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BLM - From Lobelog: Free Ahed Tamimi! She hurt the IDF's masculinity.
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MOVIES - From TheVillageVoice: "Searching for Daniel Day-Lewis."
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MOVIES - From Variety: Quentin Tarantino's "Jackie Brown" will be 20 years old Christmas Day.
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STAR TREK - From Deadline: Paramount has set Mark L. Smith to write the screenplay for the announced R-rated Star Trek movie that Quentin Tarantino says he wants to direct and J.J. Abrams will produce.
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SPORTS - From BET: Former Major League Baseball player, Darryl Strawberry, admitted to having sex in the team clubhouse during games.
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POLITICS - From teleSUR: Oxfam describes the situation in Yemen as an "apocalypse," after 1000 days of a U.S. backed military campaign by Saudi Arabia.
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MOVIES - From Deadline: The board of directors of The Weinstein Company will meet today to consider bids to buy the company, in the wake of the co-founder Harvey Weinstein facing multiple accusations of sexual abuse, harassment, and misconduct.
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MOVIES - From GQ: "The Dark Optimism of Paul Thomas Anderson."
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MOVIES - From RollingStone: Cher makes her grand entry in the "Mamma Mia" sequel.
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MOVIES - From THR: Josh Gad joins Disney's "Artemis Fowl" film.
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MOVIES - From TheWrap: Nick Castle who played Michael Myers in John Carpenter's 1978 "Halloween" is returning to play the character again in next year's David Gordon Green directed reboot.
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MOVIES - From TheWrap: Bradley Cooper's "A Star is Born" remake, in which he stars with Lady Gaga, has been moved from a Summer 2018 release date to October 2018.
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MOVIES - From YahooEntertainment: Yahoo's "50 Best Movies of 2017." Their pick for best is "Lady Bird."
From YahooEntertainment: Yahoo's "10 Worse Movies of 2017." "Baywatch" is the winner/loser.
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SPORTS - From YahooEntertainment: NBA legend, former L.A. Laker, Kobe Bryant, talks about his animated short film, "Dear Basketball," directed by Disney legend, Glen Keane.
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BLM - From YahooLifestyle: George Zimmerman, who killed an African-American child named Trayvon Martin, has threatened to kill Jay-Z who is produced a six-part docuseries about Trayvon Martin, "Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story."
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COMICS - From THR: Elvis Presley will battle aliens! "Bubba Ho-Tep," the Joe R. Lansdale novella that became a 2002 cult film (from director Don Coscarelli), will get a prequel comic book from IDW Publishing in 2018.
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MOVIES - From BoxOfficeMojo: There will be a whole lotta movies released on Christmas Day 2017.
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MOVIES - From TheHollywoodReporter: Paramount Pictures announces release dates for GI Joe, Micronauts, and Dungeons & Dragons films.
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ANIMATION - From ShadowandAct: Adam Reid's animated sci-fi comedy, "Barry and Joe: The Animated Series," gets some backing from late-night talk show host, Conan O'Brien.
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TELEVISION - From ShadowandAct: HBO has picked up two new shows from Issa Rae, the creator of the acclaimed HBO series, "Insecure."
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SCANDAL - From Deadline: BBC preps a feature-length, definitive documentary about the "Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct scandal."
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 12/15 to 12/17/2017 weekend box office is "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" with an estimated take of $220 million.
From Deadline: "I, Tonya" leads specialty box office for the second weekend.
From Variety: "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" hits $230 million in international box office.
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From YahooEntertainment: Bob and Harvey Weinstein apparently blacklisted Oscar-winning actress Mira Sorvino from films in which they were involved, including "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "Bad Santa."
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STREAMING - From IndieWireTV: Ian McKellen wants to play Gandalf in Amazon's upcoming "Lord of the Rings" TV series. McKellen says he is not to old because Gandalf is over 7000 years old.
OBITS:
From TheWrap: Sports broadcaster, Dick Enberg, has died at the age of 82, Thursday, December 21, 2017. Over his nearly 60-year career, Enberg worked for CBS, NBC, and ESPN covering eight Super Bowls, multiple World Series, and the Wimbledon tennis tournament. He is also famous for his catchphrase, "Oh, my!"
From Variety: Film production designer, Therese DePrez, has died at the age of 52, Tuesday, December 19, 2017. DePrez is best known for her work on Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan," but over her long career, she had worked on such films as Spike Lee's "Summer of Sam" and John Cameron Mitchell's "Hedwig and the Angry Inch."
From Deadline: The actress Hiep Thi Le has died at the age of 46, Tuesday, December 19, 2017. She was best known for playing the role of real-life Le Ly Hayslip in Oliver Stone's 1994, "Heaven and Earth." Le was also a celebrated restaurateur and chef.
From THR: The actress Heather North has died at the age of 71, Thursday, November 30, 2017. Although she appeared in numerous films and TV shows ("The Monkees," "My Three Sons"), North is best known as the voice of "Daphne Blake," on various "Scooby-Doo" animated TV series, beginning with the second season of the first Scooby-Doo series, "Scooby-Doo Where Are You!"
From BleedingCool: Bob Givens, the man who created the official design for Bugs Bunny, has died at the age of 99, Thursday, December 14, 2017. Given was asked to redesign the "too cute" Bugs, and Given's iconic look first appeared in the animated short film, "A Wild Hare." Given, once an employee of Walt Disney, participated in the notorious 1941 strike at Disney. [Thank you and rest in peace, Mr. Givens. - Leroy]
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