Frederick Wiseman is busy. He’s always busy. Since he began directing films — his first, Titicut Follies, was in 1967 at the relatively late age of 38 — Wiseman’s been on the clock. He has made nearly a movie a year, 49 to date (the 50th, Menus Plaisirs — Les Troisgros, a portrait of a French Michelin three-star restaurant, will premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 3) and, at 93 years old, he shows no signs of slowing down. “I like to work. Work is my salvation, it’s my religion.”
For half a century, Wiseman’s work has been the creation of a series of cinéma vérité documentaries whose almost laughably generic titles — High School, The Store, Welfare, Law and Order, City Hall — belie the films’ complex and idiosyncratic portraits of American institutions. They can be shocking: Titicut Follies, an exposé of the inhumane treatment of patients at a Massachusetts asylum for the criminally insane,...
For half a century, Wiseman’s work has been the creation of a series of cinéma vérité documentaries whose almost laughably generic titles — High School, The Store, Welfare, Law and Order, City Hall — belie the films’ complex and idiosyncratic portraits of American institutions. They can be shocking: Titicut Follies, an exposé of the inhumane treatment of patients at a Massachusetts asylum for the criminally insane,...
- 8/31/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As Marty Walsh, the former labor secretary under President Biden and current executive director of the NHL Players Association, took the microphone, he grinned at the CBS Broadcast Center behind him.
“Let’s make sure we give them something to talk about in the boardroom today,” Walsh said to a roaring crowd.
That was the tone of the WGA’s sports solidarity strike, a distinct event during which members of some of the biggest unions in the sports world came out to show their support to Hollywood’s two ongoing strikes.
Later, Walsh assured TheWrap that both he and the NHL Players Association stood with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA. “I think a lot of times, if you’re on strike, you’re thinking you’re alone, and you’re not. You have a lot of other union members around the country who support you,” Walsh told TheWrap. ” I’m asking [for the AMPTP] to get to the table,...
“Let’s make sure we give them something to talk about in the boardroom today,” Walsh said to a roaring crowd.
That was the tone of the WGA’s sports solidarity strike, a distinct event during which members of some of the biggest unions in the sports world came out to show their support to Hollywood’s two ongoing strikes.
Later, Walsh assured TheWrap that both he and the NHL Players Association stood with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA. “I think a lot of times, if you’re on strike, you’re thinking you’re alone, and you’re not. You have a lot of other union members around the country who support you,” Walsh told TheWrap. ” I’m asking [for the AMPTP] to get to the table,...
- 7/26/2023
- by Kayla Cobb
- The Wrap
Marty Walsh is a man who understands unions. Walsh recently served as secretary of labor under President Biden before stepping down from the position to become executive director of the National Hockey League Players’ Association, the union of the NHL. And he has some firm words for the AMPTP in the midst of the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
“When you see an industry that’s growing and making record profits and making hundreds of millions of dollars, and you’re not willing to sit down and have a conversation about a few dollars working to make sure the people that provide you that content? You don’t take care of them? Something’s wrong,” Walsh told TheWrap.
The former secretary of labor was among several guest speakers representing sports unions who made an appearance at the WGA sports solidarity rally on Wednesday. The strike took place outside of the CBS Broadcast Studio,...
“When you see an industry that’s growing and making record profits and making hundreds of millions of dollars, and you’re not willing to sit down and have a conversation about a few dollars working to make sure the people that provide you that content? You don’t take care of them? Something’s wrong,” Walsh told TheWrap.
The former secretary of labor was among several guest speakers representing sports unions who made an appearance at the WGA sports solidarity rally on Wednesday. The strike took place outside of the CBS Broadcast Studio,...
- 7/26/2023
- by Kayla Cobb
- The Wrap
IATSE’s General Executive Board voted unanimously today to endorse the re-election of President Joe Biden. The vote came shortly after Biden announced that he would be running for a second term.
“In 2020, President Biden pledged to be the most pro-union president since Franklin D. Roosevelt,” the union said in a statement. “In the opinion of the General Executive Board, he has fulfilled that promise time and again since taking office. Our union has never had a more willing collaborator in the White House. The Biden-Harris Administration has actively sought to include the voices of behind-the-scenes entertainment workers in decisions that impact our industries and workplaces.”
