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You know Joe Biden is in trouble when Donald Trump is attacking his critics.

Trump is speaking out about George Clooney’s devastating New York Times op-ed which called on Biden to drop out of the presidential election — by criticizing Clooney.

“So now fake movie actor George Clooney, who never came close to making a great movie, is getting into the act,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “He’s turned on Crooked Joe like the rats they both are. What does Clooney know about anything?? He uses the Democrat ‘talking point’ that Biden, the Worst President in the history of the United States, has ‘saved our Democracy.’ No, Crooked Joe was the one who Weaponized Law Enforcement against his political Opponent, who created the most devastating Inflation in the history of our Country, who Embarrassed our Nation in Afghanistan, and whose crazy Open Border Policy has allowed millions of people...

Who had a “media feud between Joe Biden and George Clooney” on their July 2024 bingo card?

But that’s exactly what recent events have given us.

President Biden’s team reportedly clapped back at the iconic actor on Wednesday after Clooney’s scathing New York Times guest essay that pushed for the president to step down from his reelection campaign in the wake of serious widespread concerns about his mental fitness.

A Times congressional correspondent, Annie Karni, wrote on X that “Biden is fighting back on Clooney” and cited “a source familiar with event planning” as mocking the actor for his level of participation at a June 15 fundraiser that Clooney referenced in his op-ed.

“The President stayed for over three hours, while Clooney took a photo quickly and left,” the source said.

Times columnist Nicholas Kristof reacted to the statement with incredulity on X: “Biden is really trying to claim...

During the first 2024 debate last week, President Joe Biden looked fatigued, sounded hoarse, and failed to complete his thoughts several times. Halfway through the debate, NBC News reported that “sources familiar with the situation say ‘President Biden has a cold.’”

Since then, Biden, his campaign, and allies have offered a series of excuses for his performance — none of which explain what Americans witnessed that evening: an 81-year-old man visibly in decline.

A CBS News poll conducted after the debate found that 72 percent of registered voters believe Biden does not have...

CNN, facing an avalanche of criticism for letting false claims by Donald Trump go unchecked during Thursday night’s debate with President Biden, defended its decision to not intervene to correct misstatements live on-air.

In a statement to Variety, a CNN spokesperson said, “The role of the moderators is to present the candidates with questions that are important to American voters and to facilitate a debate, enabling candidates to make their case and challenge their opponent. It is up to the candidates to challenge one another in a debate.”

The CNN rep’s statement continued, “CNN offered robust fact-checking coverage in post-debate analysis on TV and across our digital platforms during and following the debate’s conclusion.”

According to CNN’s own analysis of the debate, Trump made more than 30 false claims during the debate, while Biden made at least nine false or misleading statements.

The laissez-faire format for the debate,...

You can always tell who lost a presidential debate by which party is slamming the moderators afterwards. And in the wake of Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s first 2024 presidential debate, many progressives are focusing their fire on CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, calling out the duo for not fact-checking Trump in real time during the 90-minute face off.

Thursday’s clash featured a performance by President Joe Biden that many are calling disastrous for his reelection chances, with CNN’s own post-debate panelists suggesting the president should consider withdrawing from the race.

But Biden’s behavior also distracted viewers from Trump’s numerous untruths, such as falsely claiming (per The Guardian, The Washington Post and New Republic) that Dems support post-birth abortion, that he had “best environmental numbers ever,” that Nancy Pelosi declined an offer to deploy troops on Jan. 6 (that’s not her purview, for starters,...

The concern over President Joe Biden’s advanced age and cognitive abilities crystalized in the front half of the first presidential debate on Thursday, leading to panic among his supporters and several notable individuals to call for him to be replaced on the ticket.

Biden had multiple gaffes and stumbles as the debate began, trailing off at points and mixing up and missing words while completing his answers and replies to his opponent. This was sharply contrasted by Trump, who shouted about Biden’s perceived failures. While he got it together in the second half hour, the damage to Biden’s campaign was apparent.

Immediately after the debate, CNN reported that Biden’s incoherence was causing alarm bells to go off with top Democratic leaders who are now wondering what to do. The network’s chyron in the panelist’s post-debate analysis read: “Sources: Dems saying ‘we have a problem’ after Biden’s performance tonight.

