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When Life Imitates Art: Shonda Rhimes Says the Elections Are Imitating the Zany Stuff Writers Develop for Scandal
There’s the saying, “You can’t make this stuff up.” Well, apparently you can. Just ask Shonda Rhimes and her team of writers who concoct the storylines for Scandal. In an interview during PaleyFest, Rhimes described how, because the political goings-on in Washington, D.C., serve as a backdrop for Scandal, she and her writers drum up pretty sensational plotlines about…
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Watch: Oprah’s New Series, Greenleaf, About a Megachurch Family
Oprah’s coming back to television in a more consistent way come June. Tune in to the OWN network June 21 to watch the premiere of Greenleaf, a 13-episode drama about a family that runs a megachurch in Memphis, Tenn. Oprah released the trailer on Twitter, and it looks solid. It’s giving me Eve’s Bayou. The…
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The Deets on Mariah Carey’s New Reality Show
Mariah Carey is coming to reality television. And to the E! network, at that—home of the Kardashians. The eight-episode docuseries, titled Mariah’s World, will be based on Carey’s upcoming tours in Europe and South Africa and her wedding to her Australian billionaire fiance James Packer, the New York Times reports. It’ll likely air in late summer. …
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Nicki Minaj Explains Why Her Relationship With Meek Mill Works
One of the signs that you’re in a promising relationship is if you can be your authentic self around that person and feel completely encouraged and appreciated. During an interview that appears in the April issue of Nylon magazine, Nicki Minaj said she gets that feeling from her boyfriend, Meek Mill. It means everything to…
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Amber Rose: People Are OK With Beyoncé’s Half-Nakedness but Trash Me and Kim
Amber Rose is on a crusade of sorts, encouraging people to think long and hard about sexism, sexuality and the double standards at play between men and women. And even the double standards at play between different kinds of women. She made it plain and clear to Rev. Run and Tyrese that when a woman…
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The People v. O.J. Simpson Recap: It Doesn’t Fit
Bob Shapiro is at the courthouse offering a “Good morning” to Gil Garcetti, who is not here for any of Shapiro’s shenanigans. “We barely recovered from the Rodney King riots of two years ago, and now you and Johnnie are standing in a damn pool of gasoline playing with matches,” Garcetti snaps. Shapiro insists that…
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Ken Burns Discuss How Race and Class Are Still America’s Fault Line
A frank discussion about race and class with two of the nation’s best-known historians quickly turned into a referendum on the rhetoric and vitriol that have turned the 2016 presidential campaign into what some see as a circus. Both documentarian Ken Burns and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. see the current electoral environment as…
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Jaden Smith: ‘I Don’t See Man Clothes and Woman Clothes’
Jaden Smith—Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s 17-year-old actor son—is on the cover of British GQ, and inside he tells the magazine that he doesn’t see a difference between clothes that are made for men and those made for women. “I don’t see man clothes and woman clothes,” Jaden said. This is nothing new, if…
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