“This is a painful and crucial moment for all of us who are Jews and who love Israel, and it’s not a time to stay silent,” declared Ari Emanuel, the CEO of sports and entertainment company Endeavor and one of Hollywood’s most outspoken voices in the fight against antisemitism, in a fiery speech as he accepted the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s highest honor, the Humanitarian Award, at the organization’s National Tribute Gala fundraiser Wednesday evening. Emanuel, who is Jewish, then went on to slam, at length, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his handling of the Israel-Gaza war. Many attendees applauded, but dozens of others stormed out of the room in fury, and others still booed, as Emanuel opined: “For the good of Israel, he should go.”
Emanuel stated unequivocally that Hamas’ attacks of Oct. 7 sparked the war, and that Israel was well within its rights to...
Emanuel stated unequivocally that Hamas’ attacks of Oct. 7 sparked the war, and that Israel was well within its rights to...
- 5/23/2024
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Iranian human rights advocate and freedom fighter Narges Mohammadi has won the Nobel Peace Prize 2023, organizers of the award said Friday.
The Norwegian Nobel committee that awards the prize lauded Mohammadi for “her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.”
It highlighted: “Altogether, the regime has arrested her 13 times, convicted her five times, and sentenced her to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes.” Mohammadi is still in prison.
The prize also “recognizes the hundreds of thousands of people who have demonstrated against the theocratic regime’s policies of discrimination and oppression targeting women,” the committee noted.
Iran has also been in focus for various Hollywood stars. For example, early this year, Cate Blanchett, Jason Momoa, Samuel L. Jackson, Jada Pinkett Smith and Bryan Cranston were among members of the entertainment industry publicly supporting calls to end Iran‘s execution of protestors,...
The Norwegian Nobel committee that awards the prize lauded Mohammadi for “her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.”
It highlighted: “Altogether, the regime has arrested her 13 times, convicted her five times, and sentenced her to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes.” Mohammadi is still in prison.
The prize also “recognizes the hundreds of thousands of people who have demonstrated against the theocratic regime’s policies of discrimination and oppression targeting women,” the committee noted.
Iran has also been in focus for various Hollywood stars. For example, early this year, Cate Blanchett, Jason Momoa, Samuel L. Jackson, Jada Pinkett Smith and Bryan Cranston were among members of the entertainment industry publicly supporting calls to end Iran‘s execution of protestors,...
- 10/6/2023
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Television is a relatively new indulgence for South by Southwest. What started as a music conference and market for the exchange of pop cultural ideas in 1986 quickly grew into a full-blown film festival by 1994. It wasn’t until 2014, however, that TV fully got its due with the addition of “Episodic” programming to the SXSW Film Festival.
Now, nearly 10 years after television first arrived to the Austin, Texas get-together, the People’s Medium is well and truly having its moment at SXSW 2023. No fewer than 20 TV shows will have their premieres at SXSW this time around, running the gamut from tentpole streaming sci-fi to little-known pilots in search of a forever home
With that in mind, here is everything that SXSW attendees and TV fans in general can look forward to from SXSW 2023’s Episodic output.
A Small Light
March 17 – 7 pm at Stateside Theatre
Holocaust survivor, political activist, and renowned author...
Now, nearly 10 years after television first arrived to the Austin, Texas get-together, the People’s Medium is well and truly having its moment at SXSW 2023. No fewer than 20 TV shows will have their premieres at SXSW this time around, running the gamut from tentpole streaming sci-fi to little-known pilots in search of a forever home
With that in mind, here is everything that SXSW attendees and TV fans in general can look forward to from SXSW 2023’s Episodic output.
A Small Light
March 17 – 7 pm at Stateside Theatre
Holocaust survivor, political activist, and renowned author...
- 3/12/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
In 2018, Film Inquiry sat down with actor Ben Kingsley to discuss his weighty role as Adolf Eichmann in "Operation Finale," a film about a group of spies that capture the Nazi warlord in Argentina in 1960. Eichmann was the "architect of the Final Solution," a leader who organized and managed the mass deportation and deaths of the Jewish people in concentration camps during World War II.
Film Inquiry asks Kingsley, "How did you get into the mind of such a dark and ruthless mass murderer?" They use a chilling quote from Eichmann to demonstrate just how evil the man was; not only did he arrange the massacre of countless lives, but he enjoyed doing it, stating, "I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have 5 million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction."
Kingsley took a different approach to playing Eichmann,...
Film Inquiry asks Kingsley, "How did you get into the mind of such a dark and ruthless mass murderer?" They use a chilling quote from Eichmann to demonstrate just how evil the man was; not only did he arrange the massacre of countless lives, but he enjoyed doing it, stating, "I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have 5 million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction."
Kingsley took a different approach to playing Eichmann,...
- 2/27/2023
- by Caroline Madden
- Slash Film
Netflix‘s documentary Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street left viewers with more questions than answers. While the series thoroughly covered the evolution of Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme and gave us insight into the man he was, many still wonder what happened to the victims.
With so many people impacted by his actions, it’s unrealistic to think they were all compensated. Here’s what we know:
Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme fell to pieces in 2008 Bernie Madoff in 2009 | Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
As an investor, Madoff claimed to use a strategy that allowed his clients to see steady gains. He made them so much money that the word spread quickly, and his popularity grew. As more people trusted him to invest their money, his business grew. Little did his clients know that Madoff wasn’t actually investing any of their money.
Instead, he pocketed his clients’ money and used...
With so many people impacted by his actions, it’s unrealistic to think they were all compensated. Here’s what we know:
Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme fell to pieces in 2008 Bernie Madoff in 2009 | Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
As an investor, Madoff claimed to use a strategy that allowed his clients to see steady gains. He made them so much money that the word spread quickly, and his popularity grew. As more people trusted him to invest their money, his business grew. Little did his clients know that Madoff wasn’t actually investing any of their money.
Instead, he pocketed his clients’ money and used...
- 2/1/2023
- by Rose Burke
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Click here to read the full article.
Dror Moreh, the Oscar-nominated director of The Gatekeepers and another doc about the Middle East, The Human Factor, broadens his scope productively in his new documentary, The Corridors of Power, which had its world premiere screenings in Telluride. Doreh assembled an impressive array of diplomats from several administrations over the past 40 years, and he comes up with a deeply disturbing examination of genocide during recent decades.
The film opens by recalling the Nazi genocide of the Jews, with a reminder of how little the United States did to try and halt the slaughter. After the war ended and the United Nations was formed, the cry of “Never again!” echoed throughout the world. Given the dark side of human nature, that was always an optimistic credo, but people probably did not realize how many horrific instances of genocide would emerge in the decades that followed,...
Dror Moreh, the Oscar-nominated director of The Gatekeepers and another doc about the Middle East, The Human Factor, broadens his scope productively in his new documentary, The Corridors of Power, which had its world premiere screenings in Telluride. Doreh assembled an impressive array of diplomats from several administrations over the past 40 years, and he comes up with a deeply disturbing examination of genocide during recent decades.
The film opens by recalling the Nazi genocide of the Jews, with a reminder of how little the United States did to try and halt the slaughter. After the war ended and the United Nations was formed, the cry of “Never again!” echoed throughout the world. Given the dark side of human nature, that was always an optimistic credo, but people probably did not realize how many horrific instances of genocide would emerge in the decades that followed,...
- 9/7/2022
- by Stephen Farber
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
You may be surprised to learn that the first Hollywood film that dealt with the Holocaust was released during the height of World War II. The 1944 Andre De Toth film, “None Shall Escape” shows a group of Polish-Jews gunned down by the Nazis while they are being forced into boxcars for deportation. Over the subsequent decades, the horrors of the Holocaust have been depicted on the big screen in such classics as 1959’s “The Diary of Anne Frank”; 1982’s “Sophie’s Choice,” for which Meryl Streep won her first Best Actress Oscar; and Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning 1993 masterpiece “Schindler’s List.”
The Holocaust, in which six million Jews died during World War II, has also been the subject of numerous lauded TV movies and miniseries. The latest is Barry Levinson’s acclaimed “The Survivor,” which premiered last September at the Toronto Film Festival and on HBO and HBO Max. The film, Levinson...
The Holocaust, in which six million Jews died during World War II, has also been the subject of numerous lauded TV movies and miniseries. The latest is Barry Levinson’s acclaimed “The Survivor,” which premiered last September at the Toronto Film Festival and on HBO and HBO Max. The film, Levinson...
- 7/8/2022
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Bernard Madoff, the convicted Ponzi schemer whose long-term, multi-billion-dollar financial manipulations ruined clients and rattled financial markets, has died.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed the death of Madoff, 82, at Federal Medical Center in Butner, N.C. The bureau told Deadline in a statement that it resulted from natural causes and not Covid-19.
About a year ago, Madoff’s attorney had requested his release, citing chronic kidney failure and saying he had just 18 months to live as of that time.
Madoff pleaded guilty in 2009 and was sentenced in 2011 to the maximum jail term of 150 years. Eventually, authorities managed to return $12 billion to investors, but that was just a fraction of the nearly $65 billion entrusted to Madoff.
Adopting the classic Ponzi model, Madoff used incoming investments to pay returns to other investors instead of...
The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed the death of Madoff, 82, at Federal Medical Center in Butner, N.C. The bureau told Deadline in a statement that it resulted from natural causes and not Covid-19.
About a year ago, Madoff’s attorney had requested his release, citing chronic kidney failure and saying he had just 18 months to live as of that time.
Madoff pleaded guilty in 2009 and was sentenced in 2011 to the maximum jail term of 150 years. Eventually, authorities managed to return $12 billion to investors, but that was just a fraction of the nearly $65 billion entrusted to Madoff.
Adopting the classic Ponzi model, Madoff used incoming investments to pay returns to other investors instead of...
- 4/14/2021
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
The story of human rights lawyer Jared Genser, who has helped free political prisoners in a number of hot zones around the world, is being developed by Orlando Bloom with Amazon as a TV series.
The streamer is in the early stages of developing the Untitled Jared Genser Project, which will be exec produced by Carnival Row star Bloom and former HBO exec Bruce Richmond.
Genser is Managing Director of Perseus Strategies and founder of Freedom Now. He was dubbed ‘The Extractor’ by the New York Times for his work freeing political prisoners.
His speciality is freeing prisoners of conscience and human rights prisoners in high-risk areas throughout the world’s most difficult hot zones, working with a core team of specialized operatives.
Clients have included former Czech Republic President Václav Havel, former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Aung San Suu Kyi,...
The streamer is in the early stages of developing the Untitled Jared Genser Project, which will be exec produced by Carnival Row star Bloom and former HBO exec Bruce Richmond.
Genser is Managing Director of Perseus Strategies and founder of Freedom Now. He was dubbed ‘The Extractor’ by the New York Times for his work freeing political prisoners.
His speciality is freeing prisoners of conscience and human rights prisoners in high-risk areas throughout the world’s most difficult hot zones, working with a core team of specialized operatives.
Clients have included former Czech Republic President Václav Havel, former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Aung San Suu Kyi,...
- 8/31/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Cruel Intentions: Marhoul Razes & Repulses in Torturous, Ambitious WWII Saga
Czech actor/director Václav Marhoul mounts a sadistic nightmare of Holocaust horrors via his third directorial outing in seventeen years with an adaptation of Jerzy Kosinki’s (supposedly) autobiographical novel The Painted Bird, which on film plays like Elie Wiesel’s Night if Pasolini had his way with it. While there was some noted discrepancy on the validity of Kosinski’s text, whatever the case may be, there are happenings which transpire in Marhoul’s film version which, once seen, cannot be forgotten, even amongst a litany of notable war-time dramas built explicitly on shock value and repulsion.…...
Czech actor/director Václav Marhoul mounts a sadistic nightmare of Holocaust horrors via his third directorial outing in seventeen years with an adaptation of Jerzy Kosinki’s (supposedly) autobiographical novel The Painted Bird, which on film plays like Elie Wiesel’s Night if Pasolini had his way with it. While there was some noted discrepancy on the validity of Kosinski’s text, whatever the case may be, there are happenings which transpire in Marhoul’s film version which, once seen, cannot be forgotten, even amongst a litany of notable war-time dramas built explicitly on shock value and repulsion.…...
- 11/23/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The Blue Card, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to aiding Holocaust survivors, will host its 83rd benefit gala on Monday, April 8, 2019, at Center415..
The event will be hosted by Andy Cohen, the Emmy Award-winning television producer and author best known as the host and executive producer of Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.”
