Joss Whedon: DC"s Movies Are "More Cinematic" Than Marvel"s

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Directorial megastar, nerdy icon, or notorious iconoclast? Classic purveyor of one-liners, inspired universe builder, or accidental misogynist? Underrated legend, correctly rated genre expert, or overrated egotist? #JossWhedon has been called a whole lot of things during his time in the #Hollywood spotlight, and not all of them have been entirely positive. And yet, no matter what anyone might think of the man, there"s one thing that everyone can surely agree on: Joss Whedon is a massive geek.

Whether conjuring an expansive television universe from a vampire-ridden high school, turning Neil Patrick Harris into a singing supervillain, or throwing #TheAvengers into internal fist fights like a kid with his action figures, Whedon has always seemed (for lack of a better phrase) to be one of us. He"s a geek, a dork, a nerd. He"d have been the kid back in high school who ruled the A.V. Club with an iron fist, sure, but he sure as h**l would have been there every meeting. So, comic book movies aren"t just a gig for him they"re what he desperately wanted to watch when he was a kid, too.

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All of which essentially means one key thing: When Whedon offers his opinion on the differing cinematic approaches of Marvel and DC, it"s pretty much guaranteed to be worth hearing him out. Which, of course, makes it all the more convenient that...

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And, as it turns out, they"re as thoughtful (and geeky) as you might imagine. They"re also, however, far more positive about DC than you might expect from a man who has been Marvel Studios-affiliated for the past several years, and more positive about Marvel than you might expect from a man who reportedly left the company on bad terms after making Avengers: Age of Ultron. In Whedon"s recent interview with Complex, though, there didn"t seem to be any hint of ill feeling, with the director instead revealing that:

"I did not see "Suicide Squad." I saw "Batman vs. Superman." Everybodys got their own method. I think Marvel has been more successful systematically. DC has been more cinematictheir stuff looks amazingbut I feel like Kevin [Feige, President of Marvel Studios] is a really good storyteller. He really cares about coherence, and I feel like style never defeats substance at Marvel, but a little style creeps in. "Ant-Man" had some, "Doctor Strange" might be funky, and they are doing very fun things on TV. The Marvel-Netflix thing is working really well. DCs decision to have their shows on TV with different actors playing the same characters at the same time as their movies, is a little interesting... My daughter is p****d: "That"s not the Flash! The Flash is this guy! But we watch the Flash and Supergirl every week."

Which, as far as reasoned, balanced analyses of the Marvel/DC divide go, is probably up there with the best of them even if his thoughts on DC being "more cinematic" might be considered surprising by many. What"s more, Whedon had a whole lot of praise reserved for DC"s upcoming Wonder Woman, despite having spent much of the 2000"s trying to get a solo movie made himself:

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"I want it to be good. The trailer was just wonderful. Ill probably be disappointed, me more than anybody else, because Ill be like, "Wow, my version..." or whatever, but I can still get myself up for it. The trailer had her shield and her fire hammer and yep, Im good, this will be fine, everything is good."

Which is a) really rather sweet, and b) probably a pretty solid approach to take.

Perhaps the most intriguing reveal from Whedon, though? He"s still very much up for diving back into a major studio movie:

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"I mean, its a fun thing to do, to put yourself in the service of something if you think you can add an interpretation. Its no different than any other storytelling. There are some times when you get micro-managed to death, but with Marvel, they let me make two movies that were very much mine. So do I want to make James Bond movie? Yeah. Anne Hathaway does Catwoman again? Sure, Im in. Do I want to make a Star Wars movie? Yeah. I was like, "I don"t want to make a Star Wars movie. Like, G*d dammit, why?" But I saw the trailer for "Rogue" awhile ago and I was like, "I want to do that." To make a Star Wars movie and not be wed to the bigger picture."

Which, in the context of his rumored struggles with Marvel Studios, is intriguing doubly so because the box office success of The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron likely gives Whedon a pretty good chance of getting one of the directing gigs he mentioned one day. The creator of #Firefly getting to play in the #StarWars sandbox? Now that"s something to get excited about.

Still want more on what Whedon"s been up to lately, though? Never fear, we"ve got you covered right here.

In the meantime, what do you think? What major franchise would you like to see Whedon take a crack at? Let us know below!

