Exclusive: Gotham Award winner Dawn Porter (Luther: Never Too Much) will direct and produce a documentary about one of the most iconic, politically-charged partnerships in history: the remarkable, largely untold story of Nelson and Winnie Mandela. She’ll also produce through her Trilogy Films, alongside the Schultz Family Foundation.
Based on Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage, a book by noted South African writer and scholar Jonny Steinberg, the film will explore the Mandelas’ profound bond and how their marriage was inextricably entangled with the struggle against apartheid. The film promises an intimate portrayal of Nelson and Winnie’s marriage, delving into their vehement and volatile connection from their early years to their mutual goal of dismantling apartheid. Their journey culminates in Nelson Mandela’s historic election as South Africa’s first democratically elected President.
Nelson Mandela and wife Winnie
The project marks the Schultz Family Foundation’s first...
Based on Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage, a book by noted South African writer and scholar Jonny Steinberg, the film will explore the Mandelas’ profound bond and how their marriage was inextricably entangled with the struggle against apartheid. The film promises an intimate portrayal of Nelson and Winnie’s marriage, delving into their vehement and volatile connection from their early years to their mutual goal of dismantling apartheid. Their journey culminates in Nelson Mandela’s historic election as South Africa’s first democratically elected President.
Nelson Mandela and wife Winnie
The project marks the Schultz Family Foundation’s first...
- 2/13/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
In an unusual setup for a cable news program, CNN has hired two executive producers to try and rejuvenate its CNN This Morning program, which is anchored by Don Lemon, Kaitlan Collins and Poppy Harlow.
The two EPs are CNN veteran Lauren Mensch, and Chris Russell, who was in talks for the job, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Mensch will lead the show’s editorial direction and lead the team in the control room during the 6 to 9 a.m. hours. Russell, meanwhile, will lead production during the dayside and evening hours to set the show up for the following morning.
Mensch was most recently EP of CNN Newsroom with Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell, while Russell most recently led the NewsNation program On Balance With Leland Vittert. He also previously worked with CNN CEO Chris Licht at CBS News.
While every morning show has producers (including a senior-level producer, CNN...
The two EPs are CNN veteran Lauren Mensch, and Chris Russell, who was in talks for the job, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Mensch will lead the show’s editorial direction and lead the team in the control room during the 6 to 9 a.m. hours. Russell, meanwhile, will lead production during the dayside and evening hours to set the show up for the following morning.
Mensch was most recently EP of CNN Newsroom with Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell, while Russell most recently led the NewsNation program On Balance With Leland Vittert. He also previously worked with CNN CEO Chris Licht at CBS News.
While every morning show has producers (including a senior-level producer, CNN...
- 3/13/2023
- by Alex Weprin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
If Don Lemon is being squeezed behind the scenes at CNN after making polarizing remarks last week, none of the pulp is showing up on camera.
Lemon returned to “CNN This Morning” Wednesday after being absent from the new A.M. program for three consecutive broadcasts following pushback — both internal and external — to comments he made about when women are in their prime, dialogue that generated opposition not only from his co-anchors, Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins but viewers and colleagues. None of the trio mentioned the incident on air Wednesday, focusing instead on delivering the news. Collins held forth from Poland; Harlow interviewed Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz; Lemon juggled multiple tasks and noted the historic moment President Biden was having this week.
Lemon has already made two apologies for the gaffe, and added a third Wednesday before appearing in front of CNN cameras. ” appreciate the opportunity to be back on @CNNThisMorning today,...
Lemon returned to “CNN This Morning” Wednesday after being absent from the new A.M. program for three consecutive broadcasts following pushback — both internal and external — to comments he made about when women are in their prime, dialogue that generated opposition not only from his co-anchors, Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins but viewers and colleagues. None of the trio mentioned the incident on air Wednesday, focusing instead on delivering the news. Collins held forth from Poland; Harlow interviewed Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz; Lemon juggled multiple tasks and noted the historic moment President Biden was having this week.
Lemon has already made two apologies for the gaffe, and added a third Wednesday before appearing in front of CNN cameras. ” appreciate the opportunity to be back on @CNNThisMorning today,...
- 2/22/2023
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
Given the steep downturn in Amazon’s stock price and stiff operational challenges ahead, could Jeff Bezos pull a Bob Iger and return as the company’s CEO?
One investor is predicting that scenario will play out in 2023. A comeback by Bezos, who handed the reins to longtime company vet Andy Jassy in mid-2021 and became executive chairman, is one of 10 financial market predictions for this year by Michael Batnick, managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management.
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Batnick pins his prediction mainly on the company’s depressed stock price. While 2022 was a...
One investor is predicting that scenario will play out in 2023. A comeback by Bezos, who handed the reins to longtime company vet Andy Jassy in mid-2021 and became executive chairman, is one of 10 financial market predictions for this year by Michael Batnick, managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management.
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Batnick pins his prediction mainly on the company’s depressed stock price. While 2022 was a...
- 1/4/2023
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Bob Iger, who was reinstalled as CEO of the Walt Disney Co. yesterday, will be eligible to receive up to 27 million in each of the two years he is under contract to lead the company.
The compensation targets covering Iger’s new contract window, from November 20, 2022, through December 31, 2024, were disclosed today in an SEC filing. The exact amount of Iger’s pay ultimately will depend on a host of factors, including how the company performs as well as his own progress toward financial targets.
The reinstallation of Iger in the top job, which he held for 15 years before ceding the role to company veteran Bob Chapek, has stunned the media industry and the larger business community. While some CEOs, among them Howard Schultz at Starbucks and Steve Jobs at Apple, have successfully returned to their alma maters, encores are hardly the norm. In the shakeup last night, Chapek was ousted...
The compensation targets covering Iger’s new contract window, from November 20, 2022, through December 31, 2024, were disclosed today in an SEC filing. The exact amount of Iger’s pay ultimately will depend on a host of factors, including how the company performs as well as his own progress toward financial targets.
The reinstallation of Iger in the top job, which he held for 15 years before ceding the role to company veteran Bob Chapek, has stunned the media industry and the larger business community. While some CEOs, among them Howard Schultz at Starbucks and Steve Jobs at Apple, have successfully returned to their alma maters, encores are hardly the norm. In the shakeup last night, Chapek was ousted...
- 11/21/2022
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
About 35 employees of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures gathered on Wednesday across the street from the 500 million shrine to the Oscars and filmmaking to deliver a letter informing new Academy CEO Bill Kramer that they have gathered majority worker support for a new union and asking for voluntary recognition.
Three weeks ago, the new union Academy Museum Workers United went public with its intention to unionize with Afscme Council 36, which represents unions in local government and private nonprofit groups. After the Academy released a statement saying it would move forward with a union election through the National Labor Relations Board, the Amwu filed its petition this past week for such an election, which if successful would give the Academy Museum’s 180 workers labor representation.
But now, Afscme and Amwu have announced that a major of the museum’s employees have signed unionization cards and are asking the Academy to...
Three weeks ago, the new union Academy Museum Workers United went public with its intention to unionize with Afscme Council 36, which represents unions in local government and private nonprofit groups. After the Academy released a statement saying it would move forward with a union election through the National Labor Relations Board, the Amwu filed its petition this past week for such an election, which if successful would give the Academy Museum’s 180 workers labor representation.
But now, Afscme and Amwu have announced that a major of the museum’s employees have signed unionization cards and are asking the Academy to...
- 6/22/2022
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
AUTOMAT_film_Mel Brooks drinking coffee photographed by Carl Reiner while the two were writers for Your Show of Shows, c. 1950-1954 in The Automat. Photo courtesy of A Slice of Pie Productions
Mel Brooks, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Colin Powell, Carl Reiner and Elliot Gould were all fans of the Automat, the iconic automated cafeterias that dominated New York and Philadelphia in the first half of the 20th century. The Automat, Lisa Hurwitz’s delightful, enlightening documentary, serves up pure charm, and Mel Brooks, in this look back at the Horn and Hardart Automat, a now-vanished beloved, and unique, American institution.
The Automat is available to stream as part of the virtual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival through Mar. 13. For tickets and more information, visit their website https://jccstl.com/arts-ideas/st-louis-jewish-film-festival.
The Automat delivers a dazzling array of memories from those who ate there, alongside the history of the...
Mel Brooks, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Colin Powell, Carl Reiner and Elliot Gould were all fans of the Automat, the iconic automated cafeterias that dominated New York and Philadelphia in the first half of the 20th century. The Automat, Lisa Hurwitz’s delightful, enlightening documentary, serves up pure charm, and Mel Brooks, in this look back at the Horn and Hardart Automat, a now-vanished beloved, and unique, American institution.
The Automat is available to stream as part of the virtual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival through Mar. 13. For tickets and more information, visit their website https://jccstl.com/arts-ideas/st-louis-jewish-film-festival.
The Automat delivers a dazzling array of memories from those who ate there, alongside the history of the...
- 3/13/2022
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Pete Buttigieg will appear at another Fox News town hall on Jan. 26, a little more than a week before the Iowa caucuses, with Chris Wallace as moderator.
This will be Buttigieg’s second Fox News town hall, having headlined a well-received event last May. He’s one of six Democratic candidates to appear at town halls on the network, even though the Democratic National Committee is refusing to enlist the news channel as a debate co-sponsor.
This will be the news channel’s seventh town hall of the cycle, and the sixth with a Democratic candidate. Its top rated town hall was with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-vt) in April, drawing 2.5 million viewers, and the news channel also has hosted events with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-mn), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-ny) and Julian Castro, the former secretary of Housing and Urban Development. The network also hosted a town hall with Howard Schultz,...
This will be Buttigieg’s second Fox News town hall, having headlined a well-received event last May. He’s one of six Democratic candidates to appear at town halls on the network, even though the Democratic National Committee is refusing to enlist the news channel as a debate co-sponsor.
This will be the news channel’s seventh town hall of the cycle, and the sixth with a Democratic candidate. Its top rated town hall was with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-vt) in April, drawing 2.5 million viewers, and the news channel also has hosted events with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-mn), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-ny) and Julian Castro, the former secretary of Housing and Urban Development. The network also hosted a town hall with Howard Schultz,...
- 1/7/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Ultra-wealthy Americans such as George Soros, Bill Gates and Abigail Disney want to help improve American lives by paying more in taxes.
George Soros wants to contribute more in taxes.
Credit/Copyright: By Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Summit
In February, Buffett told CNBC that “The wealthy are definitely undertaxed relative to the general population.”
California software entrepreneur, Marc Benioff said, “increasing taxes on high-income individuals like myself would help generate the trillions of dollars that we desperately need to improve education and health care and fight climate change.”
As well as paying more taxes, Abigail Disney wants to see all workers rewarded fairly.
Credit/Copyright: By Broadimage/Rex/Shutterstock.
Disney and Soros are among the signatories of An Open Letter to the 2020 Presidential Candidates: It’s Time to Tax Us More. This letter starts out saying:
“We are writing to call on all candidates for President, whether they are Republicans or Democrats,...
George Soros wants to contribute more in taxes.
Credit/Copyright: By Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Summit
In February, Buffett told CNBC that “The wealthy are definitely undertaxed relative to the general population.”
California software entrepreneur, Marc Benioff said, “increasing taxes on high-income individuals like myself would help generate the trillions of dollars that we desperately need to improve education and health care and fight climate change.”
As well as paying more taxes, Abigail Disney wants to see all workers rewarded fairly.
Credit/Copyright: By Broadimage/Rex/Shutterstock.
Disney and Soros are among the signatories of An Open Letter to the 2020 Presidential Candidates: It’s Time to Tax Us More. This letter starts out saying:
“We are writing to call on all candidates for President, whether they are Republicans or Democrats,...
- 11/25/2019
- Look to the Stars
"That's a problem - it's perpetuating inequality." Three Frame Media have debuted an official trailer for a documentary titled Unlikely, which is opening in select Us theaters starting next month. The documentary sheds light on the underbelly of the higher education system -- the student drop out crisis. Not everyone knows this, but the Us has ones of the worst college completion rates in the entire world - less than 50% of students who start college ever finish. Set in the cities of Akron, Atlanta, Boston and Los Angeles, the film investigates America's college dropout crisis through the lives of numerous students navigating the broken higher education system and the innovators working to close the opportunity divide. Featuring interviews with LeBron James, Howard Schultz, and many others. This looks like it takes a very hard-hitting look at the problem, examining why it's not working, but also focusing on how to improve and fix what's broken.
- 9/19/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Broadway’s biggest night has tapped a familiar face: James Corden will return to host the 73rd Annual Tony Awards, airing live Sunday, June 9 at 8 pm Et (and on tape-delay Pt) on CBS.
The gig marks Corden’s second turn as the telecast’s master of ceremonies. When he last took the hosting reins in 2016, the Tony Awards hit a 15-year high in total audience while recording a 13-year high in the demo, fueled in large part by the promise of “free Hamilton performances!” as that (and every) year’s hot ticket made its bow at the show. The numbers...
The gig marks Corden’s second turn as the telecast’s master of ceremonies. When he last took the hosting reins in 2016, the Tony Awards hit a 15-year high in total audience while recording a 13-year high in the demo, fueled in large part by the promise of “free Hamilton performances!” as that (and every) year’s hot ticket made its bow at the show. The numbers...
- 3/19/2019
- TVLine.com
Former Starbucks CEO and possible presidential candidate Howard Schultz might have a problem on his hands ... 'cause his trust is being sued over house booties. The Howard D. Schultz Residence Trust just got sued by a guy who claims he did construction work at Schultz's New York state home back in 2017. He says someone by the name of Loren Hostek -- who reps Howard's trust -- required workers to wear booties in the home to...
- 3/18/2019
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Bernie Sanders’ first town hall since declaring himself a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate clocked 1.40 million viewers Monday night on CNN. While Sanders was no match for Kamala Harris, who drew the biggest crowd for a single-candidate town hall in CNN history with just under 2M viewers on January 28, his is the second most watched CNN presidential candidate town hall to date.
Sanders came in comfortably ahead the network’s February 12 town hall with former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, moderated by Poppy Harlow. Schultz drew just 1.02M viewers. Sanders also drew more viewer interest than did Sen. Amy Klobuchar, whose February 18 CNN town hall, moderated by Don Lemon, averaged 1.15M viewers.
Like Kamala Harris, Schultz and Klobuchar’s town halls aired at 10 Pm Et, while Sanders had one strike against him with an 8 Pm Et/5 Pm Pt start time.
With 512,000 viewers in the 25-54 news demo, Sanders also ran ahead of Schultz...
Sanders came in comfortably ahead the network’s February 12 town hall with former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, moderated by Poppy Harlow. Schultz drew just 1.02M viewers. Sanders also drew more viewer interest than did Sen. Amy Klobuchar, whose February 18 CNN town hall, moderated by Don Lemon, averaged 1.15M viewers.
Like Kamala Harris, Schultz and Klobuchar’s town halls aired at 10 Pm Et, while Sanders had one strike against him with an 8 Pm Et/5 Pm Pt start time.
With 512,000 viewers in the 25-54 news demo, Sanders also ran ahead of Schultz...
- 2/26/2019
- by Lisa de Moraes
- Deadline Film + TV
Bernie Sanders announced Tuesday morning that he will make another White House run in 2020.
The Vermont senator made it official in the most Bernie Sanders way possible: on Vermont Public Radio.
“I wanted to let the people of the state of Vermont know about this first,” he announced via radio early Tuesday morning, promising to take around the country “the values that all of us in Vermont are proud of: a belief in justice, community, in grass roots politics.”
The current occupant of the White House, he said, “is an embarrassment to our country. He is a pathological liar…He is a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, a xenophobe, somebody who is gaining cheap political points by trying to pick on minorities, often undocumented immigrants.”
The 77-year-old registered Independent who was the Dem party’s runner-up in 2016, said he cannot recall in modern history any other president who has gone...
The Vermont senator made it official in the most Bernie Sanders way possible: on Vermont Public Radio.
“I wanted to let the people of the state of Vermont know about this first,” he announced via radio early Tuesday morning, promising to take around the country “the values that all of us in Vermont are proud of: a belief in justice, community, in grass roots politics.”
The current occupant of the White House, he said, “is an embarrassment to our country. He is a pathological liar…He is a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, a xenophobe, somebody who is gaining cheap political points by trying to pick on minorities, often undocumented immigrants.”
