Transgender Contestant to Compete on Top Model
US weekly recently reported that one of the 14 girls who will compete on the new season of America's Next Top Model which returns to The CW on September 3 is transgender. So what's the big deal?!
Isis, a 22-year-old former receptionist, will be the first transgender contestant to appear on ANTM. Is Tyra opening her mind and allowing everyone to have an equal opportunity at their dream, or is Tyra opening up her fashionable handbag for all the extra money she will receive for the increased ratings?
The question also must be asked: Will Isis have a fair chance at winning the competition? What will this do for the other women in the competition who could possibly lose to Isis?
Isn't she hot!
It only took 84 years and an African American presidential candidate for Disney to bring its first black princess to fruition with The Princess and the Frog. For the upcoming movie they’ve returned both to hand-drawn animation (CGI is awesome and all, but how about some old school 2-D love for cartoons already?) and the writer/director combo of John Musker and Ron Clemens who worked on some of the last Disney films we remember that didn’t suck, The Little Mermaid and Aladdin.
Somehow though, the task of creating a black princess has not been easy for the Disney team. In fact, they've had to go back and rework every aspect of the title character from her appearance to her name (she went from “Maddy” to a more modern “Tiana”) to her occupation (was originally dubbed a chambermaid) after concern for playing to African American stereotypes. We somehow doubt there was a woman named Tiana living in 1920s New Orleans, where the story is set, but we’ll let that slide as we have a bigger issue with the new trailer: the toothless narrating firefly. Yeah.
We’ll have to wait till Christmas 2009 for The Princess and the Frog's theatrical release, but for now check out the trailer and let us know what you think. [EW]
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