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Tony Todd, the “Candyman” star who appeared in more than 240 movies and TV shows, died November 6. He was 69.

The actor’s representatives confirmed news of his death to TheWrap; no information about the cause has been made public. The actor was “an amazing man and I will miss him every single day,” Jeffrey Goldberg, Todd’s manager of over 40 years, told TheWrap.

Todd starred as the killer in “Candyman” and the movie’s sequel, but the actor’s prolific career included arcs on “The Young and the Restless” and “24” as well as episodes of “Hawaii Five-0,” “Xena: Warrior Princess” and “Young Justice.”

Todd also starred in several “Star Trek” shows, including “The Next Generation,” “Voyager” and “Deep Space Nine.” In the “Star Trek” franchise he’s best known for portraying the Klingon Kurn, brother of Worf (Michael Dorn).

In a 1998 interview with Whoosh! Todd said “Star Trek” was “the first...

Donald Trump’s allies are attempting to minimize the former president’s reported praise of Nazi dictator Adolf Hiter, and discredit John Kelly after the former White House chief of staff went on the record with multiple outlets regarding his concerns about Trump’s fascist ambitions.

This week, the retired general told The New York Times that Trump fit the definition of a fascist, and would rule like a dictator if reelected. In a separate interview with The Atlantic, Kelly elaborated on past assertions that Trump expressed admiration for Hitler.

Updated, with Trump response: All three major cable news networks carried Vice President Kamala Harris’ brief remarks Wednesday on the latest twist in the presidential campaign: John Kelly, Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, going on record via audio to say that the Republican nominee “certainly falls into the general definition of fascist.”

“Donald Trump is increasingly unhinged and unstable, and in a second term, people like John Kelly would not be there to be the guardrail against his propensities and actions,” Harris said.

“So the bottom line is this: We know what Donald Trump wants. He wants unchecked power.”

Harris’ remarks were a late addition to her schedule following Tuesday evening reports in the New York Times and The Atlantic.

Kelly gave audio remarks to the Times that were posted to the Times website, and they were covered on network morning shows and other major media, albeit not...

CNN anchor Erin Burnett had to apologize to viewers on Tuesday night (October 22) after reading a quote live on air and forgetting to censor herself when it came to a curse word. The Ron Burgundy-style blooper happened on Tuesday’s episode of OutFront, where Burnett and her guests discussed a new article from The Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg. In the piece, Goldberg claims former president Donald Trump referred to deceased soldier Vanessa Guillén as “a f****** Mexican” after complaining about picking up her funeral costs. “According to Goldberg, Trump asked, ‘Did they bill us for the funeral? What did it cost?'” Burnett said, reading aloud the quote from the article, which also appeared on screen. “According to attendees, and to contemporaneous notes of the meeting taken by a participant, an aide answered: ‘Yes, we received a bill; the funeral cost $60,000.’ Trump became angry. ‘It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks...

Dabney Coleman, one of the best-known character actors of the late 20th century, has died at the age of 92. The news of his death has been confirmed by IndieWire.

In a statement obtained from his manager Jeffrey Goldberg, Coleman’s daughter Quincy wrote, “My father, Dabney Wharton Coleman, took his last earthly breath peacefully and exquisitely at 92 in his Santa Monica home on Thursday May 16th, 2024 at 1:50pm. My father crafted his time here on earth with a curious mind, a generous heart, and a soul on fire with passion, desire, and humor that tickled the funny bone of humanity. As he lived, he moved through this final act of his life with elegance, excellence and mastery. A teacher, a hero, and a king, Dabney Coleman is a gift and blessing in life and in death as his spirit will shine through his work, his loved ones and his legacy…...

Update: John Leguizamo and his wife Justine were given choice spots at the White House State Dinner: At the president’s table, seated with figures including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Earlier, Leguizamo told a reporter that he “definitely” would be hitting the campaign trail for Joe Biden in 2024.

Asked about Biden’s outreach to Latino voters, Leguizamo said, “I think he’s doing the right things, which is getting Latin consulatns and talking to Latin experts who tell him how to address us, and make the effort. If you make the effort, we will be there, but you have to make the effort. I think he’s doing all that — him and Kamala Harris as well.”

Previously: The guest list for tonight’s White House State Dinner for Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and partner Jodie Haydon includes a number of names from entertainment and media.

Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, is taking over as moderator of PBS’s long-running Washington Week.

The show, a Friday night roundtable of reporters, also will be rebranded as Washington Week with The Atlantic, as Weta and PBS NewsHour partner with the publication on the show.

Goldberg, who starts in his new role on Aug. 11, has been editor in chief of The Atlantic since 2016.

