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Hattie McDaniel

Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1893 – October 26, 1952) was an American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as "Mammy” in Gone with the Wind (1939), becoming the first African American to win an Oscar.

In addition to acting in many films, McDaniel recorded 16 blues sides between 1926–1929 (10 were issued) and was a radio performer and television star; she was the first black woman to sing on radio in the United States. She appeared in over 300 films, although she received screen credits for only 83.

Encountering racism and racial segregation throughout her career, McDaniel was unable to attend the premiere of Gone with the Wind in Atlanta because it was held at a whites-only theater, and at the Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles she sat at a segregated table at the side of the room; the Ambassador Hotel where the ceremony was held was for whites only, but allowed McDaniel in as a favor. When she died in 1952, her final wish--to be buried in Hollywood Cemetery--was denied because the graveyard was restricted to whites only.

McDaniel has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood: one at 6933 Hollywood Boulevard for her contributions to radio; and one at 1719 Vine Street for acting in motion pictures. She was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1975, and in 2006 she became the first black Oscar winner honored with a U.S. postage stamp. In 2010, she was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame.

McDaniel, the youngest of 13 children, was born in Denver in 1893 to formerly-enslaved parents in Wichita, Kansas. Her mother, Susan Holbert (1850–1920), was a singer of gospel music, and her father, Henry McDaniel (1845–1922), fought in the Civil War with the 122nd United States Colored Troops. In 1900, the family moved to Colorado, living first in Fort Collins and then in Denver, where Hattie attended Denver East High School (1908-1910) and in 1908 entered a contest sponsored by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, reciting "Convict Joe", later claiming she had won first place. Her brother, Sam McDaniel (1886–1962), played the butler in the 1948 Three Stooges' short film Heavenly Daze. Her sister Etta McDaniel was also an actress.

McDaniel was a songwriter as well as a performer. She honed her songwriting skills while working with her brother Otis McDaniel's carnival company, a minstrel show. McDaniel and her sister Etta Goff launched an all-female minstrel show in 1914 called the McDaniel Sisters Company. After the death of her brother Otis in 1916, the troupe began to lose money, and Hattie did not get her next big break until 1920. From 1920 to 1925, she appeared with Professor George Morrison's Melody Hounds, a black touring ensemble. In the mid-1920s, she embarked on a radio career, singing with the Melody Hounds on station KOA in Denver. From 1926 to 1929, she recorded many of her songs for Okeh Records and Paramount Records in Chicago. McDaniel recorded seven sessions: one in the summer of 1926 on the rare Kansas City label Meritt; four sessions in Chicago for Okeh from late 1926 to late 1927 (of the 10 sides recorded, only four were issued), and two sessions in Chicago for Paramount in March 1929.

After the stock market crashed in 1929, McDaniel could only find work as a washroom attendant at Sam Pick's Club Madrid near Milwaukee. Despite the owner's reluctance to let her perform, she was eventually allowed to take the stage and soon became a regular performer.

In 1931, McDaniel moved to Los Angeles to join her brother Sam, and sisters Etta and Orlena. When she could not get film work, she took jobs as a maid or cook. Sam was working on a KNX radio program, The Optimistic Do-Nut Hour, and was able to get his sister a spot. She performed on radio as "Hi-Hat Hattie", a bossy maid who often "forgets her place". Her show became popular, but her salary was so low that she had to keep working as a maid. She made her first film appearance in The Golden West (1932), in which she played a maid. Her second appearance came in the highly successful Mae West film I'm No Angel (1933), in which she played one of the black maids with whom West camped it up backstage. She received several other uncredited film roles in the early 1930s, often singing in choruses. In 1934, McDaniel joined the Screen Actors Guild. She began to attract attention and landed larger film roles, which began to win her screen credits. Fox Film Corporation put her under contract to appear in The Little Colonel (1935), with Shirley Temple, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Lionel Barrymore.

Judge Priest (1934), directed by John Ford and starring Will Rogers, was the first film in which she played a major role. She had a leading part in the film and demonstrated her singing talent, including a duet with Rogers. McDaniel and Rogers became friends during filming. In 1935, McDaniel had prominent roles, as a slovenly maid in Alice Adams (RKO Pictures); a comic part as Jean Harlow's maid and traveling companion in China Seas (MGM) (McDaniels's first film with Clark Gable); and as the maid Isabella in Murder by Television, with Béla Lugosi. She appeared in the 1938 film Vivacious Lady, starring James Stewart and Ginger Rogers. McDaniel had a featured role as Queenie in the 1936 film Show Boat (Universal Pictures), starring Allan Jones and Irene Dunne, in which she sang a verse of Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man with Dunne, Helen Morgan, Paul Robeson, and a black chorus. She and Robeson sang "I Still Suits Me", written for the film by Kern and Hammerstein. After Show Boat, she had major roles in MGM's Saratoga (1937), starring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable; The Shopworn Angel (1938), with Margaret Sullavan; and The Mad Miss Manton (1938), starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda. She had a minor role in the Carole Lombard–Frederic March film Nothing Sacred (1937), in which she played the wife of a shoeshine man (Troy Brown) masquerading as a sultan.

McDaniel was a friend of many of Hollywood's most popular stars, including Joan Crawford, Tallulah Bankhead, Bette Davis, Shirley Temple, Henry Fonda, Ronald Reagan, Olivia de Havilland, and Clark Gable. She starred with de Havilland and Gable in Gone with the Wind (1939). Around this time, she was criticized by members of the black community for the roles she accepted and for pursuing roles aggressively rather than rocking the Hollywood boat. For example, in The Little Colonel (1935), she played one of the black servants longing to return to the Old South, but her portrayal of Malena in RKO Pictures's Alice Adams angered white Southern audiences, because she stole several scenes from the film's white star, Katharine Hepburn. McDaniel ultimately became best known for playing a sassy, opinionated maid.

The competition to win the part of Mammy in Gone with the Wind was almost as fierce as that for Scarlett O'Hara. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt wrote to film producer David O. Selznick to ask that her own maid, Elizabeth McDuffie, be given the part. McDaniel did not think she would be chosen because she had earned her reputation as a comic actress. One source claimed that Clark Gable recommended that the role be given to McDaniel; in any case, she went to her audition dressed in an authentic maid's uniform and won the part.

Upon hearing of the planned film adaptation, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) fought hard to require the film's producer and director to delete racial epithets from the movie (in particular the offensive slur "nigger") and to alter scenes that might be incendiary and that, in their view, were historically inaccurate. Of particular concern was a scene from the novel in which black men attack Scarlett O'Hara, after which the Ku Klux Klan, with its long history of provoking terror on black communities, is presented as a savior. Throughout the South, black men were being lynched based upon false allegations they had harmed white women. That attack scene was altered, and some offensive language was modified, but another epithet, "darkie", remained in the film, and the film's message with respect to slavery remained essentially the same. Consistent with the book, the film's screenplay also referred to poor whites as "white trash", and it ascribed these words equally to characters black and white.

Loew's Grand Theater on Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Georgia was selected by the studio as the site for the Friday, December 15, 1939 premiere of Gone with the Wind. Studio head David O. Selznick asked that McDaniel be permitted to attend, but MGM advised him not to, because of Georgia's segregation laws. Clark Gable threatened to boycott the Atlanta premiere unless McDaniel were allowed to attend, but McDaniel convinced him to attend anyway.

Most of Atlanta's 300,000 citizens crowded the route of the seven-mile motorcade that carried the film's other stars and executives from the airport to the Georgian Terrace Hotel, where they stayed. While Jim Crow laws kept McDaniel from the Atlanta premiere, she did attend the film's Hollywood debut on December 28, 1939. Upon Selznick's insistence, her picture was also featured prominently in the program.

For her performance as the house slave who repeatedly scolds her owner's daughter, Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh), and scoffs at Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), McDaniel won the 1939 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first black actor to have been nominated and win an Oscar. "I loved Mammy," McDaniel said when speaking to the white press about the character. "I think I understood her because my own grandmother worked on a plantation not unlike Tara." Her role in Gone with the Wind had alarmed some whites in the South; there were complaints that in the film she had been too "familiar" with her white owners. At least one writer pointed out that McDaniel's character did not significantly depart from Mammy's persona in Margaret Mitchell's novel, and that in both the film and the book, the much younger Scarlett speaks to Mammy in ways that would be deemed inappropriate for a Southern teenager of that era to speak to a much older white person, and that neither the book nor the film hints of the existence of Mammy's own children (dead or alive), her own family (dead or alive), a real name, or her desires to have anything other than a life at Tara, serving on a slave plantation. Moreover, while Mammy scolds the younger Scarlett, she never crosses Mrs. O'Hara, the more senior white woman in the household. Some critics felt that McDaniel not only accepted the roles but also in her statements to the press acquiesced in Hollywood's stereotypes, providing fuel for critics of those who were fighting for black civil rights. Later, when McDaniel tried to take her "Mammy" character on a road show, black audiences did not prove receptive.

While many black people were happy over McDaniel's personal victory, they also viewed it as bittersweet. They believed Gone With the Wind celebrated the slave system and condemned the forces that destroyed it. For them, the unique accolade McDaniel had won suggested that only those who did not protest Hollywood's systemic use of racial stereotypes could find work and success there.

The Twelfth Academy Awards took place at the Coconut Grove Restaurant of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. It was preceded by a banquet in the same room. Louella Parsons, an American gossip columnist, wrote about Oscar night, February 29, 1940:

Hattie McDaniel earned that gold Oscar by her fine performance of 'Mammy' in Gone with the Wind. If you had seen her face when she walked up to the platform and took the gold trophy, you would have had the choke in your voice that all of us had when Hattie, hair trimmed with gardenias, face alight, and dress up to the queen's taste, accepted the honor in one of the finest speeches ever given on the Academy floor.

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, fellow members of the motion picture industry and honored guests: This is one of the happiest moments of my life, and I want to thank each one of you who had a part in selecting me for one of their awards, for your kindness. It has made me feel very, very humble; and I shall always hold it as a beacon for anything that I may be able to do in the future. I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry. My heart is too full to tell you just how I feel, and may I say thank you and God bless you.

