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Tiger Woods By the NumbersTiger had a real chance to not only vindicate himself but to let us off the hook for believing what was and is being sold to us on a daily basis but he chose to read a statement, then ask for privacy, then rail against the media.By Jabulani Leffall, Feb 23, 2010Michael Jackson: Do you Remember the Time?Even in death, Michael Jackson remains a living embodiment of the triumph and frailty of our oral tradition, of the imperfection and irresistible pathos of our entertainment and media apparatus.By Jabulani Leffall, Jul 5, 2009Kanye West: Why Ask Why"Weirdo or not, he is where he is because he did what he wanted to do until it worked."By Jabulani Leffall, Dec 5, 2008Seth Rogen: It's Just a Style, RelaxSeth Rogen, star of Zack and Miri Make a Porno, is like a greasy dish with no nutritional value whatsoever. But you may be shocked how much you enjoy it.By Jabulani Leffall, Nov 3, 2008Hi, I'm Henry Paulson: Pay meNow that the U.S. Senate has given the nod, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, in an unprecedented government intervention more socialist than Castro, Che and Mao combined, may do what many Americans do when they’re depressed - go shopping.By Jabulani Leffall, Oct 5, 2008Don Cheadle: Don't Leave It With Him, If You Don't Want Him to Kill ItWithout matinee idol good looks and with A-listers scared to be on screen more than five minutes with him, he'll never be chased by photographers or be able to open with nine-figure numbers. But Cheadle still never phones it in.By Jabulani Leffall, Sep 2, 2008Moses is Dead: How We Gonna Get to the Promiseland Now?The leading man, as many in America knew it, is gone and so, seemingly, is that frontiersman ideal that his characters espoused and America at its best seemed to live up to around the world.By Jabulani Leffall, Apr 14, 2008Eliot Spitzer: Puritanism Gone WildThe most pitiful thing about New York's Top Cop, turned Groovy Guvvy's travails, is that they reveal America's refusal to come to terms with its hypocrisy, decay and duplicity.By Jabulani Leffall, Mar 17, 2008 |
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