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After Peacock’s documentary on Elisabeth Finch was released earlier this month, Camilla Luddington says she received requests to comment (including from the doc’s directors and The Hollywood Reporter) on the former Grey’s Anatomy writer who was revealed to have fabricated stories about her life. Luddington, who has played Dr. Jo Wilson on the hit ABC medical drama for 12 seasons, didn’t comment for the doc, nor has she commented since Anatomy of Lies released on Oct. 15. Now, she’s opening up about the experience on her podcast with her former co-star Jessica Capshaw.

“I remember when I heard this documentary was being made, but that actually came after finding out that someone in my daily life at Grey’s had lied about her entire identity — who she was, things that had happened to her. A whole ‘nother person. Whole ‘nother, whole ‘nother,” said Call It What It Is podcast co-host Capshaw,...

There’s a scene in Shiori Ito’s searing documentary Black Box Diaries, in which the director, who is also the film’s subject, tells a swarm of reporters about trying to press criminal charges against her rapist. Like many sexual violence survivors forced into this ritual of public re-litigation, she is a model of what society has come to expect of courageous women. Her face betrays no emotion and she is dressed in the chaste uniform of the aggrieved: delicate earrings (Ito opts for pearls), a conservatively tailored blouse (a black button down here), and wearing little to no makeup (faint signs of blush and a single stroke of eyeliner).

Ito’s voice remains calm as she recounts the police’s initial refusal to accept her victim’s report and their arsenal of excuses: Sex crimes were difficult to investigate, they said; her rapist, Noriyuki Yamaguchi, the former Washington Bureau...

When Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court was rocked by a pair of allegations of past sexual misconduct, the Trump administration announced that a speedy FBI investigation would get to the bottom of what the Senate deemed “credible allegations” against the judge.

Christine Blasey Ford had alleged an assault by Kavanaugh when they were teenagers, involving Kavanaugh locking her in a room, climbing on top of her, attempting to remove her clothing, and covering her mouth to keep her from screaming. A second woman, Deborah Ramirez, who attended...

Saturday Night Live’s landmark 50th season will kick off nearly over a month ahead of the 2024 presidential election with plenty of material for its cold opens and other political skits.

With Maya Rudolph returning to portray Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris, its likely that James Austin Johnson will portray Donald Trump and or Joe Biden in parodies of the candidates. Doug Emhoff (who has been portrayed in the past by Martin Short) and Vice President Tim Walz will also likely receive parodies, though Short’s Only Murders in the Building costar Steve Martin has declined the ask to portray Walz.

The first five consecutive SNL shows’ hosts and musical guests have been announced, and given the volume and talent of cast members over the years, a look back at political parodies by hosts, guests and members of the comedy ensemble can be found below.

Will Ferrell as...

In an interview on Fox & Friends, filmed 48 hours after he was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records, Donald Trump attempted to rewrite history. Now that he is facing legal consequences for paying hush money to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, the former president is denying he ever said “Lock her up” about Hillary Clinton, his 2016 opponent.

“You famously said regarding Hillary Clinton, ‘Lock her up.’ You declined to do that as president,” said Fox host Will Cain, implying that the president has control over who is prosecuted.

“I beat her,...

At last week’s A Day of Unreasonable Conversation held at The Getty Center, entertainment industry members heard from Hollywood and government leaders with varying cultural perspectives.

Jill Biden and Halle Berry at A Day of Unreasonable Conversation

Through thought-provoking discussions, impactful performances, and, at times, emotional conversations, A Day of Unreasonable Conversation surfaced new perspectives on today’s most complex topics to an audience of television writers, showrunners, and executives. Speakers were vulnerable in sharing stories that often do not get heard and urged the audience of TV creators to incorporate these experiences into their work.

First Lady Jill Biden and Halle Berry candidly discussed formerly taboo women’s health topics such as menopause, emphasizing the need for a new approach to women’s health research. Berry shared a personal story about how she realized that she was going through perimenopause, bringing forth blushes and laughter from the audience.

Exclusive: First Lady Jill Biden will be the featured speaker at Monday’s A Day Of Unreasonable Conversation, a social impact event featuring entertainment industry figures and activists.

