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Touhou Project began in 1997 as a series of Japanese doujin (independent) video games. It wasn’t until 2002 that developer Zun found his groove. That year’s Embodiment of Scarlet Devil set the formula: girls in frilly dresses trading barbed compliments while blasting each other with lasers. 2003’s Perfect Cherry Blossom perfected it. Since then, Touhou has grown to encompass 19 official games plus spin-offs. The newest in the series, Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost , came out just last year. Touhou Project is more than just a series of video games. It is the river from which everything flows. In the past 22 years since the release of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil , fans have been busy mapping every corner of the world of Gensokyo. The internet is flooded with fan art, comics, albums , memes , music videos and even a multi-episode independent anime production . Touhou gave us Undertale . I’m pretty sure it laid the groundwork for v-tubers.

Rapper Kanye West took to social media to issue a public apology written in Hebrew and said that he “deeply regrets” his anti-Semitic remarks. “I sincerely apologise to the Jewish community for any ‘unintended outburst’ caused by my words or actions,’ ” the 46-year-old wrote, translated to English.

“It was not my intention to hurt or demean, and I deeply regret any pain I may have caused.”

Kanye went on to vow that he’s “committed to starting with myself and learning from this experience to ensure greater sensitivity and understanding in the future.”

He added: “Your forgiveness is important to me, and I am committed to making amends and promoting unity.”

Catching wind of his post, the Anti-Defamation League responded through a statement: “After causing untold damage by using his vast influence and platform to poison countless minds with vicious antisemitism and hate, an apology in Hebrew may be the...

Just ahead of the January 12 release of his latest album Vultures, Kanye West posted an apology on his Instagram Tuesday in Hebrew for his past antisemitic remarks.

The rapper, who goes by the name Ye, has faced intense criticism for his antisemitic outbursts, and now is asking forgiveness from the Jewish community.

“I sincerely apologize to the Jewish community for any ‘unintended outburst’ caused by my words or actions,’” he wrote (via Google Translate). It was not my intention to hurt or demean, and I deeply regret any pain I may have caused.”

The artist has seen his career implode following a stream of similar antisemitic tirades that have included praise for Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Some have blamed him in part for an increase in antisemitic hate crimes in the U.S. and he has been condemned across the board, dropped by CAA and prompted many brands to cut ties,...

Roger Waters has long denied he’s antisemitic. His former collaborators — including the celebrated producer Bob Ezrin — are telling a different story.

A new documentary, The Dark Side of Roger Waters, includes claims from Ezrin and former Waters saxophonist Norbert Stachel. Both are Jewish, and both claim Waters made offensive remarks about Jewish people to them. The documentary, a 37-minute project produced by the U.K. group Campaign Against Antisemitism, also includes screenshots of a 2010 email Waters wrote to his team that suggested emblazoning his famous inflatable pig with a Star of David...

Roger Waters has long been accused of antisemitism, in part because of his frequent condemnation of Israel and in part because he has a tendency to use … inflammatory stage design to get his politics across. A new investigation by the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), however, quotes prominent Jewish musicians who claim to have experienced antisemitism from the former Pink Floyd bassist firsthand.

In a documentary entitled The Dark Side of Roger Waters, BBC journalist John Ware interviews Norbert Statchel, Waters’ former saxophonist, and Bob Ezrin, the music producer who helped helm Pink Floyd’s The Wall. Both men are Jewish. According to Statchel, after learning that the saxophonist was of Ashkenazi Jewish descent — with ancestors who were murdered in the Holocaust — Waters offered to “introduce” Statchel to his dead grandmother, then began an impression of a peasant Polish woman.

“Now you’ve met your grandmother! How do you feel now?...

Bel Powley stars in the National Geographic series “A Small Light” as Miep Gies, the woman who helped hide Otto Frank and his family during WWII. During a reception for the show Thursday at the San Vicente Bungalows in West Hollywood, the actor recalled being on set when she first heard about Kanye West’s antisemitic comments in October 2022.

“We were filming the show when all of the Kanye stuff was happening,” Powley told me. “I was obviously living in the world of the show, which has a lot of Nazi rhetoric because we’re making a show about the Nazi occupation in 1942, but then suddenly seeing and hearing that same rhetoric spoken now by a world-famous celebrity with huge influence was so freaky and unsettling and saddening.”