America Ferrera arrives at the Glamour Women of The Year Awards 2023

The Critics Choice Awards recognized America Ferrera with a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her performance in Barbie, and the Emmy Award-winner has also been selected to receive the 8th Annual SeeHer Award during the 2024 Critics Choice Awards. The special honor was created to “honor a woman who advocates for gender equality, portrays characters with authenticity, defies stereotypes, and pushes boundaries.”

Ferrera joins a list of SeeHer honorees that includes Viola Davis (2017), Gal Gadot (2018), Claire Foy (2019), Kristen Bell (2020), Zendaya (2021), Halle Berry (2022), and Janelle Monáe (2023).

The 29th Annual Critics Choice Awards will be hosted by Chelsea Handler and will air on Sunday, January 14, 2024 at 7pm Et/Pt on The CW.

The Critics Choice Association provided this description of America Ferrera’s work as an activist:

“A longtime activist, Ferrera launched Poderistas in 2020 alongside 9 other prominent activists, leaders, and business women,...

London, England – October 17: America Ferrera arrives at the Glamour Women of The Year Awards 2023 on October 17, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Karwai Tang/WireImage) The Critics Choice Association (Cca) announced today that Emmy award-winning actor, director and producer America Ferrera will receive the 8th annual SeeHer Award at the 29th annual Critics Choice Awards. The honor will be presented to her at the star-studded gala hosted by Chelsea Handler, which will broadcast Live on The CW on Sunday, January 14, 2024. The SeeHer Award honors a woman who advocates for gender equality, portrays characters with authenticity, defies stereotypes and pushes boundaries. SeeHer is a leading global movement for accurate portrayals of women and girls in media. A global collective of marketers, media organizations and industry influencers, SeeHer is committed to creating gender-bias-free advertising and media. Previous award recipients are Viola Davis (2017), Gal Gadot (2018), Claire Foy (2019), Kristen Bell (2020), Zendaya (2021), Halle Berry (2022), and...

The Clinton Global Initiative next week will feature a session on protecting freedom of the press, with a focus on Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been held in Russia for more than 160 days

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will deliver remarks at the Sept. 19 session, called Journalism on the Front Lines, with Jeanne Bourgault, president and CEO of Internews, announcing a commitment to support journalists.

As part of the session, Fox News anchor Dana Perino will moderate a panel featuring Jodie Ginsburg, president of the Committee to Protect Journalists; Almar Latour, the CEO of Dow Jones and publisher of The Wall Street Journal; and Jason Rezaian, global opinions writer and former Tehran bureau chief for The Washington Post.

Gershkovich’s captivity has drawn condemnation from the State Department and journalism and human rights organizations around the world. The panel also will focus on the mounting threats...

Oscar-winning Everything Everywhere All at Once directors Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert), Michael J. Fox, Padma Lakshmi and Patrick Dempsey are among the entertainment industry figures set to participate in the 2023 Clinton Global Initiative meeting.

The two-day summit, led by President Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton, will feature leaders from around the world and across industries exploring how to “keep going,” as the Clintons put it in a letter to the CGI community, amid difficulties to create a stronger future for everyone.

Other entertainment industry participants in CGI 2023 include Liev Schreiber and will.i.am and the previously announced Matt Damon, Ashley Judd and Orlando Bloom. Other well-known leaders expected to join the meeting include Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Nicholas Kristof, José Andrés, Cindy McCain,...

MindGeek, the parent of Pornhub, the world’s biggest porn site, and other adult entertainment platforms was acquired by a Canadian private equity firm called Ethical Capital Partners, or Ecp, for an undisclosed amount.

Ecp launched in 2022 in Montreal. Its website says it’s good at dealing with problem companies, seeking out tech-focused investment and advisory opportunities “in industries that require principled ethical leadership…have legal and regulatory complexity and that put a value on transparency and accountability.”

Pornhub, founded in 2007, changed the world of adult entertainment. It has over 76 million monthly active registered members and over 130 million adults visit the site daily for “the best selection of award-winning performers, the most extensive collection of high-quality videos, and a safe, user-friendly experience for viewers,” the deal announcement says. It’s been plagued by scandal and is the subject of the Netflix documentary Money Shot: The Pornhub Story by Suzanne Hillinger,...