Biden will take part in a conversation with Halle Berry to talk about the first-ever White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research. Their talk, titled “Writing New Stories About Women’s Health,” will delve into how cultural figures and content can advance conversation’s about the topic.

The first lady is heading to Southern California today for a round of fundraising and an appearance this weekend at the Los Angeles Human Rights Campaign dinner.

Others taking part in the Getty Center event include Paris Hilton, Yvette Nicole Brown, Christine Blasey Ford, Amy Spitalnick and Sitarah Pendleton-Eaglin. The lineup includes Jane Fonda, Cord Jefferson, Yusef Salaam, Charli d’Amelio, Dorian Warren, Maurice Mitchell, Sinead Bovell, Angela Patton, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford,...

This week on “The View,” hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro welcome guests Ben Platt, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Sydney Sweeney, Gisele Bündchen, Stormy Daniels and Chelsea Clinton, among others.

Check out our breakdown below to find out who else will appear on the daytime talk show during the week of March 18-22, 2024.

TV Listings Featured GUESTSEPISODEMarch 18, 2024

– Ben Platt performs for the first time on “The View”.MondayMarch 19, 2024

– Daytime exclusive with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.TuesdayMarch 20, 2024

– Sydney Sweeney (“Immaculate”).

– Chef José Andrés.WednesdayMarch 14, 2024

– Gisele Bündchen.

– An exclusive with Stormy Daniels, joined by director Sarah Gibson (“Stormy”).ThursdayMarch 15, 2024

– Chelsea Clinton.Friday

Note: Guest attendance is subject to change.

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Christine Blasey Ford — the psychology professor who testified at Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing alleging he assaulted her when they were both teenagers — is speaking out again nearly six years later. In a new memoir, Ford insists that Kavanaugh “must know” what he did the night of the alleged assault and discusses in depth the consequences she faced, including many death threats, for coming forward.

Busy Philipps was pulling up her Spanx in a private dining room in Midtown, New York, when we met on an October afternoon. “Are we in a Goodfellas movie?” she asked, using an expletive and laughing as she took in the ostentatiously luxe cherry-wood-walled space. “What is about to happen?”

She was about halfway through a frenetic day of publicity, having knocked out an appearance on Good Morning America to promote her candid new memoir, This Will Only Hurt a Little.

The book is a freewheeling tour through Philipps’ career, relationships and on-and-off-again stardom. Though she began writing it before the #MeToo movement took off last year, it has already generated some related headlines. One old story resurrected was her account of James Franco being rough with her on the set of Freaks and Geeks.

The book’s release is just part of what was the biggest month (October) of Philipps’s career so far.

The mechanics and politics of the filmed sex scene are put under a microscope in Kristy Guevara-Flanagan’s documentary Body Parts. A useful primer for thinking about the ways Hollywood has encoded heteronormative ideas about coitus and acted as a type of collective sex ed, Body Parts is ultimately a little too expansive. Bouncing between the Hays Code, Hattie McDaniel and the “Mamie” stereotype, #MeToo, the Harvey Weinstein and James Franco scandals, intimacy coordinators, nudity riders, and about ten other subtopics, Guevara-Flanagan’s thesis about incremental changes to the industry is ultimately diffused. While compelling in its individual, discrete sections, it fails to find a compelling throughline that would tie everything together.

Featuring a roster of talking heads, Body Parts mainly prioritizes TV creators including Joey Solloway (Transparent), David Simon (The Deuce), and Tanya Saracho (Vida), as well as actors DeWanda Wise, Rosanna Arquette, Jane Fonda, Rose McGowan, and Alexandra Billings.

At Friday’s Sundance premiere of Justice, the documentary about the FBI investigation into Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, director Doug Liman said he isn’t yet done with the film.

“I thought the film was done but it looks like we aren’t,” said the director at the post-screening Q&a. The reason? Tips about the allegations that have been leveled against Kavanaugh have continued to roll in after the documentary was announced Thursday, the opening day of Sundance.

Justice was an 11th-hour addition to the festival. Liman self-funded the documentary — which counts doc vets Amy Herdy, and Story Syndicate’s Liz Garbus and Dan Cogan as producers — and successfully kept it a secret for more than a year.

“Since the film was announced yesterday we are getting more tips,” said Herdy. “It’s not over.” Liman added: “Within half an hour of the announcement.”

