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Character, so maybe you do want to see like three hours worth of advertising with him. maybe like you give him more points or whatever and he says ill play ball not just for the month before the movie, but for the six months before the movie. >> tell me what gross points mean for the audience at home? >> groce points is the percentage of the chunk of the movie that the ticket sales theyre taking in because hollywood accounting means that no movie ever made money. >> someone just pointed out on t...

Self-reflective kind of humor. on all those shows, more than one black person. >> "community" was awesome. >> and i saw that as a kind of progress. i mean, those things would have been -- >> do you think has there been progress? >> theres more space other than the big three in which to get out there. you think think of shows like awkward black girl, which is a wonderful, and then you dont need this network brand or approval to get your message out there. i love hollywood husbands. thats a great ...

One of the most popular shows on now, scandal, also talk about "saturday night live" and beyonce. first of all, we begin with a tribute of songs to 2013. according to his youtube channel, he puts out popular music on the first monday of each month. the most overplayed songs and it is outstanding. ♪ ♪

Performing what we think of as the normal beyonce face, that kind of big, wide-eyed smile and suddenly i had this discomfort and thought, my gosh, shes always just performing that. the idea that pretty hurts. like shes telling us that. on the other hand, the woman is extraordinarily beautiful and so its a little tough to hear this pretty hurts from someone who is that extraordinarily gorgeous. >> well, i think that, you know, its the performance of pretty that hurts. right? i think, you know, so...

>> i dont want anybody to give the message of when my record is coming out. i want this to come out when its ready and from me to my fans. >> no star studded press event? no live concert? is this the new normal for the music industry? she dropped this out of the blue. i think itunes crashed. >> if you followed beyonce, she has been giving us hints all year. she will release a little something here. she had the $50 million deal with pepsi in the commercials. she has been debuting songs "im a grow...

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Or incest. just shut up about it. >> i like the language of privacy, david, and i want to play with it in connection to the things weve been talking about around popular culture and the representation of womens bodies which are off son not private. on the one hand we have way in which you can empower yourself through a beyonce moment or youre disempowered through the representation of womens bodies being very public and it feels almost like that publicness of womens bodies is is part of why peop...

With pepsi, all things beyonce did, thats when you put the album did. beyonce did it to silence critics. beyonce say doesnt know what shes doing, shes in trouble, why isnt this album coming out? >> shes also dropping it right before the holidays, so -- >> well, beyonce is always one step ahead of everybody else, isnt she? i had the pleasure of working for her for four years and this is how she rolls. people anticipate and wait for it. its just as exciting when she brings it out through social me...

♪ taking one step ♪ >> you know, its not easy to surprise the internet, but beyonce did it and this is with the album. nobody saw this coming. >> a 14-track self titled album released on itunes at midnight. fans had to buy the whole thing. >> $15.99. the most i ever paid for one album. >> did you just tell us what you paid for it. >> i did. im a beyonce fan. unapologetically. >> that baby there is blue ivy. the daughter with jay-z. the album shot up to number one on the release. >> i listene...

Midnight on friday. 14 tracks, 17 videos, a little bit of everything, including a cameo by blue ivy, her daughter with jay-z, of course. fans had to buy the full thing, though, if they wanted it. theyre not complaining. >> $16. $15.99 to be exact. >> if you know. >> yeah. making fun of beyonce, you know, its not easy on "saturday night live." why? because the cast has no black women, and "snl" has been slammed for it. >> yeah. >> its been going on for a couple of months now, and the show even tr...