Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Kanye West Sued for Sexual Harassment, Wrongful Termination and Breach of Contract by Former Assistant
A woman who worked as Kanye West’s assistant in 2021 and 2022 has filed a lawsuit against the rapper, accusing him of sexually harassing her, firing her without cause and failing to pay her what she was owed. Lauren Pisciotta says she was primarily supporting herself via an OnlyFans profile in 2021 when she and West met. He hired her to help work on his fashion line, the suit says, but she also ended up collaborating on 3 songs included on West’s album “Donda.” In 2022, West asked her to stop using her OnlyFans account and offered her a $1 million-per-year…
Monday, June 3, 2024
Washington Post Executive Editor Sally Buzbee Exits After 3 Years, New Leaders Named in Newsroom Restructure
The Washington Post’s executive editor Sally Buzbee is stepping down after three years leading the outlet during a bleak time for journalism, the Post announced Sunday evening. The newsroom is being restructured, with Matt Murray taking over until the 2024 presidential election and Robert Winnett taking the baton afterward. The move comes just over a week after the paper announced it lost $77 million in the past year and planned to expand the use of artificial intelligence throughout its operations. The site’s traffic has also been cut in half since its 2020 high, driven by interest around COVID-19 and the…
Sunday, June 2, 2024
Richard Linklater Doesn’t Share His Political ‘Brain Snot’ Publicly Because ‘I Don’t See Any Value In It’
Richard Linklater, the filmmaker behind some of the most celebrated movies of the last three decades — including “Boyhood,” the “Before” trilogy and Netflix’s new “Hit Man” — has also been fairly guarded when it comes to discussing non-cinematic topics. That’s something that he told The New York Times is by design, explaining, “I could share my brain snot with the whole world the way everybody else does, but I don’t see any value in it for me.” Linklater was asked about the different identities he’s inhabited over the years, which prompted him to admit, “my purest self is on…
Saturday, June 1, 2024
Chris Hayes Urges Concern About the GOP’s ‘Totalitarian Unanimity’ Around Trump After Guilty Verdict | Video
Chris Hayes has been fairly positive about what it means that Donald Trump was found guilt on all 34 counts in his New York fraud trial on Thursday. But on Friday’s episode of “All In,” the MSNBC host expressed serious concerns about the way Republicans have responded to the verdict, warning that Trump is enforcing “totalitarian unanimity,” proving that the GOP will stand by him “no matter what he does. You can watch the clip now at the top of the page. “In some ways, the most revealing moment. I mean, all the reaction to Donald Trump’s conviction yesterday, which…
Friday, May 31, 2024
Jimmy Kimmel Finds the Heroes in Trump’s Guilty Verdict: ‘Make Those Jurors the New Supreme Court’ | Video
Jimmy Kimmel identified pretty clearly who he thinks the real heroes are after Donald Trump was found guilty on all counts in his New York criminal fraud trial: The jury. “We should automatically make those jurors the new Supreme Court,” Kimmel joked during his monologue on Thursday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” Trump was found guilty Thursday afternoon on all counts in his criminal fraud trial in New York, which concerned the hush money he paid to Stormy Daniels in 2016, breaking campaign finance laws in order to conceal their prior sexual relationship from voters. Sentencing will take place July 11. “We…
Thursday, May 30, 2024
Chris Hayes Argues ‘No Matter What Happens,’ the Trump Trial Was ‘a Victory’: ‘No One Is Above the Law’ | Video
While MSNBC’s Chris Hayes thinks the ultimate outcome of Donald Trump’s New York City criminal trial is important, he told viewers during Wednesday’s episode of “All In” that there’s a bigger picture. “No matter what happens, I really do believe that the process has already been a victory for the rule of law,” Hayes said. Hayes began Wednesday’s episode bringing viewers up to speed on how the jury in Trump’s trial began deliberations. “But one consistent rule of law juries is that you just do not know what they’re going to do. When you put 12 random strangers in a…
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Sean Hayes Says ‘Will & Grace’ Hate Mail Even Came From a Fan of the Show
Sean Hayes says that in the early years of “Will & Grace,” he and his co-stars on the hit NBC sitcom received a lot of hate mail — including from someone who told them they deserved to go to hell and in the same letter affirmed she was a huge fan of the show. Hayes revealed that odd history on the most recent episode of the “Smartless” podcast, which he hosts alongside Jason Bateman and Will Arnett. Speaking to their guest Trevor Noah, Hayes said ‘on the beginning of Will & Grace, we used to get death threats all the time.”…
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Christine Vachon, Geoffrey Rush Named to Karlovy Vary Film Festival Jury
Producer Christine Vachon and actor Geoffrey Rush are among the jurors who will evaluate films at the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, an annual event in the spa town outside Prague in the Czech Republic. The jury was announced on Tuesday, along with the lineup of the Crystal Globe and Proxima competitions as well as 10 special screenings. Almost half of the nearly three dozen films are debut features by their directors, though the filmmakers in the official selection also include Ukrainian director and activist Oleh Sentsov and British director Mark Cousins, best known for massive documentaries like the…
Monday, May 27, 2024
‘The Jinx’ May Have Sparked a True Crime Trend, but Its Director Has Some Notes: ‘The Storytelling Is Not True’
When the first season of “The Jinx” concluded in 2015, it did so with a bang. That March, Robert Durst’s mumbled confession — “Killed them all, of course” — became the catchphrase of news broadcasts, late night shows and everyday conversations. It also sparked a trend in the larger television landscape. After years of being sidelined as a niche interest or confined to low-budget endeavors, true crime documentaries were at the forefront of pop culture. “The Jinx” was followed by other buzzy, critically-acclaimed installments in the genre such as “Making a Murderer,” “Amanda Knox” and “The Keepers” on Netflix and…
Sunday, May 26, 2024
Sean Baker Shades Streamers While Calling on Hollywood to ‘Keep Cinema Alive’ in Rousing Cannes Speech | Video
Sean Baker achieved the “singular goal” he’s been working toward his entire filmmaking career on Saturday when he won the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival’s coveted Palme d’Or for his sex worker drama “Anora.” Speaking breathlessly to the ceremony’s black-tied international audience after thanking the festival jury — as led by Greta Gerwig — and his film’s various collaborators, stars and producers, the acclaimed indie filmmaker turned his attention to his mounting concern over the future of cinema and specifically the movie-going experience. “This literally has been my singular goal as a filmmaker for the past 30 years, so I’m…