McDaniel received a plaque-style Oscar, approximately 5.5 inches by 6 inches, the type awarded to all Best Supporting Actors and Actresses at that time. She and her escort were required to sit at a segregated table for two at the far wall of the room; her white agent, William Meiklejohn, sat at the same table. The hotel had a strict no-blacks policy, but allowed McDaniel in as a favor. The discrimination continued after the award ceremony as well as her white co-stars went to a "no-blacks" club, where McDaniel was also denied entry. Another black woman did not win an Oscar again for 50 years, with Whoopi Goldberg winning Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ghost. Weeks prior to McDaniel winning her Oscar, there was even more controversy. David Selznick, the producer of Gone With the Wind, omitted the faces of all the black actors on the posters advertising the movie in the South. None of the black cast members were allowed to attend the premiere for the movie.

Gone with the Wind won eight Academy Awards. It was later named by the American Film Institute (AFI) as number four among the top 100 American films of all time in the 1998 ranking and number six in the 2007 ranking.

In the Warner Bros. film In This Our Life (1942), starring Bette Davis and directed by John Huston, McDaniel once again played a domestic, but one who confronts racial issues when her son, a law student, is wrongly accused of manslaughter. McDaniel was in the same studio's Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943), with Humphrey Bogart and Bette Davis. In its review of the film, Time wrote that McDaniel was comic relief in an otherwise "grim study," writing, "Hattie McDaniel, whose bubbling, blaring good humor more than redeems the roaring bad taste of a Harlem number called Ice Cold Katie". McDaniel continued to play maids during the war years for Warners in The Male Animal (1942) and United Artists' Since You Went Away (1944), but her feistiness was toned down to reflect the era's somber news. She also played the maid in Song of the South (1946) for Disney.

She made her last film appearances in Mickey (1948) and Family Honeymoon (1949), where that same year, she appeared on the live CBS television program The Ed Wynn Show. She remained active on radio and television in her final years, becoming the first black actor to star in her own radio show with the comedy series Beulah. She also starred in the television version of the show, replacing Ethel Waters after the first season. (Waters had apparently expressed concerns over stereotypes in the role.) Beulah was a hit, however, and earned McDaniel $2,000 per week; however, the show was controversial. In 1951, the United States Army ceased broadcasting Beulah in Asia because troops complained that the show perpetuated negative stereotypes of black men as shiftless and lazy and interfered with the ability of black troops to perform their mission. After filming a handful of episodes, however, McDaniel learned she had breast cancer. By the spring of 1952, she was too ill to work and was replaced by Louise Beavers.

As her fame grew, McDaniel faced growing criticism from some members of the black community. Groups such as the NAACP complained that Hollywood stereotypes not only restricted black actors to servant roles but often portrayed them as lazy, dim-witted, satisfied with lowly positions, or violent. In addition to addressing the studios, they called upon actors, and especially leading black actors, to pressure studios to offer more substantive roles and at least not pander to stereotypes. They also argued that these portrayals were unfair as well as inaccurate and that, coupled with segregation and other forms of discrimination, such stereotypes were making it difficult for all black people, not only actors, to overcome racism and succeed in the entertainment industry. Some attacked McDaniel for being an "Uncle Tom"—a person willing to advance personally by perpetuating racial stereotypes or being an agreeable agent of offensive racial restrictions. McDaniel characterized these challenges as class-based biases against domestics, a claim that white columnists seemed to accept. And she reportedly said, "Why should I complain about making $700 a week playing a maid? If I didn't, I'd be making $7 a week being one."

McDaniel may also have been criticized because, unlike many other black entertainers, she was not associated with civil rights protests and was largely absent from efforts to establish a commercial base for independent black films. She did not join the Negro Actors Guild of America until 1947, late in her career. McDaniel hired one of the few white agents who would represent black actors at the time, William Meiklejohn, to advance her career. Evidence suggests her avoidance of political controversy was deliberate. When columnist Hedda Hopper sent her Richard Nixon placards and asked McDaniel to distribute them, McDaniel declined, replying she had long ago decided to stay out of politics. "Beulah is everybody's friend," she said. Since she was earning a living honestly, she added, she should not be criticized for accepting such work as was offered. Her critics, especially Walter White of the NAACP, claimed that she and other actors who agreed to portray stereotypes were not a neutral force but rather willing agents of black oppression.

McDaniel and other black actresses and actors feared that their roles would evaporate if the NAACP and other Hollywood critics complained too loudly. She blamed these critics for hindering her career and sought the help of allies of doubtful reputation. After speaking with McDaniel, Hedda Hopper even claimed that McDaniel's career troubles were not the result of racism but had been caused by McDaniel's "own people".

In August 1950, McDaniel suffered a heart ailment and entered Temple Hospital in semi-critical condition. She was released in October to recuperate at home, and she was cited by United Press on January 3, 1951, as showing "slight improvement in her recovery from a mild stroke."

McDaniel died of breast cancer at age 59 on October 26, 1952, in the hospital on the grounds of the Motion Picture House in Woodland Hills, California. She was survived by her brother Sam McDaniel. Thousands of mourners turned out to celebrate her life and achievements. In her will, McDaniel wrote,

"I desire a white casket and a white shroud; white gardenias in my hair and in my hands, together with a white gardenia blanket and a pillow of red roses. I also wish to be buried in the Hollywood Cemetery".

Hollywood Cemetery, on Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood, is the resting place of movie stars such as Douglas Fairbanks and Rudolph Valentino. Its owner at the time, Jules Roth, refused to allow her to be buried there, because, at the time of McDaniel's death, the cemetery practiced racial segregation and would not accept the remains of black people for burial. Her second choice was Rosedale Cemetery (now known as Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery), where she lies today.

In 1999, Tyler Cassidy, the new owner of the Hollywood Cemetery (renamed the Hollywood Forever Cemetery), offered to have McDaniel re-interred there. Her family did not wish to disturb her remains and declined the offer. Instead, Hollywood Forever Cemetery built a large cenotaph on the lawn overlooking its lake. It is one of Hollywood's most popular tourist attractions.

McDaniel's last will and testament of December 1951 bequeathed her Oscar to Howard University, where she had been honored by the students with a luncheon after she had won her Oscar. At the time of her death, McDaniel would have had few options. Very few white institutions in that day preserved black history. Historically, black colleges had been where such artifacts were placed. Despite evidence McDaniel had earned an excellent income as an actress, her final estate was less than $10,000. The IRS claimed the estate owed more than $11,000 in taxes. In the end, the probate court ordered all of her property, including her Oscar, sold to pay off creditors. Years later, the Oscar turned up where McDaniel wanted it to be: Howard University, where, according to reports, it was displayed in a glass case in the university's drama department.

The whereabouts of McDaniel's Oscar are currently unknown. In 1992, Jet magazine reported that Howard University could not find it and alleged that it had disappeared during protests in the 1960s. In 1998, Howard University stated that it could find no written record of the Oscar having arrived at Howard. In 2007, an article in The Huffington Post repeated rumors that the Oscar had been cast into the Potomac River by angry civil rights protesters in the 1960s. The assertion reappeared in The Huffington Post under the same byline in 2009.

In 2010, Mo'Nique, the winner of the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in Precious, wearing a blue dress and gardenias in her hair, as McDaniel had at the ceremony in 1940, in her acceptance speech thanked McDaniel "for enduring all that she had to so that I would not have to". Her speech revived interest in the whereabouts of McDaniel's Oscar.

In November 2011, W. B. Carter, of the George Washington University Law School, published the results of her year-and-a-half-long investigation into the Oscar's fate. Carter rejected claims that students had stolen the Oscar (and thrown it in the Potomac River) as wild speculation or fabrication that traded on long-perpetuated stereotypes of blacks. She questioned the sourcing of The Huffington Post stories. Instead, she argued that the Oscar had likely been returned to Howard University's Channing Pollack Theater Collection between the spring of 1971 and the summer of 1973 or had possibly been boxed and stored in the drama department at that time. The reason for its removal, she argued, was not civil rights unrest but rather efforts to make room for a new generation of black performers. If neither the Oscar nor any paper trail of its ultimate destiny can be found at Howard today, she suggested, inadequate storage or record-keeping in a time of financial constraints and national turbulence may be blamed. She also suggested that a new generation of caretakers may have failed to realize the historic significance of the award.

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imanianl · 3 years ago

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De slogan van de 2020-2021 Olympische Spelen is ‘verenigd door emotie’. Dit moet wel een beetje het geval zijn, want het is een vreemde Olympische wereld waar we momenteel doorheen moeten gaan. Qua emoties is er inderdaad een hoop aan de hand. De spelen in Tokyo waren bij niet doorgegaan, de corona gevallen zetten zich ook tijdens de spelen voort bij de ongelukkige sporters en er zijn nog wel meer vreemde gewaarwordingen.

Vandaag bijvoorbeeld won het debuterende Nederlandse damesvoetbalteam met 10-3 van Zambia, iets wat ook wel opmerkelijk genoemd werd! Of ze dat de komende zaterdag ook tegen Brazilië zullen flikken is een grote vraag...

Kartonnen bedden

Afgelopen mei toonden de peilingen in Japan aan dat bijna 70% van de bevolking niet wou dat de Olympische Spelen doorgaan. En een ander ‘grappig’ detail werd eerder bekend: ‘s werelds beste sporters zullen hun nachten op kartonnen bedden moeten doorbrengen, die naar verluidt zo ontworpen zijn om onder het gewicht van seksende sporters te bezwijken om zo de seks te midden van de COVID-19 toestand en Olympische Spelen te voorkomen...

Er worden trouwens ook minder condooms verspreid. De atleten in het Olympisch dorp gebruikten naar verluidt 70.000 condooms bij de spelen van 2000 en 100.000 bij de 2008 spelen. In 2016 werden er 450.000 verstrekt. Voor dit jaar zullen dit naar verluidt 160.000 stuks zijn... Tsja, het is maar dat je het weet!

Bijzondere feitjes

Hieronder hebben we nog wat andere bijzondere feitjes over de Olympische Spelen opgesomd:

De gouden medailles zijn niet van puur goud gemaakt. Deze zijn namelijk van zilver met een gouden plating. De laatste keer dat de gouden medailles echt van puur goud werden gemaakt, was in 1912.

De Olympische Spelen van 1900 hadden een deelnemer die tot op de dag van vandaag nog steeds onbekend is, en misschien zelfs wel de jongste deelnemer ooit was. Het Nederlandse roeiteam had geen stuurman, dus kozen ze een lokale Franse jongen om deze rol in te vullen. Tot op de dag van vandaag kent niemand de identiteit van de jongen en velen schatten dat hij ongeveer 10 jaar oud was!

De Amerikaanse marathonloper Fred Lorz werd gediskwalificeerd voor het rijden in een auto tijdens de race. Tijdens de wedstrijden van 1904 in St. Louis liftte Lorz het grootste deel van de race stiekem in een auto en rende hij enkel de laatste 6 kilometer.

De heel beroemde zwemmer Johnny Weismuller was een vijfvoudig gouden medaillewinnaar in het zwemmen en speelde ook Tarzan in 12 films. Voor wir hem niet kent: Weismuller was tevens de bedenker van de wel heel beroemde Tarzan schreeuw!

Muhammad Ali was zo doodsbang om te gaan vliegen, dat hij een parachute tijdens zijn vlucht naar de Spelen van 1960 in Rome droeg. Ali won natuurlijk nog steeds het goud.

De Mac Do marketing stunt

McDonald's verloor miljoenen dollars omdat de VS te goed was tijdens de Spelen van 1984. Het fastfoodrestaurant bood haar klanten gratis frisdrank, friet en Big Macs aan als de VS bij bepaalde evenementen op McDonald's krasloten goud wonnen. Bij de vorige wedstrijden in 1976 wonnen de VS 34 gouden medailles. Maar sinds het communistische blok de Spelen van 1980 boycotte, wonnen de VS 83 gouden medailles, waardoor de restaurants zelfs zonder Big Macs kwamen te zitten en de marketing stunt het bedrijf alsook veel meer geld kostte dan verwacht!

In het oude Griekenland maakten de Olympische atleten zich niet zo druk over hun sponsoring, bescherming of mode, want ze streden compleet naakt!

Gandhi deed ooit als een krantenverslaggever verslag van de Olympische Spelen. Dit was tijdens de Olympische Spelen van 1932 in Los Angeles.

Het langst overeind gebleven record van de moderne Olympische Spelen is 50 jaar oud! Bob Bearman won het verspringen op de Olympische Spelen van 1968 in Mexico. Zijn bovenmenselijke sprong registreerde een opmerkelijke 8,90 meter om zo een Olympisch record te worden, dat tot op de dag van vandaag nog steeds in de boeken staat.

Inspirerende sportverhalen

Of jij dit nu allemaal al wist of het nu weet, er bestaan een heleboel inspirerende sportverhalen en eigenzinnige tradities die de Olympische Spelen ons door de jaren heen hebben gegeven. Het is dan ook niet voor niets één van ‘s werelds meest prestigieuze, opwindende en veelbewogen sportevenementen die we kennen. Als jij van sporten of het bekijken ervan houdt, mis de 2020-2021 games dan ook zeker niet!

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salmankhanholics · 4 years ago

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★ 'Salman Khan is the Darling of Movie Business, But if Theatres are Shut, What Can you Do?'!

May 8, 2021

In post-pandemic era, Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai is the first big budget extravaganza to have adopted the hybrid model of release. It will be released in theatres worldwide, adhering to the COVID protocol issued by the government, and on ZEE5 with ZEE’s pay per view service ZEEPlex, and also on all leading DTH operators, giving the audience multiple options to watch the film. When Kamal Haasan had attempted to release Viswaroopam on DTH a day before its theatrical release in 2013, exhibitors went up in arms threatening to boycott his film. So, why isn’t there a similar uproar in case of Radhe?

Announcing the hybrid release decision, a spokesperson from Salman Khan Films had said, “It’s imperative that we all come together and think of out-of-the-box solutions for cinema as an industry during the current pandemic situation. We will support the theatre owners by releasing the film in as many theatres as we can, keeping in line with the rules and protocols laid down by the government. But considering the guidelines and safety measures, we also need to devise ways to ensure that the film reaches all of our audience.

Hybrid Release was the Only Way Out

Industry insiders say that exhibitors realize that not every film can wait for theatres to reopen. Film trade analyst Taran Adarsh explains, “Salman has always brought his films on Eid every year. This year, the only way out was a hybrid release. One can say that Salman Khan is financially secure enough to delay the release, but every film has its own budget and this one has already overshot it. Looking at it from the exhibitor’s point of view, Salman Khan is the darling of the market. But if most multiplexes and theatres are shut, what do you do? The theatres could not ask him to hold on for a long time. Both parties are right, you cannot blame one or the other.”

Trade analyst Atul Mohan says, “Radhe, ’83 and Sooryavanshi are three major films that theatres had high hopes from. But exhibitors also understand that producers who have invested more than Rs 125 crores on a film, they also need to think about their profit. They waited for one year, and this was the only way out, given the current circumstances. Although the multiplexes had said that they are not going to screen the film, many single screen theatres were open when they made the announcement. Then suddenly the severity of the second wave caused more theatres to shut again and spoiled the whole plan. The hybrid model was the only way for them to make some money, and they got a good deal.”

More Films Might Adopt Hybrid Model

What adds to the anxiety of exhibitors is the fact that the success of Radhe could encourage other films to adopt a similar route. “When the hybrid model was announced, exhibitors were disappointed for sure, because this could pave the way for a lot of other films,” says Taran Adarsh, adding that we haven’t had other films announce hybrid models of release yet, because they are waiting to see the reaction to Radhe, as well as for theatres to reopen. “A production house like Yash Raj Films is waiting for cinemas to reopen. Whether more films adopt the hybrid model of release will depend on the producer’s holding capacity.”

Atul Mohan adds that this hybrid model can only work in case of a big budget film. “This is something new for India, and can only work for a big release like Salman Khan’s. The audience won’t care if a smaller film takes the hybrid route, they will watch it at home. Also, many are waiting to see the audience’s response to Radhe, on the pay-per-view platform and the buzz on social media, before deciding to follow suit,” Atul says.

ZEE5, the platform facilitating the pay-per-view model, is confident that the hybrid model benefits all stakeholders. “With the ongoing pandemic making many theatres across the country temporarily non-operational, a traditional theatrical release was not going to cut it. The multiformat strategy was devised to ensure that both the stakeholders as well as the audience benefit from this proposition. It has become increasingly difficult to predict the future with this pandemic so it is hard for me to say whether this will become an industry norm. There is a line-up of 50+ theatricals and 40+ Originals this year on ZEE5. Few of them will be multiformat simultaneous releases depending on how this situation evolves,” says Manish Kalra, Chief Business Officer, ZEE5 India.

We are all Disappointed that Radhe is not Releasing in Cinemas

While the unpredictable nature of this pandemic might lead to more films considering this option, exhibitors are hoping for a light at the end of the tunnel soon. “A Salman Khan film releasing at a time when hardly any cinemas across the country are functional is totally a body blow to the exhibition sector, but these are exceptional times, and everyone is fighting for survival. We are all disappointed that Radhe is not releasing in cinemas across the country. We hope that after Radhe, too many films do not decide to take this route and films wait for theatres to reopen. There is going to be a lot of pent-up demand once this pandemic has passed. Of course, theatres won’t be fully functional at one go, it will be a gradual opening. So these kinds of innovative formats will be there for a temporary period,” says film exhibitor Akshaye Rathi.

A huge chunk of Salman’s followers are the Tier 2 and 3 city audiences that love to whistle and dance in the theatres. Exhibitors regret that there will be no such spectacle in movie halls this Eid. Pranav Garg, owner of Maya Multiplex in Muzaffarnagar, says, “It’s a major loss for cinemas as well as die-hard fans of Salman. They are releasing the film at a time when most state governments have asked for theatres to be shut. Fans have been calling us to ask whether we are going to screen the film, and we don’t have an answer unless the authorities take a decision. We understand the producers have invested a lot of money and need to recover costs. But we’ve also been suffering losses for over a year. All we can hope for is that situation gets better soon and we can go back to screening films again.”

