Robert “Robin” MacNeil, co-anchor and co-founder of PBS NewsHour, died April 12, PBS announced. He was 93
MacNeil died Friday morning of natural causes at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, his daughter, Alison MacNeil, told the New York Times.
Following their coverage of the 1973 Senate Watergate Hearings, MacNeil co-founded the predecessor to the PBS “MacNeil/Lehrer Report” in 1975 with fellow anchor Jim Lehrer.
“I am so deeply saddened at the loss of a precious friend. One of the greatest honors of my life was working with Robin MacNeil and being part of the way he and Jim Lehrer changed television news,” said Judy Woodruff, PBS NewsHour senior correspondent and former anchor and managing editor, in a statement. “He was brilliant and urbane, but always with a delightful sense of irony. I’m so grateful to have spoken with him in January on his birthday, when that iconic, deep Canadian baritone voice sounded exactly as...
MacNeil died Friday morning of natural causes at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, his daughter, Alison MacNeil, told the New York Times.
Following their coverage of the 1973 Senate Watergate Hearings, MacNeil co-founded the predecessor to the PBS “MacNeil/Lehrer Report” in 1975 with fellow anchor Jim Lehrer.
“I am so deeply saddened at the loss of a precious friend. One of the greatest honors of my life was working with Robin MacNeil and being part of the way he and Jim Lehrer changed television news,” said Judy Woodruff, PBS NewsHour senior correspondent and former anchor and managing editor, in a statement. “He was brilliant and urbane, but always with a delightful sense of irony. I’m so grateful to have spoken with him in January on his birthday, when that iconic, deep Canadian baritone voice sounded exactly as...
- 4/12/2024
- by Jack Dunn
- Variety Film + TV
Robert Zemeckis' 1994 Oscar darling "Forrest Gump" is a preachy, mawkish glob of syrupy sputum hocked from the throat of conservative America right into the face of the more daring, queer, artistically ambitious indie fare coming to the fore at the same time. It tells the story of a mentally disadvantaged man (Tom Hanks) who leans unthinkingly into every traditional trope of regressive Americana and meets nothing but success and fame. Forrest Gump is good at running and becomes a high school football star. He serves in the army and becomes a hero. He is very good at table tennis and becomes an Olympic champion. He tries his hand at small business -- shrimping -- and succeeds. He has an Iq of 75 and becomes a billionaire by following the rules.
Meanwhile, the characters who express any sort of malcontentedness with The System are punished. Notably, Jenny (Robin Wright), Forrest's childhood love,...
Meanwhile, the characters who express any sort of malcontentedness with The System are punished. Notably, Jenny (Robin Wright), Forrest's childhood love,...
- 7/30/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Salman Rushdie made a surprise appearance — his first since a man attacked him last August — on Thursday night at the Pen America gala in Manhattan, where he accepted the organization’s Centenary Courage Award.
“I wanted to say hi, everybody,” he said during his nine-minute speech. “It’s nice to be back. It’s nice to be back as opposed to not being back, which was also an option. And I’m pretty glad the dice rolled this way.” The author, who released a new book, Victory City, earlier this year,...
“I wanted to say hi, everybody,” he said during his nine-minute speech. “It’s nice to be back. It’s nice to be back as opposed to not being back, which was also an option. And I’m pretty glad the dice rolled this way.” The author, who released a new book, Victory City, earlier this year,...
- 5/19/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
The winds of change are sweeping Iran as the ‘Woman Life Freedom’ protests, provoked by the killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini last September, continue. Here, four Iranian disruptors talk about their struggles, their acts of solidarity for the pro-democracy movement, and their hopes for the future of their country.
Marjane Satrapi Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi, who was 9 years old when Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in 1979, recalls taking to the streets with her politically active parents to protest against the imposition of the hijab. “My mum went to demonstrate, and I went too, and so did my dad,” recalls the graphic novelist and filmmaker. “He was one of the very few men; they didn’t understand at the time that women’s rights are society’s rights.”
Satrapi’s parents sent her to Europe to study as a teenager and encouraged her to make her permanent home there. Satrapi captured...
Marjane Satrapi Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi, who was 9 years old when Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in 1979, recalls taking to the streets with her politically active parents to protest against the imposition of the hijab. “My mum went to demonstrate, and I went too, and so did my dad,” recalls the graphic novelist and filmmaker. “He was one of the very few men; they didn’t understand at the time that women’s rights are society’s rights.”
Satrapi’s parents sent her to Europe to study as a teenager and encouraged her to make her permanent home there. Satrapi captured...
- 5/18/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Writer Salman Rushdie has made a public speech, nine months after being stabbed and seriously injured onstage, warning that freedom of expression in the West is under its most severe threat in his lifetime.
Rushdie delivered a video message to the British Book Awards, where he was awarded the Freedom to Publish award on Monday evening. Organizers said the honour “acknowledges the determination of authors, publishers and booksellers who take a stand against intolerance, despite the ongoing threats they face.”
Rushdie, 75, looked thinner than before the attack and wore glasses with one tinted lens. He was blinded in his right eye and suffered nerve damage to his hand when he was attacked at a literary festival in New York state in August.
Read More: Author Salman Rushdie Attacked Before Lecture On New York Stage
His alleged assailant, Hadi Matar, has pleaded not guilty to charges of assault and attempted murder.
Rushdie delivered a video message to the British Book Awards, where he was awarded the Freedom to Publish award on Monday evening. Organizers said the honour “acknowledges the determination of authors, publishers and booksellers who take a stand against intolerance, despite the ongoing threats they face.”
Rushdie, 75, looked thinner than before the attack and wore glasses with one tinted lens. He was blinded in his right eye and suffered nerve damage to his hand when he was attacked at a literary festival in New York state in August.
Read More: Author Salman Rushdie Attacked Before Lecture On New York Stage
His alleged assailant, Hadi Matar, has pleaded not guilty to charges of assault and attempted murder.
- 5/17/2023
- by Brent Furdyk
- ET Canada
Sierra Urich has a documentary-ready family history, with changes rippling through the generations. Her mother, Mitra, left Iran for college in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1979, just months before the Islamic revolution deposed the Shah and put the Ayatollah Khomeini in power. Mitra’s mother, Behjat, had to wait 16 years before she could leave for the U.S. too. Urich herself grew up in Vermont and has never been to Iran.
If only the film matched the rich potential of these women’s stories. In her first feature, Urich talks to her mother and grandmother and explores her own feelings about her heritage, but the documentary veers uneasily between the cultural and personal aspects, never fully examining either one.
Joonam is obviously loving. The title is a Farsi term of endearment, and much of the film reveals fraught family dynamics, that extremely well-worn theme. But there is too little social and political context,...
If only the film matched the rich potential of these women’s stories. In her first feature, Urich talks to her mother and grandmother and explores her own feelings about her heritage, but the documentary veers uneasily between the cultural and personal aspects, never fully examining either one.
Joonam is obviously loving. The title is a Farsi term of endearment, and much of the film reveals fraught family dynamics, that extremely well-worn theme. But there is too little social and political context,...
- 1/23/2023
- by Caryn James
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
When protests broke out in Iran in 2009 over the fraudulent presidential election, one of the country’s leading artists stood up against the regime and its violent repression of demonstrators. Vocalist Mohammad Reza Shajarian recorded a song with lyrics addressed to government militias attacking people in the streets: “Lay down your guns. Come, sit down, talk, hear. Perhaps the light of humanity will get through to your heart.”
