Hollywood and MTV Support Criminals Because It Sells
By
Brad Brevet
Rapper T.I. (Tip Harris) is joining Matt Dillon and Idris Elba in the crime drama Bone Deep. The greatest news about all this is the fact that T.I. is a criminal who faces a yearlong prison stretch for weapons possession that begins next spring. Why is this great? Because it proves that Hollywood doesn’t give a shit about anyone or anything. Are you going to tell me there isn’t a single young black actor that could have played this part? Instead we have to hire a gun toting criminal facing prison time? WHAT A LOAD OF SHIT!
What’s even better is that the movie work will be scheduled around the legal complications faced by Harris, who has also cut a deal to topline a six-episode MTV reality show that will chronicle the 1,000 hours of community service he’ll perform before heading off to serve his sentence. Nice, huh? Face jail time for weapons possession and get a film deal and a TV deal centered on your community service work. Who was it that said MTV was irrelevant? Oh, that was me. Shame on Variety for posting this simply as news and not adding any kind of commentary.