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What"s Bruin 2: The UCLA Basketball Is Better Than Kentucky Review

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BOOM! We have a very special episode of the Whats Bruin Show. So special it will blow your head clean off!

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In the first part, we talk to Jeff Kohl and Kyle Grozen, President and Vice-President of The Den, UCLAs student section.

They fill us in on a couple of things that have been proposed for the Rose Bowl and Pauley Pavilion.

Dec 3, 2016; Lexington, KY, USA; UCLA Bruins guard Isaac Hamilton (10) rebounds the ball against the Kentucky Wildcats at Rupp Arena. UCLA defeated Kentucky 97-92. Mandatory Credit: Mark Zerof-USA TODAY Sports

If you have not heard, the UCLA Football team is trying to move to the shady side of the Rose Bowl, but that will take a little bit of work which concerns The Den.

If the team moves to the shady side of the stadium, the student section must move as well. Per the Pac-12 Conference, a student section cannot be behind the opposing sideline.

This could move The Den to the north end zone. Kohl and Grozen expand on what else needs to be done and how close this is to become a reality. They also talk about a possible Blue Out at Pauley Pavilion this season.

We then turn to UCLA Basketball who dropped #1 Kentucky in Lexington. I analyze what went right, who were the big time players and what this means going forward.

Either way, it was a great win as the 9-0 UCLA Bruins as they beat Kentucky in consecutive seasons.

All of this and more in this special edition of WB2. Also available atPodomatic.com,iTunesandStitcher.

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Photos, videos of the Cambridge fire from the scene

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Firefighters from several communities were on scene Saturday afternoon at a 10-alarm fire in Cambridge, where multiple buildings were in flames.

Smoke from the blaze could be seen in several parts of Cambridge and Boston.

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Here are photos and videos from those who were at the scene:

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The scene in East Cambridge.

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Firefighters at the scene of the fire.

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Firefighters were at the scene of a large blaze on Berkshire Street in Cambridge Saturday afternoon.

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Firefighters headed to the scene.

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Self-help guru James Arthur Ray is looking for forgiveness following ...

Sweat Lodge Survivor Story
A new CNN documentary tells the story of James Arthur Ray.

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James Arthur Ray, for a time the most flamboyant figure in the ultra-flamboyant world of self-help seminars, last made headlines in October 2009, when he parboiled 56 disciples during a botched sweat-lodge ceremony intended as the climax of his $9,695-a-head Spiritual Warrior retreat. On the day of the parboiling, Ray badgered people who were already vomiting, hallucinating, or passing out to play full on! as he liked to say, urging manic commitment to the exercise at hand. Attendees remember him thundering at one point, Todays a good day to die! Three of his followers took him at his word, while 17 others suffered from burns, severe dehydration, and/or kidney failure. The guru ultimately spent 20 months in prison for negligent homicide.

Ray and his Sedona, Arizona, Waterloo are now the subject of Enlighten Us, a heavily promoted CNN documentary out Thursday. [Update, Dec. 1: CNN announced its pushing back the release to Saturday.] Despite its whimsical title, the film examines Ray through a surprisingly credulous lens, making him seem almost as much a casualty of s**t happens as a convicted criminal. Viewers hear Rays explanations of how personal growth always entails risk; they are shown his desolation at having watched his thriving $10 million business go up in literal smoke.

In both the film and in life, Ray is poorly cast as the martyr of self-help culture. Hes far from it: Ginny Brown, mother of 38-year-old victim Kirby Brown, recalls that when Ray finally reached out to her after her daughters death, a full five days later, he kept saying over and over, that he couldnt believe this had happened ... to him. Seven years later, Ray does not seem to have changedindeed, he is currently petitioning to have his conviction set aside. The state of Arizona is countering the motion vigorously, as are families of those killed.

Legal maneuvers like the one Ray is attempting rarely succeed in homicide cases. But the hubris of even trying reaffirms that far from offering a story of redemption, Ray remains the epitomic reminder that self-help culture may be less about bettering the self than about creating alternative realities in which your unimproved self is just fine.