With mass protests again flaring in Iran in recent months—perhaps the most serious challenge to the fundamentalist regime since the Islamic Revolution of 1979—Shajarian’s example and solidarity with the people remain as vital as ever.
Shajarian’s life and the unique stature he attained in Iranian culture are explored in the Oscar-contending documentary The Voice of Dust and Ash, directed by first-time Iranian American filmmaker Mandana Biscotti. The director’s father had been friends with Shajarian—or “Ostad” as he is often called,...
With mass protests again flaring in Iran in recent months—perhaps the most serious challenge to the fundamentalist regime since the Islamic Revolution of 1979—Shajarian’s example and solidarity with the people remain as vital as ever.
Shajarian’s life and the unique stature he attained in Iranian culture are explored in the Oscar-contending documentary The Voice of Dust and Ash, directed by first-time Iranian American filmmaker Mandana Biscotti. The director’s father had been friends with Shajarian—or “Ostad” as he is often called,...
- 12/12/2022
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Iranian officials have arrested two of its prominent actors, Hengameh Ghaziani and Katayoun Riahi, for removing their headscarves and publicly supporting anti-government protests.
Ghaziani and Riahi are well-known Iranian actors with a large fan following.
Iran has experienced widespread protests in recent months over the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old who was arrested by the so-called “morality police” after being accused of wearing her hijab inappropriately.
The BBC reports that Ghaziani and Riahi were detained when they appeared in the public without their headscarves on 20 November.
Before her arrest, Ghaziani wrote on social media that “whatever happens, know that as always I will stand with the people of Iran”.
She added: “This may be my last post.”
At least 410 protestors have been killed in the unending demonstrations in Iran as of 19 November in the Khamenei administration-led crackdown on protests, said Human Rights Activists News Agency (Hrana), a...
Ghaziani and Riahi are well-known Iranian actors with a large fan following.
Iran has experienced widespread protests in recent months over the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old who was arrested by the so-called “morality police” after being accused of wearing her hijab inappropriately.
The BBC reports that Ghaziani and Riahi were detained when they appeared in the public without their headscarves on 20 November.
Before her arrest, Ghaziani wrote on social media that “whatever happens, know that as always I will stand with the people of Iran”.
She added: “This may be my last post.”
At least 410 protestors have been killed in the unending demonstrations in Iran as of 19 November in the Khamenei administration-led crackdown on protests, said Human Rights Activists News Agency (Hrana), a...
- 11/21/2022
- by Peony Hirwani and Arpan Rai
- The Independent - Film
Editor’s Note: For months now, Iranian screenwriter and satirist Nicole Najafi has been determinedly raising awareness on social media from her home in New York, posting reportage coming to her direct from Iran as the people push back against the regime, and using her growing platform to explain the situation to the world in simple terms, with the footage to back it up. While women remove their head coverings with heroic defiance and ‘dissenters’ are imprisoned and burned, beaten and murdered, Najafi has, unflinching, covered it all.
In July, Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was sentenced to six years in jail for criticizing the government. That same week, Iranian filmmakers Mohammad Rasoulof and Mostafa Aleahmad were also detained. Panahi has been banned from leaving Iran and making films for the past 12 years for his previous criticism of the regime.
Here, Najafi’s guest column for Deadline breaks down the power...
In July, Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was sentenced to six years in jail for criticizing the government. That same week, Iranian filmmakers Mohammad Rasoulof and Mostafa Aleahmad were also detained. Panahi has been banned from leaving Iran and making films for the past 12 years for his previous criticism of the regime.
Here, Najafi’s guest column for Deadline breaks down the power...
- 11/7/2022
- by Nicole Najafi
- Deadline Film + TV
The massive injuries suffered by author Salman Rushdie have been confirmed by his agent, who says Rushdie has lost eyesight in one of his eyes and use of one of his hands.
Agent Andrew Wylie told Spain’s El País about Rushdie’s condition, but would not say if the author was still hospitalized. He did note that Rushdie is expected to survive the attack he sustained while preparing to deliver a lecture in New York in August.
“[His wounds] were profound, but he’s [also] lost the si ght of one eye … He had three serious wounds in his neck. One hand is incapacitated because the nerves in his arm were cut. And he has about 15 more wounds in his chest and torso. So, it was a brutal attack,” Wylie said.
Earlier: Author Salman Rushdie has been removed from his ventilator and is starting the long road back from his stabbing injuries.
Agent Andrew Wylie told Spain’s El País about Rushdie’s condition, but would not say if the author was still hospitalized. He did note that Rushdie is expected to survive the attack he sustained while preparing to deliver a lecture in New York in August.
“[His wounds] were profound, but he’s [also] lost the si ght of one eye … He had three serious wounds in his neck. One hand is incapacitated because the nerves in his arm were cut. And he has about 15 more wounds in his chest and torso. So, it was a brutal attack,” Wylie said.
Earlier: Author Salman Rushdie has been removed from his ventilator and is starting the long road back from his stabbing injuries.
- 10/23/2022
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Click here to read the full article.
The filmmakers behind HBO’s Hostages didn’t know that their four-part documentary would premiere in the middle of the second week of anti-government protests in Iran stemming from the death of a young woman in state police custody. They were probably relatively confident, though, that no matter when Hostages debuted, it would have immediacy.
The series examines the Iran hostage crisis of 1979-1981 in full context, before and after the 444-day international crisis that represented a historical linchpin event for both countries. It was integral to the 40+ years Iran has now spent in diplomatic isolation from much of the West, an illustration of the sometimes catastrophic consequences of even a populist revolution. And it was integral to the 1980 presidential election in the United States, an election that ushered in the version of the political right as we now understand it, as well...
The filmmakers behind HBO’s Hostages didn’t know that their four-part documentary would premiere in the middle of the second week of anti-government protests in Iran stemming from the death of a young woman in state police custody. They were probably relatively confident, though, that no matter when Hostages debuted, it would have immediacy.
The series examines the Iran hostage crisis of 1979-1981 in full context, before and after the 444-day international crisis that represented a historical linchpin event for both countries. It was integral to the 40+ years Iran has now spent in diplomatic isolation from much of the West, an illustration of the sometimes catastrophic consequences of even a populist revolution. And it was integral to the 1980 presidential election in the United States, an election that ushered in the version of the political right as we now understand it, as well...
- 9/28/2022
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Leaders of the WGA East and West have issued a statement condemning the stabbing of Salman Rushdie as he was about to speak last week at a literary event in New York celebrating the U.S. as a safe haven for exiled writers. Rushdie, whose 1988 book The Satanic Verses is climbing the best-seller charts after the attack, remains in critical condition but is expected to survive, though he might lose an eye.
“The Writers Guild of America condemns in the strongest possible terms Friday’s horrific attack on author and fellow Writers Guild East member Salman Rushdie,” the guilds said in a joint statement. “Freedom of speech is a cornerstone of democracy and one of the founding principles of our union. The right to express oneself freely and without fear of violence is unwavering and absolute. An attack on one writer is an attack on all writers.
Salman Rushdie Tells...
“The Writers Guild of America condemns in the strongest possible terms Friday’s horrific attack on author and fellow Writers Guild East member Salman Rushdie,” the guilds said in a joint statement. “Freedom of speech is a cornerstone of democracy and one of the founding principles of our union. The right to express oneself freely and without fear of violence is unwavering and absolute. An attack on one writer is an attack on all writers.
Salman Rushdie Tells...
