Sky News has made an on-air apology after presenter Belle Donati compared Israel’s war in Gaza to the Holocaust in an interview with former UN ambassador Danny Danon.
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The New York Post that he had always wanted to donate sperm to help infertile couples conceive and joined a Facebook group helping couples find sperm donors.Through that group, he became aware of a lesbian couple in Queensland and was touched by their personal story. So he offered to help.The 37-year-old underwent months of genetic testing, medical tests, and in-person counseling sessions with his partner.
He also became close with the couple, regularly keeping in contact through texts, phone calls, and Zoom chats.Lazarus says the couple knew he was Jewish from the start of the process and were extremely open to his involvement in the child’s life. He said he was happy to be an “uncle” to the child.
In September 2023, he donated his sperm, which was frozen for three months while more testing was done. On October 7, the Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hamas, which controls Gaza, attacked several Israeli military bases, civilian communities, and a music festival, killing 766 civilians, including 71 foreign nationals, and 373 members of Israel security forces.Hamas fighters also took hundreds of hostages and committed several sexual assaults in the process.
Sky News has made an on-air apology after presenter Belle Donati compared Israel’s war in Gaza to the Holocaust in an interview with former UN ambassador Danny Danon.
Naomi Watts has said she will never get over the tragic death of her father.Peter Watts, who was a sound engineer for Pink Floyd, died of an apparent heroin overdose at the age of 31 when Naomi was seven years old.“The grief never goes away but playing [different roles in movies] you find news ways of understanding it,” the actress told Marie Claire Australia.“Still to this day as a 55-year-old woman I wish I’d witnessed what it was like to have a father to speak to at various times in my life. I wish that he’d been there to pat me on the back when I’ve had successful moments or complex moments that I’ve been troubled by.”Peter and Naomi’s costume designer mother Myfanwy, known as Miv, divorced when she was four years old.The actress previously explained how Pink Floyd helped Miv financially to “get things underway” after Peter’s death, but she and her mother still struggled.Watts has previously spoken about dealing with grief decades after losing her father, telling Vogue Australia in 2021: “Having grown up losing my dad at a very early age, I think that’s a story I know well; it’s still sorting itself out at the ripe age of 52.’“Through that, you lose a part of yourself… you feel like you’re not fully formed in a way,” she added.Myfanwy also spoke about coping with the loss of her ex-husband, telling the Daily Mail Australia: “It left scars.
The Obie Awards, the venerable honors for outstanding Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway productions, is doing away with its annual ceremony and will instead use the funds to provide winners with grants ranging from $1,000-$5,000.
EXCLUSIVE: With Benedict Cumberbatch departing Searchlight Pictures and James Mangold‘s Bob Dylan movie A Complete Unknown following scheduling issues, his replacement has been found, with Edward Norton tapped to play Pete Seeger. He now joins an ensemble that features Timothée Chalamet as Dylan and Elle Fanning on board to play Sylvie Russo. Mangold will direct.
Since Manchester United floated on the New York Stock Exchange in August 2012, there have been two boards: the company board and the football board.
A Greater Manchester MP has called for an 'immediate' and 'sustainable' ceasefire in Gaza. Gorton MP Afzal Khan, who quit the Labour frontbench in November over the party's stance on the Middle East conflict, will present a petition to Parliament today (January 24).
A Married At First Sight star has revealed she's pregnant with her first child, three years after saying she'd consider using a sperm donor to conceive. Lauren Huntriss from MAFS Australia is expecting a baby with fiancé Wade Burns – she posted a sweet photo and video of her with Wade and their ultrasound image to Instagram on Tuesday, 23 January. Alongside the image, the makeup arist wrote: "The greatest gift of all coming in July.
Palestine march down Main Street in Park City drew roughly 100 protesters to the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday. The march, organized by “Let Gaza Live,” bussed protesters in from nearby Kimball Junction and took up space in front of local restaurant Riverhorse on Main. The event was not affiliated with Sundance.
The war in Gaza is coming to Park City.
The organization behind the Peabody Awards said Thursday that its 2024 ceremony is set to take place on June 9 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, as the group once again attempts to hold its first-ever awards show in Los Angeles.
