doesn’t speak to the kids. That will show him.”
Ella was filled with angst and resented his cheapness. “Doesn’t he care about the children? Doesn’t he know he’s hurting them too?”
The first thing I asked Ella to do was to go back to the beginning of their marriage. “What was he like?” I asked.
“He was kind, gentle and loving.” She gleamed as she recalled their early days together.
“Was he generous?”
“OMG! So generous,” she exclaimed.
“Are you still expecting him to care about you and treat you the same way?”
It was plain from Ella’s silence and the expression on her face that her expectations hadn’t changed–even though their relationship had. She was playing a never-ending waiting game, chasing a snippet of something familiar from Jack, something she could cherish, something that would convince her he still had feelings for her. But that something would never come.
Jack had changed. And so had their relationship. By expecting the behavior of the former Jack, Ella was only hurting herself. She would never get what she wanted. That part of their relationship no longer existed. Meanwhile, instead of moving on like Jack was doing, she was making an incredible mess of her life.
Like Ella, how many of us have acted out negatively at one time or another in order to relive the past?
Revengeful emotions arise when two opposing ideas meld into one loose idea to create a contradiction. In Ella’s case, a yearning for an idealized memory of Jack, who had been generous and loving, versus the coarseness of Jack of today, created an irreconcilable contradiction. How do you live with that?
When, like dark versus light, we polarize our mind into two opposing forces, we’re right to go back to the beginning–if just ever so briefly. Stepping back into the past and asking “what was it like” brings the real issue–our outworn expectations– to the surface.
Ella was waiting for Jack to fulfill her expectations, which were now obsolete. By seeing the contradiction Ella knew that to escape her private hell, she needed to change her expectations. Not lower them, not cast them aside, but align her expectations with reality. In doing so, the contradiction no longer existed in her mind, and her need for revenge instantly lifted. Rather than force circumstances, Ella accepted her fate. In doing so, she freed herself from a bond she’d created: In her desire for revenge, she had become a victim, the one who “paid.”
Acceptance comes from the same place we get our “aha” moments from: that all-knowing place within. To ask anyone to go from revenge to acceptance is almost impossible. The first step has to come from a place of reflection and silence – this will give you a present state of mind. Being present is where we derive our strength from, and acceptance can only live in real-time. It cannot come from our past or our future. It is a gift that comes with the presence of mind.
Revenge is a bitter tonic and, although the thought of it may feel seductive, it serves no one in the end.
“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I was struck by something shoe designer Christian Louboutin once said in an interview.
The French style sensation and trapeze aficionado has been practicing the flying art for the past 25 years and even had a trapeze rig installed in the garden his beach house in Portugal. He told the Financial Times in a 2010 interview that at his first lesson with teacher Zoé Maistre, “it’s the one time I regretted being a man, because you have to do all the holding, and the women get to do the most exciting tricks.” That stayed with me, perhaps because there are so few moments when it’s better to be a woman in this modern, chaotic world of ours, and this point, by a master shoemaker who’d rather spend his life up in the air (ah, the irony) inspired a strange, magical tingle in me.
Now, years have gone by, and aside from the occasional awe I’ve felt when attending a Cirque de Soleil performance at Radio City Music Hall, or my excitement at revisiting Wim Wenders’ film Wings of Desire — which incidentally was the spark that ignited Louboutin’s passion for the art of trapeze — I had yet to find the physical representation of that quote. The “aha” moment when Louboutin’s magical words would take flight in my heart.
Until I watched legendary filmmaker Tom Moore’s The Flight Fantastic, the real life story of the Gaonas, the royal family of the art of the trapeze. And then, I knew I had it, I’d found the magic.
Under the watchful eye of the ‘Godfather’ of the Gaona family, Victor, his offsprings Armando, Chela, Richie and Tito form the quartet that has seamlessly flown up to take its place in trapeze history, alongside The Codonas, The Flying Wallendas and of course, Mr. Jules Leotard himself. Moore’s documentary took my breath away, on more than one occasion. Because The Flight Fantastic is a film that dares to fly and allows its audience to soar to their own dream. Not many films, and even fewer documentaries, can boast such imagination and love. The Flight Fantastic can.
