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Disney goes bearded, Sundance goes silent, Vanilla Ice goes hipster and Tracy Morgan goes home

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Marina Abromovic at New York's Museum of Modern Art

Today's pop culture roundup:

  • Clearly staged, but if seeing Vanilla Ice singing "Ice, Ice Baby" and "Ninja Rap" as an Echo Park indie rock hipster doesn't make you happy, you, sir or madame, have no heart:
    (via the Daily What)
  • Disney is finally lifting their legendary ban on facial hair for theme park employees. So next time you're at Disneyland, you may see some well-groomed goatees. Well-groomed, because there are still limitations, such as keeping the facial hair less than a quarter of an inch. Still banned? Soul patches. Disney knows that's still wrong.
  • Tracy Morgan returned to Los Angeles after collapsing at Sundance, but it sounds like it was unrelated to his struggles with alcohol. He's blaming the high altitude. Morgan also suffers from diabetes, which is known to be harder to manage at high altitudes. (via The Atlantic Wire)

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    10 best quotes from 'S--- White Girls Say... to Black Girls' video

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    "S--- White Girls Say... to Black Girls" video plays off the "S--- Girls Say" viral video.

    Following the success of the Twitter account/viral video sensation "S--- Girls Say," and imitators like "S--- Black Girls Say," "S--- Gay Guys Say," and other "S--- [group] Say" videos that include some sort of broad generalization that people hopefully find humor and truth in comes "S--- White Girls say... to Black Girls."

    Some highlights:

    • "Not to sound racist, but..."
    • "Is it like, bad to do blackface? Is that still like a thing?"
    • "You can say the N word, but I can't? How is that OK?"
    • "My best friend was black."
    • [Showing her tan] "Oh my God, I'm practically black! Twinsies!"
    • "This is so ghetto."
    • "Girlfriend!"
    • "Holler!"
    • "Sorry, can we turn it down? I don't really like rap."
    • [Singing "Super Bass" by Nicki Minaj]

    Funny? Offensive? Probably both. (As opposed to the original, which just seemed potentially vaguely sexist.) What do you think?

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