Jake Tapper is calling out Ivanka Trump for her stance on the citizens of Syria following the United States’ retaliatory airstrike. After the horrific sarin gas attack against Syria’s citizens Tuesday, which killed over 100 and injured at least 300, the United States conducted a successful airstrike against Shayrat air base late Thursday evening. On […]
Assassinated outside the Kremlin, the dissenting politician has become something of a cult figure and is the subject of films, poetry and song By Julie Masis Two years on, Russia hasn’t forgotten the tragic murder outside the Kremlin of Boris Nemtsov, the Jewish anti-Putin politician. He’s become something of a cult figure in a country
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International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — Into the Beautiful North is almost there, but not quite yet I really wanted to love Into the Beautiful North, a new play at the SD Repertory Theater, especially because of its pedigree. It is based on the book by Luis Alberto Urrea –it was the KPBS One
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Mimi Pollack, Theatre, Film & BroadcastDon Rickles, a comedian who became famous for making fun of anyone and everyone, died Thursday of kidney failure, according to the Hollywood Reporter. He was 90. Although Rickles, who also worked as an actor and once won a Primetime Emmy, may have passed, his legacy persists. Tributes were already rolling in Thursday afternoon, with
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –While I gravitated on Wednesday, April 5, to an exhibit featuring the image of Albert Einstein and another portraying the cells that I imagine Jonas Salk grappled with while developing the vaccine against polio, my grandchildren—Sky, 10, Brian, 8, and Sara, 6 – were transfixed by a room filled
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USAPresident Donald Trump Wednesday defended Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly amid the recent disclosure that the TV personality or the network settled on five occasions in which women alleged sexual harassment or other inappropriate actions. “I think he’s a person I know well—he is a good person,” Trump told The New York Times in an exclusive
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USALOS ANGELES — In the latest round of the simmering feud between Arnold Schwarzenegger and President Donald Trump, the former California governor Wednesday blasted the president’s proposal to slash federal funding for after-school programs. “President Trump promised us that he wants to make America great again. That’s not how you make America great, by taking
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAPerhaps having celebrity model and reality TV star Kendall Jenner re-enact a seminal moment in the Black Lives Matter protest movement to sell Pepsi wasn’t such a good idea after all. After initially defending its online video featuring Jenner and a can of soda as peacemakers in a street standoff between marchers and police, PepsiCo
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAWASHINGTON — A top government ethics official said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin should not be disciplined for plugging “The Lego Batman Movie” — as long as he keeps his promise not to do it again. Mnuchin handled the controversy better than White House adviser Kellyanne Conway did when she ran afoul of the same law
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“Theatre is a political act, a debate of our times.” By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — In Theatre History class, I had read about Ira Aldridge, the first African-American to earn fame as a Shakespearean actor. On a tour of Europe, Aldridge made such an impression on Georg II, the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, that he
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastFox News was hit with another sexual harassment claim Monday, as on-air contributor Julie Roginsky filed a lawsuit against the network’s former chief executive Roger Ailes and its current co-president Bill Shine. The suit filed Monday in New York State Supreme Court is the latest legal salvo in what has become a spiraling crisis for
LOS ANGELES — Gary Austin, who founded the Los Angeles improv company the Groundlings — a troupe that launched the careers of Paul Reubens, Will Ferrell, Lisa Kudrow and Melissa McCarthy — died Saturday in Los Angeles at age 75 after battling cancer. The Groundlings shared the news of Austin’s death at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAFormer “Baywatch” star Pamela Anderson opened up about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in a blog she penned Thursday. In a candid post, Anderson said that her relationship with Assange was “no secret” and that he was “one of my favorite people.” “Julian is a human being who is extremely empathetic and cares deeply about the
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International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USANEW YORK — Revelations of sexual harassment claims involving Fox News keep piling up, with the news Saturday that two additional women who accused star anchor Bill O’Reilly had received settlements — one in 2011 and one just months ago. According to a report in The New York Times, late last year a payment of
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