The evening will include the presentation of awards to individuals and groups dedicated to supporting the needs of Holocaust survivors and advancing human rights worldwide. The honorees include: Joe Biden, 47th Vice President of the United States; Stanley Bergman and Dr. Marion Bergman of Henry Schein, Inc. and the Henry Schein Cares Foundation; David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee and former UK Foreign Secretary; New York Foundation for Eldercare; and past participants in The Blue Card’s Bnei Mitzvah Project, a program where Bar and Bat Mitzvah students engage with...
The event will be hosted by Andy Cohen, the Emmy Award-winning television producer and author best known as the host and executive producer of Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.”
The evening will include the presentation of awards to individuals and groups dedicated to supporting the needs of Holocaust survivors and advancing human rights worldwide. The honorees include: Joe Biden, 47th Vice President of the United States; Stanley Bergman and Dr. Marion Bergman of Henry Schein, Inc. and the Henry Schein Cares Foundation; David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee and former UK Foreign Secretary; New York Foundation for Eldercare; and past participants in The Blue Card’s Bnei Mitzvah Project, a program where Bar and Bat Mitzvah students engage with...
- 3/20/2019
- Look to the Stars
One of the glorious, and horrifying, things about the current television landscape is just how much there is of it, with plenty of series slipping by unnoticed. And there may be no clearer evidence than “Frontier” starring Jason Momoa, the once and future Aquaman, a Netflix period drama that just released its third season.
A compelling period drama with the edge of “Game of Thrones” and a unique angle on history, “Frontier” is set in the late 18th century, miles away from colonial America, as the battle for control over the territories and the Canadian fur trade is just one of the forces guiding the violent nature of life in the wilderness.
“Game of Thrones” isn’t actually the best comparison point, although Momoa starred in both shows — think the classic HBO western “Deadwood,” albeit with less iambic pentameter and a whole lot more snow.
“Frontier” takes a thoroughly modern...
A compelling period drama with the edge of “Game of Thrones” and a unique angle on history, “Frontier” is set in the late 18th century, miles away from colonial America, as the battle for control over the territories and the Canadian fur trade is just one of the forces guiding the violent nature of life in the wilderness.
“Game of Thrones” isn’t actually the best comparison point, although Momoa starred in both shows — think the classic HBO western “Deadwood,” albeit with less iambic pentameter and a whole lot more snow.
“Frontier” takes a thoroughly modern...
- 11/29/2018
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
Sir Ben Kingsley has built a career on real-life portrayals, from his Oscar-winning role in “Gandhi” to lauded composer Dmitri Shostakovich in “Testimony.” However, it’s his work in projects related to the Holocaust and World War II that may resonate the most, including playing Anne Frank’s father in a 2001 miniseries, Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal in 1989’s “Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story,” and perhaps most notably, Oskar Schindler’s accountant Itzhak Stern in Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List.”
Kingsley’s obvious depth of feeling for those parts make it striking that his latest role puts him literally on the wrong side of history. Chris Weitz’s “Operation Finale” dramatizes the 1960 operation to bring former SS officer and unrepentant Nazi Adolf Eichmann (Kingsley) to justice following his years-long escape to Argentina. He’s a twisted, terrifying figure, and even Kingsley didn’t relish the work, but he...
Kingsley’s obvious depth of feeling for those parts make it striking that his latest role puts him literally on the wrong side of history. Chris Weitz’s “Operation Finale” dramatizes the 1960 operation to bring former SS officer and unrepentant Nazi Adolf Eichmann (Kingsley) to justice following his years-long escape to Argentina. He’s a twisted, terrifying figure, and even Kingsley didn’t relish the work, but he...
- 8/29/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Roseanne’s appearance in Nazi garb as she bakes off a tray of Jewish gingerbread men displays a sickness in her — and a sickness in how we react.
“It’s deplorable, but it’s old,” was the comment of a trusted member of the clergy to whom I turned this week. I looked at the returned text dumbfounded, and responded that #NeverForget now has a shelf life. Since when does hate-speak mellow with age, especially when it happened less than a decade ago, as part of a parody of Jewish culture in the defunct American magazine Heeb.
I mean, come on. Here was the new Queen of Episodic Comedy dressed in Nazi garb, putting cookies that represented Jews in an oven. And we are going to give her a pass because it was nine years ago?
Also Read: Ratings: 'Roseanne' Revival Slips 20 Percent From Premiere
To add insult to injury, she diminished the horrors of the Holocaust with a later defense on “The Green Room With Paul Provenza”: “There’s another, deeper layer to it. You know, just the everyday. Moving off this Holocaust. There’s been about fifty of them since then. That’s what I’m kind of trying to say. Is like, Jesus Christ it’s so f—ing every day now, holocausts, it’s like baking cookies.”
So, we are now comparing the suffering of Darfur, the horrors of the Armenian genocide and the loss of 6 million lives in the Holocaust to “baking cookies.” And let’s give Roseanne a pass because she said it around nine years ago?
In every Holocaust museum I’ve been in, there are exhibits that connects cultural oppression to our shared experience of intolerance and hate. The trails of fingernails on the walls of crematoriums as Jews clawed for breath joins the flies infesting the bodies of starved children on the desert sands of Darfur but we should discount it because “Jesus Christ, it’s so f—ing every day now, holocausts, it’s like baking cookies”?
No. That’s not going to happen.
Also Read: Roseanne Barr Laughs Off Suggestion That Trump Caused Her Huge Revival Ratings (Video)
Elie Wiesel, the famous Holocaust survivor, put it simply: “Silence encourages the tormentor, not the tormented.”
So what do we do now? “Roseanne” show runner Bruce Helford told THR he wants us to separate Roseanne Barr from Roseanne Conner. That’s cool — then let’s separate Kevin Spacey from Frank Underwood. Put him back in the Netflix Oval Office. Let’s separate Bill Cosby the performer from the man standing trial for alleged behavior that occurred years ago.
Oh hey, those accusations involve alleged rape and sexual impropriety. Yeah, I get it. It’s horrible. But from where I stand, because Roseanne is a Jew and she disgraced the memory of other Jews, let’s continue feeding her ratings and support her sponsors.
Not me. Not this Jew.
Read original story Roseanne’s Hitler Photo Shoot: Does Hate Speech Have a Shelf Life? (Guest Blog) At TheWrap...
“It’s deplorable, but it’s old,” was the comment of a trusted member of the clergy to whom I turned this week. I looked at the returned text dumbfounded, and responded that #NeverForget now has a shelf life. Since when does hate-speak mellow with age, especially when it happened less than a decade ago, as part of a parody of Jewish culture in the defunct American magazine Heeb.
