{"id":5751,"date":"2017-01-06T07:44:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T07:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5751"},"modified":"2017-04-18T07:48:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T07:48:26","slug":"despite-acclaim-for-loving-lion-interracial-couples-on-film-remain-a-rarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/06\/despite-acclaim-for-loving-lion-interracial-couples-on-film-remain-a-rarity\/","title":{"rendered":"News Clip: Despite acclaim for &#8216;Loving,&#8217; &#8216;Lion,&#8217; interracial couples on film remain a rarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren La Rose, writing for The Canadian Press on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/entertainment\/story.html?id=12652217\">Despite acclaim for &#8216;Loving,&#8217; &#8216;Lion,&#8217; interracial couples on film remain a rarity<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s been 50 years since the debut of &#8220;Guess Who&#8217;s Coming To Dinner&#8221; yet film portrayals of interracial couples remain a rarity in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>The 1967 movie was a watershed in its positive depiction of the relationship between an accomplished black doctor (Sidney Poitier) and his white fiancee (Katharine Houghton), at a time when interracial marriages were still illegal in many U.S. states.<\/p>\n<p>A half-century on, there are few examples in modern films of romances involving interracial couples. If anything, the subject of race tends to be the focal point of such pairings \u2014 such as Spike Lee&#8217;s 1991 film &#8220;Jungle Fever&#8221; and 2006 romantic comedy &#8220;Something New&#8221; \u2014 or are based on real-life stories like the Golden Globe-nominated &#8220;Loving&#8221; and &#8220;Lion,&#8221; and forthcoming biopic &#8220;A United Kingdom.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ken Tanabe, founder of the Loving Day campaign, is quoted in this story as well.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/entertainment\/story.html?id=12652217\">http:\/\/www.canada.com\/entertainment\/story.html?id=12652217<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren La Rose, writing for The Canadian Press on &#8220;Despite acclaim for &#8216;Loving,&#8217; &#8216;Lion,&#8217; interracial couples on film remain a rarity&#8220;: It&#8217;s been 50 years since the debut of &#8220;Guess Who&#8217;s Coming To Dinner&#8221;&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,19,21,141],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-5751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mixed-blog","category-from-the-editor","category-tma-editorials-by-james-a-landrith-jr","category-news-clips","tag-interracial-relationships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/News-Clips.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1uL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6592,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751\/revisions\/6592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}