Goldberg succeeds Yamiche Alcindor, who stepped down earlier this year to finish her memoir.

He will be the 10th moderator of the 56-year-old show. One of the longest was Gwen Ifill, who served in that position from 1999 until her death in 2016. In a statement Goldberg paid tribute to Ifill. Gwen built this show into an institution, continued by Robert [Costa] and by Yamiche, and I’m honored to carry on this tradition as The Atlantic embarks on this partnership,” he said.

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PBS has found a new moderator for its weekly political program Washington Week.

Weta, the PBS station that produces the show, says that Jeffrey Goldberg will join the program as its new moderator. Goldberg succeeds Yamiche Alcindor, who stepped aside from the long-running public affairs show earlier this year.

Goldberg has been the editor in chief of The Atlantic since 2016, and the PBS News program will be rebranded as Washington Week with The Atlantic when he officially starts on Aug. 11. Weta says that The Atlantic will join it and NewsHour Productions as an “editorial partner” on the program.

Goldberg will be the 10th moderator in Washington Week’s 56-year history. Past moderators have included Alcindor, Robert Costa, and the late Gwen Ifill. The program, which debuts new episodes on Friday evenings, has long carved out a unique niche among public affairs shows, with most others airing on Sunday mornings.

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“Washington Week,” one of the nation’s most durable weekly news panel programs, is getting a new moderator, and, at the same time, a little financial aid.

Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of “The Atlantic,” a media outlet devoted to analysis and long-form journalism, will become the PBS program’s new on-air leader, while “The Atlantic” will join the public broadcaster as a producer of the program. Goldberg’s tenure is slate to kick off August 11.

The show has been without a permanent moderator since Yamiche Alcindor exited the role in February of this year. Over the years, journalists including Gwen Ifill, Robert Costa, Ken Bode and Robert MacNeill have led the program.

“With this partnership, ‘Washington Week’ will remain the premier destination for viewers in search of astute analysis of the most important political and policy issues facing our nation. We are especially pleased to welcome Jeffery Goldberg as moderator,...

A Variety report suggesting that former CNN chief Jeff Zucker has spent the past year seeking to buy the network from Warner Bros Discovery was criticized as a “total joke” by Zucker’s representative on Tuesday, while other leading journalists criticized the investigative article for weak reporting.

Zucker’s spokeswoman Risa Heller denounced Tatiana Siegel’s 4,000 word piece on Zucker in a scathing statement to CNN’s Oliver Darcy for his “Reliable Sources” newsletter:

“There used to be a time when Variety held its content and its reporters to a high standard of truth and facts in journalism, but those days are clearly over. It is stunning to read a piece that is so patently and aggressively false,” Heller said on Tuesday night. “On numerous occasions, we made it clear to the reporter and her editors that they were planning to publish countless anecdotes and alleged incidents that never happened.

Exclusive: Peacock launches its first ever DocFest, an on-platform showcase highlighting a selection from the streamer’s top-tier documentary roster. The documentaries include Joe Berlinger‘s Shadowland, as well as projects exploring the accomplishments of Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks and the scandals of England’s Prince Andrew.

The six-week virtual festival will feature six brand new Peacock Original titles between September 14 and October 19, with new titles dropping every Wednesday. Peacock subscribers can find the documentaries via a dedicated collection on the streaming platform.

“Peacock continues its commitment to shining a spotlight on real-life stories deserving of a platform,” said Rod Aissa, EVP Unscripted Content, NBCUniversal, “We hope that the launch of DocFest will habituate audiences into coming to Peacock for their weekly fix of quality documentary content presented by some of the industry’s leading creatives.”

A full list of documentaries set for Peacock’s DocFest and details provided...

As UK independent production Miss Willoughby and the Haunted Bookshop wrapped shoot this week, the film’s co-star Kelsey Grammer offered some thoughts to stateside actors.

“Although Covid presented a new set of challenges, we were able to work very effectively through new standards of film production,” the Frasier alum said today. “I would urge my family of actors at SAG-AFTRA to take a page out of the British playbook; we can responsibly get back to work.”

Grammer stars with Brit actress Nathalie Cox (Kingdom of Heaven) in the family-adventure, which follows the escapades of history professor, detective and adventurer Elizabeth Willoughby, who investigates a series of hauntings at an antique bookshop. Grammer plays a retired U.S. Marine who raised the orphaned Willoughby and runs the family business.

The film began shooting four weeks ago in the north of England with strict Covid-19 guidelines. Also starring are Caroline Quentin...