During a Q&a earlier in the evening, moderator Hannah Einbinder (“Hacks”) took off her Star of David necklace and gave it...

Roger Waters will be allowed to play a concert in Frankfurt, Germany at the end of May, after an administrative court ruled against local officials who had tried to cancel the concert.

According to German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle, neither the city of Frankfurt, nor the German state of Hesse had the right to cancel Waters’ concert. Frankfurt officials had tried to block the show over Waters’ alleged antisemitism, which has been tied to his criticism of Israel and his support of Palestine and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (Bds) movement.

She Came to Me has designs on being a grand opera, but it’s definitely more of what the British call a panto. Opening at a swanky cocktail reception as a male tenor offhandedly begins singing the famous “Habanera” from Carmen, we’re introduced to the sketchily imaged beau monde existence of one Steven Lauddem (Peter Dinklage), blocked opera composer extraordinaire. He’s toasting his first commission following a breakdown, through which he met and then wed his psychiatrist Patricia (Anne Hathaway), but artistic inspiration again eludes him. They enjoy a cosseted, Brooklyn townhouse-inhabiting existence, familiar from Woody Allen and earlier Noah Baumbach pictures––a hint at the weirdly dated manner of this film where lead characters are immune from the expected satire, humbling, or cross-examination, and instead indulged for unfunny farce.

Its writer-director is Rebecca Miller, who in the aftermath of New York Magazine’s infamous “nepo baby” mock-exposé,...

The Kanye West backlash over his antisemitic remarks could be the reason he is denied entry into Australia. Sky News reported that the rapper was planning a trip Down Under to visit his partner’s family.

“People like that who’ve applied for visas to get into Australia in the past have been rejected,” Minister for Education Jason Clare told Channel Nine in an interview. “I expect that if he does apply he would have to go through the same process and answer the same questions that they did.”

West, who goes by Ye, made a series of antisemitic comments in October 2022 and doubled down on his sentiments as he went on an interview tour that included Fox News’ Tucker Carlson’s show and The Shop, which ultimately scrapped the episode due to the severeness of his remarks. The rapper was subsequently dropped by Adidas and other business deals.

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A good poster finds an iconic image or idea, and removes all the clutter to focus on that. Design company High Council has settled on a mountain of food as a bridal dress, for Emma Seligman's bisexual funeral drama Shiva Baby. The dim lighting, including background shadows caused by the spotlight, and incongruent image of fashion and whipped food, imply that the ride is going to be challenging and confrontational. And yet, the pink cursive font (with tiny Star of David) contrasts that as almost a formal invitation.  What is a movie poster, other than an invitation from the cinema lobby to come in and experience the thing? The direct look at the audience, while presenting the...

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When “Call Me by Your Name” screened at the New York Film Festival last month, several threads from Timothée Chalamet’s 21-year-old life wove together. Above the sold-out, 1,100-seat audience at Alice Tully Hall, he watched the second half from the balcony, seated next to the actor who plays his lover, Armie Hammer, and their director, Luca Guadagnino. Onscreen, Chalamet’s character was 17, the same age he was when Guadagnino met him. At that time, Chalamet was a student at Fiorello H. Laguardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts — the Upper West Side inspiration for “Fame” — across the street.

Read More: ‘Call Me By Your Name’ Review: Luca Guadagnino Delivers A Queer Masterpiece — Sundance 2017

In kindergarten, Chalamet was a lukewarm commercial actor. His “first moment of passion” for the craft came at age 12, seeing Heath Ledger’s Joker in “The Dark Knight.” “I just had no clue what...

Looking back on this still-young century makes clear that 2007 was a major time for cinematic happenings — and, on the basis of this retrospective, one we’re not quite through with ten years on. One’s mind might quickly flash to a few big titles that will be represented, but it is the plurality of both festival and theatrical premieres that truly surprises: late works from old masters, debuts from filmmakers who’ve since become some of our most-respected artists, and mid-career turning points that didn’t necessarily announce themselves as such at the time. Join us as an assembled team, many of whom were coming of age that year, takes on their favorites.

There are at least two Ridley Scotts working in Hollywood. Ridley Scott, auteur — the man who revolutionized science fiction and horror cinema at the same time with Alien, who single-handedly resurrected the swords-and-sandals epic with Gladiator, who...

