It’s Oscar weekend in Hollywood, and the Real Time live audience was in the mood for some show business insight. Host Bill Maher didn’t disappoint.
This year’s Oscars has some changes, Maher said. “They’re asking, ‘Who are you slapping?’
He also noted that it’s hard to remember who won what from year to year. “You win and you disappear,” Maher noted. He waited a beat. “Like Kamala Harris.”
Maher admitted he’s rooting for one actor in particular – Tom Cruise. “I want to see a person get up and say, “I want to thank Xenu.”
All of that in the opening monologue was the warmup to Maher’s closing editorial in his “New Rules” section.
In a segment called “The Scold and the Beautiful,” Maher reflected on the origins of award winners telling us their views, or “how bad people have it by the people who have it the best.
This year’s Oscars has some changes, Maher said. “They’re asking, ‘Who are you slapping?’
He also noted that it’s hard to remember who won what from year to year. “You win and you disappear,” Maher noted. He waited a beat. “Like Kamala Harris.”
Maher admitted he’s rooting for one actor in particular – Tom Cruise. “I want to see a person get up and say, “I want to thank Xenu.”
All of that in the opening monologue was the warmup to Maher’s closing editorial in his “New Rules” section.
In a segment called “The Scold and the Beautiful,” Maher reflected on the origins of award winners telling us their views, or “how bad people have it by the people who have it the best.
- 3/11/2023
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo is out on a rehabilitation tour. Sure, he’s got a new podcast to tout, and will soon start a new primetime show on NewsNation (formerly WGN).
But the real agenda is to win back the reputation he lost when CNN dismissed him for allegedly violating its journalistic standards by consulting with his brother, ex-New York Govenor Andrew Cuomo.
Bill Maher, admittedly a friend of Cuomo, got right down to business at the top of his ‘Real Time’ segment, asking Cuomo if he’s happy to be “back.”
“Happy is probably not the right word,” Cuomo said, allowing that he does miss CNN. “I feel like I lost a sense of purpose for a while because of how things ended.” He allowed that he wants to get back into the role he previously had.
He wasn’t baited into disparaging his former home at CNN,...
But the real agenda is to win back the reputation he lost when CNN dismissed him for allegedly violating its journalistic standards by consulting with his brother, ex-New York Govenor Andrew Cuomo.
Bill Maher, admittedly a friend of Cuomo, got right down to business at the top of his ‘Real Time’ segment, asking Cuomo if he’s happy to be “back.”
“Happy is probably not the right word,” Cuomo said, allowing that he does miss CNN. “I feel like I lost a sense of purpose for a while because of how things ended.” He allowed that he wants to get back into the role he previously had.
He wasn’t baited into disparaging his former home at CNN,...
- 7/30/2022
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Let’s get after it.
That was the name of former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo’s SiriusXM show, but it also might be the tagline for his sit down with Bill Maher on HBO’s Real Time this Friday. It will be Cuomo’s first one-on-one TV interview since it was announced earlier this week that he will join Nexstar’s NewsNation this fall. Cuomo also has new podcast, The Chris Cuomo Project.
Cuomo was, of course, dismissed from CNN in December, following allegations about the extent to which he advised his brother Andrew as the then-Governor of New York fought a cascade of scandals. The Cuomo Primetime host also faced his own workplace sexual misconduct allegations. As a result, Cuomo has asked for 125 million in arbitration.
While the younger Cuomo did, in fact, do an hourlong interview with Dan Abrams on NewsNation’s Dan Abrams Live earlier this week,...
That was the name of former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo’s SiriusXM show, but it also might be the tagline for his sit down with Bill Maher on HBO’s Real Time this Friday. It will be Cuomo’s first one-on-one TV interview since it was announced earlier this week that he will join Nexstar’s NewsNation this fall. Cuomo also has new podcast, The Chris Cuomo Project.
Cuomo was, of course, dismissed from CNN in December, following allegations about the extent to which he advised his brother Andrew as the then-Governor of New York fought a cascade of scandals. The Cuomo Primetime host also faced his own workplace sexual misconduct allegations. As a result, Cuomo has asked for 125 million in arbitration.
While the younger Cuomo did, in fact, do an hourlong interview with Dan Abrams on NewsNation’s Dan Abrams Live earlier this week,...
- 7/28/2022
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Tensions in the town’s writers rooms never have been higher, not only for writers of entertainment shows but also for nonfiction practitioners. The mood of their audience is prickly. Dialogue that once amused viewers today offends them.
