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| | Justin Timberlake set up Janet's wardrobe malfunction to top Britney's VMAs kiss | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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We always knew Justin Timberlake was behind Janet Jackson?s ?wardrobe malfunction? at the Super Bowl, but at long last, we?re getting confirmation. Stylist Wayne Scot Lukas has written a tell-all, tentatively called Wardrobe Malfunctions: Receipts from the Front Lines and Front Row, in which he serves up the goods on a lot of famous folks. Wayne, who styled Janet that infamous day, is happy to set the record straight on Justin and the Super Bowl because not only does Wayne thinks Janet deserves to be further exonerated, he wants to clear up the misconception that anything malfunctioned. According to Wayne, Justin and Janet had a whole routine designed in which he would step on her train and it would tear, exposing her backside. But Justin became so focused on out-doing his ex, Britney Spears, and her 2003 MTV VMA kiss with Madonna and Christina Aguilera, that he ordered the wardrobe switch that went from a back tear to a front bodice rip.
The stylist who prepped Janet Jackson?s look for her infamous 2004 Super Bowl appearance with Justin Timberlake tells Page Six that Timberlake pushed for the ?wardrobe malfunction? in an attempt to outdo Britney Spears, Madonna and Christina Aguilera, who had wowed the world months earlier by scandalously kissing at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Superstylist Wayne Scot Lukas told us that Timberlake ?insisted on doing something bigger than their performance. He wanted a reveal.?
Scot Lukas told us that the original concept was for Jackson to be in a pearl G-string inspired by one that Kim Cattrall had worn in an episode of ?Sex and the City.?
?Janet was going to be in a Rocha dress, and [Justin] was going to step on the back of her dress to reveal her butt in this pearl G-string,? he told us. But ?the outfit changed a couple of days before, and you saw the magic.?
Of course, in the end Timberlake tore off part of her top at the end of their performance, briefly revealing Jackson?s breast. Timberlake famously labeled the incident a ?wardrobe malfunction.?
?I wouldn?t call it a wardrobe ?malfunction? in a million years. It was the most functioning wardrobe in history. As a stylist, it did what it was intended to do,? he said.
[From Page Six]
I?m trying to figure out how exposing Janet?s derriere was less of an issue than exposing her breast but I guess we?ve seen more tushes? Or maybe because they were mimicking a scene from a TV show it made it less of an issue. Wayne said that Janet really has forgiven Justin in private and that, ?they made their peace a long time ago.? I wonder if she knew Justin?s reason for cranking up the shock value when she forgave him, though. I might be willing to accept that we?d taken a gamble that didn?t pay off. But to be shamed into sequestering for a year plus because Justin still couldn?t get over Britney? I?d make him eat his apology.
Wayne said Justin?s (non) apology from this year inspired him to set the record straight and write the book after all this time. A source told Page Six that Wayne?s version of the bodice ripping isn?t true and he?s just trying to sell books. I believe it because it sounds like the kind of weaselly thing Justin would do. And if Wayne wanted to sell books, he wouldn?t offer up the dishiest story for free. Even if it isn?t 100% accurate, just putting this out there reminds everyone that Justin is a slimeball who sole motivation is his own ambition. Justin has no problem letting women take the fall for his actions.
the iconic kiss between Britney Spears and Madonna at VMA 2003 while justin watched pic.twitter.com/kaQt2VYgyx
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| | Will Smith & Antoine Fuqua pull their film out of Georgia after voter-suppression law | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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In late March, Georgia governor Brian Kemp signed a huge voter suppression bill into law. The aim of the new law is to plainly suppress the Black vote in that state, and to make it harder for people in urban areas to vote. This came just five months after Georgia voters helped elect Joe Biden to the presidency, and just a few months after Georgians elected two Democrats for the senators in special run-off elections. The Republicans are beyond pissed.
What?s strange is that Georgia has spent years opening up the state to corporations and Hollywood studios with all kinds of tax incentives. Disney, Marvel, Netflix and Tyler Perry Studios always have productions filming in Georgia. A wide variety of films and TV shows base themselves in Georgia. The voter suppression law was widely condemned by Hollywood, and all of the major unions issued statements. And? that?s about it. Just a lot of words, no promises to move productions out of Georgia. The lack of action from H?wood was getting pretty noticeable. Well, finally, an actor and a director have actually done it they?re moving their sh-t out of Georgia.
Will Smith and the director Antoine Fuqua said on Monday that they were pulling their upcoming film production ?Emancipation? out of Georgia because of the state?s new voting law, which has been denounced by activists as an effort to make voting harder for the state?s Black population. The slavery-era drama, which is being produced and financed by Apple Studios, is the first major production to cite the law as a reason to leave the state, which offers generous tax incentives to Hollywood productions and has become a major hub for Marvel Studios, Netflix and other industry heavyweights.
?At this moment in time, the nation is coming to terms with its history and is attempting to eliminate vestiges of institutional racism to achieve true racial justice,? Mr. Smith and Mr. Fuqua said in a joint statement. ?We cannot in good conscience provide economic support to a government that enacts regressive voting laws that are designed to restrict voter access. The new Georgia voting laws are reminiscent of voting impediments that were passed at the end of Reconstruction to prevent many Americans from voting. Regrettably, we feel compelled to move our film production work from Georgia to another state.?
In the film, set to begin production this summer, Mr. Smith was set to play the real-life enslaved man named Peter, who emancipated himself from a Southern plantation and joined the Union Army. His story became famous after photographs of his back, scarred by whippings, appeared in the pages of Harper?s Weekly.
Whether or not this move will prompt other studios to reconsider productions in Georgia is not clear. Stacey Abrams, along with Tyler Perry, who owns his own studio in Atlanta, and others have urged Hollywood not to uproot productions despite outrage over the new law.
[From The NY Times]
Personally, I think Antoine Fuqua and Will Smith are merely acting on their consciences rather than making a larger call for studios to move out of Georgia or boycott the state. Some say boycotts work, some say no, boycotts don?t do sh-t. I think a boycott on its own won?t do much, especially if there are only a handful of artists and productions walking out of the state. Plus, it is notable that Stacey Abrams has asked Hollywood not to leave, and I?m sure there are a lot of powerful white Hollywood figures who will use that as cover. I think Will and Antoine are brave for what they?re doing and hopefully they?ll force a larger conversation within Hollywood and there can be a better plan beyond ?issue a statement condemning the new voter suppression law and continue to pour money into Georgia.?
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