The 77-year-old registered Independent who was the Dem party’s runner-up in 2016, said he cannot recall in modern history any other president who has gone...
- 2/19/2019
- by Lisa de Moraes
- Deadline Film + TV
Bernie Sanders, a likely 2020 contender, has unveiled a plan to tax the estates of multi-millionaires and billionaires at a rate as high as 77 percent. And despite decades of Gop efforts to scare the public about the so-called “death tax,” Sanders’ proposal is a hit with voters.
Half of Americans approve of the plan, according to a new Morning Consult poll, compared with just 29 percent who oppose it. The findings align with recent polls that have found majorities support plans by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-ny) to tax income over $10 million a year at 70 percent,...
Half of Americans approve of the plan, according to a new Morning Consult poll, compared with just 29 percent who oppose it. The findings align with recent polls that have found majorities support plans by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-ny) to tax income over $10 million a year at 70 percent,...
- 2/15/2019
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
Howard Schultz was never going to be able to avoid what happened in that Philadelphia Starbucks. Over the past two nights, the billionaire former coffee chain chairman has been asked about the arrests of two African-American businessmen, Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson, in a Center City Starbucks last April, and event that led to a national conversation about racial profiling. Shortly before he left the company, Schultz ordered every single Starbucks in America to undergo racial-bias training on account of the incident. However, these past two nights, he has incorrectly described what happened.
- 2/14/2019
- by Jamil Smith
- Rollingstone.com
Bill Maher attempted to put to rest the conventional wisdom that both political parties are to blame for the apocalyptic nightmare we are currently in. On Real Time Friday night, he started his argument using former Starbucks CEO and possible 2020 Independent presidential candidate Howard Schultz as an example. Schultz’s main stated motivation to run is to save Americans from both Democrats and Republicans.
Schultz’s “central premise that we need an independent because both sides have become equally extreme” and “this idea of a pox on both of their houses is just factually wrong,...
Schultz’s “central premise that we need an independent because both sides have become equally extreme” and “this idea of a pox on both of their houses is just factually wrong,...
- 2/9/2019
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
Starbucks billionaire and presidential aspirant Howard Schultz says he wishes Americans would stop using the term “billionaire” to describe people like himself.
“The moniker ‘billionaire’ now has become the catch phrase, I would rephrase that and I would say that people of means have been able to leverage their wealth and their interests in ways that are unfair,” Schultz told CNBC anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin at a book talk Wednesday.
“And I think that speaks to the inequality but it also directly speaks to the special interests that are paid for by people of wealth and corporations who are looking for influence — and they have such unbelievable influence on the politicians,” he added. “If I should run for president, I am not in bed with any party. I am not in bed with any special interest. All I am trying to do is one thing: walk in the shoes of the American people.
“The moniker ‘billionaire’ now has become the catch phrase, I would rephrase that and I would say that people of means have been able to leverage their wealth and their interests in ways that are unfair,” Schultz told CNBC anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin at a book talk Wednesday.
“And I think that speaks to the inequality but it also directly speaks to the special interests that are paid for by people of wealth and corporations who are looking for influence — and they have such unbelievable influence on the politicians,” he added. “If I should run for president, I am not in bed with any party. I am not in bed with any special interest. All I am trying to do is one thing: walk in the shoes of the American people.
- 2/5/2019
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-ny) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-vt) want to turn the screws on greedy corporations. On Monday morning, the New York Times published an op-ed in which the senators tee off on corporate stock buybacks while teasing new legislation that would ensure companies invest in their employees before padding the pockets of their shareholders.
“At a time of huge income and wealth inequality, Americans should be outraged that these profitable corporations are laying off workers while spending billions of dollars to boost their stock’s value...
“At a time of huge income and wealth inequality, Americans should be outraged that these profitable corporations are laying off workers while spending billions of dollars to boost their stock’s value...
- 2/4/2019
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
The Washington Post Super Bowl ad lauding the work of a free press received sharply mixed reactions on Sunday, with many — including at least three of the Post’s own reporters — saying the spot’s cost of up to $10 million was exorbitant and could have been better spent improving the newsroom.