Ray came to prominence when he caught the eye of Oprah Winfrey during a cameo in the 2006 blockbuster DVD The Secret. (In those days, if you were a guru who caught Oprahs eye, and she gave you a platform on her uber-hot show, you were golden. Ray became golden.) The secret to The Secrets success was its law of attraction, the literal belief that if you send the right vibes out into the universe, you will receive in return your hearts desire. Rays proprietary shtick (every guru is required to have one) was a Secret derivative called harmonic wealth, an arcane system of spiritual time management that supposedly merged the law of attraction with quantum physics in vowing to keep followers finances, relationships, and physical and mental health in perfect balance. Early in the titular book, Ray observes that everything in the universe is perfectly orchestrated for your betterment, growth, and evolution whether youre consciously aware of it or not. (The astute reader might wonder, why do I need this book?)

Ray is poorly cast as the martyr of self-help culture.

People often flock to gurus like Ray to learn to be more focused and less conflicted; often those conflicts are in areas of ethics, or people require a certain mental and emotional toughness that assigns a lower priority to the wants of others. In exchange for his exorbitant prices, Ray proposed to furnish his followers with self-talkthis mantra largely consisted of code for rationalizing mistakes, damage to others, and other messy details of daily living. Well-aware of his need for a competitive advantage in a genre that seemed to spawn new gurus daily and to keep people interested enough to attend each new event, Ray kept adding new and ever-more-eccentric winkles to his programs. There has always been a pronounced tendency in self-help circles to equate eccentric with cutting-edge, despite the fact that there is, for example, zero science vetting a mystical outreach to the universe. There is, however, plenty of evidence testifying to the psychological dangers of stripping away peoples egos and defense mechanisms in a group setting. Ray would add more evidence to the latter as he began holding court over getaways and physical escapades that went far beyond his mantras.

Rays followers probably gave insufficient thought to the fact that their intrepid leader, too, was focused on a goalhis own enrichmentand had assigned a lower priority to the needs of others: specifically, them. Indeed, his followers continued to make ever-larger purchases of more and more materials and seminars, following Ray to a netherworld of financial and emotional investment where only he knew the endgame.

By 2009 Rays rugged good looks and sexy bluster had made him the matinee idol of the motivational set. He presented his large-format, upselling spiel to standing-room-only crowds in venues that on other nights might host conventions. His eponymous company went to $10 million in revenues in about two years.

Three months before the sweat lodge, during a Creating Absolute Wealth event (which absolutely created $4,000 worth of wealth per customer for Ray), a woman named Colleen Conaway apparently had a psychotic break and leaped to her death from an upper level in San Diegos Horton Plaza shopping mall during an exercise in which Ray ordered his followers to channel the mindset of the homeless. (Participants had to dress up in worn clothes and leave their money, cellphones, and IDs behind.) Conaway was by all accounts happy and well-adjusted prior to the eventin no way suicidal. Her sister, Lynn Graham, has blamed the tragedy on Rays heavy-handed tactics and brainwashing. Ray was never formally accused of being responsible for the death. But consider his response: Evidence suggests that Ray himself, who was lunching at the upscale mall, knew about the incident within moments. Nevertheless, Ray and his crew stonewalled other participants about the whereabouts of the missing attendee during the rest of the days activities, none of which were canceled. They even went on with the customary after-partythere are pictures of the gaiety.

Just like their mantras encouraged, their intrepid leader was focused on a goalhis own enrichmentand had assigned a lower priority to the needs of others.

Whether or not you believe 20 months in prison is a just punishment, Ray has also now been reduced to coaching entrepreneurs one on one or presenting to cozy gatherings in hotel banquet rooms that are a far cry from his former haunts. But even in the wake of his sentencing and prison stint, he deflects responsibility for his crimes. He continues to alibi for the sweat-lodge death by way of offhand analogies to other adventuresome undertakings. h**l ask, Why do people sky-dive? He does not address whether theyd still sky-dive if they knew that an inept instructor had failed to properly rig the chute. (Despite the serious conditions, there were no medical personnel on hand at Sedona.) h**l argue that his followers were adults who knew the risks and were willing to go the extra mile for personal empowerment.

He has said repeatedly, and says again in the CNN film, An accident occurred, and it was prosecuted as a crime.

