Two days before the inauguration, I talk with my dad about Joe Biden.
With the pandemic, I hadn’t been in Washington, D.C., for two years, so it is much overdue. Dad and Joe have much in common. Dad is 47 days younger, and I assume is stupefied that his aged generation is still running the country. Joe comes from Scranton, Pennsylvania, Dad from Brockton, Massachusetts, two Northeastern industrial towns where things used to be made and now they are not. Both are devout Catholics, diligent Mass attenders. Dad and Joe were line-towers,...
With the pandemic, I hadn’t been in Washington, D.C., for two years, so it is much overdue. Dad and Joe have much in common. Dad is 47 days younger, and I assume is stupefied that his aged generation is still running the country. Joe comes from Scranton, Pennsylvania, Dad from Brockton, Massachusetts, two Northeastern industrial towns where things used to be made and now they are not. Both are devout Catholics, diligent Mass attenders. Dad and Joe were line-towers,...
- 1/21/2021
- by Stephen Rodrick
- Rollingstone.com
Sam Pollard’s “MLK/FBI” is an arresting look at how J. Edgar Hoover used the country’s top law enforcement agency to wage a surveillance campaign against Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that made a mockery of the justice system. By illegally wiretapping King’s hotel rooms, Hoover’s agents discovered that the minister was having adulterous relationships and tried to use that information to smear him, blackmail him and destroy his marriage.
In anticipation of the documentary’s release this month, here Pollard speaks with Variety, about why he thinks his exploration of the way that government institutions were abused and exploited for political vendettas in the civil rights era remains so timely.
Why did you want to tell this story?
We started to realize after about two or three months of editing that the key was to focus on King and how Hoover’s obsession with him...
In anticipation of the documentary’s release this month, here Pollard speaks with Variety, about why he thinks his exploration of the way that government institutions were abused and exploited for political vendettas in the civil rights era remains so timely.
Why did you want to tell this story?
We started to realize after about two or three months of editing that the key was to focus on King and how Hoover’s obsession with him...
- 1/12/2021
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
A monument honoring the traitor Robert E. Lee was removed overnight from the U.S. Capitol.
The statue of Lee, who commanded Confederate forces in the rebellion waged to preserve the institution of slavery in the South, had been a fixture in the federal Statuary Hall collection for more than a century. The Capitol collection features two monuments from each state, and Lee had been chosen to represent Virginia since 1909, just 44 years after the Confederate general surrendered to end the Civil War at the Appomattox court house.
The removal of...
The statue of Lee, who commanded Confederate forces in the rebellion waged to preserve the institution of slavery in the South, had been a fixture in the federal Statuary Hall collection for more than a century. The Capitol collection features two monuments from each state, and Lee had been chosen to represent Virginia since 1909, just 44 years after the Confederate general surrendered to end the Civil War at the Appomattox court house.
The removal of...
- 12/21/2020
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
The statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee had a pride flag with the words “BLM” projected on it on Friday night by LGBTQ+ and Black Lives Matter activists in Richmond, Virginia. The statue has been the location of many protests after the death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed in police […]
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- 6/22/2020
- by Kate Reynolds
- Uinterview
Updated with more companies: Several Hollywood companies have said they will recognize and make an annual paid holiday of Juneteenth, which commemorates the June 19, 1865 date when slavery ended in the U.S.
SAG-AFTRA, ICM Partners, Gersh and Hollywood PR biggie R&c/Pmk are the latest companies to say they will observe the holiday for all its employees and close offices, after the likes of UTA, Endeavor, CAA, Apa and the NFL last week said they will make the date an annual holiday. ICM will offer formal programming keyed to the day and special zoom events.
Spotify also said it will make Juneteenth a paid company holiday for all U.S. employees. To commemorate the day one if its flagship playlists, “New Music Friday” will feature black artists.
The holiday’s history: Two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation – which had become official January 1, 1863 — Union soldiers led by Maj.
SAG-AFTRA, ICM Partners, Gersh and Hollywood PR biggie R&c/Pmk are the latest companies to say they will observe the holiday for all its employees and close offices, after the likes of UTA, Endeavor, CAA, Apa and the NFL last week said they will make the date an annual holiday. ICM will offer formal programming keyed to the day and special zoom events.
Spotify also said it will make Juneteenth a paid company holiday for all U.S. employees. To commemorate the day one if its flagship playlists, “New Music Friday” will feature black artists.
The holiday’s history: Two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation – which had become official January 1, 1863 — Union soldiers led by Maj.
