Tom Cruise is about to turn 60 — time for a look back at the life of a master maverick.
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Between Russell Simmons and The World and Oprah
Russell Simmons moved to Bali to avoid the legal fallout from a litany of #metoo accusations, but that didn’t stop him from spending time, recently, in New York City. Veteran journalist Kevin Powell conducted many interviews with him there, attempting to understand his one-time idol’s perspective. In the wake of Oprah Winfrey’s withdrawal from producing […]
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Regarding the Pain of Oprah
She gets a mansion and she gets a boat and she gets a jet! And you get to suffer and then maybe pull yourself up by your bootstraps, if you’re lucky enough and bare enough of your private pain.
Posted inArts & Culture, Story
The New Old Hollywood
The Hollywood establishment used to be dominated by old white men, but that’s changing fast.
Posted inHighlight, profile, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes
Jonathan Franzen’s “Readers”
Haters could write the book on hate reading Jonathan Franzen, but he wouldn’t read it and neither would they.
Posted inMedia, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
A Speech and a Sermon
In her speech, Oprah reached out to “every man who chooses to listen.” Fifty years earlier, Martin Luther King, Jr. asked fearful men to speak up.
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Diet Is a Four-Letter Word
Taffy Brodesser-Akner explores America’s history of obsession with thinness and her own struggles with her body.