- 8/16/2022
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Warner Bros. Discovery Condemns Violent Threats Against J.K. Rowling Following Salman Rushdie Attack
When Salman Rushdie was attacked on stage in Chautauqua, New York on Friday, it sent waves of shock through the entire creative community. The novelist, who famously had a fatwa placed on him in 1989 by Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini because of his controversial novel “The Satanic Verses,” was stabbed repeatedly and immediately rushed into surgery and placed on a ventilator. Though the author has now been taken off the ventilator and is expected to survive, many are still on edge about the idea of physical violence being used against artists.
Many authors took to social media to support Rushdie, including “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling. She called the attack “horrifying” and wrote that she was “sick” with worry about Rushdie. Soon after, she shared threats made in her replies telling the author that she is “next.” She asked for support from Twitter, then later revealed that she had involved the police.
Many authors took to social media to support Rushdie, including “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling. She called the attack “horrifying” and wrote that she was “sick” with worry about Rushdie. Soon after, she shared threats made in her replies telling the author that she is “next.” She asked for support from Twitter, then later revealed that she had involved the police.
- 8/14/2022
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Padma Lakshmi is breathing a sigh of relief for ex-husband Salman Rushdie.
On Friday, the Midnight’s Children author was stabbed multiple times in an on-stage attack while speaking at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York.
Read More: Salman Rushdie Stabbing Suspect Arrested On Attempted Murder Charge, Pleads Not Guilty
It was reported the next day that Rushdie had been taken off a ventilator and is in recovery, after suffering serious injuries.
Sunday morning on Twitter, the writer’s ex-wife, Padma Lakshmi, shared that she was “relieved” to learn Rushdie is “pulling through after Friday’s nightmare.”
Relieved @SalmanRushdie is pulling through after Friday’s nightmare. Worried and wordless, can finally exhale. Now hoping for swift healing.
— Padma Lakshmi (@PadmaLakshmi) August 14, 2022
Lakshmi and Rushdie got married in 2004, after having lived together for several years. They filed for divorce in 2007.
New statement to NBC News from son of Salman Rushdie on his father’s condition.
On Friday, the Midnight’s Children author was stabbed multiple times in an on-stage attack while speaking at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York.
Read More: Salman Rushdie Stabbing Suspect Arrested On Attempted Murder Charge, Pleads Not Guilty
It was reported the next day that Rushdie had been taken off a ventilator and is in recovery, after suffering serious injuries.
Sunday morning on Twitter, the writer’s ex-wife, Padma Lakshmi, shared that she was “relieved” to learn Rushdie is “pulling through after Friday’s nightmare.”
Relieved @SalmanRushdie is pulling through after Friday’s nightmare. Worried and wordless, can finally exhale. Now hoping for swift healing.
— Padma Lakshmi (@PadmaLakshmi) August 14, 2022
Lakshmi and Rushdie got married in 2004, after having lived together for several years. They filed for divorce in 2007.
New statement to NBC News from son of Salman Rushdie on his father’s condition.
- 8/14/2022
- by Corey Atad
- ET Canada
Warner Bros. Discovery today issued a statement supporting Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling, who was threatened by a Twitter user for her anguish at last week’s attack on fellow author Salman Rushdie.
“Warner Bros. Discovery strongly condemns the threats made against J.K. Rowling,” the company said today. “We stand with her and all the authors, storytellers and creators who bravely express their creativity and opinions. Wbd believes in freedom of expression, peaceful discourse and supporting those who offer their views in the public arena. Our thoughts are with Sir Salman Rushdie and his family following the senseless act of violence in New York. The company strongly condemns any form of threat, violence or intimidation when opinions, beliefs and thoughts might differ.”
On Friday, Rowling tweeted out a message on Rushdie, who was attacked on stage at a speaking event. “Feeling very sick right now. Let him be ok,...
“Warner Bros. Discovery strongly condemns the threats made against J.K. Rowling,” the company said today. “We stand with her and all the authors, storytellers and creators who bravely express their creativity and opinions. Wbd believes in freedom of expression, peaceful discourse and supporting those who offer their views in the public arena. Our thoughts are with Sir Salman Rushdie and his family following the senseless act of violence in New York. The company strongly condemns any form of threat, violence or intimidation when opinions, beliefs and thoughts might differ.”
On Friday, Rowling tweeted out a message on Rushdie, who was attacked on stage at a speaking event. “Feeling very sick right now. Let him be ok,...
- 8/14/2022
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Stabbed author Salman Rushdie has been taken off a ventilator, is alert and able to speak, his agent has revealed.
Rushdie, 75 years old, was rushed to hospital on Friday after he was attacked on stage at a conference near Buffalo, New York. The author was reported to have been stabbed up to 15 times by his assailant, who mounted the stage in front of a crowd of hundreds to attack Rushdie.
Rushdie’s agent previously informed media that his client was in a critical condition, that he was likely to lose an eye, and had also suffered damage to his arm and his liver.
The author has lived for decades with threats to his life, following the publication in 1988 of his novel The Satanic Verses, which some deemed to be anti-Islamic and blasphemous.
He was forced to go into hiding for many years after Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini declared a fatwa against the author,...
Rushdie, 75 years old, was rushed to hospital on Friday after he was attacked on stage at a conference near Buffalo, New York. The author was reported to have been stabbed up to 15 times by his assailant, who mounted the stage in front of a crowd of hundreds to attack Rushdie.
Rushdie’s agent previously informed media that his client was in a critical condition, that he was likely to lose an eye, and had also suffered damage to his arm and his liver.
The author has lived for decades with threats to his life, following the publication in 1988 of his novel The Satanic Verses, which some deemed to be anti-Islamic and blasphemous.
He was forced to go into hiding for many years after Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini declared a fatwa against the author,...
- 8/14/2022
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie was taken off a ventilator and able to talk Saturday, a day after he was stabbed as he prepared to give a lecture in upstate New York.
Rushdie remained hospitalized with serious injuries, but fellow author Aatish Taseer tweeted in the evening that he was “off the ventilator and talking (and joking).” Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, confirmed that information without offering further details.
Earlier in the day, the man accused of attacking him Friday at the Chautauqua Institution, a nonprofit education and retreat center, pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and assault charges in what a prosecutor called a “preplanned” crime.
Read More: Salman Rushdie Stabbing Suspect Arrested On Attempted Murder Charge, Pleads Not Guilty
An attorney for Hadi Matar entered the plea on his behalf during an arraignment in western New York. The suspect appeared in court wearing a black and white...
Rushdie remained hospitalized with serious injuries, but fellow author Aatish Taseer tweeted in the evening that he was “off the ventilator and talking (and joking).” Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, confirmed that information without offering further details.
Earlier in the day, the man accused of attacking him Friday at the Chautauqua Institution, a nonprofit education and retreat center, pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and assault charges in what a prosecutor called a “preplanned” crime.
Read More: Salman Rushdie Stabbing Suspect Arrested On Attempted Murder Charge, Pleads Not Guilty
An attorney for Hadi Matar entered the plea on his behalf during an arraignment in western New York. The suspect appeared in court wearing a black and white...
- 8/14/2022
- by Melissa Romualdi
- ET Canada
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An attack on author Salman Rushdie, 75, stabbed multiple times at a speaking engagement at the Chautauqua Institution in Western New York, has shocked the world. A suspect, New Jersey resident Hadi Matar, was taken into custody and has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder in the second degree, among other charges. The Booker Prize-winning writer — whose 1988 novel The Satanic Verses resulted in a fatwa placed on him by the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran — is currently in critical condition at a Pennsylvania hospital, where he underwent surgery for his injuries, which include three stab wounds to the right side of the front of his neck, four stab wounds to his stomach, a puncture wound to his right eye, a puncture wound to his chest and a laceration on his right thigh, according to Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt.
