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Binod to Rasode Mein Kaun Tha? 20 Memes That Made World a Better Place in (Cursed) 2020
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Despite the several downs and a handful of ups this year has seen, good folks on the Internet latched onto humour and got creative with memes to get through the difficult days they hadn t anticipated for when they entered into 2020.
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2020 has been a catastrophic year for humankind, one that it will remember for a long time. The COVID-19 outbreak turned into a pandemic, cyclones swept through everything in their path, locusts took over cities, bushfires consumed millions of hectares of land, frequent earthquakes disrupted life, the entertainment industry lost some of its prolific icons, hundreds of businesses had to shut shop.
Twice now, Jonah Hill has had an Oscar speech prepared. First, when he was nominated for
Moneyball, the baseball drama co-starring Brad Pitt, in 2011. Then, last year, when he was nominated for Martin Scorsese’s epic tale of banker debauchery,
The Wolf Of Wall Street, co-starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
And both times, he had an unlikely source to thank: Best Buy, otherwise known as the American Dixons. The reason? Their customer- service department.
“They have a great customer service department,” enthuses Hill, who calls them up in character for every role he takes. “Not to do bits,” he explains. “I don’t play jokes on them. I really just do it to see if I can talk as the person and if the other person believes it.”
Zenith Richards
by Tatiana Siegel
December 17, 2020, 6:00am PST
Four months after the death of the Black Panther star, who succumbed to colon cancer at age 43, those in his inner circle reminisce about their unique bond with the gifted actor: He was one of the most potent people I ve ever met.
It s a chilly December morning in L.A., and personal costumer Craig Anthony is pacing outside his Hollywood Hills home, clutching a cup of coffee in one hand while balancing his iPhone in the other. The reception is better outside, and a cathartic meeting awaits. He is hopping on a Zoom call with three others hair designer Deidra Dixon, makeup designer Siân Richards and agent Michael Greene. Since 2016, this quartet made up the innermost ring of Chadwick Boseman s inner circle.
In
Counterlife Christopher Freeburg poses a question to contemporary studies of slavery and its aftereffects: what if freedom, agency, and domination weren t the overarching terms used for thinking about Black life? In pursuit of this question, Freeburg submits that current scholarship is too preoccupied with demonstrating enslaved Africans acts of political resistance, and instead he considers Black social life beyond such concepts. He examines a rich array of cultural texts that depict slavery from works by Frederick Douglass, Radcliffe Bailey, and Edward Jones to spirituals, the television cartoon
The
Boondocks, and Quentin Tarantino s
Django Unchained to show how enslaved Africans created meaning through artistic creativity, religious practice, and historical awareness both separate from and alongside concerns about freedom. By arguing for the impossibility of tracing slave subjects solely through their pursuits of freedom, Freeburg reminds readers of the arresting powe