The HBO Max drama The Fallout depicts a scenario that has become all too real: a shooting at a school that leaves young people dead or injured. The unthinkable tragedy in Uvalde, Texas is the latest horrific example of a problem that has become all-too endemic in the United States. Actress Jenna Ortega stars in the film written and directed by Megan Park, portraying a teenage survivor of an attack struggling with the trauma that has resulted from what she has endured. Ortega explores an aspect sometimes overlooked in the wake of such a devastating event—the lasting emotional impact on the children who survive.
Deadline: What were your thoughts as you embarked on this film, involving such wrenching subject matter?
Jenna Ortega: A project like this, it’s so relevant and it’s so unfortunately real that I think it was a bit nerve wracking because obviously I...
Deadline: What were your thoughts as you embarked on this film, involving such wrenching subject matter?
Jenna Ortega: A project like this, it’s so relevant and it’s so unfortunately real that I think it was a bit nerve wracking because obviously I...
- 6/21/2022
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
After tragedy struck Parkland, Fla., in early 2018, the young survivors of the mass shooting felt they had no other choice but to stand up and fight for their rights. They were just kids, but the students banded together and fell into an unexpected calling as youth activists.
A month after 17 lives were lost at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, they pulled off the largest youth protest in American history with March for Our Lives, a student-led demonstration in support of legislation to prevent gun violence, which captured the attention of Hollywood A-listers and millions of people around the world. That summer, the activists embarked on a tour around the country, as their movement grew to tackle much more than gun reform.
The documentary, “Us Kids” — from filmmaker Kim A. Snyder, who directed the Peabody Award-winning doc “Newtown” in 2016 — follows the young activists, as they spread their movement across the country,...
A month after 17 lives were lost at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, they pulled off the largest youth protest in American history with March for Our Lives, a student-led demonstration in support of legislation to prevent gun violence, which captured the attention of Hollywood A-listers and millions of people around the world. That summer, the activists embarked on a tour around the country, as their movement grew to tackle much more than gun reform.
The documentary, “Us Kids” — from filmmaker Kim A. Snyder, who directed the Peabody Award-winning doc “Newtown” in 2016 — follows the young activists, as they spread their movement across the country,...
- 10/30/2020
- by Elizabeth Wagmeister
- Variety Film + TV
Director Kim A. Snyder, who last helmed the harrowing documentary Newtown, continues to capture the fight against gun violence with her next film. Us Kids, a selection at Sundance and SXSW, exploring the March For Our Lives movement with Emma González, David Hogg, Samantha Fuentes, and more. Set for a theatrical and virtual cinema release next week, the first trailer has now arrived along with special sneak preview news.
Us Kids will kick off its launch with the Vote With Us Virtual Rally, a national Gotv campaign with the focus to educate, motivate, and mobilize young people and communities of color to vote early. The event will take place this Saturday, October 24, at 3 p.m. Et/Noon Pt, streaming at www.votewith.us and simulcast across YouTube and more. Immediately following the rally, as a special sneak preview, the film will be made available for free over the weekend, October 24-25 on YouTube,...
Us Kids will kick off its launch with the Vote With Us Virtual Rally, a national Gotv campaign with the focus to educate, motivate, and mobilize young people and communities of color to vote early. The event will take place this Saturday, October 24, at 3 p.m. Et/Noon Pt, streaming at www.votewith.us and simulcast across YouTube and more. Immediately following the rally, as a special sneak preview, the film will be made available for free over the weekend, October 24-25 on YouTube,...
- 10/23/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
"Change is on the horizon!" Hopefully it is! An official trailer has debuted for the acclaimed documentary Us Kids, from award-winning doc filmmaker Kim A. Snyder. This originally premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year, and also just stopped by the Montclair Film Festival this fall. It will be available to watch in virtual cinemas starting at the end of October. The film is an inspiring, authentic profile of various young activists from all over America. The primary focus is on the students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida who speak out against the national gun-violence epidemic after a mass shooting at their school kills 17 people in 2018. Us Kids chronicles the March For Our Lives movement from the point of view of Parkland students Emma González, David Hogg, Samantha Fuentes, and others that become a key part of the movement. It is a vitally important doc film...
- 10/23/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato, Mark Ruffalo, Vic Mensa and more will appear during the Vote With Us virtual rally, set to livestream on “Vote Early Day,” Saturday, October 24th.
Andra Day will also perform “Remember I Bleed” and the War and Treaty will cover John Lennon’s “Power to the People” during the three-hour event, which highlights early vote events in Atlanta, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Phoenix.
The Vote for Us livestream will also shows clips from the upcoming documentary Us Kids, featuring survivors of the Parkland school shooting-turned-activists Emma González,...
Andra Day will also perform “Remember I Bleed” and the War and Treaty will cover John Lennon’s “Power to the People” during the three-hour event, which highlights early vote events in Atlanta, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Phoenix.
The Vote for Us livestream will also shows clips from the upcoming documentary Us Kids, featuring survivors of the Parkland school shooting-turned-activists Emma González,...
- 10/16/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Miguel, Doja Cat and Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes are part of a stacked lineup of musicians who will perform during Black Power Live, a digital benefit taking place this Saturday, June 27th, on Twitch.
The event will be hosted by Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors and feature a mix of musical performances and conversations with black artists and organizers. The event will start at 5 p.m. Pt/8 p.m. Et and wrap at 12 a.m. Pt/3 a.m. Et. Money raised will benefit the Crenshaw Dairy Mart, Trap Heals,...
The event will be hosted by Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors and feature a mix of musical performances and conversations with black artists and organizers. The event will start at 5 p.m. Pt/8 p.m. Et and wrap at 12 a.m. Pt/3 a.m. Et. Money raised will benefit the Crenshaw Dairy Mart, Trap Heals,...
- 6/25/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Writing songs about polarizing issues can be a fool’s errand. Writers run the risk of coming across as pretentious or, even worse, trite. But that didn’t stop Los Angeles band Dustbowl Revival from addressing some weighty topics on their new album Is It You, Is It Me, out this Friday. The Americana group sings about the blight of mass shootings in the U.S.; the inherent manipulation of social media; and the disconcerting idea that those within our own families or friend circles may have helped vote Trump into office.
- 1/29/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
How do you make a movie about the gun crisis in America? How do you document a plague in a country that has become so desensitized to the pain it causes? How — at a time of such rampant inhumanity that millions of people seem resigned to even the most preventable horrors — do you possibly make a film that resonates with this amnesiac nation in a way that regular images of murdered club-goers, concert attendees, religious worshippers, multiplex patrons, Walmart shoppers, children, children, children, and always more children, have not?
If these aren’t rhetorical questions, that’s only because well-intentioned filmmakers like Kim A. Snyder will be reckoning with them for a long time to come. We’re lucky for their resolve; they accomplish more by failing to find the right answers than our entire political establishment does by settling for the wrong ones. In 2016’s “Newtown,” Snyder vivisected the...
If these aren’t rhetorical questions, that’s only because well-intentioned filmmakers like Kim A. Snyder will be reckoning with them for a long time to come. We’re lucky for their resolve; they accomplish more by failing to find the right answers than our entire political establishment does by settling for the wrong ones. In 2016’s “Newtown,” Snyder vivisected the...
- 1/25/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
The nonstop drama of the Trump White House has succeeded, among other things, in largely pushing gun control from the forefront of the news cycle — no doubt to the relief of the NRA and its allies, despite the continued frequency of U.S. mass shootings. As a result, and perhaps unfairly, Kim A. Snyder’s “Us Kids” feels a bit like old news, as it focuses on a school massacre and the subsequent activist tide that occurred less than two years ago, yet somehow already feel distant. Nonetheless, who themselves just survived a school shooting.
Where Snyder’s 2016 “Newtown” held to the perspective of parents grieving after a gunman killed 26 people (including 20 first-graders) at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary in late 2012, “Kids” charts the very different reaction of students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Fla., a little over five years later. When another gunman (this time an alumnus...
Where Snyder’s 2016 “Newtown” held to the perspective of parents grieving after a gunman killed 26 people (including 20 first-graders) at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary in late 2012, “Kids” charts the very different reaction of students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Fla., a little over five years later. When another gunman (this time an alumnus...
- 1/25/2020
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Documentarian Kim A. Snyder had been down this road before, talking to grieving parents and families about children felled by gun violence, three years ago with 2016’s shocking “Newtown.” “I thought, ‘That was it, I was done,'” she told me on the phone. “Since that time, there have been many hundreds of thousands of mass shootings; people are numb. That’s a movie I couldn’t or wouldn’t make today, it was a different moment and motivation.”
But in February 2018, Snyder found herself in Tallahassee, Florida, watching a fiery protest on the steps of the Capitol in the wake of the deadliest high-school shooting spree in U.S. history: At Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, a 19-year-old gunman with an Ar-15 automatic rifle killed 17 people and injured 17 more. “The kids arrived demanding change in the state of Florida,” she said. “They were enraged, pissed, and traumatized.
But in February 2018, Snyder found herself in Tallahassee, Florida, watching a fiery protest on the steps of the Capitol in the wake of the deadliest high-school shooting spree in U.S. history: At Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, a 19-year-old gunman with an Ar-15 automatic rifle killed 17 people and injured 17 more. “The kids arrived demanding change in the state of Florida,” she said. “They were enraged, pissed, and traumatized.
- 1/25/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Documentarian Kim A. Snyder had been down this road before, talking to grieving parents and families about children felled by gun violence, three years ago with 2016’s shocking “Newtown.” “I thought, ‘That was it, I was done,'” she told me on the phone. “Since that time, there have been many hundreds of thousands of mass shootings; people are numb. That’s a movie I couldn’t or wouldn’t make today, it was a different moment and motivation.”
But in February 2018, Snyder found herself in Tallahassee, Florida, watching a fiery protest on the steps of the Capitol in the wake of the deadliest high-school shooting spree in U.S. history: At Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, a 19-year-old gunman with an Ar-15 automatic rifle killed 17 people and injured 17 more. “The kids arrived demanding change in the state of Florida,” she said. “They were enraged, pissed, and traumatized.
But in February 2018, Snyder found herself in Tallahassee, Florida, watching a fiery protest on the steps of the Capitol in the wake of the deadliest high-school shooting spree in U.S. history: At Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, a 19-year-old gunman with an Ar-15 automatic rifle killed 17 people and injured 17 more. “The kids arrived demanding change in the state of Florida,” she said. “They were enraged, pissed, and traumatized.
- 1/25/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
School shootings happen with such regularity in America now that they barely get reported, or if they are reported, they are swiftly forgotten.
That has not been the case with the Parkland shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which happened on Valentine’s Day of 2018, because some of the survivors — notably David Hogg and Emma González — led protests and put themselves forward to the media as the faces of a new generation who were not going to settle for “thoughts and prayers” for a day.
“After Parkland” is a documentary that follows several of the survivors of the shooting. Filmmakers Jake Lefferman and Emily Taguchi were given access to Hogg and his family, but González is only seen at a rally in Washington, D.C. where she reads out all 17 of the victim’s names. She says something personal about all of them before stopping and remaining silent for six minutes,...
That has not been the case with the Parkland shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which happened on Valentine’s Day of 2018, because some of the survivors — notably David Hogg and Emma González — led protests and put themselves forward to the media as the faces of a new generation who were not going to settle for “thoughts and prayers” for a day.
“After Parkland” is a documentary that follows several of the survivors of the shooting. Filmmakers Jake Lefferman and Emily Taguchi were given access to Hogg and his family, but González is only seen at a rally in Washington, D.C. where she reads out all 17 of the victim’s names. She says something personal about all of them before stopping and remaining silent for six minutes,...
- 11/27/2019
- by Dan Callahan
- The Wrap
GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (Lgbtq) media advocacy organization, announced recipients for the remaining 13 of this year’s 27 categories for the 30th Annual GLAAD Media Awards.
Madonna speaks onstage during the 30th Annual GLAAD Media Awards New York
Credit/Copyright: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for GLAAD
Madonna received the Advocate for Change Award from Anderson Cooper, while Andy Cohen received the Vito Russo Award from Golden Globe-winning actress Sarah Jessica Parker at the star-studded ceremony at the Hilton Midtown in New York. The 30th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York were hosted by drag superstar Shangela.
The New York City ceremony will air exclusively on Logo on Sunday, May 12 at 8pm Et/Pt.
In her remarks, Madonna said: “As soon as you really understand what it means to love, you understand what it takes to become a human being and that it is...
Madonna speaks onstage during the 30th Annual GLAAD Media Awards New York
Credit/Copyright: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for GLAAD
Madonna received the Advocate for Change Award from Anderson Cooper, while Andy Cohen received the Vito Russo Award from Golden Globe-winning actress Sarah Jessica Parker at the star-studded ceremony at the Hilton Midtown in New York. The 30th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York were hosted by drag superstar Shangela.
The New York City ceremony will air exclusively on Logo on Sunday, May 12 at 8pm Et/Pt.
In her remarks, Madonna said: “As soon as you really understand what it means to love, you understand what it takes to become a human being and that it is...
- 5/6/2019
- Look to the Stars
The indie drama “Boy Erased,” the FX series “Pose” and the miniseries “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” emerged as big winners on Saturday at the New York City edition of the GLAAD Media Awards.
Janelle Monáe won as Best Music Artist, while segments from Samantha Bee’s “Full Frontal” and Don Lemon’s CNN show were also recognized by the group, which advocates on behalf of the Lgbtq community.
In addition, Madonna picked up the Advocate for Change Award and E! host Andy Cohen collected the Vito Russo Award.
Also Read: Red Lobster Serves Up Tasteful Response to Beyonce's GLAAD Shoutout -- and Holds the 'Bey Biscuits'
“Over the past 30 years, images in media have evolved to celebrate the unique and dynamic stories of Lgbtq people and accelerate acceptance for the Lgbtq community,” GLAAD CEO and President Sarah Kate Ellis said. “This year’s award recipients like...
Janelle Monáe won as Best Music Artist, while segments from Samantha Bee’s “Full Frontal” and Don Lemon’s CNN show were also recognized by the group, which advocates on behalf of the Lgbtq community.
In addition, Madonna picked up the Advocate for Change Award and E! host Andy Cohen collected the Vito Russo Award.
Also Read: Red Lobster Serves Up Tasteful Response to Beyonce's GLAAD Shoutout -- and Holds the 'Bey Biscuits'
“Over the past 30 years, images in media have evolved to celebrate the unique and dynamic stories of Lgbtq people and accelerate acceptance for the Lgbtq community,” GLAAD CEO and President Sarah Kate Ellis said. “This year’s award recipients like...
- 5/5/2019
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Following the Los Angeles ceremony in March, the 30th GLAAD Media Awards went to New York to continue honoring the celebrities, films, shows and media organizations that have made strides in supporting the Lgbtq+ community this past year.
Drag superstar Shangela hosted the event, which presented Madonna with the Advocate for Change award and Andy Cohen with the Vito Russo award. Recently, the pop star performed the single “Medellín” from her upcoming 14th album “Madame X” with Maluma and five hologram-like avatars of herself at the Billboard Music Awards. Cohen became the first openly gay late-night talk show host when his show “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen” launched on Bravo in 2009. Janelle Monáe also won outstanding musical artist following the release of her Grammy-nominated album “Dirty Computer.”
Other winners included “Pose,” the FX drama with a mostly transgender cast; “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee”; “CNN Tonight with Don Lemon...
Drag superstar Shangela hosted the event, which presented Madonna with the Advocate for Change award and Andy Cohen with the Vito Russo award. Recently, the pop star performed the single “Medellín” from her upcoming 14th album “Madame X” with Maluma and five hologram-like avatars of herself at the Billboard Music Awards. Cohen became the first openly gay late-night talk show host when his show “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen” launched on Bravo in 2009. Janelle Monáe also won outstanding musical artist following the release of her Grammy-nominated album “Dirty Computer.”
Other winners included “Pose,” the FX drama with a mostly transgender cast; “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee”; “CNN Tonight with Don Lemon...
- 5/5/2019
- by Jordan Moreau
- Variety Film + TV
The second wave of GLAAD Media Awards winners were announced in New York City tonight at a ceremony hosted by RuPaul’s Drag Race superstar Shangela (who made a splash at the Los Angeles ceremony with her Beyonce performance). The East Coast edition of the awards unveiled Pose as the winner of Outstanding Drama Series; The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story as Outstanding TV Movie or Limited Series; and Boy Erased as Outstanding Film – Limited Release.
As previously reported Madonna was presented with the Advocacy for Change Award. She is is the second person and first woman to ever receive this honor, awarded to a person who, through their work, changed the game for Lgbtq people around the world. Andy Cohen was honored with the Vito Russo Award, which is presented to an openly Lgbtq media professional who has made a significant difference in accelerating Lgbtq acceptance.
Other...