Present at the attack were Tim Roche,...
An attack on author Salman Rushdie, 75, stabbed multiple times at a speaking engagement at the Chautauqua Institution in Western New York, has shocked the world. A suspect, New Jersey resident Hadi Matar, was taken into custody and has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder in the second degree, among other charges. The Booker Prize-winning writer — whose 1988 novel The Satanic Verses resulted in a fatwa placed on him by the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran — is currently in critical condition at a Pennsylvania hospital, where he underwent surgery for his injuries, which include three stab wounds to the right side of the front of his neck, four stab wounds to his stomach, a puncture wound to his right eye, a puncture wound to his chest and a laceration on his right thigh, according to Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt.
Present at the attack were Tim Roche,...
- 8/14/2022
- by Seth Abramovitch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A day after Salman Rushdie was stabbed Friday by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in western New York, authorities announced the suspect was arrested on an attempted murder charge.
Rushdie, 75, was flown to a hospital and underwent surgery after the attack. His agent, Andrew Wylie, said Friday night the author is currently on a ventilator and cannot speak. He said Rushdie will likely lose an eye, adding that the nerves in his arm were “severed” and his liver was “stabbed and damaged.”
Police identified the attacker as Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey. Matar was arrested for attempted murder in the second degree and assault in the second degree, New York State Police said in a statement Saturday. The suspect was transported to Chautauqua County Jail and will be arraigned on Saturday, they said.
He was arrested at the Chautauqua Institution,...
Rushdie, 75, was flown to a hospital and underwent surgery after the attack. His agent, Andrew Wylie, said Friday night the author is currently on a ventilator and cannot speak. He said Rushdie will likely lose an eye, adding that the nerves in his arm were “severed” and his liver was “stabbed and damaged.”
Police identified the attacker as Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey. Matar was arrested for attempted murder in the second degree and assault in the second degree, New York State Police said in a statement Saturday. The suspect was transported to Chautauqua County Jail and will be arraigned on Saturday, they said.
He was arrested at the Chautauqua Institution,...
- 8/13/2022
- by Melissa Romualdi
- ET Canada
Salman Rushdie at the premiere of Gold in New York. Pic credit: ©ImageCollect.com/Dennis Van Tine/StarMaxWorldwide
Author Salman Rushdie was attacked and repeatedly stabbed on stage at an event in western New York.
The 75-year-old British author has been put on a ventilator and is reportedly unable to speak and may lose one eye as a result of the attempt on his life.
The award-winning writer is in critical condition at the time of writing this report after he was rushed to a hospital on Friday.
He has faced death threats for decades following the release of his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses.
The award-winning novel sparked protests from some Muslims and credible death threats were made against Rushdie.
A fatwa calling for his assassination was issued by Ruhollah Khomeini, the former supreme leader of Iran, in 1989. Rushdie has been under police protection and has spoken about having a...
Author Salman Rushdie was attacked and repeatedly stabbed on stage at an event in western New York.
The 75-year-old British author has been put on a ventilator and is reportedly unable to speak and may lose one eye as a result of the attempt on his life.
The award-winning writer is in critical condition at the time of writing this report after he was rushed to a hospital on Friday.
He has faced death threats for decades following the release of his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses.
The award-winning novel sparked protests from some Muslims and credible death threats were made against Rushdie.
A fatwa calling for his assassination was issued by Ruhollah Khomeini, the former supreme leader of Iran, in 1989. Rushdie has been under police protection and has spoken about having a...
- 8/13/2022
- by Frank Yemi
- Monsters and Critics
The man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie has been charged with attempted murder in the second degree and assault in the second degree. He was arraigned last night at Chautauqua County Jail in New York.
Press were barred from the hearing. The suspect, Hadi Matar, was remanded without bail. The charges could be upgraded if Rushdie’s condition deteriorates.
Rushdie, age 75, was attacked as he came on stage at the Chautauqua Institution in New York. Ironically, he was allegedly to talk about the US being a “safe haven” for speech.
Rushdie is on a ventilator and his agent said that he may lose an eye. He also was stabbed in the liver.
The author was issued a death sentence in 1989 by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini. That’s after Rushdie’s book, The Satanic Verses, allegedly insulted the Prophet Mohammed and The Koran.
Rushdie went into hiding for a time after that,...
Press were barred from the hearing. The suspect, Hadi Matar, was remanded without bail. The charges could be upgraded if Rushdie’s condition deteriorates.
Rushdie, age 75, was attacked as he came on stage at the Chautauqua Institution in New York. Ironically, he was allegedly to talk about the US being a “safe haven” for speech.
Rushdie is on a ventilator and his agent said that he may lose an eye. He also was stabbed in the liver.
The author was issued a death sentence in 1989 by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini. That’s after Rushdie’s book, The Satanic Verses, allegedly insulted the Prophet Mohammed and The Koran.
Rushdie went into hiding for a time after that,...
- 8/13/2022
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
As Salman Rushdie fights for his life after being brutally stabbed Friday while delivering a lecture onstage, Bill Maher spoke out about the circumstances underlying the attack on the author.
Rushdie, Maher’s friend and frequent guest on his politically charged HBO talk show “Real Time”, has been living under a fatwa since 1989, when Iranian ruler Ayatollah Khomeini issued an order for Muslims to kill Rushdie due to the alleged blasphemy contained in his book The Satanic Verses.
Read More: Author Salman Rushdie Attacked Before Lecture On New York Stage
“The news is not good,” Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie told the New York Times, revealing that doctors had placed Rushdie on a ventilator in order to breathe. “Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged,” Wyle said.
Maher addressed Rushdie’s attack on Friday’s edition of...
Rushdie, Maher’s friend and frequent guest on his politically charged HBO talk show “Real Time”, has been living under a fatwa since 1989, when Iranian ruler Ayatollah Khomeini issued an order for Muslims to kill Rushdie due to the alleged blasphemy contained in his book The Satanic Verses.
Read More: Author Salman Rushdie Attacked Before Lecture On New York Stage
“The news is not good,” Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie told the New York Times, revealing that doctors had placed Rushdie on a ventilator in order to breathe. “Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged,” Wyle said.
Maher addressed Rushdie’s attack on Friday’s edition of...
- 8/13/2022
- by Brent Furdyk
- ET Canada
Updated with latest: The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie is on a ventilator after suffering grave injuries at the hand of an assailant who stabbed him multiple times onstage at a literary event Friday morning. Booker Prize-winning novelist spent hours in surgery after the attack, according to the New York Times.
“The news is not good,” Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie said in an email to the Times this evening. “Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged.”
Previously at 8:24 a.m.: The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie was stabbed in the neck while onstage today in Chautauqua, NY, New York police have confirmed. The attacker is in police custody.
Rushdie was flown by helicopter to a local hospital, according to the police statement, which also said the person who interviewing Rushdie at the Chautauqua Institution...
“The news is not good,” Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie said in an email to the Times this evening. “Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged.”
Previously at 8:24 a.m.: The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie was stabbed in the neck while onstage today in Chautauqua, NY, New York police have confirmed. The attacker is in police custody.
Rushdie was flown by helicopter to a local hospital, according to the police statement, which also said the person who interviewing Rushdie at the Chautauqua Institution...
