Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Schwarzenegger blasts Trump for proposed education cuts

LOS 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, USA

Pepsi pulls controversial Kendall Jenner ad after widespread backlash

Perhaps 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, USA

Ethics official says Mnuchin should not be disciplined for ‘Lego Batman’ pitch

WASHINGTON — 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, Film & Broadcast, USA

Fox News contributor Julie Roginsky files a sexual harassment suit against Roger Ailes and Bill Shine

Fox 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

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Improv maestro Gary Austin, founder of the Groundlings, dies at 75

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, USA

Pamela Anderson Writes About WikiLeaks Founder In Blog

Former “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, USA

Settlements of more sexual harassment claims against Bill O’Reilly are reported

NEW 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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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

George Takei announces bogus congressional run against Rep. Devin Nunes

Former “Star Trek” star George Takei on Saturday said he’d run next year again U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes, California Republican, triggering widespread support before his would-be congressional run was revealed to be a well-played April Fool’s Day prank. “Well, the cat’s out of the bag it seems. Let’s do this! #Takei2018,” the actor-turned-activist tweeted shortly

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Ideas abound in playwright Tiger’s world

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – When San Diego playwright Janet S. Tiger was a grade-schooler, her mother Pauline Schechter used to take her on buses, trains and subways from Bell Harbor, Long Island, into Manhattan for sightseeing.  The rides were long and arduous and to young Janet’s way of thinking, “boring.”  But her

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Comedian unwraps Holocaust denial with apparel line

Nathan Fielder pledges $150,000 to the Vancouver Holocaust Education Center at Sunday’s first brick-and-mortar pop-up of jacket company Summit Ice By Yaakov Schwartz Nathan Fielder wears one of his Summit Ice jackets on Conan O’Brien’s show, October 2015. (YouTube) When comedian Nathan Fielder found out that his favorite jacket company paid postmortem tribute to a

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Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

“Awake and Sing!” is like life… only more so

Oh, let your dead revive! Let corpses arise! Awake and sing for joy, You who dwell in the dust… (Isa. 26:19, JPS Tanakh) By Eric George Tauber CARLSBAD, California — When I first read the press release for Awake and Sing! it rang a bell, something from a college textbook about its significance in the history

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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘Other People’s Kids’ deals with meth addiction

  By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — Once again the Playwrights Project proves that it is not afraid to tackle thorny subjects that most would like to sweep under the rug.  Just as the group partnered with the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility to bring us Out of the Yard, last year, they have created

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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast