Theatre, Film & Broadcast

35 million TV viewers watched Trump’s acceptance speech at GOP convention

NEW YORK — Nearly 35 million TV viewers watched GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s acceptance speech Thursday night at the Republican National Convention. Nielsen reported that an average of 32.2 million viewers watched across the ad-supported networks that carried the speech between 10 and 11:45 p.m. ET. An additional 2.75 million viewers were tuned in […]

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

San Diego city officials become Trekkers

Mayor Faulconer Is ‘Capt. Kirk of Starship  San Diego’ as Comic-Con Opens Mayor Kevin Faulconer applauds as Councilman Todd Gloria (in blue) addresses Comic-Con welcome. Photo by Chris Stone By Ken and Chris Stone Times of San Diego Wearing a “Star Trek” shirt circa 1966, Kevin Faulconer introduced himself at a Comic-Con press conference Thursday morning

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San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Roger Ailes resigns from Fox News; Rupert Murdoch will run network on interim basis

NEW YORK — In the end, Fox News is Rupert Murdoch’s baby, and now that it’s in trouble, he will take care of it. In a corporate move that no one saw coming, Murdoch, the executive chairman of 21st Century Fox, was named acting chairman of Fox News after the resignation of Roger Ailes, amid

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International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Stephen Colbert rips Hillary Clinton as dishonest: ‘F*** it, I gotta take the gloves off’

Late-night host Stephen Colbert “took the gloves off” and went into a nearly three-minute long skit this week on Hillary Clinton’s integrity. “F*** it, I gotta take the gloves off,” the comedian told his audience Monday night. “The Late Show” host then began a series of pop-culture analogies to demonstrate the former secretary of state’s

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

George Takei says the decision to make Sulu gay is ‘really unfortunate’

George Takei did not want “Star Trek Beyond’s” Sulu to be gay? Oh my. While news broke that “Star Trek Beyond” will feature an openly gay Hikaru Sulu in a nod to original Sulu actor George Takei, it turns out Takei was never actually on board with this development. To be clear, the long-time LGBT

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Maestro: Music, mysticism of Leonard Bernstein

By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — One man and a piano. For most, this would be a scene in a hotel lounge with patrons coming and going. But not for virtuoso Hershey Felder who completes this year’s Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival playing at the Lyceum Theatre. Hershey Felder is well known

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Eric George Tauber, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Movie review: ‘The Innocents’ strikingly tells of what befell a convent victimized during WWII

“The Innocents” soars above its seeming contradictions. A gripping psychological drama based on events more than half a century old, it has inescapable contemporary echoes. Laced with intensely emotional situations, it refuses to force the issue by pushing too hard. And it proves, yet again, that though moral and spiritual questions may not sound spellbinding

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Kisses and tomatoes at the Fringe Festival

By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Another Fringe Festival has come and gone, 11 days of ‘eyeball busting’ shows at fourteen venues around San Diego. If you’re not familiar, “fringe” refers to theater that’s a little too “out there” for a regular theater season.  Many are small shows that travel light. Some are autobiographical.

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

‘Bad Jews’ depicts split between religious and secular

By Cynthia Citron HOLLYWOOD — The play has such a despicable name that you would think it would attract every neo-Nazi, Aryan Nation, Skinheaded anti-Semite in southern California.  The play is called Bad Jews.  But, surprisingly, playwright Joshua Harmon’s four-person diatribe is actually a perceptive reflection of the way in which many modern Jews relate

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Cynthia Citron, Jewish Religion, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Scarlett Johansson is Highest Grossing Female Star Ever

Scarlett Johansson, star of multiple Marvel superhero movies, Luc Besson’s brilliant sci-fi thriller Lucy and Girl with a Pearl Earring, has been a leading lady for a while now. She’s filled that action heroine role left vacant by Angelina Jolie, who seems more content behind the camera these days. She sometimes makes fun, quirky movies

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Streisand’s difficult rise to fame catapulted by face-off with anti-Semitism

That Barbra Streisand is a woman of many “firsts” is indisputable. Streisand is one of the best-selling music artists of all time and the only recording artist to have a number-one album in each of the last six decades. With “Yentl” in 1983, she became the first woman to write, produce, direct and star in

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA