Tag: Will Smith
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MAMP Book Review: Will by Will Smith
It just so happened that when #TheSlap of 2022, aka, that time when Will Smith smacked Chris Rock at the Oscars for disrespecting his wife, I was in the middle of reading his riveting, self-titled memoir, Will. (No subtitle, just Will.) While I was already enjoying the book, pre-Slap, I was more motivated to get…
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Will Smith, Chris Rock and a Black Woman’s Hair
My writing career started in the world of celebrity journalism. But it never sat well with my conscience. I always felt a sense of unease commenting on the lives of actors and entertainers, as if their actions and reactions to the mundane were somehow imbued with a significance above and beyond the rest of us…
