Paula Deen Was Honest, Why Can't Everyone Else Be?

I'm not a Paula Deen fan.  I don't dislike her, I'm just not into her style of cooking.

From what I understand, she started at the bottom, single mom on foodstamps, and worked her way up.  I think that really says something about a person.  She gets credit from me for all her hard work.

What I don't understand is all the media attention on her because she said the "N" word".  Because she is now forced to wear a scarlet "N", she is losing everything.  None of this makes any sense to me.  What did she do that is so bad she deserves all this?  I'm not justifying racial slurs, but seriously folks, who out there has never said something they didn't mean, or were sorry they said?

Have you ever been to a garage sale or flea market and "jewed" a price down?
When you were a kid did you ever get an "indian" rub, or "indian" wrestle?
At a restaurant with a friend do you ever go "dutch"?

The kicker here to me is when you hear blacks/coloreds/negros/African American's (I don't know what the politically correct word of the day is) call each other the "N" word.  "Well, it's their word so they can say it".  I've never heard a group of Italian's say "yo yo dago, wassup?", or Asian teen agers saying "Hey chink" to each other.

This all out assault on this woman is just ridiculous and needs to stop.  So she said a racial slur, so what, who hasn't at least one time in their lives.  She doesn't use racial slurs in her daily conversation it was a one time mistake.  How stupid the media has become.

People in glass houses should not throw stones, unless you throw them at the media.

I Miss the Old Movies

My husband and I saw the new Superman film.  It wasn't bad, but I think I'm getting to old for the movies. 

There were definitely high points to this film.  Russell Crowe can do no wrong in my eyes and Henry Cavill - he's a might fine chunk of flesh and fills out the costume very, very well, but I just couldn't follow it all with all the special effects.

The same evening, Turner Classic Movie's was showing "To Kill a Mockingbird", one of the finest movies ever made.  As I watch this movie, the characters personalities evolving as the movie progressed, the fantastic script, the magnificent acting I couldn't help but compare it to the "Man of Steel" I saw earlier.

I'm not talking about comparing it frame by frame, but comparing how the movies were made.  "MOS" was all special effects, very little plot (we all know the story), and very, very little script.  There is no need to talk when you have computer graphics to carry you.  They really needed to edit better.

"TKAM" is an amazing film.  To watch Gregory Peck as Atticus Fitch is just about as good as it gets.  The facial expressions, the body language - all the characters were just fascinating - you don't see this anymore.

I think it's an age thing.  If I was 25 again, I'm sure I'd be all over the computer stuff, but I really appreciate the whole movie making thing, and the new stuff just isn't doing it for me.

Did I mention Henry Cavill is built like a Greek god?  He really could be on Mt. Olympus, along side Russell Crowe.