- 8/13/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
New York, Aug 12 (Ians) Author Salman Rushdie, who has a multi-million-dollar bounty on his head, was stabbed on Friday while he was on stage readying to speak at an event in New York State on the US as the home of creative expression.
State Police said Rushdie, who appeared to have been stabbed in his neck, was flown by helicopter to a hospital from the remote education and spiritual centre in Chautauqua about 550 km from New York City, but did not disclose his condition.
The alleged assailant, who pushed him to the floor and attacked him, was taken into custody by a state police trooper who was there, police said.
The attacker’s identity was not immediately known.
An eyewitness told the Daily Beast that the attacker was “heavy set and wearing a black headpiece”.
The witness, Ward Pautler, said that he thought the attacker was “punching Rushdie, but then...
State Police said Rushdie, who appeared to have been stabbed in his neck, was flown by helicopter to a hospital from the remote education and spiritual centre in Chautauqua about 550 km from New York City, but did not disclose his condition.
The alleged assailant, who pushed him to the floor and attacked him, was taken into custody by a state police trooper who was there, police said.
The attacker’s identity was not immediately known.
An eyewitness told the Daily Beast that the attacker was “heavy set and wearing a black headpiece”.
The witness, Ward Pautler, said that he thought the attacker was “punching Rushdie, but then...
- 8/12/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Richard Wagner, whose three-decade career as a correspondent for CBS News included covering the war in Vietnam and numerous other conflicts around the world, has died. He was 85.
His wife, Donna Lewis-Wagner, said that he died at his home in Charlottesville, Va. No cause of death was given.
During the 1960s, 70s and 80s, Wagner appeared frequently on CBS Evening News when Walter Cronkite and then Dan Rather were in the anchor chair.
Starting at CBS News in 1964, Wagner was based for a time in Saigon, as he was among the correspondents who covered the war in Vietnam, at a time when the military had yet to establish the parameters of access to operations. Vietnam was dubbed the “living room war,” as it was a new concept for television for evening news correspondents to deliver regular first hand-accounts and images from the battlefield.
On a podcast in 2018 with other correspondents who covered the war,...
His wife, Donna Lewis-Wagner, said that he died at his home in Charlottesville, Va. No cause of death was given.
During the 1960s, 70s and 80s, Wagner appeared frequently on CBS Evening News when Walter Cronkite and then Dan Rather were in the anchor chair.
Starting at CBS News in 1964, Wagner was based for a time in Saigon, as he was among the correspondents who covered the war in Vietnam, at a time when the military had yet to establish the parameters of access to operations. Vietnam was dubbed the “living room war,” as it was a new concept for television for evening news correspondents to deliver regular first hand-accounts and images from the battlefield.
On a podcast in 2018 with other correspondents who covered the war,...
- 5/12/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
For the first time, the Time Person of the Year award is moving to YouTube. The 2021 reveal is set to premiere at 7:30 Am Et on Mon. Dec. 13 on the media outlet’s YouTube channel,
The move to the net is a break with past protocol, which typically saw a broadcast network make the announcement. NBC most recently broke the news on the Today show.
Person of the Year (which was called Man of the Year or Woman of the Year until 1999) is an annual issue that profiles a person, a group, an idea, or an object that, “for better or for worse… has done the most to influence the events of the year”. The selection is made solely by the magazine’s editors.
That has led to some controversial choices in the past, including Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev and the Ayatollah Khomeini. Environmetnal activist Greta Thunberg, pictured above,...
The move to the net is a break with past protocol, which typically saw a broadcast network make the announcement. NBC most recently broke the news on the Today show.
Person of the Year (which was called Man of the Year or Woman of the Year until 1999) is an annual issue that profiles a person, a group, an idea, or an object that, “for better or for worse… has done the most to influence the events of the year”. The selection is made solely by the magazine’s editors.
That has led to some controversial choices in the past, including Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev and the Ayatollah Khomeini. Environmetnal activist Greta Thunberg, pictured above,...
- 12/10/2021
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Time magazine has named Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as 2020’s Person of the Year.
“For changing the American story, for showing that the forces of empathy are greater than the furies of division, for sharing a vision of healing in a grieving world, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are Time’s 2020 Person of the Year,” wrote Time editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal. Zoom CEO Eric Yuan was named Businessperson of the Year.
The announcements were made during Time’s first broadcast special, aired on NBC. Earlier today, BTS won Entertainer of the Year, and LeBron James was named Athlete of the Year.
The award was formerly called the Man of the Year, but was changed to reflect the changing cultural imperatives. The award generally goes to the year’s most prominent and impactful newsmaker, which has led to past winners like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Ayatollah Khomeini.
The shortlist for the Time honor included Biden,...
“For changing the American story, for showing that the forces of empathy are greater than the furies of division, for sharing a vision of healing in a grieving world, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are Time’s 2020 Person of the Year,” wrote Time editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal. Zoom CEO Eric Yuan was named Businessperson of the Year.
The announcements were made during Time’s first broadcast special, aired on NBC. Earlier today, BTS won Entertainer of the Year, and LeBron James was named Athlete of the Year.
The award was formerly called the Man of the Year, but was changed to reflect the changing cultural imperatives. The award generally goes to the year’s most prominent and impactful newsmaker, which has led to past winners like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Ayatollah Khomeini.
The shortlist for the Time honor included Biden,...
- 12/11/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Mohammad Reza Aslani’s gothic family thriller was banned in Iran and presumed lost, only to be found years later by his children in a junk shop. Now, painstakingly restored, it’s showing at the BFI London film festival
The rediscovery of a film is seldom as fascinating a story as the film itself, but that’s the case with Chess of the Wind (Shatranj-e Baad), directed by Iranian film-maker Mohammad Reza Aslani. It was only screened twice in Tehran in 1976, once to a cinema of hostile critics, and then to an empty cinema – the bad reviews had done their work. “The rediscovery of this film is great for me,” says Aslani, now aged 76, and still living in Tehran. “But it also allows audiences to view Iranian cinema from another perspective, and to discover other auteur film-makers who have been marginalised because of the complexity of their films.”
Critical of the Shah’s royalist government,...
The rediscovery of a film is seldom as fascinating a story as the film itself, but that’s the case with Chess of the Wind (Shatranj-e Baad), directed by Iranian film-maker Mohammad Reza Aslani. It was only screened twice in Tehran in 1976, once to a cinema of hostile critics, and then to an empty cinema – the bad reviews had done their work. “The rediscovery of this film is great for me,” says Aslani, now aged 76, and still living in Tehran. “But it also allows audiences to view Iranian cinema from another perspective, and to discover other auteur film-makers who have been marginalised because of the complexity of their films.”
Critical of the Shah’s royalist government,...
- 9/30/2020
- by John Harris Dunning
- The Guardian - Film News
So, who’s up for a movie history lesson? No, not about the history of cinema, but rather a look back at a time that often feels not that long ago, but with others, it may be “olden days”. Now don’t groan and whine about “homework” because this is a compelling look at an incident that was shrouded in mystery at its time. Plus the folks involved, from both sides of this conflict, are talking to one of our most celebrated and honored documentarians. You might recall a fleeting mention of this event in 2012’s Best Picture Oscar winner Argo. Now with many articles declassified, we can learn the facts behind this mission from just over 40 years ago. Some called it Operation Eagle Claw, others dubbed it Operation Tabas, but it all rested on the spot in the sand, the landing and refueling site known as Desert One.
Using...
Using...
- 8/28/2020
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Observational documentarian Barbara Kopple has a long history of making herself seem invisible, but the vérité intimacy and anti-establishment zeal of Oscar-winning classics like “Harlan County, USA,” and “American Dream” suggest that her signature work couldn’t have been made by anyone else; Kopple isn’t absent from these films so much as she’s sublimated into the air they breathe. “Desert One” is different — you couldn’t find Kopple’s fingerprints on this comprehensive but incurious account of the Iran hostage crisis if you watched the movie through a magnifying glass. Valuable for its access yet limited by its lack of perspective, “Desert One” puts a human face on one of the late 20th century’s worst debacles while framing the whole thing in the passive voice, resulting in a film that boasts the immediacy of a testament but the resonance of a textbook. It’s a documentary that...
- 8/21/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
With production backing from The History Channel, Barbara Kopple’s sweeping, objective examination of the failed 1980 rescue attempt of the U.S. hostages in Iran under the Carter administration, Desert One, is an absorbing all-sides look at one of the most infamously botched military missions in our nation’s history. Combining talking heads from both U.S. and Iranian viewpoints, in addition to animated interludes by Iranian artist Zartosht Sotani, Desert One might be too conventional in its approach, but it is nevertheless an absorbing documentary.
Eschewing her usual vérité approach, Kopple dives headfirst into the historical context, exploring the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini after the overthrow of the Iranian Shah, long considered a puppet of American interests. Zeroing in on President Carter’s humanitarian approach to global relations, Kopple quickly jumps into the takeover of the American embassy and the forced confinement of 52 Americans by Iranian captors. In response,...
Eschewing her usual vérité approach, Kopple dives headfirst into the historical context, exploring the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini after the overthrow of the Iranian Shah, long considered a puppet of American interests. Zeroing in on President Carter’s humanitarian approach to global relations, Kopple quickly jumps into the takeover of the American embassy and the forced confinement of 52 Americans by Iranian captors. In response,...
- 8/21/2020
- by Christian Gallichio
- The Film Stage
At a moment in time when documentaries are in greater favor, and more widely accessible to the public than ever before, it’s both disturbing and ironic that the most enthralling and revelatory documentary I’ve seen over the past year hasn’t yet found a clear path to the public.
But that is the case with Coup 53, Taghi Amirani’s deep dish, sometimes breathtaking examination of the U.S.-British-instigated coup that brought down the democratically elected president of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh, in the summer of 1953, as the young shah waited in the wings. It’s a complex story involving considerable history (there’s amazing early film footage of the world-changing discovery of oil in the country) and a multitude of political shenanigans on all sides. It also proved to be globally consequential when the shah was ultimately overthrown, in 1979, by Islamic forces led by the Ayatollah Khomeini.
The...
But that is the case with Coup 53, Taghi Amirani’s deep dish, sometimes breathtaking examination of the U.S.-British-instigated coup that brought down the democratically elected president of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh, in the summer of 1953, as the young shah waited in the wings. It’s a complex story involving considerable history (there’s amazing early film footage of the world-changing discovery of oil in the country) and a multitude of political shenanigans on all sides. It also proved to be globally consequential when the shah was ultimately overthrown, in 1979, by Islamic forces led by the Ayatollah Khomeini.
The...
- 7/31/2020
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
Often considered as the first film that began the Iranian New Wave, it is also historically well-known for gaining admiration of Ayatollah Khomeini which saved the Iranian Cinema from being banned outright after the 1979 Revolution. Many of the later film directors such as Kiarostami, Panahi and Makhmalbaf were perhaps greatly influenced by Mehrjui’s works.
In this film, The Cow, Mehrjui narrates the tragic tale of how a man who deeply loves his cow laments her death and his consequent descent into madness as he finds it difficult to cope with his loss and grief. The film not only does justice to the character it attempts to sensitively portray, with special emphasis on the human psyche at action here, but also closely studies the poverty and sociopolitical conditions of rural Iran.
While the faces and gait of the rest of the villagers seem to be marked by...
In this film, The Cow, Mehrjui narrates the tragic tale of how a man who deeply loves his cow laments her death and his consequent descent into madness as he finds it difficult to cope with his loss and grief. The film not only does justice to the character it attempts to sensitively portray, with special emphasis on the human psyche at action here, but also closely studies the poverty and sociopolitical conditions of rural Iran.
While the faces and gait of the rest of the villagers seem to be marked by...
- 2/1/2020
- by Shrubaboti Bose
- AsianMoviePulse
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M.A
I like a b***h that like to wobble, wobble
Shake it,?shake?it, break it,?break it, uh
Nigga, we made it,?made it, they hate it, hate it
Pro professional, pure persistent, I'm paper chasing
I hate complaining, I hated waiting, I'll pay for patience
But I hate to pay a bill (Hate that)
And I made a mil' without a major deal (I made that)
Yeah, her ass fake, but she came for real
Money ain't a thing, that ain't a thing for real
It's the broke lingo (Huh)
And no, ain't nothing Saweetie, this is no Quavo (Migo)
Man, I just get high, let my hoes lay low (Ooh)
I just want some face but this is no facial (Ooh)
Do right and kill er'body, Drake mode (Hello)
Bitch, I'm tryna eat out, take your plate mode (Hello...
M.A
I like a b***h that like to wobble, wobble
Shake it,?shake?it, break it,?break it, uh
Nigga, we made it,?made it, they hate it, hate it
Pro professional, pure persistent, I'm paper chasing
I hate complaining, I hated waiting, I'll pay for patience
But I hate to pay a bill (Hate that)
And I made a mil' without a major deal (I made that)
Yeah, her ass fake, but she came for real
Money ain't a thing, that ain't a thing for real
It's the broke lingo (Huh)
And no, ain't nothing Saweetie, this is no Quavo (Migo)
Man, I just get high, let my hoes lay low (Ooh)
I just want some face but this is no facial (Ooh)
Do right and kill er'body, Drake mode (Hello)
Bitch, I'm tryna eat out, take your plate mode (Hello...
- 1/21/2020
- GlamSham
Chicago – It’s a major event when an author the magnitude of Salman Rushdie releases a new novel, and “Quichotte” is now on the shelves. The story was inspired by Don Quixote, and set in current times. Joe Arce took an Exclusive Photo of Rushdie at an event sponsored by Anderson’s Bookshop at North Central College in Naperville (Illinois).
The book’s narrative is described as “metafiction,” as it tells the story of Sam DuChamp, is an Indian-born writer living in America and author of a number of unsuccessful spy thrillers. Hoping to write a book that is different from his norm, he creates the character of Ismail Smile, a traveling pharmaceutical salesman who has suffered a stroke in old age. Smile begins obsessively watching reality television and becomes infatuated with Salma R, a former Bollywood star who hosts a daytime talk show in New York City.
Salman Rushdie at North Central College,...
The book’s narrative is described as “metafiction,” as it tells the story of Sam DuChamp, is an Indian-born writer living in America and author of a number of unsuccessful spy thrillers. Hoping to write a book that is different from his norm, he creates the character of Ismail Smile, a traveling pharmaceutical salesman who has suffered a stroke in old age. Smile begins obsessively watching reality television and becomes infatuated with Salma R, a former Bollywood star who hosts a daytime talk show in New York City.
Salman Rushdie at North Central College,...
- 10/5/2019
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
After the newspaper reporting drama “Spotlight” won best picture, and just before Donald Trump was elected president and “fake news” was slapped on everything, “Mike Wallace is Here” documentarian Avi Belkin recognized journalism was at a tipping point.
