As Oscar night fades in the rearview, arguments over who got robbed and who had the nicest dress continue to recede. One story, however, continues to rage on — a backlash (and backlash to the backlash) to the acceptance speech given by Jonathan Glazer alongside producers James Wilson and Len Blavatnik when The Zone of Interest won for best international film. THR has learned that that, even though Glazer claimed to speak for all three of them, he had not run his comments by Blavatnik, according to a spokesperson for the billionaire.
Glazer, The Zone of Interest’s writer-director, said (and it’s important to get this right) that his Auschwitz-set movie “shows where dehumanization leads at its worst” and continued “right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people,...
Glazer, The Zone of Interest’s writer-director, said (and it’s important to get this right) that his Auschwitz-set movie “shows where dehumanization leads at its worst” and continued “right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people,...
- 3/13/2024
- by Jordan Hoffman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Editors note: John Ridley is the Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave writer, writer-director of Five Days at Memorial, and the Eisner-nominated writer of the DC graphic novel series Gcpd: The Blue Wall. He also hosts with Matt Carey the Deadline podcast Doc Talk, and occasionally contributes guest columns, last of which focused on the dismantling of studio diversity leaders that became popular after George Floyd’s murder.
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It’s called a Napoleon complex for a reason.
With the first round of Oscar voting closing out, I spent the long MLK weekend catching up on narrative films I’ve yet to see. Yes. I know. I’m a little late to the party, but my day job of watching other people’s amazing docs has bled into my evenings of watching other people’s amazing narrative features.
Among the films, I watched Mr. Ridley Scott’s Napoleon with our older son.
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It’s called a Napoleon complex for a reason.
With the first round of Oscar voting closing out, I spent the long MLK weekend catching up on narrative films I’ve yet to see. Yes. I know. I’m a little late to the party, but my day job of watching other people’s amazing docs has bled into my evenings of watching other people’s amazing narrative features.
Among the films, I watched Mr. Ridley Scott’s Napoleon with our older son.
- 1/19/2024
- by John Ridley
- Deadline Film + TV
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the notion of Palestinian statehood in a news conference on Thursday, claiming it “would endanger the state of Israel.” But he also invoked geographical language that has become a point of bitter contention as Israel’s continued military bombardment of Gaza continues in response to the Hamas attack of Oct. 7, saying that “in the future, the state of Israel has to control the entire area from the river to the sea,” according to an English translation of the speech from Israeli news channel i24News.
- 1/18/2024
- by Miles Klee
- Rollingstone.com
Ava DuVernay is frustrated, and perhaps the odd way her acclaimed drama, “Origin” has largely been ignored by the awards circuit hasn’t helped.
It’s no secret that the ideas of diversity, equity, and inclusion are under attack in the United States at the moment (just look at what happened to former Harvard President Claudine Gay and the coordinated attack on her from the far right that led her to step down from her post).
Continue reading Ava DuVernay On Hollywood’s Diversity Failures: She’s “Tapping Out” & Will Go “Make My Movies” at The Playlist.
It’s no secret that the ideas of diversity, equity, and inclusion are under attack in the United States at the moment (just look at what happened to former Harvard President Claudine Gay and the coordinated attack on her from the far right that led her to step down from her post).
Continue reading Ava DuVernay On Hollywood’s Diversity Failures: She’s “Tapping Out” & Will Go “Make My Movies” at The Playlist.
- 1/16/2024
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Billionaire hedge fund chief and burgeoning Internet Main Character Bill Ackman used the afternoon of Martin Luther King Jr. Day to claim the civil rights leader would have been against the movement for diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education and businesses. It’s a claim that MLK’s daughter has previously rejected.
Ackman made the comments during a Space conversation on X (formerly Twitter) alongside Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips and X owner Elon Musk on Monday. The discussion came two days after Ackman pledged to donate $1 million to...
Ackman made the comments during a Space conversation on X (formerly Twitter) alongside Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips and X owner Elon Musk on Monday. The discussion came two days after Ackman pledged to donate $1 million to...
- 1/15/2024
- by Andrew Perez and Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
Not even two weeks into the new year, and it looks as though far-right agitators have honed in on the scapegoat of the season: Dei, shorthand for “diversity, equity and inclusion” initiatives and policies that can be implemented in workplaces and educational institutions.
Although long included in the litany of vilified concepts that conservatives like to complain about — from “wokeness” to gender fluidity to Critical Race Theory — Dei has taken a new place of prominence after being scapegoated for two incidents that made headlines in early 2024. One was the ouster...
Although long included in the litany of vilified concepts that conservatives like to complain about — from “wokeness” to gender fluidity to Critical Race Theory — Dei has taken a new place of prominence after being scapegoated for two incidents that made headlines in early 2024. One was the ouster...
- 1/12/2024
- by Miles Klee
- Rollingstone.com
Bill Ackman, billionaire founder and CEO of hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management, has become a new and formidable actor in the American culture wars thanks to his connections to Harvard University. But by stepping into the fray, he inadvertently took up the mantle of a social media archetype that is awkward and difficult to shed: He’s 2024’s first “wife guy.”
Back in early November, a month after Hamas militants’ deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel, Ackman, who is Jewish, addressed a 3,000-word open letter on X (formerly Twitter) to Claudine Gay,...
Back in early November, a month after Hamas militants’ deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel, Ackman, who is Jewish, addressed a 3,000-word open letter on X (formerly Twitter) to Claudine Gay,...
