OPINION: Celebrities don’t owe you anything
Apparently Taylor Swift can’t even attend a friend’s wedding without bringing hundreds of guests with her.
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Apparently Taylor Swift can’t even attend a friend’s wedding without bringing hundreds of guests with her.
This past January, YouTube personality James Donaldson, known professionally as MrBeast, uploaded a video titled “1,000 Blind People See For The First Time.” In this video, which, as of publication, has over 156 million views, Donaldson provides 1,000 lower-income people with the funds to undergo a 10-minute surgery that cured their blindness.
On June 8, at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater as part of the annual Granfalloon Festival, science-fiction writer Ted Chiang — in an attempt to defend artificial-intelligence — declared that “fears about technology are fears about capitalism.”
When I saw “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” in theaters, one of the trailers before the picture was for Seth Rogen’s upcoming “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.”
In January 2008, in the midst of the Writers Guild of America strike, a catastrophic event occurred: because actor Steve Carrell refused to cross the picket line and film any episodes of “The Office,” NBC was forced to replace that show’s time slot with Donald Trump’s “The Celebrity Apprentice.”
Jordan Neely was a man who, for all intents and purposes, was at about as low of a point as one could be.
Gen Z humor is weird, and that’s putting it lightly.
Recently, I’ve been reading “The Bell Jar,” a semi-autobiographical novel by the poet Sylvia Plath. I’m only about halfway through it, so I’ll refrain from synopsizing it, but know that it basically chronicles the main character, Esther Greenwood, as she slowly experiences a mental breakdown.
When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz testified before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, he stated that he finds the term “billionaire” to be “unfair.”
SPOILER ALERT: This column contains potential spoilers for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
We don’t think about the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of it being a collective traumatic event nearly enough.
How do I start a column about a topic as vast as our collective experience with the internet? It’s an important topic, but it’s also a daunting one: the internet, as a concept, is ubiquitous, an omnipresent facet of our lives that’s almost become something of an afterthought.
On Tuesday, Feb. 28, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Biden v. Nebraska and Department of Education v. Brown. These two cases separately ask the court to strike down the student loan debt relief program President Joe Biden announced last August.
There is no such thing as objective journalism.
Brianna Ghey was a 16-year-old transgender girl from Cheshire, England. Her online friends told Rolling Stone she was unapologetically open about her gender identity, and she garnered a large following on TikTok under the username gingerpuppyx. She was a fan of video games like Roblox and Minecraft. One friend described her as “ultra feminine” and said her favorite color was pink. In short, she was a typical teenage girl.
My favorite film of all time is “Lady Bird.”
Thus spoke George Costanza: “Jerry, just remember: it’s not a lie if you believe it.”
I don’t hate the Marvel Cinematic Universe for any personal reason. The earliest film I remember calling my favorite was “Iron Man,” which, for 5-year-old me, was nothing short of a revelation. Like innumerable moviegoers around the globe, I was there opening weekend for both “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Avengers: Endgame.” I credit the MCU, in part, with inspiring my love for film more broadly.
I anticipate the headline for this column is going to ring obvious for those in Bloomington who identify with marginalized communities, but that’s very much the point.
It’s well-known that the film “Citizen Kane” is based heavily on the life of William Randolph Hearst. Like Orson Welles’ Charles Foster Kane, Hearst was a fixture of American life and someone whom the general public would’ve been familiar with. At the height of his fortune, according to Britannica, he owned 28 newspapers, 18 magazines and several other radio stations and news services.