As previously reported Madonna was presented with the Advocacy for Change Award. She is is the second person and first woman to ever receive this honor, awarded to a person who, through their work, changed the game for Lgbtq people around the world. Andy Cohen was honored with the Vito Russo Award, which is presented to an openly Lgbtq media professional who has made a significant difference in accelerating Lgbtq acceptance.
Other...
- 5/5/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Madonna has released an anthemic new song “I Rise” ahead of her upcoming album Madame X. The mid-tempo, Auto-tuned number features inspirational lyrics, as well as an audio sample from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School school shooting survivor Emma González. “There’s nothing you can do to me that hasn’t been done,” Madonna sings. “Not bulletproof, shouldn’t have to run from a gun/River of tears ran dry, let ’em run/No game that you can play with me, I ain’t one.”
The singer said of the song,...
The singer said of the song,...
- 5/3/2019
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (Lgbtq) media advocacy organization, has announced the nominees for the 30th Annual GLAAD Media Awards live from the Sundance Film Festival.
The 30th Annual GLAAD Media Awards are presented by Delta Air Lines, Gilead, and Ketel One Family-Made Vodka.
The GLAAD Media Awards honor media for fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of Lgbtq people and issues. Mj Rodriguez (Pose) and Nico Santos announced the nominees via live-stream on GLAAD’s Facebook page hosted by At&T from Park City, Utah during the Sundance Film Festival.
GLAAD announced 151 nominees in 27 categories, including an inaugural category for Outstanding Video Game, along with Kids & Family Programming, Comedy and Drama Series, Documentary, Reality Series, Music Artist, Comic Book, print, broadcast, and online news, and five Spanish-language categories. For the first time ever, the GLAAD Media Awards’ Outstanding Film – Limited Release category expanded from five...
The 30th Annual GLAAD Media Awards are presented by Delta Air Lines, Gilead, and Ketel One Family-Made Vodka.
The GLAAD Media Awards honor media for fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of Lgbtq people and issues. Mj Rodriguez (Pose) and Nico Santos announced the nominees via live-stream on GLAAD’s Facebook page hosted by At&T from Park City, Utah during the Sundance Film Festival.
GLAAD announced 151 nominees in 27 categories, including an inaugural category for Outstanding Video Game, along with Kids & Family Programming, Comedy and Drama Series, Documentary, Reality Series, Music Artist, Comic Book, print, broadcast, and online news, and five Spanish-language categories. For the first time ever, the GLAAD Media Awards’ Outstanding Film – Limited Release category expanded from five...
- 1/30/2019
- Look to the Stars
Your prom probably didn’t have a glorious gaggle of Broadway troupers and their trunk loads of self-regard and narcissism gumming things up for your rite of passage – more’s the pity – but in some ways I’d guess Broadway’s musical The Prom isn’t so unlike the one you lived through way back when. The build-up was more fun than the event, right?
Inspired by an actual event – and the inspired is apt – The Prom is the latest razzle-dazzle show-biz love fest from director and choreographer Casey Nicholaw, who applied the same glitz and show-biz glitter to Mean Girls, Aladdin and, more to the point here, Something Rotten!, that great mash-up of the Bard and Broadway. Comparisons won’t do The Prom much good – Something Rotten it isn’t, but it tries.
The Prom begins with a first-act of laughs and a demolition of the type of delicious...
Inspired by an actual event – and the inspired is apt – The Prom is the latest razzle-dazzle show-biz love fest from director and choreographer Casey Nicholaw, who applied the same glitz and show-biz glitter to Mean Girls, Aladdin and, more to the point here, Something Rotten!, that great mash-up of the Bard and Broadway. Comparisons won’t do The Prom much good – Something Rotten it isn’t, but it tries.
The Prom begins with a first-act of laughs and a demolition of the type of delicious...
- 11/16/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
David Crow Oct 7, 2018
Director Catherine Hardwicke and the cast reflect on Twilight changing the industry for the better at Nycc anniversary panel.
It was both a remarkably unique and familiar story a decade ago: a film largely considered by its studio to be a “niche” risk, in this case for the teenage girl demographic, suddenly opened bigger than anyone expected. Flush with success, the trendsetting film, Twilight, spawned an immediate slew of sequels and an industry playing copycat catchup. Yet it wasn’t all sunshine and good feelings; the most painful fallout is that a hit movie viewed only marginally above an indie production by its studio also quickly loses its female director. Despite Catherine Hardwicke being an award-winning director, who also enjoyed major cache for directing Thirteen, she was quickly removed from the Twilight franchise and all of the subsequent four sequels were directed by men.
The irony of...
Director Catherine Hardwicke and the cast reflect on Twilight changing the industry for the better at Nycc anniversary panel.
It was both a remarkably unique and familiar story a decade ago: a film largely considered by its studio to be a “niche” risk, in this case for the teenage girl demographic, suddenly opened bigger than anyone expected. Flush with success, the trendsetting film, Twilight, spawned an immediate slew of sequels and an industry playing copycat catchup. Yet it wasn’t all sunshine and good feelings; the most painful fallout is that a hit movie viewed only marginally above an indie production by its studio also quickly loses its female director. Despite Catherine Hardwicke being an award-winning director, who also enjoyed major cache for directing Thirteen, she was quickly removed from the Twilight franchise and all of the subsequent four sequels were directed by men.
The irony of...
- 10/7/2018
- Den of Geek
Cloak & Dagger‘s freshman season came to an explosive conclusion with Thursday’s finale, which pushed Tandy and Tyrone to their breaking points — then offered a wild peek into the show’s future.
A quick recap: After learning about the whole “Divine Pairing” situation, Tyrone volunteered to sacrifice himself to save the city, but Tandy wasn’t about to let him die just because some old legend claimed that only one of them could survive. And wouldn’t you know it, their team-up prevented the explosion without costing either of their lives.
Speaking of lives (not) being lost, O...
