It’s not shocking when people respect others from the ethnic group where they originate. I meant in general that people in the US take a US-centric view that we regularly ignore major international stars simply because they are not Hollywood stars. That’s not just a Bollywood thing. How many famous Chinese actors can…

The writer, Mariah Smith, is black, but the Cut’s editors, and their perspective, are mostly white.

I hope to be proven wrong, I hope that he can pull it off (it will take a team of writers to script his every word) but this is a bad choice because hosting the Oscars inevitably requires ad libbing, and his worst impulses (homophobia, for example) could sink the show. The suggestion that he tag-team it with Tiffany…

There had to be someone better than Kevin Hart.  That’s pathetic.  Kevin Hart.  Wow.