I caught up with Moore, who is also responsible for directing such touching, deeply moving films as ‘night Mother as well as many acclaimed and multi-award winning theater productions, like the original Grease on Broadway. I thought that interviewing Moore by email would make our “chat” impersonal, and was instead surprised by the ease of our conversation, which although written across lands and oceans and at different times, felt like a leisurely chat with a friend, sitting on his couch, while drinking a cup of coffee.
The Flight Fantastic will be playing in Los Angeles at the Laemme, as well as a few other venues, starting June 17th.
It really came as no surprise to me that you happen to be the same filmmaker who broke my heart so perfectly years ago with ‘night Mother, because The Flight Fantastic possesses an emotional depth beyond any documentary I’ve watched lately.
Tom Moore: ‘night Mother and my collaboration with Marsha Norman was a major piece of my professional life. Starting with our first production of the play at American Repertory Theatre at Harvard to our production on Broadway with Kathy Bates and Anne Pitoniak to the film with Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft, it is one of those things I look back on most proudly. It is always wonderful to hear that someone responded to it with such emotion and passion. And I never get over the miracle that by being on film, it continues to “exist.”
I’m deeply appreciative of your recognition of “emotional depth” in the documentary, as when I talk about the film, I often say that although I’m not in a single frame of the film, it is my story. Maybe what I mean will become clear in my answers below.
What brought you to this film, to wanting to tell this trapeze story, but particularly the Gaonas’ family tale?
Moore: Having made my life in the creative arts–the visual arts — first on stage, then on film, there were the usual highs (a whole lot of them I’m happy to say) as well as some severe lows, but with each of my passions — first theatre, then film, then television, there always came a time where I felt the need for reinvention — for something new — for something to ignite my passion once more.
My discovery of the trapeze happened because of one of those times. I had been doing years of television and felt I was on the edge of “burning out.” Truth be told, it was also a moment when a long term relationship had ended. I was very much in need of a new adventure.
I decided to do something completely out of my comfort zone and booked a trip to Club Med in Mexico. Although I was warned by many that I would hate it, it turned out quite differently, as I loved it. And the primary reason was my discovery of The Flying Trapeze, which a man named Bob Christians had introduced to Club Meds all over the world. At Club Meds, most people (if they try it at all) fly once or twice and move on. I was entranced when I had the chance to “fly” and to perform in their end of week show. It awakened a childhood fantasy when I had once dreamed of being a great trapeze artist like the character of “The Great Sebastian” (played by Cornell Wilde) in The Greatest Show on Earth, or Burt Lancaster in Trapeze. I was hooked.
On returning to Los Angeles, I immediately began to search for someone to teach me “to fly.” I went up to the San Francisco Circus Center, only to find that one of the greatest coaches in the US was in Los Angeles. That was Richie Gaona, formerly of The Flying Gaonas. He agreed to work with me, and on a cold winter day, by LA standards, I joined him on on the pedestal board of his backyard rig, and the rest is history. Well, my history anyway.
But from flying trapeze to making a wondrous filmed document of art and a family like The Flight Fantastic, it must be a long road?
Moore: Over the next few years, I became a close friend of Richie’s and then his entire family. Armando, Tito, Chela, Victor, and especially the extraordinary matriarch, Teresa Gaona. The film is dedicated to her memory.
This was a legendary family of artists who starting as a trampoline act had transformed themselves into one of the greatest flying acts in circus history. The is not hyperbole. Tito Gaona, the charismatic star of the act is considered one of the four greatest flyers who ever lived.
As in all arts, great accomplishments can sometimes fade into memory with succeeding generations — especially in the circus world — and it always bothered me that these extraordinary feats were being forgotten. These were some of the greatest athletes and performers ever, and most no longer knew who they were.
I decided that I was in a special position to do something about that, and I decided to combine my passion for film with my new passion for the trapeze and make a documentary. A new creative form for me and reinvention being the name of the game, I began.
When I began, I had no idea just how large a project and how much of my time and life it would take to bring this to completion.
There are hints throughout your film that trapeze can be a metaphor for life. What do you think is the biggest lesson we can learn from the trapeze as human beings?
Moore: Sam Keen, author of Learning to Fly expresses the heart of the film so well when he says: “Sometimes a childhood fantasy can hold the key to renewal.” I have seen this happen, not only for myself, but pretty much everyone who comes into this world. It’s a chance to conquer fear and doubt. It’s a highly disciplined sport requiring the utmost concentration and focus. And the actual “taking flight” can reach the spiritual, as one is “free from the bonds of earth and gravity.”