Except it wasnt a mere accident. As Ginny Brown retorts, He orchestrated the event that made death inevitable. He was told the year before that if you keep doing this, people will die. Indeed, prior Ray sweat lodges had sent people to the hospital with heat stroke. There were other red flags, along with Conaways suicide: The prior year, participants broke bones during a karatelike brick-breaking exercise held as part of Rays Hawaiian Modern Magick event.

His brochures and materials made his events sound like masterworks of planning and forethought, when, in reality, he committed almost astonishing oversights. There were no formally trained martial-arts personnel on hand at Modern Magick, just as there were no medical personnel in Sedona.

And yet, seven years after that awkward phone call to Ginny Brown, Ray continues to make the Sedona deaths sound like footnotes in a disaster that principally befell him. He blogs about losing his entire life savings, his home, his reputation.

In hindsight, though, hes grateful for the opportunity the sweat-lodge deaths gave him to grow. Again, this is the raw core of Rays teachingslook inward at yourself, no matter the cost to otherseven if the cost to others is death, apparently.

I found myself, he writes on his site.

Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2016/12/self_help_guru_james_arthur_ray_is_looking_for_forgiveness_following_the.html

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New CNN Documentary Examines Convicted New Age Guru James ...

CNN New Day Interview - James Arthur Ray

In October 2009, James Arthur Ray was atop his game. A best-selling author and spiritual leader he disdains self-help guru his company had earned $9.4 million the previous year. His books, DVDs and seminars were marketed to those who eagerly embraced his philosophy of personal growth by confronting and learning from their fears.

He was catapulted to prominence after appearing in the hugely popular 2006 self-help movie The Secret. Oprah interviewed him on back-to-back shows. Couples paid more than $100,000 per year to join an exclusive circle with one-on-one access to him. When he charged $9,695 apiece for clients to attend a five-day retreat in the scrublands outside of Sedona, Arizona, some 60 people signed up.

But then three people died in Sedona as part of a sweat lodge exercise Ray led, and everything collapsed as revisited in the documentary Enlighten Us: The Rise and Fall of James Arthur Ray. The film explores questions not only of Rays personal responsibility, but of the needs and responsibilities of those who seek to be led.

The film debuts at 8 p.m. and replays at 9:55 p.m. ET Saturday, Dec. 3, on CNN.

The Sweat Lodge Tragedy

On Oct. 8, 2009, Ray and his Sedona retreat participants packed themselves, skin-against-skin, into that 415-sq.-ft. makeshift sweat lodge meant to push them through their limits and cleanse mind and body. He promised the most intense heat youve ever experienced, I can guarantee you that, according to a recording of the event made by his staff.

But as wave after wave of hot rocks were brought inside, people were overcome. Two died at the scene; 19 were hospitalized, including a third person who died later.

Ray, 59, was convicted of negligent homicide and sentenced to two years in prison.

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Three years after finishing his time, Ray tells PEOPLE: I believe totally and completely that we all must take full and complete responsibility for our lives, and I have taken full and complete control and responsibility for the situation that occurred.

My work was never on trial, he says. The tragedy was on trial. The jury found absolutely no shred of evidence of intentional misconduct or harm. It was a tragic accident, and it was determined to be negligent, and because three people died, it was determined to be criminally negligent.

I repented, I grieved, I anguished, and I finally got my head back on and began studying my craft and how I was going to utilize that to better my own life, and also to better the lives of those people Im blessed to serve, he says.

The comeback and the be back and the I am back is here. A lot of what that entails is me processing for myself exactly what occurred, and going through that process of responsibility, redemption, and then moving toward resilience.

In the film, which premiered earlier this year at the TriBeCa Film Festival, family members of those who died object to Rays return to the work he was doing when those three lives were lost. I still think hes dangerous, says one, who is unidentified, because he doesnt understand that his actions actually made these deaths inevitable.

A Case Study in Charisma

Filmmaker Jenny Carchman does not otherwise include interviews with relatives of Liz Neuman, 49, a mother of three who worked on Rays events; James Shore, 40, a father of three; and Kirby Anne Brown, 38, a decorative artist. (After Brown died, her family created an organization, SEEK Safely, designed to educate, empower and promote the public about the unregulated self help industry,according to the nonprofits website.)

