In 2021, Jimmy Kimmel called Texas Sen. Ted Cruz a “moist, gelatinous tubeworm whose elastic-band pants are filled with an inky discharge every time he speaks.” Imagine then that Cruz’s comments, particularly his riff on Goodfellas, earlier Friday concerning Disney’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel could help pave the way for Disney to bring the…
In the 24 hours after ABC announced it was pulling Jimmy Kimmel’s show off the air, FCC chairman Brendan Carr has made a wave of media appearances, on CNBC, Fox News and a podcast, and he’s made more threats. On Thursday, asked by Scott Jennings what other ABC programming could come under the agency’s scrutiny,…
The chairman of the FCC is warning of potential action over a comment that Jimmy Kimmel made on his monologue about the suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk. It’s the latest example of Brendan Carr‘s attacks on the content traditional broadcast networks, even though the agency has expressly said that its authority over programming…
When Robert Redford was promoting the movie The Candidate in 1972, he went on a mock whistle-stop tour through Florida, drawing larger crowds than actual presidential candidates got that year. The actor would emerge from the back of the train, flash a “V” for victory sign and, in a Bill McKay way, tell them, “I…
Editor’s note: Ruth Vitale, who previously held executive posts at Paramount Classics, Fine Line Features and New Line Cinema, is CEO of CreativeFuture, a nonprofit coalition of more than 500 companies and organizations and nearly 300,000 individuals devoted to promoting the value of creativity in the digital age. In 2013 I stepped away from a three-decade career…
On the same day that portions of the infamous Epstein Files were finally delivered under duress to Congress and the White House pulled every trick in the book to distract, the incarcerated and pardon seeking Ghislaine Maxwell may have just provided Donald Trump with the vindication he has sought about his relationship with the deceased…