In one of the last sections of the film, I have many flyers talk about what it means to them. The answers are all different, but they all seem to have in common a “reach for the transcendent.”
In this electronically connected yet as-never-before totally disconnected world of ours, is there something we can learn directly from the Gaonas, and what is that?
Moore: I’m not sure this answers your question directly, but what interests me most in the history and legacy of the Gaona family is what I call their “Second Act.” Meaning not their extraordinary feats on the trapeze and their immense stardom in the circus world, but what they did after they left the “Center Ring.” It is their dedication to their coaching and teaching and “passing it on” or “playing it forward” that makes the documentary important.
In the early cuts of the film, some wanted a straight forward rendition of their circus magic with little of what came after. I would not have been interested in making that film, or probably even seeing that film. It is the “second act” that gives meaning to the first. The Gaonas speak in terms of “I am” not “I was.” The film ends with a coda as they look back on their lives, one of my favorite scenes of the film. It is clear that these are lives well lived, and who could ask for more than that.
How would you describe yourself to someone who doesn’t know you?
Moore: Describing myself would absolutely depend on who I was describing myself to. I could give you an idealized version (which is probably how I carry myself) or I could give you a vulnerable version of the me that has been in process and will be in process for life. This isn’t a direct answer to your question, but I think if we are lucky, we get to discover different talents and passions throughout our life. For instance, in my case, when I was young I was terrible in team sports and thought I had no athletic ability. It was only later when I discovered individual sports like gymnastics and water skiing, and much later trapeze that I found out I’m actually quite a good athlete and that’s become a big part of my life. If we are lucky, and our health holds, almost anything is possible….
How are you like Tito? And like Armando? And maybe even like Chela?
Moore: I would like to have the calm and kindness of Armando, the charisma and pied piper charm of Tito, the dependability and style of Richie, and the generosity and grace of Teresa Gaona. Athletically, I would love to have all of their proprioception (knowing where your body is in time and space), and for life in general, the warmth of their Latino genes.
And finally, do you think cinema can help change the world for the better?
Moore: Documentaries like The Flight Fantastic have a difficult time finding their place among the “important stories of our time” like war in the Mideast, or famine in Africa, or climate change throughout the world. Not to mention the ubiquitous world of reality television and the negative political climate that now surrounds us all. It is also difficult to find a place for something that mostly celebrates. But I have watched something almost magical happen when this film is shown to a large audience on a big screen. It somehow unites the audience in a feeling of hope and possibility and the audience leaves feeling good about themselves and a little better about our world and its future.
This came as a surprise to me when I first saw the film on a big screen, but that reaction has continued consistently at each and every screening. I find that immensely satisfying and it makes this entire journey worthy of the effort made.
All images courtesy of the filmmakers, used with permission.
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Juice Beauty
Karen has successfully married her passion for helping people enjoy healthier lifestyles with her skill at building financially successful businesses and conceptualized her third company, Juice Beauty when she developed a keen interest in personal care products upon becoming pregnant with her first child at the age of 40.
Years after her second child was born, Karen bought the name “Juice Beauty” and launched the company in 2005. Today, Juice Beauty’s experienced in-house chemistry team and beauty industry executive pros offer high performance, award winning (InStyle, ELLE, Allure, EWG awards) skincare, makeup and hair care products that are authentically organic (products always made with 70-95% USDA certified organic ingredient content). Karen’s goal has always been to meet or exceed conventional chemical beauty efficacy. Supported by solid eco-values that include purchasing many ingredients locally from West Coast certified organic farmers, manufacturing strictly in the U.S.A. often with solar power, utilizing sustainable containers and printing with soy ink. Gwyneth Paltrow, recently joined Juice Beauty as Creative Director, Makeup, and with Karen, recently released over 75 makeup products made with organic ingredients. Juice Beauty’s major retailers are ULTA Beauty’s 800 stores in the U.S.; luxury boutiques and spas such as Credo, Shen and Rancho La Puerta; and the Company is currently launching at Holt Renfrew and Sephora in Canada.
How has your life experience made you the leader you are today?