Following the vote, IATSE president Matthew Loeb said: “I am proud to confer this endorsement on behalf of the IATSE General Executive Board and once again stand with President Biden, in the way he has consistently stood with us. President Biden has given IATSE...
“In 2020, President Biden pledged to be the most pro-union president since Franklin D. Roosevelt,” the union said in a statement. “In the opinion of the General Executive Board, he has fulfilled that promise time and again since taking office. Our union has never had a more willing collaborator in the White House. The Biden-Harris Administration has actively sought to include the voices of behind-the-scenes entertainment workers in decisions that impact our industries and workplaces.”
Following the vote, IATSE president Matthew Loeb said: “I am proud to confer this endorsement on behalf of the IATSE General Executive Board and once again stand with President Biden, in the way he has consistently stood with us. President Biden has given IATSE...
- 4/25/2023
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
It has been nearly a full year since Naomi Biden first got engaged to her longtime partner Peter Neal, and her White House wedding is now nearly upon us! Naomi is the oldest granddaughter of President Joe Biden, and the daughter of his son Hunter Biden.
They will be tying the not on November 19, and Biden has reportedly hired Bryan Rafanelli to manage the wedding. Rafanelli is a well-known Democratic event and fundraiser planner who also planned Chelsea Clinton’s wedding to Marc Mezvinsky in 2010.
More recently, Rafanelli also planned fundraising parties while Pete Buttigieg was running for President in 2020, and has done other jobs for local governments, including doing a review of Boston’s tourism office at the request of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh.
Neal and Biden met around 2018 in New York City. They are both politically active and recent law school graduates now working as practicing lawyers. Neal...
They will be tying the not on November 19, and Biden has reportedly hired Bryan Rafanelli to manage the wedding. Rafanelli is a well-known Democratic event and fundraiser planner who also planned Chelsea Clinton’s wedding to Marc Mezvinsky in 2010.
More recently, Rafanelli also planned fundraising parties while Pete Buttigieg was running for President in 2020, and has done other jobs for local governments, including doing a review of Boston’s tourism office at the request of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh.
Neal and Biden met around 2018 in New York City. They are both politically active and recent law school graduates now working as practicing lawyers. Neal...
- 10/2/2022
- by Jacob Linden
- Uinterview
IATSE is praising the Biden administration’s latest proposals to increase union membership throughout the country. The entertainment industry is one of the most unionized workforces in the nation, but last year only 6.1% of all private-sector employees belonged to a union, following a long and steady decline from 16.8% in 1983. Unions in the public sector represent about 35% of workers. Combined, unions represent little more than 10% of the American workforce.
Nearly 70 proposals to raise those numbers are contained in a report of the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment, chaired by Vice President Kamala Harris and vice-chaired by Labor Secretary Marty Walsh.
“President Biden and Vice President Harris recognize that urgent action is needed,” the report says. “Workers face increasing barriers to organizing and bargaining collectively with their employers, and in 2021, only 10.3% of the workforce was represented by a union, down from more than 30% in the 1950s. Yet nearly...
Nearly 70 proposals to raise those numbers are contained in a report of the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment, chaired by Vice President Kamala Harris and vice-chaired by Labor Secretary Marty Walsh.
“President Biden and Vice President Harris recognize that urgent action is needed,” the report says. “Workers face increasing barriers to organizing and bargaining collectively with their employers, and in 2021, only 10.3% of the workforce was represented by a union, down from more than 30% in the 1950s. Yet nearly...
- 2/8/2022
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
On September 30, 2021, in recognition of International Recovery Day and as a capstone to National Recovery Month in the United States, The Voices Project and iHeartRadio, in collaboration with more than two-dozen cross-sector partners, will produce Recover Out Loud, a concert event to be streamed exclusively on the iHeart Facebook and YouTube channels.
The event will be hosted by Gary Owen and feature headline performances by Macklemore, KT Tunstall, Evvie McKinney, Daphne Willis, The Residency, and others. Additional talent lineups will be announced over the coming weeks. Major philanthropic support for the event is provided by Google, YouTube, the Sandgaard Foundation, Victoria’s Voice Foundation, Division of Overdose Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Westgate Resort & Casino.
