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In Robert Altman's 1992 film The Player , a satirical noir thriller about a Hollywood movie studio exec who literally gets away with murder, a minor subplot involves two hustling screenwriters pitching a dark-spirited "independent" picture called Habeas Corpus . It's a gritty drama about a woman wrongly accused of murder who still fries in the gas chamber, but only after falling in love with her prosecuting attorney, who tragically then manages to produce evidence of her innocence moments after her death.
Mainstream awareness of Breitbart, Infowars and other unsavory conservative "news" outlets has skyrocketed, as millions suddenly found themselves needing to know who Steve Bannon et al. were. For me, none of these outlets or talking points were news: I'm Texas born-and-raised.
Filmmaker Gabrielle Burton said she didn't plan for her documentary about the drag scene in Ohio's capital city to achieve wider distribution at a time of political and cultural division. "Kings, Queens, & In-Betweens" had screenings in Columbus and New York last Friday and becomes available on iTunes, Amazon and some cable providers next week.
Editor's note: In October 2016, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission began investigating Hollywood's gender gap. Before it delivers its recommendations to the Trump administration, Truthdig contributor Carrie Rickey considers the historic accomplishments of women behind the camera, how they got marginalized, and how they are fighting for equal employment.
David Fincher the director of Fight Club, Seven and Gone Girl is making a new series on Netflix called Mindhunter. And would you believe it, it looks fantastically creepy.
Even after more than two years since John Mellencamp and Meg Ryan broke up, it seems all is not well between the exes. "My manager went in and was talking to the record company, and the president of the record company - who I won't mention his name, but you could probably figure it out - said, 'I don't know why Mellencamp insists on having these [n--s] singing with him", Mellencamp told Howard Stern on SiriusXM this morning.
Storm chasers and storm spotters came together Sunday to spell out a virtual tribute to Bill Paxton after learning about his sudden passing due to complications from surgery. They were paying homage to the man who played Bill Harding, a veteran meteorologist and storm chaser in the 1996 hit movie, Twister.
Actress Heather Matarazzo, who starred in the cult classic Welcome to the Dollhouse back in the '90s, called trans athletic superstar Caitlyn Jenner a "cunt" on Twitter for supporting Donald Trump. Yesterday , Jenner sent a public message to Donald Trump chiding him for failing to protect trans people.
President Donald Trump on Thursday made a messy case that he "inherited a mess" from his predecessor. Economic stats and territorial losses of Islamic State insurgents don't support his assertions about the problems handed to him on those fronts.
On Tuesday's Hardball , MSNBC's Chris Matthews and New York Times White House correspondent Glenn Thrush happily speculated that the idea of the Trump administration being hit by a special prosecutor would be "one of the richest ironies and perhaps the biggest consolation prize for the Clintons" following the 1990s and 2016. Matthews turned to Thrush by touting Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's plea for the Justice Department to investigate the Trump White House but not "Jeff Sessions doing it so you have one of these recusal kinda things."
Bellerose Composite High School is mounting the musical "Catch Me If You Can" from Feb. 7 to 9 p.m. at the Arden Theatre. Catch Me If You Can Bellerose High Musical Theatre Arts and Production Feb. 7 to 9 at 7 p.m. Arden Theatre 5 St. Anne Street Tickets: Tuesday $10; Wednesday, Thursday $20.
Seeing as " An Inconvenient Sequel " kicked off the Sundance Film Festival last week, it is the perfect time to revisit Davis Guggenheim and Al Gore 's 2006 documentary about climate change. When two Black Hawk helicopters are shot down during a mission into the heart of Mogadishu a group of soldiers must fight to stay alive until they can be rescued.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., speaks to participants of EMILY's List "Ready to Run" candidate training at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 22, 2017. The day after the Women's March brought half a million people to Washington, 500 women from across the country spent Sunday learning how to run for office.
XXx: Return of Xander Cage sees the return of original star Vin Diesel, left, with appearances by action star Donnie Yen and Deepika Padukone. XXx: Return of Xander Cage sees the return of original star Vin Diesel, left, with appearances by action star Donnie Yen and Deepika Padukone.
NOVEMBER 30: Actor Rob Schneider attends the premiere of Netflix's 'The Ridiculous 6' at AMC Universal City Walk on November 30, 2015 in Universal City, California. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, it's important to talk about King's legacy.
Hollywood heavyweight Robert De Niro has come to the defense of Meryl Streep, saying her speech at the Golden Globes was "great." The multiple Oscar-winner wrote a letter of support to his "The Deer Hunter" co-star following fallout after her attack on President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday.
At the Golden Globes on Sunday night, Meryl Streep was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award and gave a politically-charged acceptance speech about the importance of diversity and freedom. Though she did not reference President-elect Donald Trump by name, she mentioned a moment when "the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back."
Meryl Streep poses in the press room with the Cecil B. DeMille award at the 74th annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Meryl Streep's acceptance speech after receiving a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes turned out to be the opening volley in a war of words with President-elect Donald Trump. The actress never mentioned Trump by name, but it was clear who her target was in pointedly saying that a performance from the past year that stunned her came from the campaign trail.
President-elect Donald Trump is firing back at Meryl Streep after the actress used her acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes to scold him for mocking a disabled reporter during the presidential campaign. "Meryl Streep, one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn't know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes," Trump tweeted, noting that Streep had campaigned for his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.