Justice includes testimonials from Deborah Ramirez,...

In “Justice,” the title’s double meaning is, of course, ironic. Amid all the systemic issues spotlit during the agonizing process of Brett Kavanaugh’s 2018 Supreme Court appointment — sexism, cronyism, partisanship, cowardice, mudslinging and good old-fashioned lying — justice was one quality largely absent. But it’s an irony that many would say is already present whenever the honorific “Justice Brett Kavanaugh” is used, and so if Doug Liman’s unimpeachably well-intentioned documentary — the first from a director known for slick, action-oriented Hollywood dramas — were to live up to its billing as an incendiary, top-secret, last-minute Sundance addition, it was surmised it must contain something more than we already know, some or other explosive new revelation.

Yet while Liman and writer-producer Amy Herdy deliver a painstakingly exhaustive lineup of talking heads, including psychologists, lawyers, journalists, a coterie of friends and associates of Kavanaugh’s accusers, and accuser Debbie Ramirez herself, actionable...

That sinking feeling you get watching a great conspiracy thriller usually boils down to this: all your worst fears are true.

Doug Liman’s “Justice,” a breathtaking documentary about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s silenced sexual assault accusers, goes a long way to proving the reality of the fears at the heart of this particular case. Mainly, that there was such a desire at several levels of government to see Kavanaugh on the bench that due diligence wasn’t followed, and barely even attempted.

Tightly edited to a coiled 84 minutes, the film doesn’t offer quite as many revelations as some might have hoped. But it pieces together what already was known into a compelling argument that calls into question the entire process of Kavanaugh’s confirmation. Key to this is the account of Debbie Ramirez, the Yale undergrad classmate of Kavanaugh who told The New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow...

The big news on opening day of Sundance was the addition of Justice, an investigative documentary notable as the first foray into nonfiction filmmaking for major-league director Doug Liman, and for the fact that its existence had been kept under wraps for more than a year, with all participants signing NDAs. But to anyone who followed the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearings and the shameful treatment of Christine Blasey Ford, who came forward with accusations of attempted rape when they were at high school together in the early ‘80s, there will be very little here that comes close to an earth-shaking revelation. Sure, the outrage still stings, but where’s the news?

Liman and his producer and writer Amy Herdy spoke after the film’s premiere about the hope that it might trigger action and lead to “a real investigation with subpoena powers.” But with Kavanaugh now ensconced in a lifetime Supreme Court seat,...

A collective eyebrow was raised when the 2023 Sundance Film Festival announced a last-minute addition to the lineup: Justice, a documentary probing the allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. That the film marked the first documentary directed by Doug Liman, the man behind Swingers and The Bourne Identity, and was produced by Amy Herdy, an ex-journalist and key researcher for the documentaries Allen v. Farrow and On the Record, only piqued curiosity further. Would the film contain new claims against Kavanaugh beyond what emerged during and around...

A surprise documentary unveiled at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday night revealed new sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and raised disturbing questions about whether the FBI ever actually investigated his behavior.

The most heart-wrenching footage in the documentary by director Doug Liman and producer Amy Herdy involved a classmate of Kavanaugh’s at Yale. Deborah Ramirez went on camera for the first time to detail her story of being sexually harassed by Kavanaugh in front of their friends during a drunken college party in the 1980s.

Ramirez previously alleged in a New Yorker piece by Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer that Kavanaugh pushed his penis in her face in front of a group of friends at a party, humiliating her. Kavanaugh has denied the incident ever occurred. Ramirez was never called to testify by the Senate Judiciary Committee that confirmed Kavanaugh.

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Director Doug Liman says his self-funded Brett Kavanaugh documentary Justice, which premiered at Sundance Friday night, might be far from finished as new tips started pouring within a half hour of the highly-secretive project being announced on Thursday.

“I thought the film was done… I thought I was off the hook. I’m in Sundance, I thought, I can sell the movie,” Liman said ruefully at a Q&a following the world premiere of his first documentary, which re-examines sexual assault accusations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh raised during his confirmation hearings in 2018. The film follows up tips the FBI apparently ignored in an investigation launched after Dr. Christine Blasey Ford accused Kavanaugh of assaulting her during a party in 1982 when they were both high school students in Maryland.

Justice gives extensive attention to allegations from another woman, Deborah Ramirez, who also came forward in the midst of the...

Sundance’s biggest surprise so far is “Justice,” a documentary from director Doug Liman that examines the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Liman at the film’s premiere Friday night said in a Q&a that he knew “something very wrong was happening” and that he felt a sense of outrage watching Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings in 2018 — that the genesis of this film dates back to then.

Liman told the crowd at the Park Avenue Theater at Sundance that it was crucial to keep production of the film a complete secret, recognizing in the course of making it that “the machinery that was put into place to prevent anyone from speaking out” could eventually be turned on them and the subjects involved. Liman appeared on stage with producer Amy Herdy, who explained that everyone who participated signed an NDA, and that codenames were even provided for the film’s subjects.

“Justice,” a documentary that delves into sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, was secretly in the works for more than a year before it was added as a late-breaking addition to the 2023 Sundance Film Festival lineup.

Doug Liman directed the film, which premiered on Friday to a full house at Park City’s Park Avenue Theatre. Like many Americans, he vividly remembers watching Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were high schoolers in the early ’80s, testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2018. Three additional women later accused Kavanaugh of misconduct (all of which he’s denied). An FBI investigation found “no corroboration of the allegations,” and Kavanaugh was eventually confirmed to a lifetime term on the highest court in the country.

During a Q&a after the screening, Liman described a sense of outrage while watching Blasey Ford’s testimony,...

Doug Liman — the sought-after features director behind titles like Swingers, Mr. and Mrs. Smith and The Bourne Identity — spent all of 2022 making his documentary debut about the government investigation into now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Non-fiction stalwarts Dan Cogan and Liz Garbus backed the doc, which will now debut at the Sundance Film Festival after being successfully kept a secret for over a year.

This may all sound like a project produced via a particularly unbelievable game of Mad Libs but allow Liman to explain.

“The Supreme Court, which is sacred for all of us, holds special meaning for me,” says Liman, who spoke with The Hollywood Reporter ahead of the festival. His father Arthur L. Liman was a revered lawyer and activist who helped lead investigations into the Iran-contra affair and the Attica prison uprising, among other notable cases. Liman’s older brother, Lewis, is a longtime lawyer...

“We saw it practically yesterday,” says Sundance director of programming Kim Yutani.

Sundance has added the world premiere of Doug Liman’s documentary Justice, about the allegations against United States Supreme Court associate justice Brett Kavanaugh, as a surprise title as the 2023 festival gets underway.

“We saw it practically yesterday,” said director of programming Kim Yutani, speaking at the festival’s first in-person press conference since 2020. “It’s a film that challenges existing narratives – I think it asks tough questions.” The film will play as a Special Screening, premiering at 20.30 Mt tomorrow (January 20).

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A late addition to the 2023 Sundance Film Festival lineup will be Doug Liman’s documentary debut, Justice, which dives into the 2018 hearings and government investigation into now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Amy Herdy (On the Record, The Hunting Ground) produced the doc, with Story Syndicate’s Liz Garbus and Dan Cogan executive producing.

“We always have something up our sleeve,” said Sundance head programmer Kim Yutani, when announcing the feature, which she said will inspire a lot of conversation.

“It shouldn’t be this hard to have an open and honest conversation about whether or not a Justice on the Supreme Court assaulted numerous women as a young man,” said Liman in a statement. “Thanks to this fantastic investigative team and the brave souls who trusted us with their stories, Justice picks up where the FBI investigation into Brett Kavanaugh fell woefully short.”

Liman added: “The film examines our judicial...

A new documentary about the explosive sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh will debut at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Veteran feature director Doug Liman is directing, marking his documentary debut.

“It’s a film that focuses on the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh and the investigation that ensued,” said Sundance director of programing Kim Yutani.

Amy Herdy is producing the project, with Story Syndicate’s Liz Garbus and Dan Cogan as executive producers. A cut was prepared exclusively for Sundance and the project is still seeking distribution. CAA is handling the sale.

Justice Kavanaugh was nominated to the Supreme Court by former President Donald Trump in 2018. In the subsequent months of his vetting process, multiple women came forward and accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault, including Christine Blasey Ford.

Ford would come to deliver a memorable and harrowing testimony about the alleged assault before a Senate judiciary committee, an...