A quick recap: After learning about the whole “Divine Pairing” situation, Tyrone volunteered to sacrifice himself to save the city, but Tandy wasn’t about to let him die just because some old legend claimed that only one of them could survive. And wouldn’t you know it, their team-up prevented the explosion without costing either of their lives.
Speaking of lives (not) being lost, O...
- 8/3/2018
- TVLine.com
Graham Nash celebrates the movements of 1968 and 2018 in the new animated video for the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young classic, “Teach Your Children.”
For the video, Nash partnered with filmmaker and painter Jeff Scher (who recently directed a video for Joan Baez’s “The President Sang Amazing Grace”). The first half of the “Teach Your Children” clip features black-and-white renderings of moments that defined the Sixties, from the Civil Rights and anti-war movements through the shooting of protestors at Kent State.
The video then seamlessly transitions to a vibrant illustration...
For the video, Nash partnered with filmmaker and painter Jeff Scher (who recently directed a video for Joan Baez’s “The President Sang Amazing Grace”). The first half of the “Teach Your Children” clip features black-and-white renderings of moments that defined the Sixties, from the Civil Rights and anti-war movements through the shooting of protestors at Kent State.
The video then seamlessly transitions to a vibrant illustration...
- 8/2/2018
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
While members of President Trump's administration continue to deal with blowback from a challenging week -- including getting kicked out of restaurants -- his youngest daughter's having no trouble fitting in in NYC. Tiffany Trump hit up 2018's NYC Pride fest Saturday with a group of friends, celebrating around the city to support the Lgbt cause while visiting some hot spots like Soho House. It's interesting ... many Pride attendees are wearing rainbow-colored "Love Trumps Hate...
- 6/24/2018
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
“Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon turned up at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School’s graduation ceremony Sunday, where he gave the commencement address and thanked the students for their activism after the shooting that killed 17 at the Parkland, Fla. school.
While the proceedings were solemn overall, particularly at moments remembering the slain students, Fallon brought some levity to the ceremony as well, and encouraged the students to celebrate their achievements.
“You won’t be classmates anymore. You’ll be adults who Facebook search each other at 2 in the morning for the next 10 years,” he joked.
Fallon pointed out that he met several members of the class of 2018 at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington D.C. this past spring. Several seniors at Marjory Stoneman have become activists agitating for gun control reform and made headlines for their work, including the school’s Lgbt club president, Emma Gonzalez.
Fallon...
While the proceedings were solemn overall, particularly at moments remembering the slain students, Fallon brought some levity to the ceremony as well, and encouraged the students to celebrate their achievements.
“You won’t be classmates anymore. You’ll be adults who Facebook search each other at 2 in the morning for the next 10 years,” he joked.
Fallon pointed out that he met several members of the class of 2018 at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington D.C. this past spring. Several seniors at Marjory Stoneman have become activists agitating for gun control reform and made headlines for their work, including the school’s Lgbt club president, Emma Gonzalez.
Fallon...
- 6/3/2018
- by Erin Nyren
- Variety Film + TV
Celebrities and politicians have taken to social media to share their thoughts on Friday’s shooting at a Santa Fe, Texas, high school that left at least 10 people dead, including several students, according to authorities. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, as well as celebrities like Ellen DeGeneres, Alyssa Milano, Mayim Bialik, and more expressed their sadness and frustration on Twitter.
“Sending all of my love to the students and families in Santa Fe, Texas,” DeGeneres wrote. “We can do better than this. We must do better than this.”
Sending all of my love to the students and families in Santa Fe, Texas. We can do better than this. We must do better than this.
— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) May 18, 2018
More celebrities decried gun violence in America at large. “I don’t know that there are words anymore for what continues to happen in this country,” tweeted “Big Bang Theory” actress Bialik.
“Sending all of my love to the students and families in Santa Fe, Texas,” DeGeneres wrote. “We can do better than this. We must do better than this.”
Sending all of my love to the students and families in Santa Fe, Texas. We can do better than this. We must do better than this.
— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) May 18, 2018
More celebrities decried gun violence in America at large. “I don’t know that there are words anymore for what continues to happen in this country,” tweeted “Big Bang Theory” actress Bialik.
- 5/18/2018
- by Christi Carras
- Variety Film + TV
12:30 Pm Pt -- Texas Governor Greg Abbott has confirmed at least 10 dead and 10 more wounded in this morning's attack. In addition to the two guns the shooter brought with him -- which were owned by the suspect's father -- he had also planted multiple explosive devices in his home, vehicle, and at the school. The suspect has been identified as 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis. The Governor claimed the student had admitted to initially intending to take his own life,...
- 5/18/2018
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
James Shaw Jr. -- the man who heroically disarmed the Waffle House gunman last month and saved lives -- just met with a bunch of fellow young heroes trying to save many more lives in the future. James shared a pic with Parkland student leader Emma Gonzalez Saturday, saying he met one of his heroes today. Fellow student activist David Hogg also shared a photo with Shaw, saying ... "Wow, just wow ... lots of work ahead...
- 5/12/2018
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Just when it seemed things couldn’t get any worse.…They did. Capping of a tumultuous week of bizarre rants and a Trump-related Twitter firestorm, Kanye West showed up in the TMZ newsroom on May 1 and dropped a few new bombshells. During a rambling 42-minute interview, the erratic rapper announced that he’d been hooked on opioids after liposuction in 2016 and declared that "when you hear about slavery for 400 years…that sounds like a choice." His shocking comments were met with instant backlash from fans, fellow celebrities and especially his own wife, Kim Kardashian. "She’s just so mad at him for embarrassing her — and her family — over and over and over again," says a Kardashian source, noting that Kim is fearful about how Kanye’s behavior affects everything from their children to the Kardashians’ public image and business empire. The pair fought bitterly, adds an insider, because "Kanye was...