Don’t be put off by the unnecessarily crude name – Moneyshot: The Pornhub Story is a thought-provoking and tastefully created documentary. And even if you’re familiar with Pornhub’s recent controversies, it’ll almost certainly tell you something new.

For instance, it may seem counterintuitive that at its heart, MindGeek’s Pornhub is a pretty run-of-the-mill tech company, which former employee Noelle Perdue describes as “a hilariously boring office space”.

That makes it all the more remarkable that Pornhub has become such a controversial website that it deserves its own Netflix documentary, charting its meteoric rise, eventually becoming the world’s most popular porn site and changing the game for porn performers, and its subsequent explosive fall from grace, becoming the centre of an ongoing row where it is accused of profiting from the likes of child sex trafficking and revenge porn.

We discover that the key to...

As one of the most well-known tube sites in the industry, to the degree that its opening music is a meme on TikTok, Pornhub has become a prime target for the religious right’s war on smut. Most recently, the website was subject to litigation filed by Ncose (the National Center on Sexual Exploitation), a right-wing organization formerly known as Morality in Media. The group also spearheaded a public relations campaign against Pornhub following a New York Times op-ed by writer Nicholas Kristof alleging the website was deluged with clips of sexual abuse,...

Pornography, as a visual medium, has long followed the lead of technology. First it was drawn by hand. Then it was photographed. Then it was shown in back rooms on 8mm one-reelers. Then it was shown in movie theaters. Then it moved to video cassettes and DVD. Then it arrived on the Internet. Then, in the age of Pornhub, it exploded on the Internet. That’s when porn-on-the-computer innovation became the all-porn-all-the-time revolution.

“Money Shot: The Pornhub Story,” a documentary that drops March 15 on Netflix, is not a movie about the cultural prominence or significance of porn in our time. Someone should really make that documentary; it’s a story that, like so much else about pornography, is totally out there yet hidden in the shadows. “Money Shot,” directed by Suzanne Hillinger and produced by Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions, does touch on key aspects of how porn today is...

“Another day, another request to talk about Pornhub.” That’s what I thought when director Suzanne Hillinger and Oscar winner Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions asked me to appear in their new Netflix documentary Money Shot: The Pornhub Story.

The film recounts how Pornhub exploded in popularity until The New York Times’s Nicholas Kristof and sex-trafficking victim advocates accused the streamer’s parent company, MindGeek, of hosting vile illegal child pornography and rape videos. Hillinger promised the film would show how right-wing Christians deployed sex-trafficking allegations as a Trojan...

Portrait of the colossally successful pornography website dithers between its defenders and critics and doesn’t really tell us much

Documentaries about pornography are usually building to one of two different climactic conclusions: that porn is actually a hateful enabler of rape, or that porn is actually a sex-positive celebration of sensual pleasure. It seems to me that Suzanne Hillinger’s uncertain documentary about Pornhub isn’t exactly sure what its money shot should be.

Pornhub is the colossally successful porn site, owned by a Canadian company with the airily tech-bro name of MindGeek; for years it provided a lucrative and arguably enlightened outlet for adult content creators and models who were providing a consensual, legal service to paying customers, and who were thus able to get away from the sleazier and more exploitative side of studio-based porn and sex work. But a 2020 exposé by New York Times reporter Nicholas Kristof...

Nicholas Kristof, who has written a column for The New York Times for the past two decades, has left his post as he weighs whether to run for governor of Oregon next year.

Kristof filed a statement of organization of a campaign committee with the Oregon secretary of state. If he decides to run, he would run as a Democrat. The current governor, Kate Brown, also a Democrat, is not running due to term limits.

Kristof has been on leave since June, when he told the company that he was considering a run in his native state, the Times reported.

He wrote in a note on his departure, “This has been my dream job, even with malaria, a plane crash in Congo and periodic arrests abroad for committing journalism. Yet here I am, resigning — very reluctantly.”

At a time when political opinion has flooded the marketplace, Kristof’s columns have...

