Sophia Loren will be the recipient of the inaugural Academy Museum of Motion Pictures’ Visionary Award when the new venue launches in September.
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Turner Classic Movies Examines ‘Problematic’ Film Classics in New Series
Loving classic films can be a fraught pastime. Just consider the cultural firestorm over “Gone With the Wind” this past summer.
No one knows this better than the film lovers at Turner Classic Movies who daily are confronted with the complicated reality that many of old Hollywood’s most celebrated films are also often a kitchen sink of stereotypes. This summer, amid the Black Lives Matter protests, the channel’s programmers and hosts decided to do something about it.
The result is a new series, “Reframed Classics,” which promises wide-ranging discussions about 18 culturally significant films from the 1920s through the 1960s that also have problematic aspects, from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and Mickey Rooney’s performance as Mr. Yunioshi to Fred Astaire’s blackface routine in “Swing Time.” It kicks off Thursday at 8 p.m. ET with none other than “Gone With the Wind.”
h/t Marvin
Tim Allen Says He ‘Liked’ That Donald Trump ‘Pissed People Off,’ Absolutely Rips The Government For Wasting Tax Money
The Hollywood superstar recently did a wide-ranging interview with Marc Maron, and it’s full of great quotes. When it comes to the former President, he didn’t mind the fact so many people were outraged by him.
Hollywood exploits 16-year-old Claudia Conway
Is there any low where Hollywood won’t really go?
They’re now exploiting 16-year-old Claudia Conway, daughter of Kellyanne Conway and George Conway, for television ratings and big bucks.
Liberal Hollywood Sold Its Soul to China … Now What?
For years whenever China told Hollywood to jump, the industry had but one answer … how high?
Studios drooled over China’s vast theatrical marketplace, with millions of movie goers eager to watch American popcorn franchises like “Fast & Furious.” And they did just that while filmmakers followed the country’s strict rules at every step.
Hollywood Celebrity Idiots Melt Down After Trump Acquitted, Declare 43 Republicans ‘Traitors,‘ ‘Fascists‘
Hollywood celebrities flew into a paroxysm of rage on Saturday after the Senate acquitted former president Donald Trump of inciting the Capitol Hill riots of January 6. Left-wing stars lashed out at the 43 Republicans who voted to acquit, calling them “traitors” and “fascists.”
How do they forget they work in an industry that kowtow’s to Communist China?
Disney Fires Actress Gina Carano After Post Comparing Hating Someone Over Politics To Nazi Germany
The post that generated the most controversy was a screenshot of another person’s post that she then posted onto her own Instagram account. The post compared the current politically divisive culture in the U.S. to Nazi Germany. The screenshot stated:
Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors…even by children.
“Because history is edited, most people today don’t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views?”
McCarthyism fashionable again in Hollywood?
“…This is the same celebrity class that weighs in on, well, everything — immigration, voting rights, diversity, gun laws, Black Lives Matter. You name the issue, and stars have plenty to say about it. Heck, they can’t stop talking … except when the subject turns to free speech, apparently.
How ironic, since it’s the one issue they’re the most qualified to explore.”
‘Uncle Tom’ Blacklisted by Hollywood
Actor Ben Affleck once explained why he found it difficult to watch Republican actors on screen. “It’s … hard,” explained Affleck, “to get people to suspend disbelief. … When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks, I probably wouldn’t like this person if I met him, or we would have different opinions. That (expletive) fogs the mind when you should be paying attention and be swept into the illusion.”
Hollywood will fragment. First slowly then all at once.
Alec Baldwin Says He Dreams of Hanging Trump
“I had a dream Trump was on trial for sedition. And outside the courthouse, a noose was hung from a makeshift scaffold. The noose was made of recycled Covid masks.”
This Is Somehow Real: Tom Cruise Has Purchased 2 Covid Restriction Enforcing Robots to Roam the Mission Impossible 7 Movie Set
Yeah, this isn’t creepy or dystopian at all. It’s just certified weirdo Tom Cruise purchasing robots to patrol his movie sets checking for Covid violations.
Hollywood Elites and Violent Thoughts
Big Tech’s rush to take down and ban social media accounts or de-platform entire websites that they believe in some way caused the horrible rioting at the Capitol is based on fear — that Joe Biden’s inauguration will devolve into another riot. Or that there will be riots at state capitols.
Social media platforms such as Twitter are only focused on President Donald Trump and his millions of devoted fans. They don’t seem to focus on violent thoughts on the left, most prominently the Hollywood left. Apparently, their violent thoughts are never plausibly dangerous; no one could ever be incited by them.
Hollywood Celebs Rejoice After Twitter Permanently Bans Trump: ‘We Did It’ ‘We Need to Go Further’
Left-wing Hollywood celebrities are expressing their collective love of Big Brother after Twitter announced that it has permanently banned President Donald Trump.
Hollywood: No Man’s Land
Only beggarly “male feminists” and posturing macho women survive — barely.
Sherlock Holmes may have deduced where we would be a hundred years later:
“There’s an east wind coming, Watson.”
“I think not, Holmes. It is very warm.”
“Good old Watson. You’re the one fixed point in a changing age. There’s an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it’s God’s own wind nonetheless, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.”
Tinseltown loses its sparkle: Hollywood Boulevard is reduced to a ghost town with businesses boarded up, revenues down 80 PERCENT and crime rates surging
Each day, thousands would also flock to famous museums along the boulevard, including Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Odditorium.
Meanwhile, Grauman’s Chinese Theater – which has frequently hosted glamorous film premieres and the Academy Awards – was also one of the most popular destinations along the boulevard.
But the area has been abandoned in the past 10 months, with souvenir stores shuttered and rates of homelessness and crime surging as tourists stay away and the coronavirus rages.
