What Happened When a Handsome, White Actor Shed a Tear Over ‘Glory’ – The Root

Actor Chris Pine cried over the John Legend-Common performance, and suddenly civil rights has a new “hero.” Chris Pine at the Academy Awards Feb. 22, 2015Youtube screenshot /sl-art-illo-cap /sl-art-illo-cntr There is nothing—nothing—like seeing a handsome, straight, cisgender, wealthy, able-bodied white man cry to remind us how horrific black people had it during the civil rights…

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The End of the Big Mac – The Atlantic

The burger’s demise won’t be marked by a declaration in a quarterly report, but by a collective appreciation for the comfort it offered America. Francis Vallance/Flickr/McDonald’s/The Atlantic If you like to lunch on two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun, you’d better act fast: McDonald’s has announced plans…

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J.J. Abrams discusses the lightsaber controversy and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” – Salon.com

On Wednesday, J.J. Abrams was honored with the Visionary Award at the Visual Effects Society Awards. In a conversation with Collider on red carpet, the “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens” director discussed the upcoming “Star Wars” film, CGI versus sets and Simon Pegg and the next “Star Trek” film. Abrams also addressed a major…

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One Of The Most Important Lawsuits In The History Of Hollywood Is Quietly Happening – CINEMABLEND

  Last February, author Tess Gerritsen received information that would, over the course of a year, fuel a monumental legal action against Warner Bros and New Line Cinema. That battle pertained to the record breaking, crowd pleasing, Academy Award-winning film Gravity – which, as it happens, shared its title and bits of space terror with…

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Silicon Valley Could Learn a Lot From Skater Culture. Just Not How to Be a Meritocracy | WIRED

Silicon Valley Has Lost Its Way, the WIRED headline began. Sure, I’ll go with that. It continued, Can Skateboarding Legend Rodney Mullen Help It? And there it is: the idea that skate culture could energize a languid tech world. Is skateboarding the EpiPen the Valley needs? No. Please no. Not now. The last time skateboarding was a…

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Give me cheap beer, or give me sobriety. Just stop this craft beer ‘revolution’ | Eleanor Robertson | Comment is free | The Guardian

‘The ‘beer-as-backdrop’ phenomenon is why it’s important for tap beers to be sessionable and relatively inexpensive.’ Photograph: AAP Is the craft beer “revolution” over yet? For the past four or five years I’ve been plaintively asking this question in the same tone as a toddler in the back seat. Now it seems that every time…

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