Writer's Circle: Lena Dunham was 23 when she sold Girls to HBO with a page-and-a-half-long pitch, without a character nor a plot
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She has influential parents
who financed a short movie she got the show based off the success of the short movie with no plots and all that
its just how whiteness works.
she also molested her little sister
who financed a short movie she got the show based off the success of the short movie with no plots and all that
its just how whiteness works.
she also molested her little sister
Yeah,that molestation got swept under the rug. Matter of fact, you had people, including her feminist friends defending her on that bullshit.
I was rooting for Cristela when she had her show 
It’s pointless in complaining.
She got the gig because of networking and connections.
That’s why there needs to be more black folks working behind the camera.
We got more than plenty of high influential Black folks in the entertainment business, especially Hollywood.
Instead of focusing their attention on opening up new Chicken n waffle joints, Barber shops and clothing lines made in China.
Invest their time and connections into opening doors to get Black folks into the business behind the scenes.
She got the gig because of networking and connections.
That’s why there needs to be more black folks working behind the camera.
We got more than plenty of high influential Black folks in the entertainment business, especially Hollywood.
Instead of focusing their attention on opening up new Chicken n waffle joints, Barber shops and clothing lines made in China.
Invest their time and connections into opening doors to get Black folks into the business behind the scenes.
I felt like I knew this but not the SPECIFICS
If this is TRUE that is especially crazy
and to add to THAT?
she got a rabbi (word to Nick Cannon) in Apatow.
that is just an obscene amount of privilege in just ONE chick
who by the way?
aint really follow it up with sh*t.
She'll get plenty of chances to fail upwards tho...
What’s stopping anyone from creating their own content?
I wrote a story a few years back called The Lottery that I’m probably going to film in a couple months. It only has one character in one setting.
I wrote a story a few years back called The Lottery that I’m probably going to film in a couple months. It only has one character in one setting.
PLENTY
Honestly, congrats on the accomplishment. But do you think a rich and powerful white man will swoop in and hook you up with HBO executives? Furthermore, do you think you can half-ass a TV show presentation and have it run for five seasons?
We should all know better but still get shocked from time to time.
No. Not at first. But I’m sure if I work hard at my craft and my goal is to get fondled by a gay exec I would hope I get there.
I am poor. My children are poor. Maybe we should aspire to get to serve at the feet of HBO execs. Create and finance your own content and they will eventually find you anyway. The guy that jerked off on female comics used to sell his content on his website.
Maybe we should be more self sufficient. Don’t you feel weird reading about people talking about Black Wall Street yet want to be part of the system?
Tyler Perry has a studio. You have the internet. Unless you’re looking for a white expectance via an Emmy and Oscar.
Some people want to work inside the system, while others don't. Both approaches have positives and negatives. Either way, this business isn't for the naive or faint of heart.
Spoken like a man with a full refrigerator.
Her uncle is a senator from New York. Maybe it is a coincidence.
Say less. smmfh
Networking and connections? It's pure old nepotism and you're white so here's a favor. It's no different than Trump saying his father gave him a small million dollar loan
I'm not saying you're wrong, but it just pisses me off. White people don't have to even try and we got to ice skate uphill
Isn't this the same bitch that was upset because Odell Beckham JR didn't give her any attention?...
Lena Dunham Wants to Be the Voice of Her COVID-19 Generation
By Devon Ivie@devonsaysrelax
Photo: Instagram: @lenadunham
A “reluctant” Lena Dunham has revealed that she experienced a long battle with the coronavirus after testing positive for the virus in mid-March. Posting to her Instagram on July 31, the Girls creator recapped her lingering COVID-19 symptoms in an opus titled “My Covid Story.” It began with achy joints, not unlike Dunham’s “usual diagnoses” from her various illnesses (which includes Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and endometriosis), but it soon transformed into “impossible, crushing fatigue” and a high fever. “Suddenly my body simply revolted,” she wrote. “The nerves in my feet burned and muscles wouldn’t seem to do their job. My hands were numb. I couldn’t tolerate loud noises. I couldn’t sleep but I couldn’t wake up. I lost my sense of taste and smell. A hacking cough, like a metronome keeping time. Inability to breathe after simple tasks like getting a glass of water. Random red rashes. A pounding headache right between my eyes.” These symptoms went on for 21 days, or “days that blended into each other like a rave gone wrong.”
Dunham was never hospitalized during her COVID-19 ordeal, instead being treated at home by a private doctor. She tested negative for the virus after a month of symptoms, although she’s still experiencing health issues that have yet to subside — including swollen hands and feet, migraines, arthritis, and fatigue. “Even as a chronically ill person, I had never felt this way,” she added. “To be clear, I did not have these particular issues before I got sick with this virus … the serious long-term health consequences of a COVID-19 infection are something doctors are learning more about every hour.”
Several other celebrities, in addition to Dunham, have been open and candid about their coronavirus experiences. Most recently they have included Bryan Cranston, Doja Cat, Anna Camp, and international treasure Tom Hanks.
