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James Hewitt is Princess Diana’s former lover. But he’s defiling her reputation by insinuating that she was an adulteress who bore his child. And his only motive seems to be the money tabloids are willing to give him to peddle this insinuation. I hasten to clarify, though, that I’m no fan of royalty. My blog… Read more.
The U.S. economy grew at a sizzling 5 percent annual rate in the July-September period, the fastest in more than a decade, boosted by strength in consumer spending and business investment… It was the fastest quarterly growth since the summer of 2003. It followed a 4.6 percent annual growth rate in the April-June quarter… The… Read more.
Singer-songwriter Joe Cocker, known for his distinct, bluesy voice and his heartfelt renditions of Beatles classics, died in his Colorado home on Monday following a battle with lung cancer… Cocker’s rendition of the Starr-sung Beatles classic “With a Little Help From My Friends” – later immortalized as the theme song from The Wonder Years – became one of his most enduring hits,… Read more.
The media have published the latest batch of leaked Sony e-mails. It includes executives discussing Idris Elba replacing Daniel Craig as James Bond. That, of course, would make Elba the first Black James Bond. And that prospect has caused near-universal excitement. A Black James Bond? Mind you, other leaked e-mails outed these same executives as closeted Hollywood racists. That makes their… Read more.
Just last week, I condemned Pope Francis for denying the Dalai Lama’s request for an audience to appease the Chinese. Not since Peter denied Jesus, thrice, has there been a more craven (and venal) case of one holy man denying another. (“In Denying Dalai Lama, Pope more Politician than Pontiff,” The iPINIONS Journal, December 15,… Read more.
Frankly, I don’t see how anyone with any common sense can still think I was wrong to denounce Winnie years ago. It seems Nelson Mandela is proving too great a self-aggrandizing prop for some to let him go. Which brings me to his ex-wife, Winnie Madikizela–Mandela. Because nobody has done more to bask in the god-like… Read more.
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This boycott is not about some silly movie, The Interview, which ends with the exploding head of North Korea’s tin-pot dictator, Kim Jung-un. It’s about Sony making a mockery of America’s vaunted and enviable freedoms – of speech and expression – by pulling it under dubious threats from anonymous hackers. It’s about major theater chains, like… Read more.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s year-end press conferences are becoming more like theatre performances every year. In fact, I got the impression watching his three-hour show yesterday that it was worthy of actor Spalding Gray’s four-hour, one-man show, Swimming to Cambodia. Except that, there is probably more truth in Gray’s theatrical script than there ever is… Read more.
