The Casting Society of America will host a town hall for Latino actors as part of its ongoing Commitment to Equity in Entertainment in Casting Initiative, which is designed “to effect concrete change in how actors in historically underrepresented communities are afforded access to job opportunities.”
Peter Bart: Hollywood Might Need To Re-Think Its Agenda & Casting Choices Amid Nation’s Political Ambiguity
11.11.2022 - 06:05 / deadline.com
The “what if?” game has always fascinated me: What if Donald Trump had been cast in Shark Tank rather than The Apprentice (it was Mark Burnett’s call)? He likely would have been broke rather than president.
I cite this to remind readers that Hollywood plays a role in our politics as well as in our pop culture, and hence the town would do well to heed the cultural shift reflected in this week’s election results. The audience is changing — will movies and TV change accordingly?
Hollywood power players once prided themselves in their ability to manipulate political power. Lew Wasserman and his allies helped invent former SAG president Ronald Reagan as a political force, and Reagan returned the favor on many levels.
Hollywood hung out in the Clinton White House, but Trump never even ran a movie there (at least Nixon kept re-running Patton).
The Kennedys relished their cool relationships with Hollywood inner circle until they realized the perils.
Wasserman once said that while Hollywood had mastered the skills of casting its movies, Democrats couldn’t learn how to cast their candidates.
He couldn’t believe that George McGovern was the choice to oppose a vulnerable Nixon, who ended up winning 61% of the popular vote (the electoral vote was 520-17). McGovern’s vice presidential nominee had to withdraw because he’d undergone electroshock therapy.
Will this week’s baffling election shifts be mirrored in the TV or film product? Washington produced the most impactful TV show of 2022 in its investigation of the January 6 insurrection, but now it might release the stage to Rep. Jim Jordan’s recycled impeachment hearings.
The pundits are asking themselves: What accounts for shifting moods? To David Brooks, the esteemed columnist of
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25.11.2022 / 22:09
Peter Bart: ‘She Said’ Team Should Have Investigated Hiring Oscar-Winning ‘Spotlight’ Writer
Tom McCarthy is a very clever writer who has succeeded in drawing audiences to a difficult genre: thrillers about newspapers. He won an Original Screenplay Oscar for Spotlight, made in 2015, was a riveting movie about how the Boston Globe exposed a cover-up involving a defrocked priest. His new ABC series Alaska Daily focuses on a hot New York journalist (Hilary Swank) who is exiled into covering crime in Anchorage.
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21.11.2022 / 23:03
Travis Barker Says He and Kourtney Kardashian ‘Probably Will Eventually’ Move to Tennessee After Birthday Trip
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19.11.2022 / 22:17
Mountain Lion Confronts Dog Walker In Hollywood Hills, Kills One Animal
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deadline.com
18.11.2022 / 02:11
Peter Bart: Upcoming Spielberg, Mendes & Gray Movies Could Teach Newly Troubled Tech Titans Some Old Tricks
Three rite-of-passage movies are vying for attention this week at a moment when the rewards of maturity seem to be offering more gratification than the agonies of youth.
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16.11.2022 / 01:59
Jay Leno May Need Skin Grafts After Car Fire That Left Him Badly Burned
Jay Leno is pushing through after a scary car fire left him badly injured — but sadly the fight isn’t over yet…
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15.11.2022 / 03:43
Christina Applegate Gives Emotional Speech At Hollywood Walk Of Fame Ceremony Amid MS Battle
Dreams really do come true!
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15.11.2022 / 02:13
Anti-Defamation League & More Condemn Dave Chappelle's SNL Speech As Actual Nazis Applaud It On Twitter
Dave Chappelle’s controversial SNL opening monologue about Kanye West’s antisemitic comments is garnering a LOT of backlash.
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13.11.2022 / 21:21
‘Hollywood Hillbillies’ Reality Series Star ‘Mema,’ AKA Dolores Hughes, Dies At 76
Dolores Hughes, a star of the 2014 reality show Hollywood Hillbillies known as Mema, has died at 76.
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11.11.2022 / 22:51
‘American Gigolo’s Sandrine Holt Signs With Silver Lining Entertainment
EXCLUSIVE: Actress Sandrine Holt (American Gigolo) has signed with Silver Lining Entertainment for management.
deadline.com
10.11.2022 / 22:29
Warner Bros Discovery Boss David Zaslav Holds Town Hall With New DC Heads James Gunn & Peter Safran About New Cohesive Universe
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline hears that a global zoom meeting was held for Warner Discovery employees this morning, on which CEO David Zaslav introduced the new DC Studios Co-Chairmen and CEOs, James Gunn and Peter Safran. This was their first appearance together before the company since being named to their posts on Oct. 25.
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10.11.2022 / 02:17
Queen's Birthday public holiday changing in NSW
Moving forward, the public holiday will be called the King’s Birthday in honour of King Charles III, who is now the head of the British Monarchy.
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08.11.2022 / 20:05
Jesse Palmer Teases Zach Shallcross’ Season of ‘The Bachelor’: It’s ‘Easily’ the ‘Most Emotional’ Journey I’ve Hosted
Get your tissues ready, Bachelor Nation. Jesse Palmer confessed that Zach Shallcross’ season of The Bachelor was the “most emotional show” that he’s hosted so far.
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08.11.2022 / 13:47
Perth and Kinross Council looks set to commit to tackling anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
Perth and Kinross councillors will this week be asked to make a commitment to tackle racism when they meet on Wednesday, November 7.
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07.11.2022 / 16:57
‘The Good Liars’ On Their Midterm Campaign Pranks: What Worked, What Didn’t And Why Politics Has Gotten More Dangerous
When Herschel Walker wrapped up a campaign appearance several weeks ago, TV news cameras caught a man in sunglasses, briefly conversing with the U.S. Senate candidate as he tried to hand him a lengthy strip of condoms.