There are times when I fret over the state of American culture. It was recently announced, for example, that Justin Beiber is coming out with a memoir entitled “First Step 2 Forever”. Not to over-dramatize it, but one could be forgiven for ascribing apocalyptic implications to this cultural development. Are we really going to embrace [...]
Fame, celebrity what is it? Even more curiously how has it changed and how do we attain it and what does it actually mean to be famous or a celebrity? These are some of the questions I posed over the past weekend to a number of people that I was fortunate to come across during [...]
How to make always money with your legs spread in the air. There seems to be a pervading theme amongst eyesores in America that if they misbehave and happen to get some media attention then America will get a hard on and ask them to move into their living room- for a fee of course. [...]
Taking kudos for things that aren’t rightfully yours. No sooner had Lindsay Lohan capricious media whore and social dilettante arrived in India she had the masses in a frenzy. A frenzy of course unlike the one that she would have preferred. Thinking that she was flying to east LA or New Jersey Lilo didn’t realize [...]
The Times reports: ‘Two teenage rappers have been jailed for a total of 32 years for plotting to kill a pregnant 15-year-old because they thought she stood in the way of their music careers.’ The two 19-year-olds, Kingsley Ogundele and Brandon Jolie, who had big ambitions on the “grime” music scene decided that a baby [...]
It takes cunning to make it as an artist and even more cunning to get the sex, money and fame that is your inalienable right if you traverse the platform called the artist. For most artists it’s a losing proposition- for a variety of reasons, the lack of money, charisma, contacts and most importantly because the [...]
In it simplest form, theater is the idea of relaying a story between actors and an audience. Its appeal until now has been its ability to transform audiences and actors alike, as well as challenge notions and to offer human transcendence. What has existed as a barometer of human wonder, fear, trepidations, hopes and [...]
“Michaele and Tareq Salahi slipped past multiple layers of high-level White House security Tuesday night and managed to rub shoulders, literally, with Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. and the White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, among others, at Washington’s most exclusive social event this year.” – NY Times It must be reaffirming for [...]
Slipping and sliding on stage. Fame in America. It’s not exactly newsworthy stuff that catches the eye of the Public but this is nothing new. Keeping that in mind, it seems the world over can’t get enough of watching a diva Jennifer Lopez getting her knickers in a knot. (yummy! And ugh at the same [...]
Susan Boyle, who became a star overnight with her bushy eyebrows, frumpy posture, and a beautiful voice, has broken a new record on Amazon.com. Her debut album, aptly named, “I Dreamed A Dream” has “far surpassed” the numbers people had guesstimated. Honestly, I’m surprised. I thought her 15 minutes were up but it looks like [...]
