Joel's last piece for The Toast was "No Fats, No Femmes, No Asians."

You could say Whoopi started a movement. 

I am of course speaking about a very niche, a very important corner of our pop culture landscape: the inspirational singing competition movie. What would the late twentieth century and early aughts have been without the tried and true formula of a group of misfit teens getting together, ignoring racial

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