PEN America Literary Gala Celebrates Writers and Addresses Criticism Over Gaza War Response PEN America Literary Gala welcomed hundreds of guests inside Manhattan's Museum of Natural History on Thursday, including several prominent figures from the entertainment industry. Seth Meyers served ... 05/17/2024 - 6:13 am | View Link
Seth Meyers Revels in Lauren Boebert’s Courthouse Humiliation “Don’t say it three times!” joked Late Night host Seth Meyers. “It’s a sign of how insane our politics are that protesters are shouting the word ‘Beetlejuice’ at a member of ... 05/16/2024 - 9:08 pm | View Link
Seth Meyers Makes a Bold Prediction for Trump-Biden Debate But as Late Night host ... Meyers admitted he wasn’t looking forward to the debates all that much, even joking that they shouldn’t be broadcast internationally because they’ll probably make ... 05/15/2024 - 9:15 pm | View Link
PEN America, facing ongoing criticism over its response to the Mideast war, gathers for annual gala With guests including Paul Simon and Seth Meyers, PEN America will gather Thursday night for its annual gala, a dressed-up, high-profile event raised even higher because some wondered if it would be ... 05/15/2024 - 5:19 pm | View Link
Seth Meyers Says The Trump Trial Seems To Be Achieving Only 1 Thing So Far “Former President Trump appeared to fall asleep yesterday during Michael Cohen’s testimony for a full half-hour,” host Seth Meyers said. “You know, I was excited for this trial, but it ... 05/14/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Production has begun on a second season of “Scrublands,” the Australian crime thriller series starring Luke Arnold (“Black Sails”) and Bella Heathcote (“The Neon Demon,” “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”). With action set a year after the events of the first season, award-winning investigative journalist Martin Scarsden (Arnold) has returned to his coastal hometown, Port […]
The Newport Beach Film Festival will return to London Feb. 13 2025 for its U. K. Honors, recognizing outstanding work by British and Irish actors across film and television. The U. K. Honors will take place at Raffles London at The OWO in partnership with Variety, which will unveil Variety’s 10 Brits during the event, highlighting the […]
Toronto-based Syndicado Film Sales has picked up international rights to “Petroleo,” the fiction debut of doc Spanish filmmaker Álvaro F. Pulpeiro, lauded worldwide for his sensory and lyrical filmmaking, most recently displayed in the CPH:DOX-selected “So Foul a Sky.” The Galician-born filmmaker said the project was significantly influenced by Pier Paolo Pasolini’s unfinished book “Petrolio,” […]
Programmers from Sundance, Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, Toronto, and Rotterdam, sales agents such as Goodfellas and Coproduction Office and U. S. distributor Magnify Pictures are among 50 top international guests expected at the inaugural ECAM Forum co-production market in Madrid, which is due to unspool June 10-14. More than 300 delegates have signed up for the co-pro […]
Going all-in on its exploration of the role of artificial intelligence in filmmaking, South Korea’s Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan) has unveiled a 15-title AI Film competition. The films will compete for jury-selected and audience awards and cash prizes of up to KRW1.5 million ($11,000). “We were able to see the new creative possibilities […]
In April 2014, a tape was leaked of 80-year-old then-Clippers owner Donald Sterling making racist comments to his 31-year-old mistress, V. Stiviano, an incident that ballooned into one of the biggest scandals in the NBA and changed the league forever. The recording incited a media frenzy—which led to Sterling selling the team and earning a lifetime ban from the NBA—and brought to light Sterling’s long and uncomfortable history of racial discrimination, pushing long overdue conversations about race and structural power in not only the NBA, but the world at large.
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Now, a decade later, this shocking story is still making waves in Clipped, a new six-episode mini series that revisits the scandal that rocked the NBA.