- 6/17/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Pharrell Williams spoke at a press conference Tuesday in support of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s call to make June 19th, widely known as Juneteenth, an official state holiday commemorating the end of slavery.
Pharrell, who grew up in Virginia Beach, called the moment “very special” and “a big display of progress,” adding, “I’m grateful for Virginia and us leading the way.” (He begins speaking at the 22:15 mark in the video above.)
Calls to make Juneteenth a national holiday have increased in recent weeks amid ongoing protests against...
Pharrell, who grew up in Virginia Beach, called the moment “very special” and “a big display of progress,” adding, “I’m grateful for Virginia and us leading the way.” (He begins speaking at the 22:15 mark in the video above.)
Calls to make Juneteenth a national holiday have increased in recent weeks amid ongoing protests against...
- 6/16/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Pharrell Williams joined Gov. Ralph Northam in Richmond, Va. on Tuesday to announce legislation to make Juneteenth, or June 19, a state holiday.
The popular artist and Virginia Beach native has been at the forefront of proposing Juneteenth, the day which celebrates the end of slavery in the United States, as a national holiday.
“Juneteenth deserves the same level of recognition and celebration,” said Pharrell. “July 4, 1776, not everybody was free and celebrating their Independence Day. So here’s our day. And if you love us, it will be your day too.”
During the announcement, Northam said the holiday is just “one step toward reconciliation.”
“It’s time we elevate this,” said Northam,” not just a celebration by and for some Virginians, but one acknowledged and celebrated by all of us.”
Although the holiday, which is this Friday, will be for executive branch employees, Northam said he would stand by legislation to...
The popular artist and Virginia Beach native has been at the forefront of proposing Juneteenth, the day which celebrates the end of slavery in the United States, as a national holiday.
“Juneteenth deserves the same level of recognition and celebration,” said Pharrell. “July 4, 1776, not everybody was free and celebrating their Independence Day. So here’s our day. And if you love us, it will be your day too.”
During the announcement, Northam said the holiday is just “one step toward reconciliation.”
“It’s time we elevate this,” said Northam,” not just a celebration by and for some Virginians, but one acknowledged and celebrated by all of us.”
Although the holiday, which is this Friday, will be for executive branch employees, Northam said he would stand by legislation to...
- 6/16/2020
- by Klaritza Rico
- Variety Film + TV
Richmond judge Bradley Cavedo has blocked the plan of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) to remove a Confederate statue of General Robert E. Lee. The judge’s order will halt the removal of the statue for ten days. The statue in question resides in Richmond’s historic Monument Avenue. Last Thursday, Northam said in response to the […]
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- 6/15/2020
- by Hannah Mallard
- Uinterview
Happy New Year! As is tradition, The Criterion Collection have unveiled their annual doodle tease as to what may be arriving over the next calendar year. While this year’s drawing isn’t as big in scope as in the past, the four teases it unveils are major in their own right.
First, here are the box-centric clues:
From upper-left, clockwise, here’s what we’ve deduced:
A “fleeing e” aka Federico Fellini, which is well-timed with his centenary celebration this month and already teased by Janus Films a few weeks ago.
News Alert: new 4k restorations of Fellini's masterworks are in the pipeline for his centenary in 2020. pic.twitter.com/oGiE31vdWE
— Janus Films (@janusfilms) December 11, 2019
2. “1 Car Why” aka a Wong Kar-wai box set. Last May, the In the Mood for Love and Chungking Express director himself confirmed he was overseeing 4K restorations of all of his films for a 2020 theatrical release,...
First, here are the box-centric clues:
From upper-left, clockwise, here’s what we’ve deduced:
A “fleeing e” aka Federico Fellini, which is well-timed with his centenary celebration this month and already teased by Janus Films a few weeks ago.
News Alert: new 4k restorations of Fellini's masterworks are in the pipeline for his centenary in 2020. pic.twitter.com/oGiE31vdWE
— Janus Films (@janusfilms) December 11, 2019
2. “1 Car Why” aka a Wong Kar-wai box set. Last May, the In the Mood for Love and Chungking Express director himself confirmed he was overseeing 4K restorations of all of his films for a 2020 theatrical release,...
- 1/1/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Claude Earl Jones, a character actor who appeared in such films as Bride of Re-Animator and Miracle Mile and on TV shows including Buffalo Bill, Battlestar Galactica and Little House on the Prairie, has died. He was 86.
Jones died Nov. 25 of complications from dementia at a senior living facility in Claremont, California, his wife of 48 years, Nancy Jones, said.