#salman khan #radhe #exhibitors #radhe release #distributor

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A Surprise Ending for the Oscars’ Inclusive Night LOS ANGELES — In a break with tradition, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decided to end its Oscars ceremony on Sunday with the prize for best actor instead of the one for best picture. It was easy to understand why. The late Chadwick Boseman, nominated for his visceral performance in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” was the runaway favorite, and an acceptance speech by his widow was sure to be an emotional moment. Further, the best actor prize had gone to a Black man only four times in 93 years, and celebrating Mr. Boseman at the night’s climax — after a year in which racial justice was at the forefront of the country’s consciousness — would put an exclamation point on the academy’s aggressive diversity and inclusion efforts over the past few years. It backfired in spectacular fashion. The film establishment instead went with Anthony Hopkins, rewarding his performance in “The Father” as a man suffering from dementia. Apparently certain that Mr. Boseman would win, Mr. Hopkins had decided not to attend the ceremony. With no one there to accept the award, the Oscars telecast abruptly ended, leaving the academy to face questions about whether it had misjudged its voting body. “At 83 years old, I did not expect to get this award — I really didn’t,” Mr. Hopkins said in a video speech released Monday morning from his hometown in Wales and during which he paid tribute to Mr. Boseman. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which declined to make officials available for interviews on Monday, has spent the past few years trying to get its house in order after being excoriated for putting forward all-white slates of acting nominees in both 2015 and 2016. It has scrambled to enact diversity-focused reforms, most notably inviting about 4,000 artists and executives — with a focus on women and people from underrepresented groups — to become members. The organization now has about 10,000 voters. It says that about 19 percent of its members are from underrepresented racial and ethnic communities, up from 10 percent in 2015. This year’s ceremony had a chance to be a showcase for those efforts. Going into Sunday night, some awards handicappers predicted that movie history would be made, with all four acting Oscars going to people of color for the first time. Along with Mr. Boseman, Viola Davis was seen as a leading contender for the best actress prize for playing a blues singer in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” Best actress instead went to Frances McDormand for playing a dour van dweller in “Nomadland.” It was her third best-actress statuette. Still, the most diverse group of nominees in Oscar history resulted in several notable victories for supporting roles: Daniel Kaluuya, who played the Black Panther leader Fred Hampton in “Judas and the Black Messiah,” and Yuh-Jung Youn, for her comically cantankerous grandmother in “Minari.” She was the first Korean performer to win an acting Oscar, and only the second Asian woman. Chloé Zhao, who is Chinese, took home the best director prize, only the second woman to do so in Oscar history and the first woman of color. Two Black women, Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson, won Oscars for makeup and hairstyling for the first time. Emerald Fennell (“Promising Young Woman”) was the first woman to take home a solo screenwriting Oscar in 13 years. And the director Travon Free was the first Black man to win in the best live-action short category. He was recognized for “Two Distant Strangers,” a film about police brutality that he made with Martin Desmond Roe. “This is the blackest Oscars of all time,” quipped Lil Rel Howery, who served as an M.C. for a music trivia game that took place toward the end of the telecast and featured Glenn Close dancing to “Da Butt,” a song from the soundtrack to Spike Lee’s “School Daze.” Many agreed that the diversity of this year’s winners proved that the movie industry had become more inclusive. Others wonder if it is simply another anomaly in a strange year, one in which most studios delayed releasing many of their bigger-budget films because theaters were closed across the country, and those movies that were released tended to be smaller, independent films seen largely on streaming services — if they were seen at all. “Like everything else, the pandemic affected the way movies were released, which affected, ultimately, the way people in films were nominated,” said Todd Boyd, professor of critical studies at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. “It’ll be difficult to know, until a few more years pass, whether this year is actually representative of something or if it’s just a circumstance of the pandemic.” Hollywood has been here before. In 2002, when Halle Berry won best actress for “Monster’s Ball,” best actor went to Denzel Washington (“Training Day”). It was the first time those prizes were awarded to people of color in the same year, prompting Mr. Washington to remark “Two birds in one night” from the Oscar stage. Updated April 26, 2021, 12:32 a.m. ET It seemed to be a moment of progress. But since then no other Black woman has won best actress, and the last Black man to win best actor was Forest Whitaker (“The Last King of Scotland”) in 2007. The academy has been a bit more inclusive in supporting categories. In the previous 20 years, there had been four Latino or Black supporting actor winners (none have been Asian), and six Black supporting actress winners (none were Asian or Latina). “There’s so much work to do, guys, and that’s on everyone in this room,” Mr. Kaluuya said during his acceptance speech. “That’s not a single-man job. Every single one of you has work to do.” The academy’s efforts to diversify its membership came after decades of relative stagnation. In 2008, for instance, only 105 people were invited to join. As part of its 2016 overhaul pledge, the group sharply increased the Oscar voting pool, inviting 4,046 artists and executives to become members over five years, including 1,383 from overseas. Virtually everyone invited to join the academy accepts, though not all. One of the industry’s most prominent Black directors, Ryan Coogler (“Black Panther”) recently revealed that he did not accept the academy’s overtures. Last year, the academy announced a plan that will require films to meet diversity criteria to be eligible for a best-picture nomination, starting with the 2024 awards. Still, those who have been critical of the way the film industry operates are not ready to heap too much praise on the academy’s efforts. “What we have to constantly recognize is that an institution like the academy didn’t give anything to Black people,” said Rashad Robinson, president of the racial justice organization Color of Change. “What the academy has done over the years is have a system and a set of rules that has stalled Black careers, which has prevented people from being able to be fully seen, which has had an economic impact on folks. Now that they are working to make some changes, let’s acknowledge those changes but let’s not give them any awards that they haven’t earned.” The yearslong process has been wrenching for the academy. Inside the secretive organization, factions formed, with some people insisting that the problem was not with the academy, but with film companies and the lack of opportunities they provide for people of color. That many of the academy members also worked for these companies was another point of contention. A glimpse of the animosity came when Bill Mechanic, an Oscar-nominated producer and former studio executive, resigned from the academy’s board in 2018. “We have settled on numeric answers to the problem of inclusion, barely recognizing that this is the industry’s problem far, far more than it is the academy’s,” Mr. Mechanic wrote in his resignation letter, which was leaked to the news media. “Instead we react to pressure. One governor even went as far as suggesting we don’t admit a single white male to the academy, regardless of merit!” At the same time, some people have turned away from the Oscars because of its lack of diversity. Under 10 million viewers tuned into Sunday night’s telecast, according to Nielson, a 58 percent drop compared with last year. One member of the academy’s board of governors, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of confidentiality rules, said that market research had shown that people of color, upset about the racial disparity of nominees (and tired of seeing many of the same people get nominated over and over), had become less interested in the ceremony. A couple of smaller civil rights groups have called for viewing boycotts. That was the case for April Reign, the campaign finance lawyer who originated the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag in 2015. Despite the changes at the organization, she said she believed the academy’s efforts to diversify its voting body had fallen short. “It’s still a popularity contest among all the white men,” she said. Others see reason for optimism in this year’s Oscars, no matter how they ended. “To have a film about Fred Hampton that doesn’t demonize him but instead celebrates him, and provides this broader story from a group of Black filmmakers is, you know, kind of hard to believe that it would even be made much less be nominated,” Mr. Boyd said of “Judas and the Black Messiah.” “And we could go through each of these examples. It’s great. It’s wonderful. I just don’t want it to be an isolated incident.” Source link Orbem News #Inclusive #night #Oscars #Surprise

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Ivanka Trump’s Goya Endorsement Might Violate Ethical Standards for Federal Employees

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Ivanka Trump endorses Goya Foods, prompting ethical concerns

Nearly a week after the CEO of Goya Foods said that “we’re all truly blessed” to have Donald Trump as president, the controversy-turned-proxy culture war is still going strong. Progressive politicians and consumers called for a boycott; conservative figures called the boycott an attempt to “silence free speech” and urged supporters to buy even more of the company’s Hispanic food staples. And last night, the First Daughter herself waded into the mess, tweeting a photo of herself holding up a can of Goya black beans, accompanied by the caption (in both English and Spanish): “If it’s Goya, it has to be good.”

If it’s Goya, it has to be good. Si es Goya, tiene que ser bueno. pic.twitter.com/9tjVrfmo9z

— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) July 15, 2020

As multiple outlets have pointed out, Ivanka Trump’s blatant, bilingual promotion of Goya may be a violation of ethical standards for federal employees (of which Ivanka Trump is one, technically, serving as an advisor to the president). Per the Department of Justice:

An employee may not use his public office for his own private gain or for that of persons or organizations with which he is associated personally. An employee’s position or title should not be used to coerce; to endorse any product, service or enterprise; or to give the appearance of governmental sanction.

But the Trump administration has not been particularly stringent about enforcing federal ethical standards. Previous ethically dubious endorsements include Kellyanne Conway telling Fox News viewers to “go buy Ivanka’s stuff” in 2017, and Donald Trump’s 2019 suggestion of his own resort as the location for the next G-7 summit, as Intelligencer notes. Just add Ivanka Trump’s dead-eyed Goya photo to the long list of infractions.

And in other news…

The cost of food rose in June for the sixth-straight month, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. [NBC News]

Food and Drug Administration on-site inspections will resume next week after a temporary suspension due to the pandemic. [Food Safety News]

Based on historical data from the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest and months of mathematical analysis, here is the maximum number of hot dogs that a human could eat in 10 minutes: 83. Thank you, science! [NYT]

Some TikTok teens are dressing up as mask-wearing elderly women so they can buy alcohol. Children are our future etc. [NY Post]

Making the oily cakes from the film First Cow. [Vulture]

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Ivanka Trump endorses Goya Foods, prompting ethical concerns

If it’s Goya, it has to be good. Si es Goya, tiene que ser bueno. pic.twitter.com/9tjVrfmo9z

— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) July 15, 2020

And in other news…

The cost of food rose in June for the sixth-straight month, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. [NBC News]

Food and Drug Administration on-site inspections will resume next week after a temporary suspension due to the pandemic. [Food Safety News]

Some TikTok teens are dressing up as mask-wearing elderly women so they can buy alcohol. Children are our future etc. [NY Post]

Making the oily cakes from the film First Cow. [Vulture]

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Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies - Volume 83: "Captain Boycott"

Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 83: “Captain Boycott”

Today’s Movie: Captain Boycott

Year of Release: 1947

Stars: Stewart Granger, Kathleen Ryan, Cecil Parker

Director: Frank Launder

This movie is not on my list of essential films.

NOTE: This installment of Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies is being done as part of something called the The Robert Donat Blog-A-Thon being hosted by Maddy Loves Her Classic Films. If you take a peek at my blog…

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BOF NEVER GABRIEL AND NEVER WAS MADE A BIRD A NEWBEC OR ANYTHING SHORTER THAN LESLIE AT 5′5 AND 3 QUARTERS INCHES TALL! AND FOR PEOPLE TRYIN TO BE ME AND INVADE ME THESE PEOPLE DIED, EVERY YEAR MORE AND MORE WILL DIE FOR TRYING TO STEAL MY STUFF OR HURT MY FAMILY OR KIDNAP MY KID(S) EVER OR HAVE ME LIVING MORE THAN ONE LIFE.

March 2002[edit source]

1 – David Mann, 85, American songwriter.

1 – Roger Plumpton Wilson, 96, British Anglican prelate.

3 – G. M. C. Balayogi, 61, Indian lawyer and politician.

3 – Calvin Carrière, 80, American fiddler.

3 – Harlan Howard, 74, American country music songwriter.

3 – Al Pollard, 73, NFL player and broadcaster, lymphoma. [1]

3 – Roy Porter, 55, British historian.

6 – Bryan Fogarty, 32, Canadian ice hockey player.