“The twin pandemics of drug overdose and Covid-19, combined with millions struggling with mental health, makes it imperative and urgent for influencers, policymakers, and corporations with global reach to...
The event will be hosted by Gary Owen and feature headline performances by Macklemore, KT Tunstall, Evvie McKinney, Daphne Willis, The Residency, and others. Additional talent lineups will be announced over the coming weeks. Major philanthropic support for the event is provided by Google, YouTube, the Sandgaard Foundation, Victoria’s Voice Foundation, Division of Overdose Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Westgate Resort & Casino.
“The twin pandemics of drug overdose and Covid-19, combined with millions struggling with mental health, makes it imperative and urgent for influencers, policymakers, and corporations with global reach to...
- 8/20/2021
- Look to the Stars
Matthew D. Loeb was re-elected to a fourth full term as international president of IATSE on Thursday, winning the post without opposition after a tumultuous year for the entertainment union.
Loeb has held the post for 13 years. He was re-elected by acclamation along with a slate of officers, including General Secretary-Treasurer James B. Wood and 17 vice presidents and trustees.
“I accept my nomination with a great sense of duty, humility, and determination, and I am honored to continue to serve as IATSE’s International President,” Loeb said in a message on Twitter.
Over the past year, the union has been wracked by the Covid-19 pandemic and the racial reckoning that followed the murder of George Floyd.
Most of its 150,000 members in the U.S. and Canada were put out of work during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. The union was involved in safety negotiations that helped restart film and TV production last September.
Loeb has held the post for 13 years. He was re-elected by acclamation along with a slate of officers, including General Secretary-Treasurer James B. Wood and 17 vice presidents and trustees.
“I accept my nomination with a great sense of duty, humility, and determination, and I am honored to continue to serve as IATSE’s International President,” Loeb said in a message on Twitter.
Over the past year, the union has been wracked by the Covid-19 pandemic and the racial reckoning that followed the murder of George Floyd.
Most of its 150,000 members in the U.S. and Canada were put out of work during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. The union was involved in safety negotiations that helped restart film and TV production last September.
- 7/30/2021
- by Gene Maddaus
- Variety Film + TV
Matt Loeb, running unopposed, was re-elected Thursday to a new four-year term as president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees during the union’s 69th Quadrennial Convention. Loeb, who’s been president of IATSE since 2008, has run unopposed at each of the previous three conventions: in 2009, 2013 and 2017.
In 2008, he was the unanimous choice of the union’s general executive board to succeed Tommy Short upon his retirement.
“I accept my nomination with a great sense of duty, humility, and determination, and I am honored to continue to serve as @IATSE’s International President,” he tweeted today.
I accept my nomination with a great sense of duty, humility, and determination, and I am honored to continue to serve as @IATSE’s International President.#TogetherWeRise https://t.co/p1PVyampVp
— Matthew D. Loeb (@matthewloeb) July 30, 2021
Loeb’s slate of running mates – known as “Matt’s Team” – were also returned to office.
In 2008, he was the unanimous choice of the union’s general executive board to succeed Tommy Short upon his retirement.
“I accept my nomination with a great sense of duty, humility, and determination, and I am honored to continue to serve as @IATSE’s International President,” he tweeted today.
I accept my nomination with a great sense of duty, humility, and determination, and I am honored to continue to serve as @IATSE’s International President.#TogetherWeRise https://t.co/p1PVyampVp
— Matthew D. Loeb (@matthewloeb) July 30, 2021
Loeb’s slate of running mates – known as “Matt’s Team” – were also returned to office.
- 7/30/2021
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
President Joe Biden signed an executive order directing federal government agencies to assess the risks climate change brings to both public and private financial assets in the U.S., the White House announced on Thursday.
The order, called the Climate-Related Financial Risk, mandates regulators including Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who oversees the Financial Stability Oversight Council, and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and others to direct federal agencies to examine the financial risks posed by extreme weather to both private and governmental financial institutions. They will then report back within...
The order, called the Climate-Related Financial Risk, mandates regulators including Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who oversees the Financial Stability Oversight Council, and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and others to direct federal agencies to examine the financial risks posed by extreme weather to both private and governmental financial institutions. They will then report back within...
