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Somehow, in 21 years of writing online, iPINIONS never mentioned Dolly Parton’s name. But the story of how she used roughly $10 million from Whitney Houston’s magnificent “I Will Always Love You” to buy offices in a Black Nashville neighborhood, then called it “the house that Whitney built,” tells me more about Dolly than any… Read more.
Russell Brand can strut and fret with Bible in hand, but sexual assault allegations are not erased by performative piety. His public display of repentance looks less like redemption than a celebrity legal strategy dressed up as salvation. iPINIONS cuts through the sanctimony to illustrate the oldest trick in the sinner’s playbook. Read my full… Read more.
Hollywood still glamorizes smoking better than Big Tobacco ever could. From Oscar nominees to Kylie Jenner, the culture keeps making nicotine look stylish while teen use rises again. As iPINIONS argues, Big Tobacco no longer needs to sell the habit when Hollywood is still selling the image. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/hollywood-was-and-still-is-big-tobaccos Read more.
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.
