via eurweb: *During the time that Chris Rock and his wife Malaak were going through a divorce, his Mother, Rose Rock, was also battling cancer. Rock opened up about this difficult time in his life during a 2017 interview with Rolling Stone. The irony is that his mother was being treated at Sloan Kettering in New York, a facility on the […]
While sitting down with Ebro in the Morning on Tuesday, Chris Rock discussed a wealth of topics, from Atlanta being the “best show on television” to his shock and surprise at the Migos’ new album being so “funky” and Charlie Murphy’s legacy. One very brief but insightful chat was about how Rock is adjusting to life after […]
Comedian Chris Rock’s has starred in a number of movies and toured the world in sold-out arenas. But little did we know he was bullied as a child. The bullying began when he was just in second grade. “We lived in Bed-Stuy, one of the most famous ghettos in the world,” Chris says. “My mother […]
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Jada Pinkett Smith isn’t letting Chris Rock’s Oscars dig get her down. Pinkett Smith said she was unfazed by Rock’s jokes about her in his opening monologue at the awards ceremony, saying it simply “comes with the territory.” “It comes with the territory, sweetheart,” she told x17online. “We got to keep it moving, there’s a lot of stuff […]
Whether Will Smith has any ill will toward Chris Rock or not regarding his comments on Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith is still a mystery. What can be said is that Smith is practicing his right to remain silent. Upon spotting the rapper-actor when he left a restaurant in New York City, TMZ questioned Smith […]
Ellen DeGeneres gave out pizza — Chris Rock sold cookies. The host of Sunday’s Oscars took the time to sell some Girl Scout cookies to stars during the awards show and raised a whopping $65,243, with over 13,000 boxes sold. The 51-year-old, who was collecting money for his daughters Zahra Savannah and Lola Simone Rock […]
After lamenting the lack of diversity at the Oscars in his opening monologue, host Chris Rock went straight into Compton to ask the black community how they felt about the racially charged controversy. In a humorous clip that aired during the Academy Awards, Rock interviewed a number of people on the street in the Southern […]
In an underdog win for a movie about an underdog profession, the newspaper drama “Spotlight” took best picture at a 88th Academy Awards. Tom McCarthy’s film about the Boston Globe’s investigative reporting on sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests won over the favored frontier epic “The Revenant.” McCarthy’s well-crafted procedural, led by a strong ensemble […]
Before the 2016 Oscars’ diversity controversy, host Chris Rock had long spoken out about racial issues in America and he recently brought up another “real problem” in Hollywood. The 50-year-old comedian and actor was among the first celebs to comment publicly on the lack of diversity among this year’s acting nominees. One of the most […]