- 5/21/2021
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
A crippling year for theatrical exhibition, the pandemic-forced shutdowns meant most films weren’t available for viewing in their ideal presentation. However, through the invention and proliferation of Virtual Cinemas as well as festivals going online, it meant more people could get access to films they otherwise wouldn’t have had the opportunity to do so for some time. And with nearly all blockbusters delayed to 2021 or beyond, it meant the more nimble ecosystem of independent and foreign film got the spotlight. Which is to say, there were a few bright points in an otherwise bleak cinematic landscape. So, as we look to hopefully a more promising year, it’s my hope exhibition can survive alongside this more accessible virtual world.
Looking back at the 2020 new releases, there’s a number of films that narrowly missed my top 15, including Dick Johnson Is Dead, The Assistant, Bacurau, Boys State, Minari, Mangrove,...
Looking back at the 2020 new releases, there’s a number of films that narrowly missed my top 15, including Dick Johnson Is Dead, The Assistant, Bacurau, Boys State, Minari, Mangrove,...
- 1/11/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Whatever the future holds both for theatrical distribution and for at-home streaming, 2020 will no doubt mark the pivot point in which the destinies of both would forever change. But where and how one sees films will inevitably be less important than the films themselves, and even in this year of turmoil, there was always something to recommend, wherever it was available to be seen.
Notable Runners-Up: “The 40-Year-Old Version,” “Ammonite,” “Another Round,” “And Then We Danced,” “The August Virgin,” “Birds of Prey,” “Da 5 Bloods,” “Emma.,” “The Half of It,” “Happiest Season,” “House of Hummingbird,” “I’m No Longer Here,” “I’m Thinking of Ending Things,” “The Invisible Man,” “Kajillionaire,” “Let Them All Talk,” “Lingua Franca,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “Madre,” “Miss Juneteenth,” “The Nest,” “Nomadland,” “One Night in Miami,” “The Photograph,” “The Secret Garden,” “She Dies Tomorrow,” “A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon,” “Shirley,” “Sorry We Missed You,” “Tigertail,” “The Truth,...
Notable Runners-Up: “The 40-Year-Old Version,” “Ammonite,” “Another Round,” “And Then We Danced,” “The August Virgin,” “Birds of Prey,” “Da 5 Bloods,” “Emma.,” “The Half of It,” “Happiest Season,” “House of Hummingbird,” “I’m No Longer Here,” “I’m Thinking of Ending Things,” “The Invisible Man,” “Kajillionaire,” “Let Them All Talk,” “Lingua Franca,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “Madre,” “Miss Juneteenth,” “The Nest,” “Nomadland,” “One Night in Miami,” “The Photograph,” “The Secret Garden,” “She Dies Tomorrow,” “A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon,” “Shirley,” “Sorry We Missed You,” “Tigertail,” “The Truth,...
- 12/28/2020
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Given all the hardships of the year just past, it’s certainly understandable that some viewers eschewed some of 2020’s tougher non-fiction storytelling in favor of escapism. But even with — and sometimes because of — everything else going on, the last 12 months delivered some extraordinary documentaries, and whether or not they were directly about aspects of the pandemic, they all had a lot to say about the current state of the world.
10. “Push”: As the recent furor over water being traded as a commodity reminds us, it’s never a good idea to let Wall Street collide with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Director Fredrik Gertten takes viewers through a global crisis, in which poor people are kicked out of neighborhoods so that luxury high-rise apartments can be constructed but never occupied, purely for investment purposes. Thankfully, we also get to meet the people fighting to end this practice.
9. “American...
10. “Push”: As the recent furor over water being traded as a commodity reminds us, it’s never a good idea to let Wall Street collide with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Director Fredrik Gertten takes viewers through a global crisis, in which poor people are kicked out of neighborhoods so that luxury high-rise apartments can be constructed but never occupied, purely for investment purposes. Thankfully, we also get to meet the people fighting to end this practice.
9. “American...
