Shonda Rhimes: The constant talk about my race and gender ‘really pisses me off’

Shonda Rhimes: The constant talk about my race and gender “really pisses me off”
In a Hollywood Reporter profile that calls describes Rhimes as sharing “several traits with her characters: the dedication of Meredith Grey, the drive of Christina Yang and the steely confidence of Olivia Pope,” Rhimes talks about the NY Times “angry black woman” article and how she”s tired of being described by her race and gender. “I find race and gender to be terribly important; they're terribly important to who I am. But there's something about the need for everybody else to spend time talking about it … that pisses me off,” she says.

The SNL MasterCard really exists: Watch the “SNL”-produced commercial
In the ad, Taran Killam and Bobby Moynihan play your dream dates.

Brian Dennehy and Neal McDonough sign on for TNT”s “Public Morals”
Dennehy will play a powerful mobster and McDonough will play his son in the Ed Burns cop drama set in 1967 New York City.

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Lifetime orders a 4th and final “Flowers in the Attic” movie
Airing next year, the 4th film will be based on V.C. Andrews” book  “Seeds of Yesterday.”

Fox has been in talks for an “X-Men” TV series “for a while now”
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Who will play O.J. Simpson on Ryan Murphy”s “American Crime Story”?
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Netflix CEO: Binge-watching could revolutionize education
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Bill Murray says Bill Hader “did the best work anyone ever did” on “Saturday Night Live”
Murray made his comments this morning on Howard Stern. “I think Bill Hader probably did the best work anyone ever did on that show … It took him a little while to get going, but once he got going it  was extraordinary,” he said.

Louis CK can”t stop tweeting about Mars and the universe
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Hoda Kotb will be on tonight”s “SVU”
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Save “Dallas” petition targeting CBS
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Watch the “House of Lies” Season 4 “I Will Survive” trailer
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“Wendy Williams Show” ex-intern files a class-action lawsuit
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Piers Morgan: I lobbied CNN to replace Anderson Cooper with Megyn Kelly
The former CNN host writes in a Hollywood Reporter column: “I suggested to (CNN boss) Jeff  (Zucker) that Megyn Kelly would be a perfect primetime star for CNN – young, beautiful, slick, razor smart, bursting with opinions, humor and authority. I was convinced she'd give me a much better lead-in than Anderson Cooper, who for all his qualities as a reporter is stiff in a studio and gets annihilated in the ratings every night by O”Reilly.”

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