- 1/10/2024
- by Miles Klee
- Rollingstone.com
Harvard president Claudine Gay has resigned after becoming embroiled in a pair of controversies over on-campus antisemitism and plagiarism.
Gay spent just over six months as president of Harvard, having assumed the role on July 1, 2023. She was the university’s first Black president, and has now served the shortest tenure of any president in the school’s history. Alan M. Garber, the current Provost and Chief Academic Officer, will step in as interim president. (The student paper, The Harvard Crimson, was the first to report Gay’s resignation.)
In a letter announcing her resignation,...
Gay spent just over six months as president of Harvard, having assumed the role on July 1, 2023. She was the university’s first Black president, and has now served the shortest tenure of any president in the school’s history. Alan M. Garber, the current Provost and Chief Academic Officer, will step in as interim president. (The student paper, The Harvard Crimson, was the first to report Gay’s resignation.)
In a letter announcing her resignation,...
- 1/2/2024
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Harvard president, Dr. Claudine Gay, will remain at the school despite the backlash to some of her testimony at a recent House of Representatives hearing on antisemitism on campus, The New York Times reports.
Harvard’s board, the Harvard Corporation, announced its decision to stick with Gay days after Liz Magill stepped down as president of the University of Pennsylvania over a similar matter. In a statement, the Harvard board said it still had “confidence that President Gay is the right leader to help our community heal and address the...
Harvard’s board, the Harvard Corporation, announced its decision to stick with Gay days after Liz Magill stepped down as president of the University of Pennsylvania over a similar matter. In a statement, the Harvard board said it still had “confidence that President Gay is the right leader to help our community heal and address the...
- 12/12/2023
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez and Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Adam Driver had some very specific requests on his Christmas list for Santa Claus this year.
During his Saturday Night Live opening monologue, the Ferrari star decided to share his holiday wishes as he played piano.
“Hey, Santa! It’s me, Adam Driver from the nice list and also Girls,” the actor says. “I turned 40 this year, Santa, so I’d like five pairs of Chinos.”
Driver also had another wish regarding his time playing Kylo Ren in Star Wars and the one scene he can’t seem to live down. “I’d like people to stop coming up to me on the street saying, ‘You killed Han Solo,'” the actor says. “I didn’t kill Han Solo. Wokeness killed Han Solo.”
After thinking about what else he wanted for Christmas, Driver asks, “You know those TikToks where it’s like those couples who do pranks on each other?...
During his Saturday Night Live opening monologue, the Ferrari star decided to share his holiday wishes as he played piano.
“Hey, Santa! It’s me, Adam Driver from the nice list and also Girls,” the actor says. “I turned 40 this year, Santa, so I’d like five pairs of Chinos.”
Driver also had another wish regarding his time playing Kylo Ren in Star Wars and the one scene he can’t seem to live down. “I’d like people to stop coming up to me on the street saying, ‘You killed Han Solo,'” the actor says. “I didn’t kill Han Solo. Wokeness killed Han Solo.”
After thinking about what else he wanted for Christmas, Driver asks, “You know those TikToks where it’s like those couples who do pranks on each other?...
- 12/10/2023
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This week’s Saturday Night Live cold open gave us a C-span report on the GOP-led Congress’ bizarre hearing this week consisting of testimony from a trio of university presidents on the subject of antisemitism on U.S. college campuses. There was: MIT president Sally Kornbluth (Chloe Fineman), University of Pennsylvania president Elizabeth Magill (Heidi Gardner), and Harvard president Dr. Claudine Gay (Ego Nwodim).
Maga minion Rep. Elise Stefanik (played by Chloe Troast) kicked off the proceedings, saying, “Now, I’m going to start screaming questions at these women like I’m Billy Eichner.
Maga minion Rep. Elise Stefanik (played by Chloe Troast) kicked off the proceedings, saying, “Now, I’m going to start screaming questions at these women like I’m Billy Eichner.
- 12/10/2023
- by Marlow Stern
- Rollingstone.com
Just hours after Liz Magill resigned as president of the University of Pennsylvania over the evasive answers she and two other academic leaders gave in a testimony at a House hearing this week, the three were being mocked on the Saturday Night Live cold open.
So was Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-ny), the Trump-supporting congresswoman whose queries nevertheless triggered a bipartisan furor directed at university presidents, who have been faced with weeks of protests on their campuses over the Israel-Gaza war. In clips that went viral this week, Stefanik asked whether someone calling “for the genocide of Jews” would violate the schools’ code of conduct. The university presidents did not answer “yes” or “no” and instead gave nuanced responses.
In the SNL skit, staged as C-span coverage, the three gave even more opaque answers.
As an amped up Maga star, Chloe Troast’s Stefanik shouts at the university presidents, “screaming questions...
So was Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-ny), the Trump-supporting congresswoman whose queries nevertheless triggered a bipartisan furor directed at university presidents, who have been faced with weeks of protests on their campuses over the Israel-Gaza war. In clips that went viral this week, Stefanik asked whether someone calling “for the genocide of Jews” would violate the schools’ code of conduct. The university presidents did not answer “yes” or “no” and instead gave nuanced responses.
In the SNL skit, staged as C-span coverage, the three gave even more opaque answers.
As an amped up Maga star, Chloe Troast’s Stefanik shouts at the university presidents, “screaming questions...
- 12/10/2023
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
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