Africa Is a Country

Adopting Africa

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Adopting Africa

By
Sonja Sugira

We should talk about American celebrities' obsession with adopting African babies. The mostly unfunny comedian Pauly Shore is not our guide.

A still from Pauly Shore's film "Adopted."

Proving yet again that Africa always comes to the rescue of those Hollywood celebrities in need of relevance, yesterday saw the straight-to-DVD release of a mockumentary on the celebrity African adoption craze from, wait for it, Pauly Shore. Both CNN and The Huffington Post give it the full treatment. Neither is worth your time.

Suffice it to say, this one won’t be getting a review from Allison.

In any case, this has been done before, and much better:

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