[[tmz:video id="0_77lh9ed7"]] Nev Schulman said it loud and proud ... he's Jewish, and wore the yellow Star of David to the VMAs to make sure his fans know he's standing up against white supremacists. We got the 'Catfish' host Monday at Lax as he was leaving town after the VMAs, and he explained he wore the symbolic emblem specifically as a response to people marching with Nazi flags ... in America. Nev said the Holocaust wasn't that long ago,...

This year’s MTV VMAs show was full of political messages. And wasn’t just what you saw on TV — it started on the red carpet.

First, Catfish host Nev Schulman chose to wear a yellow Star of David patch on his blazer — a reference to the yellow stars Jews across Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe were forced to wear to signify their faith — as a statement against the growing neo-Nazi and white nationalism movement.

This comes just several days after Billy Joel did the same thing, donning yellow Star of David patches on his label and back during a performance at N.

Last year, Nev Schulman and his wife, Laura Perlongo, turned the MTV Video Music Awards into a maternity photo shoot before the arrival of their baby, and this year, the couple decided to make another strong impression on the red carpet by publicly standing against white supremacy and neo-Nazi individuals. Nev donned a yellow Star of David pinned to his jacket in support of Jewish people, while his wife also wore a red heart pinned to her top. The yellow pin is a strong statement, which Billy Joel similarly wore at a recent New York City concert, as it's the symbol Jews were required to wear to identify themselves religiously during World Word II. But Nev was not alone. His Catfish costar appeared on the red carpet wearing a blue shirt with "Jew" emblazoned across the center. Read on to see the photos of the celebrities making political statements in fashion,...

Billy Joel made a bold statement about the times we live in during a show by rocking the yellow Star of David ... this amid neo-Nazi rallies being held across the country. Billy was performing Monday night at NYC's Madison Square Garden, and he bore a Star of David patch on both the breast of his coat as well as on his back.  He was raised by Jewish parents, and has described himself as culturally Jewish.

Billy Joel made a strong statement against the growing neo-Nazi and white nationalism movement on Monday night, taking the stage at New York’s Madison Square Garden wearing a yellow Star of David.

The 68-year-old hitmaker, who was born to Jewish parents and describes himself as culturally Jewish, donned the patch on both the lapel and back of his suit blazer — a reference to the yellow stars Jews were forced to wear during the Holocaust.

It was a surprisingly political statement from Joel, who previously told Rolling Stone that he found being lectured about political views at a concert to be a turnoff.

Taking a moment to remember. Kate Middleton and Prince William had a somber start to the second day of their Royal Tour of Poland and Germany on Tuesday.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited the Stutthof concentration camp, which was the first Nazi camp set up in Poland.

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The royal couple toured the site, which has since been turned into a museum honoring the thousands of victims during World War II. They viewed exhibits which showed the living conditions of the camp’s prisoners.

William and Kate also had the opportunity to speak with three surviving former prisoners of Stutthof, who spoke of their experiences in the camp.

Clad in a white, floral-printed skirt and top, Kate toured the grounds and paid tribute to the 28,000 fallen victims at the Star of David monument alongside her husband. Both were then...

Taking a moment to remember. Kate Middleton and Prince William had a somber start to the second day of their Royal Tour of Poland and Germany on Tuesday.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited the Stutthof concentration camp, which was the first Nazi camp set up in Poland.

More: Kate Middleton Continues Her All-White Fashion Trend at Garden Party on Royal Tour of Poland and Germany

The royal couple toured the site, which has since been turned into a museum honoring the thousands of victims during World War II. They viewed exhibits which showed the living conditions of the camp’s prisoners.

William and Kate also had the opportunity to speak with three surviving former prisoners of Stutthof, who spoke of their experiences in the camp.

Clad in a white, floral-printed skirt and top, Kate toured the grounds and paid tribute to the 28,000 fallen victims at the Star of David monument alongside her husband. Both were then...

There are some aspects of Handsome: A Netflix Mystery Movie where it seems like star Jeff Garlin (he plays the title role of Gene Handsome) is doing his best work. Then, you remember the role he plays as Larry David's sidekick in Curb Your Enthusiasm and you know better. Make no mistake about it, Garlin is doing some very solid stuff in Handsome: A Netflix Mystery Movie, but it is hard for me to watch him on the screen and not see (or expect) Jeff Greene or Murray Goldberg for that matter. So lets just say that, as far as I am concerned, Handsome is an idea that needs its own full blown series.

The story of Handsome: A Netflix Mystery Movie follows the classic tropes of all the detective movies and shows we love. Gene Handsome is a Los Angeles homicide detective who is very good at his job.

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The Handmaid’s Tale slows down its pace in episode two to give us a long, discomfiting look at motherhood in Gilead…

This review contains spoilers.

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It’s common to hear the phrase ‘there are no words’ these days to express extreme disbelief or grief. In the Republic of Gilead, there really are none. Books are restricted only to the ruling elite and pictograms have replaced written language in public. Graphic symbols designate the crimes of the hooded bodies hanging in the streets—a Star of David, a foetus—and the items of food for which paper tokens are exchanged in supermarkets. Literacy is one of several rights the Handmaids are no longer permitted. When you’re a womb on two legs, you don’t need words.

With the upcoming release of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” there are many, many people wondering what Luke Skywalker is wearing around his neck in the new teaser trailer. Is it a crucifix? Is it the Star of David, or a Star and Crescent? We’ll have to find out on December 15. Well according to […]

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“Is it better to speak or to die?” That’s the core question of “Call Me By Your Name,” which surfaces in a scene where a character reads the words of Marguerite of Navarre in “The Heptaméron,” but it’s an idea at the heart of all queer narratives. It’s been especially present in queer cinema, where muteness and survival are often the most bittersweet bedfellows. But “Call Me By Your Name” not only quotes Marguerite’s words, it suffuses them into every fiber of its being. It’s a great film because of how lucidly it poses her question, and an essential one because of how courageously it answers it.

Directed by Luca Guadagnino with all of his usual cool (“I Am Love”) and adapted from André Aciman’s beloved 2007 novel of the same name, the rapturous “Call Me By Your Name” nearly rates alongside recent Lgbt phenomenons “Carol” and “Moonlight,...

A smiling, playful and yet poignant ice skating performance on Russian national television has created a social media firestorm — because it is holocaust-themed. Tatyana Navka, a famous champion ice skater in Russia and the wife of Vladimir Putin’s press spokesman Dmitry Peskov, did a holocaust themed skating performance Saturday on Russia’s “Dancing With the Stars” equivilant, “Ice Age” pairing with famous actor Andrey Burkovskiy. Donned in striped pajamas and the Star of David, the couple smiled and frolicked to the tune of “The Beautiful Way,” which includes lyrics like, “Smile, no matter what they tell you.” Navka took to Instagram,...

I did a little bit of research for today’s column just to make sure I had my facts right, Googling “Jewish influence on comic books” in honor of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. There were 509,000 hits, from Den of Geek’s Mensch of Steel: Superman’s Jewish Roots to the Daily Beast’s Superman is Jewish?: The Hebrew Roots of America’s Greatest Superhero to Stormfront’s How and Why the Jews Stole the Comic Book Industry.

Wait. What?

Stormfront is a white supremacist site whose “welcome” page reads:

“We are a community of racial realists and idealists. We are White Nationalists who support true diversity and a homeland for all peoples. Thousands of organizations promote the interests, values and heritage of non-White (sic) minorities. We promote ours.

“We are the voice of the new, embattled white minority!

“Tell the truth and fear no one!”

The article is a mixture of facts,...

Seth Rogen knows how to throw a good party. He knows people want good music, good entertainment, good company, and for a good cause! For the last four years wife Lauren Miller Rogen and Seth's Hilarity for Charity variety show has been a party you don't want to miss (last year they threw James Franco an honorary Bar Mitzvah with Miley Cyrus dressed as a giant Star of David) and this year is no exception. Seth exclusively tells E! News, "This year's Halloween variety show will be one for the books and we are excited to show everyone an awesome time."  Although there won't be a video of Zac Efron as James Franco's...

Hillary Clinton will deliver a major speech on Thursday highlighting Donald Trump's ties to the "alt-right," a political movement embraced by white nationalists, neo-Nazis and anti-Semites. Previewing her speech on CNN Wednesday night, Clinton said of Trump, "He is taking a hate movement mainstream. He's bringing it to our communities and our country." So what is the alt-right movement anyway? Here are five things you should know. 1. The Washington Post defines the alt-right as "a largely online movement of right-wing ideologies that presents itself as an alternative to mainstream conservatives."Richard Spencer, founder of the website Alternative Right, told the Post,...