- 5/9/2018
- by In Touch Weekly
- In Touch Weekly
After Kanye West spiraled out of control on Twitter last week, his family is keeping their distance. The 40-year-old rapper went on a bizarre rant about philosophy, “the psychological zombie effect,” and his love for Donald Trump. He even shared photos of himself wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat. But things took a turn for the worse when Kanye suggested that 400 years of slavery was a choice during a TMZ interview, and now Kim Kardashian is at "her breaking point." According to Life & Style, the mother-of-three wants a divorce after Kanye's latest outburts. However, it looks like there's still one person who's welcoming him with open arms — and that’s Caitlyn Jenner. “Kanye’s been staying at Cait’s the past few nights,” an insider exclusively tells In Touch. “She’s literally the only woman in the Kardashian clan who’s showing him major love as he expresses his political views.
- 5/3/2018
- by Katie Corvino
- In Touch Weekly
Not even Kim Kardashian can dig Kanye West out of this hole. He's been saying some pretty controversial things lately about politics, free thought, and just about everything else, but his May 1 comments might just be the craziest yet... and there might be no coming back from it. Kanye actually seemed to blame "400 years of slavery" on black people... you know, the ones that were enslaved. He took to Twitter shortly after to clarify his stance, but may have actually made it worse. "To make myself clear. Of course I know that slaves did not get shackled and put on a boat by free will," he wrote on Twitter, after saying it seemed like slavery was "a choice." "My point is for us to have stayed in that position even though the numbers were on our side means that we were mentally enslaved. They cut out our tongues so we couldn't communicate to each other.
- 5/2/2018
- by In Touch Weekly
- In Touch Weekly
Has Kanye West finally pushed Kim Kardashian to the edge? She's been giving him unwavering support despite his pro-Trump spiels and controversial tweets, but on May 1 he may have gone too far. After going on TMZ to say that slavery was "a choice" for black people, an insider tells In Touch exclusively that Kim is really worried about her image being ruined by her rogue husband. "Kim is losing it," the source revealed. "She doesn’t want Kanye putting himself out there like he’s doing because it’s ruining his brand and her family’s image. She thinks he’s doing more damage to their empire than good. She certainly did not approve him going on TMZ and ranting and raving. She’s cringing." It's hard not to cringe. Fans are furious with Yeezy to the point that many may not ever forgive him. Plus, the damage to their image is no small concern.
- 5/1/2018
- by Emy LaCroix
- In Touch Weekly
Rapper Daz Dillinger issued a "Crip Alert" for Kanye West after the hip-hop star publicly supported President Donald Trump. Now, his wife Kim Kardashian, who was infamously robbed at gunpoint in 2016, is worried her family will be hurt because of Kanye's recent Twitter rant. "Kim doesn’t want Kanye out in public with the children. She fears for his and her kids safety," a source told In Touch exclusively. "She’s put her foot down demanding he knock off his foolishness and not take the kids out in public until this dies down. Kim’s over it and wishes Kanye would stop drawing so much unwanted and unnecessary attention to himself and their family." However, the Yeezy designer isn't too concerned about the threats. "Kanye’s telling her he’s not scared [of the negative backlash]," the insider added. "He’s saying law enforcement and the President Trump has his back." A post shared...
- 5/1/2018
- by In Touch Weekly
- In Touch Weekly
In an attempt to seemingly stir the pot with fans, Kanye West declared his love for anti-Black Lives Matter commentator Candace Owens on Twitter. However, along with upsetting his followers, it seems Kanye's comments also upset his wife, Kim Kardashian. "Kanye’s obsessed with Candace Owens and it’s literally driving Kim insane," a source told In Touch exclusively. "He’s constantly admiring her, saying how smart, talented, brave, and unafraid she is. He wants North [West] to be a strong and educated woman just like Candace." Kim is also worried the rapper wants to get too close to the conservative YouTuber. "He raves about Candace in front of Kim and that infuriates the hell out of her and makes her wonder if Kanye wants to be more than just friends with this girl," the insider added. "Kanye’s interest and admiration for this woman is getting out of hand and...
- 4/30/2018
- by In Touch Weekly
- In Touch Weekly
Parkland school shooting survivor Emma Gonzalez is so concentrated on changing the world, she doesn't have time for Kanye West's praise. The 40-year-old rapper gave the 19-year-old activist a shout-out on Twitter, a nod that the teenager abruptly swept under the rug. "My hero Emma Gonzalez," Kanye tweeted out along with a picture of the teen activist. He later shared a second post, a selfie of himself with a newly-shaved head. "Inspired by Emma," he wrote. my hero Emma Gonzalez pic.twitter.com/aSdFmraenU— Kanye West (@kanyewest) April 29, 2018 But instead of feeling flattered or excited by the mega star's admiration and attention, she seemingly snubbed Kim Kardashian's husband by tweeting a response about who her own hero is. "My hero James Shaw Jr. [sic]," Emma wrote to her nearly two million followers. James Shaw, Jr. is the man who attacked and destabilized a gunman who opened fire at with an...
- 4/29/2018
- by Steph Osmanski
- In Touch Weekly
Thanks but no thanks? Kanye West took to Twitter on Saturday to praise Emma González, a student, pro-gun control activist and survivor of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, who earned much praise for her speech at last month's March for Our Lives protest, which the rapper attended with wife Kim Kardashian and daughter North West. Emma appeared to be unimpressed and directed her own praise at someone else. "My hero Emma Gonzalez," Kanye tweeted, using two spaces between the words "hero" and "Emma," alongside a photo of the student at a CNN town hall in which she and others posed questions for Dana...