In today’s film news roundup, Kino Lorber has started a VOD platform, Tony Todd is starring in a horror-comedy, the Red Nation International Film Festival sets its lineup and ballet dancer Kirsten Bloom Allen starts a production company. VOD Distribution Arthouse distribution specialist Kino Lorber is launching VOD platform Kino Now with more than 600 new releases, classics and international films. Kino Now, announced Monday, will offer exclusive early access to new theatrical releases, festival hits and exclusive titles not available on other streaming platforms or not yet available on home video.

The platform will also include special “bundle” offerings of selected hard-to-find titles as well as collections from renowned filmmakers including international TV series such as “Deutschland 83” and “Bad Banks”; documentary series including Joseph Campbell’s “The Power of Myth”; auteur collections built around Jean-Luc Godard, Lina Wertmüller and Fritz Lang; and pioneers of cinema restorations of the...

Former ESPN host Jemele Hill will join The Atlantic, editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg announced on Monday.

Goldberg said Hill would be covering “the intersection of sports, race, politics, gender, and culture for us.”

“Jemele is a wonderfully talented journalist who is famous for her acute commentary, fearless writing and encyclopedic knowledge of sports,” he continued in a statement.

I'm very pleased to announce that the great @jemelehill is joining @TheAtlantic as a staff writer. She'll be covering the intersection of sports, race, politics, gender, and culture for us. Welcome, Jemele.

— Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) October 1, 2018

Also Read: Jemele Hill Clobbers Internet Troll Now That She's Out of Job: 'I'm Good With Calling You a F--boi'

“But what drew us to Jemele in particular is her deep commitment to reporting,” Goldberg continued. “There are a million stories to be uncovered at the intersection where sports, race, money and politics meet, and Jemele is...

The last few weeks in the world of Donald Trump-related news have been wild, but they keep getting wilder what with Trump trying to ruin the government’s relationships with all its closest allies and then heading out to Singapore to spend quality time with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. As he did on his show Friday night as well, Stephen Colbert tried to make sense of this developing situation but, well, it’s hard.

You can watch Colbert’s monologue in the videos embedded at the bottom of this post.

“Now, demolishing our relationship with our closest ally might seem like a bad idea,” Colbert said during his monologue on “The Late Show” Monday night, referring to the conflict between Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “But Trump’s top advisers think otherwise. Like Trump trade adviser and dehydrated Tommy Lee Jones, Peter Navarro.”

“The Late Show...

Was the Trump administration’s foreign policy team partly inspired by “South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s 2004 animated satire “Team America: World Police”?

At least one unnamed Trump official suggested as much in an interview with The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg published Monday.

According to Goldberg, at least two officials said the emerging Trump Doctrine in foreign policy could be summed up as a version of “We’re America, Bitch” — and at least one noted the similarity to “Team America” and its Nsfw theme song, “America, F— Yeah!”

Also Read: 'Fox & Friends' Host Apologizes After Calling Trump a 'Dictator' on Live Television

The official acknowledged he was familiar with the box office dud, adding, “The president believes that we’re America, and people can take it or leave it.”

A second unnamed official — whom Goldberg described as a “senior White House official with access to the president...

“Face the Nation” is in the midst of a facelift. After getting a new moderator, Margaret Brennan, in February, the venerable CBS Sunday public-affairs program is getting a new studio, new music and new graphics.

“I guess I’m the biggest change,” joked Brennan in an interview during a jam-packed day. “The rest of it will sort of become apparent this Sunday.”

“Face the Nation” gets the update as the result of CBS News moving to a new bureau in Washington, D.C. Jack Morton Worldwide, an Interpublic Group firm known for organizing experiences and events, was hired to design the show’s new studio, which encompasses more than 1,700 feet in space, and gives Brennan the option to sit across from someone in a separate space rather than always having the show’s table between her and interviewees. “We will obviously have the graphics and music and movement on set,...

The Atlantic announced on Wednesday that it would be expanding by adding 100 positions, with roughly half of those being editorial hires. News of the hiring was announced in a company-wide town hall meeting with Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg and Atlantic Media Chairman David Bradley. The hires were made with the approval of the company’s new majority shareholder, Emerson Collective. The non-profit is owned by Steve Jobs widow, Laurene Powell Jobs. Also Read: Steve Jobs' Widow Laurene Powell Buys The Atlantic “Over the next 12 months, we’ll be adding as many as 100 new staffers to The Atlantic. That’s about a 30 percent boost in...

A new book alleges that White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer once ordered that a journalist be fired from The Atlantic over a sexual tweet she posted about first daughter Ivanka Trump.

After reporter Julia Ioffe tweeted in December 2016, “Either Trump is f - - king his daughter or he’s shirking nepotism laws,” Spicer reportedly called Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg demanding that he axe Ioffe, according to the book Media Madness by Howard Kurtz.