By Devon Ivie@devonsaysrelax
Photo: Instagram: @lenadunham
A “reluctant” Lena Dunham has revealed that she experienced a long battle with the coronavirus after testing positive for the virus in mid-March. Posting to her Instagram on July 31, the Girls creator recapped her lingering COVID-19 symptoms in an opus titled “My Covid Story.” It began with achy joints, not unlike Dunham’s “usual diagnoses” from her various illnesses (which includes Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and endometriosis), but it soon transformed into “impossible, crushing fatigue” and a high fever. “Suddenly my body simply revolted,” she wrote. “The nerves in my feet burned and muscles wouldn’t seem to do their job. My hands were numb. I couldn’t tolerate loud noises. I couldn’t sleep but I couldn’t wake up. I lost my sense of taste and smell. A hacking cough, like a metronome keeping time. Inability to breathe after simple tasks like getting a glass of water. Random red rashes. A pounding headache right between my eyes.” These symptoms went on for 21 days, or “days that blended into each other like a rave gone wrong.”
Dunham was never hospitalized during her COVID-19 ordeal, instead being treated at home by a private doctor. She tested negative for the virus after a month of symptoms, although she’s still experiencing health issues that have yet to subside — including swollen hands and feet, migraines, arthritis, and fatigue. “Even as a chronically ill person, I had never felt this way,” she added. “To be clear, I did not have these particular issues before I got sick with this virus … the serious long-term health consequences of a COVID-19 infection are something doctors are learning more about every hour.”
Several other celebrities, in addition to Dunham, have been open and candid about their coronavirus experiences. Most recently they have included Bryan Cranston, Doja Cat, Anna Camp, and international treasure Tom Hanks.
Lena Dunham's 'Sharp Stick' delivers a strange, tone-deaf coming-of-age
Lena Dunham' confounding second feature 'Sharp Stick' comes with all the explicit sexuality and none of the sense.
Sharp Stick review: Lena Dunham stumbles with a strange, tone-deaf coming-of-age
Less sex, more sense, please.
By Leah GreenblattJanuary 23, 2022 at 06:11 PM EST
From her 2011 feature debut Tiny Furniture on through six seasons of Girls, Lena Dunham famously became a voice of a generation by exploring ideas about young womanhood in ways that were maybe outrageous (at least at the time) and often divisive but rarely not interesting. It's a lot harder to find a point of view, or even a point, in Sharp Stick, which premiered last night at the Sundance Film Festival. Dunham has publicly said that her purpose with the movie — about a young woman's sensual awakening in Los Angeles, more or less — is to "create a free dialogue around the complexities of female sexuality"; the result, though, is such a strange and sour misfire, so relentlessly softcore yet somehow sexless, it feels almost defiantly stripped of any meaningful message.
Besides maybe that girls in pinafores and knee socks are hot: One of Stick's more confounding choices is to center the story on Sarah Jo (Norwegian American actress Kristine Froseth) who says she's 26 but seems to have a mental age much younger. A lithe, pillow-lipped naif who works as a companion for disabled children, she shovels yogurt in her mouth like a milk-starved toddler and dresses in a conspicuously twee series of cottage-core ruffles and hairbows that the camera lingers on lovingly. (The resemblance to Brooke Shields in Pretty Baby doesn't entirely feel like a coincidence).
Her mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a blowsy five-time divorcee, makes some kind of income collecting rent on their shabby bungalows; her older sister (Zola's Taylour Paige) is building her brand as an influencer, one butt-clap selfie at a time. But mostly they sit around in loungewear, talking gleefully and explicitly about men and how to get them, with Sarah Jo as their wide-eyed witness. Her own level of experience becomes more clear when she bluntly propositions the father of the little boy she cares for (Jon Bernthal), pleading with him to unburden her of the virginity she's held on to since undergoing a radical hysterectomy at 15. John, a sweet, shaggy slacker who apparently lives off the considerable income of his heavily pregnant real estate broker wife (Dunham), resists at first then quickly succumbs, undone by her insistence (and all those knee socks).
'Sharp Stick'
The journey of self-discovery that follows through frantic broom-closet quickies and golden-hour afternoons might make more sense if Sarah Jo wasn't such a wildly inconsistent character, cheerfully reciting unusual penis shapes with her mom one minute, then playing a holy fool who's never heard of oral sex the next. Her learning curve is steep, but when the affair with Josh is inevitably exposed, her response to his rejection is to become a kind of sexual conquistador, working down a literal checklist — there are magic markers, and construction paper — of erotic activities more likely to be scrawled on the bathroom walls of gas stations and junior highs than actually pursued in real life.
That leads to a series of anonymous online encounters and a burgeoning crush on an affable, neck-tattooed porn star (Scott Speedman, doing what seems like his best Justin Timberlake impression). The list is conquered eventually, though with a doggedness that seems less like a pleasure seeker than a girl grimly determined to complete compulsory dental work. Froseth is physically lovely, and actors like Bernthal and Leigh are too good not to drill down on the finer points of their winky L.A. archetypes. But if there's supposed to be some kind of deeper empowerment in the mere fact of Dunham's female gaze, it doesn't manifest any differently than say, Roman Polanski's or Larry Clark's. The movie's final frame asks us to believe that Sarah Jo has finally, ecstatically found herself; by then, whatever reason we have for watching is already long lost. Grade: C–
she doesn't have to...that shit is a hobby for her.
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