- 4/29/2018
- E! Online
If there’s one person who can make an entrance in a room packed with VIPs, it’s Jennifer Lopez, who arrived at the Time 100 with her boyfriend Alex Rodriguez and a parade of backup dancers. Decked out in a sequined gown, she had politicians, authors, actors and activists on their feet at the gala, as she sang and danced (in stilettos) to a medley of her greatest hits, including “On The Floor,” “If You Had My Love” and “Jenny From the Block.”
“I love coming back to New York,” said Lopez, adding that her mom from Queens was in the house. “It’s my hometown.” Later in her set, after a costume change, she put on a fur coat. “This works really well in Vegas,” she said, about an outfit that featured a glimmering thong. “In this room, I feel naked in your bedroom.”
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“I love coming back to New York,” said Lopez, adding that her mom from Queens was in the house. “It’s my hometown.” Later in her set, after a costume change, she put on a fur coat. “This works really well in Vegas,” she said, about an outfit that featured a glimmering thong. “In this room, I feel naked in your bedroom.”
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- 4/25/2018
- by Ramin Setoodeh
- Variety Film + TV
Fox News host Laura Ingraham has lost a lot of advertisers since she made fun of David Hogg, one of the more outspoken survivors of the Parkland school shooting, on Twitter. More than two dozen sponsors have fled her show in the past two weeks. But maybe not all is lost — Ingraham, as played by Kate McKinnon, visited Weekend Update on this week’s “SNL” to unveil a whole host of totally real new sponsors for her show. Including “Carl’s Sr.” and “Cream Soda, the soda for whites.”
Below you’ll find a transcript of McKinnon’s appearance as Ingraham, and you can watch this segment in the video embedded above. Which you should watch because it’s really not possible to really capture McKinnon’s impeccable impersonation in text form. You can see the rest of Weekend Update from this week’s “SNL” right here.
Weekend Update co-host Colin Jost: “This week Red Lobster, Blue Apron, and Slim Fast joined the advertiser boycott against Fox News host Laura Ingraham after she mocked Parkland survivor David Hogg for getting rejected from four colleges. She’s back on her show after her forced hiatus. Here to comment is Laura Ingraham.”
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Kate McKinnon as Laura Ingraham: “Hi Colin. Thank you. Hi. Thanks for having me.”
Jost: ‘You’re welcome. You’re welcome. And congratulations on returning to your show.”
Ingraham: “Thank you. It’s so good to be back after that planned vacation. It was so fun and so planned and so scheduled a long time ago. Look, the important thing is I am back. And I’m not going to cave to bullying from the ‘tolerant left.’ I don’t care if I lost a couple sponsors.”
Jost: “Yeah, well, so far you’ve lost 27.”
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Ingraham: “Yeah. And all because I trolled a’ traumatized teen’? After spewing venom for decades, Twitter suddenly has made me accountable? Okay. You know what, that can’t keep me down. Because I’m really excited about some of my new sponsors. Like Carl’s Sr. — leftover Carl’s Jr. food ground to mush for old people. Mmm-mmm, Carl’s Sr. And YourPillow. From the makers of MyPillow. Send us your pillow. We need more pillows. Or how about Shkreli’s Jelly. It’s just jelly that’s $8,000 a jar.”
Jost: “Are those real products, Laura?”
Ingraham: “Yep. You see, the totalitarian left can attack me all they want. But I will continue to defend the First Amendment. That’s my right to bully people without being bullied in return. Right, Colin?
Jost: “Yeah, no, that’s not how it works, Laura.”
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Ingraham: “Oh, fine. But just look. Don’t boycott my show. Our country’s so divided right now, and I’m an important part of that. Let’s move on. You know I’m going to say something worse. Why don’t you just watch the show and find out what that’s going to be? Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to mention more of my sponsors. Like Lady Bump Stock. The lightweight bump stocks for delicate hands. And Reverse Mortgage. We’ll take that house now. And how about Malaysian Airlines. Caught in a scandal and need an escape? Malaysian Airlines.” [Ingraham spreads her arms to mimic an airplane]
Jost: “Okay, Laura, I really– [laughing] Don’t act out Malaysian — I don’t think those are real sponsors.”
Ingraham: “What do you want me to say? I’m getting pwned by teenagers. Am I using that right?”
Jost: “I don’t really–“
Ingraham: “Pwned?”
Jost: “I definitely don’t know.”
Ingraham: “I don’t understand anything anymore. I mean, Emma Gonzalez looks like some badass superhero trying to change the world. But when I was in high school it was bad to try. I said I wanted to try art, and I got kicked in the face. But I didn’t say I was getting bullied, I just grew up into this. But you know who’s not afraid to sponsor this? Cream Soda. The soda for whites. You got the white one, baby!”
Jost: “All right, all right. All right, Laura, I think that’s enough.”
Ingraham: “Can I say one more thing about the Parkland kids?”
Jost: “No! That got you in trouble.”
Ingraham: “Oh, fine.”
Jost: “Laura Ingraham, everyone.”
Ingraham: “Watch my show while you can!”
For the rest of this week’s edition of Weekend Update on “SNL,” you can check out this post right here.
Read original story ‘SNL': Laura Ingraham Visits Weekend Update to Reveal New Sponsors, Like ‘Carl’s Sr.’ and ‘Lady Bump Stock’ (Video) At TheWrap...
Below you’ll find a transcript of McKinnon’s appearance as Ingraham, and you can watch this segment in the video embedded above. Which you should watch because it’s really not possible to really capture McKinnon’s impeccable impersonation in text form. You can see the rest of Weekend Update from this week’s “SNL” right here.
Weekend Update co-host Colin Jost: “This week Red Lobster, Blue Apron, and Slim Fast joined the advertiser boycott against Fox News host Laura Ingraham after she mocked Parkland survivor David Hogg for getting rejected from four colleges. She’s back on her show after her forced hiatus. Here to comment is Laura Ingraham.”
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Kate McKinnon as Laura Ingraham: “Hi Colin. Thank you. Hi. Thanks for having me.”
