'Hemingway': TV Review

faced a reckoning over the diversity of its characters. The re-casting started with Azaria’s Apu, which the white actor agreed perpetuated harmful stereotypes about Indian Americans.“Tonight I make my debut on The Simpsons as gay, Cuban Julio,” Rodriguez, a longtime performer with the Upright Citizens Brigade, wrote on Instagram last month.

A popular gay character on “The Simpsons” is getting a brand new voice.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticThe most memorable moment of “Rutherford Falls” — featuring two characters sitting opposite each other and just talking with startling honesty — deviates sharply from the show’s established norm.

The seed of Peacock’s new sitcom Rutherford Falls — set in a Northeastern town next door to a Native American reservation — emerged from conversations between Ed Helms and Michael Schur, but its spiritual origins may well have come from the comedy hitmaker’s Parks and Recreation, too.

A.D. Amorosi For Cuban American playwright Nilo Cruz, every line is poetry, and every couplet speaks to the socio-politics of his roots.That could mean the lyrical “Anna in the Tropics,” the play that won Cruz the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and its tale of cigar-making Cuban immigrants in Florida and the lector who organized labor forces while reading “Anna Karenina” to his workers.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaAntoine Fuqua will direct and produce a new film adaptation of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning look at greed, family, death and sexual repression.The “Training Day” and “Magnificent Seven” director will join forces with producers Stephen C. Byrd and Alia Jones-Harvey, who backed a 2008 revival of the show that made history with a sold-out 19-week run as the first all-African American production on Broadway.

Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, Magnificent Seven) will direct and produce a film adaptation of the Tennessee Williams’ play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof based on the 2008 Broadway production featuring an all-Black cast.

Derek Chauvin who was found guilty of killing Floyd in Minneapolis last year, the SNP Justice Secretary said this country needs to "confront institutional and structural racism". The former police officer convicted with killing George Floyd could be sent to prison for decades, with the guilty verdicts being met with jubilation and sorrow across the US.

Allie Fox, the main character in Paul Theroux's 1981 novel The Mosquito Coast, has soured on the American Dream — particularly what he sees as a culture of waste and conspicuous consumption, of exploited laborers and trash heaps piled high with the latest in disposable technology.

EXCLUSIVE: AnnaSophia Robb and Emory Cohen are the latest to join the cast of Rebel Ridge, the Netflix high-velocity thriller from writer and director Jeremy Saulnier. They join previously announced stars John Boyega, Don Johnson, James Badge Dale, Zsane Jhe, and James Cromwell.

“Our community is at an inflection point — recovering from a global pandemic and economic crisis, facing a reckoning with centuries of structural racism, and fighting back against a coordinated assault on transgender children,” Tony Hoang said in a statement. “Equality California has both an opportunity and a responsibility to create a world that is healthy, just, and fully equal for all LGBTQ people.” Photo: Equality California.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn 2002, when Halle Berry won the Oscar for her performance in “Monster’s Ball,” becoming the first African American woman to take home the Academy Award for best actress, after 30 seconds of convulsive tears she said, “This moment is so much bigger than me.

“Our community is at an inflection point — recovering from a global pandemic and economic crisis, facing a reckoning with centuries of structural racism, and fighting back against a coordinated assault on transgender children,” Tony Hoang said in a statement. “Equality California has both an opportunity and a responsibility to create a world that is healthy, just, and fully equal for all LGBTQ people.” Photo: Equality California.

Korean film Minari was recently released and it’s all everyone is talking about. Starring Steven Yeun, Youn Yuh-jung, Alan S.

John Cleese mocked "The Simpsons" actor Hank Azaria’s recent apology for the Apu character by jokingly apologizing for past Monty Python sketches.  Azaria found himself at the heart of controversy in 2017 when a documentary sparked a conversation about him, a White person, voicing the Indian-American character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon on the show since 1989.The actor appeared on the "Armchair Expert" podcast recently where he apologized and expressed how much guilt he feels to have negatively

If we have one thing to show from our time in lockdown over the last 12-plus months, it’s the endless number of seasons of the Real Housewives franchise we’ve watched.

Continuing their attempts to chronicle every foundational moment or figure in American history, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s exhaustive six-hour documentary, “Hemingway,” traces the historical formation of the titular author.

environment.However, the celebration Natalie Baszile refers to in “We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers Land, and Legacy” is leavened by hard truths and cruelties of efforts to run Black farmers off the land.For decades, the might of the United States Department of Agriculture systematically tried to wreck Black farmers’ livelihood. Baszile cites figures showing that, for example, the U.S.D.A.