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Tyler Perry vs. Madea
The Clip: Managing Madea The Buzz can in no way, shape, or form knock Tyler Perry’s hustle. He is a self-made millionaire whose success and prosperity is based largely on shrewd business savvy and loyalty; loyalty to the fan base who support him because of the stories he tells. The reason he has been able to move…
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Cherry Pickin'
The New York Times: Obama’s Iraq Pullout Plan Gains GOP Support, Hell Freezing Over TBT: Hm. Perhaps the President really can get somewhere with this “purpling” of the government. Or maybe they’re just biding their time. The Washington Post: Pondering a Newspaper Bailout, Constitution Sighs TBT: Going against the spirit of the free market is…
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Fallen Starbury
Some time in the not too distant future, some enterprising opera company is going to present a work by a hoops-loving composer based on the life of former New York Knicks guard Stephon Marbury. In fact, with the latest chapter in Marbury’s star-crossed saga—his exit from the Knicks after the world’s longest buyout negotiation—and his…
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Do The Stanky Legg!
If you’re accessible to anyone under five feet, you likely know about it already. Those of us glued to YouTube have certainly spotted it. But in case you’ve been living under the rock called adulthood, perhaps Nate Robinson doing it during All Star Weekend’s Slam Dunk contest has finally introduced you to the newest dance…
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NEWBOS: Negro Entrepreneurs With Ballerific Occupations
Last night, premiering its new documentary, Newbos: The Rise of America’s New Black Overclass, CNBC smooth blew the lid off of a heretofore little known phenomenon—African Americans making extraordinary strides in the fields of professional sports and popular music. In interviews with the Wall Street Journal’s Lee Hawkins, author of the forthcoming book by the…
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Happy Melancholy
I’ve been waiting a long time for Medicine for Melancholy, a small, independent film is the debut effort from writer-director Barry Jenkins. It’s a love story that’s not about love. It is a movie that examines race, but there are no large black men in drag; no broad farcical elements; no hip-hop; no bling; no family…
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Minding Our Ps and Queues
It’s the end of a long and trying day and you stop by the market for just a few things: Some milk, a roll of paper towels, a couple of lemons. You step into the line clearly marked EXPRESS only to discover that the person ahead of you is unloading what looks like the weekly…
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The Cool-out Corner
“A corner to cool-out in”, as coined by loyal Buzzonian Jason Quinn. Well over here in our small corner of the web, The Buzz wants you to know your hard hours are work will be reward in paradise—the paradise of music that is. So sit back, click through, and listen up. This is The Cool-out…
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Can Conservatives Even Hear Themselves Talking?
Why, when there are already well-established fabulists on the far right, do more and more of them compete for the same job? NATIONAL REVIEW’s Jonah Goldberg took a quick dig at Obama for starching high school drop-outs in his congressional address. Goldberg asks, “why is it okay to question the patriotism of high school drop-outs…
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100-Plus Pages of Gov’t Geek Reading
I can’t say I’ve ever read the whole budget, but it’s always fun to try—kinda like professing every Christmas that you’re gonna go back and read the whole Bible. Anyway, the digest Obama put out today isn’t even the whole budget, that’s not coming until April. But here’s the full text (and smartly designed cover)…