The upshot: Writers are busily reshuffling their lexicons, whether creating a film review, a documentary or a segment of The Sex Lives of College Girls (more on that later). Personally, I’ve been readjusting my own lexicon and learning from the process.
The problem: Those who favor dumping archaic expressions can’t always agree on the substitutes.
To be specific, I am faithfully assimilating terms like “microaggression.” I now smoothly pronounce Bipoc (it’s “by-pock”). I regularly add an “I” to LGBTQ. Further, I understand why “unhoused” is more empathetic for homeless people, and why “enslaved persons” is more appropriate than “slaves.”
Further, my new vocabulary pays homage to “Latinx,” and will...
The upshot: Writers are busily reshuffling their lexicons, whether creating a film review, a documentary or a segment of The Sex Lives of College Girls (more on that later). Personally, I’ve been readjusting my own lexicon and learning from the process.
The problem: Those who favor dumping archaic expressions can’t always agree on the substitutes.
To be specific, I am faithfully assimilating terms like “microaggression.” I now smoothly pronounce Bipoc (it’s “by-pock”). I regularly add an “I” to LGBTQ. Further, I understand why “unhoused” is more empathetic for homeless people, and why “enslaved persons” is more appropriate than “slaves.”
Further, my new vocabulary pays homage to “Latinx,” and will...
- 12/2/2021
- by Peter Bart
- Deadline Film + TV
“You can’t be afraid to speak in America,” said host Bill Maher last night at the top of his HBO series, Real Time. He was talking about his views on one of the week’s big stories in entertainment, the Dave Chappelle controversy over language in The Closer.
But as later conversations in the show would prove, Maher was also talking about how polarization in this country’s politics and language has to end, a process that may be the only way to move forward.
Maher said he was a Chappelle fan, but added that doesn’t mean he hates trans people. His guest panelist, author and NY Times newsletter opinion writer John McWhorter, likened such polarization as akin to a religion, wherein people view things in ways that point to one absolute and final truth.
Andrew Yang, the former presidential and New York mayoral candidate, said that most...
But as later conversations in the show would prove, Maher was also talking about how polarization in this country’s politics and language has to end, a process that may be the only way to move forward.
Maher said he was a Chappelle fan, but added that doesn’t mean he hates trans people. His guest panelist, author and NY Times newsletter opinion writer John McWhorter, likened such polarization as akin to a religion, wherein people view things in ways that point to one absolute and final truth.
Andrew Yang, the former presidential and New York mayoral candidate, said that most...
- 10/23/2021
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
When Michael Moore was in parochial school he started a newspaper dedicated to covering the comings-and-goings of his teachers and classmates. Initially, the nuns thought it was cute. Their attitude changed, however, after he share his iconoclastic take on a sacred topic.
“I wrote a critical article about the eighth grade football team and that was the end of it,” remembers Moore. “They shut it down.”
So began a long oppositional history, one that saw Moore clashing with the powers that be over his movies, books and journalism. In 2001, for instance, HarperCollins initially refused to release Moore’s book “Stupid White Men” because the News Corp.-owned publisher believed its blistering criticism of President George W. Bush would be seen as tone deaf in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. In 2003, Moore’s documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11” was caught up in a struggle between Miramax and its parent company Disney over whether...
“I wrote a critical article about the eighth grade football team and that was the end of it,” remembers Moore. “They shut it down.”
So began a long oppositional history, one that saw Moore clashing with the powers that be over his movies, books and journalism. In 2001, for instance, HarperCollins initially refused to release Moore’s book “Stupid White Men” because the News Corp.-owned publisher believed its blistering criticism of President George W. Bush would be seen as tone deaf in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. In 2003, Moore’s documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11” was caught up in a struggle between Miramax and its parent company Disney over whether...
- 8/19/2021
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
If you're a Trekkie, a Game of Thrones fanatic, or a lover of Tolkien's Middle-earth, then you're probably already well acquainted with the idea of ConLangs -- a spiffy shortening of the phrase "Constructed Language." The term applies to fictional languages made up for nonexistent races in books, television and film -- like the Dothraki and Elves in Martin and Tolkien's fantasy epics or the Klingons from Star Trek. There's more to creating a fake language (which in these cases, have become real) than just making up a bunch of words, as this enlightening video from John McWhorter points out. There has to be a grammar rule system, and in the cases of the best ConLangs, the messiness of linguistic evolution. McWhorter goes in...
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- 10/8/2013
- by Mike Bracken
- Movies.com
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