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A mum-of-two has told of her 'nightmare' after discovering her step-mum was tragically murdered by Hamas.
Naomi Cohen said she was horrified when she watched the drama in the Middle East unfold on the news last Saturday. She prayed her pensioner dad Julian Cohen and his partner Carol SimanTov had not been killed.
Julian, 76, who lived in London until he moved to Kibbutz Nir-Oz, near the Gaza Strip, seven years ago, was hiding at home during the attacks. He had FaceTimed devastated Naomi, who was more than 2,000 miles away in Warrington, Cheshire, as Hamas tried to break into his safe room twice and ransacked his house, reports the Mirror.
Terrified Julian was rescued 10 hours, however was horrified to find out his partner Carol, 70, had been brutally murdered in their home along with her 36-year-old son Johnny, his wife Tamar Kedem, 35, and their children, five-year-old twins, Arbel and Shachar, and Omer, three, were killed in their nearby homes.
Support worker Naomi, who spent the first 11 years of her life living in the Kibbutz, said: “It is horrific. Carol was like a second mum to me and my boys’ second grandma. She devoted herself to her children and grandchildren.
“I feel heartbroken, devastated and shocked. There are people there I grew up with for many years who have been murdered or taken by Hamas.”
When Julian, who is currently living in a hotel in Eilat, found out Carol and his family had been killed after he was evacuated to an underground shelter by the Israeli army, he said: “My whole world came to an end when I found out. They were my adopted family and they have been completely destroyed.
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“Western civilization is what gave the word every goddamn liberal precept to adore,” Bill Maher thundered during his “New Rules” editorial on Friday’s Real Time. He went on to list religious freedom and other benefits.
retaliated with airstrikes on Gaza, as humanitarians, protestors and Hollywood celebs call for a cease-fire. According to the Associated Press, more than 8,500 Palestinians and 1,400 Israelis have died in the ongoing conflict. On Wednesday, Schumer took to took to Instagram to address the backlash she’s gotten over her comments on the current ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Break out the tobacco pipes and fedora hats: Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” is returning to Imax screens for a one-week encore presentation. The blockbuster historical drama will be back on the big(gest) screen starting this Friday, including six Imax 70mm film locations: AMC CityWalk Stadium 19 in Hollywood, Calif.; AMC Irvine Spectrum in Irvine, Calif.; AMC Lincoln Square in New York City; AMC Metreon 16 in San Francisco; BFI London in the United Kingdom; and Melbourne Museum in Australia. These premium screens were the first to sell out during the film’s initial box office run.
Editors note: Michael Seitzman is a veteran film and TV writer and showrunner. He created the series Code Black and Intelligence and penned the Charlize Theron-starring movie North Country. In a guest column titled “Because Jews,” he shares is impassioned take on the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and its reverberations around Hollywood.
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Michaela Zee Aaron Sorkin has dropped CAA over controversial social media posts regarding Israel from agent Maha Dakhil, Variety has confirmed. The “Social Network” and “West Wing” writer is returning to WME, which he had been previously repped by until his move to CAA in 2017. Dakhil, who represents A-list talent such as Tom Cruise and Natalie Portman, resigned from CAA’s internal board on Sunday following the controversial comments she made on Israel, as well as stepped away from her leadership duties as co-head of the agency’s motion pictures department.
CAA is dealing with the fallout of the Maha Dakhil situation.
Maha Dakhil, who was Co-Head of Motion Pictures at CAA, has stepped down from leadership and resigned from the agency’s internal board after her controversial comments on Israel’s response to the Hamas terror attacks.
Princess Margaret — the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II — engaged in a torrid affair with Hollywood superstar Eddie Fisher in 1953, with Fisher reportedly bragging he satisfied the royal “multiple times” during “explosive sex.”“Eddie never talked about Princess Margaret in public, he respected her too much, but he told me about their encounter many, many times during our marriage. He looked back on it with great affection,” Terry Richard, Fisher’s fourth wife, told the Daily Mail in a new interview.Details of the tryst, down to the “cigarette smoke and expensive perfume,” are included in Richard’s new memoir, “Beauty Queen Dreams,” the outlet reported.
Kirk Douglas.Between them, a group of Jews whose families had lived in constant fear of persecution gave America, and the world, the golden age of cinema. Classics from “The Wizard of Oz” and “Singin’ in the Rain” to “Ben Hur” and “Gone with the Wind” exist because of them.So why, after the most heinous mass murders of Jews since the Holocaust, is Hollywood incapable of recognizing its own history — and why does it have such a Jew problem?In the days since the Hamas attacks in Israel, the powerful and the rich have truly exposed themselves.Maha Dakhil, co-head of motion pictures at CAA and agent to Tom Cruise, Madonna, Reese Witherspoon, Olivia Wilde, and American Israeli Natalie Portman, this week accused Israel of “genocide.”She re-posted, “You’re currently learning who supports genocide,” before adding her own caption: “That’s the line for me.” John Cusack, that one-time 80s heartthrob, wrote on X: “I was out at the Palestinian march in Chicago.
One of CAA’s top agents has landed in hot water after a social media post calling Israel’s response to the Hamas terror attacks “genocide”.
Alicia Keys found herself dealing with a whole lot of backlash this week…
Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer A group of 22 Hollywood writers has penned an open letter calling out the Writers Guild of America for not issuing a statement condemning the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel. SAG-AFTRA and the Directors Guild of America each issued statements last week condemning the attack.
A mum-of-two has spoken of the “nightmare” of discovering her step-mum and five members her family had been murdered in an attack by Hamas.
It’s been a tough week in the world, and that posed a difficult challenge for Bill Maher on his Real Time show on Friday. How do you conduct a show built on political comedy when the subject matter is so grim?
My Mum, Your Dad, stars Janey Smith and Roger Hawes looked as loved-up as ever as they packed on the PDA while attending a charity event on Friday, 13 October. Janey, 47, looked stunning in a hot pink blazer with a black jumper, wet-look black leggings, and casual trainers as she cosied up to Roger, 59.The postman looked suave as he opted for a brown jumper, smart chinos, white trainers, and a beige trench coat. The pair were among other A-listers, including Love Island's Sammy Root, who showed up to the Future Dreams event in Kings Cross, London.
Stacey Solomon has opened up on the ‘heartbreak’ she is suffering as a result of the war between Israel and Hamas. The 34 year old TV star, who described herself as a “proud Jewish woman”, said she ‘still could not comprehend’ what was happening in the region.The war began on Saturday 7 October when Hamas militants invaded Israel from the Gaza Strip in a surprise terror attack. Israel launched a counter-offensive in response - carrying out airstrikes in the Gaza Strip and imposing a blockade on the territory.
The European Commission has sent a formal request to Elon Musk’s X requesting information on the social media platform’s provisions to deal with illegal content, disinformation and abusive material posted on the site in the wake of the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Greg Kurstin, Mura Masa, Danny L Harle, Count Baldor, Phil and Cash Cobain among others.Speaking of the LP in a press release, the singer said: “The record is about grief for a loss but being at peace with yourself in your aloneness. Journeying from hell into purgatory, but I’m ok with being there.”‘Heaven Knows’ is set for release on November 10 via Warner.
Steph McGovern was half an hour late for work today (Thursday) - and, like most of us, she blamed public transport. The daytime TV presenter ended up racing against the clock to get to the studio in Leeds from London in time for Steph’s Packed Lunch.