The two features by the South Korean-born filmmaker and video essayist Kogonada – his auspicious debut “Columbus” and the new “After Yang” – are distinct for their richness in rare qualities. A meditative quiet presides. The pace is unhurried.
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Joe Exotic is having his voice heard.
On Thursday’s “Nightline” the former exotic-animal park operator gave his first interview from jail since being resentenced to 21 years in prison on a murder-for-hire conviction.
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“I’m losing weight real bad and the sores in my mouth are unbearable to live with all the time. But you know, in the three and a half years that I’ve been in custody, I’ve been taken to the hospital 43 times,” he said of his health. “I have little to no immune system and then they have to give me blood infusions every four weeks. Juju, I don’t see me walking out of here alive.”
Talking about his experience in prison, Joe added, “You have no windows. It’s just a concrete room with no enrichment. No TV, no radio, no nothing. You cannot in America put a monkey in a cage, according to the Animal Welfare Act, and treat them like this.”
As for the TV documentary that’s made him globally famous, Joe admitted, “I have seen nothing,” but he did credit the show’s popularity to himself.
“I have received and answered back over 11,000 letters. I get letters from eight-year-old kids to 95-year-old grandmas, and every letter says it’s because I was unapologetic, I stood up for what I believed in and because I’m not ashamed of who I am. And that is why ‘Tiger King 1’ was such a hit and ‘Tiger King 2’ turned out to be a flop,” he said.
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The only problem for Joe amid all the success, he said, has been watching other people make money off the story.
“Get on the internet and Google ‘Joe Exotic’ and hit the shop button and look. Everybody in the world is making money off of me but
The two features by the South Korean-born filmmaker and video essayist Kogonada – his auspicious debut “Columbus” and the new “After Yang” – are distinct for their richness in rare qualities. A meditative quiet presides. The pace is unhurried.
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Carole Baskin. In a jailhouse interview with ABC News, the star, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, spoke out against his longtime rival. «I am in prison and she can't leave me alone,» Maldonado-Passage told Juju Chang, referencing his 21-year sentence for the 2017 murder-for-hire plot to kill Baskin. "… Carole, go find another reason to live other than Joe Exotic.
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Fleet Foxes have announced details of a 2022 world tour, which includes new UK dates – see the band’s full schedule below.The band’s new run of shows, which take them from late June until September, come on the back of their 2020 album ‘Shore’.The shows begin in Salt Lake City on June 27, with North American dates running until mid-August, where they play the Forest Hills Stadium in New York.Robin Pecknold and co. then travel to London for a show at All Points East in support of The National before they play four more UK shows in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester and as a headliner of End Of The Road.The tour then heads to mainland Europe, wrapping up with a Berlin show on September 11.Watch a trailer for the tour and see the full schedule below.
Given that Joe Exotic was resentenced to 21 years in prison last Friday for the failed murder-for-hire plot targeting animal rights activist Carole Baskin, according to the New York Times, the timing of a new “Joe Vs. Carole” trailer is pretty perfectly timed.
Tiger King‘s Joe Exotic has been resentenced to 21 years in prison despite pleas from the former zookeeper for leniency as he begins treatment for early-stage cancer.On Friday (January 28), a federal judge reduced the 58-year-old’s punishment by just a year. “Please don’t make me die in prison waiting for a chance to be free,” Exotic tearfully told the judge, according to The Hollywood Reporter.Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, was sentenced to 22 years in prison in January 2020 after he was convicted of animal abuse charges and a murder-for-hire plot involving animal welfare activist Carole Baskin. Both were featured in Netflix’s Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem And Madness.Prosecutors said Exotic offered $10,000 to an undercover FBI agent to kill Baskin during a recorded December 2017 meeting.
Prison time. While Joe Exotic (real name Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage) hoped for an early prison release amid his cancer battle, a federal judge resentenced him to 21 years.
A federal judge on Friday ignored a plea for leniency by Tiger King star Joe Exotic, resentencing him to 21 years in prison.
Joe Exotic was handed a new prison sentence on Friday. A federal judge resentenced the "Tiger King" star, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, to 21 years in prison on Friday, rejecting pleas from the former zookeeper to free him from prison. He was convicted in a murder-for-hire case involving animal welfare activist Carole Baskin.
Joe Exotic is getting out of prison early.
Tiger King star Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage, has been resentenced to spend 21 years in prison.The former zookeeper, who ran the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park in Oklahoma for 20 years until 2018, has been campaigning for his jail sentence to be reduced ever since the smash hit documentary Tiger King was released on Netflix in 2020. Joe Exotic, 58, was originally imprisoned for 22 years after he was convicted for attempting to hire two different men to kill animal rights activist Carole Baskin.
Tiger King star Joe Exotic has been jailed for 21 years after being resentenced for his part in a murder-for-hire plot.
Joe Exotic, 58, will serve one less year in prison. The Tiger King star was resentenced to 21 years in prison by a federal judge on Friday (Jan. 28) for conspiring to murder his nemesis, Carole Baskin, reports say. Joe, whose full legal name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, was originally sentenced to 22 years in prison, and was reportedly seeking more leniency from the judge at Friday’s court hearing as he begins treatment for prostate cancer.
star — whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage — has been resentenced to 21 years in prison by a federal judge in Oklahoma for his 2017 murder-for-hire case involving Carole Baskin, according to court documents obtained by ET.The judge made the decision on Friday, after a federal appeals court ruled last year that improper sentencing guidelines were used. The new resentencing takes one year off from his original 22-year sentence.Upon expiration of Exotic's sentence, he will serve three years of supervised release and must pay a special assessment fee of $1,225.00, consisting of $100.00 per felony count and $25.00 per misdemeanor count. Due immediately, the document states.Prosecutors said Exotic attempted to hire two people, including an undercover FBI agent, to kill Baskin after she criticized his treatment of animals, per Associated Press.