Welcome! This is an unapologetic, agenda-free zone. Just commentaries on current events that’ll move you to think, laugh, rage, and even cry.
First, a little gripe: No offense to screenwriters, cinematographers, makeup artists, et al, but I cannot overstate that most viewers watch only to see who wins the big six awards. Those, of course, are the ones for actor and actress in a supporting role, actor and actress in a leading role, achievement in directing and… Read more.
As usual, I feel obliged to begin with my annual lament, which I first presented over a decade ago in “My Review of the 2008 Oscars,” February 25, 2008: ____________________ With all due respect to critics and members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the Academy), how much a film makes, not… 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.
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.
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.
