This week I finally render my verdict on Joss Whedon’s “Dollhouse”: Sadly, I judge the new sci-fi series to be Misogynist with a capital “M.”
As fellow fans of TV writer/director Joss Whedon will understand, I wanted to believe in his ability to handle this sensitive material. Whedon created “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” that touchstone of [...]

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Obamaworld ushered in a new form of integration that makes me very happy: Country singers in the Democratic Party!
Singing at Barack Obama’s inauguration were none other than country superstars Garth Brooks and Jennifer “Sugarland” Nettles (pictured at right, below and center). Country supercouple Tim McGraw and Faith Hill (shown top right) celebrated with a sparkling [...]

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What a wonderful holiday surprise: Brad Pitt’s new movie “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” features a loving interracial family at its center. Pitt plays a character raised by an African-American mom (the brilliant Taraji Henson, pictured at right) — and it works.
The movie takes full liberty with the short story on which it’s based. [...]

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I just read a really cool article in The New York Times about a virtually royal French Jewish woman who devoted her life to supporting the work of brilliant but often broke African-American jazz greats in New York City. It’s a romantic an inspiring story.
The woman was Baroness Kathleen Annie Pannonica Rothschild de Koenigswarte, known [...]

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