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Celebrity activism Celebrity activism is like a red-carpet event for social causes. Famous faces don’t just attract attention; they create media frenzies. But all that glitters isn’t gold. For example, President Biden welcomed P Diddy’s “vote or die“ campaign to get Blacks to the polls days before the 2020 presidential election. However, several women have… Read more.
Angelina Jolie is opening up about her difficult year, from a Bell’s Palsy diagnosis to her split from Brad. In a Vanity Fair cover story, Jolie reveals that in addition to high blood pressure, she developed Bell’s Palsy, a condition resulting from damage to facial nerves, which caused one side of her face to droop. (USA… Read more.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Women’s health organizations invariably mark it with PSAs urging women to check for any sign of this disease. They also launch fundraising drives to fund research and increase breast cancer awareness. Breast cancer and the Angelina effect But there’s a discordant note in the chorus of advocacy this year. And it’s coming from no less an advocate… Read more.
Unsurprisingly, news of the end of this celebrity relationship is providing as much fodder for gossip as news of its beginning did. Angelina Jolie broke the news to Brad Pitt that she wanted to end their two-year marriage and 12-year romance just days before filing for divorce… Though Pitt, 52, was aware that their marriage… Read more.
Angelina Jolie famously elected to replace her healthy breasts with implants because she feared she might develop terminal cancer … someday. And she won near-universal praise for doing so. TIME magazine even ran a May 27, 2013 cover heralding “The Angelina Effect” she would have on women. I, however, stood virtually alone in pooh-poohing the hosannas to her.… Read more.
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, although more awareness hardly seems necessary. After all, even football players are sporting pink on their uniforms to show their awareness. Some players are even wearing pink shoes. Angelina Jolie’s breast cancer awareness Women usually get double mastectomies to treat breast cancer. But Angelina Jolie has everyone talking about women getting… Read more.
Just last week Brad Pitt was being hailed in the media for his performance in the baseball-themed movie, Moneyball. In fact, there seemed to be an open conspiracy among critics to ensure that it earns him his first Oscar. Yet all of that seems to have been lost in the fog of gossip this week… Read more.
Indeed, no good deed goes unpunished. This familiar expression aptly describes the unwarranted criticisms of Oprah Winfrey’s school for African girls. Criticisms of Oprah’s school for African girls For years, the media hailed Oprah as a saint. Now they seem hell-bent on reminding her that she’s all too human. Except that they are using a school she built to tear her… Read more.
In a controversial move, Angelina Jolie has donned blackface for her newest role. She is playing Mariane Pearl, the widow of Daniel Pearl. Daniel Pearl was the Wall Street Journal reporter whom Muslim extremists kidnapped and subsequently killed, releasing footage of his beheading online. Angelina Jolie in blackface Of course, Jolie is becoming almost as famous for her charitable… Read more.
Celebrities enjoy a contrived relationship with the paparazzi. The relationship Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt orchestrate with the paparazzi illustrates this in spades. Jolie and Pitt as immigration officers But imagine a world so obsessed with and deferential to celebrities that they can get governments to do this: Jolie and Pitt pressured Namibian authorities … to hand over… Read more.