“I was still living in Tel Aviv — I’m from Israel — and the idea was to address the Genesis story of broadcast journalism. I was kind of obsessing about the question, ‘how did we get here?'” Belkin said.
To find answers, Belkin focused on longtime TV journalist Mike Wallace, whose six-decade career in the field began in the earliest days of broadcast news and ended shortly before his 2012 death. Using raw footage of Wallace both as interviewee and interviewer — with the likes of Ayatollah Khomeini, Donald Trump, and Vladimir Putin — Belkin stitched together a film using only archive footage to tell both the story of Wallace’s career and the trajectory...
“I was still living in Tel Aviv — I’m from Israel — and the idea was to address the Genesis story of broadcast journalism. I was kind of obsessing about the question, ‘how did we get here?'” Belkin said.
To find answers, Belkin focused on longtime TV journalist Mike Wallace, whose six-decade career in the field began in the earliest days of broadcast news and ended shortly before his 2012 death. Using raw footage of Wallace both as interviewee and interviewer — with the likes of Ayatollah Khomeini, Donald Trump, and Vladimir Putin — Belkin stitched together a film using only archive footage to tell both the story of Wallace’s career and the trajectory...
- 9/23/2019
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
For a documentary with its subject’s name in the title, “Mike Wallace Is Here” is surprisingly slim on biographical details. Sure, we get some brief insight into the TV journalist’s childhood, his multiple marriages, and his failings as a father, but his son Chris Wallace gets less time on screen than people his father merely interviewed, ranging from Bette Davis to Ayatollah Khomeini. Instead, Avi Belkin‘s film spends most of its time on the professional life of Mike Wallace, itself a commentary on both his limited engagement with his family as well as his impact on today’s TV news and political scene.
Continue reading ‘Mike Wallace Is Here’ Is A Well-Crafted Doc About One Man’s Impact On TV News & Politics [Review] at The Playlist.
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- 7/26/2019
- by Kimber Myers
- The Playlist
Directed by Avi Belkin, Mike Wallace Is Here is a fascinating look at a television personality etched in a different time. Though he died in 2012–long after the advent of cable and the slow fade of network dominance–Wallace made his name on asking hard questions to tough subjects on the TV magazine show “60 Minutes,” his pieces dominating the conversation of the moment more than a few times over many, many years.
The film is comprised completely of archival footage and interviews, some in which Wallace is the interviewer, some in which Wallace is the interviewee. There is a diligence to the research here that demands respect. Belkin does not shy away from every angle of the newsman, who in one clip admits to being a “not very good” father and in another set of clips reveals himself to be something of a hypocrite: in one instance Wallace reacts...
The film is comprised completely of archival footage and interviews, some in which Wallace is the interviewer, some in which Wallace is the interviewee. There is a diligence to the research here that demands respect. Belkin does not shy away from every angle of the newsman, who in one clip admits to being a “not very good” father and in another set of clips reveals himself to be something of a hypocrite: in one instance Wallace reacts...
- 7/26/2019
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
National Geographic has optioned Mark Bowden’s best-selling Iran hostage crisis novel, “Guests of the Ayatollah,” to be adapted into a limited series by “Genius” showrunner Ken Biller, the cable channel said Tuesday during the Television Critic’s Association press tour.
Here’s the description of the 2006 nonfiction novel, courtesy of Nat Geo:
“Guests of the Ayatollah” takes a global, 360-degree view of the events that unfolded on and after Nov. 4, 1979, when a group of radical Islamist students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Motivated by the revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini, the radicals held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days, releasing them at the exact moment President Ronald Reagan was sworn in. “Guests of the Ayatollah” reexamines this gut-wrenching saga from the point of view of the hostages, the special forces units sent to free them, the diplomats working to end the crisis and the radical captors. Time magazine said of the book,...
Here’s the description of the 2006 nonfiction novel, courtesy of Nat Geo:
“Guests of the Ayatollah” takes a global, 360-degree view of the events that unfolded on and after Nov. 4, 1979, when a group of radical Islamist students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Motivated by the revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini, the radicals held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days, releasing them at the exact moment President Ronald Reagan was sworn in. “Guests of the Ayatollah” reexamines this gut-wrenching saga from the point of view of the hostages, the special forces units sent to free them, the diplomats working to end the crisis and the radical captors. Time magazine said of the book,...
- 7/23/2019
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Nat Geo is developing a scripted series based on Mark Bowden’s book Guests of the Ayatollah, which tells the story of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, with Genius showrunner Ken Biller.
The Disney-backed broadcaster has optioned the novel and will adapt as a limited series. Biller, who is showrunner and exec producer of Nat Geo’s Genius will exec produce and write the adaptation.
It is Nat Geo’s latest book adaptation; its version of The Hot Zone, based on Richard Preston’s 1994 bestseller, launched in May with Julianna Margulies and production started this month on its remake of Annie Proulx’s Barkskins about French settlers in North America in the 17th Century and Tom Wolfe’s 1979 space classic The Right Stuff.
Landscape Entertainment’s Bob Cooper brought the book to the network and will serve as a non-writing exec producer alongside Head of Television Tom Lerner. Fox 21 Television Studios...
The Disney-backed broadcaster has optioned the novel and will adapt as a limited series. Biller, who is showrunner and exec producer of Nat Geo’s Genius will exec produce and write the adaptation.
It is Nat Geo’s latest book adaptation; its version of The Hot Zone, based on Richard Preston’s 1994 bestseller, launched in May with Julianna Margulies and production started this month on its remake of Annie Proulx’s Barkskins about French settlers in North America in the 17th Century and Tom Wolfe’s 1979 space classic The Right Stuff.
Landscape Entertainment’s Bob Cooper brought the book to the network and will serve as a non-writing exec producer alongside Head of Television Tom Lerner. Fox 21 Television Studios...
- 7/23/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Mike Wallace, perhaps the most feared and influential TV journalist (or “personality”) of the 20th century, lived his entire life in some kind of shame. It started with the acne that he had as a child, and assumed a new form when he entered the brave new world of television as an adult in 1949. Back then, when the medium was still just a public experiment, Wallace seemed happy enough to host game shows and star in the awkwardly sincere commercials that once dominated the airwaves; he even did a little bit of acting (under a pseudonym) on a police drama that invited viewers to call in and guess the identity of the killer. The truth, however, was that Wallace needed to be taken seriously — he needed the validation that he never felt he deserved — and that longing followed him for all of his days as only self-doubt can.
It started...
It started...
- 1/27/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Black Panther co-writer and director Ryan Coogler, murdered Washington Post op-ed columnist Jamal Khashoggi and Russian ruler/alleged U.S. election influencer Vladimir Putin join President Donald Trump in contention for Time magazine’s Person of The Year 2018.
NBC News’ Today got the jump on this year’s derby finalists and will unveil the winner on Tuesday. Here is the shortlist:
President Donald Trump Separated Families Vladimir Putin Robert Mueller Ryan Coogler Christine Blasey Ford Jamal Khashoggi March for Our Lives Activists Moon Jae-in Meghan Markle
Coogler turned Black Panther into a cultural coup that also yielded massive box office success, Today noted this morning. Prior to this year’s blockbuster, based on the Marvel comic and the first with a predominantly black cast, Coogler rose to fame with Fruitvale Station and Creed. Black Panther turned him into “certifiable gold.” The superhero hit was nominated last week for a Golden Globe,...
