Damn! Shakira is channeling her anger and heartbreak in the music video for her new single Monotonía!
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Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast last week.The wealthy film producer and activist spoke with Maron about her new documentary that takes aim at her family’s company, called “The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales,” as well as her family’s battle with addiction.Disney told Maron that while her great uncle Walt was a “chaotic genius,” he and his brother played up prejudices of the time. “They weren’t shy about delving into the stereotypes if it served them,” she said.The Post reached out to the Disney company for comment.The heiress noted that Disney positioned the wolf from the “Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf” as a a “Jewish peddler” and named one of the wisecracking black crows from “Dumbo” Jim Crow.The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People called out Disney when he made “Song of the South,” a 1946 film set in the Reconstruction-era American south that reinforced racist stereotypes.“When they made ‘Song of the South,’ people from the NAACP came to the studio and they said ‘please don’t do it this way.
Please talk to us,'” she said, noting that her family pushed forward any way.“In some enclosed way Disney is an American fascist fantasy,” Maron said. “Well yeah that’s what it is– and it isn’t,” she replied.
“They were men of their time but that’s not an excuse….they knew.”In recent years, the company has worked to scrub any traces of its controversial past, removing racist themes from “Song of the South” and updating “Splash Mountain,” the ride inspired by the movie. It also took its Jungle Cruise out of operation to update and get rid of negative racial stereotypes of native people — and it even removed Walt Disney’s iconic opening day speech, which it has featured every year since 1955 at
.Damn! Shakira is channeling her anger and heartbreak in the music video for her new single Monotonía!
An award-winning butcher has been slammed and forced to remove a social media post after using a Jeffrey Dahmer joke to help promote discounted meat online. Gareth Lewis regularly makes puns regarding trending topics online and ties it back to advertise the business as the jokes bring attention to his Facebook posts.
Greta Van Fleet vocalist Josh Kiszka ruptured an eardrum during a recent show in Maine, forcing the band to postpone a number of upcoming shows while he recovers.Kiszka made the announcement on social media today (October 18), informing ticketholders for the band’s forthcoming shows – in Raleigh North Carolina (tonight), Greenville, South Carolina (on Wednesday October 19), and Jacksonville, Florida (on Friday October 21) – that they would be rescheduled to later dates.Kiszka went on to elaborate on his ear injury, writing that he “ruptured an eardrum” during the band’s most recent show, which took place in the city of Bangor on Saturday October 8. The singer wrote that “upon further evaluation I have just been advised it needs more time to fully heal than initially anticipated.”A post shared by Greta Van Fleet (@gretavanfleet)Kiszka continued: “I’m working closely with my team to ensure I get proper rest in order to finish out the year strong.” Later in the post, he assured fans that new dates for the performances will be announced “as soon as possible”, before explaining that tickets for those three shows will remain valid for the rescheduled dates.
Gerard Piqué, despite the public backlash he has faced since his split from Shakira and his romance with Clara Chía. While the soccer player is already a father of two, he has reportedly shared his desire to procreate again- this time with Chía.While Piqué has been photographed with his new love, he has not made any public statements. He is not keeping it a secret from his closest circle of friends though.
King Charles III's great uncle Lord Mountbatten is being accused of allegedly abusing a boy at a children's home in the 1970s. A man called Arthur Smyth has claimed that he was abused twice by Lord Mountbatten at the Kincora home in Belfast, Northern Ireland when he was 11 years old.The earl died in 1979 after the IRA detonated a bomb on his boat in Mullaghmore, Co Sligo. Smyth's lawyer Kevin Winters of KRW Law said the allegations would be taken up against state bodies responsible for Kincora home.
“Reservation Dogs” on Hulu just wrapped up an outstanding second season, and FX greenlit the show for a third season. The critically acclaimed TV series centers on four Indigenous teenagers — the eponymous gang from which the show takes its namesake, the Reservation Dogs— living on a reservation in rural Oklahoma.
Erika Jayne’s legal woes have been well documented. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star has mainly been wrapped up in an embezzlement case involving her ex-husband, Tom Girardi. Due to the numerous claims Girardi was facing, he was forced to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2020.
