Month: February 2022

Whoopi Goldberg's suspension from "The View" following her controversial remarks about the Holocaust welcomes an "important" opportunity for ABC to take accountability and demonstrate a "national teaching moment," Rabbi Abraham Cooper of Los Angeles' Simon Wiesenthal Center says. Speaking to Fox News Digital Friday, the associate dean and director of Global Social Action for the Jewish human rights organization said he believes Goldberg's suspension was appropriate, but there's more to be done. He also shared his view that Goldberg is "not an anti-Semite." "Whoopi Goldberg knows our center. She knows Rabbi Marvin Hier, our CEO and founder," Rabbi Cooper said. "We're not dealing with someone here who spoke in order to hurt anyone in our community. But what she said obviously is extremel...

Around 70 episodes of Joe Rogan’s podcast mysteriously disappeared from Spotify on Friday, as spotted by JREMissing.com, a web tool that tracks missing episodes. The show (and Spotify’s relationship to it) have faced heavy criticism over the past few weeks, but there’s no clear connection between that and the missing episodes, nor is there any immediately apparent link between the episodes that were removed. For anyone who’s taken the sanity-preserving step of muting the phrase “Joe Rogan” on Twitter, here’s a brief recap of what’s been going on: Spotify, which has been the exclusive home of The Joe Rogan Experience since the streaming giant reportedly paid $100 million for the pleasure in 2020, has taken a lot of heat from people accusing Rogan’s show of spreading misinformation a...

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Peter Ramsey, who became first Black filmmaker to win the animated-feature Academy Award as co-director of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, is looking to make a jump into live-action with Blood Count, a period vampire thriller just scooped up by Paramount. Ramsey wrote the script as a spec and will direct the feature project, which is in early development. LeBron James and Maverick Carter’s SpringHill is on board to produce, with James, Jamal Henderson and Spencer Beighley acting as producers. Details are being kept in the coffin, but it is described as a film noir social thriller set in 1950s L.A. with supernatural elements. Intriguingly, it is also said to be loosely inspired by the life of Ramsey’s father, a jazz musician. SpringHill is in postpro...

Whoopi Goldberg’s past is coming back to haunt her following the offensive comments she made about the Holocaust on “The View” earlier this week. Goldberg (born Caryn Johnson), 66, apparently contributed to a cookbook where she submitted a cringe-worthy recipe for “Jewish-American Princess Fried Chicken,” according to the Daily Mail. The talk show host wrote the recipe in 1993 for the charity cookbook “Cooking in the Litchfield Hills.” The outlet obtained a copy of the book that contained instructions to cook dishes such as Diane Sawyer’s “roasted potato skins with scallion dip” and Eartha Kitt’s “summer zucchini soup with nasturtium blossoms.” According to the book, the page for Goldberg’s dish included some unfortunate humor. “Send chauffeur to your...