When Taylor Swift won the award for Video of the Year for “You Need To Calm Down” at Monday night’s VMAs, she made several points. First, the video highlights the LGBTQ community and since it was a fan-voted award, Swift assumes fans must also want to live in a world where everyone is treated equal. […]
The Biggest Loser
The Ponderosa” is what producers on Mark Burnett reality shows call the residence where eliminated contestants are exiled while taping of the competition continues. During the ill-fated Los Angeles season of The Apprentice in 2006, the Ponderosa was an unremarkable corporate apartment complex in Marina del Rey. While Donald Trump stayed for months at the […]
A Brief History of Donald Trump’s L.A. Fails
Between 2006 and 2007, Trump lived in a purgatory of his own making in Los Angeles, but his troubled history with the city—and with Hollywood in particular—goes back to the ’80s and continues through today. Here are some greatest (or, rather, worst) hits. 1986 Takes an interest in the Beverly Hills Hotel and announces he’s […]
Ava DuVernay Hails Netflix Ad for “Thwarting Trump’s Lies”
When They See Us, Ava DuVernay’s Netflix series about the Central Park Five, has been nominated for 16 Emmys, including Outstanding Limited Series, and best writing and directing nods for DuVernay. It also, according to Deadline, was one of the network’s most-watched series of the year. This week, Netflix took out a full-page ad for […]
Former members of Trump Doral may have to wait decades to get their deposits back
Donald Trump at Trump National Doral (Credit: Getty Images) Ex-members of Trump National Doral have been waiting to inch forward on the refund list at the Doral golf course and resort — and they may have to wait decades more. To move up on the list by one spot, four new members need to join […]
The Backlash Against Sean Spicer’s ‘DWTS’ Casting Reaches a Fever Pitch
Sean Spicer’s tenure as White House Press Secretary was historically short, but the marble-mouthed espouser of “alternative facts” sure made a big impression. His awe-inspiring willingness to tell untruths to a room full of journalists and (poorly) argue that facts were things that could be “disagreed” with made him into a meme and, famously, a […]