Khloé Kardashian‘s surgeon, Dr. Garth Fisher, is speaking out after removing a tumur on Khloe’s face. Thanking the 38-year-old Good American co-founder for allowing him to operate on her, Fisher said it felt like he was operating on “his own daughter,” before sharing his relief that Khloe was able to get past the health scare.
Khloe Kardashian's surgeon, Dr. Garth Fisher, is speaking out after removing a tumor on Khloe's face. Thanking the 38-year-old Good American co-founder for allowing him to operate on her, Fisher said it felt like he was operating on «his own daughter,» before sharing his relief that Khloe was able to get past the health scare.«Dear Khloe, @khloekardashian, you and your family have been dear to me for a very long time.
EJ Panaligan editor In the new trailer for “M3GAN,” an AI, childlike robot doll has a murderous taste for blood. The film comes from the esteemed horror production company Blumhouse, in close collaboration with horror maestro James Wan, who was notably behind the “Saw,” “Insidious” and “Conjuring” franchises. “M3GAN” stars Allison Williams as Gemma, a toy company roboticist who programs the artificial intelligence doll. Gemma tasks the doll with protecting her grieving niece Cady, played by Violet McGraw, who lost both of her parents in a car crash. While Cady and M3GAN hit it off initially, the doll’s brutal side takes over when Cady gets bullied by an insensitive boy. M3GAN seeks to protect her from physical harm. The trailer is soundtracked by Taylor Swift’s “It’s Nice to Have a Friend.”
Shakira and Gerard Piqué might be living separate lives and going through a rocky legal battle but the former couple would be in the same room for their two boys, Milan and Sasha. Recently, the singer and the soccer player were capture sitting and cheering from the sidelines in Milan’s baseball game in Valencia, Spain.The match was held at the Jardin del Turia Baseball Field and was packed with parents and other family members of the little athletes.
Jennie Garth is getting candid about her daughter’s health.
Convicted felon Anna Sorokin may soon be strolling down New York City streets a free woman after a judge granted her bond Wednesday while her deportation case winds through immigration court. The social grifter, whose cons inspired the hit Netflix series "Inventing Anna," has been locked up for 17 months while fighting a deportation order for overstaying her visa. "The government failed to demonstrate that she posed such a threat to public safety that the only possible solution is to lock her up in jail," her immigration lawyer John Sandweg told Fox News Digital. "This doesn’t mean the deportation case stops.The government will continue to press for Ms.
Things just aren’t the same for Kourtney Kardashian and her little sister Khloé.
Rebecca Gayheart‘s daughter Billie is all grown up!
Speaking her piece. Christina Hall (née Haack) has come to an agreement with ex-husband Ant Anstead amid their contentious custody battle over son Hudson — but not without giving her side of the story.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Gerhard Zeiler, president of International at Warner Bros. Discovery, has moved to reassure the Asia-Pacific region that it is an integral part of the group’s post-merger strategy. “Don’t believe that we don’t know how important Asia is for our company, he said Thursday. Zeiler was speaking at the APOS Convention in Singapore on Thursday. He cited examples of theatrical success for “Batman” and “Fantastic Beasts” in the region and investment in local production in the region. The reassurance may have been necessary following post-merger announcements that proposed changes in North America, Latin America and Europe ahead of Asia – despite recent external data showing Asia-Pacific as one of the world’s fastest growth regions.
EXCLUSIVE: Miramax is producing the J.T. Mollner directed thriller Strange Darling which is currently shooting in Portland, OR with Willa Fitzgerald (The Fall of the House of Usher, Scream: The TV Series), Kyle Gallner (Smile, Dinner in America), Emmy Award nominee Ed Begley Jr. (St. Elsewhere, Better Call Saul), and Oscar nominee Barbara Hershey (The Portrait of a Lady, Black Swan).
Ofcom “cannot and should not regulate the culture wars,” Michael Grade, the new Chair of the UK broadcasting regulator, has said.