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CNN’s New Year’s Eve If you’re like me, your days of ringing in the New Year at parties are long gone. Instead, I just channel surf for entertainment – until I fall asleep, invariably before midnight. CNN used to be the anchor for my TV revelry. That’s until it replaced the dynamic duo of Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin with Cooper… 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.
Why is makeup-free Pamela Anderson a revolutionary? The models strutting skeletal bodies draped in haute couture usually make news at fashion shows. They parade the vanity and artificiality the fashion industry propagates with the zeal of a religious cult. That’s why it takes a vision to behold for anyone merely watching these shows to upstage the models on the catwalk. Yet, that is… Read more.
Hall of Fame ousts Jann Wenner The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ousts Jann Wenner, founder of Rolling Stone Magazine, after he outed himself as a racist and misogynist. When asked by Times reporter David Marchese why he did not include female artists or people of color on his list of rock legends, Wenner responded, “Insofar… Read more.
Black Michael Jackson took extreme measures to look White. Yet he convinced his White daughter Paris that she is Black. Sick. Paris may identify as Black, but she’s White But if men can identify as women, surely Whites can identify as Blacks? Asking for a friend. No, really, Rachel Dolezal. Except that Paris’s confusion is as mental as it is racial. Discussing the matter with Rolling Stone magazine in… Read more.
Actress Sandra Bullock played the lead actress and produced “The Blind Side” (2009). She promoted it as: The remarkable true story of Michael Oher, a homeless African-American youngster from a broken home, taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. … As a football player and student, Oher works hard and, with… Read more.
Iger slams striking Hollywood Disney CEO Bob Iger appeared on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Thursday morning. Everyone knew Hollywood actors would vote to strike mere hours later. And that, in doing so, they would join writers who have been on strike since May 2. But Iger wanted everyone to know that these writers and actors are demanding too much. In… Read more.
Britney Spears’ downward spiral continues post-conservatorship A judge ended Britney Spears’s infamous conservatorship in November 2021. Since then, Britney has been making lots of news. Unfortunately, the news has been all bad. That’s because much of it has been about Britney instigating nasty spats with her own family, especially her sister and mother. Indeed, the… Read more.
The Guardian ran an interview with actor Joseph Fiennes on Sunday. During it, he expressed regret for playing Michael Jackson in blackface. Joseph Fiennes regrets playing Michael Jackson Fiennes played the king of pop in the 2017 TV show Elizabeth, Michael & Marlon. But the preview alone ignited such backlash that producers never aired the show. But the… Read more.
Anna Nicole Smith married her secret girlfriend A new documentary about Anna Nicole Smith dropped on Netflix — and it revealed she was reportedly in a ‘secret relationship.’ Melissa ‘Missy’ Byrum, a friend of the late model, claimed in the doc — titled “Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me” — that the two were… Read more.