Sundance has added a secret documentary about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh from director Doug Liman to its lineup, Sundance programmers announced Thursday.

The film “Justice” is intended to screen on Friday night at 8:30 p.m. Mt as a special premiere at Park Avenue Theater followed by a Press & Industry screening at 10 p.m. Mt, and IndieWire has learned the film is also available for acquisition.

Liman, who is known for films like “Swingers,” “Edge of Tomorrow,” “The Bourne Identity,” and more, self-financed the project and is making his documentary feature debut with “Justice.”

Kavanaugh, who was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2018 by President Donald Trump, was the subject of a contentious series of confirmation hearings when he was accused of sexually assaulting professor Christine Blasey Ford. Blasey Ford testified in front of Congress, and three other women later accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct (though one later recanted...

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Johnny Depp and Amber Heard continue to exchange legal barbs in a Virginia appeals court, setting the stage for a higher-level debate about the line between opinion and defamation.

On Nov. 23, Heard appealed a verdict that she defamed ex-husband Depp by calling herself a survivor of domestic abuse in an op-ed in The Washington Post. The jury handed Depp a near sweep in the case, ruling in his favor on three of his claims and against him on just one. He was awarded over 10 million.

The trial revolved around accusations that Heard defamed Depp in her op-ed because it suggested that he abused her. In her 68-page appeal, Heard argued that her statements at the center of the trial were opinion and didn’t carry a defamatory implication. If the court’s ruling holding that she could be sued over what she wrote in the op-ed stands,...

Director Gina Prince-Bythewood launched her film career with the 2000 romantic sports drama “Love & Basketball,” which now is considered a cult classic. She would go on to shoot an adaptation of the female-driven book ‘The Secret Life of Bees’ in 2008. Meanwhile, she discovered a true talent with Gugu Mbatha-Raw as a troubled singer in the 2014 showbiz saga ‘Beyond the Lights.’

But Prince-Bythewood switched gears in 2020 and embraced the action genre with ‘The Old Guard,’ starring Charlize Theron and KiKi Layne. But her latest release, ‘The Woman King.’ is a throwback to the heroic action epics of yore, such as “The Last of the Mohicans,” “Braveheart,” “Gladiator” and “Spartacus.” The twist is that the mighty warriors known as the Agojir are Black women going through training for war in the West African kingdom of Dahomey in 1823. The headliner here is Oscar winner Viola Davis, who plays General Nanisca. She is tired...

The January 6th Committee has surprised many in Washington, D.C., by pulling off the unexpected — not just with new revelations but in the way that it has methodically laid out a narrative of Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the election results.

The committee has presented its case as if each hearing was episodic — in brisk, well-produced two-hour chunks that make heavy use of video, audio and graphics.

We’ve seen video of former Attorney General William Barr calling Trump’s claims of election fraud “bullsh*t.” There was the photo of then-Vice President Mike Pence, in a secure location at the Capitol, watching video of Trump praising the mob. We heard a “surprise” witness in Cassidy Hutchinson, the aide to chief of staff Mark Meadows, as she described in detail what she saw and heard on January 6th, most vivid being her story of Trump trying to grab...

It’s been almost five years since The New Yorker published Ronan Farrow’s first exposé of Hollywood’s ugliest open secret, that Harvey Weinstein was a sexual predator, taking the #MeToo movement worldwide and forever shifting the conversation around the film industry’s horrifying treatment of women. The flurry of similar allegations that followed has slowed to a trickle, but there are many women in Hollywood who want to keep the issues front and center. The message is loud and clear in “Body Parts,” a clever and damning documentary about the history of nudity, sex scenes, and women’s bodies on film.

In a brisk 86 minutes, “Body Parts” mashes together interviews with the likes of Jane Fonda and Rosanna Arquette, analysis from film historians, intimacy coordinator trainings, and whirlwind montages from both classic and contemporary films. There’s a lot of ground to cover, and Guevara-Flanagan runs a tight ship.

When the Supreme Court’s draft decision to overturn Roe v. Wade leaked, Sen. Susan Collins said she was flabbergasted, deeply troubled, even shocked. After all, soon-to-be-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh had promised her in 2018 that Roe was a matter of settled law — despite his deeply conservative track record on abortion.

