Academy members support ‘No Other Land’ team via open letter

Academy members support ‘No Other Land’ team via open letter

The Israeli and Palestinian directors behind β€œNo Other Land” aren’t alone in their disappointment in the film academy’s lackluster response to the recent attack on and detainment of Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal. A letter touting support from 600 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences β€” including multiple Oscar winners β€” condemned…

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Paige Bueckers offers insight into what comes next for JuJu Watkins

Paige Bueckers offers insight into what comes next for JuJu Watkins

SPOKANE, Wash.Β β€”Β The first week after Paige Bueckers tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee in August 2022, the questions haunted the Connecticut star most. β€œThe first week was devastation,” Bueckers recalled Friday, 2Β½ years later. β€œA sense of just hurt, disappointment, a why-me sort of mentality, why now.” For teammate Azzi Fudd, who…

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FCC chair opens investigation into Disney and ABC for DEI practices

FCC chair opens investigation into Disney and ABC for DEI practices

The Federal Communications Commission has launched an investigation into Walt Disney Co. and its broadcast subsidiary ABC over the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs, Chairman Brendan Carr said Friday. The investigation will β€œensure that Disney and ABC have not been violating FCC equal employment opportunity regulations by promoting invidious forms of DEI discrimination,” Carr…

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CBS Reports – City Under Surveillance

CBS Reports – City Under Surveillance

CBS Reports – City Under Surveillance – CBS News Watch CBS News The Detroit Police Department is using facial recognition technology and a network of surveillance cameras to combat the city’s high crime rates. But critics say the technology has racial bias built into it and has even landed innocent people behind bars. In this…

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Ridley Scott’s ‘Modville’ graphic novel debuts. Can it survive?

Ridley Scott’s ‘Modville’ graphic novel debuts. Can it survive?

When Ridley Scott, visionary director of β€œAlien,” β€œBlade Runner” and β€œGladiator,” connects with your story, it’s probably a good idea to explore it in any medium possible. β€œModville,” a four-issue neo-noir graphic novel set in New Orleans in 2169 that unfolds in a world of crime and artificial humans (known as mods), was just that…

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Selena’s family ‘grateful’ singer’s killer didn’t get parole

Selena’s family ‘grateful’ singer’s killer didn’t get parole

Selena’s family is β€œgrateful” that the young singer’s killer, Yolanda SaldΓ­var, was denied parole Thursday in Texas. SaldΓ­var, 64, is serving a life sentence for the March 31, 1995, murder that took place at a Corpus Christi hotel after the singer, whose last name was Quintanilla-PΓ©rez, accused friend SaldΓ­var of embezzling $30,000. The older woman…

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