I mean, come on. Here was the new Queen of Episodic Comedy dressed in Nazi garb, putting cookies that represented Jews in an oven. And we are going to give her a pass because it was nine years ago?
Also Read: Ratings: 'Roseanne' Revival Slips 20 Percent From Premiere
To add insult to injury, she diminished the horrors of the Holocaust with a later defense on “The Green Room With Paul Provenza”: “There’s another, deeper layer to it. You know, just the everyday. Moving off this Holocaust. There’s been about fifty of them since then. That’s what I’m kind of trying to say. Is like, Jesus Christ it’s so f—ing every day now, holocausts, it’s like baking cookies.”
So, we are now comparing the suffering of Darfur, the horrors of the Armenian genocide and the loss of 6 million lives in the Holocaust to “baking cookies.” And let’s give Roseanne a pass because she said it around nine years ago?
In every Holocaust museum I’ve been in, there are exhibits that connects cultural oppression to our shared experience of intolerance and hate. The trails of fingernails on the walls of crematoriums as Jews clawed for breath joins the flies infesting the bodies of starved children on the desert sands of Darfur but we should discount it because “Jesus Christ, it’s so f—ing every day now, holocausts, it’s like baking cookies”?
No. That’s not going to happen.
Also Read: Roseanne Barr Laughs Off Suggestion That Trump Caused Her Huge Revival Ratings (Video)
Elie Wiesel, the famous Holocaust survivor, put it simply: “Silence encourages the tormentor, not the tormented.”
So what do we do now? “Roseanne” show runner Bruce Helford told THR he wants us to separate Roseanne Barr from Roseanne Conner. That’s cool — then let’s separate Kevin Spacey from Frank Underwood. Put him back in the Netflix Oval Office. Let’s separate Bill Cosby the performer from the man standing trial for alleged behavior that occurred years ago.
Oh hey, those accusations involve alleged rape and sexual impropriety. Yeah, I get it. It’s horrible. But from where I stand, because Roseanne is a Jew and she disgraced the memory of other Jews, let’s continue feeding her ratings and support her sponsors.
Not me. Not this Jew.
Read original story Roseanne’s Hitler Photo Shoot: Does Hate Speech Have a Shelf Life? (Guest Blog) At TheWrap...
- 4/5/2018
- by Richard Stellar
- The Wrap
A week after her show-stopping Golden Globes speech, Oprah Winfrey was back on TV this morning to talk about one of the other most notable presences at the ceremony: Time’s Up. She was joined by Reese Witherspoon, America Ferrera, Natalie Portman, Kathleen Kennedy, Shonda Rhimes, and Tracee Ellis Ross on CBS Sunday Morning to discuss the initiative, whose legal defense fund just received a $1.5 million donation in Michelle Williams’ name following the controversy over Mark Wahlberg’s salary for “All the Money in the World” reshoots.
More than 300 women are taking part in Time’s Up, which led Winfrey to an obvious question: Does it have a leader?
Read More:Mark Wahlberg Is Donating His ‘All the Money in the World’ Reshoot Salary to Time’s Up in Michelle Williams’ Name
“Who is the head of the group? And is it an organization? A movement?” Winfrey asked. “Black-ish” star Tracee Ellis Ross responded,...
More than 300 women are taking part in Time’s Up, which led Winfrey to an obvious question: Does it have a leader?
Read More:Mark Wahlberg Is Donating His ‘All the Money in the World’ Reshoot Salary to Time’s Up in Michelle Williams’ Name
“Who is the head of the group? And is it an organization? A movement?” Winfrey asked. “Black-ish” star Tracee Ellis Ross responded,...
- 1/14/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Oprah Winfrey will interview Hollywood advocates of the "Time's Up" campaign against sexual misconduct, for a CBS Sunday Morning segment airing January 14th. Natalie Portman, Reese Witherspoon, Tracee Ellis-Ross, America Ferrera, Shonda Rhimes, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and attorney Nina Shaw participated in the panel.
In a preview of the discussion, Winfrey asks how men and women can talk about the topic of sexual misconduct in the workplace when it feels like such a charged issue.
"We're humans. We're all humans," Portman said. "And I think it's treating people as fellow humans.
In a preview of the discussion, Winfrey asks how men and women can talk about the topic of sexual misconduct in the workplace when it feels like such a charged issue.
"We're humans. We're all humans," Portman said. "And I think it's treating people as fellow humans.
- 1/12/2018
- Rollingstone.com
Oprah Winfrey sat down with a few of Hollywood's most powerful women—including Reese Witherspoon, Natalie Portman and Tracee Ellis Ross—to discuss the impact of Time's Up—a movement that promotes equality and safety in the workplace and fights against sexual harassment. A sneak peek of the CBS Sunday Morning interview showed Witherspoon tearing up while discussing how speaking out leads to a greater sense of empowerment. Back in October, the Big Little Lies star said a director sexually assaulted her when she was 16. While Witherspoon admitted she hasn't "gotten to that place" of feeling empowered yet, she often refers to the following quote by Elie Wiesel, "Neutrality helps...
- 1/12/2018
- E! Online
Looking back at the great television of last year, there were plenty of standout series, incredible creative achievements which held millions of viewers in their thrall (and to which the IndieWire team devoted thousands of words of coverage).
However, with literally hundreds of shows on the air or on cable or streaming now, there were inevitably some shows that slipped through the cracks, whether it be in terms of the public’s attention or our own ability to cover them. Below are just a few of the ones which deserved greater recognition for what they were able to achieve on an episode-by-episode basis. Perhaps, should you be running low on fresh new television during these darkest days of winter, one or more of them might spark your interest.
Read More:The Best TV Soundtracks of 2017 “The Arrangement” (E!)
The E! scripted drama made headlines when it was first announced because of...
However, with literally hundreds of shows on the air or on cable or streaming now, there were inevitably some shows that slipped through the cracks, whether it be in terms of the public’s attention or our own ability to cover them. Below are just a few of the ones which deserved greater recognition for what they were able to achieve on an episode-by-episode basis. Perhaps, should you be running low on fresh new television during these darkest days of winter, one or more of them might spark your interest.
Read More:The Best TV Soundtracks of 2017 “The Arrangement” (E!)
The E! scripted drama made headlines when it was first announced because of...