Turns out, Collins wasn’t just wrong about Kavanaugh. She was deliberately manipulated by Trump administration officials — and a future Supreme Court Justice — who viewed her as an easy mark.

Two former senior Trump White House officials tell Rolling Stone...

Kristin Chenoweth, Kathy Najimy, Linda Perry, Lauren Blitzer and Chely Wright are being announced as the compilers of a forthcoming book that, inspired by (but not limited to) the #MeToo movement, lets women from the entertainment industry and other walks of life describe a crucial point of adversity that propelled them into forward motion for good.

The essay collection, titled “My Moment: 106 Women on Fighting for Themselves,” has been acquired for world rights by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, and will come out April 26, 2022.

“For so long, women have been silent about things that have hurt them or made them feel ashamed,” says Chenoweth. “I’ve kept my story quiet for a long time, and yes, it was scary to tell, but I’m doing it because I feel so empowered to stand with these incredible girls and women. Working on this book has changed us all,...

A tireless advocate for progressive social justice causes, attorney Ady Barkan got diagnosed with terminal Als in 2016. It was only a matter of time that the regular motor functions and vocal abilities of the energetic Santa Barbara resident — an adoring husband to his wife Rachael and the brand-new father of baby Carl — would begin to deteriorate. The 32-year-old Barkan obviously knew that he was dying, with only a handful of years left to live based on his doctors’ estimations. But in Nicholas Bruckman’s compassionate “Not Going Quietly,” a clearsighted and traditionally inspirational documentary portrait of Barkan’s rise to prominence in the healthcare debate, Barkan rightfully indicates that dealing with insurance then was far worse than this harrowing awareness. Simply put, he needed a breathing machine to stay alive, but his insurance company refused to pay for it, flagging the device as “experimental.”

Shortly after, Barkan and his family...

Felicia Sonmez, a national political reporter for The Washington Post, sued the publication and its top editors, claiming that she was discriminated against after she went public as a sexual assault survivor.

Sonmez said that the Post’s subsequent prohibition on her from covering MeToo stories caused her personal and professional harm.

The lawsuit, filed in D.C. Superior Court, names the Post as well as a series of top editors, including Martin Baron, who stepped down as executive editor of the publication in February.

Sonmez contended that after she went public in 2018 with her claim that she was sexually assaulted by a colleague when she worked for the Los Angeles Times, the Post prohibited her from covering Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, seeing it as a conflict of interest. The prohibition was extended to other stories involving claims of sexual assault.

The lawsuit...

In the span of just 13 minutes, the Oscar-shortlisted short documentary Hysterical Girl unpacks a lot.

The film directed by Kate Novack not only elucidates one of Sigmund Freud’s most famous case histories—on a suicidal teenage girl the psychoanalyst called “Dora”—but how Freud’s writing about her continues to impact our culture more than a century later.

“We have one foot in 1900,” Novack tells Deadline, “and we have one foot in 2020.”

The documentary draws a link between the Dora case and more recent examples of the reaction to women who have accused powerful men—Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein and others—of sexual misconduct or assault.

Novack observes, “I think it then becomes really hard to argue, ‘Oh, no, that’s the case from the past, Freud isn’t relevant anymore, we’ve moved on.’”

As the film reveals, Dora had been sexually assaulted at age 13 by an adult male,...

“The Mandalorian” star Gina Carano has stirred both pushback and support from “Star Wars” and Disney fans alike on social media after posting a number of controversial tweets, including about mask-wearing and hypothetical voter fraud. The actress, who plays Cara Dune in the Disney+ series, was also previously accused of mocking trans pronouns on social media. See some of the tweets below.

The #FireGinaCarano hashtag began picking up steam last week, but has continued to build momentum after Disney+ dropped the “Chapter 12” episode of “The Mandalorian” on Friday, in which Carano stars. But at the same time, #StandWithGinaCarano has also begun trending on Twitter in response from fans who feel the plea to cast Carano out of the show is another example of censorship, and cancel culture gone too far.

“It’s amazing how the #FireGinaCarano folks, don’t even see that their cancelation campaigns only verify many of the things she’s fighting against,...

Anita Hill was a guest on “The View” on Friday where she explained why she has endorsed Joe Biden for President of the United States, despite his role in her 1991 Senate testimony against Clarence Thomas.

