Who Does She Think She Is?

 

Michelle Obamarama

Ah, Michelle Obama. Should she work? Bake cookies?  And will she be doing her own hair on the road?  They better not pull any of that John Edwards hair scandal mess on her!  I'm sorry, but it's different.  It just is.

Also, I'm not exactly worried about her quitting her job because she is essentially leaving one job for another: the very viable and historic presidential campaign of her husband.  Why this is a mystery to people, I'll never know.

Michelle Obama: A Long Tryout for First Lady - via The New York Times with video features.

Michelle Obama's Career Timeout via The Washington Post.

Michelle Obama quits board of Wal-Mart supplier - via Lynn Sweet's blog in the Chicago Sun Times.

Michelle Obama's Sacrifice via Salon - Debra Dickerson is in a "feminist fury" because Michelle Obama quit her job.  Debra - snap out of it!  An Ivy League-educated lawyer is allowed to quit her job when her husband has a real shot at the presidency of the United States of America.  Is it really that unclear to you, or do you just dig getting under the skin of the commenters at Salon?  This foolishness was worse (well, almost) than Maureen Dowd's "emasculating" nonsense a few weeks ago.

Michelle Obama: the latest Racial Rorschach Test: - via Mirror on America.

Barack's Rock - via the Chicago Tribune.

Wife Touts Obama's 'Moral Compass' - via The Washington Post.

Low Key Protection for Michelle Obama? via the Chicago Sun Times.

Michelle Vouches For Husband's Character to Voters  - video via CBS 2 Chicago. Michelle says that joking references to her husband's shortcomings are "played out."  "Everybody's heard that" she said.  "I need to keep it fresh.  I think everybody understands the broader point, which is Barack is human."

Obama's Wife No Mere Coat Holder via Forbes.com.   How would Michelle Obama serve as First Lady? "I come to this with a lot of interesting talents, but I think it would be unfair of me to say today what I would do in a couple of years," she continued. "I need to be prepared to do what the country needs me to do at the time.

"Whether that's baking cookies or serving as a wonderful hostess, that's my job. I have to be prepared to do what's necessary. And we won't know what that's going to be until we get there. I will be staunchly invested. It is a joint project."

 

Amazing Audra

Audra McDonald is on track to become the biggest Tony winner ever - and she's only 36.  She has won four Tony Awards in her career for roles in 'Carousel,' 'Master Class,' 'Ragtime' and 'A Raisin in the Sun' and she's currently nominated for her fifth Tony for 110 in the Shade.  As usual, she's getting rave reviews, but not from the producers of the new all-black Debbie Allen-directed Broadway staging of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.  She was originally set to play the iconic role of Maggie the Cat, but the hedge fund monied backers bounced her for a name they knew: Beyonce.  The show was set to debut this fall and the original story was that it was postponed due to a lack of an available theatre.  Now, the story is that production was pushed back to accomodate Beyonce's  schedule.  Audra had a classy response to the news: "I think Beyoncé's an incredibly beautiful, talented singer," she says. "But the stage is a very difficult beast . . . a lot of people don't understand how difficult it is not just to do it right once, but do it right eight times a week and keep it up."

I swear, 'suits' are determined to kill Broadway, aren't they?  I don't care if some knucklehead thinks it's 'hating' on Beyonce, but to push Audra aside for her is truly nuts.  And the idea of LL Cool J as Brick is even worse.  Two words people: Jeffrey Wright.  I almost forgot that he is slated to play Easy Rawlins in the film adaption of Little Scarlet  alongside Mos Def as Mouse. Yay!!!   

Princess Anika

It's official! Anika Noni Rose will be the voice of Disney's newly renamed Frog Princess, Tiana (thanks Disney - Maddy definitely sucked.)  She made an announcement on her Myspace blog: FINALLY!!!!! IT"S OFFICIAL!!!  thank you to all of you who have sent me congratulations.  I could not be more excited and tickled and honored and pleased. YES!! I am the Frog Princess!!!  This has been something I've wanted to do since i was a little kid.  YaYYYY!!~

The name of the film has been changed too, from The Frog Princess to The Princess and the Frog, after it was discovered that the original title essentially translates into a slur in French.

 
 

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Have a great Memorial Day Weekend!