“I’m really proud to work at a newspaper that does this vital work,” reporter Sarah Kaplan said in a tweet. “But maybe next $10 million could go toward better health benefits, parental leave, equal pay, and more jobs for reporters?”
Wesley Lowery, a national correspondent for the paper, took a similar view about the ad, in which narrator Tom Hanks extolled the free press amid images that included slain Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
“I love the Post. Have worked here 5 years this month. An amazing team full of amazing people. Can’t lie and pretend it’s not exciting...
“I’m really proud to work at a newspaper that does this vital work,” reporter Sarah Kaplan said in a tweet. “But maybe next $10 million could go toward better health benefits, parental leave, equal pay, and more jobs for reporters?”
Wesley Lowery, a national correspondent for the paper, took a similar view about the ad, in which narrator Tom Hanks extolled the free press amid images that included slain Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
“I love the Post. Have worked here 5 years this month. An amazing team full of amazing people. Can’t lie and pretend it’s not exciting...
- 2/4/2019
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
Showtime’s new halfhour Wall Street comedy series Black Monday is like a punk rock band messing with genres, series creator/showrunner Jordan Cahan told TV critics at TCA today.
The series, which marks Don Cheadle’s return to Showtime following House of Lies, begins with October 19, 1987, aka Black Monday, the worst stock market crash in Wall Street history. To this day, no one knows who caused it — until now. The series supposes a group of outsiders took on the blue-blood, old-boys club of Wall Street and ended up crashing the world’s largest financial system, a Lamborghini limousine, Don Henley’s birthday party, and the glass ceiling.
“It’s a foot off the ground – probably more than a foot,” Cahan explained, saying they read a lot, including Barbarians at the Gate, Den of Thieves, but are “trying to have fun with the era.”
The fun, he said was “taking...
The series, which marks Don Cheadle’s return to Showtime following House of Lies, begins with October 19, 1987, aka Black Monday, the worst stock market crash in Wall Street history. To this day, no one knows who caused it — until now. The series supposes a group of outsiders took on the blue-blood, old-boys club of Wall Street and ended up crashing the world’s largest financial system, a Lamborghini limousine, Don Henley’s birthday party, and the glass ceiling.
“It’s a foot off the ground – probably more than a foot,” Cahan explained, saying they read a lot, including Barbarians at the Gate, Den of Thieves, but are “trying to have fun with the era.”
The fun, he said was “taking...
- 1/31/2019
- by Lisa de Moraes
- Deadline Film + TV
Prominent Democrats are making waves with tax proposals targeting the wealthiest Americans. And new polls are showing that “tax the rich!” is a popular battle cry.
Elizabeth Warren, the presidential candidate and Democratic senator from Massachusetts, has unveiled a wealth tax for what she’s calling “ultramillionaires.” It would impose an annual tax of 2 percent on accumulated wealth greater than $50 million, with the tax rate rising to 3 percent for billionaires. The tax would raise an estimated $2.75 trillion over a decade to help those Warren calls “yacht-less Americans.”
Warren’s proposal...
Elizabeth Warren, the presidential candidate and Democratic senator from Massachusetts, has unveiled a wealth tax for what she’s calling “ultramillionaires.” It would impose an annual tax of 2 percent on accumulated wealth greater than $50 million, with the tax rate rising to 3 percent for billionaires. The tax would raise an estimated $2.75 trillion over a decade to help those Warren calls “yacht-less Americans.”
Warren’s proposal...
- 1/30/2019
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
Scientists may someday find the edge of the universe, but there is no end to the delusional self-regard of America’s one-percenters, as former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz proved this week.
Sunday night on 60 Minutes, Schultz announced he was considering a run for president as an independent. The Twitter reaction was like something out of 28 Days Later: mobs of Trump-exhausted Americans sprinting to bite his face off. At a bookstore appearance for his new memoir, a heckler shouted “Go back to Davos!”
Why the severe reaction? Schultz openly declared his...
Sunday night on 60 Minutes, Schultz announced he was considering a run for president as an independent. The Twitter reaction was like something out of 28 Days Later: mobs of Trump-exhausted Americans sprinting to bite his face off. At a bookstore appearance for his new memoir, a heckler shouted “Go back to Davos!”
