Hers was the race that launched a thousand quips—most of them asking, in very blunt terms, just since when had Helen of Troy been a forty-plus Kenyan.
It has been confirmed that average-looking middle-aged black African actress Lupita Nyong’o has been cast to play history’s most beautiful woman in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming version of The Odyssey, a decision which suggests the concept of blind casting in Hollywood must now have been taken so far as to begin employing actual blind persons as the casting directors. (more…)


