Welcome! This is an unapologetic, agenda-free zone. Just commentaries on current events that’ll move you to think, laugh, rage, and even cry.
I don’t know about you, but even in my “love-them-and-leave-them” prime, it never crossed my mind to cruise gay bars to pick up girls. Truth be told, it would’ve struck me as arrogant and anti-social to go to one, only to reject natural overtures from gay men to pick me up. And, with all due… Read more.
The Scottish actor was best known for his portrayal of James Bond, being the first to bring the role to the big screen and appearing in seven of the spy thrillers. … His acting career spanned seven decades and he won an Oscar in 1988 for his role in The Untouchables. Sir Sean’s other [non-Bond]… Read more.
No doubt you recall Idris Elba’s sambo-like campaign to play James Bond. I didn’t think he had any professional credibility or marketability left after that. The hypocrisy inherent in his attempt at “cultural appropriation” was as incomprehensible as it was unforgivable. Accordingly, I made no effort to disguise my contempt in commentaries like “A Black… Read more.
Evidently, some of you have taken offense to my “flippant” take on this unfolding coronavirus pandemic. I regret that. But I feel constrained to note that I invariably juxtapose my take with far more deadly concerns like the seasonal flu and the tornado that just devastated Tennessee. It is in this panic-driven context that I… Read more.
A Black James Bond has become a meme. But, like most memes, I hope it amounts to nothing more than a fleeting fancy. A Black James Bond is unrealistic Interestingly enough, Sony executives themselves raised the prospect of a Black James Bond. Last year, leaked e-mails revealed they were considering Idris Elba to replace Daniel Craig. I registered my take in “A… Read more.
The media have published the latest batch of leaked Sony e-mails. It includes executives discussing Idris Elba replacing Daniel Craig as James Bond. That, of course, would make Elba the first Black James Bond. And that prospect has caused near-universal excitement. A Black James Bond? Mind you, other leaked e-mails outed these same executives as closeted Hollywood racists. That makes their… Read more.
