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Kevin Hart to 'Assess' Returning to Host the Oscars After Ellen Degeneres Reveals the Academy Wants Him Back
The show’s not over. Well…possibly. Kevin Hart, he of the firm stance against true atonement, recently appeared on Ellen Degeneres’ talk show to thoroughly discuss the grand opening/grand closing of his Oscars hosting gig on national television for the first time. It bears repeating: Kevin Hart was about to secure yet another bag in his…
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Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson Pivots from Basically Playing Himself in a Film to Actually Playing Himself in a Film
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has mastered the fine art of dominating a genre or character type and delivering an army of films while getting paid for it. And I mean, getting hella paid for it. Shit, he’s the second highest paid actor on the 2018 Forbes list. Let me remind you, his original career (after…
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Oscars Now Considering Host-less Show After Offering Job to Single, Solitary Straight Male
Another day, another long-standing American institution revealing it has learned absolutely nothing. After Kevin Hart’s decision to relinquish his duties as host after coming under fire for homophobic tweets, and not even a year after the #MeToo movement exposed the depths of bigotry and sexism in Hollywood to the world, the Academy of Motion Pictures…
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Kevin Hart Won’t Get Redemption Until He Atones
Kevin Hart fucked up, and he is continuing to fuck up even as I write this. As my colleague Issac Bailey pointed out: He messed up by refusing to do what was easy and right. As others have noted, he should have simply apologized again for the old tweets because a new, larger audience would…
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Kevin Hart and The Oscars: Redemption Must Be Available, Even to Former 'Homophobes'
Kevin Hart messed up. He messed up several years ago when he decided to craft a series of homophobic tweets that still haunt him. He messed up by refusing to do what was easy and right. As others have noted, he should have simply apologized again for the old tweets because a new, larger audience…
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And the Oscar Winner Is … Not Kevin Hart
Grand opening; grand closing. Just a day or so after reveling in his dream of hosting the upcoming 91st Academy Awards, Kevin Hart has dropped the bag. Naturally, when your platform bolts into a different stratosphere, so does your level of accountability. Hart had an extremely sizable audience already, but hosting the biggest night of…
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Kevin Hart Wants You to Stop Being ‘Negative’ About His Homophobic Tweets, But He’s Deleting Some of Them Anyway
After the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that comedian Kevin Hart would be hosting the 91st Oscars ceremony on Feb. 24, it was only a matter of time before Twitter detectives dug through his tweets to find something offensive. What they came up with were a bunch of homophobic jokes Hart has…
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Kevin Hart to Host 2019 Oscars Because He Really Does Have Every Single Job Ever
In the midst of awards season nomination news, I turned to a friend and exclaimed, “Who the fuck is hosting the Oscars? They usually announce it by now.” It’s true, they do. I believe the announcement that Jimmy Kimmel was re-hosting the 2018 Oscars came sometime in May 2017. Well, it looks like The Academy…
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Who Decides to Have a Cowboys and Indians-Themed Kids’ Birthday Party in 2018? Kevin Hart, That’s Who
Kevin Hart has recently “defended” his choice to throw a cowboys-and-Indians-themed party for his son’s first birthday party, if you can call it that. According to Complex, folks on social media rightfully pointed out that the entire idea of a cowboys and Indians party was messed up, especially in light of the Thanksgiving-adjacent timing. Kevin…