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Diddy Gets Real About Funding Black Enterprises: When Black People Get the Resources, 'We Over-Deliver'
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, a multifaceted mogul who can count himself as one of the world’s richest musicians, landed the cover of Variety this week and used the opportunity to discuss some harsh truths about underinvestment in black business and the gentrification of his beloved Harlem. Diddy, who recently told GQ magazine that he wants to…
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Donald Glover Leaks Deadpool Script Pages, Says He Wasn’t ‘Too Busy’ to Do the Show
If there’s one thing Donald Glover wants you to know, it’s that his schedule didn’t kill Deadpool. Last weekend, FX released a statement confirming that the network, Marvel, Donald Glover and his brother Stephen were parting ways on a proposed animated Deadpool show. When the news broke, Variety speculated that Glover’s packed schedule may have…
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Who the Hell at NBC Approved Matt Lauer’s in-Office Sex Dungeon?
By now you’ve heard that Matt Lauer was summarily drop-kicked from the Today show Wednesday morning after NBC executives learned of his “inappropriate sexual behavior.” As it turns out, completely coincidentally, multiple outlets had been working on stories about Lauer’s long-term harassment of women at NBC. On Wednesday afternoon, Variety published a piece that spilled…
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WTF, Variety?
So, yesterday Variety dropped a story about the increasing number of subscribers who are ditching traditional pay TV. Cool. No problem. Important story or whatever. But what in the fresh hell were they thinking using imagery of cable nooses for this story? Much edgy. So wow. Seriously, what exactly was this meant to convey? How…
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Amy Schumer Is Delusional if She Thinks She’s in the Same League as Dave Chappelle or Chris Rock
Amy Schumer has a vagina. Amy Schumer talks about her vagina a lot. Amy Schumer also talks about her vagina smelling like farm animals. Amy Schumer talks about binge drinking and passing out. These are all of the things I learned while watching Schumer’s The Leather Special on Netflix. Schumer is also a white woman…