{"id":92561,"date":"2024-04-28T21:56:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T04:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92561"},"modified":"2024-04-28T21:56:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T04:56:11","slug":"coop-makes-kevin-sweat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/04\/28\/coop-makes-kevin-sweat\/","title":{"rendered":"Coop Makes Kevin Sweat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in 2019, <strong>Kevin Hart <\/strong>was announced as host of the <strong><em>Oscars<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; He was dumped shortly thereafter when homophobic tweets from 2011 resurfaced.&nbsp; He addressed that situation with <strong>Anderson Cooper <\/strong>on <strong><em>60 Minutes<\/em><\/strong> last week.&nbsp; He credits <strong>Wanda Sykes <\/strong>for helping him understand the situation.&nbsp; She said, \u201cThere\u2019s people that are being hurt today because of comments like the ones that you made then, and there\u2019s people that were saying it\u2019s okay to make those comments today based off of what you did then.\u201d&nbsp; Hart told Coop, \u201cIt was presented to me in a way where I couldn\u2019t ignore that.&nbsp; So in those moments of despair, great understanding and education can come out of it if you\u2019re given the opportunity.\u201d&nbsp; I think that\u2019s a roundabout way of saying he\u2019d like the <em>Academy <\/em>to ask him again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A handful of gay performers are being honored at the <strong><em>Celebration of LGBTQ+ Cinema &amp; Television<\/em><\/strong> presented by the <em>Critics Choice Association<\/em>.&nbsp; The event will take place on Friday, June 7<sup>th<\/sup> and will stream later on <em>HereTV <\/em>\u2013 which I didn\u2019t even know was still a thing.&nbsp; The event will be hosted by <strong>Sherry Cola<\/strong>.&nbsp; The <strong><em>Career Achievement Award <\/em><\/strong>will be given to <strong>Nathan Lane<\/strong>, and the <em>Social Justice Award <\/em>will go to <strong>George Takei<\/strong>.&nbsp; A full list of honorees can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.CriticsChoice.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CriticsChoice.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in 2019, Kevin Hart was announced as host of the Oscars.&nbsp; He was dumped shortly thereafter when homophobic tweets from 2011 resurfaced.&nbsp; He addressed that situation with Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes last week.&nbsp; He credits Wanda Sykes for helping him understand the situation.&nbsp; She said, \u201cThere\u2019s people that are being hurt today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92562,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92561\/revisions\/92562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}