The question of what Woody Allen did or didn't do was first posed almost 30 years ago. It was just a question that almost no one wanted to think too much about. Since being accused in 1992 of sexually abusing his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow, he has directed 26 movies, all packed with major stars, and in 2012 he won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay (his third career win in that category). He was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the Golden Globes in 2014. A few weeks later, an essay by Dylan was published by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof on his Times blog. She described the stomach-churning account of the...

In “Allen v. Farrow,” the four-part docuseries that premiered on HBO Sunday night, documentarians Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering and Amy Herdy have tackled an especially daunting and divisive subject, even for them. The filmmakers behind the documentaries “The Hunting Ground,” “The Invisible War” and “On the Record,” have investigated Dylan Farrow’s 1992 allegations that her father, Woody Allen, sexually abused her when she was 7 years old.

Dylan Farrow’s harrowing accusations played out in court during the lead-up to the vicious custody battle between Allen and his ex-partner Mia Farrow — and every day, they were also splashed on the pages of the New York Post. Simultaneously, Allen’s then-newly revealed sexual relationship with Soon-Yi Previn, Farrow’s older daughter, ensured the tabloid press was fully engaged, something Allen weaponized against Mia Farrow, whom he painted as a manipulative hysteric. In “Allen v. Farrow,” she talks on camera for the first...

The charges made against Woody Allen by Dylan Farrow, his daughter, and Mia Farrow, her mother, have resonated throughout American culture for decades. But it took a while for them to really be heard.

That — the story of their finally being metabolized — makes for the narrative arc of “Allen v. Farrow,” a new documentary series on HBO premiering Feb. 21. Dylan Farrow’s 1992 allegation of childhood sexual assault, which she put into writing on journalist Nicholas Kristof’s blog in 2014, was treated as both serious and ancillary to the career of one of the leading American directors of his time. Previously, this accusation had been widely reported (never having resulted in a conviction for Allen) and existed as a free-floating association that alternately stuck or didn’t to Allen’s name. For many, they were part of the penumbra of oddity, along with his having married Mia Farrow’s daughter Soon-Yi Previn,...

After getting seriously injured during an excursion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ashley Judd has opened up over a two-part Instagram Live with New York Times‘ reporter Nicholas Kristof about how the actress’s harrowing experience forced her to acknowledge her privilege in a new way. View this post on Instagram A post shared […]

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Actress Ashley Judd sustained serious injury after a catastrophic fall in the Congo rainforest, and is currently recovering in ICU at a hospital in South Africa. The 52-year-old actress made the revelation during an Instagram live chat from her hospital bed.

Judd shared details of how the accident occurred, saying that a faulty head lamp made it difficult for her to see during an excursion and she tripped over a fallen tree, breaking her leg.

She said that she is "in an ICU trauma unit in beautiful South Africa, which has taken me in from the Congo, a country I deeply love which is not, unfortunately, equipped to deal with massive catastrophic injuries like I have had".

"The difference between a Congolese person and me is disaster insurance that allowed me 55 hours after my accident to get to an operating table in South Africa," Judd added, while speaking to New...

Ashley Judd revealed on social media Friday that she was involved in a “catastrophic accident” in the Congo rainforest where she nearly lost her leg.

Speaking from an ICU bed, the actress and humanitarian said in an Instagram Live video with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof that she shattered her leg in four places and has nerve damage.

“I was doing what I always do, up at 4:30 in the morning with two of our trackers who are just these world class, brilliant, brilliant men, walking in the dark, and my headlamp had new batteries, but it was ...

Ashley Judd revealed on social media Friday that she was involved in a “catastrophic accident” in the Congo rainforest where she nearly lost her leg.

Speaking from an ICU bed, the actress and humanitarian said in an Instagram Live video with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof that she shattered her leg in four places and has nerve damage.

“I was doing what I always do, up at 4:30 in the morning with two of our trackers who are just these world class, brilliant, brilliant men, walking in the dark, and my headlamp had new batteries, but it was ...

Actress, author and humanitarian Ashley Judd is recuperating at a South African trauma unit after almost losing a leg in a “catastrophic” fall in a Congo rainforest.