Ben Croll Film Movement will give “A Nice Jewish Boy” a home – several, in fact, as the New York-based distributor has picked up North American rights to Noé Debré’s bittersweet comedy with plans for both festival and theatrical plays later this year. Charades’ Hélène Espeisse brokered the deal with Film Movement president Michael Rosenberg.
is hinting they may have been canned from the Max series due to their pro-Palestinian stance.“Our industry is so duplicitous” Ramirez, 48, wrote Tuesday on Instagram, the night after the 75th Emmy Awards. “While they give awards away, casting directors and agents are making blacklists of actors and workers who post anything in support of Palestinians in Gaza to ensure they will not work again,” they continued.“While they lift up some of their own clients who have spoken up against this genocide, they are firing and letting others who have smaller platforms go.”Ramirez recently participated in a Palestinian protest in Brooklyn waving a transgender flag and also took part in the Jan.
Ron Howard nearly left “Happy Days” after Henry Winkler’s popularity changed the course of the show.Howard almost quit when producers floated the idea of calling the hit show “Fonzie’s Happy Days” in an effort to capitalize on fans’ love of Winkler’s character, Arthur Herbert “The Fonz” Fonzarelli.“They came to me at ABC and they wanted to change the title to ‘Fonzie’s Happy Days,'” Winkler told the New York Times. “I said, ‘If you do that, it is an insult to everybody I’m working with.
Ellise Shafer Noah Schnapp has addressed online backlash to his stance on the ongoing Israel-Hamas War, saying that his “thoughts and beliefs have been so far misconstrued.” In a video posted on TikTok late Monday night, the “Stranger Things” star said he “just wanted to come on here super briefly to discuss everything that’s been going on online.” “I feel like my thoughts and beliefs have been so far misconstrued from anything even close to what I believe and I wanted to just state from my heart how I feel. I only want peace and safety and security for all innocent people affected by this conflict,” Schnapp said. “I’ve had many open discussions with friends from Palestine standing in background, and I think those are very important conversations to have and I’ve learned a lot.
Joe Leydon Film Critic How far will you go to deny your identity in order to be a somebody? What happens when you make a deal with a devil whom you might normally despise, but has transfixed much of an entire nation’s population? And how long can you will yourself to ignore evidence of the intolerable? These are just a few of the questions raised — sometimes with allusive finesse, sometimes with blunt-force impact — during “The Performance,” an enthralling period drama with often disquieting contemporary relevance. If you have roamed through this cinematic territory before, you may discern in Shira Piven’s exceptional film traces of “Cabaret,” “Mephisto” and other tales of ambitious entertainers striving for the spotlight as Adolf Hitler’s shadow spreads over 1930s Germany.
Joe Biden‘s reelection campaign is turning to the research producer for Apple TV+’s The Problem with Jon Stewart and Netflix’s Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj as research producer.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Kristen Stewart is Variety’s Sundance cover star and said while recording a “Know Their Lines” video that she “hated” making “Charlie’s Angels,” the Elizabeth Banks-directed action-comedy that flopped at the box office in fall 2019. Stewart was joined in the film by Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska. While reviews were mixed, Stewart’s performance as the rebellious Sabina earned widespread acclaim.
“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg on Tuesday warned her fellow co-hosts and the audience that failing to vote for President Biden would essentially be a vote for former President Donald Trump rounding up journalists and gay people. She described Trump’s views as “I’m going to take all the journalists, I’m going to take all the gay folks, and I’ll move you all around and disappear you.’”Co-hosts on ABC’s “The View” debated how young Democratic voters feel about the party, and whether America’s support for Israel amid the war in Gaza would make many young voters stay home.
Karma.” Several die-hard Taylor Swift fans have been reportedly scammed out of hundreds of dollars after tricksters released advertisements employing AI-generated video of the Grammy winner peddling Le Creuset in an attempt to steal money and data from fans. The ads — which can be found across all social media platforms — show Swift, 34, standing next to the Le Creuset Dutch oven, which, according to the official website, runs anywhere from $180 to $750 depending on the size and style.
The New York Times. “I think that if we find these kinds of people in Burundi, it is better to take them to a stadium and stone them.