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The Hollywood Reporter: ‘Just Mercy’ and the Difference Between Black and White Legal Dramas
Jake Giles Netter/Warner Bros. ('Just Mercy' director Destin Daniel Cretton on the set of the Warner Bros. drama about lawyer Bryan Stevenson.) Movies about racial injustice can "exonerate us" when set in the past, but...
The Hollywood Reporter: In Hollywood, a Decade of Racial Progress But at a Glacial Pace
Courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures; Universal Studios; Marvel Studios The Hollywood Reporter columnist reviews the movement toward inclusion in the film and TV industry as he takes "tongs and a fossil brush" to The Hollywood...
The Hollywood Reporter: Scorsese Isn’t Wrong About Marvel (He Isn’t Right, Either)
Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images (Martin Scorsese) The director wasn’t denigrating superhero films so much as stating the obvious, writes the NBA great and Hollywood Reporter columnist. Director Martin Scorsese’s claim to Empire magazine that Marvel films aren’t...
The Hollywood Reporter: Why the ‘Joker’ Gun Violence Protests Miss the Mark
Warner Bros. Pictures Though supportive of their goals, the Hollywood Reporter columnist (and gun owner) argues that survivors of shootings are targeting the wrong film with the wrong strategy, "setting a bad precedent for all...
The Hollywood Reporter: Bruce Lee Was My Friend, and Tarantino’s Movie Disrespects Him
Alamy Stock Photo (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bruce Lee during the filming of 'Game of Death,' released in 1978.) The NBA great and Hollywood Reporter columnist, a friend of the late martial arts star, believes the...
The Hollywood Reporter: What I Learned Writing for ‘Veronica Mars’
Maria Corte The Hollywood Reporter columnist reflects on his recent stint as a new television scribe: "It all had that same fast-break-no-look-pass feel of the Showtime Lakers working unconsciously together." When it was announced in...
The Hollywood Reporter: What’s Really “Black” About All These Black Movie Remakes?
Illustration by Maria Corte The Hollywood Reporter's columnist looks at two new takes on originally white-cast films — 'What Men Want' and 'Little' — and sees the needle of racial equality nudging forward "a bit."...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: How Misbehaving Stars Use Their Kids as Brand-Enhancing Props
When the famous bribe their kids into college or parade them on TV they are really using the façade of a perfect family to burnish their own image and justify their own bad behavior. We’ve...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Aisha Tyler Express Need for Diversity in Higher Education in America
by Jasmyne Bell Chancellor Gene Block was honored with the Educational Visionary Award, presented by Abdul-Jabbar and fellow UCLA alum Bill Walton. Fulfillment Fund's annual event, Eat, Drink, Be Inspired, put a spotlight on the...