In an Instagram Live chat with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof – watch it below – Judd, speaking from her ICU bed, says she was walking in a Congo rainforest when she tripped over a fallen tree, shattering her leg. Judd, a frequent visitor to Congo, was doing work to track the Bonobos, an endangered great apes species.

Describing “an incredibly harrowing 55 hours” during which she was transported, in part by being hand-carried out, in part on a six-hour motorbike trip, from the remote rainforest location to a medical center in South Africa, Judd holds up the stick that she was biting to distract from the pain, “howling like a wild animal.” The actress, sister of Wynona Judd and daughter of Naomi Judd, recalls...

At the start of the pandemic, Alex and Cassie, a same-sex, nonbinary, multiracial couple based in Canada, were laid off from their full-time jobs. Scrambling for income, and unable to leave the house because of Alex’s preexisting conditions, Alex and Cassie, who asked to be identified only by their first names to protect their privacy, decided to start selling pornographic content through Pornhub.

On Thursday, credit card processors Visa and Mastercard made a shocking announcement: they would be terminating their relationships with Pornhub. It was part of a series...

Howard Stern and SiriusXM have announced a new agreement under which the broadcaster will continue to produce and host The Howard Stern Show for SiriusXM for the next five years, and the Howard Stern archive of audio and video will continue to be licensed to SiriusXM for an additional seven years. Stern revealed the news on today’s broadcast.

Stern, who is 66, has grown on the air from the derogatory term “shock jock” into an influential and enlightened broadcaster who does superb interviews, whether he’s talking to politicians or entertainers, and takes stands on important issues from Covid 19, to Trump policies, racism, homophobia and sexism. I am curious about whether he will take on another issue, and a porn website I’ve heard him mention. That is Pornhub, which like another of his go-to sites, Youporn, is a pornography website. Anyone who read New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof...

Animated anchor James Smartwood will start mocking the news later this month after CBS All Access set a premiere date for Stephen Colbert-exec produced cartoon series Tooning Out The News.

The show will launch on the digital platform in the U.S. and Canada on Monday March 16.

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Colbert and The Late Show showrunner Chris Licht are teaming up with Rj Fried and Tim Luecke, who co-created Showtime’s Our Cartoon President on the series.

Produced by CBS Television Studios, it will feature short daily segments leading up to a weekly full episode that includes a cast of animated characters mocking news of the day, and interviewing real world guests and newsmakers.

Charlize Theron is getting some of the best buzz of her career for channeling Megyn Kelly in “Bombshell,” but the Oscar-winning actress admits she almost turned down the role.

“I was shit scared,” Theron said during a question-and-answer session following a Manhattan screening of “Bombshell” on Sunday. Partly, she was worried about portraying someone who was “incredibly well known.” But Theron also recoiled from a newscaster who spent the bulk of her career on Fox News and who was fired from NBC for making racist comments.

“She’s conflicting,” Theron admitted. Moderator Alisyn Camerota pressed Theron, noting that she had portrayed serial killer Aileen Wuornos in 2003’s “Monster.”

“This was harder,” said Theron. As a producer on the film, she admitted she wondered if “there’s somebody out there who can do this better than you can.”

“Bombshell” certainly taps into the post-Harvey Weinstein zeitgeist. With its portrait of...

Start with the obvious. As political theater, the Democrats’ decision to put former Special Counsel Robert Mueller under oath was a catastrophe.

The Democrats believed a televised hearing would give the legalistic Mueller report a PR kick. It was said people weren’t “reading the book,” but they might “watch the movie.”

House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler said he hoped the Mueller movie “won’t end up being a dud.” House Intelligence chief Adam Schiff added, “We want to bring Robert Mueller to life.”

They didn’t. Robert Mueller was lost from the start,...

Kim Kardashian West is taking her fight for criminal justice reform local -- asking the Governor of California to look into the case of a man some suggest has been framed for murder. Kkw tweeted out the message to Governor Jerry Brown Sunday, saying ... "Governor Brown, please add Kevin Cooper to your legacy of smart, fair and thoughtful criminal justice reforms." She retweeted an opinion article from the Nyt titled "Justice Delayed, With a Life on the Line.

CBS chairman-ceo Leslie Moonves was the subject of another New Yorker expose that included new allegations of sexual misconduct from six more women Sunday.

