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Kanye 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, 2008

Seth Rogen: It's Just a Style, Relax

Seth 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, 2008

Hi, I'm Henry Paulson: Pay me

Now 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, 2008

Don Cheadle: Don't Leave It With Him, If You Don't Want Him to Kill It

Without 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, 2008

Moses 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, 2008

Eliot Spitzer: Puritanism Gone Wild

The 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

Barack Obama: The Wake Up Call?

"The naked truth, without the usual whimsy atttempted on this page, is that Obama is pound-for-pound the best candidate in an otherwise uninspiring horse marathon imbued with color commentary from partisan jackals and mostly lazy prognosticators masquerading as newspeople."
By Jabulani Leffall, Jan 11, 2008

Jamie Lynn Spears: Oh my God! She Had Sex!

The teenage pregnancy of the sister of a pop star is not news. Increased teenage pregnancy rates and sexed up personas of middle schoolers is news that's not being adequately covered. But that's pop culture for you.
By Jabulani Leffall, Dec 20, 2007
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