My life’s mission has always been to make the world a healthier place and I’ve always tried to look at the positive or the opportunity in every situation. During childhood I became one of the rare survivors of a form of leukemia (aplastic anemia). I learned to view this experience as a gift and I have built my personal and professional life around this passion for healthful, fun and active living. Overcoming obstacles and seeing possibilities where others see limitations is the foundation of an entrepreneur and maybe my childhood struggles helped lay this personality foundation.
My consistent goal is to equally marry my passion for helping people enjoy healthier lives while building financially successful businesses that are mission driven. I am probably one of the few beauty founders that came to the industry from the health, wellness and fitness industry allowing me to look at the development of products through a different lens.
How has your previous work experience contributed to your time at your company Juice Beauty?
I’ve enjoyed a long and successful entrepreneurial career in the Healthy Lifestyles sector of business and one of the key facets in building the 2nd company I founded, The Wellness Company, was conducting studies with major universities on how healthier employees cost corporations less money and filed fewer medical claims. Taking this experience to beauty, one of my early goals was to prove that Juice Beauty’s skincare products, made with certified organic ingredients, could certainly surpass the natural brands efficacy but I wanted to meet or exceed conventional chemical efficacy benchmarks. So very early on I hired outside reputable laboratories to conduct studies to show instrument-measured results of our skincare products. At year 5, when I hired an in-house chemist team and our first experienced executive, Juice Beauty’s products and clinical results soared followed by greatly escalating sales.
During much of my career, I’ve been one of the few women in the boardroom or one of the few female executives in a company.
My experiences have taught me the possibilities for driving business from the top team as well as how to avoid middle management logjams. At Juice Beauty, most employees know that our goals are aligned from the board to the field to the management team and that there are no hidden agendas–to make the best and highest performance skincare, makeup and haircare products with certified organic ingredients.
What have the highlights and challenges been during your time at Juice Beauty?
All of the highlights and challenges have surrounded the two most important areas of Juice Beauty: The products and the -people. I’m not sure I initially realized that I was radically transforming the chemistry of beauty but Juice Beauty’s revolutionary formulations started with a basic premise: the belief that by formulating with an antioxidant and vitamin-rich organic botanical juice base, rather than the typical petroleum derivatives or added water, and combining it with powerful skin care ingredients, it could yield equal or better results than conventional or natural products. Multiple clinical testing proved this basic premise correct. In the most basic of terms, the original visual picture in my head was for “every drop to feed the skin”.
Once we had a professional in-house team, our formulas really started to progress. One can imagine how hard it is to compete with silicones, dimethicones and plastic beads used by conventional chemical brands! Instead Juice Beauty uses organic, resveratrol rich grape seed, jojoba and shea butters but it took years to get our formulas to have the highest performance, yet luxurious feel that customers require. It also took years to experiment getting vibrant makeup colors from phyto-pigments (plant pigments from crushed roses, aubergine, purple carrot, eclipta daisies, argan husks and more); instead of artificial and synthetic dyes. Obviously plants aren’t the same exact color every time so color matching is incredibly difficult!! A challenge would be patience. It takes great patience to achieve the highest efficacy yet purest products with years of scientific trials. Entrepreneurs are not known for their patience so I definitely have become frustrated along the way.
People. Another source of frustration in the very beginning was to recruit a world class team or to recruit folks that can thrive in an entrepreneurial environment. It took us about 6 years before we had a team that gelled and could scale and build the company. Our biggest success is that we have a team driven by passion and authenticity.
What advice can you offer to women who want a career in your industry?
Find your passion and your mission and work with a company that you believe in. I think most of Juice Beauty’s employees would say that they are doing more than working in beauty. They are building a sustainable, mission driven company that is creating significant meaning to their lives and that they are going for a Win-Win-Win. Winning with results oriented products. Winning with healthy ingredients absorbing into the skin. Winning with helping a sustainable company that supports organic farming and sustainable suppliers.
What is the most important lesson you’ve learned in your career to date?
Trust your gut and your instincts. Every time I have a strong instinctual feeling and ignore it because I was reticent to take an uncharted course I have regretted it.
How do you maintain a work/life balance?