Jones' first love was the theater, and his favorite gig was portraying lawyer Henry Drummond in Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Inherit the Wind. (The role was made famous by Spencer Tracy in Stanley Kramer'...
Jones died Nov. 25 of complications from dementia at a senior living facility in Claremont, California, his wife of 48 years, Nancy Jones, said.
Jones' first love was the theater, and his favorite gig was portraying lawyer Henry Drummond in Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Inherit the Wind. (The role was made famous by Spencer Tracy in Stanley Kramer'...
- 12/4/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Claude Earl Jones, a character actor who appeared in such films as Bride of Re-Animator and Miracle Mile and on TV shows including Buffalo Bill, Battlestar Galactica and Little House on the Prairie, has died. He was 86.
Jones died Nov. 25 of complications from dementia at a senior living facility in Claremont, California, his wife of 48 years, Nancy Jones, said.
Jones' first love was the theater, and his favorite gig was portraying lawyer Henry Drummond in Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Inherit the Wind. (The role was made famous by Spencer Tracy in Stanley Kramer'...
Jones died Nov. 25 of complications from dementia at a senior living facility in Claremont, California, his wife of 48 years, Nancy Jones, said.
Jones' first love was the theater, and his favorite gig was portraying lawyer Henry Drummond in Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Inherit the Wind. (The role was made famous by Spencer Tracy in Stanley Kramer'...
- 12/4/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Marc Maron's Sword of Trust makes for an unexpectedly amusing comedy when it tries to understand why folks cling to "alternative facts."
As the son of historians (real ones), it was a while before I learned the peculiar myth of “the Lost Cause.” Despite growing up in the South, I did not see Gone with the Wind until high school, although by then I understood what Southern Revisionism was about: referring to a conflict that began when rebelling South Carolinians opened fire on Fort Sumter as “the War of Northern Aggression,” and a war of states’ rights—primarily the right of slavery, although that is a less enthusiastically spoken of detail. Even so, meeting actual history majors in universities who’d argue until they turned red that the Civil War was not about slavery is to this day head-scratching. It also might be quaint given the escalation of “alternative...
As the son of historians (real ones), it was a while before I learned the peculiar myth of “the Lost Cause.” Despite growing up in the South, I did not see Gone with the Wind until high school, although by then I understood what Southern Revisionism was about: referring to a conflict that began when rebelling South Carolinians opened fire on Fort Sumter as “the War of Northern Aggression,” and a war of states’ rights—primarily the right of slavery, although that is a less enthusiastically spoken of detail. Even so, meeting actual history majors in universities who’d argue until they turned red that the Civil War was not about slavery is to this day head-scratching. It also might be quaint given the escalation of “alternative...
- 3/7/2019
- Den of Geek
Need to brush up on your Civil War knowledge? Drunk History is here to help — but you should take this lesson with a grain of salt.
To promote Season 6 of his inebriated series (which kicks off tonight at 10/9c on Comedy Central), Drunk History host Derek Waters appeared on Monday’s episode of The Daily Show, bringing with him a Drunk History-style parody of President Trump’s recent comments about the Civil War.
In the video above, Waters and several Daily Show correspondents re-enact “scenes” from the war, as told by Trump during an October 2018 rally.
Of course, the...
To promote Season 6 of his inebriated series (which kicks off tonight at 10/9c on Comedy Central), Drunk History host Derek Waters appeared on Monday’s episode of The Daily Show, bringing with him a Drunk History-style parody of President Trump’s recent comments about the Civil War.
In the video above, Waters and several Daily Show correspondents re-enact “scenes” from the war, as told by Trump during an October 2018 rally.
Of course, the...
- 1/15/2019
- TVLine.com
Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman premiered in August, on the one year anniversary of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. This was no accident. Lee’s film, based on the memoir of black police officer Ron Stallworth, who successfully infiltrated the David Duke-run Kkk in the 1970s, had so many rhetorical parallels with what happened in Charlottesville, when white supremacist demonstrators marched to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, and which resulted in the murder of counter-protester Heather Hayer, that they couldn’t be ignored during the shoot. Lee cast John David Washington in the lead role, having known the Ballers star since Washington was a baby. It was the second time they worked together, after Washington’s childhood cameo as one of the kids who said, “I am Malcolm X,” at the end of Lee’s Malcolm X, which starred his father, Denzel.
At the end of BlacKkKlansman,...
At the end of BlacKkKlansman,...
- 1/3/2019
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
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