“Vice President Biden did appear on your show and I do recall that you helped move him forward and understand his responsibility for those hearings,” Hill told co-host Joy Behar on “The View.”

“Having said that, that is really part of why I have decided that I want to move forward and continue to push for the kind of acknowledgment and responsibility and accountability for making sure what happened to me, and what happened later to Christine Blasey Ford, does not happen again. But not just in terms of Senate committee hearings — just in terms of the way we are treating women in workplaces, on the street, in their homes, in terms of gender-based violence,...

A first for Time magazine, the honorees of the annual TIME100 will be featured in an ABC special.

ABC announced Wednesday that it will hold an hour-long special on Sept. 22 celebrating the latest inductees to the famed magazine list of world leaders, creators and everyday heroes. The special broadcast, which will air ahead of the list’s print debut, will include musical performance, tributes and appearances by TIME100 alumni and even a look of the history behind the annual list.

“As we continue to build on the phenomenal success of our past TIME100 events and new TIME100 Talks series, we look forward to continuing to expand the reach and impact of the TIME100 with ABC and a unique series of TIME100 Talks to celebrate this year’s list,” said Time editor-in-chief and CEO Edward Felsenthal.

The ABC special will reveal the full 2020 list by category – Pioneers, Artists, Leaders, Icons and...

After entering in Best Drama Actress last year, “Succession” star Sarah Snook is now moving down to supporting for the second season of the HBO hit. (Insert all your jokes about Shiv coming up short for the Waystar Royco CEO gig here.) It’s ostensibly a demotion, but, really, it’s a strategic move that would make Logan Roy proud.

Since Shiv is the only daughter in the Roy clan, Snook is the de facto female lead, and the second season focused on Shiv as Logan’s (Brian Cox) possible successor — in line with the popular fan theory that each season will spotlight one sibling. So it is not totally left field for Snook to shoot her shot in lead.

But that was and still is a risky endeavor. “Succession” is an ensemble show, and the only lead everyone and their mother would agree on is Cox. Strong, who won...

Thursday, during coverage of Dr. Rick Bright’s testimony before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee, Fox News’ chief political anchor Bret Baier said the doctor’s statements were “potentially politically damaging” for President Donald Trump.

Baier outlined how Dr. Bright, the recent director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, says he was removed from his position and what that means for the administration: “This is significant testimony today. Obviously, he has a long history in the job that he was in. The president calls him a disgruntled employee but whether he’s that or not, he does have a lot of experience and he’s telling the story about not being prepared for this pandemic. This is potentially politically damaging for the president as he’s talking about trying to get a handle on the health crisis and open up around the country.”

He went on, “He is not discredited easily,...

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Friday did something her predecessor never did: She held an official press briefing.

“I will never lie to you. You have my word on this,” she said in response to a question from Associated Press correspondent Jill Colvin.

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She also told reporters that they do plan to continue the briefings and she will announce “timing forthcoming.”

She said that she is “normally with the president in the Oval Office” in response to a query of how she will relay how President Donald Trump is thinking on certain issues.

Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden denied Tara Reade’s claim that he sexually assaulted her in a Senate office building in 1993.

In an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe anchor Mika Brzezinski, Biden said of the allegations, “It never, never happened.”

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Reade claims that Biden pinned her up against a wall and penetrated her with his fingers. After she pulled away, she said Biden said to her, “Come on, I heard you liked me.” She said he then told her, “You’re nothing to me, nothing.” This week, Business Insider reported the accounts of two women who said that Reade...

Fox Business Network has severed ties with primetime host Trish Regan, who sparked controversy after claiming that the ongoing coronavirus pandemic was an “impeachment scam” around two weeks ago.

“Fox Business has parted ways with Trish Regan,” the network said in a statement. “We thank her for her contributions to the network over the years and wish her continued success in her future endeavors. We will continue our reduced live primetime schedule for the foreseeable future in an effort to allocate staff resources to continuous breaking news coverage on the coronavirus crisis.”

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The network’s decision stemmed from an early March segment on “Trish Regan Primetime,” the television host’s now-defunct show, where Regan told a multitude of lies about the virus.

The Wild Feathers’ new road anthem, Brian Fallon’s hushed love song, and Brad Paisley’s inspiring “Alive Right Now” are among the fresh country and Americana songs to hear this week.

