CAA’s Maha Dakhil, Agent To Tom Cruise & Steven Spielberg, Apologizes After Calling Israel’s Response To Hamas “Genocide”

Comedian Brian Conley has always made the nation chuckle, but what his EastEnders character Rocky Cotton has done is no laughing matter. Desperate to clear his huge gambling debt, Rocky set fire to his wife’s café hoping to claim on insurance. However, his plan backfired as the blaze had huge repercussions for the Beale family and this week Kathy (Gillian Taylforth) gets arrested for arson.

Caroline Brew editor “American Valor: A Salute to Our Heroes,” the American Veterans Center’s annual Veterans Day broadcast special, will return to television this year on Nov. 11 to pay tribute to service men and women from World War II to present day. Emmy-nominated actor and U.S.

Bruce Cohen In 1992, being out at work in Hollywood wasn’t really much of a thing and yet, I found myself coming out to Steven Spielberg in his office. I had started my career in film as the DGA trainee on “The Color Purple” in 1985, keenly aware of how astonishing it was not only to have Steven as my boss on my first movie but also to have it feature such a bold and beautiful portrayal of LGBTQ+ representation. Producing along with Steven and Quincy Jones were Kathy Kennedy and Frank Marshall.

Michaela Zee Aaron Sorkin has dropped CAA over controversial social media posts regarding Israel from agent Maha Dakhil, Variety has confirmed. The “Social Network” and “West Wing” writer is returning to WME, which he had been previously repped by until his move to CAA in 2017. Dakhil, who represents A-list talent such as Tom Cruise and Natalie Portman, resigned from CAA’s internal board on Sunday following the controversial comments she made on Israel, as well as stepped away from her leadership duties as co-head of the agency’s motion pictures department.

CAA is dealing with the fallout of the Maha Dakhil situation.

A massive collection of some of Hollywood’s biggest names have commended President Joe Biden for his “unshakable moral conviction” and helping to get home some of the hostages taken by Hamas in their terror attack against Israel.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer A dizzying amount of A-list Hollywood actors, comedians and entertainment executives signed an open letter to President Joe Biden on Monday, calling for the release of all hostages taken by terrorist group Hamas. Amy Schumer, Sacha Baron Cohen, Chris Rock, Gwyneth Paltrow, Katy Perry, Bradley Cooper, Justin Timberlake and more were among the highly visible figures to sign the note, launching a formal campaign called #NoHostageLeftBehind.

The Los Angeles Times reported.On Sunday, CAA confirmed that Dakhil also would, for the time being, give up her position as co-head of the motion picture department. While stepping back from some of her responsibilities, the powerful agent will continue working with her current A-list clientele, CAA said. Dakhil on Wednesday reposted an Instagram story that read, in part, “You’re learning who supports genocide.” In addition to the post, Dakhil wrote, “That’s the line for me.” She shared a second photo with the caption, “What’s more heartbreaking than witnessing genocide? Witnessing the denial that genocide is happening.” Soon after the posts were deleted and Dakhil issued an apology to Variety for the “hurtful language.” “I made a mistake with a repost in my Instagram story, which used hurtful language.

Michaela Zee CAA agent Maha Dakhil has resigned from the agency’s internal board after making controversial comments on social media regarding Israel. She is also is stepping away from her leadership duties as co-head of the motion pictures department, Variety has confirmed. Dakhil, who represents A-list talent such as Tom Cruise, Natalie Portman and Madonna, will continue to work with her clients and CAA colleagues while spending time in her personal education process on the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

Maha Dakhil, who was Co-Head of Motion Pictures at CAA, has stepped down from leadership and resigned from the agency’s internal board after her controversial comments on Israel’s response to the Hamas terror attacks.

Kirk Douglas.Between them, a group of Jews whose families had lived in constant fear of persecution gave America, and the world, the golden age of cinema. Classics from “The Wizard of Oz” and “Singin’ in the Rain” to “Ben Hur” and “Gone with the Wind” exist because of them.So why, after the most heinous mass murders of Jews since the Holocaust, is Hollywood incapable of recognizing its own history — and why does it have such a Jew problem?In the days since the Hamas attacks in Israel, the powerful and the rich have truly exposed themselves.Maha Dakhil, co-head of motion pictures at CAA and agent to Tom Cruise, Madonna, Reese Witherspoon, Olivia Wilde, and American Israeli Natalie Portman, this week accused Israel of “genocide.”She re-posted, “You’re currently learning who supports genocide,” before adding her own caption: “That’s the line for me.” John Cusack, that one-time 80s heartthrob, wrote on X: “I was out at the Palestinian march in Chicago.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer A powerful agent to A-list celebrity clients like Tom Cruise and Madonna is under fire at her company, Creative Artists Agency, and in the larger Hollywood community over controversial Instagram posts regarding Israel. On Wednesday evening, CAA‘s star-whisperer Maha Dakhil reposted a statement from an account labeled Free Palestine, which weighed in on Israel’s response to the Oct. 7 terror attack executed by Islamic extremist group Hamas.

Tom Cruise and the Beckhams were one of the most fan-favorite friendships in Hollywood, with the actor being photographed with his then-wife Katie Holmes in multiple events with David and Victoria Beckham. The group solidified their friendship in 2007 when the pair moved to Los Angeles, but they would grow apart soon after this.Romeo Beckham’s girlfriend Mia Regan gives update on their relationshipVictoria Beckham remembers lying in a hospital bed while David Beckham was in a photo shoot with Jennifer LopezVictoria Beckham’s healthy diet: How she maintains her incredible figureDavid and Victoria decided to move to the United States when the athlete entered the LA Galaxy squad, and it was reportedly the actor who helped them meet other big stars in the entertainment industry.

The Mirror: “Tom did everything for them when they first moved to LA. He practically gave them the keys to the city.

Tom Cruise.The actor, who next stars as a young Willy Wonka in the upcoming musical fantasy film Wonka, shared during an interview with GQ an email Cruise had sent him after he finished filming on 2021’s Dune.“After I met Tom Cruise, right after finishing the first Dune, he sent me the most wonderfully inspiring email,” Chalamet said.As noted in the interview, the email contained a list of experts that he might need for stunt training, including a motorcycle coach and a helicopter coach.Chalamet added: “He basically said, in Old Hollywood, you would be getting dance training and fight training, and nobody is going to hold you to that standard today. So it’s up to you.

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the first “Dune” movie.“He basically said, in Old Hollywood, you would be getting dance training and fight training, and nobody is going to hold you to that standard today. So it’s up to you.

fight with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) against Hamas, The Post has learned that he’s not the only celeb bodyguard to do so.Oded Krashinsky, who has protected celebrities like Nicole Kidman, flew from Los Angeles to Israel to help train IDF soldiers and kibbutz members in Northern Israel.“I came here to help my unit. The morale is tense.

reportedly returned home to Israel to volunteer in the Israeli Defense Forces amid the war with Hamas. The unidentified security guard, who gained online fame during Swift’s “Eras Tour” this summer, posted a picture in his military uniform to his Facebook on Sunday, writing, in part, ‘I Stand with Israel… shouldn’t be just about a person stands with the one and only Jewish state.

Ethan Shanfeld “Deadpool 3” and “Stranger Things” director Shawn Levy is showering praise on this weekend’s box office ruler, Taylor Swift, calling her a “generational voice and creative force” and likening her directorial vision to that of Steven Spielberg. Swift, whose cinematic rendering of the blockbuster Eras Tour is poised to rake in north of $100 million this weekend, directed Levy as an actor in her 2021 short film, “All Too Well,” which also starred Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien.