So - is it just me, but is Hollywood starting to bust out the interracial relationships lately? And, I know it's not just on Grey's Anatomy. Although, speaking of which - not only has Sandra Oh had a relatively high profile relationship with Alexander Payne (caucasian), but Justin Chambers (caucasian) who plays the self-centered playboy intern Alex Karev on the show, is married to a sister with whom he has 5 kids and Ellen Pompeo (the character Meredith and caucasian) is engaged to an African-American man. Not to mention that the show is probably one of the most integrated on tv these days - coincidence?
Halle Barry also is famously now dating (but apparently with no intention of marrying) a gorgeous white guy. Rosario Dawson just broke up with one. Eva Longoria with Tony Parker. Even, Brad Pitt is now in a relationship with a "mixed race" woman - as I just saw Angelina Jolie refer to herself in talking about why it wasn't controversial for her to play a bi-racial woman in her new movie about Marianne Pearl. (To be fair, she seems to have the right to say that as her mother is part Native American.)
And, all with nary a comment from celebrity watchers. Really nothing more than an observation of how times have changed since Joyce DeWitt and Levar Burton went out back in the day and caused quite the stir! (Am I the only one who remembers this . . .?)
--speaktruthtopower--
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It's not just interracial Hollywood. I think more and more the interracial nature of children who were born in the 70s are making the once taboo behavior more mainstream.
I'm not sure I can go there with Angelina (who isn't part Native American?)and never have thought of her as such. I do believe that for Hollywood, which always is leading in this regard -- think Sammy Davis, Peggy Lipton, Lena Horne -- this is passe.
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