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Fox Orders TV Show About Layoffs – What?!?
Now this is some crazy crazy CRAZY crazy: The Fox Network is developing a reality TV series titled “Somebody’s Gotta Go”. The gimmick? Oh, this is a good one. The series will spotlight small American businesses where employees decide which one of them will be laid off. What?!? That’s some chocolate-dipped crazy. Now, I’ve got…
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Mara Brock Akil: Still Playing Game
The cat’s out of the bag by now: television as we know it is changing. Black television is nearly obsolete. In fact, there are only four black sitcoms on the air as I type this post: Tyler Perry’s House of Payne, Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns, Everybody Loves Chris, and Mara Brock Akil’s The Game. …
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Murder in Binghamton
On Friday Jiverly Wong, after losing his job and feeling ridiculed by his immigrant classmates, walked into Binghamton’s American Civic Association and killed thirteen people. Last week a man walked into a senior citizen center in Carthage, North Carolina and open-fired. Before that another man drove through his Alabama town and killed several. I don’t…
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Malawi Judge Says No! to Madonna
So here’s the latest: Madonna had her eye on a three-year old Malawi girl to bring home. You know, so the little bloke David could have a playmate. [Why does this sound like activity at a slave auction]? Anyway, a Malawi judge thwrated Madonna’s gaze by saying “NO” to her request to adopt another child…
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Reality TV Killed CBS' Guiding Light
CBS will shut down Guiding Light this fall. After seven decades of daytime melodrama Light is unable to satisfy working mothers and advertisers who rely on reality TV. Sad yes, but I guess that’s show business. Well, at least show business during a so-called Recession. Except for a fascination with Tad, Jenny, Jesse and Angie…
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Wanda Sykes: Gay and on Late Night
Goodbye MadTV, hello Wanda Sykes! Actress-Comedian Sykes is scheduled to take a late spot on Fox this Fall. I have to be honest: I’m a growing fan of Sykes and not a confirmed one. She’s certainly witty, sharp and unfiltered, but I haven’t been won over. I didn’t know much about Sykes before her clash…
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Ice Cube Plays Racist Cop in New Comedy
Here we go again. First, it was Bernie Mac in Guess Who? where he plays a black dad tortured by his daughter’s white husband-to-be. Then there was Samuel Jackson in Lakeview Terrace, that racial-heavy thriller where a black cop terrorizes a white man and his beautiful black wife. Now it’s Ice Cube. He’s just signed…
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Are Senior Citizens Safe?
This weekend’s shooting spree at the senior-care facility in Carthage, N.C. has me concerned: Senior facilities are frighteningly unsafe. You can walk into the AIG headquarters and front-desk security will swab your cheek and test your DNA to protect those thieves. But a home for older Americans and the people in it are on their own.…
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Madonna and Another Malawian Baby
Madonna has returned to the Malawian orphanage where she adopted her son David. She wants a kid sister for David and she has her eye on a 14-month old girl named Mercy James. I’ve been holding my tongue about Madonna and her adoption fetish. She’s a citizen of the world. Right? She has license to…
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Can Circumcision Help AIDS Epidemic?
The New England Journal of Medicine recently published a report about the health benefits of circumcision. After studying the sexual patterns of 3500 Ugandan men researchers from John Hopkins concluded circumcision reduced the risk of Herpes by 25% and believe it could curb HIV. Now I’ll be candid here: I’m one of those circumcised men. …
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