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[CINÉ-ART] – Would Will Smith be a motivator without self-control?
Sunday, March 27, 2022. Red carpet. Limousines with tinted windows vomit anorexic starlets with vertiginous necklines that reveal D-cup-padded tits and pretentious snobs in lustrous three-piece costumes in front of the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Haughty poses. Photo shoots. In Hollywood, we don’t do anything with lace. This is the 49th Oscars ceremony. A show of awards of actors and will try of the seventh art. The hall is full like an egg. We have even forgotten about Covid and its variants and its prophylactic and restrictive measures. The party is in full swing in total carelessness, even if we deign to grant a minute of the show time to the Ukrainian situation. Simple social convenience: if not the truth, we don’t give a shit as long as it doesn’t prevent us from living our own little lives.
Comedian Chris Rock, known for his salacious jokes, shoots the Hollywood hotshot with his carabiné humour. Everyone is laughing. The audience bends over backwards each time they strike. They drop something. Chapped laughter. It looks like a flaming spike. More like dynamite. My English is quite academic, but I could hear words like “Will”, “Jada”… And maybe bald head. Indeed, Will Smith’s wife is named Jada and for health reasons, she has a shaved head: the ball at zero. Laughter is coming. Will gets up and walks his nostrils up and down towards Chris like a furious Hancock hit by a meteorite. And bang! He unleashes a terrible slap on the left temple of Chris who staggers like a rock but does not fall. Dignity in dishonour. In any case, he knows how to take it, the guy. We’ve all heard the “wow” of the humorist. He felt it pass that one. Will sits down again under the dazed eyes of the audience. The audience is crossed by a great cold Chris sketches a plea. Will says, “You take my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth”! He just gave it away.
What could possibly have happened to bring us to such an outburst of violence between two black brothers? For all we know, Chris made a crack about Jada’s disease, suffering from alopecia. Illness is like physical: you don’t mess with it. On the web, web analysts are making a fuss: the 2022 Oscars have given them work, apparently; they are scrutinizing the facts with their binary intelligence. Some agree with Will. Others agree with Chris. Others agree with Chris.
Whatever Chris said. No matter what venom he used to steal his sentences, Will should not have reacted like that, as a whipped father, as a bottom boy, as a ghetto kingpin. That is a fact. The reason recommends it. Let us imagine that we start squashing our buns or punching people who disrespect us, who insult us or slander us. Others could have reacted like that, made scenes, I would have found nothing to gossip. But Will, it doesn’t belong to itself; it’s an icon, a model that has fallen into the public domain. By virtue of the image he presents to us, he should not have reacted in this way even though the act in his discharge could benefit from some extenuating circumstances. No one will accept that one “disrespects” his or her better half without flinching. Especially in public.
A motivator, a personal development coach of Will’s stature should not present such an image, the image of a man who has no control over his emotions. When you want to be a model in a society where values are trampled on every day, you have to take height, distance… And Will, on this one, really screwed up. He’s really not on that act any different from his bossy dad who he says was maturing to kill.
But, in the end, we are men and Will, who understood the ignominy of his act, wanted to apologize in these words on his Instagram page the next day: “I would like to publicly apologize to you, Chris. What I did was inappropriate and I was wrong. He also apologized to the organizers and guests of the Oscars. Chris did the same. Now it all works out. Icing on the cake – I’m going to add a layer as a drop: this is the first time that a woman of color is defended in a beautiful way by man in front of a boosted audience.
A lively controversy on the web the day after the celebration of their union. The Cameroonian singer is in the subjects of discussion the day after her civil marriage with Fernand Lopez celebrated Saturday, April 15, 2023. Charlotte Dipanda is being called a hypocrite because of an old interview that just surfaced.
The wedding of the famous Cameroonian singer, Charlotte Dipanda, with Fernand Lopez, her long-time companion, has made the headlines on social networks since this weekend. But this celebration was not well received by everyone, as some Internet users pulled out an interview with the star in which she said she was not interested in marriage.
Indeed, the 37-year-old singer gave an interview a few months ago, in which she criticized marriage by stating that all married couples she knew were unhappy. She also stated that marriage was not an end in itself or a goal to be achieved. I, all married people I know, are unhappy. Just to tell you that for me, marriage, as you define it, is not an end in itself, it is not a goal or something that prevents me from sleeping at night. I think I may even be on the right track. Because sometimes, when it is done, we realize that we no longer give ourselves as before or fight in the same way. I like the idea that my man is afraid of losing me, that he doesn’t take me for granted,” she said in an interview with an Ivorian media outlet in August 2022.
Charlotte Dipanda caught up in her past?
Very quickly, these statements provoked strong reactions from some Internet users, who called the singer a hypocrite. They objected to her criticizing marriage in public, when she clearly intended to marry. It is unacceptable for them to criticize something publicly and then celebrate it in private.
Here are people who misunderstood marriage during the day, on television sets, in the newspapers through interviews and who, at night, prepare to celebrate it, You shouted strong woman. I don’t need a husband to thrive. Today you are Mrs Lopez, the girls who looked at you as a model who are not star enough suitors like you and you had not thought of them. I am not against your happiness but avoid conveying messages that are not wise», we can read among other things in the comments.
These comments have sparked heated debates on social networks, with some Internet users defending Charlotte Dipanda, stressing that a person’s opinions and choices can change over time. Others took the singer’s side by saying that she had the right to change her mind and make the decision to marry.
Anyway, Charlotte Dipanda finally took the plunge and officially married Fernand Lopez last weekend. The singer officially became the wife of Fernand Lopez Owonyebe, a veteran of mixed Cameroonian-French martial art and current MMA coach. The couple did civil marriage this Saturday, April 15, 2023 about five months after the traditional marriage.
Saliou Béye is a native of Pikine, the conscious suburb, for years he lives in the United States precisely in Chicago where he is an entrepreneur.
They said “YES” to him and his cousin Bineta Lo. The wedding was celebrated last week in Thiés, Senegal, during her holiday in the presence of two families, friends, neighbours and colleagues. The entire editorial staff of Ze-Africanews through its director wishes him a happy marriage and much happiness to the young couple.
Some images of the marriage of Saliou Béye and Binta Lô:
“He’s a real product of the ghetto “Guediawaye to New York”, “This is a real product of the ghetto “Guediawaye to New York”, here is the sentence that Ngaala Blindé wrote on her Facebook page with amazing photos!
But who is Ngaala Blindé?
Ngaaka Blinde, whose real name is Baba Ndiaye, is a young Senegalese rapper born in 1994 in Medina Gounass (Guédiawaye) working-class district of Dakarois. Raised by his grandfather, he grew up with his three brothers and younger sister. Its stage name refers to the words “Ngaaka” (Marine species and/or ignorant) and “Blinde” as the word indicates. Passionate about Hip Hop from a young age, he began writing his first texts at the age of 9 under the influence of his master Mr NIANG of the Pikine 16 school in Guédiawaye Sham. He began his career by joining the rap group Young Star. He was selected in the same year in the TV show «Hip Hop Feeling» of Fata, participated in the second edition of «Hip Hop Discover» initiated by Simon Jolof4life and in the caravan tour of the group Bat’HaillonsBlin-Den 2012. The accumulation of all these experiences allowed the young Ngaaka to become the winner of the first edition of Flow UP (2013), a rap contest organized by the Africulturban Association in order to promote young rappers in expansion.
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