Hillary Clinton will deliver a major speech on Thursday highlighting Donald Trump's ties to the "alt-right," a political movement embraced by white nationalists, neo-Nazis and anti-Semites. Previewing her speech on CNN Wednesday night, Clinton said of Trump, "He is taking a hate movement mainstream. He's bringing it to our communities and our country." So what is the alt-right movement anyway? Here are five things you should know. 1. The Washington Post defines the alt-right as "a largely online movement of right-wing ideologies that presents itself as an alternative to mainstream conservatives."Richard Spencer, founder of the website Alternative Right, told the Post,...

Throughout this year's presidential election, people have had a lot to say about Republican nominee Donald Trump. Chrissy Teigen called him a "twat." Sarah Palin dubbed his campaign a "movement." But there's one term that no one has used to describe the presidential hopeful thus far: boring. And these incidents explain why Trump's managed to avoid that certain descriptor throughout his campaign. The generalization of Mexican-American immigrants.Trump started off his campaign on a controversial note. During his launch event back in June 2015 at Trump Tower in New York City, he first introduced his plan to build a wall separating Mexico and the United States,...

Throughout this year's presidential election, people have had a lot to say about Republican nominee Donald Trump. Chrissy Teigen called him a "twat." Sarah Palin dubbed his campaign a "movement." But there's one term that no one has used to describe the presidential hopeful thus far: boring. And these incidents explain why Trump's managed to avoid that certain descriptor throughout his campaign. The generalization of Mexican-American immigrants.Trump started off his campaign on a controversial note. During his launch event back in June 2015 at Trump Tower in New York City, he first introduced his plan to build a wall separating Mexico and the United States,...

Watch: @IvankaTrump opens up to @laraspencer on a Trump presidency & her father's authenticity. https://t.co/pjTPj68rw2— Good Morning America (@Gma) July 19, 2016 Ivanka Trump is defending her father Donald Trump from claims that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is anti-semetic. In a pre-taped interview with Good Morning America's Lara Spencer that aired on Tuesday, the 34-year-old dismissed the accusations, which arose after her 70-year-old father tweeted and deleted an image of Hillary Clinton calling the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee the "most corrupt candidate ever" in a graphic many believed resembled the Star of David. "He clearly did not...

Watch: @IvankaTrump opens up to @laraspencer on a Trump presidency & her father's authenticity. https://t.co/pjTPj68rw2— Good Morning America (@Gma) July 19, 2016 Ivanka Trump is defending her father Donald Trump from claims that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is anti-semetic. In a pre-taped interview with Good Morning America's Lara Spencer that aired on Tuesday, the 34-year-old dismissed the accusations, which arose after her 70-year-old father tweeted and deleted an image of Hillary Clinton calling the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee the "most corrupt candidate ever" in a graphic many believed resembled the Star of David. "He clearly did not...

Kristen Bell has three words for Donald Trump about his tweet invoking her film “Frozen” — and, no, they’re not “Let it go,” but they’re pretty close. Bell, who provided the voice of Anna in the animated smash hit, ripped into the Republican presidential contender after he mentioned “Frozen” in an apparent effort to deflect criticism he has received over a previous tweet of his. “Zip it Don & get ur head outta ur ass,” Bell wrote Thursday. Also Read: Donald Trump Drags 'Frozen' Into Star of David Controversy The actress went on to suggest that Trump should perhaps focus more on the.

Donald Trump's use of the Disney hit Frozen to defend his controversial Star of David tweet cuts no ice with Kristen Bell. The actress, who plays Princess Anna in the animated film, took to Twitter on Thursday to respond to Trump's earlier tweet pointing out a six-sided star on a Frozen coloring book. The star was similar to the one Trump used in a graphic attacking Hillary Clinton that was widely viewed as anti-Semitic. "Where is the outrage for this Disney book?" Trump wanted to know. "Is this the 'Star of David' also?" Dishonest media! #Frozen." Kristen Bell...