NBC News’ Today got the jump on this year’s derby finalists and will unveil the winner on Tuesday. Here is the shortlist:
President Donald Trump Separated Families Vladimir Putin Robert Mueller Ryan Coogler Christine Blasey Ford Jamal Khashoggi March for Our Lives Activists Moon Jae-in Meghan Markle
Coogler turned Black Panther into a cultural coup that also yielded massive box office success, Today noted this morning. Prior to this year’s blockbuster, based on the Marvel comic and the first with a predominantly black cast, Coogler rose to fame with Fruitvale Station and Creed. Black Panther turned him into “certifiable gold.” The superhero hit was nominated last week for a Golden Globe,...
- 12/10/2018
- by Lisa de Moraes
- Deadline Film + TV
Hollywood International Film Festival
Belgian documentary maker Thierry Michel attempts to shed light on postrevolution Iran in this wide-ranging film, which looks at various factions in the first modern Islamic state. The elements of religious ardor will remain abstruse to Western viewers, perhaps unavoidably so; religion scholar Huston Smith has spoken of the deep places in every faith that outsiders can never understand. Still, Michel heightens the sense of foreignness (and, implicitly, the fear factor) with his emphasis on uniformity and collective frenzy in scenes of street rallies and prayer sessions. As a mosaic overview of a divided culture, "Iran: Veiled Appearances" is a natural for cable.
The film makes clear Ayatollah Khomeini's lasting influence -- not only in government, where the president is a figurehead while the religious leader, aka the Guide, wields the power, but in the submersion of the individual, depicted in ecstatic chants and uncanny orgies of ritual grief. In this context, a coed acting class partaking in the kind of movement exercises that have become a joke in the West ("You're a fish caught on a hook!") takes on a subversive slant.
The helmer interviews intellectuals who have been political prisoners, members of the university-based reform movement and proud parents of men who died for their country. A filmmaker who lost his leg in the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s speaks with gentle passion of the beauty of martyrdom. Michel also spends time with the droves of young people who hike into the mountains every weekend for a respite from oppressive restrictions: Away from the city, girls can laugh and speak freely; boys and girls flirt; gay youths dance and hold hands.
Most interesting are the comments of young adults who identify themselves -- some angrily, some with despair and confusion -- as children of the generation that rose up against the Shah. They speak of being in free fall between religious extremism and materialistic decadence. Michel pointedly ends the film with images of young women hang gliding above Tehran.
Belgian documentary maker Thierry Michel attempts to shed light on postrevolution Iran in this wide-ranging film, which looks at various factions in the first modern Islamic state. The elements of religious ardor will remain abstruse to Western viewers, perhaps unavoidably so; religion scholar Huston Smith has spoken of the deep places in every faith that outsiders can never understand. Still, Michel heightens the sense of foreignness (and, implicitly, the fear factor) with his emphasis on uniformity and collective frenzy in scenes of street rallies and prayer sessions. As a mosaic overview of a divided culture, "Iran: Veiled Appearances" is a natural for cable.
The film makes clear Ayatollah Khomeini's lasting influence -- not only in government, where the president is a figurehead while the religious leader, aka the Guide, wields the power, but in the submersion of the individual, depicted in ecstatic chants and uncanny orgies of ritual grief. In this context, a coed acting class partaking in the kind of movement exercises that have become a joke in the West ("You're a fish caught on a hook!") takes on a subversive slant.
The helmer interviews intellectuals who have been political prisoners, members of the university-based reform movement and proud parents of men who died for their country. A filmmaker who lost his leg in the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s speaks with gentle passion of the beauty of martyrdom. Michel also spends time with the droves of young people who hike into the mountains every weekend for a respite from oppressive restrictions: Away from the city, girls can laugh and speak freely; boys and girls flirt; gay youths dance and hold hands.
Most interesting are the comments of young adults who identify themselves -- some angrily, some with despair and confusion -- as children of the generation that rose up against the Shah. They speak of being in free fall between religious extremism and materialistic decadence. Michel pointedly ends the film with images of young women hang gliding above Tehran.
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Belgian documentary maker Thierry Michel attempts to shed light on postrevolution Iran in this wide-ranging film, which looks at various factions in the first modern Islamic state. The elements of religious ardor will remain abstruse to Western viewers, perhaps unavoidably so; religion scholar Huston Smith has spoken of the deep places in every faith that outsiders can never understand. Still, Michel heightens the sense of foreignness (and, implicitly, the fear factor) with his emphasis on uniformity and collective frenzy in scenes of street rallies and prayer sessions. As a mosaic overview of a divided culture, "Iran: Veiled Appearances" is a natural for cable.
The film makes clear Ayatollah Khomeini's lasting influence -- not only in government, where the president is a figurehead while the religious leader, aka the Guide, wields the power, but in the submersion of the individual, depicted in ecstatic chants and uncanny orgies of ritual grief. In this context, a coed acting class partaking in the kind of movement exercises that have become a joke in the West ("You're a fish caught on a hook!") takes on a subversive slant.
The helmer interviews intellectuals who have been political prisoners, members of the university-based reform movement and proud parents of men who died for their country. A filmmaker who lost his leg in the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s speaks with gentle passion of the beauty of martyrdom. Michel also spends time with the droves of young people who hike into the mountains every weekend for a respite from oppressive restrictions: Away from the city, girls can laugh and speak freely; boys and girls flirt; gay youths dance and hold hands.
Most interesting are the comments of young adults who identify themselves -- some angrily, some with despair and confusion -- as children of the generation that rose up against the Shah. They speak of being in free fall between religious extremism and materialistic decadence. Michel pointedly ends the film with images of young women hang gliding above Tehran.
Belgian documentary maker Thierry Michel attempts to shed light on postrevolution Iran in this wide-ranging film, which looks at various factions in the first modern Islamic state. The elements of religious ardor will remain abstruse to Western viewers, perhaps unavoidably so; religion scholar Huston Smith has spoken of the deep places in every faith that outsiders can never understand. Still, Michel heightens the sense of foreignness (and, implicitly, the fear factor) with his emphasis on uniformity and collective frenzy in scenes of street rallies and prayer sessions. As a mosaic overview of a divided culture, "Iran: Veiled Appearances" is a natural for cable.
The film makes clear Ayatollah Khomeini's lasting influence -- not only in government, where the president is a figurehead while the religious leader, aka the Guide, wields the power, but in the submersion of the individual, depicted in ecstatic chants and uncanny orgies of ritual grief. In this context, a coed acting class partaking in the kind of movement exercises that have become a joke in the West ("You're a fish caught on a hook!") takes on a subversive slant.
The helmer interviews intellectuals who have been political prisoners, members of the university-based reform movement and proud parents of men who died for their country. A filmmaker who lost his leg in the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s speaks with gentle passion of the beauty of martyrdom. Michel also spends time with the droves of young people who hike into the mountains every weekend for a respite from oppressive restrictions: Away from the city, girls can laugh and speak freely; boys and girls flirt; gay youths dance and hold hands.
Most interesting are the comments of young adults who identify themselves -- some angrily, some with despair and confusion -- as children of the generation that rose up against the Shah. They speak of being in free fall between religious extremism and materialistic decadence. Michel pointedly ends the film with images of young women hang gliding above Tehran.
- 10/21/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Author Salman Rushdie is to have his $1.5 million-a-year police protection downgraded for the first time since Iran issued a religious death sentence against him. The author has been provided with British Special Branch detectives and elaborate cover since the late Ayatollah Khomeini issued a death order against him in 1989. The total bill is estimated at $16.5 million. Rushdie has had American protection during visits to the country in the past, and has bought a home in New York...
- 12/11/2000
- WENN
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