Goldberg reportedly shot back: “Haven’t you said some stupid s - - t in your life?” And Spicer returned, “I say stupid s - - t every day.

Jeffrey Goldberg is a prominent reporter for The Atlantic and previously for The New Yorker. He won the Anti-Defamation League Daniel Pearl Prize in 2005 and a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, DC. He is also Jewish. Goldberg was working on a biography on Judah Maccabee, the so-called Hero of Hanukkah, when it came to his attention that Mel Gibson was developing the biblical tale into a movie. A few of his colleagues sat Goldberg down with a direct order,...

Just recently it was announced that Mel Gibson was collaborating with screenwriter Joe Eszterhas to write, produce and possibly direct a film about ancient Jewish hero Judah Maccabee. Given the anti-Semitic comments Mel made during his 2006 drunk driving arrest the announcement raised from eyebrows, and it seemed the project could be a calculated act of contrition on Gibson's part. But then Jeffrey Goldberg, a writer for The Atlantic, wrote an article detailing a meeting he decided to take with Mel to discuss the film. His Atlantic colleague Christopher Hitchens, a noted atheist, was planning to write a book attacking Maccabee for being the catalyst for not only modern Judaism, but also Christianity. He urged Goldberg to go and stop Mel from making the movie, but instead Goldberg got an interview that lends some interesting new perspective into the project. Mel talks about reading the Book of Maccabees when he was...

The news that Mel Gibson is planning to make a film about Judah Maccabee is many things (confusing, offensive, a good party joke) but the fact remains: It's happening. (Most likely.)

Though Gibson's latest project is now a public punch line, for those in the know, this was old news.

A few years ago, The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg -at the urging of Christopher Hitchens - went to La to "stop" the project.

He obviously did not, but he did get a good conversation. The two talked about Gibson's drunken, anti-semitism rants, Judaism and circumcision.

Mel Gibson: Hey, I was circumcised. That was more like just a medical procedure. It wasn't for religious purposes. Cleanliness or something. Jeffrey Goldberg: Oh, yeah?

Mg: I don't know what it was for. And one of the doctors made a wallet out of it.

Jg: You rub it and it turns into a suitcase,...

Anderson Cooper, who escaped serious injury while he was covering the unrest in Egypt, has reached out to 60 Minutes reporter Lara Logan, who on Feb. 11, it was announced Tuesday, was brutally assaulted by a mob of men in Tahrir Square while she was carrying out her job. "Sickened and saddened by the attack on Lara Logan," the CNN anchor, 43, Tweeted. "She is in all of our thoughts and prayers.” Logan, 39, a native of South Africa, has covered battlefields for nearly 20 years. During the Feb. 11 incident, she was separated from her crew and was eventually rescued by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers,...

Episode Number: 6146 (November 15, 2010)

Guests: David Stern

Segments: Stephen murders Mr. Goodwrench, Tsa Scanners, Garfield and President Obama Dishonor Veterans

Videos: Monday, November 15, 2010

If you’ve never seen Stephen as Mr. Goodwrench, you can find a few of his ads over on YouTube – it’s a cringeworthy good time! And his murder confession reminded me of that time he killed a panda. ["In my defense, Jon, it was dark, I was drunk, and it was delicious."] And does anyone remember when the Pontiac Aztec was cool for that five minutes? Yeah.

I felt horrible having to wait in line for close to 45 minutes to get through security, partially disrobe, and pull out my laptop just to be able to board the plane home from DC after the rally. And it looks like I flew just in time to avoid the insanity that’s going on today with the x-rays and pat downs. I can see why people are getting seriously cranky with the amount of...

In the September issue of Vanity Fair, contributing editor Christopher Hitchens applies his signature intelligence and wit to the subject of his “battle” (as, he notes, everyone calls it) with cancer. And in this video, Hitchens, an avowed atheist whose best-selling book God Is Not Great invited sometimes robust criticism from religious groups, sits down with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg and the author Martin Amis to talk about illness, death, God, and prayer.

The New York Times has reportedly refused to print the word 'tuchus', which is Yiddish for bottom. Writing in The Atlantic, journalist Jeffrey Goldberg revealed that the newspaper asked him to use a different word when they quoted him for a piece about the Middle East. Goldberg said: "I've been taking a fair amount of both 'ribbing' and 'joshing' from friends who objected to the use of the word 'tush' in a quotation I gave to The New York Times' Helene Cooper. "I actually used the word 'tuchus', rather than 'tush', but she phoned back a couple of hours later to tell me that the newspaper's Special Committee for the Proper Deployment of Yiddishisms ruled that 'tuchus' is insufficiently elegant, and so could I please offer a substitute." He added: "I asked Helene (more)...