Moonves is expected to exit CBS Monday, though whether he will be fired or be allowed to step down remains to be seen. Reports indicate he has been in negotiations for a severance package for the past several days, with some sources saying the amount could near $100 million.

The industry, which was already rocked by the first report in July, reacted with frustration and disgust, asserting that Moonves should not be allowed to receive a payout as part of his departure agreement.

Time’s Up released a statement slamming CBS for a “culture of toxic complicity” at the company, and insisted that it will “accept nothing less than full transparency of the investigation’s findings, a commitment to real change across all levels of CBS management...

Just days after Kim Kardashian successfully convinced President Donald Trump to pardon Alice Johnson, the reality star is seemingly ready to move on to her next wrongful conviction case. Kim is determined to exonerate four-time convicted murderer Kevin Cooper, who has been on death row for the past 33 years. The Kuwtk star is now urging California Governor Jerry Brown to allow the retesting of the prisoner's DNA on Twitter. Governor Brown, can you please test the DNA of Kevin Cooper? https://t.co/MB4kE03sC4— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) June 16, 2018 So, what did Kevin Cooper do to end up on death row? In 1985, the now 59-year-old was found guilty of the murders of Douglas and Peggy Ryen, their 10-year-old daughter Jessica, and her friend Chris Hughes, who was also 10 years old at the time. The father of Chris, Bill Hughes, found the bodies of his son and the Ryen family in their home,...

According to President Donald Trump, Matt Pottinger doesn’t exist. Which might come as news to Matt Pottinger.

In a morning tweet that was quickly debunked by reporters – and even a former colleague of Pottinger – Trump wrote today, “The Failing @nytimes quotes ‘a senior White House official,’ who doesn’t exist, as saying ‘even if the meeting were reinstated, holding it on June 12 would be impossible, given the lack of time and the amount of planning needed.’ Wrong Again! Use real people, not phony sources.”

Trump was referring to a Page 1 story in today’s New York Times about the possibility of a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Wrote the Times: “Twenty-four hours after announcing that he was calling off the meeting in a letter to Mr. Kim, the North’s leader, Mr. Trump told reporters that he and Mr. Kim might yet meet in Singapore on June...

Harvey Weinstein turned himself in today at New York’s Tribeca precinct near the home of his former The Weinstein Company and arrested on multiple sex crimes charges handed down by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

The news of Weinstein’s surrender, which was tipped Thursday, has been a moment of vindication and catharsis for the #MeToo movement and especially the more than 80 women who have come forward to accuse the Oscar-winning producer of alleged sexual harassment and abuse over the decades.

Here are reactions coming in already from Hollywood and beyond as the NYPD says Weinstein was formally arrested, processed and charged with rape, criminal sex act, sex abuse and sexual misconduct for incidents involving two separate women.

Keep refreshing for more:

What took you so long Harvey? pic.twitter.com/MUFB34fWai

— Asia Argento (@AsiaArgento) May 25, 2018

Harvey Weinstein ain’t smiling now https://t.co/upZJRxGPeO

— Asia...

‪The Pulitzer at 100 director and Oscar-winner for Strangers No More, Kirk Simon, has died. Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

The Pulitzer At 100 director and Oscar-winner for Strangers No More, Kirk Simon, died at the age of 63 on April 14 in New York.

For his most recent documentary, Kirk assembled a grand cast plus authors, journalists, composers and photographers who have won Pulitzers, to create a vivid portrait of the importance of Joseph Pulitzer's brilliant idea to establish the School of Journalism at Columbia University and award prizes.

Kirk Simon documented Jane Goodall's work in Chimps: So Like Us Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Kirk Simon documented Jane Goodall's work in Chimps: So Like Us, Ingmar...

In 2014, Dylan Farrow spoke to People about an open letter she wrote detailing the alleged sexual abuse she endured at the hands of her father Woody Allen. At the time, Farrow spoke out in reaction to Allen being celebrated at that year’s Golden Globes Awards ceremony, but now the writer is once again speaking up in the wake of the sexual harassment scandals that have ignited the industry and seen the resignation of powerful men like Harvey Weinstein. Take a look back at People’s 2014 deep-dive into both sides of the alleged abuse scandal and how it affected the...

Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” cover star Ashley Judd told a Los Angeles audience that deciding to be the first actor to go on-record with The New York Times with sexual harassment allegations about Harvey Weinstein was “very easy.” “I did it because it was the right thing to do,” she said at The Paley Center for Media during a TimesTalks event on December 5.

Joining Judd on stage were four New York Times reporters, moderator Susan Dominus along with Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey, and Emily Steel. Exactly two months prior, Kantor and Twohey broke the Weinstein story with a formal investigation into Weinstein’s purported pattern of predatory behavior.

And, just hours before the event, Kantor, Twohey, and Dominus were part of a team that published a 7,500-word article detailing the “complicity machine” that allowed Weinstein to maintain his conduct. Steel was part of the reporting team who...

Hillary Clinton takes aim at Matt Lauer in her new campaign memoir, What Happened, criticizing the Today show anchor for his “disappointing but predictable” grilling of her during NBC’s “Commander in Chief Forum” on Sept. 7, 2016.

The forum, which marked the first time Clinton and then-Republican nominee Donald Trump appeared on the same stage during the 2016 presidential campaign, was meant to be an informal opportunity for the candidates to discuss national security and foreign policy.

But after opening the forum with a broad question to Clinton about the most important quality in a commander in chief, moderator Lauer immediately switched...

On Thursday, New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof published a piece titled “We’re Journalists, Mr. Trump, Not the Enemy.” Many on Twitter quickly tried to make the writer eat those first two words. “Sad when they now have to convince people of that,” one commenter tweeted. While another snarked: “really bad comedians at best.” Here’s Kristof’s lede, or what “we journalists” call an article’s opening paragraph: “Sigh. If only President Trump denounced neo-Nazis as passionately and sincerely as he castigates journalists.” Many conservatives probably stopped reading right there, instead Command+Tab-ing over to TweetDeck to express their displeasure.

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof in The Pulitzer At 100

In the second installment of my conversation with The Pulitzer At 100 director Kirk Simon we discussed where Michael Cunningham (The Hours) and Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay which is also read by Martin Scorsese) keep their Pulitzers, multiple winners Thomas Friedman and Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times on working hard every day, a Tony Kushner Angels In America accent, Paula Vogel's (How I Learned to Drive) winning headline, Ayad Akhtar (Disgraced), and paying homage to Walter Hill's The Warriors when filming Tracy K Smith's reading of Life On Mars.

In The Pulitzer At 100, Michael Cunningham, with a sheepish grin, states that where his Pulitzer is kept is connected to the fate of Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? and The Great Gatsby.

Pulitzer winner Paula Vogel taught Ayad Akhtar,...

The Pulitzer At 100 director Kirk Simon on the man Liev Schreiber portrayed in Tom McCarthy's Oscar-winning Spotlight: "You do not mess with Marty Baron!" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Kirk Simon has assembled a grand cast (Helen Mirren, Natalie Portman, John Lithgow, Martin Scorsese, Yara Shahidi, and Liev Schreiber) plus authors, journalists, composers and photographers (including Paula Vogel, Toni Morrison, David Remnick, Wynton Marsalis, Tony Kushner, John Adams, Carl Bernstein, Nicholas Kristof, Jeffrey Eugenides, Thomas Friedman, Michael Cunningham, John Adams, Michael Chabon, Martin Baron, Junot Díaz, Ayad Akhtar, Robin Givhan, Sheri Fink, John Filo, Nick Ut, and Robert A. Caro) who have won Pulitzers, to create a vivid portrait of the importance of Joseph Pulitzer's brilliant idea to establish the School of Journalism at Columbia University and award prizes.

In The Pulitzer At 100, Helen Mirren has a Long Day's Journey Into Night with Eugene O'Neill Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze...

When people had signed up for the Eric Trump Foundation’s largest annual fundraiser, a golf outing and dinner at a Trump golf course in Weschester County, New York, they understood their donations would go to help fight children’s cancer at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis.

And much of the donations had: Eric Trump has helped raise and donate more than $11 million to St. Jude’s, the vast majority of it via this annual golf event, according to Forbes.

Eric has claimed the golf course and most of the other costs associated with the fundraiser were donated,...