Jost: ‘You’re welcome. You’re welcome. And congratulations on returning to your show.”
Ingraham: “Thank you. It’s so good to be back after that planned vacation. It was so fun and so planned and so scheduled a long time ago. Look, the important thing is I am back. And I’m not going to cave to bullying from the ‘tolerant left.’ I don’t care if I lost a couple sponsors.”
Jost: “Yeah, well, so far you’ve lost 27.”
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Ingraham: “Yeah. And all because I trolled a’ traumatized teen’? After spewing venom for decades, Twitter suddenly has made me accountable? Okay. You know what, that can’t keep me down. Because I’m really excited about some of my new sponsors. Like Carl’s Sr. — leftover Carl’s Jr. food ground to mush for old people. Mmm-mmm, Carl’s Sr. And YourPillow. From the makers of MyPillow. Send us your pillow. We need more pillows. Or how about Shkreli’s Jelly. It’s just jelly that’s $8,000 a jar.”
Jost: “Are those real products, Laura?”
Ingraham: “Yep. You see, the totalitarian left can attack me all they want. But I will continue to defend the First Amendment. That’s my right to bully people without being bullied in return. Right, Colin?
Jost: “Yeah, no, that’s not how it works, Laura.”
Also Read: 'SNL' Weekend Update Host Michael Che Says Trump Is as 'Healthy as a Fat Horse' (Video)
Ingraham: “Oh, fine. But just look. Don’t boycott my show. Our country’s so divided right now, and I’m an important part of that. Let’s move on. You know I’m going to say something worse. Why don’t you just watch the show and find out what that’s going to be? Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to mention more of my sponsors. Like Lady Bump Stock. The lightweight bump stocks for delicate hands. And Reverse Mortgage. We’ll take that house now. And how about Malaysian Airlines. Caught in a scandal and need an escape? Malaysian Airlines.” [Ingraham spreads her arms to mimic an airplane]
Jost: “Okay, Laura, I really– [laughing] Don’t act out Malaysian — I don’t think those are real sponsors.”
Ingraham: “What do you want me to say? I’m getting pwned by teenagers. Am I using that right?”
Jost: “I don’t really–“
Ingraham: “Pwned?”
Jost: “I definitely don’t know.”
Ingraham: “I don’t understand anything anymore. I mean, Emma Gonzalez looks like some badass superhero trying to change the world. But when I was in high school it was bad to try. I said I wanted to try art, and I got kicked in the face. But I didn’t say I was getting bullied, I just grew up into this. But you know who’s not afraid to sponsor this? Cream Soda. The soda for whites. You got the white one, baby!”
Jost: “All right, all right. All right, Laura, I think that’s enough.”
Ingraham: “Can I say one more thing about the Parkland kids?”
Jost: “No! That got you in trouble.”
Ingraham: “Oh, fine.”
Jost: “Laura Ingraham, everyone.”
Ingraham: “Watch my show while you can!”
For the rest of this week’s edition of Weekend Update on “SNL,” you can check out this post right here.
Read original story ‘SNL': Laura Ingraham Visits Weekend Update to Reveal New Sponsors, Like ‘Carl’s Sr.’ and ‘Lady Bump Stock’ (Video) At TheWrap...
- 4/15/2018
- by Phil Owen
- The Wrap
Another day, another mindblowing tweet from Jenelle Evans. On April 10, she had another tweet-and-delete rant, mostly about how haters don't want to see her happy. One of said haters mentioned that they considered Jenelle's husband David Eason to be a racist, and things took a wild turn when Jenelle insisted he can't be racist... because he's black. Yes, seriously. Watch the video above to see the wild exchange. Jenelle tried to use David's Ancestry.com analysis to back up her claims. The hilarious part is that the he was considered less than 1% African, under a section labeled "low confidence regions" that doesn't even show up unless you select "show more." Ancestry.com describes this as "areas for which there's a small amount of DNA evidence found in your sample. All ethnicities with predicted percentages of less than 4.5% appear as low confidence regions." Of course, the argument isn't really whether or...
- 4/12/2018
- by Emy LaCroix
- In Touch Weekly
Teen Mom 2 star Jenelle Evans, 26, tied the knot to her newest baby daddy David Eason back in September, so if you haven't gotten to know Jenelle's new man already, now's the time! Luckily, we did the digging for you. Read on for some fun facts about three-year-old Kaiser and eight-year-old Jace's new step dad. He has a questionable past. David has had some trouble with the law. As recently as just two weeks before his wedding, Jenelle's fiancé narrowly avoided jail time for violating a restraining order by hugging his son from a previous relationship. Luckily, he got off with just one year of probation, rather than the 60 days of prison that he was originally facing. He has actually done time before for larceny, breaking and entering, injury to property, and drug paraphernalia possession, during which he was cellmates with Jenelle's ex-husband Courtland Rogers. He has three kids of his own.
- 4/10/2018
- by Emy LaCroix
- In Touch Weekly
Nothing gets your Monday going quite like a conspiracy theory from Jenelle Evans. The Teen Mom 2 star — who recently slammed rumors she was fired from the show — posted a snap of her hubby, David Eason, going "off the grid" and shared her thoughts on chemtrails. "Yeah isn't that s--t crazy?! she responded back to someone who pointed out the white marks in the sky. "This pic was taken like two months ago and now I found out about it yesterday." A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency fact sheet on contrails states that they're simply trails of condensation that pose no threat to the Earth. However, conspiracy theorists have become suspicious that the contrails expelled from jets today are thicker and linger longer than they did in the past. So, while people accept that contrails are natural byproducts from airplanes, their suspicion is that the government has used that excuse to put harmful substances in those trails.
- 4/9/2018
- by Megan Heintz
- In Touch Weekly
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