{"id":9303,"date":"2020-06-22T01:52:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T08:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=9303"},"modified":"2020-06-22T01:52:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T08:52:32","slug":"jenifers-a-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/06\/22\/jenifers-a-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenifer&#8217;s a Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, <strong>Jimmy Kimmel <\/strong>was named as both host and executive producer of the <em>Emmy Awards <\/em>\u2013 assuming there will be an Emmy Awards.&nbsp; Days later, there was an outcry against him.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Because 20 years ago, he wore blackface to play basketball star <strong>Karl Malone <\/strong>on <strong><em>The Man Show<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Not only are people complaining about the character, but they are calling Kimmel on the carpet for being part of a show that was anti-woman.&nbsp; It was also noted that another late-night Jimmy \u2013 <strong>Jimmy Fallon <\/strong>\u2013 wore blackface to play <strong>Chris Rock <\/strong>on <strong><em>Saturday Night Live<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Fallon immediately apologized.&nbsp; \u201cI am very sorry for making this unquestionable offensive decision and thank all of you for holding me accountable.\u201d&nbsp; As for Kimmel, he\u2019s taking the summer off and will employ guest hosts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What a roller coaster it was for <strong><em>Black-ish<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Last week, <em>ABC<\/em> announced that while the sitcom was being renewed, it would return as a midseason replacement in order to make room for a new sitcom \u2013 <strong><em>Call Your Mother<\/em><\/strong> starring <strong>Kyra Sedgwick<\/strong>.&nbsp; It was a questionable choice in these days of intense racial scrutiny (to say nothing of it happening within 48 hours of Juneteenth).&nbsp; It didn\u2019t take long for <em>ABC<\/em> to change their tune.&nbsp; <em>Black-ish<\/em> will return in the fall.&nbsp; The network decided that \u201cit was important to tell these meaningful stories during this moment in time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a move that nobody found controversial, <em>Black-ish<\/em> star <strong>Jenifer Lewis <\/strong>(my <em>Play Mama<\/em>) will be the recipient of a star on the <strong><em>Hollywood Walk of Fame<\/em><\/strong>!&nbsp; The honor, bestowed upon great entertainers by the <em>Hollywood Chamber of Commerce <\/em>(based on fan petitions) will take place sometime in 2021.&nbsp; May I recommend July 15<sup>th<\/sup>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Jimmy Kimmel was named as both host and executive producer of the Emmy Awards \u2013 assuming there will be an Emmy Awards.&nbsp; Days later, there was an outcry against him.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Because 20 years ago, he wore blackface to play basketball star Karl Malone on The Man Show.&nbsp; Not only are people complaining<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9303","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\/9303","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=9303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9304,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9303\/revisions\/9304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}