It is challenging with kids although I am very proud that both our son and daughter can see that I have meaningful work. Since I waited forever to have children (had my babies at 40 and 42), I had already experienced entrepreneurial success upon starting Juice Beauty, so I had the means to open our office geographically between home and our kids school and next door to a Whole Foods. This enabled me to be available in the early years for school functions. Having a close Whole Foods meant that healthful take out dinners were always available. It may have been better for Juice Beauty if I had attended more industry events in the early years but I was home almost every night with our family. I also don’t know how anyone separates work and family as it has been more enjoyable for me to combine these two major facets of life. Our kids have spent more than half of their lives around Juice Beauty, the soccer teams have done homework and been fed at our offices before evening games, and my husband has been very involved in conversation with almost every major business challenge over the last 11 years.
Probably the most important habit I have that has kept me sane and balanced and full of energy is that I try to workout for an hour every morning (run, bike or swim) and I eat mostly wild salmon, organic whole grains, organic fruits and vegetables, organic yogurt and chocolate.
What do you think is the biggest issue for women in the workplace?
Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean In, really hit a nerve with me. Women really do have to Lean In and stay in…during the child bearing years, I always recommend to stay in the game part-time (if possible) because what often happens is women drop out temporarily and all of the sudden, 10 years go by and it can be hard to re-enter the workforce for multiple reasons.
Juice Beauty is as women friendly as it gets, in fact right now, we have a crib in our office as our product development leader just had a baby! Her baby gets passed to several trusted co-workers for cuddles throughout the day. Arranging work around kids plays, accommodating babies, and more are all part of Juice Beauty’s daily culture.
How has mentorship made a difference in your professional and personal life?
I’ve been inspired by so many people in my life but most of my drive comes from within, it’s just a burning desire to build mission driven, sustainable companies. In my thirties, I did have a business mentor, George Brown through the YPO/EO network and he was incredibly insightful and supportive during a few major business transitions in my life. Today, my largest daily inspiration comes from our amazing executive team and all of the leaders within our organization.
Which other female leaders do you admire and why?
I’m rooting for Hilary Clinton. I admire Mary Dillon, the CEO of ULTA Beauty as it’s exciting that we have a female leader at the head of a high growth major beauty company. It’s kind of interesting given the beauty customer that so many major beauty companies are run by men.
What do you want your brand to accomplish in the next year?
Juice Beauty just launched over 75 new Phyto-Pigments makeup products and a Goop by Juice Beauty, high-end skincare collection so we have our hands full with so many new products and we are expanding distribution. We’re in the wonderful place of having prestigious high-end retailers contact us. Moving forward, it all boils down to the products and the people. I am hyper-focused on our product quality as well as our incredible management and employee team who really amaze me daily. If we can continue to get it right with our products and our people…our customers and our retailers will be happy and we’ll continue to grow with our crazy high comp store growth rate we are currently experiencing.
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How much is the security of your Android device worth? Well, Google spent around $550,000 in bug rewards since it launched the program for Android a year ago. Depending on how you view the platform, that might be more than enough or, in fact, too little. Regardless, Google is even increasing the bounty for “high quality” reports to ensure that … Continue reading
Although Google often includes the UK in launch plans for a new product, its new web-searching and GIF-finding Gboard extension wasn’t one of them. But now that the app has been out for roughly a month, Google has had more enough time to get it ready…
The original “The Real O’Neals” pilot ended with his girlfriend and family (waving rainbow flags) in response to Noah’s character, Age 16 “coming out” to his family in high school. Dan Savage sat down the cast and explained that pilot ending would not air out of respect for members of the different ‘coming out’ experiences faced by the LGBTQ Community. The cast acknowledged the stories Savage told of the many teenagers tell their parentsthey are kicked out of the family home for simply stating who they love.
On May 12th, Noah Galvin stopped by “AOL BUILD.” The theatre actor responded to interview questions with eloquence that felt unscripted, unfiltered. Listening to the this New York born-and-raised child star discuss television and Hollywood from “his perspective” was refreshing. That night, his progressive TV Show was renewed for Season 2.
We did it!!! CONGRATS to @Noahegalvin, @MarthaPlimpton & the cast of @TheRealONeals on your Season 2 ✨ #ThisIsAOL pic.twitter.com/bVlhmwHPig
— BUILD Originals (@AOLBUILD) May 12, 2016
On June 9th, the Noah-Galvin-Vulture-Controversy broke the Internet. Currently employed in a/his breakthrough TV role, Galvin issued an apology. Orlando happened (is still happening, hope won’t always be happening). Yet, June 15th brought new developments in the Noah-Galvin-Vulture-Controversy. According to The Hollywood Reporter, “sources with knowledge of the events say ABC was blindsided by the interview.” Multiple media outlets report similar stories suggesting “The Real O’Neals” would be punished by their network for the completely unexpected rant their leading-star-on-the-loose gave New York Magazine’s Vulture.
