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Farewell…The Ancestors Await

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The epitome of quiet humility…storming with talent.

 

Master.  Panther.  Gentleman.  King.

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Rest in peace, Chadwick Boseman.

 

Mother?

Mother!

Oh, you really do love him, don’t you?  So?  Here, have some lemonade.  What’s wrong with this lemonade?  Why do you love these sick, psycho, murder, whores more than me?  Unconditional love is snoring?  Uh, boring?  911?  911?  Why have you forsaken me?  The Blood.

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Freak Show

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If you were lucky enough to get killed off Star in its explosive season finale,

count it a blessing.

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Claws: Like a Train Wreck

Claws-on-TNTCould you look away?  From all this? 

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Hair Goals

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Zazie Beetz as Domino, Deadpool 2.

Penelope Cruz is Donatella Versace

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Penelope Cruz as we have never seen her before…black leather suits you, honey!

I don’t know the fashionista Donatella Versace personally.  But I would guess, regardless of the fact or fiction of the salacious story line, that she’s proud to have Penelope Cruz bringing life to a tragic aspect of her life in the American Crime Story miniseries, The Assassination of Gianni Versace.

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Where’s the Beef?!

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Batman:          “Does this mask make my chin look big?”

Superman:      “I think you mean loooonger.  And why is your voice auto-tuned?”

This Batman vs. Superman movie has caused me to feel like a kid being jerked around with on Jimmy Kimmel.  This can’t be right.   (Sweats bullets.)  Two good guys . . . enemies??   Can’t be!!!   Why would anyone want to make Superman mad at Batman?!!  (Tears up.)  Whose stupid, stupid, stupid idea was this anyway?  (Open mouth, insert pill (but only because I’m waaaay too old to be throwin’ a tantrum).)

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Oscar: Old, Set in His Musty White Ways

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Should anyone expect anything other than exclusion from anyone 88, old, white, and called Oscar?

“Say what we will, there is something in human nature which we cannot blot out, which makes one man, in the end, recognize and reward merit in another, regardless of colour or race.”

–Booker T. Washington, “Up From Slavery” (1901)

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Selling Pain

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Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart premiered Saturday night on Lifetime. It would seem that whether an autobiography is authorized or unauthorized impacts the quality of the end product.

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Drops House on Peter Pan

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The Wiz Live!: Raising the Bar

The Wiz Live!, a performance full of life, aired a few days ago on NBC.  The imagery was magical.  The script was a combination of the expected and the unexpected.  When the Wiz played by Queen Latifah asked Dorothy Gale (Shanice Williams), “Who you callin’ a coward?,” fans of the rapper turned actress, turned TV host, jazz stylist, producer, etc., etc., knew that the question was an homage to a very early rap hit where the Queen asks: “Who you callin’ a b—-?”

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