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Stephen Colbert picked apart President Donald Trump’s desire to ramp up America’s nuclear arsenal on Friday.
The “Late Show” host first poked fun at the way in which the commander in chief said Thursday that he wanted to make the U.S. the “top of the pack” when it came to nukes.
“Not sure if he means top dog or leader of the pack,” quipped Colbert, “but either way, he is not the sharpest knife on the Christmas tree.”
Taking on a more serious tone, Colbert called a new proliferation of nuclear weapons a “terrifying prospect” — coming as it did following years of “careful” decommissioning.
“It’s like the Cold War all over again,” the host said. “But this time everyone’s on Russia’s side.”
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Stephen Colbert admits to not watching the movies that are nominated for Best Picture at the 89th annual Academy Awards.
So for Friday’s broadcast of the “Late Show,” he got into the Oscars spirit by summarizing each of the contenders ― based solely on what he’d seen on their promotional posters.
Turns out “Lion” is literally about two lovers from the wrong sides of the tracks. (Well, according to Colbert, anyways).
Check out the full segment above and see the full list of Oscar nominations here.
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“La La Land” isn’t so dreamy any more.
The Oscar-nominated musical receives a dark makeover in this spoof trailer, which imagines how the movie would’ve turned out had it been directed by David Lynch.
You know, the filmmaker behind such macabre masterpieces as “Mulholland Drive,” “Blue Velvet” and “Eraserhead.”
Those endearing whistles from Ryan Gosling’s character Sebastian suddenly sound real sinister as his love story with Emma Stone’s character Mia takes an unexpected twist.
Mashable’s YouTube channel CineFix posted the haunting clip online Wednesday.
Check out the full “trailer” above.
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A German tech consultant was detained at Rome’s Ciampino airport by Italian officials early this week after his wife vanished from their vacation cruise and he failed to tell anyone.
Daniel Belling, 45, wife Li Yinglei, 36, and their two young children began a 10-day Mediterranean cruise Feb. 10 on the Magnifica cruise ship in Civitavecchia, Italy, the Irish Times reported. Li disappeared at some point but it didn’t come to light until cruise workers did a head count of disembarking passengers on Monday. Maritime authorities alerted police. Now Belling has been arrested on suspicion of murder and will be charged in an Italian court.
His lawyer indicated to the Telegraph that there’s a perfectly good explanation for what happened though didn’t provide one. He says Belling would have behaved differently had he been a killer.
“He simply headed to Ciampino airport with his children [ages 4 and 6] to catch the flight that he had booked when he first organized the cruise,” said attorney Luigi Conti. He added that his client will explain what happened in court.
The last time anyone remembers seeing Belling’s wife was Feb. 10. The owner of tourist shop in Genoa said an angry Belling entered after his wife and children. “He was agitated. He pulled out of a rucksack a pair of gym shoes and yelled at the woman. He said, ‘Put these on instead of your sandals and shut up,’” the owner told La Stampa.
The Magnifica was stopped mid-cruise Wednesday evening so investigators could examine the room where the couple was staying, the Irish Sun reported.
Belling works as a tech consultant whose clients include Apple, according to the Telegraph. He’s a German citizen but lives in Dublin. He was stopped by Italian authorities about to board a flight to Dublin Monday.
The couple’s children have been turned over to Italian social services.
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Several tech titans plan to sign an amicus (friend of the court) brief in support of a 17-year-old transgender student’s fight in court, according to Axios. Apple, Microsoft, IBM, PayPal, eBay, Airbnb, Box, Yelp, GitHub, Salesforce, Slack and Tumblr…
Seth MacFarlane voiced his fears over the future of the Democratic Party on Friday.
On “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the “Family Guy” creator said he was worried that the party would “take a trip from the Trump rulebook” and pick a liberal celebrity to be its next leader.
“‘They came up with Trump, we got Kanye,’” he imagined party leaders as saying. “I guess that wouldn’t be it, but you know, a celebrity. Take your pick of liberal celebrities,” he added.
MacFarlane said he was concerned that “instead of trying to tug things back in the direction of civility and dignity and nobility,” Democrats would say “’alright, well, this is obviously the way things are now, what do we to counter it?’”
Maher replied by suggesting that the party “split the difference” and get someone “with balls.” “I like Chuck Schumer, I like Nancy Pelosi, I really do, but we need new blood,” he added.