Undeniably, the Noah-Galvin-Vulture-Controversy provoked ABC publicly disassociating themselves with the statements, star and series. Was ABC “blindsided”? I thought “Blindspot” was on NBC.
A few things “Noah Galvin” had to say back in May:
I live in the backyard of Jay Ferguson. I live in the guest house of my dad on the show in an adorable little one-bedroom guest house in his backyard. We’re very very close.
“Yeah, yeah.. there’s a lack of creativity [laughs] I am just downing Los Angeles right now but I think there is a lack of creativity in, you know, not only in the casting world in Los Angeles but just in general. In Los Angeles, there’s a weird closet-ed-ness that I’ve experienced in Los Angeles. Even like people who have like guested on our show. I had this weird experience where like this person who was on our show was like very blatantly flirting with me and asked me to ‘come out’, or ask me to like go out [at night].
I just turned to him–and I was like ‘Are you gay?’
He was like ‘you know. I don’t. I’m like go with the flow or whatever.’
‘What is that?’ It was very odd. I don’t know, but I think there like a weird level of closet-ed-ness in Los Angeles that just doesn’t exist in New York.”
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“You know, I think the only way our show is going to be successful is if it looked and sounded like pretty much any old ABC sitcom.. with this, you know, subversive twist of my character being the narrator and being openly [gay at Age 16] so I think that in in some way as small somewhat revolutionary but again it looks like an ABC sitcom and it sounds like an ABC sitcom.” I think I made it pretty clear in my tests that I was gay.
“In what way?”
I think the first question I think they were surprised the first question I asked in my test. I sat down and I was like ‘how how flamboyant is this kid’ you know and they were like ‘interesting…we haven’t been asked that yet’ because I think a lot of people read the breakdown or whatever and these saw that he was gay so they go in and they’re like ‘oh, well, I’m just going to play him as stereotypical gay.’
I have talked about this before I think it’s an important thing that a gay kid play this character somebody who really understands the coming out experience you know not that mean can you have had like we don’t have crazy similarities and are coming out experiences or even like as people but you know on a base level being gay and having gone through those things in my home life going to inform the story and inform the character.
I think a lot of times on TV … characters do fall into the stereotypical traps you know as wonderful and as much as I love Eric Stonestreet as an actor, he is playing a pretty ridiculous stereotype …
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This week’s episode of “Tomorrow with Joshua Topolsky” contains “an (allegedly) amazing discussion between Josh and associate editor at Vulture E. Alex Jung. It’s (reportedly) all about representation in media – or the lack thereof.” E. Alex Jung is the writer behind the Vulture interview/article. Listen, it’s interesting.
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(Reuters) – American rocker Meat Loaf collapsed on stage on Thursday during a performance in Edmonton, Canada, days after he postponed a show due to illness, media reported and social media posts showed.
The 68-year-old musician fell to the stage floor in the Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton as he was singing his 1993 hit “I’d Do Anything for Love,” video clips on Twitter and traffic on the social media platform showed.
Emergency personnel responded at the scene, the Edmonton Journal reported.
His condition was not known and authorities in Edmonton were not available for comment.
Meat Loaf postponed a show in the city of Calgary on Monday due to illness, he said on his Facebook page.
Meat Loaf, whose real name is Marvin Lee Aday, pulled out of a concert in Britain just hours before he was due on stage because of health problems in 2013.
He canceled a European Tour in 2007 after being diagnosed with a cyst on his vocal chords and sparked further fears for his health in 2011 when he collapsed on stage. He later blamed blackouts on past concussion injuries and his health issues on asthma.
In 2012, he underwent a knee replacement operation.
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As homes get smarter, so too do potential intruders and miscreants. As we continually upgrade our appliances, it is also fitting that we upgrade our security systems. Fortunately, it won’t necessarily mean trading an arm or a leg just to get a smart security setup. D-Link is adding a new HD 180-degree camera, the DCS-8200LH, to its mydlink Connected Home … Continue reading
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