We are all junebugs in this life, hitting screen doors and drowning in the refreshments. By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Follow a lonely country road –past a pickle factory- and you’ll come to Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church. Brian Mackey, as the Bible toting Rev. Mervin Oglethorpe, greets us with welcoming smiles and warm handshakes.
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Eric George Tauber, Theatre, Film & BroadcastWoody Allen feels “sad” for Harvey Weinstein over abuse allegations against the disgraced movie mogul, telling the BBC on Sunday the situation was “tragic” for the women involved. “The whole Harvey Weinstein thing is very sad for everybody involved,” he said of the scandal which has shaken Hollywood in recent days. Scores of women have
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABig Bang Theory actress Mayim Bialik published an Op-Ed in The New York Times on Friday in response to the news of producer Harvey Weinstein’s uncovered history of alleged sexual assault and harassment. Her essay, titled “Being a Feminist in Harvey Weinstein’s World”, has been lambasted by critics on the internet, many of whom believe
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USALOS ANGELES — Harvey Weinstein — a once-dominant force in the Academy Awards who rewrote the rules of Oscar campaigning — was expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Saturday in response to mounting allegations of sexual harassment and assault against him. The film academy’s 54-member board of governors, which includes such
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USALOS ANGELES — Fashion tycoon and film producer Sidney Kimmel and his wife, Caroline, have listed the former Johnny Carson estate in Malibu for sale at $81.5 million. The longtime “Tonight Show” host, who died in 2005 at 79, bought the Point Dume estate in 1984 for about $9.5 million, the Los Angeles Times previously
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USASANTA ROSA, Calif. — The widow of the late Charles Schulz, creator of the iconic “Peanuts” comic strip, escaped the fire racing through Santa Rosa this week, but the hillside home the couple shared since the mid-1970s was destroyed, according to family members. Jean Schulz fled her home at about 2 a.m. Monday and is
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAInside Edition correspondent Lisa Guerrero, who has worked as an actress since 1990, nodded knowingly when the Harvey Weinstein news broke late last week. “Nearly every woman I know in Hollywood has been ‘Weinsteined’ at some point in their careers,” says Guerrero. “If not by him, then by someone else.” In 1996, Guerrero was a
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAActor Daniel Radcliffe of “Harry Potter” fame was set to tackle the Amazon rain forest in a film hitting theaters this month based on the true story of Israeli backpacker Yossi Ghinsberg, who was lost in the Bolivian jungle for several weeks in 1981. Directed by Australian Greg McLean, “Jungle” follows Ghinsberg’s character as he
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Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Pamela Pollack-Fremd SAN DIEGO — Chavela a documentary on a famous Mexican Ranchera singer, produced and directed by Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi, shows how difficult life can be when you are different. Isabel Vargas Lizano (Chavela) was born in Puerto Rico in 1919 into a conventional middle class family. By the time she
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International, Theatre, Film & BroadcastOscar winners Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie have revealed that they, too, were victimized by disgraced Miramax and Weinstein Co. mogul Harvey Weinstein. Weinstein was credited with helping to launch Paltrow’s career, aiding in her Oscar win for “Shakespeare in Love” and turning her into the “first lady of Miramax.” Before that, though, Paltrow claimed
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABollywood superstar Jacqueline Fernandez was in Israel this week with a crew of 80 to shoot scenes for an action-comedy film opposite Indian heartthrob Sushant Singh Rajput, in the first Bollywood movie to be filmed in the Jewish state. “Drive,” described as an Indian version of Hollywood’s “The Fast and the Furious” franchise and likely
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International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastHarvey Weinstein lured TV reporter Lauren Sivan into a quiet place in 2007 and then engaged in a “disgusting and kind of pathetic” display of sexual harassment, Sivan said in her first television interview about the encounter. Appearing Monday on NBC’s “Megyn Kelly Today,” Sivan — who is now a reporter with KTTV, a Fox
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAIsraeli superstar actress Gal Gadot opened the second episode of Saturday Night Live’s 43rd season Saturday with a Hebrew monologue cheekily mocking the “nice but not very intelligent” writers who she said tried to have her eat hummus in every sketch. After poking fun at her accent — “obviously I’m not from here, I’m from
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Theatre, Film & BroadcastAuthor Salman Rushdie thinks it’s pretty, pretty funny that the long-awaited premier of HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” has a plot modeled on his own experience of being targeted by the Iranian regime with a fatwa. In the first episode of the 9th season, which aired October 1, Larry David’s eponymous character talks about a musical
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