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Rihanna featured Johnny Depp in her fashion show. And it speaks volumes about his damaged reputation that his appearance evoked more jeers than cheers. Everyone is asking why she featured him. Rihanna features Johnny Depp Literally, why is he here? Johnny Depp made an appearance during Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 4 on Wednesday. During the… Read more.
“What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a [woman] who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a [woman] who has the good imposed upon [her]?” — Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange Related commentaries: Rihanna & Chris Brown… Read more.
I took a lot of flak four years ago for dismissing the VMAs and damning the music industry as follows: Lady Gaga literally personifies the triumph of packaged and formulaic acts over talented performances. Which is rather a shame because this girl can sing… Come to think of it, though, most performers today seem to think that the… Read more.
[Tokenism in Hollywood] remains such that members of the Academy seem racially averse to nominating more than one Black movie in any given year, let alone awarding Oscars to more than one. Only this explains why they completely shut out Lee Daniels’ The Butler and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom… This slight against Mandela (or… Read more.
It speaks volumes about the confluence of virtual reality and reality that erstwhile sensible people seem convinced that a one-day chain of celebrity tweets can do more to defeat Africa’s most brutal guerrilla fighter, Joseph Kony, than foot soldiers who have been on non-stop search-and-kill missions to get him for more than a decade. Specifically, much is being made in the media this week… Read more.
I remember insisting that Chris would end up being prosecuted, despite Rihanna’s misguided efforts to stand by her man. Because the O.J.-Nicole Brown Simpson precedent led to laws mandating arrest in cases of domestic abuse even against the victim’s wishes. [Chris Brown charged for assaulting girlfriend Rihanna, TIJ, March 6, 2009] It was a feeding… Read more.
On the night of the Grammy Awards last month, a female friend and I were discussing what was then pure speculation surrounding the Chris Brown-Rihanna fight that caused them both to cancel scheduled performances. As we recalled that discussion last night, we agreed that she became extremely annoyed by my suggestion that instead of pressing… Read more.