Just days after Donald Trump deleted a tweet with the Star of David calling Hillary Clinton "corrupt," he posted another image of the Star of David — this time calling out Disney. The presumptive Gop presidential nominee tweeted a photo of a Frozen book on Wednesday with the line, "Where is the outrage for this Disney book? Is this the 'Star of David' also? Dishonest media!" Trump even included the hashtag for the animated film in his tweet. On Saturday, Trump had posted a controversial image with the caption "Crooked Hillary — Makes History!" to Twitter that included

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Donald Trump will not "Let It Go". Following backlash that he received over a Photoshopped picture of Hillary Clinton - featuring a six-point star that some perceived as the Star of David - Trump took to Twitter, suggesting that if that image makes him anti-Semitic; people need to start pointing a finger at Elsa, too. Where is the outrage for this Disney book? Is this the 'Star of David' also? Dishonest media! #Frozen pic.twitter.com/4LJBpSm8xa— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 7, 2016 On Wednesday, the presumptive Gop nominee posted a photo of a Frozen sticker book, focusing...

Donald Trump will not "Let It Go". Following backlash that he received over a photo shopped picture of Hillary Clinton - featuring a six-point star that some perceived as the Star of David - Trump took to Twitter, suggesting that if that image makes him anti-Semitic; people need to start pointing a finger at Elsa, too. Where is the outrage for this Disney book? Is this the 'Star of David' also? Dishonest media! #Frozen pic.twitter.com/4LJBpSm8xa— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 7, 2016 On Wednesday, the presumptive Gop nominee posted a photo of a Frozen sticker book,...

Criticized for sharing a meme that some find anti-Semitic, Donald Trump is trying to defend himself by pointing at a Disney blockbuster. “Where is the outrage for this Disney book? Is this the ‘Star of David’ also? Dishonest media! #Frozen,” the presumptive Gop nominee tweeted on Wednesday, along with a photo of a “Frozen” sticker book that has a six-pointed star on the cover. His strange post came after his campaign took down a tweet that featured Hillary Clinton beside the words “Most Corrupt Candidate” superimposed over a six-pointed silhouette resembling a Star of David and a background of $100 bills.

New York Observer owner Jared Kushner published a first-person response today to an open letter on the paper’s website that criticized his support of father-in-law Donald Trump’s candidacy for president. Kushner, who is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka, started his response with the message, “My father-in-law is not an anti-Semite,” continuing, “It’s that simple, really. Donald Trump is not anti-Semitic and he’s not a racist.” In her open letter, published yesterday, entertainment writer Dana Schwartz referenced what she called the “anti-Semitic imagery” of a meme tweeted by Trump over the weekend, which depicted presidential rival...

Trevor Noah joined the pile-on of TV on-air talent going after “racist clementine” Donald Trump’s tweet featuring Hillary Clinton against a pile-of-money background the the words “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever” floating inside a Star of David. The Daily Show host speculated Trump’s camp had advised their candidate he could no longer go after Clinton with misogyny, to which Trump had responded, “Fine, I’ll call her a Jew.” Trump’s campaign has insisted it was a “sheriff’s…...

Jared Kushner, publisher of the New York Observer and son-in-law of Donald Trump, is defending the Gop presumptive nominee against claims that Trump is anti-Semitic. In his statement - which came in response to an open letter for Observer entertainment writer Dana Schwartz - Kushner, who is Jewish, said that Trump "does not at all subscribe to any racist or anti-Semitic thinking," Politico reports. Schwartz's open letter spoke in-depth about her feelings towards a now-deleted photo that Trump tweeted on Saturday, which showed Hillary Clinton pasted onto a background made of hundred dollar bills, with the words "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!

Jared Kushner, publisher of the New York Observer and son-in-law of Donald Trump, is defending the Gop presumptive nominee against claims that Trump is anti-Semitic. In his statement - which came in response to an open letter for Observer entertainment writer Dana Schwartz - Kushner, who is Jewish, said that Trump "does not at all subscribe to any racist or anti-Semitic thinking," Politico reports. Schwartz's open letter spoke in-depth about her feelings towards a now-deleted photo that Trump tweeted on Saturday, which showed Hillary Clinton pasted onto a background made of hundred dollar bills, with the words "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!

An entertainment writer at the New York Observer is calling out Jared Kushner, the paper’s owner and Donald Trump’s son-in-law, for supporting the presidential candidate following a controversial meme he tweeted on Saturday. In an open letter published in the Observer, Dana Schwartz referenced what she called the meme’s “anti-Semitic imagery,” which depicted Hillary Clinton beside the words “Most Corrupt Candidate” superimposed over a six-pointed silhouette resembling a Star of David atop a background of $100 bills. Though Trump claimed the symbol was a sheriff’s star, he deleted the tweet and republished the image with a circle instead.

