Tag: Celebrities
450-plus Jews in entertainment industry condemn Glazer’s speech
More than 450 Jewish executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing the speech film director Jonathan Glazer gave at the Academy Awards ceremony on March 10 when accepting his Oscar for...
‘As a Jew’ Oscar moment shows how woke antisemitism works
Unless you’re a film buff, you may not have heard of Jonathan Glazer before his viral moment at this year’s annual Academy Awards ceremony. After “The Zone of Interest”—a highly-praised film about the commandant of the...
At Oscars, Holocaust film director talks ‘refuting’ Jewishness, Israel ‘hijacking’ Holocaust
Accepting the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Jonathan Glazer, director of the Holocaust movie “The Zone of Interest,” read, with quivering hands, from a prepared statement.
“All our choices are made to reflect...
Kanye West to release 40-minute ‘apology video’ before new album launch
“Ye” (Kanye West), the Grammy-winning musician-turned-neo-Nazi-advocate, will reportedly attempt another effort to offer forgiveness for the antisemitic invective he made on social-media platforms in 2022.
Sources told the entertainment journalism site TMZ that weeks ago, he had...
Susan Sarandon: ‘Don’t let anyone tell you it started on Oct 7, 2023’
On Jan. 15, many noted somberly that it was the 100th day that Hamas terrorists were holding hostages in Gaza. Academy Award-winning actress Susan Sarandon—no stranger to antisemitic comments—had a different message in mind...
Ebon Moss-Bachrach in ‘The Bear’ wins Emmy for Best Supporting Actor
The performance of Ebon Moss-Bachrach as divorced father Richie in the TV series “The Bear” has so far collected the two top entertainment awards of the year.
On Monday, Moss-Bachrach, who is 46 and Jewish, received an...
Russell Crowe to play Nazi Party henchman Hermann Göring in ‘Nuremberg’ film
A new drama will feature two acclaimed actors in a film exploring whether madness or malice drove the Third Reich’s reign of terror.
In “Nuremberg,” Oscar-award winner Russell Crowe will play Nazi propagandist Hermann Göring, opposite Oscar-winner...
Newly released Epstein associates list Dershowitz, Copperfield, Pritzker
A collection of files from a lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate of deceased billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has named previously unidentified associates of the jet-setting criminal who committed suicide in prison on Aug....
New ‘Blossom’ reboot to shift show from sitcom to drama
Fans concerned about the fate of Mayim Bialik after her writers-strike-inspired departure from hosting the quiz show “Celebrity Jeopardy!” need not worry: In development is a new project returning to the cast of “Blossom,” the 1990s...
Actress Arleen Sorkin of daytime TV fame dies at 67
After fighting multiple sclerosis for a decade, the disease took the life of 67-year-old Jewish film and television actress Arleen Sorkin on Aug. 24.
Playing Calliope Jones Bradford in the daytime soap opera “Days of Our Lives,” Sorkin served...