- 12/27/2017
- by Steve Greene, Liz Shannon Miller and Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Jennifer Lawrence has a message for the world — and, seemingly, Donald Trump — following the deadly unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend: Fence-sitting isn’t the way to go. The “Hunger Games” star took to Facebook on Wednesday — a day after President Trump angered many by declaring that there were bad people “on both sides” in the Charlottesville conflict — to share a quote from writer and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. Spoiler alert: Lawrence isn’t buying the “both sides” argument. Also Read: Jennifer Lawrence Wants Charlottesville 'Cowards' Identified “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering.
- 8/16/2017
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
Prominent figures from the arts, politics, human rights, social justice, the media, and academia gathered for a continuous reading of Nobel Peace laureate Elie Wiesel's seismic Holocaust memoir, 'Night,' at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place, on Sunday, January 29, 2017. The all-day 'Night' event took place in front of an overflow audience at the Museum. BroadwayWorld has photos from the reading below, plusfootage from the event...
- 2/8/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Prominent figures from the arts, politics, human rights, social justice, the media, and academia gathered for a continuous reading of Nobel Peace laureate Elie Wiesel's seismic Holocaust memoir, 'Night,' at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place, on Sunday, January 29, 2017. The all-day 'Night' event took place in front of an overflow audience at the Museum.You can watch footage of the entire event, produced by Folksbiene executive producer Christopher Massimine edited to 430 hours, below...
- 2/8/2017
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
On Sunday, January 29, 2017, the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust joins with the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene to honor the memory of Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, who died on July 2, 2016, by presenting a community reading of his landmark memoir Night, which tells of his experience in German concentration camps with his father during the Holocaust.
- 1/9/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
President Barack Obama has visited more than 50 countries in his eight years in office, and this week he’s taking his final overseas trip as president — a tour of Europe.
Obama has so far spent much of his trip reassuring allies in Europe who are anxious about the unexpected election of Donald Trump and “Brexit,” the British vote to leave the European Union, both of which Obama campaigned against.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, the president visited Greece, where he climbed the Acropolis in Athens, toured the Parthenon and met with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Obama was the first U.S.
Obama has so far spent much of his trip reassuring allies in Europe who are anxious about the unexpected election of Donald Trump and “Brexit,” the British vote to leave the European Union, both of which Obama campaigned against.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, the president visited Greece, where he climbed the Acropolis in Athens, toured the Parthenon and met with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Obama was the first U.S.
- 11/18/2016
- by Tierney McAfee
- PEOPLE.com
The world just lost another master artist yesterday, after the recent passing of Michael Cimino and Elie Wiesel. Abbas Kiarostami has passed away after a battle with gastrointestinal cancer.
Kiarostami's blended fiction and non-fiction during his over forty year career in film. One of the most prominent Iranian filmmakers, he had been a mainstay of the Cannes Film Festival, jurying multiple times and winning the Palme d'Or in 1997 for Taste of Cherry. His most recent films Certified Copy and Like Someone in Love ventured out of Iran, but it's his homegrown meditations on death like Cherry and The Wind Will Carry Us are what instantly come to mind on this sad news.
Kiarostami wasn't just a film artist but a poet as well, though poetic language heightened much of his film work. His films were soulfully awake and fiercely personal - Cherry being the brusing and enlightening standout, with Copy's...
Kiarostami's blended fiction and non-fiction during his over forty year career in film. One of the most prominent Iranian filmmakers, he had been a mainstay of the Cannes Film Festival, jurying multiple times and winning the Palme d'Or in 1997 for Taste of Cherry. His most recent films Certified Copy and Like Someone in Love ventured out of Iran, but it's his homegrown meditations on death like Cherry and The Wind Will Carry Us are what instantly come to mind on this sad news.
Kiarostami wasn't just a film artist but a poet as well, though poetic language heightened much of his film work. His films were soulfully awake and fiercely personal - Cherry being the brusing and enlightening standout, with Copy's...
- 7/5/2016
- by Chris Feil
- FilmExperience
Elie Wiesel was memorialized Sunday at a private service in Manhattan, as family and friends gathered and praised the endurance and eloquence of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and mourned him as one of the last firsthand witnesses to the Nazis' atrocities. "This is really the double tragedy of it, not only the loss of someone who was so rare and unusual but the fact that those ranks are thinning out," Rabbi Perry Berkowitz, president of the American Jewish Heritage Organization and a former assistant to Wiesel, said before the service at Fifth Avenue Synagogue. "At the same time
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- 7/4/2016
- by the Associated Press
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A private funeral for Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel was held at the Orthodox Fifth Avenue Synagogue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan on Sunday. Wiesel, 87, died at his New York City home on Saturday. Family and friends gathered at the Upper East Side synagogue where Wiesel's widow Marion and his son Elisha shared loving speeches. "My husband was a fighter," Marion said in a statement. "He fought for the memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, and he fought for Israel. He waged countless battles for innocent victims regardless of ethnicity or creed.
- 7/3/2016
- by Karen Mizoguchi
- PEOPLE.com
A tourist visiting from Washington, D.C. is in critical but stable condition after losing his foot in an explosion in New York City's iconic Central Park Sunday morning, People confirms. The blast happened not far from the funeral for Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel. "It was some kind of incendiary device," an NYPD spokesman tells People. "We have cordoned the area off and the bomb squad is there now." The incident occurred near the corner of 5th Avenue and 60th Street, and the call came in just before 11 a.m. Jones said the bomb squad is still investigating whether the...
- 7/3/2016
- by Kathy Ehrich Dowd, @kathyehrichdowd
- PEOPLE.com
The words of Elie Wiesel ring through the decades. With the clarity of a bell, his message in “Night,” now read the world over and assigned to schoolchildren everywhere, is worth remembering on the day of his passing. Here are some key passages from a 2006 edition, a new translation: I don’t know how I survived: There are those who tell me that I survived in order to write this text. I am not convinced. I don’t know how I survived. I was weak, rather shy. I did nothing to save myself. A miracle? Certainly not. …It was nothing more than chance.
- 7/3/2016
- by Sharon Waxman
- The Wrap
Hollywood and the world’s leaders have come out to pay tribute to Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, who died Saturday at the age of 87. “Elie Wiesel was a great moral voice of our time and a conscience for our world,” said President Barack Obama on Twitter. “He was also a dear friend. We will miss him deeply.” The sentiments were echoed by other high-profile individuals from the world of politics, literature and entertainment. Actor-director George Clooney offered his own testimonial in a statement: “Unless you’re 88 years old most of us have not lived in a world without Elie.
