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Antonio Ferme editorHank Azaria has issued an apology for voicing Kwik-E-Mart owner Apu on “The Simpsons,” a controversial role he played for 30 years despite Apu being Indian.“I apologize for my part in creating that and participating in that,” Azaria said.
“Part of me feels I need to go round to every single Indian person in this country and apologize.”Azaria, who began voicing the convenience store owner in 1990, spoke about the recent controversies surrounding his character on Dax
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Prince Philip’s funeral in the UK — and his first major public appearance in his new home of California.Harry described online disinformation about vaccines as a “humanitarian crisis” that is “getting worse,” while also highlighting the plight of India and its “devastating second wave” of COVID-19 infections.“The vaccine must be distributed to everyone everywhere,” the Duke of Sussex said.“We cannot rest or truly recover until there is fair distribution to every corner of the world,” he said.
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“There hasn’t really been a show like this, particularly involving South Asian or Indian culture, so it was difficult,” Indian Matchmaking creator/executive producer Smriti Mundhra said during Deadline’s Contender Television: Documentary + Unscripted award-season event about the daring Netflix series.
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Actress Parminder Nagra has said she was once turned down for a TV role because the show had "already got an Indian person on the cast". The British star, who rose to fame in Bend It Like Beckham in 2002 before going on to appear in medical drama ER and other shows in the US, said the same thing would never be said about a white person.
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boom of ultra-wealthy moved to Florida, known for its lax restrictions, during the pandemic.Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner splurged on a $30 million-plus lot of land on Miami’s uber-swanky and high-security Indian Creek Island, known as the “Billionaire’s Bunker; Cindy Crawford bought a multimillion waterfront home on North Bay Road; and billionaires Peter Thiel, Dan Loeb and Jon Oringer have all purchased pricey spreads.
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.
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Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai, the Hindi-language action pic starring Salman Khan, is holding to its Eid release on May 13 but is moving to a day-and-date strategy with many Indian cinemas closed due to the coronavirus wave currently sweeping the country.
Made In Chelsea star Binky Felstead lives in a gorgeous London pad with her fiance Max Darnton and her three-year-old daughter India, who she shares with ex boyfriend and former co-star JP Patterson. However, it seems that the pregnant star was not content with having just one house over the lockdowns.
EXCLUSIVE: Vidyut Jammwal’s rise to fame has been a remarkably rapid one. He only made his screen debut in 2011, taking largely glorified extra or stuntman roles in films as he sought his break. “I wasn’t the bad guy, I was the guy next to the bad guy,” as he puts it. Flash forward ten years and Jammwal’s star has risen through roles in movies including the Commando series and Junglee to make him one of the Indian biz’s most appreciated action stars.
Former Made In Chelsea star Binky Felstead has been making the most of the gorgeous sunshine, by posing up a storm in her lovely London garden.The pregnant media personality, 30, took to Instagram on Wednesday to share a series of stunning snaps of herself wearing a long flowing white dress, as she cradled her baby bump. Binky lives at her London pad with her fiance Max Darnton and her three-year-old daughter India, who she shares with ex boyfriend and former co-star JP Patterson.
Lee Aaker, best known as the 1950s child star of The Adventures of Rin-Tin-Tin, has died at 77. The news comes via a social media post by former child actor and activist Paul Petersen. Petersen said Aaker “passed away in Arizona on April 1st, alone & unclaimed, listed as an ‘indigent decedent.'”
Hank Azaria has been doing the work. In 2017, the 56-year-old white voice actor was publicly called out for voicing the character of Apu Nahasapeemapetilon (an Indian convenience store worker) on in a documentary titled . Azaria later stepped down from voicing the part — one of many he lends his talents to on the popular series.