Celebrity Chat: Bring Back Our Girls
It has been just over 4 weeks since I sponsored the Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) international conference. So thrilled to see the best CMCS video on Celebrity Chat Season 2 already! It makes you think about the role (or failures) of fame in Bring Back our Girls campaign, which is what award-winners Dr Susan Hopkins and Dr Jenny Ostini discuss. Watch till the end and tell us what you think. Tweet to www.twitter.com/celeb_studies to be part of a dialogue that this exclusive video has generated. Also join our associate press WaterHill Publishing at...
Read MoreStories from La La Land
It has been just over 3 weeks since I came back from La La Land, but its stories will continue to fill us. Such is the symbolic power of immortality in Hollywood stardom. I am pleased to share that my Celebrity Studies publication and interview for Toronto & Vancouver Sun 24 Hours News have been released for worldwide readers today. I will never forget the private journeys of writing and speaking on what has been made public. It all started after my talk in Australia and during my travels in the US and Costa Rica. I will also forever remember how my mum’s talent and inspirations...
Read MoreThe Good & The Bad
In one of Facebook posts, I mentioned the idea of writing my memoir. Will that book talk about all the good ideas that were expected of me in the past? I am a bad Canadian. I neither support political images of the Great White North nor do I buy hockey tickets. My book Fame in Hollywood North will tell us why. I am also a bad Bengali. I neither buy fish nor do I have to marry. Sometimes we conflate our belonging to a geographical place, a linguistic community or professional setting with what we are expected to identify. Often these expectations are associated with a sense of collective...
Read MoreInterview on Snoop Dogg and the BBC
“The mass appeal of a persona or event, such as the Snoop Dogg petition, is based on existing social contexts and not necessarily ‘luck’, as the myth of stardom would confirm. The attention that Snoop Dogg has received is not new. He has already gained visibility: he is a well-known rapper that has extraordinary talent, bizarre impressions, and eccentric looks, while he gives voice to environmental issues and animals in ordinary ways. His famous participation in Jimmy Kimmel Live sketch “Plizzanet Earth” is a good example of this visibility that supports news commodity. What makes this...
Read MoreFrom Manhattan to Mumbai
It has been just over nine weeks since I came back from Manhattan, where I hosted the last Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) conference on journalists, personas, and celebrity culture. We received such a phenomenal response that I am now sponsoring the next conference Bridging Gaps: What are the media, publicists & celebrities selling? in Barcelona. A huge thanks to my co-chairs Dr Jackie Raphael and Dr Celia Lam for organizing this exciting conference series. I will be working on the conference as I travel – flying to Mumbai and Kolkata today. I am also excited to...
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