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Will Smith and Jada Pinkett seem hell-bent on showing that no marital detail is too intimate to share with the world. Only that explains Jada appearing on one media platform or another this week to share that she and Smith have been separated since 2016. Honoring Tupac Jada is selling her memoir. Never mind that she has made her… Read more.
The Academy did not think it appropriate to feature Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaking about Ukraine’s fight to defend democracy. Instead it featured a fight between Will Smith and Chris Rock to defend Smith’s “open” marriage. At Sunday night’s Oscar ceremony, Will Smith shocked the room by approaching the stage and slapping presenter Chris Rock… Read more.
The world is all atwitter about the “lily-white Oscars.” Because, for the second consecutive year, the 20 nominees for best performances are all white. iPINIONS skewers Hollywood’s performative outrage — because calling out #OscarsSoWhite is easy, fixing whiteness in greenlit stories is not. I commented on this racial snub when it happened last year. And,… Read more.
I watched the Oscars last night. (But, before the title of this column leads anyone to queer assumptions, let me hasten to clarify that I tuned in for purely journalistic purposes.) And, I feel confident asserting that my original commentary was right on all points. Nevertheless, I failed to indicate that – sometimes – the… Read more.