6 – David Jenkins, 89, Welsh librarian.

6 – Donald Wilson, 91, British television writer and producer.

7 – Franziska Rochat-Moser, 35, Swiss marathon runner.

8 – Bill Johnson, 85, American football player.

8 – Ellert Sölvason, 84, Icelandic football player.

9 – Jack Baer, 87, American baseball coach.

9 – Irene Worth, 85, American actress.

11 – Al Cowens, 50, American baseball player.

11 – Rudolf Hell, 100, German inventor and manufacturer.

12 – Steve Gromek, 82, American baseball player.

13 – Hans-Georg Gadamer, 102, German philosopher.

14 – Cherry Wilder, 71, New Zealand writer.

14 – Tan Yu, 75, Filipino entrepreneur.

15 – Sylvester Weaver, 93, American advertising executive, father of Sigourney Weaver.

16 – Sir Marcus Fox, 74, British politician.

17 – Rosetta LeNoire, 90, African-American stage and television actress.

17 – Bill Davis, 60, American football coach.

18 – Reginald Covill, 96, British cricketer.

18 – Maude Farris-Luse, 115, supercentenarian and one-time "Oldest Recognized Person in the World".

18 – Gösta Winbergh, 58, Swedish operatic tenor.

20 – John E. Gray, 95, American educational administrator, President of Lamar University.

20 – Ivan Novikoff, 102, Russian premier ballet master.

20 – Richard Robinson, 51, English cricketer.

21 – James F. Blake, 89, American bus driver, antagonist for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

21 – Thomas Flanagan, 78, American novelist and academic.

22 – Sir Kingsford Dibela, 70, Governor-General of Papua New Guinea.

22 – Hugh R. Stephen, 88, Canadian politician.

23 – Ben Hollioake, 24, English cricketer.

24 – Dorothy DeLay, 84, American violin instructor.

24 – César Milstein, 74, Argentinian biochemist.

24 – Frank G. White, 92, American army general.

25 – Ken Traill, 75, British rugby league player.

25 – Kenneth Wolstenholme, 81, British football commentator.

26 – Roy Calvert, 88, New Zealand World War II air force officer.

27 – Milton Berle, 93, American comedian dubbed "Mr. Television".

27 – Sir Louis Matheson, 90, British university administrator, Vice Chancellor of Monash University.

27 – Dudley Moore, 66, British actor and writer.

27 – Billy Wilder, 95, Austrian-born American film director (Double Indemnity).

28 – Tikka Khan, 86, Pakistani army general.

29 – Rico Yan, 27, Filipino movie & TV actor.

30 – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, 101, British consort of King George VI.

31 – Lady Anne Brewis, 91, English botanist.

31 – Barry Took, 73, British comedian and writer.

April 2002[edit source]

1 – Umer Rashid, 26, English cricketer, drowning.

1 – John S. Samuel, 88, American Air Force general.

2 – John R. Pierce, 92, American engineer and author.

2 – Robert Lawson Vaught, 75, American mathematician.

3 – Frank Tovey, aka Fad Gadget, 45, English singer-songwriter.

4 – Don Allard, 66, American football player (New York Titans, New England Patriots) and coach.

5 – Arthur Ponsonby, 11th Earl of Bessborough, 89, British aristocrat.

5 – Layne Staley, 34, former Alice in Chains lead singer.

6 – Nobu McCarthy, 67, Canadian actress.

6 – William Patterson, 71, British Anglican priest, Dean of Ely.

6 – Margaret Wingfield, 90, British political activist.

7 – John Agar, 82, American actor.

8 – Sir Nigel Bagnell, 75, British field marshal.

8 – María Félix, 88, Mexican film star.

8 – Helen Gilbert, 80 American artist.

8 – Giacomo Mancini, 85, Italian politician.

9 – Leopold Vietoris, 110, Austrian mathematician.

10 – Géza Hofi, 75 Hungarian humorist.

11 – J. William Stanton, 78, American politician.

14 – Buck Baker, 83, American member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame

14 – John Boda, 79, American composer and music professor.

14 – Sir Michael Kerr, 81, British jurist.

15 – Will Reed, 91, British composer.

15 – Byron White, 84, United States Supreme Court justice.

16 – Billy Ayre, 49, English footballer.

16 – Franz Krienbühl, 73, Swiss speed skater.

16 – Robert Urich, 55, American TV actor.

18 – Thor Heyerdahl, 87, Norwegian anthropologist.

18 – Cy Laurie, 75, British musician.

18 – Sir Peter Proby, 90, British landowner, Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire.

20 – Vlastimil Brodský, 81, Czech actor.

21 – Sebastian Menke, 91, American Roman Catholic priest.

21 – Red O'Quinn, 76, American football player.

21 – Terry Walsh, 62, British stuntman.

22 – Albrecht Becker, 95, German production designer and actor.

22 – Allen Morris, 92, American historian.

23 – Linda Lovelace, 53, former porn star turned political activist, car crash.

23 – Ted Kroll, 82, American golfer.

25 – Michael Bryant, 74, British actor.

25 – Indra Devi, 102, Russian "yoga teacher to the stars".

25 – Lisa Lopes, 30, American singer, car crash.

26 – Alton Coleman, 46, convicted spree killer, execution by lethal injection.

27 – Ruth Handler, 85, inventor of the Barbie doll.

27 – Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, 81, German Industrialist and art collector.

28 – Alexander Lebed, Russian general and politician.

28 – Sir Peter Parker, 77, British businessman.

28 – Lou Thesz, American professional wrestler.

28 – John Wilkinson, 82, American sound engineer.

29 – Liam O'Sullivan, Scottish footballer, drugs overdose. [2]

29 – Lor Tok, 88, Thai, comedian and actor Thailand National Artist.

May 2002[edit source]

1 – John Nathan-Turner, 54, British television producer.

2 – William Thomas Tutte, 84, Bletchley Park cryptographer and British, later Canadian, mathematician.

3 – Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, 91, British Labour politician and female life peer.

3 – Mohamed Haji Ibrahim Egal, 73, president of Somaliland and formerly prime minister of Somalia and British Somaliland.

3 – Mohan Singh Oberoi, 103, Indian hotelier and retailer.

4 – Abu Turab al-Zahiri, 79, Saudi Arabian writer of Arab Indian descent

5 – Sir Clarence Seignoret 83, president of Dominica (1983–1993).

5 – Hugo Banzer Suárez, 75, president of Bolivia, as dictator 1971–1978 and democratic president 1997–2001.

5 – Mike Todd, Jr., 72, American film producer.

6 – Otis Blackwell, 71, American singer-songwriter and pianist.

6 – Harry George Drickamer, 83, American chemical engineer.

6 – Pim Fortuyn, 54, assassinated Dutch politician.

7 – Sir Bernard Burrows, 91, British diplomat.

7 – Sir Ewart Jones, 91, Welsh chemist.

7 – Seattle Slew, 28, last living triple crown winner on 25th anniversary of winning Kentucky Derby.

8 – Sir Edward Jackson, 76, English diplomat.

9 – Robert Layton, 76, Canadian politician.

9 – James Simpson, 90, British explorer.

10 – Lynda Lyon Block, 54, convicted murderer, executed by electric chair in Alabama.

10 – John Cunniff, 57, American hockey player and coach.

10 – Henry W. Hofstetter, 87, American optometrist.

10 – Leslie Dale Martin, 35, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Louisiana.

10 – Tom Moore, 88, American athletics promoter.

11 – Joseph Bonanno, 97, Sicilian former Mafia boss.

12 – Richard Chorley, 74, English geographer.

13 – Morihiro Saito, 74, a teacher of the Japanese martial art of aikido.

13 – Ruth Cracknell, 76, redoubtable Australian actress most famous for the long-running role of Maggie Beare in the series "Mother and Son".

13 – Valery Lobanovsky, 63, former Ukrainian coach.

14 – Sir Derek Birley, 75, British educationist and writer.

15 – Bernard Benjamin, 92, British statistician.

15 – Bryan Pringle, 67, British actor.

15 – Nellie Shabalala, 49, South African singer and wife of leader/founder of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Joseph Shabalala.

15 – Esko Tie, 73, Finnish ice hockey player.

16 – Edwin Alonzo Boyd, 88, Canadian bank-robber and prison escapee of the 1950s.

16 – Alec Campbell, 103, Australia's last surviving ANZAC died in a nursing home.

16 – Dorothy Van, 74, American actress.

17 – Peter Beck, 92, British schoolmaster.

17 – Joe Black, 78, American first Black baseball pitcher to win a World Series game.

17 – Earl Hammond, 80, American voice actor best known for voicing Mumm Ra and Jaga in the television series Thundercats.

17 – Bobby Robinson, 98, American baseball player.

17 – Little Johnny Taylor, 59, American singer.

18 – Davey Boy Smith, 39, 'British Bulldog' professional wrestler.

18 – Gordon Wharmby, 68, British actor (Last of the Summer Wine)

19 – John Gorton, 90, 19th Prime Minister of Australia.

19 – Otar Lordkipanidze, 72, Georgian archaeologist.

20 – Stephen Jay Gould, 60, paleontologist and popular science author.

21 – Niki de Saint Phalle, 71, French artist.

21 – Roy Paul, 82, Welsh footballer.

22 – Paul Giel, 69, American football player.

22 – Dick Hern, 81, British racehorse trainer.

22 – (remains discovered; actual death probably took place on or around May 1, 2001), Chandra Levy, 24, U.S. Congressional intern.

22 – Creighton Miller, 79, American football player and attorney.

23 – Sam Snead, 89, golfer.

25 – Pat Coombs, 75, English actress.

25 – Jack Pollard, 75, Australian sports journalist.

26 – John Alexander Moore, 86, American biologist.

26 – Mamo Wolde, 69, Ethiopian marathon runner.

28 – Napoleon Beazley, 25, convicted juvenile offender, executed by lethal injection in Texas.

28 – Mildred Benson, 96, American children's author.

June 2002[edit source]

1 – Hansie Cronje, 32, South African cricketer, air crash.

