Make it Stop: When Will Hollywood Stop Glorifying Hip-Hop Thugs?

Not sure why we’re supposed to worship the dead thug, hip-hopper Christopher “Biggie Smalls” Wallace a/k/a “The Notorious B.I.G.” Is it because he’s a fat guy who was successful?

Either way, the best part of “Notorious “–the movie, out today, that whitewashes and glorifies this sleazebag–was when Wallace was shot and killed. “Just die already,” I thought in the critics’ screening I attended last week. I couldn’t believe people were actually crying at the end of this movie over this waste of a human vessel. I walked out thinking that I guess this is the new civil rights: If you’re gonna make a hero out of White (Larry Flynt) and Latino (Ernesto “Che” Guevara) scumbags, then I guess the new “equality” is to do the same for a Black scumbag . . . on the eve of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Kids who get the day off can celebrate the new civil rights by seeing this two-hour celluloid ode to America’s worst. Lowlifes ‘R’ Us.

Here’s my full review and those of most of this weekend’s other new releases , including “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” (loved it), “Defiance” (loved it, despite writer/director Ed Zwick’s reluctance to have an ounce of courage and denounce Islamic terrorism ), and “Last Chance Harvey” (not bad).

Oh, and don’t forget, one of Barack Obama’s most visible supporters, Sean “Diddy” Combs, was responsible for making “Biggie” a star. Welcome to Obama’s world of low expectations.