Empire star Jussie Smollett maintains his innocence and calls court hearing a dog and pony show after being re-charged with faking race attack and lying to cops
Former Empire star Jussie Smollett, 39, is continuing to maintain his innocence as he faces new charges for allegedly lying to police officers about a January 2019 attack He was seen entering court in Chicago on Wednesday wearing a blue suit with a lighter blue blazer to face six counts of felony misconduct for allegedly lying to the cops about the racist and homophobic attack On his way into court, Smollett insisted he was innocent and called the proceedings a dog and pony show Smollett had claimed in January 2019 that two masked men approached him as he was walking home from a Subway shop and beat him down and looped a noose around his neck before fleeing
In â71 this is how it was done (musically, that is)
By Peter Keough Globe Correspondent,Updated May 19, 2021, 11:50 a.m.
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Some great songs came out 50 years ago, but, contrary to the title of Asif Kapadia, Danielle Peck, and James Roganâs â
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything,â they probably didnât change much of anything. Many of the social and political problems of that time havenât gotten any better, and the music has gotten worse. Be that as it may, this fluid, fast-moving, contrapuntally structured eight-part, six-hour documentary on Apple TV+ not only revisits some of these great and sometimes obscure hits (many presented in generous performances) but weaves an aural and visual tapestry of a time no less chaotic, convulsive, and uncertain than our own.