4 – Fernando Belaúnde Terry, 89, democratic president of Peru, 1963–1968 and 1980–1985.

4 – John W. Cunningham, 86, American author.

4 – Caroline Knapp, 42, author of Drinking: A Love Story.

5 – Dee Dee Ramone, 50, founding member of The Ramones.

5 – Alex Watson, 70, Australian rugby league player.

6 – Peter Cowan, 87, Australian writer.

6 – Hans Janmaat, 67, controversial far-right politician in the Netherlands.

7 – Rodney Hilton, 85, British historian.

7 – Lilian, Princess of Réthy, 85, British-born Belgian royal.

8 – George Mudie, 86, Jamaican cricketer.

9 – Paul Chubb, 53, Australian actor.

9 – Bryan Martyn, 71, Australian rules footballer.

10 – John Gotti, 61, imprisoned mobster.

11 – Robbin Crosby, 42, American guitarist of rock band Ratt.

11 – Margaret E. Lynn, 78, American theater director.

11 – Robert Roswell Palmer, 93, American historian and writer.

11 – Peter John Stephens, 89, British children's author.

12 – Bill Blass, 79, American fashion designer.

12 – George Shevelov, 93, Ukrainian scholar.

13 – John Hope, 83, American meteorologist.

14 – Jose Bonilla, 34, boxing former world champion, of asthma.

14 – June Jordan, 65, American writer and teacher, of breast cancer.

15 – Said Belqola, 45, Moroccan referee of the 1998 FIFA World Cup final.

17 – Willie Davenport, 59, American gold medal-winning Olympic hurdler.

17 – John C. Davies II, 82, American politician.

17 – Fritz Walter, 81, German football player, captain of 1954 World Cup winners.

18 – Nancy Addison, 54, soap actress, cancer.

18 – Jack Buck, 77, Major League Baseball announcer.

18 – Michael Coulson, 74, British lawyer and politician.

19 – Count Flemming Valdemar of Rosenborg, 80, Danish prince.

20 – Enrique Regüeiferos, 53, Cuban Olympic boxer.

21 – Henry Keith, Baron Keith of Kinkel, 80, British jurist.

21 – Patrick Kelly, 73, English cricketer.

22 – David O. Cooke, 81, American Department of Defense official.

22 – Darryl Kile, 33, Major League Baseball player.

22 – Ann Landers, 83, author & syndicated newspaper columnist.

23 – Pedro "El Rockero" Alcazar, 26, Panamanian boxer; died after losing his world Flyweight championship to Fernando Montiel in Las Vegas the night before.

23 – Arnold Weinstock, 77, British businessman.

24 – Lorna Lloyd-Green, 92, Australian gynaecologist.

24 – Miles Francis Stapleton Fitzalan-Howard, 86, 17th Duke of Norfolk.

24 – Pierre Werner, 88, former Prime Minister of Luxembourg, "father of the Euro".

25 – Gordon Park Baker, 64, Anglo-American philosopher.

25 – Jean Corbeil, 68, Canadian politician.

26 – Barbara G. Adams, 57, British Egyptologist.

26 – Clarence D. Bell, 88, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania State Senate.

26 – Jay Berwanger, 88, college football player, first winner of the Heisman Trophy.

26 – Arnold Brown, 88, British General of the Salvation Army.

26 – James Morgan, 63, British journalist.

27 – Sir Charles Carter, 82, British economist and academic administrator.

27 – John Entwistle, 57, English bassist (The Who), heart attack.

27 – Russ Freeman, 76, American pianist.

27 – Robert L. J. Long, 82, American admiral.

27 – Jack Webster, 78, Canadian police officer.

28 – Arthur "Spud" Melin, responsible for marketing hula-hoop and frisbee.

29 – Rosemary Clooney, 74, singer.

29 – Jan Tomasz Zamoyski, 90, Polish politician.

30 – Pete Gray, 87, American one-armed baseball player.

30 – Dave Wilson, 70, American television director.

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So another week goes by, and some more bombs and some more streaming news. Terminator Dark Fate is officially dead in the water. The Shining sequel “Dr Sleep” is also dead in the water, as is the WW2 film, “Midway”. The Irishman is out now in theaters, and will debut on Netflix on Nov 27. Everyone is keeping their eye on this very closely. Will Smith’s Gemini Man was another huge flop, and people are wondering if the old guard is dead and buried in Hollywood.

Arnold couldn’t do it, Linda Hamilton couldn’t do it. Will Smith swung and missed, and he was bringing brand new technology AND an Oscar winning director with him! Now it’s time for Scorsese, DeNiro, Pesci and Pacino to take their swings at it. The old guard is using a new digital platform, Netflix, and new technology, and a new running time, 2 hours and 52 minutes. Good thing we can watch it on Netflix because I am going to need a ton of bathroom breaks.

Advance word of mouth is good for The Irishman, but then advanced word of mouth was good for Terminator and Gemini Man. I think the word “interest” has a lot to do with people going to see a film. Joker is a sensational film, very intense, and it peaked the public’s interest. Why? Because it was not an action film, nor a superhero film, yet it was about a comic book icon. So yea, a new spin on a popular topic? Gold. I know I’m not gonna go pay for another action film with a hitman v hitman, even if it is Will v Young Will. Don’t care. A CGI character is not gonna make me pay $15 for a ticket, and $20 for snacks. If the Irishman has substance, and I’m sure it does, I think it will swing and make some serious contact.

Speaking of the old guard in Hollywood being in deep trouble – Woody Allen just settled his lawsuit with Amazon for $68 Million dollars.

Amazon agreed to release four movies of Woody’s, but then freaked out with the #MeToo movement and pulled the plug on all his projects. “Wonder Wheel” and “Rainy Day in New York” were both done and ready to go, and Amazon simply packed up and left Woody high and dry. Could they have made some money? Sure, but honestly Amazon has it’s hands in so much, with so much content already on it’s streaming service, do they really need all this negative attention and headaches and protests and boycotts over two films from an 83 year old filmmaker? Does Woody’s audience even own a computer? I think since it’s not Woody’s demographic, not his platform, not his strength and just not enough money to be earned here, Amazon did the right thing and just cut it’s ties with the icon. If there is so much interest in Woody’s films, a distributor will pick it up and release it.

If all the old guards are done for, who are the new guards? It seems corporations hold all the power now, and maybe our new guards aren’t people, but businesses. I would certainly consider Disney a new guard. They bought a lot of big time studios. Spielberg is silent, Lucas bowed out to Disney and collected his paycheck. Coppola left for the vineyards of Napa Valley. Weinstein is done, if not in jail, so who is coming up in all these vacant places? I think we might find that’s not a one vision town anymore. I think large companies will simply “pass the baton” and let certain artists come in for a trilogy and then bow out. It could become a revolving door with franchise movies and the corporations holding all the cards.

If an artist disagrees, has a conflict or is caught up in something like a #MeToo movement, the company could just simply brush them aside and replace them or buy them out like Woody. In the near future, will an artist resist the big money to create his own vision? Or just climb aboard and do a Star Wars movie for Disney or a limited series for Netflix or Amazon. Companies that used to deliver us books and DVD’s are now delivering our ideas to us. We were the ones who used to buy and pay for their goods, now it looks like we are the ones who are bought and paid for.

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He Envisioned the World That Trump Is Demolishing