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) thinks Donald Trump and his campaign aides need to "clean up" the way they are using social media. He was asked on Tuesday about Trump's controversial tweet this weekend that labeled Hillary Clinton as "the most corrupt candidate ever" on an image of the Star of David. “Look, anti-Semitic images, they’ve got no place in a presidential campaign." Ryan told Wisconsin radio station Wtmj's Charlie Sykes in an interview. "Candidates should know that. The tweet’s been deleted. I don’t know what flunky put this up there. They’ve obviously got to fix

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Donald Trump is blaming the media for misrepresenting a Hillary Clinton meme he tweeted over the weekend that many denounced as anti-Semitic since it featured a six-sided star similar to the Jewish symbol the Star of David over images of $100 bills. “Dishonest media is trying their absolute best to depict a star in a tweet as the Star of David rather than a Sheriff’s Star, or plain star!” Trump tweeted on Monday. Trump deleted the original meme on Saturday — depicting Hillary Clinton with the star-shaped sign that read “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!” over a backdrop of $100 bills — after...

Donald Trump on Monday dismissed accusations that an image of Hillary Clinton that he tweeted and deleted over the weekend was anti-Semitic. The tweet in question featured a photo of Clinton on a backdrop of $100 bills next to a six-sided star that read "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever." It was later discovered by the newsite Mic that the image had originally been posted to a pro-Trump neo-Nazi message board late last month. Trump deleted the tweet and later shared an edited version of the graphic in which a circle replaced the star. But the presumptive Gop nominee defended the image on...

Donald Trump on Saturday morning posted a controversial image to Twitter that included a Star of David and labeled Hillary Clinton as "the most corrupt candidate ever!" The photoshopped image showed Clinton's face next to the Star of David atop a background of $100 bills and the text "History Made," with credit to "Fox News Poll" at the bottom. Not long after the presumptive Gop presidential candidate tweeted the image with the caption "Crooked Hillary — Makes History!" the businessman deleted the tweet following an outpour of backlash from social media users who called his post "anti-Semitic,"

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The Audubon Society battles plumage poachers in the Everglades, circa 1900. Legendary director Nicholas Ray suffered an on-location meltdown filming this early ecologically sensitive epic, but the finished product is still one of his better pictures. Burl Ives, Christopher Plummer and Chana Eden give top 'Ray' performances. The eccentric supporting cast includes Peter Falk, boxer Two-Ton Tony Galento and none other than the real Gypsy Rose Lee. Wind Across the Everglades DVD-r The Warner Archive Collection 1958 / Color / 1:85 enhanced widescreen / 93 min. / Street Date October 6 2015, 2016 / available through the WBshop / 21.99 Starring Burl Ives, Christopher Plummer, Gypsy Rose Lee, George Voskovec, Tony Galento, Howard Smith, Emmett Kelly, Pat Henning, Chana Eden, Curt Conway, Peter Falk, Sammy Renick, Cory Osceola, MacKinlay Kantor, Totch Brown, George Voskovec, Sumner Williams. Cinematography Joseph Brun Film Editor Georges Klotz, Joseph Zigman Art Direction Richard Sylbert Original Music Paul Sawtell & Bert Shefter Written by Budd Schulberg Produced by Stuart Schulberg...

The Pfizer drug company exec who was fired after becoming a whistle-blower is in a holy war with his homeowner's association, claiming they are shoving Judaism down his throat. Peter Rost -- who went public calling drug companies liars for warning people drugs manufactured in Mexico and other countries were unsafe -- was bent out of shape because the community where he lives in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida has a clubhouse festooned with Jewish symbols. Rost...

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Seth Rogen reunites with Joseph Gordon Levitt and brings in Anthony Mackie for festive comedy The Night Before. Here's our review.

The set-up of The Night Before is simple enough. Joseph Gordon Levitt plays Ethan, an orphan who - since his parents died in 2001 - has marked Christmas Eve by going out on the lash with two of his best buds, Seth Rogen’s Isaac and Anthony Mackie’s Chris. They’ve established a fairly enviable tradition involving Chinese food, karaoke and camaraderie.

After setting this scene with a cosy introductory montage – complete with a nursery rhyme-style narration, which garners the movie’s biggest laugh – The Night Before fast-forwards to the modern day. Ethan is pining for his ex. Isaac is on the verge of fatherhood. Chris has become a famous sportsman. The three bros mutually agree that this Christmas Eve will be their final festive night out,...