Stern Was Right: Sidibe Has No Future in Film

Howard Stern may have been “distasteful” when he said earlier this week that Gabourey Sidibe’s career is finished, but he was also one other thing: absolutely right. Sidibe is talented, but “nobody's tripping over themselves to write movies for overweight African-American girls,” writes Kevin Broccoli on Salon. “People are attacking Stern for his comments, but they're not bringing up the elephant in the room—the truth.”

Yes, the Precious actress has a role in an upcoming TV series, but where are the scores of film offers that typically follow an Oscar nomination? (See: "Traditionally pretty" fellow nom Carey Mulligan, who is set to star in Wall Street 2).“It's become a sad tradition that African-American Academy Award winners tend to fade out of sight once they win,” with rare exceptions like Denzel Washington.” But “on top of being a minority actress in Hollywood, she's also overweight,” Broccoli writes—though he’d love to see Hollywood prove Stern wrong.
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