Topical Press Agency/GettyA century apart, two American presidents faced a world spinning out of control. One was a builder and the other a disrupter. But they have more in common than might be expected.In most ways, Woodrow Wilson and Donald Trump could not be more different. Wilson was a man of faith, a Ph.D. who wrote books and lectured widely; as president, he oversaw the greatest progressive reform in history. Trump is a hedonist and subliterate boor who seeks to strip away any program that serves people in need or common concerns like the environment or global warming. But the parallels are striking too. Both experienced periods of physical and mental instability that made close observers wonder whether they should stay in office. Both were prone to fits of temper and conspiracy theories. Both demanded absolute loyalty—and exiled those who spoke their minds. Both complained about entrenched elites conspiring to sabotage their world-changing agendas. Frustrated with the tedious bargaining in Congress, both took refuge in the roar of the crowds at rallies and parades.One quality above all else—psychological fragility, and an all-encompassing fear of failure and humiliation—defined both presidents’ lives and their approaches to power. Their brittle but defiant egos made them unwilling to work with others. That offers sobering lessons for our time.* * *Two hundred years ago, when Woodrow Wilson returned from the Paris peace conference, he experienced an unusual case of writer’s block—an unusual malady for the most voluble president in history. The problem, he said, was that he had “very little respect for the audience,” the Republicans who took control of the Senate in the 1918 midterm elections. For his whole career—as a professor, university president, governor, and U.S. president—Wilson used words to overcome his painful shyness and promote his causes. When he got stuck, he withdrew from Washington and took to the road. Historians have long debated Wilson’s psychology. Both parents were demonstrative but also demanding. Like Trump’s father Fred, Wilson’s father Joseph guided him but also mocked him when he failed. His mother Jessie was a relentless hypochondriac who, passively aggressively, demanded her son’s attention. Late in learning to read, Wilson turned inward to a fantasy life. He learned how to fit in by standing out, always aloof. Speechmaking was his path to power.In his first term, Wilson was a model president. After laying out a reform agenda, he allowed Congress to do its work. At appropriate times, he bargained and compromised on the Federal Reserve Act, the Underwood Tariff Act, Clayton Anti-Trust Act, the creation of the income tax, and labor reform. When the European war broke out in 1914, Wilson argued successfully for neutrality, then for preparedness. After winning reelection in 1916, Wilson quickly changed and went all-out for war. Emotionally, he shut down when he faced opposition. When he called for “war without victory,” Republicans like former President Theodore Roosevelt and Senate Majority Leader Henry Cabot Lodge hissed. But he would not engage them. When he went to Paris to push for the League of Nations, the English and French agreed in exchange for carving up the territory of the defeated Central Powers and exacting punishing reparations against Germany. To Wilson, the League was the prize. This entity—less than a world government but more than a treaty—would, he said, prevent 98 percent of future wars. It would also provide the authority needed to solve other problems, like labor relations, trade, freedom of the seas, arms control, colonialism, and human rights. Republicans (and some Democrats) feared the League would cede American sovereignty to European powers and, soon, to “colored” nations. Senator James Reed of Missouri, a Democrat, complained: “Think of submitting questions involving the very life of the United States to a tribunal on which a nigger from Liberia, a nigger from Honduras, a nigger from India … each have votes equal to that of the great United States.”Even before Wilson went to Paris, Lodge assembled an opposition coalition: isolationists (like Hiram Johnson), realpolitik balance-of-power advocates (like T.R.), and middle-of-the-roaders (like Porter McCumber). Wilson tried, gamely, to persuade them. He met reluctant senators for one-on-one talks but converted no one. He hosted the Foreign Relations Committee but converted no one. The more Wilson spoke, in fact, the more he alienated one faction or another. But Wilson was, above all, a talker. And so, 100 years ago this month, he embarked on the most ambitious speaking tour in presidential history: 10,000 miles, 20 states, 27 cities, all on a hot steel train, swaying up and down mountains and through forest fires—hell on the fragile man’s constitution. He spoke mostly in places where he would not be able to persuade reluctant senators to change their minds. Back in Washington, Lodge and the Republicans tended to their swelling anti-treaty coalition.Most Americans favored the treaty, but with little fervor. Most supporters agreed that “reservations” were needed to protect American control over war-making powers, maintain the sanctity of the Monroe Doctrine, and enable the U.S. to quit the league if it worked against American interests. Mostly, though, people wanted to get on with their lives after years of war. American life in 1919 was in state of crisis, with unprecedented labor strikes, race riots, growing inequality, depressed wages and spiraling prices, a rough transition from a wartime economy, sweeping attacks on immigrants, systematic attacks on civil liberties, and the first Red Scare (even as thousands of Americans were stuck in Russia fighting an undeclared war). The ugliest problem was, as always, race. Many blacks thought they finally earned respect when they volunteered for the war and manned factories and railroads at home. Whites resented their claim to the American Dream. Riots broke out in Chicago, Washington, Omaha, and Elaine, Arkansas, among other cities, claiming at least 153 lives. Lynchings claimed 83 lives. In Omaha, white mobs set fire to a jailhouse, seized a black man suspected of rape, shot him up until his entrails spilled out of his chest, then burnt his body in a bonfire. Smiling photos by the burnt remains were sold as postcards.(Wilson had no inclination to confront the race issue. A child of the South, he restored segregation to the federal bureaucracy. He screened the racist film “Birth of a Nation” at the White House—though his famous praise for it, “like writing history with lightening,” might have been apocryphal. The movie was based on a novel by a friend from Johns Hopkins University, who peppered him with ideas for tightening race laws to make the Democrats the majority party.)Workers staged more than 2,000 strikes. Many turned violent when management, Pinkertons, and state and local cops attacked them. When Boston police struck in September, the taciturn governor Calvin Coolidge sat silent while Bostonians rioted; then, when the police gave in, he had the cops fired and replaced.Attacks on civil liberties—which began with the Espionage Act of 1917, the Sedition Act of 1918, and the Alien Act of 1918—ramped up with the strikes and terrorist attacks. The postmaster general wouldn’t deliver hundreds of publications deemed insufficiently pro-American. A young bureaucrat named J. Edgar Hoover began to collect a database of names he considered subversives for the Bureau of Investigation. During the war, the feds tapped a nationwide network of citizen spies who ratted on German-Americans and other “hyphenated” Americans—an impressive resource for continued repression. The American Protective League alone had 200,000 citizen-spies, who infiltrated virtually every major institution, including the NAACP.Labor leaders and socialists who spoke out against the war, including four-time Socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs, languished in jail. (Debs would run for president again in 1920, while in jail.) Privately, Wilson acknowledged at least some of the dissidents should be freed but his bitterness stayed his hand. The next president, Warren Harding, would ultimately make some healing gestures.On his Western tour, Wilson struggled to get to know his country again. He alternated between high-minded appeal, and low-down ones. Rather than acknowledging honest concerns, he repeated that the League of Nations would prevent “98 percent” of future wars. He offered detailed explanations of complex issues like Article X (the cooling-off provision, which mandated arbitration and boycotts before war) and Article XI (the busybody provision, which required member nations to raise complaints when they saw misbehavior by other nations). But he could not resist demagogic appeals against Germans, Russians, Republicans, laborers, and others. Wilson’s tour revealed some of the nation’s fault lines. In Columbus, Republicans worked behind the scenes to dampen turnout for the parade—then went all out to create a rousing welcome for a gathering of Civil War veterans. In North Dakota, where the socialist Nonpartisan League governed, he faced leftist skeptics about his policies on war, labor, and civil liberties. In California, Chinese critics panned the treaty for giving Shandong to Japan. Wherever he went, Irish critics attacked his subservience to Britain—especially the provision that allocated six votes to England and other members of the British empire. In Seattle, where the radical syndicalist Wobblies had organized a general strike in January, protesters rebuked him by standing silent for six blocks of an otherwise joyous parade. The silent attack humiliated the president; one moment he was happily waving a top hat, the next he was crumbled and gray in his seat. Jack Kipps, the man who organized that silent protest, instantly regretted it. “I felt like two cents for pulling that demonstration,” he said. Mournfully, he called himself Wilson’s assassin.For most of the trip, Wilson aroused excitement. Few people then ever saw or heard a president. A president’s presence alone was a cause for patriotic celebration. But after Wilson left town, a Republican “truth squad” often took his place in the city auditorium and fired up the crowds against Wilson. Many of the opposition’s crowds were bigger; most were more raucous. “Impeach him!” the crowd at a Chicago rally called out.But Wilson scored some victories. In California, the home of a leading opponent, Senator Hiram Johnson, the president’s speeches rallied more than 100,000. The editor of the Republican Los Angeles Times declared Wilson and his cause triumphant. Even though no senators flipped to the pro-treaty side and at least a handful moved toward the anti-treaty side, the size and enthusiasm of the crowds indicated a nationwide shift.At least that’s what the Wilson party thought leaving southern California for Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado.Wilson had suffered serious ailments—gastrointestinal problems, splitting headaches, and (according to later medical historians) a series of strokes—all his life. At the Paris Peace Conference he spent a week in bed with a mysterious ailment, probably the Spanish Flu (which originated at an American army base). In Paris, he appeared to lose his mental stability; he accused servants of spying and stealing furniture. Aides whispered about his mental health.On the Western tour, Wilson rarely got a good night’s sleep. He struggled to eat—sometimes he could only drink black coffee—and had to be propped up by a window so he could breathe and get some rest. Alas, his doctor was not much of a doctor. Wilson hired him more for his bonhomie and unflagging devotion. Dr. Cary Grayson’s prescription for Wilson’s ailments was play, especially golf (he once took 26 shots on a single hole) and auto rides through Rock Creek Park. But on the western trip, Wilson could rarely escape even to take a walk.Just before the scheduled end of the tour, Wilson collapsed and was returned to Washington—where, three days later, he suffered a stroke that left him an invalid. When his secretary of state convened a Cabinet meeting to discuss his health emergency, the president fired him. Alone with his wife and a few aides, he ordered Democrats to vote against compromises that would have saved some form of the treaty.* * *A quarter-century later, after another world war, the U.S. and its allies constructed a new world order based on mutual-protection pacts like NATO and the United Nations. Had Wilson compromised, the League of Nations might have evolved to fill those kinds of roles. Another global conflict might have been avoided. Now, Donald Trump has done his best to unravel these organizations and other agreements, like the Paris climate accord and the Iran nuclear pact. What Wilson started, Trump aims to rip apart. Wilson’s insecurity made him a gambler. Rather than bargaining, he bet everything on big ideas, big speeches, big gestures. Even when the Senate rejected the treaty in November 1919 and March 1920, he wanted to double down. Alone in a dark room in the White House, now an invalid, he fantasized about running for president again in 1920. He also entertained ideas about a national referendum on the League. In that sense, Wilson resembled the current president who declares that “I alone can fix it” and calls himself “the chosen one.” Wilson believed in his singular role in history. “Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States,” he told one party leader.Still, when his party moved on from him in 1920, Wilson accepted it. “We are still in darkness but I am sure that it is the darkness that eventually lightens,” he told a visitor after leaving the White House. “I realize now that I am only… a tool that has served the purpose in God’s hand. I was stricken because it was His way of doing things. It was His will to set me aside; He knows what is best.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

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Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images Plus, TikTok teens have found a new way to illegally buy alcohol, and more news to start your day Ivanka Trump endorses Goya Foods, prompting ethical concerns Nearly a week after the CEO of Goya Foods said that “we’re all truly blessed” to have Donald Trump as president, the controversy-turned-proxy culture war is still going strong. Progressive politicians and consumers called for a boycott; conservative figures called the boycott an attempt to “silence free speech” and urged supporters to buy even more of the company’s Hispanic food staples. And last night, the First Daughter herself waded into the mess, tweeting a photo of herself holding up a can of Goya black beans, accompanied by the caption (in both English and Spanish): “If it’s Goya, it has to be good.” If it’s Goya, it has to be good. Si es Goya, tiene que ser bueno. pic.twitter.com/9tjVrfmo9z — Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) July 15, 2020 As multiple outlets have pointed out, Ivanka Trump’s blatant, bilingual promotion of Goya may be a violation of ethical standards for federal employees (of which Ivanka Trump is one, technically, serving as an advisor to the president). Per the Department of Justice: An employee may not use his public office for his own private gain or for that of persons or organizations with which he is associated personally. An employee’s position or title should not be used to coerce; to endorse any product, service or enterprise; or to give the appearance of governmental sanction. But the Trump administration has not been particularly stringent about enforcing federal ethical standards. Previous ethically dubious endorsements include Kellyanne Conway telling Fox News viewers to “go buy Ivanka’s stuff” in 2017, and Donald Trump’s 2019 suggestion of his own resort as the location for the next G-7 summit, as Intelligencer notes. Just add Ivanka Trump’s dead-eyed Goya photo to the long list of infractions. And in other news… The cost of food rose in June for the sixth-straight month, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. [NBC News] Food and Drug Administration on-site inspections will resume next week after a temporary suspension due to the pandemic. [Food Safety News] Based on historical data from the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest and months of mathematical analysis, here is the maximum number of hot dogs that a human could eat in 10 minutes: 83. Thank you, science! [NYT] Some TikTok teens are dressing up as mask-wearing elderly women so they can buy alcohol. Children are our future etc. [NY Post] Making the oily cakes from the film First Cow. [Vulture] • All AM Intel Coverage [E] from Eater - All https://ift.tt/39348Z9

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Revue de web du 14 juin 2018

Le boss des partenariats artistes de Spotify pour le monde quitte la compagnie

Une nouvelle qui arrive la semaine où on apprend que Spotify tenterait d’approcher en direct les manager et artistes indépendants en leur proposant des avances.

