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Celebrity activism Celebrity activism is like a red-carpet event for social causes. Famous faces don’t just attract attention; they create media frenzies. But all that glitters isn’t gold. For example, President Biden welcomed P Diddy’s “vote or die“ campaign to get Blacks to the polls days before the 2020 presidential election. However, several women have… Read more.
A few months ago, I damned Aung San Suu Kyi as the ‘godmother of ethnic cleansing.” I did not think then that anyone could damn her more. I was wrong. But I suppose it should come as no surprise that two acclaimed song writers have found more damning words: The Irish musicians Bob Geldof and… Read more.
I was among those who not only panned the puerility of turning the derring-dos of a comic-book hero into a Broadway show, but also ridiculed the technical difficulties producers had trying to replicate them on stage. Last night’s opening preview of Broadway’s most expensive production ever, Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, was an epic flop… Read more.
It speaks volumes about our upside-down world that the political initiatives of rock stars and Hollywood actors are often taken more seriously than those of seasoned statesmen. But that’s the perverse reality in the global fight against HIV/AIDS and poverty across the developing world. Only this explains the President of Sierra Leone practically drooling over… Read more.