Why the severe reaction? Schultz openly declared his...
- 1/30/2019
- by Matt Taibbi
- Rollingstone.com
Eagle-eyed internet users have spent much of the last few weeks parsing out the waves of unfounded claims that the president is using to justify his calls for greater border security. There’s a growing recognition that many of the reasons he’s given for increased funding for a southern border wall come from “Sicario: Day of the Soldado,” last year’s sequel to Denis Villeneuve’s 2015 original “Sicario.”
On Tuesday night’s “Late Show,” host Stephen Colbert presented a trio of these not-very-likely-coincidences when talking about what might have been a reason for the recent government shutdown.
Then again, this is the same show that had Josh Brolin on to promote “Sicario: Day of the Soldado” back in June and had the actor read Trump tweets as his “Avengers” character, so nothing makes any sense anymore.
Colbert also used the segment to talk about Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s...
On Tuesday night’s “Late Show,” host Stephen Colbert presented a trio of these not-very-likely-coincidences when talking about what might have been a reason for the recent government shutdown.
Then again, this is the same show that had Josh Brolin on to promote “Sicario: Day of the Soldado” back in June and had the actor read Trump tweets as his “Avengers” character, so nothing makes any sense anymore.
Colbert also used the segment to talk about Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s...
- 1/30/2019
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Spencer Mullen Jan 29, 2019
Project Blue Book, Huawei, Howard Schultz, and more in today's daily Link Tank!
A new computer interface can translate thoughts into speech.
"Neuroengineers have created a new system that can translate simple thoughts into recognizable speech. Using artificial intelligence and a speech synthesizer, a team of New York-based researchers was able to reconstruct words using only brain activity, an innovation that could pave the way for brain-controlled technologies like, say, a smartphone that can translate your thoughts into SMS texts."
Read more at Inverse.
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is reportedly planning to run for President.
"Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is reportedly preparing to enter the 2020 presidential race as an Independent candidate, and pretty much everyone agrees that’s an absolutely terrible idea. The consensus among Democrats and everyone else who doesn’t want to see Donald Trump reelected is that if Shultz entered the race,...
Project Blue Book, Huawei, Howard Schultz, and more in today's daily Link Tank!
A new computer interface can translate thoughts into speech.
"Neuroengineers have created a new system that can translate simple thoughts into recognizable speech. Using artificial intelligence and a speech synthesizer, a team of New York-based researchers was able to reconstruct words using only brain activity, an innovation that could pave the way for brain-controlled technologies like, say, a smartphone that can translate your thoughts into SMS texts."
Read more at Inverse.
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is reportedly planning to run for President.
"Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is reportedly preparing to enter the 2020 presidential race as an Independent candidate, and pretty much everyone agrees that’s an absolutely terrible idea. The consensus among Democrats and everyone else who doesn’t want to see Donald Trump reelected is that if Shultz entered the race,...
- 1/29/2019
- Den of Geek
In a throwback to the rhetoric of Richard Nixon, would-be independent presidential candidate Howard Schultz insisted on Twitter Monday that he’s going outside the two party system to represent a “silent majority.”
The question I think we all should be asking ourselves is: at this time in America when there's so much evidence that our political system is broken – that both parties at the extreme are not representing the silent majority of the American people – isn't there a better way? pic.twitter.com/Gy1wf1cf8F
— Howard Schultz...
The question I think we all should be asking ourselves is: at this time in America when there's so much evidence that our political system is broken – that both parties at the extreme are not representing the silent majority of the American people – isn't there a better way? pic.twitter.com/Gy1wf1cf8F
— Howard Schultz...
- 1/28/2019
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
The dozens of Americans who have been thirsting for former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to take on President Trump in 2020 were treated to some good news Sunday night. The 65-year-old business executive said in an interview with 60 Minutes that he is preparing to mount a presidential campaign, one in which he would run as a “centrist independent, outside of the two-party system.” Schultz described himself as a “lifelong Democrat” in the same interview, but said he is fed up with how extreme both sides have grown, citing the ballooning national...
- 1/28/2019
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
President Donald Trump kicked off the work week tweeting his reaction to 60 Minutes’ interview with former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz about a possible third-party run for the White House in 2020.
