Baby Mama Drama: Amy Poehler Might Need More People
Black culture in all its diversity is exported in distorted form throughout the globe. I get it. I got it many years ago when Hong Kong school children offered me unsolicited high fives--an attempt to greet me in my native tongue, maybe?--and a few years later when me and my friends were groped and mirthfully called "Hip Hop Beetches" by a Parisian youth as we were leaving a local hip hop club. Still, I was unprepared for recent specious claims by SNL's Amy Poehler. You see Poehler, evincing a knowledge of Black folks exclusively informed by early nineties television portrayals, told The Daily News' Ben Widdicombe an improbable story in which crowds of Harlemites rose from their lawn chairs (which they naturally arranged at the film set's periphery), pumped their fists Arsenio Hall style and chanted something akin to "Go Amy" as she enacted a scene from her to be avoided forthcoming flick Baby Mama. Widdicombe doesn't believe her and neither do I,
Apparently, half of Harlem doesn't have to turn out for Wednesday night's premiere of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's comedy, "Baby Mama" - they've already seen it.
Poehler told us: "We were shooting in Harlem, a scene where I smash the windshield of the car belonging to Tina's ex-boyfriend, who just dissed her in the club. It was 2 a.m., and everyone got their lawn chairs out and were cheering me on. They were screaming, 'You can do it! C'mon, Amy, smash that windshield!' "They all knew who you were?
"I went around and shook hands with everyone and made sure they knew my work. I drew my own head shots and signed them. No one wanted them, but I did it anyway."
Ditto Gatecrasher commenter Mustafa's, "whatever"
Source: Uptown Flavor
Tags: Amy Poehler, Baby Mama, Film, Media, SNL
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Aisha says:
I don't what's worse. That they actually made a movie about this or that it was the #1 movie the weekend it premiered.
05/07/2008 at 11:39 PM