Apple Music ajoute discrètement une fonctionnalité pour ajouter des albums à ses favoris avant leur sortie

Étonnamment, il faut un peu fouiller pour trouver cette nouvelle fonctionnalité plutôt intéressante.

Pendant ce temps-là, Arsenal signe un partenariat avec Tidal

Un incendie détruit le musée de Aberdeen, qui hébergeait de nombreux objets ayant appartenu à Kurt Cobain

Facebook détient des brevets de technologie de suivi du regard, mais nie les utiliser.

Twitter continue l��éditorialisation de son app

Avec de nouvelles mises en avant des contenus médias, dans des onglets dédiés par sujets, entre autres.

Instagram vous permet maintenant de partager les story dans lesquelles vous êtes mentionné, dans votre propre story !

Enfin sauf chez moi, bien sûr, le boycott continue.

Il sera bientôt possible d’acheter directement depuis les stories Instagram

A priori seuls les comptes pro pourront proposer cette option, qui affichera alors un petit sticker caddie chez les utilisateurs, leur permettant de comprendre qu’ils peuvent acheter directement depuis la story.

Il est désormais possible de supprimer un message dans le chat sur Snapchat

Un message parti trop vite, ça nous arrive tous, et là il est désormais possible de réparer son erreur et de le supprimer… tant que votre interlocuteur ne l’a pas vu !

Connaissez-vous l’obfuscation ?

Il s’agit du procédé pour brouiller ses traces sur Internet ! Certaines extensions Firefox génèrent par exemple plein de requêtes automatiques en même temps pour noyer vos vraies demandes Google, ou cliquent pour vous sur TOUTES les publicités, pour perturber les ciblages.

83% des piratages de film, série et chansons viendrait d’un manque d’option légale

Que ce soit à cause du prix des services légaux ou de l’absence des titres recherchés à leur catalogue, les pirates seraient en grande partie simplement des déçus des plateformes légales (l’étude est cependant déclarative, certains pirates ne voient juste pas l’intérêt de payer pour du contenu qu’ils trouvent gratuitement ailleurs).

Et si on féminisait le métro parisien ?

Sur 302 stations, seules 6 portent le nom d’une femme (souvent collé à celui de son mari comme Barbés-Rochechouart ou Chardon-Lagache). Pour augmenter ce compteur, vous pouvez voter pour les noms des 2 nouvelles stations de la ligne 4, pour Barbara, Nina Simone ou Lucie Aubrac !

Les scientifiques ont retrouvé un insecte datant de 99 millions d’années

Ce petit ptiliidae est une espèce de coléoptère qui a été parfaitement conservé dans de l’ambre, et a donc vécu en même temps que les dinosaures !

Découvrez Norman, l’intelligence artificielle psychopathe eduquée par Reddit !

Google s’engage à ne pas développer des armes avec l’intelligence artificielle

Mais va quand même travailler avec l’armée !

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Israel lets Jews protest the occupation. It doesn’t let Palestinians.

By Mairav Zonszein, Washington Post, May 31, 2018

Mairav Zonszein is an Israeli-American freelance journalist.

The images and video of Israeli soldiers shooting live ammunition into masses of mostly unarmed Palestinians on the other side of the Gaza border fence over the past several weeks horrified observers around the world. Starting March 30, Israeli troops suppressing protests in Gaza killed 118 people and wounded more than 13,000, including 1,136 children.

The deaths and injuries, Israel Defense Forces international spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus lamented recently, have “done us a tremendous disservice, unfortunately, and it has been very difficult to tell our story.” Now Israel’s government is moving to make sure there are no more videos of mass shootings in the future--not by ordering a stop to the shootings, but by considering a law that would ban anyone from filming or photographing any military operations “with the intention of undermining the spirit of IDF soldiers and Israel’s residents.”

Even if that bill never becomes law, the fact that the Knesset is contemplating it underscores the current state of freedoms in Israel: Maintaining its decades-long occupation depends on systematic suppression of dissent on both sides of the boundary fences. Just as Israel exercises varying levels of control between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, it also permits varying levels of dissent and criticism depending on who you are, what you are protesting and where.

Within Israel’s 1948 borders, for the most part, when Jewish citizens protest, it’s tolerated; when Palestinian citizens protest, it’s “disturbing the peace” or worse. Days after the events in Gaza, for instance, Israeli police violently arrested 21 protesters--most of them Palestinian citizens--as they demonstrated in the northern Israeli city of Haifa against the mass shootings. Video, images and testimonies from the protest show police using barricades to herd people into one spot and then shoving them, punching them and rounding them up. Seven of those arrested had to be hospitalized after being beaten by police, reportedly most while in custody . Jafar Farah, a civil-society activist and director of an organization that promotes equal rights for Palestinians, had his knee broken by an officer at the police station. One detainee testified that an officer called him a “terrorist” and told him: “Go to Gaza. This is a Jewish state.” The arrestees, two of whom were Jewish, were all released by a judge after more than 48 hours in detention. This was effectively extrajudicial punishment for exercising their freedom to protest.

Meanwhile, several hundred Israelis, predominantly Jews, had gathered in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv a couple of days earlier, also to protest Israeli military tactics in Gaza. Not a single arrest was made, and no police brutality was reported. They even blocked roads, but police did not interfere.

There has always been police violence against Palestinian demonstrations in Israel. The most notorious came when protests nationwide in October 2000 (some of which turned into rioting) ended with an incident in which police killed 12 Palestinian citizens and one Gaza resident. An Israeli commission investigated and found there was no justification for live fire, but not a single officer was indicted. It also censured the government for systematic discrimination against Palestinian citizens. But Fady Khoury, a lawyer with the rights group Adalah who recently represented the detainees in Haifa, told me that the beatings in the station were extreme.

While Farah was in the hospital, Knesset member Ayman Odeh, who heads the Joint List (a political alliance comprising Israel’s Arab parties and one Arab-Jewish party) was barred from visiting him. Israel Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman tweeted at the time: “Every day that Ayman Odeh and his partners are roaming free and cursing police is a failure of law enforcement. These terrorists belong in jail, not in the Knesset. It’s time they paid a price for their actions.”

Such nonchalant incitement against Palestinian members of parliament mirrors the government’s attitude toward the civil rights of Palestinian citizens. In the occupied West Bank, it is essentially illegal for Palestinians to protest. Under a military order issued shortly after Israeli forces occupied the area during the 1967 Six-Day War, any protest, march or even vigil of 10 or more Palestinians requires a military permit--which, like most other permits for Palestinians, is rarely issued. Most nonviolent resistance by Palestinians is quashed; the leaders of their movements shot at (sometimes killed), jailed and their families harassed. Jewish Israeli activists who have joined this struggle over the years have also been arrested.

In the West Bank and East Jerusalem, Israeli security forces typically use what they categorize as “nonlethal” weapons (primarily tear gas and rubber bullets, which, when shot at the upper body, sometimes prove lethal) to quell protests. But in Gaza, lately they have used live bullets, shot in very high numbers at men, women, children, journalists and paramedics. Israeli officials and their supporters just utter the magic word “Hamas” to justify the mass shooting of thousands of people who are attempting to call attention to the fact they live in an open-air prison. (Israel’s High Court of Justice has sided with the military, sanctioning the use of live ammunition because the IDF says it acts only in self-defense.) Hamas’s attempt to piggyback off the recent Great Return March, as its organizers--who demanded nonviolent resistance--called it, does not absolve Israel of its responsibility to treat protesters fairly. Nor does the fact that dozens out of tens of thousands of demonstrators were armed (and many of them only with wire cutters).

Israel also tries to bully foreign nationals who document and monitor its human rights record. Human Rights Watch’s director for the Palestinian territories, Omar Shakir, is fighting in court to stay in the country, in the first legal challenge to Israel’s 2017 amendment barring entry to those who call for boycotts. In recent weeks, Israel has also denied entry to four leading American civil rights activists, among them the director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and a Columbia University professor.

Whether in Gaza or Haifa, in Bethlehem or at Ben Gurion International Airport, the message Israel is sending is the same: It can do whatever it wants, and people need to shut up about it.

So far, the tactic is mostly succeeding in undermining dissent. According to an Israel Democracy Institute Peace Index poll from April , 83 percent of Jewish Israelis found the military’s open-fire policy in Gaza “appropriate.” (Just hours after 60 Palestinians were killed on May 14, thousands of Israelis went out into the streets of Tel Aviv--but they were there to celebrate Eurovision winner Netta Barzilai, not to protest the violence.)

As a longtime activist and journalist in Israel, including for the grass-roots news and commentary site +972 Magazine, I have been arrested for documenting and trying to prevent human rights violations in the West Bank. I have reported for years on how Israel silences dissent, even among its Jewish citizens, and how it is moving to outlaw human rights organizations it deems traitors. With time, these artificial divisions between “acceptable” and “unacceptable” protest will probably collapse. The question is, what will it take for other privileged Jewish Israelis to wake up?

In a statement responding to the incidents in Haifa, the police said that they “will continue to allow the public to exercise the right to protest and freedom of expression, but will prevent any attempt to disrupt public order and endanger public peace and security.” But who is going to stop Israel from committing its own disruptions of the public order and endangering public peace and security?

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