By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — As we turn a page on the calendar, the holiday season is fast approaching, and with it, one of the season’s most beloved movies is having a revival. A Christmas Story LIVE! will air on Fox December 17th. Yes, you recall this story, Americana at its Wonder Years best! […]
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Eva Trieger, Theatre, Film & BroadcastWarner Bros. finds itself in an awkward situation with Gal Gadot, the star of its most important movie of the year, “Justice League,” which debuts Friday. At the center of the issue is the studio’s relationship with embattled filmmaker Brett Ratner, who has been accused by several women of a range of sexual misconduct. A
LOS ANGELES—Warner Bros. confirmed it has suspended Andrew Kreisberg, an executive producer on The CW’s “Arrow,” “Supergirl,” “The Flash” and “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow,” after opening an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment. The allegations by 19 unnamed sources, including 15 women and four men, appeared Friday in Variety and detailed a pattern of misconduct
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Julie Masis A recent Molotov cocktail attack on a Moscow Jewish community center can be attributed to a new movie about the Russian Tsar, the Jewish community believes. Security footage caught a man tossing two Molotov cocktails over the wall of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia building overnight on September 12. Fortunately,
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International, Theatre, Film & BroadcastVeteran actor John Hillerman who starred on 1980s detective show “Magnum, P.I.” and played stuffed-shirt Higgins to Tom Selleck’s freewheeling detective Thomas Magnum, died of natural causes at the age of 84 Thursday at his home in Houston, Texas, his nephew Chris Tritico confirmed the news. Hillerman had been best known for his Emmy Award-winning
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastJust a day after five women came out accusing him of sexual misconduct in the New York Times, Louis C.K. has issued a statement admitting that all of the women’s accusations are true. Five female comedy writers and performers — four of whom went on the record — stated that C.K. had masturbated in front
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAAfter the outrage that currently exists in the United States and the rest of the world for all the accusations of sexual misconduct against woman, Mario Kreutzberger, better known as Don Francisco, opened up and shared the allegations he had to deny fifteen years ago. “I’ve been accused of harassment and I can tell you
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By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — “And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.” (Gen 1:27 JPS Tanakh) And then there are those who don’t quite fit the mold…. I recently sat down with Tim West, the Cygnet Theatre’s Director of Community
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and FoodMax Lanman knew that a description on Craigslist would not do his girlfriend’s 1996 Honda Accord justice. So instead of making a boring ol’ internet ad, he filmed his own car commercial for the automobile – and it is hilarious. The cheeky minute-long video is shot in almost the exact same style as typical modern
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USA[youtube:2034872] Actor, rapper, and film producer Will Smith was spotted at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem Thursday, in an unpublicized trip to the Holy Land. The 49-year-old star of the Men In Black film series, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Enemy of the State, and I Am Legend among others, made
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Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastEllen Social media exploded Wednesday evening as Ellen DeGeneres’ wife Portia de Rossi went public with a story about action movie star and director Steven Seagal. RELATED: Jane Fonda’s controversial statement about Harvey Weinstein’s victims De Rossi tweeted that during a final audition for a Seagal movie she was approached with a lewd advance, saying
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABONN, Germany – Some 250 art works that a reclusive collector hid from the world for decades, including pieces likely looted from Jewish owners under Nazi rule, are on show at a German museum. The paintings being shown starting from Thursday at Bonn’s Bundeskunsthalle – including works by Albrecht Duerer, Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro
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International, Jewish History, Theatre, Film & BroadcastIt’s Anne Frank—without the Jews or the Nazis! A Dutch production of a new take on the diary-writing young girl will open amid criticism from Jewish groups this week for erasing the Frank family’s Jewish identity and failing to mention the Nazis who killed Anne and her sister in a concentration camp. Frank, of course,
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By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — What is Flamenco? Most experts agree that the creation and history of flamenco was in southern Spain in the region of Andalusia where it still flourishes today. Flamenco was created through the fusion of Jewish, Arab, and Gypsy cultures in this area. All of these cultures share the fact
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