The Producers Guild of America’s (PGA) National Board of Directors has announced today the hiring of Michelle Byrd as Managing Director, PGA East, a newly created position within the guild. Byrd was appointed after an extensive search led by PGA East Chairs William Horberg and Kay Rothman, and with the support of PGA Presidents Gary Lucchesi and Lori McCreary, PGA National Executive Director/COO Vance Van Petten, and PGA Associate National Executive Director/COO Susan Sprung.

She will oversee east coast operations from the PGA’s New York office.

Byrd’s experience in the industry is extensive. Prior to her new position at the PGA, she worked in the non-profit media organization space, and has been involved with orgs serving film, digital, and games. She served 12 years (1997-2009) as Executive Director of the Independent Filmmaker Project, during which she collaborated with the United Nations and re-positioned Ifp’s signature...

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Just a few hours before President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. had launched 59 cruise missiles on an airfield in Syria, his former campaign rival Hillary Clinton suggested doing just that.

In an interview with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof at the Women in the World conference in Manhattan, Clinton responded to a deadly chemical attack in Syria earlier this week that intelligence agencies have blamed on the country’s President Bashar Assad.

“Assad has an air force, and that air force is the cause of most of these civilian deaths,...

Scott McCall (as a human and as his wild werewolf self) and best bud Stiles have their very own Funko Pop! figures now. Collect whichever vinyl figure tickles your fancy this spring! Also in today's Highlights: Wesley Snipes reveals The Recall's release date at CinemaCon 2017, a look at the teaser trailer for Deep Shock, and the Tribeca Games Festival announcement.

Photos & Release Details for Funko's Teen Wolf Pop! Vinyls: From Funko: “Teen werewolf Scott McCall and his best friend Stiles are coming to Pop! vinyl!

Bitten the night before starting sophomore year of high school, Scott is now a True Alpha werewolf! Collect Scott in his human form, or as a werewolf!

Add them to your collection this spring!

Coming in May!”

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The Recall Premiere Date Announced at CinemaCon 2017: Press Release: "Announced today by star Wesley Snipes at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, Minds Eye Entertainment’s sci-fi...

Samantha Bee is going full frontal with Hillary Clinton. The “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” host has been tapped to introduce Clinton at Tina Brown’s annual Women in the Word summit, which is set to take place April 5 – 7 at Lincoln Center in New York City. Clinton will be on hand for a conversation with New York Times columnist and author Nicholas Kristof. Also Read: Samantha Bee Edits Trump Tweet to Call President a 'Giant Baby' Other participants at this year’s summit include Tracee Ellis Ross, Lena Dunham, Cecile Richards, Scarlett Johansson, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Masha Gessen, Dr. Annie Sparrow,...

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Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch failed to answer the very important question of whether he would rather fight 100 duck-sized horses or one horse-sized duck during his confirmation hearing on Tuesday.

The question, asked by Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake on behalf of his teenage son, is typically debated on Reddit AMAs, something Gorsuch, who appeared surprised, was not aware of.

“I’m very rarely at a loss for words,” Gorsuch said in response.

The question has been previously put forth to several notable figures, including former presidential candidate Gary Johnson (horse-sized duck), the writer...

A version of this article originally appeared on ew.com.

Emma Watson loves to read.

The actress has that in common with her brainy Harry Potter character Hermione as well as bookish Belle, who she plays in the much-anticipated film Beauty and the Beast, out March 17. In addition to being a bookworm, Watson is also an outspoken feminist and as well as a Un Women Goodwill Ambassador and promoter of the organization’s HeForShe movement, which is dedicated to recruiting men into the movement for gender equality. As a response to her work with the Un, she launched the feminist...

Monday night's presidential debate left many Americans most conflicted not about whether Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton prevailed, but about the effectiveness of moderator Lester Holt, who was relatively silent throughout the political face-off. Although Holt interrupted the candidates at times to fact-check their statements and remind them of their time limits, he also allowed their heated discussions of policy and values to go largely unchaperoned. While some debate viewers took to social media to praise the NBC anchor for staying out of the spotlight, others wondered why he abstained from cutting off Clinton and Trump more often. And those viewers vented through memes.