- 7/3/2016
- by Linda Ge
- The Wrap
Nobel Peace Prize laureate, award-winning author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel has died. He was 87. Born in Romania in 1928, Wiesel was forced into Auschwitz as a teenager. After watching his father, mother and younger sister die, he wrote his now-highly acclaimed autobiography, Night in 1955. Night introduced millions of school children to a vivid, horrific account of the Holocaust from the eyes of a survivor. To date, it has sold over six million copies, as reported by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz which first announced Wiesel's death. Night was originally 800 pages and written in Yiddish. But he later wrote a shorter version in 1958 in French,...
- 7/2/2016
- by Blake Bakkila, @bcbakkila
- PEOPLE.com
Nobel Peace Prize laureate, award-winning author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel has died. He was 87. Born in Romania in 1928, Wiesel was forced into Auschwitz as a teenager. After watching his father, mother and younger sister die, he wrote his now-highly acclaimed autobiography, Night in 1955. Night introduced millions of school children to a vivid, horrific account of the Holocaust from the eyes of a survivor. To date, it has sold over six million copies, as reported by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz which first announced Wiesel's death. Night was originally 800 pages and written in Yiddish. But he later wrote a shorter version in 1958 in French,...
- 7/2/2016
- by Blake Bakkila, @bcbakkila
- PEOPLE.com
Holocaust survivor, renowned author and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel has died. Israel's Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem announced Wiesel's passing Saturday. Reports say the 87-year-old died at his home in Manhattan. Wiesel became a literary witness for the six million Jews killed in World War II. He went on to write dozens of books about his experiences in concentration camps and became a voice for survivors. In 1986 Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize...
- 7/2/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Elie Wiesel, a Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor who chronicled his family’s plight in Nazi concentration camps, died Saturday in his Manhattan home, Israel’s Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem announced. He was 87. The Romanian-born Wiesel wrote dozens of books, including the 1955 best-seller “Night” chronicling his experience as a teenage boy at Nazi concentration camps in Auschwitz and Buchenwald during World War II. In both his written words and in charismatic speeches he delivered worldwide, Wiesel has acted as a moral conscience for decades about the scope and horror of the German efforts to eradicate Jews like himself, and became an.
- 7/2/2016
- by Lawrence Yee
- The Wrap
New York (AP) — Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, the Romanian-born Holocaust survivor whose classic "Night" became a landmark testament to the Nazis' crimes and launched Wiesel's long career as one of the world's foremost witnesses and humanitarians, has died at age 87. His death was announced Saturday by Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial. No other details were immediately available. The short, sad-eyed Wiesel, his face an ongoing reminder of one man's endurance of a shattering past, summed up his mission in 1986 when accepting the Nobel Peace Prize: "Whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation, take
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- 7/2/2016
- by the Associated Press
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
[caption id="attachment_42454" align="aligncenter" width="590"] David Margulies as the Mayor, Lenny Clotch, in Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II.(Image via Theiapolis.com)/caption]
Actor David Margulies has passed away at the age of 78. He is well known for his film roles in Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, and more. Margulies trod the boards on Broadway and worked in television, too.
Margulies plays Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, in the upcoming Madoff TV mini-series. Starring Richard Dreyfuss, Madoff premieres February 3, on ABC. His last TV appearance aired during his life, was in the fifth episode of Happyish, May 24, 2015. Showtime cancelled Happyish exactly three months later, over low ratings.
From 2000 to 2007, Margulies notably recurred as Neil Mink, Tony's lawyer in HBO's The Sopranos. Between 1991 and 2004, the actor played four different characters on NBC's original Law & Order TV series.
This character actor filled yet another...
Actor David Margulies has passed away at the age of 78. He is well known for his film roles in Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, and more. Margulies trod the boards on Broadway and worked in television, too.
Margulies plays Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, in the upcoming Madoff TV mini-series. Starring Richard Dreyfuss, Madoff premieres February 3, on ABC. His last TV appearance aired during his life, was in the fifth episode of Happyish, May 24, 2015. Showtime cancelled Happyish exactly three months later, over low ratings.
From 2000 to 2007, Margulies notably recurred as Neil Mink, Tony's lawyer in HBO's The Sopranos. Between 1991 and 2004, the actor played four different characters on NBC's original Law & Order TV series.
This character actor filled yet another...
- 1/13/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
David Margulies, who played the Mayor of New York in the Ghostbusters films and Tony Soprano’s classy lawyer Neil Mink, died Monday afternoon in New York City after a long illness. His death was confirmed to Deadline by his longtime agent Mary Harden. He was 78 years old and recently finished filming his role as Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel in the upcoming ABC miniseries Madoff with Richard Dreyfuss, scheduled to air February 3. Margulies was memorable character actor with…...
- 1/12/2016
- Deadline TV
David Margulies, who played the Mayor of New York in the Ghostbusters films and Tony Soprano’s classy lawyer Neil Mink, died Monday afternoon in New York City after a long illness. His death was confirmed to Deadline by his longtime agent Mary Harden. He was 78 years old and recently finished filming his role as Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel in the upcoming ABC miniseries Madoff with Richard Dreyfuss, scheduled to air February 3. Margulies was memorable character actor with…...
- 1/12/2016
- Deadline
Géza Röhrig with Anne-Katrin Titze at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas for the opening of Son of Saul (Saul fia), directed by László Nemes Photo: Aimee Morris
Earlier this month, László Nemes introduced me to Géza Röhrig at a brunch in honour of Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs, written by Aaron Sorkin, starring Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen and Jeff Daniels. We spoke about Claude Lanzmann, the unfortunate timing of Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List for Stanley Kubrick's The Aryan Papers, critiquing Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful, Slavoj Žižek in The Pervert's Guide To Ideology on Robert Wise's The Sound Of Music and a whisper from Albert Camus to Elie Wiesel.
Géza explained why Robert De Niro or Jack Nicholson would not have had an advantage over him playing Saul Ausländer. The Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art exhibit in New York...
Earlier this month, László Nemes introduced me to Géza Röhrig at a brunch in honour of Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs, written by Aaron Sorkin, starring Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen and Jeff Daniels. We spoke about Claude Lanzmann, the unfortunate timing of Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List for Stanley Kubrick's The Aryan Papers, critiquing Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful, Slavoj Žižek in The Pervert's Guide To Ideology on Robert Wise's The Sound Of Music and a whisper from Albert Camus to Elie Wiesel.