Check out the full interview via Mediaite here. We’ll post the full clip once it becomes available.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security at the last minute is barring a young Syrian cinematographer from entering the country to attend the Oscars. The compelling civil-war documentary he risked his life to work on has been nominated for an award.
Khaled Khatib, 21, was set to fly to Los Angeles via Istanbul Saturday, and had obtained a visa to do so. But U.S. officials suddenly found unspecified “derogatory information” linked to Khatib, reports The Associated Press. Khatib was detained in Turkey, and he now needs a passport waiver to enter the U.S., which he will not be able to obtain, according to internal Trump administration documents seen by AP. “Derogatory information” is a broad category that can be something serious to passport irregularities. It’s not clear why Khatib was detained in Trukey.
Khatib was a cinematographer on the 40-minute Netflix documentary “White Helmets,” which has been nominated for Best Documentary, Short Subject. It follows rescue workers for the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets who have saved tens of thousands of lives during the nation’s bloody civil war. The group was founded in 2012 after a Syrian Air Force attack on civilians. It was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2016. Khatib, who started filming the workers when he was just 16, is also a volunteer with the group.
Some 120 White Helmets have been killed in recent years, including Khaled Omar, known as the “miracle baby rescuer” in Aleppo after pulling an infant out alive from the rubble of the baby’s home in 2014. Omar was killed in an airstrike in 2016.
“White Helmets” director Orlando von Einsiedel had made a plea to the U.S. to allow those who had worked on and been featured in the film to attend the Oscars. The experience would not only be rewarding for them, he said, but with the world “so divided we could all learn from the White Helmets’ message od compassion and dignity.” After a court halted Trump’s travel ban, the filmmakers revived plans to bring Khatib and White Helmets leader Raed Saleh to Los Angeles.
Saleh will also not be attending now because of the demand of work in Syria.
Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, whose movie “Salesman” is up for Best Foreign Language Film, said last month that he would not attend the awards ceremony because of Trump’s controversial ban.
But Farhadi and the directors of the other four movies in the foreign language category issued an angry statement on Friday blasting America’s “climate of fanaticism and nationalism.” It’s unlikely the directors yet had word that Khatib would not be allowed to attend the Oscars.
“The fear generated by dividing us into genders, colors, religions and sexualities as a means to justify violence destroys the things that we depend on — not only as artists but as humans: the diversity of cultures, the chance to be enriched by something seemingly ‘foreign’ and the belief that human encounters can change us for the better,” their statement reads
“These divisive walls prevent people from experiencing something simple but fundamental: from discovering that we are all not so different.”
Regardless of “who wins the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film on Sunday, we refuse to think in terms of borders,” they wrote. “We believe there is no best country, best gender, best religion or best color. We want this award to stand as a symbol of the unity between nations and the freedom of the arts. Human rights are not something you have to apply for. They simply exist — for everybody.”
Khatib had desperately hoped to travel to the Oscars.
“I plan to travel to Los Angeles for the Oscars, where the film is nominated for an award,” he said earlier this month. “If we win this award, it will show people across Syria that people around the world support them. It will give courage to every volunteer who wakes up every morning to run towards bombs.”
He added: “If I cannot enter the U.S., I will not give up. We know that we have many friends in the U.S., that there are people that share our humanitarian values. I look forward to meeting them all one day.”
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When I first watched the trailer for comedian Jordan Peele’s Get Out, I knew that I had to see it, and I wasn’t wrong. It was as if Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner was on some type of horrific steroid.
Bill Maher says it’s time for the media to step up and prove its trustworthiness.
On Friday’s broadcast of “Real Time,” the host referenced the results of a recent Fox News poll which suggested that more people currently think they can trust President Donald Trump than they can the press.
Maher praised various outlets for already pushing back against the Trump administration’s falsehoods — such as NBC’s Chuck Todd for taking on Trump’s adviser Kellyanne Conway over her “alternative facts” and the New York Times for calling out Trump’s “lies” on its front page.
But Maher said more needed to be done. “Can you imagine how this must make a reporter feel? To be losing a truthfulness contest to Donald Trump?” he asked. “It’s like losing a rap battle to Mitt Romney.”
After criticizing some of the media for sometimes focusing on fluffy, lighthearted stories, Maher said that “for the sake of the republic” they “gotta get serious again.” “You have to win your respect back so Trump can’t say ‘the people don’t believe you, you’re a joke,’” he added.
Check out the full segment above.
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