- 12/22/2020
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Every Frederick Wiseman documentary that I’ve seen to date has … something. It isn’t easy to define. But his films, which are often long — his newest feature, City Hall (streaming online via Film Forum’s virtual cinema), runs a stark four-and-a-half hours — offer it in abundance. Moments, faces, images, or interactions which, like uppercuts out of nowhere, penetrate the straightforward, direct style of Wiseman’s filmmaking to throw us viewers off balance, rejigger our understanding of the subject at hand, nag at us for years afterward. These moments are hardly limited to outright violence.
- 11/10/2020
- by K. Austin Collins
- Rollingstone.com
Throughout his nearly 60-year career, legendary nonagenarian filmmaker and Massachusetts native Frederick Wiseman has devoted himself to peeling back the layers of every corner of civic life, no matter how obscure or wonky. From healthcare to housing to community activism, Wiseman’s intimate and inquisitive lens leaves no stone unturned. With his latest film City Hall, he takes us into the public spaces where policies are made, community is fostered, and municipal life chugs along in the city of Boston. Clocking in at four-and-a-half hours, City Hall represents one of Wiseman’s more lengthy endeavors (and that’s saying a lot), but each minute feels just as absorbing as the next. Despite the unglamorous nature of local governance, scenes in which we’re privy to personnel discussions, city council meetings with impassioned constituents, and one-on-one interactions between citizens and city workers, provide the most fascinating and humanist moments, precisely because...
- 11/3/2020
- MUBI
We came, we saw, we conquered from our couches. Looking back the 45th Toronto International Film Festival as it wound down yesterday, it was sometimes easier to fixate on how different this year’s edition was compared to previous years. Different is, of course, putting it ridiculously mildly: For starters, there was no actual Toronto in our TIFF ’20 experience. The lineup was way more modest and the potential for A-list awards-lusting far, far more muted. What normally would have been a communal screening at the Bell Lightbox or the Winter...
- 9/20/2020
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
An opening shot of Frederick Wiseman’s National Gallery shows a man polishing the floor of a room walled with masterpieces. Recently writing about the moment for Mubi, critic Joseph Owen noted that “the politics of this institution exist in a subterranean passage: between its low-paid maintenance jobs and its disreputable oil sponsorships.” Petrodollars aside, it’s an observation that speaks in some way to any number of Wiseman’s films: the souls of the establishments he so dedicatedly and meticulously depicts are neither the heads on top, the public face, nor the multitude of working parts below, but something fluctuant and indefinable in the middle.
The director’s latest is a documentary epic, a sprawling four-and-a-half-hour study of Boston’s City Hall and its various satellite entities. And Wiseman is once again going in search of that middle—although this time with an uncharacteristic wink of subjectivity. It’s...
The director’s latest is a documentary epic, a sprawling four-and-a-half-hour study of Boston’s City Hall and its various satellite entities. And Wiseman is once again going in search of that middle—although this time with an uncharacteristic wink of subjectivity. It’s...
- 9/19/2020
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Every Frederick Wiseman movie starts like a dare. Though the 90-year-old documentary legend has been chronicling social institutions ever since 1967’s “Titicut Follies,” many of his projects casually drift through three or four hours of dense, layered portraits following the people behind vast organizational forces. Ironically, this has actually made his work even more valuable with time, and “City Hall,” which clocks in at four hours and 32 minutes, is no exception. As attention spans dwindle and the complex mess of American governance grows murkier than ever, Wiseman’s immersive dive into Boston’s city services ignores the pressure to dumb things down and marvels at the complexity of a system designed to make the world run right.
Subtext: Take that, Trump! Just as Wiseman’s 2018 portrait “Ex Libris — The New York Public Library” served as a de facto repudiation of leaders who reject intellectual discernment, “City Hall” assails the corruption...
Subtext: Take that, Trump! Just as Wiseman’s 2018 portrait “Ex Libris — The New York Public Library” served as a de facto repudiation of leaders who reject intellectual discernment, “City Hall” assails the corruption...
- 9/18/2020
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Nobody makes documentaries quite like Frederick Wiseman. He doesn’t interview his subjects; he doesn’t provide on-screen identification for who’s talking; he doesn’t use any non-diegetic music. What he does do is plant the viewer firmly inside what “Hamilton” calls “the room where it happens,” taking us deep inside the heart of the hospitals, the department stores, the city governments, the public libraries, the boxing gyms, the art museums, the burlesque houses, the hospice facilities, and all the other institutions he has examined over the course of a storied career.