Géza explained why Robert De Niro or Jack Nicholson would not have had an advantage over him playing Saul Ausländer. The Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art exhibit in New York...
- 12/20/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Giulio Ricciarelli’s well-intentioned film about the first ever prosecution of death camp crimes by a German court is borderline inept
“You there, what happened at Auschwitz?” So barks a pedantic exposition machine masquerading as a character in Giulio Ricciarelli’s well-meaning but bordering-on-inept historical drama Labyrinth of Lies. The setting is a public prosecutor’s office in Frankfurt, 1958. A 20-year-old woman shrugs, and even those who recall Auschwitz as a prison camp swat away half-remembered accusations of mass murder. “The victors get to make up stories,” one shrugs. The wounded nation of West Germany is trying to rebuild, and their great ally (and financial backer) the United States is focusing all its energy on containing the Soviet Union. “Why go digging?”
Some argue that the world never fully dealt with the horror of the Holocaust until the 1960s. “They don’t like to talk about it” was something a...
“You there, what happened at Auschwitz?” So barks a pedantic exposition machine masquerading as a character in Giulio Ricciarelli’s well-meaning but bordering-on-inept historical drama Labyrinth of Lies. The setting is a public prosecutor’s office in Frankfurt, 1958. A 20-year-old woman shrugs, and even those who recall Auschwitz as a prison camp swat away half-remembered accusations of mass murder. “The victors get to make up stories,” one shrugs. The wounded nation of West Germany is trying to rebuild, and their great ally (and financial backer) the United States is focusing all its energy on containing the Soviet Union. “Why go digging?”
Some argue that the world never fully dealt with the horror of the Holocaust until the 1960s. “They don’t like to talk about it” was something a...
- 9/29/2015
- by Jordan Hoffman
- The Guardian - Film News
In Commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Own will re-air a memorable episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show on Friday, Jan 30 at 10pm Et/Pt. In the episode, which originally aired in 2006, Oprah and and Nobel laureate, New York Times bestselling author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel travel to Auschwitz, Poland to speak about the relevance of the Holocaust today. In A Special Presentation: Oprah and Elie Wiesel At Auschwitz Death Camp, close to 61 years after he left the concentration camp, Wiesel returned to Auschwitz to see what remains, what it means to … Continue reading →
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- 1/27/2015
- by Kellie Freeze
- ChannelGuideMag
Hungarian filmmaker Miklós Jancsó, winner of the best director award at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival, died Friday. He was 92.
Jancsó’s death after a long illness was announced by the Association of Hungarian Film Artists.
Known for his long takes and for depicting the passage of time in his historical epics merely by changes of costume, Jancsó won his Cannes award for Red Psalm, about a 19th-century peasant revolt.
In the 1960s, critics ranked Jancso alongside great directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman. However, it was his use of scantily clad women, symbolizing defencelessness, which drew big audiences in prudish communist Hungary.
Jancsó’s death after a long illness was announced by the Association of Hungarian Film Artists.
Known for his long takes and for depicting the passage of time in his historical epics merely by changes of costume, Jancsó won his Cannes award for Red Psalm, about a 19th-century peasant revolt.
In the 1960s, critics ranked Jancso alongside great directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman. However, it was his use of scantily clad women, symbolizing defencelessness, which drew big audiences in prudish communist Hungary.
- 1/31/2014
- by Associated Press
- EW - Inside Movies
'The trait I most deplore in myself? Neediness'
Sir Ben Kingsley, 69, was born Krishna Pandit Bhanji in Yorkshire, and brought up in Salford. His father was a Gujarati doctor and his mother was an English model and actor. He began his acting career in 1967, after changing his name and being accepted by the RSC. His first major film role came in 1982, in Richard Attenborough's epic Gandhi, for which he won an Oscar. In 1994, he was nominated for a Bafta for his supporting role in Schindler's List. In 2001, he was given a knighthood. His latest film, Ender's Game, was released last month. He has been married four times and has four children.
When were you happiest?
I look forward to answering that question in 15 years.
What is your greatest fear?
Loss.
What is your earliest memory?
A dog barking at some rodent in the garden in Yorkshire. I think it was our dog.
Sir Ben Kingsley, 69, was born Krishna Pandit Bhanji in Yorkshire, and brought up in Salford. His father was a Gujarati doctor and his mother was an English model and actor. He began his acting career in 1967, after changing his name and being accepted by the RSC. His first major film role came in 1982, in Richard Attenborough's epic Gandhi, for which he won an Oscar. In 1994, he was nominated for a Bafta for his supporting role in Schindler's List. In 2001, he was given a knighthood. His latest film, Ender's Game, was released last month. He has been married four times and has four children.
When were you happiest?
I look forward to answering that question in 15 years.
What is your greatest fear?
Loss.
What is your earliest memory?
A dog barking at some rodent in the garden in Yorkshire. I think it was our dog.
- 11/9/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
"How about that!" Tom Hanks marveled last night when we ran into him on the red carpet for the Arts for Humanity Gala just moments after he'd been chatting with writer Eli Wiesel, the night's host. "Elie Wiesel just corrected me with his pronunciation as soon as I said it. I thought Elie Wi-sel, which is the way I've been saying it all my life. And it's Ve-sel. Okay." Hanks was there to accept an honor from Wiesel's Foundation for Humanity, but he'd like it known that this is a totally separate function from the movie press tour he's been on for the last month. "Please print that I am so embarrassed about the timing of this, because this seems like this is part of the Cloud Atlas publicity junket schedule," said Hanks. "It seems as if I'm squeezing this in between appearances on Good Morning America and David Letterman.
- 10/18/2012
- by Jennifer Vineyard
- Vulture
Natalie Portman posed for photos outside of the Audrey Hepburn Children's House in New Jersey this afternoon. She was joined by Audrey's son Sean Ferrer for the event to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the location's opening. Natalie serves as an honorary godmother and an advisory board member for the charity, which helps abused and neglected children. Natalie's been stepping out when she's not busy with her son, Aleph. Last month, she traveled to Washington DC to speak at the Holocaust Memorial Museum's Elie Wiesel National Tribute Dinner and announced her involvement as an ambassador with Free the Children in Paris. View Slideshow ›...
