Including a token exaggerated gay/overweight/non-white/etc. comic relief character isn’t progressive. You don’t get a pat on the back for having someone outside the film/television/Western norm only to brush them off or represent them as some outrageous stereotype because that’s funny.
Not aimed at anything in particular, but it’s still out there and irritating as hell. It’s kind of a comedy thing.
The Coen Brothers on-set of Raising Arizona (1987)
Behind-the-Scenes Photos of the tv-show Mad Men photographed by James Minchin.
May 25, 1977: Star Wars is released.
Before the release of his first Star Wars film, George Lucas was convinced that his genre-busting space opera epic would flop at the box office, so he made a bet with Steven Spielberg, whose science-fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind was also set to release that year. If Spielberg’s film made more money than his own, he would collect a percentage of whatever profit Close Encounters made, and vice versa. Spielberg’s sci-fi classic made an impressive $337 million by the end of its run, but Star Wars made nearly $800 million which, adjusted for inflation, makes it the third highest-grossing film of all time (it also spawned a franchise which, according to some estimates, has yielded a total revenue of $27 billion). Needless to say, Spielberg lost the battle of films but won the bet, and reportedly continues to benefit from that bet today.
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Brooklyn, New York, 1966.
[Credit : Danny Lyon]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/a3db00b1505982a9c07dcb8f8ac13eab/tumblr_ml7mjm5PZR1r44q44o1_500.jpg)
Brooklyn, New York, 1966.
[Credit : Danny Lyon]
Meteor Magic by Shannon Bileski
A fireball flashes amid the aurora lights in the skies over the Canadian province of Manitoba.