His 45th feature film “City Hall” — premiering at the Venice, Toronto and New York film festivals prior to a release later this year — goes deep into the workings of the city of Boston, a much larger and more populated location than the subjects of earlier Wiseman works like “Belfast, Maine” or “Monrovia, Indiana.” It’s clear that...
His 45th feature film “City Hall” — premiering at the Venice, Toronto and New York film festivals prior to a release later this year — goes deep into the workings of the city of Boston, a much larger and more populated location than the subjects of earlier Wiseman works like “Belfast, Maine” or “Monrovia, Indiana.” It’s clear that...
- 9/17/2020
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
“The people who work for the city work for you,” explains Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, to a room full of his constituents. “They’re there to service you.” That simplest of ideas, a real gimme in the not-too-distant past, stands at the center of “City Hall,” the latest of Frederick Wiseman’s documentary deep dives into the nuts and bolts of America’s institutions. He opens with a meeting between the mayor and members of the Boston Police Department, a simple strategy session: what they’re getting right, what they have to improve, what new and transformative ideas they can incorporate into their work (“What’s the follow-up on trauma?”).
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In that scene, and over the four hours and thirty-five minutes that follow, Wiseman – as is his style – observes.
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In that scene, and over the four hours and thirty-five minutes that follow, Wiseman – as is his style – observes.
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- 9/15/2020
- by Jason Bailey
- The Playlist
It’s been seven years since the Boston Marathon bombing put the Massachusetts capital in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, and beyond the odd bright flash of #BostonStrong graffiti on a shabby streetscape, it’s not discussed directly in “City Hall.” It doesn’t need to be: Its community-wide burden of grief, caution and a shared responsibility to rebuild is felt throughout Frederick Wiseman’s typically sprawling, inquisitive and inclusive anatomy of the city’s inner workings. Putting his hometown under the lens for the first time in his vast career, the 90-year-old documentarian — now resident in Paris — finds it in imperfect but hopeful flux, taking stock of its social diversity, inequalities and future priorities under the conscientious leadership of Democratic mayor Marty Walsh. The result is both sober and inspiring: an urban progress report taking into account a plethora of government services, scutinized by Wiseman’s patient but unblinking eye.
- 9/14/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Above: City HallIt was the first time this year I heard people clap before the film began, and the applause lived on with an energizing aftershock. The theatre was the Lido’s Sala Darsena, the time 19:45, and the film City Hall, Fredrick Wiseman’s new documentary, a foray into the workings of Boston’s city government that would keep us in the theatre for the following four and a half hours. City Hall, which premiered out of competition, follows Wiseman’s previous Venice entry, Monrovia, Indiana (2018), an anguished study of small-town America. But it feels closer in scope and tone to that film’s predecessor, the extraordinary Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2017), a journey that shuttled you across the institution’s many branches as they sought to adjust to the digital age. Much of what made that film so stupefying to me was the way Wiseman...
- 9/10/2020
- MUBI
This week, stars and production staff from Top Chef are in a Boston courtroom recounting the alleged threats and racial slurs they were subjected to by four members of Teamsters Union Local 25 during a shoot for the show.
The scary situation allegedly unfolded outside of a Milton, Massachusetts restaurant back in 2014, amid protests by the local Teamsters who wanted to be hired as drivers for the nonunion show.
Here’s everything you need to know about the ongoing extortion trial – which kicked off Tuesday – surrounding those events.
Teamsters surrounded Padma Lakshmi’s car and threatened her lifeThough host Lakshmi, herself,...
The scary situation allegedly unfolded outside of a Milton, Massachusetts restaurant back in 2014, amid protests by the local Teamsters who wanted to be hired as drivers for the nonunion show.
Here’s everything you need to know about the ongoing extortion trial – which kicked off Tuesday – surrounding those events.
Teamsters surrounded Padma Lakshmi’s car and threatened her lifeThough host Lakshmi, herself,...
- 8/3/2017
- by Lindsay Kimble
- PEOPLE.com
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