- 5/4/2012
- by Lauren Turner
- Popsugar.com
Actress Natalie Portman took to the stage in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday night to usher in America's Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The Black Swan star, who was born in Israel, jetted to Washington, D.C. to speak at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's 2012 Elie Wiesel National Tribute Dinner, ahead of the national holiday on Thursday.
And the actress showed support for her Jewish faith by stepping up to the podium to honour this year's tribute recipient, Aung San Suu Kyi, praising the non-violent activist's work to rescue Burmese refugees.
The Oscar winner also addressed the need to continue educating younger generations of the genocide in an effort to stomp out hate across the world.
The event was particularly near and dear to Portman's heart - her great-grandparents perished at Auschwitz, one of the largest Nazi concentration camps of World War Two.
The Black Swan star, who was born in Israel, jetted to Washington, D.C. to speak at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's 2012 Elie Wiesel National Tribute Dinner, ahead of the national holiday on Thursday.
And the actress showed support for her Jewish faith by stepping up to the podium to honour this year's tribute recipient, Aung San Suu Kyi, praising the non-violent activist's work to rescue Burmese refugees.
The Oscar winner also addressed the need to continue educating younger generations of the genocide in an effort to stomp out hate across the world.
The event was particularly near and dear to Portman's heart - her great-grandparents perished at Auschwitz, one of the largest Nazi concentration camps of World War Two.
- 4/19/2012
- WENN
In honor of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), HuffPost Religion is honored to show a particularly moving moment from Bill Moyersâ. 1991 conversation with Elie Wiesel about his concentration camp experiences and the questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.
Moyers: How many members of your family perished in the camps?
Wiesel: Innumerable uncles and cousins and- every Jewish family in Eastern Europe really was the same.
Moyers: You lost your mother and your father, your sister-
Wiesel: And my little sister and uncles and cousins and grandmother and grandfather and so many.
Moyers: You said that Himmler and Mengele and the others didn't hate the Jews because- was it because they didn't see you as human or-
Wiesel: We were not human for them. We were what they called "subhumans," and you don't cry when a subhuman cries.
Moyers: A beast, a mineral, an object.
Wiesel: Not even an animal,...
Moyers: How many members of your family perished in the camps?
Wiesel: Innumerable uncles and cousins and- every Jewish family in Eastern Europe really was the same.
Moyers: You lost your mother and your father, your sister-
Wiesel: And my little sister and uncles and cousins and grandmother and grandfather and so many.
Moyers: You said that Himmler and Mengele and the others didn't hate the Jews because- was it because they didn't see you as human or-
Wiesel: We were not human for them. We were what they called "subhumans," and you don't cry when a subhuman cries.
Moyers: A beast, a mineral, an object.
Wiesel: Not even an animal,...
- 4/19/2012
- by Paul Brandeis Raushenbush
- Aol TV.
Natalie Portman took the stage last night to speak during the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's 2012 Elie Wiesel National Tribute Dinner. The actress traveled to Washington DC to attend the event, held at the Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center. The second annual Elie Wiesel honor went to activist Aung San Suu Kyi. Natalie made remarks about her work, and other short speeches were given by Holocaust survivor Gerda Klein, as well as White House Chief of Staff Jacob Lew. The tribute came ahead of today's Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is being marked in DC with a ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda and a speech from Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner. The trip to DC is Natalie's latest adventure this week. She also linked up with Jane Goodall for a movie screening a few days ago. Natalie watched Chimpanzee in NYC, where other stars like Dave Matthews, Darren Aronofsky, Naomi Watts,...
- 4/19/2012
- by Allie Merriam
- Popsugar.com
Kris Humphries, Kim Kardashian's soon-to-be ex-husband, may be having the worst day ever.
Not only is Kardashian -- Humphries' wife of just 72 days -- reportedly filing for divorce Monday, but the free agent who was most recently a power forward for the New Jersey Nets also revealed that he lost thousands in a hedge fund scam. Humphries invested hundreds of thousands of dollars with Andrey Hicks' Locust Offshore Management, a fraudulent hedge fund that ultimately raised $1.6 million from investors like Humphries, Fin Alternatives reports.
A federal judge froze the assets of Hicks' fund last week, after accusing him of lying to investors about the existence of a fund in the British Virgin Islands, according to the Boston Business Journal. Hicks -- who was a guest at Humphries' and Kardashian's multi-million dollar wedding ceremony -- also claimed to be an alumnus of Harvard; in fact, he failed out of the prestigious school after three semesters.
Not only is Kardashian -- Humphries' wife of just 72 days -- reportedly filing for divorce Monday, but the free agent who was most recently a power forward for the New Jersey Nets also revealed that he lost thousands in a hedge fund scam. Humphries invested hundreds of thousands of dollars with Andrey Hicks' Locust Offshore Management, a fraudulent hedge fund that ultimately raised $1.6 million from investors like Humphries, Fin Alternatives reports.
A federal judge froze the assets of Hicks' fund last week, after accusing him of lying to investors about the existence of a fund in the British Virgin Islands, according to the Boston Business Journal. Hicks -- who was a guest at Humphries' and Kardashian's multi-million dollar wedding ceremony -- also claimed to be an alumnus of Harvard; in fact, he failed out of the prestigious school after three semesters.
- 10/31/2011
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
As the only literate Reject, it’s my duty to find the latest, the greatest and the untouched classics that would make great source material for film adaptations. I read so you don’t have to. One of the three cornerstones of Holocaust literature still hasn’t seen the big screen for an adaptation. In a way, it’s understandable. No one can even agree on whether the book is a memoir, a fiction, a fictional memoir, or a true memoir with fictional elements – so making its way to the screen would be a difficult task. On the other hand, this book is so well recognized (Oprah even loves it), that it seems blatantly obvious that a movie version would be both financially successful and garner critical Hallelujahs if done with any sort of skill at all. If you put the right pieces together, the puzzle makes for an astonishing picture. Night...
- 1/15/2011
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Part of the beauty of language comes in the knowledge that there are always combinations of words that no human has ever thought to put together before. For example, in the case of this Fox News interview with author, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, Fox has chosen to describe him as a “Holocaust Winner”: Oops! I’ll assume that was an honest mistake on “Nobel Prize Winner,” and that Fox didn’t actually believe that was a term, and that Wiesel didn’t arrive to the studio and demand “No No, I Won the Holocaust! You better put that under my name.” So, great job, everyone. Video of the ever-so-slightly insensitive Chyron after the jump: (via Outside The Beltway)...
- 12/22/2010
- by Dan Hopper
- BestWeekEver
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