The Wild Feathers, “Jacksonville to Jackson Hole”

For years, the Wild Feathers have planted their feet on both sides of the country-rock divide. They fully step into twangier territory with this Eric Church and Casey Beathard co-write, which finds the group singing the praises of cross-country road trips, truck stops, and heat-lamp chicken tenders. The song’s secret...

Megyn Kelly’s name has popped up in the media more in the past week than in the entire past year because workplace sexual harassment is back in the news, and it has prompted her to speak out and not ‘just sit back and enjoy my money.'”

Friday, news broke that Kelly had been among the notable newswomen to sign a letter urging Comcast to launch an investigation into NBC News after NBC made it clear it wouldn’t be pursuing a new investigation into internal handling of accusations against former “Today” host Matt Lauer.

That same day, ABC News’ chief political analyst Matthew Dowd, tweeted, “I really don’t want to hear from either Matt Lauer or Megyn Kelly. Can’t they just fade away and enjoy their large pot of money?”

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Lucia Evans gave a wrenching account on Tuesday of her efforts to hold Harvey Weinstein responsible for sexual assault, saying she felt betrayed after the Manhattan D.A.’s office dropped her allegations last year.

Evans spoke to Variety after giving a speech at a conference on influencer fraud in Manhattan, making her first public comments on the case since prosecutors dismissed her claims.

“I was blindsided,” she said in the speech, tearing up as she recounted the D.A.’s decision. “The thing that had consumed my life for the past year, that has taken its toll on my marriage, my family, my career — it’s just over. I felt so abandoned. I felt betrayed.”

Evans alleges that Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex on him during a midday meeting at his Tribeca office in 2004. She first made the allegation in Ronan Farrow’s piece in the New...

On September 27th, 2018, most of America was frozen in front of a TV screen, watching Christine Blasey Ford testify at the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh. Voice shaking, she apologized preemptively (and, later, repeatedly, over hours of questioning) for gaps in her recollection of the assault she said she’d suffered at his hands as a teenager — “I don’t have all the answers, and I don’t remember as much as I would like to” — while at the same time recounting vivid details of the incident, which...

Ashley Judd was the first actress to go on the record with New York Times journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, who wrote the article that led to Harvey Weinstein’s downfall.

In their new book, She Said, the reporters reveal how daring Judd’s move was — explaining her reasons for coming forward with sexual harassment allegations against the movie mogul, and describing the powerful moment in which she counseled Dr. Christine Blasey Ford on handling other people’s criticism.

“I have to know the hill on which I’m willing to die. The equality of the sexes is that hill for me,...

On Saturday night, the New York Times reported a third incident of unwanted sexual conduct by now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The event allegedly took place while Kavanaugh was a college student at Yale and was witnessed by classmate Max Steir, who “saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student,” according to the Times.

The Times piece also focused on the allegations made by Deborah Ramirez, another Yale classmate of Kavanaugh’s...

Two years after publishing the article that helped bring down Harvey Weinstein, New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey have written a book that includes more details of how the women who accused the now-disgraced movie mogul of sexual harassment, including actresses Gwyneth Paltrow and Ashley Judd, decided to come forward with their stories.

In She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement, out Tuesday, the reporters explain how fearful both actresses were about coming forward publicly. And in a tear-filled moment, the Shakespeare in Love star told them she was devastated that Weinstein...

There wasn’t any Presidency-ending revelation, and Robert Mueller stubbornly refused to read from his special counsel report on Donald Trump directly, but more than 12.9 million Americans tuned in Wednesday to watch Mueller testify live before not one but two congressional committees.

After yesterday’s barrage of questions that came nearly three months after the special counsel’s report into Russia’s election interference and possible obstruction of justice by Potus, it remains to be seen whether Trump, the Democrats, or the too-understated-for-primetime Mueller will be the winner of this political battle.

However, we know for sure that Fox News Channel took the gold for the daytime viewership on Wednesday. With an audience of 3.03 million, the Bret Baier- and Martha MacCallum-anchored coverage on the Rupert Murdoch-owned news cabler beat runner-up MSNBC by 26% in sets of eyeballs. In preliminary numbers for the 8:15 Am-3:45 Pm Et coverage...