“Howard Schultz doesn’t have the ‘guts’ to run for President! Watched him on @60Minutes last night and I agree with him that he is not the ‘smartest person’,” Trump tweeted.
“Besides, America already has that!” Potus tweet-simpered. “I only hope that Starbucks is still paying me their rent in Trump Tower!”
Trump boasted that tariffs on dumped foreign steel have “totally revived our Steel industry.”
“New and expanded plants are happening all over the U.S.” he tweeted, insisting increased domestic production of that border-wall material has created many jobs and “billions paid to our treasury” which Trump called “A Big Win For U.S.” Over the weekend, Trump told Wall Street Journal he still demands $5.7B for his...
“Howard Schultz doesn’t have the ‘guts’ to run for President! Watched him on @60Minutes last night and I agree with him that he is not the ‘smartest person’,” Trump tweeted.
“Besides, America already has that!” Potus tweet-simpered. “I only hope that Starbucks is still paying me their rent in Trump Tower!”
Trump boasted that tariffs on dumped foreign steel have “totally revived our Steel industry.”
“New and expanded plants are happening all over the U.S.” he tweeted, insisting increased domestic production of that border-wall material has created many jobs and “billions paid to our treasury” which Trump called “A Big Win For U.S.” Over the weekend, Trump told Wall Street Journal he still demands $5.7B for his...
- 1/28/2019
- by Lisa de Moraes
- Deadline Film + TV
On Wednesday morning, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon appeared to join those who have expressed varying degrees of interest in running against President Trump in 2020. “I think I could beat Trump,” Dimon said. “I’m as tough as he is, I’m smarter than he is. I would be fine. He could punch me all he wants, it wouldn’t work with me. I’d fight right back.” The billionaire threw in a dig about the millions of dollars Trump borrowed from his father to help spur his real estate empire.
- 9/12/2018
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
Political experience used to be seen as an unofficial prerequisite for holding the highest office in the country. But after President Donald Trump was elected, the game has changed. Here’s a list of the celebrities and billionaires who may make a run — either seriously or jokingly — for Trump’s job in 2020.
Oprah Winfrey
Winfrey’s has people asking her to run for president for decades. But it was Trump’s election that opened her mind to the possibility. Previously, “I never thought about the question,” she said. “I never even considered the possibility. That’s what I thought.”
But seeing Trump,...
Oprah Winfrey
Winfrey’s has people asking her to run for president for decades. But it was Trump’s election that opened her mind to the possibility. Previously, “I never thought about the question,” she said. “I never even considered the possibility. That’s what I thought.”
But seeing Trump,...
- 3/8/2017
- by Diana Pearl
- PEOPLE.com
By Roger Friedman
Famed singer songwriter Carly Simon has still not been appeased by Starbucks or its owner, Howard Schultz. Her attorney, David Boies, has filed an amended complaint in Simon’s lawsuit against Starbucks asking for a jury trial.
At issue: Simon was signed to Starbucks’ Hear Music record label in 2007. She released an album of new material, called “This Kind of Love,” in April 2008 five days before Starbucks abruptly pulled the plug on Hear Music without telling Simon.
Hear Music had previously released a few albums by artists like Paul McCartney and Joni Mitchell. They had all been promoted in Starbucks stores and carried there on the shelves.
To read more go to Showbiz411.com.
Carly Simon – “You’Re So Vain”...
Famed singer songwriter Carly Simon has still not been appeased by Starbucks or its owner, Howard Schultz. Her attorney, David Boies, has filed an amended complaint in Simon’s lawsuit against Starbucks asking for a jury trial.
At issue: Simon was signed to Starbucks’ Hear Music record label in 2007. She released an album of new material, called “This Kind of Love,” in April 2008 five days before Starbucks abruptly pulled the plug on Hear Music without telling Simon.
Hear Music had previously released a few albums by artists like Paul McCartney and Joni Mitchell. They had all been promoted in Starbucks stores and carried there on the shelves.
To read more go to Showbiz411.com.
Carly Simon – “You’Re So Vain”...
- 4/23/2010
- by Roger Friedman
- Hollywoodnews.com
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