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set. no, it's shonda's show, shonda's set. see, what i'm curious about is if shonda pulled her coat tail. that's the real deal here. so what actually happened with that dynamic, boo, let me holler at you. that's not how you operate when you're talking to the director. but again, these things happen in hollywood. her biggest mistake to your point, tiffany not having black friends. your black friends say, baby, don't tell that story. >> yeah, don't do that. we can have drinks and we're together, you can tell that story, but i need all the white people in america to understand, you do not speak ill will against mlk, idris and denzel. i'm just letting you know, you're going to get all the black women smoke, and the brothers is going to sit back, they got it. we ain't even touching that one. i'm just saying, okay, idris, denzel, i'm just saying.
because politically it would have been disastrous for republicans if he had not, and all of these senators, including portman, who ignored donald trump's attempt to sabotage this bill, know that if they killed it, two things would happen. one is we would have this giant reconciliation infrastructure bill, and it would only be democrats taking credit for things that are popular across the country. and, second, it would have added to the impetus for a possible filibuster reform. but put all of that aside. this is a gigantic accomplishment. this bill is far from perfect. the fact that they took out the irs funding to go after tax cheats is a shonda, as we say. it's absolutely shameful that they've cut some of the funding for mass transit is not great. there are other things we can't really think very highly of.
six foot boa constrictor in my guest room. long story short, i ended up with the snakes and developing my own nightclub act. yeah. i'm really working all over the country, and i'm lady shonda, the snake charmer. and now i'm opening for mary wells. ike and tina turner. it was really an interesting few years of my life. so from that point on, my life was my life, you know. >> you could be who you were everywhere. >> yeah, yeah. but i didn't want the entertainment thing anymore. i decided to move to the bay
left, and she left the snake. she said she was going to come back and get them. but i had this 12-foot anaconda and 6-foot boa constrictor in my guest room. long story short, i ended up with the snakes. >> uh-huh. >> and developing my own nightclub act. yeah. ♪ i'm really working all over the country. >> wow. >> and i'm lady shonda, the snake charmer. and now i'm opening for acts like mary wells, the bar-ks. >> whoa. >> ike and tina turner. >> ike and tina turner. >> it was really an interesting few years of my life. so from that point on, my life
Sarah Ferguson wants Bridgerton's Shonda Rhimes to adapt her romance novel for Netflix 18 Jan, 2021 01:52 AM 3 minutes to read Fergie just announced she's releasing her own Bridgerton-esque romance novel. Photo / Netflix NZ Herald Sounds like Fergie is just as obsessed with Bridgerton as the rest of us. Just after announcing she's releasing a romance novel with Mills & Boon, the Duchess of York has revealed she wants Shonda Rhimes to adapt it into a TV series as she's "obsessed" with the producer's latest series and has binged it twice already. She announced her latest book "Her Heart For A Compass", a fictionalised account of her great-great-aunt's life, this week and already has big plans for the novel.
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crew is a good thing. >> shonda stood up and said, yes, i'm going to be a showrunner and i'm going to be a juggernaut. >> i'll put 20 on a total meltdown. >> 50 says he pulls the whole thing off. >> that's one of us down there. the first one of us. where's your loyalty? >> above and beyond the cultural aspect, which is important and great, we need to remember that she created a bunch of shows that are terrific fun to watch. >> you can do this. so, we got jean-pierre. but one thing we could both agree on was getting geico to help with renters insurance. ♪ yeah, geico did make it easy to switch and save. ♪ oh no. there's a wall there now. that's too bad. visit geico.com and see how easy
>> laura: an iconic television show -- an iconic television show, and the show runner shonda rhymes, one of the most brilliant television producers. she actually went to my alma mater. she's a big democrat. and you were kind of a -- kind of a democrat then, as well, right? so you -- did you have a political mind meld when you worked on that show? or was politics never even brought up? >> i'll say this, i've been political since the day i was born. any african-american man borni black in america is political particularly if you live over 50, so that just makes me political by the nature of l me being here to survive. >> laura: yeah. yeah. >> the other part of that question is, i never talked politics. shonda and i, no one, we never talked politics on that show. >> laura: good, that's the way it should be. >> yeah, just to get to diversity. remember, there was no barack obama before my character. i was the first dark-skinned african-american that went into american homes. i had to bring an actual heartrt
we haven't heard back from her. so here with me now shanda stewart and lakeisha shah. good evening. >> good evening. >> we heard your reaction being called that word. were you shocked or no? >> very shocked, extremely shocked. >> very shocked, caught off-guard, not prepared at all. unbelievable. >> she took issue, shonda, with your behavior at the restaurant. on the tape we hear another friend of yours make a comment about whooping somebody's ass. do you think nancy goodman heard that comment and do you think that was appropriate to say? listen, that would not justify the use of a racial slur by any means, but if someone is in your face, that's kind of stuff that happens. but go on. >> i wouldn't think that she heard that. at that point she was still on the other side of the restaurant. she hadn't made it to the table at that point, so, no, i don't think she would have heard that.
>> she took issue, shonda, with your behavior at the restaurant. on the tape we hear another friend of yours make a comment about whooping somebody's ass. do you think nancy goodman heard that comment and do you think that was appropriate to say? listen, that would not justify the use of a racial slur by any means, but if someone is in your face, that's kind of stuff that happens. but go on. >> i wouldn't think that she heard that. at that point she was still on the other side of the restaurant. she hadn't made it to the table at that point, so, no, i don't think she would have heard that. and at that point, keep in mind, this was the second time that she approached us, so we were kind of at that point already, you know, upset. >> so the first time was not on tape, though, right? what happened that first time? >> so the first time she actually came out of nowhere. we don't know where she was seated but she appeared at our table. we were there enjoying our meal