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Truer words have never been spoken. One week, social media hype has people waiting in line for hours for cronuts. The next week, it’s rainbow bagels, towering milkshakes, or the Popeyes chicken sandwich. But iPINIONS says return just a week or two later for the same trendy food, and you’ll walk right in and probably… Read more.
Kris Jenner’s 70th birthday bash wasn’t just another celebrity party. iPINIONS contends it was a cultural coronation. From Oprah to the exiled Sussexes, even royals are keeping up. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/momager-kriss-70th-shows-even-royals Read more.
Nicole Kidman’s divorce from Keith Urban isn’t shocking; it’s Hollywood déjà vu. iPINIONS breaks down why every celebrity “happily ever after” ends in public spectacle and private ruin, from Bennifer to Swift and Kelce. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/nicole-kidmans-divorce-from-keith Read more.
Except that iPINIONS thinks this parent must be playing some kind of reverse psychology on his kid. Because everyone knows it’s parents who binge-watch episodes, while kids are already itching to scroll their dumb phones before the end of the opening credits… Read more.
Act I: The dangerous charmer Mickey Rourke was once the poster boy for tortured talent. His brooding, magnetic turns in The Pope of Greenwich Village and 9½ Weeks earned him comparisons to Marlon Brando. Men marveled that he could make vulnerability look dangerous. And women, well, they swooned. But Rourke never met a spotlight he… Read more.
Stop the presses! That’s what all the news media did today to report on Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift’s budding relationship. Because what the world needs now is more Pavlovian coverage of the symbiotic relationship between pop and sports stars. Theirs is a match made in heaven or Hollywood, given its scripted nature. Travis and Taylor (TNT) are… Read more.
A selfie isn’t just about adoring one’s own reflection like Narcissus. It’s about capturing that reflection to share with the world. But am I the only one who rues the cognitive dissonance that has turned self-obsessed showoffs from laughingstocks into standard-bearers of acceptable, even required, public behavior? Just years ago, any self-respecting man would be… Read more.
We are a doomed civilization. Only that can explain why news about pop star Taylor Swift breaking up with her latest trophy boyfriend competes with breaking news about NFL football. Taylor’s swift break-up Her latest hookup was with Harry Styles, the Mick Jagger wannabe from British boy band One Direction (aka 1D). It lasted only… Read more.
I mentioned Amy Winehouse’s death yesterday, but only as an afterthought in my commentary on Lucian Freud’s death. The backlash was swift and furious. Her fans made me realize I had shown unwitting disrespect. However, my disrespect wasn’t in what I wrote but in treating it as an afterthought. I hope this commentary shows Winehouse the respect she deserves. Remembering… 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.
