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For over 20 years, I’ve been writing vanguard commentary — tackling global issues long before they reached the mainstream. From social media and politics to sports and entertainment, my posts didn’t follow the headlines. They forecasted them. You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who has published more informed commentary on a more eclectic array of… Read more.
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.
Below are my picks for this year’s Oscars. But, as usual, I feel obliged to preface them by stating my abiding lament: Winning an Oscar is more about crass political campaigning than artistic achievement; box office receipts matter more than critical acclaim. And I have little regard for preening poseurs showing off borrowed frocks for… Read more.
But it’s becoming his Independence Day – part 2. For 23 years, Independence Day stood as the biggest box office hit of Will Smith’s career. A magic lamp just brought an end to that. This past week, Disney’s remake of Aladdin, which stars Smith as the iconic Genie, passed the $817 million worldwide box office… 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.