Says Carchman, who did meet with Browns family while making the documentary: Their story is so deep and awful and tragic, and so understandably complicated, so much so that it could be an entire film.

The grief and the loss of the victims is horrible, but its a very separate story than the one we were telling, she tells PEOPLE. Instead, she says she found herself drawn to the topic after reading about Rays sentencing, and was pulled into the question of how people could die while on a quest for improvement. Meeting Ray for the first time while he was jailed, I realized he was such a compelling and very intriguing person that I wanted to follow up.

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In reviewing videos of Ray giving lectures and seminars at his peak, he was very dynamic and alive and controlled and groomed jumping around the stage and full of energy and a big personality, compared to the scattered, scared and tearful man she first encountered. He was both full of himself, and also denigrating. You see someone who was really lost, she says. I kept thinking about a boxer out of the ring.

Carchman spent two years tracking Ray on his search as he redefines and reclaims his purpose. But she also interviews several of Rays former clients and supporters, some of whom attended the fateful Sedona retreat, to provide a first-person look inside the sweat lodge exercise and its aftermath, when Ray on the advice of an attorney, he says fled and left his followers abandoned.

In the film, Ray says: I had gone back to my room, and I was like still not all together, cause Ive just run this serious marathon on the tail end of an extremely emotionally taxing week already. And so I get in the shower, and when I get out, theres a rap on my door, and its the police.

At another point he says: When they told me there were people in serious distress, I was like, what? I was in shock. I mean, my entire life completely collapsed within the period of about 15 minutes.

He tells the filmmaker: In my mind its like, investigating this as a homicide, you might get arrested, attorneys saying get out of there I mean, what would you do?

Ray fought criminal charges that initially included manslaughter, for which the jury found him not guilty while still faulting him for negligent homicide.

At his sentencing the judge said: The evidence from the trial and presentence proceedings show that Mr. Ray, as misguided as he was, believed he was helping people. And the evidence is that people believed they were being helped. The court is still left to wonder, how is it that so many educated, knowledgeable people ignored basic common sense?

Ray: It Had to Happen

Carchmans film contains a startling conclusion from Ray, who is asked by the filmmaker how the tragedy could have happened.

Although he is seen giving a teary apology in court, and emotionally referencing the event in small-scale seminars as he begins again to court clients, Ray answers: It had to happen, because it was the only way I could experience and learn and grow through the things that Ive done. You come out of a situation like this and youre either bitter and angry, or youre more awake and grateful, and I choose awake and grateful, and I choose to see it as a test of character, and a test through fire, and I think I did OK.

Asked by PEOPLE what he has done for the families of those who died, Ray says: Ive done everything thats been asked of me. Ive served my time, I paid restitution, I reached out to them, contrary to what was reported. I received mixed response from that reaching out. He explains further: I received an order, a legal document, when I was in custody stating that if I was to contact them in any way, there would be legal ramifications. Ive respected that and honored that and Ive abided by the law.

Im not ignoring what happened, he says. Just the opposite. In fact, Im using it to help make everyone I engage with the very best they can be. I can talk to a lot larger audience from a broader perspective of experience today than I ever could before.

But he is no longer on the road 250 days a year. Gone is the 7,500-sq.-ft. Beverly Hills mansion with the home gym and movie theater, on which he had fallen months behind in payments prior to his sentencing. He emerged from prison in debt. Divorced and single since before his rise to fame, he lives now in a 1,600-sq.ft., three bedroom condo in the Hollywood Hills. He coaches clients online, and makes far fewer personal appearances than he once did.

Im exactly where I should be, and I must be, the son of an Oklahoma minister tells PEOPLE. My career is not a career for me, its a calling, and I say that very much with conviction. I never aspired to be a self-help guru. How I see myself is as a catalyst. Im a catalyst to action, to help people stop dreaming and start doing.

He is slightly critical of the film, and says he expected it to be a deeper examination of the legal system that came after him. But he says hes never lost regard for those who died.

People who invest in themselves are like professional athletes, he says. Around the legal issues, theres a whole other story that is not told in the documentary, not covered in the press, glossed over at the trial. The judge didnt want to hear it; the jury didnt want to hear it.

I believed without a doubt that we were all safe, he says. I again take full and complete responsibility for the accident. I conceived of the exercise; we all believed in it. I led it, but I also participated in it. I didnt anticipate what happened.

Sure, we all did something that was extreme. I fully know that Liz Neuman, James Shore and Kirby Brown are not victims theyre heroes.

James, Liz and Kirby were there for a reason. Its a reason we all have. Its compelling people to do more, to be more, and to become more. They were totally and completely committed to that end. And so to me, thats heroic. I think its disrespectful to their memory to label them as victims. I honor them. I hold them in the highest regard, and if their life is going to continue to have meaning which, if I have anything to do with it, it will then I believe the story needs to be told from their heroic position rather than a victim position.

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Anna Faris "Insecure" Over Chris Pratt Cheating Rumors

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Anna Faris and Chris Pratt don"t think of themselves as a "Hollywood couple."

So, imagine their surprise when tabloids began to call their seven-year marriage into question. Faris spoke about how that made her feel while taping her Unqualified podcast with Isla Fisher.

"We grapple with the idea of being a public couple. For the first time, maybe a year ago or 10 months ago, we were in the public a little bit," Faris, 40, recalled. "There were some tabloid rumors about strain on our relationship. I just remember feeling so hurt in a way that bothered me because I didn"t want to think of myself as somebody that could be affected by tabloid s--t. There was a picture of me walking alone on the beach: "Aging Anna Faris, Alone on the Beach.""

In the past, Faris" personal life never received that kind of attention. "I take pride in how great my relationship is with Chris," she said. "But having said that, of course, in this crazy world where he"s off doing movies and I"m in L.A. raising our child, of course I"m going to feel vulnerable, like any normal human would. It did make me feel like, "Is public perceptioneven though it"s falseis there a grain of something?" It made me feel incredibly insecure."

Last year, Faris fought back after tabloids claimed her marriage was on the rocks. "I had always kind of believed that part of the rumors of celebrity couples were sort of true because they had never been part of my life," the Mom star told Us Weekly. "I was like, "Oh, maybe there"s a kernel of truth to that." It"s been a little devastating, because for us, it"s like, "What the heck?" This has been blindsiding to us. We have an incredible relationship. It"s been weirdly stinging."

Fisher sympathized with Faris as they recorded Unqualified. "It"s much more interesting to see a story about a tumultuous relationship than a happy one," said Fisher, who is fiercely protective of her relationship with Sacha Baron Cohen. If the rumors persist, Fisher joked, Faris and Pratt should "[release] a s*x tape" to quell any suspicions about their love.

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Victoria"s Secret Accused of Cultural Appropriation Again

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Victoria"s Secret is in trouble again.

The lingerie giant has been accused of cultural appropriation during its annual fashion show. A writer from Cosmopolitan claims some of the outfits showcased during the extravaganza were racist. In an essay that since has been deleted, writer Helin Jung criticized the Asian and Mexican influences that inspired some of the Angels" luxurious looks and claimed the company held a condescending attitude toward its Asian customers.

"Stripping of cultures aside, the emblems that stood out most were the ones that came from Asiaspecifically China," she wrote.

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"The dragon that Elsa Hosk wore wrapped around her body, the embroidered stiletto boots seen on Adriana Lima, the tail made of flames worn by Kendall Jenner. There"s a lot of talk of China as a dominant world power of the 21st century, and the U.S. government, Hollywood, and now Victoria"s Secret, it seems, are pivoting to face a new reality. But the Orientalism on display here doesn"t show an understanding or an attempt at dialogue. It doesn"t close any gaps."

Jung continued, "The brand and its creative leads shamelessly cherry-picked imagery, breaking apart aesthetic references from wherever they wanted and stitching them back together again. They"re telling us its worldliness. It"s not, it"s a hack job."

E! News has reached out to Victoria"s Secret for comment.

Victoria"s Secret came under fire for cultural appropriation in 2012 when Karlie Kloss donned Native American-style headdresses. The company ended up pulling the footage from broadcast and apologized on Twitter. "We are sorry that the Native American headdress in our fashion show has upset individuals," the company tweeted at the time. "The outfit will be removed from the broadcast."

Kloss also apologized. "I am deeply sorry if what I wore during the VS Show offended anyone," she tweeted. "I support VS"s decision to remove the outfit from the broadcast."

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