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Helen Mirren Visits Jerusalem For New Film ‘Golda,’ Says She Is Inspired By Anti-Government Protests
(JERUSALEM) – Helen Mirren, who plays Israel’s first female prime minister in her upcoming film, says she was inspired by the country’s current prime leader’s huge demonstrations.
In “Golda,” Mirren plays the late Golda Meir during the 1973 conflict between Israel and a coalition of Arab governments. She is visiting Israel, which is also in trouble, with widespread protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s intention to alter the country’s judicial system.
Mirren stated at a press conference before the Jerusalem Film Festival that the protests motivated her.”When I see these massive demonstrations, I’m personally very moved and excited,” she remarked. “I believe it is a watershed moment in Israeli history.”
Netanyahu’s coalition administration, which entered office in December, is the most ultranationalist and ultra-Orthodox government in Israel’s 75-year history.
Hundreds of thousands have flocked to the streets to oppose the proposed judicial change for more than six months. Netanyahu’s supporters argue that the plan is necessary to limit the powers of an unelected judiciary. His opponents argue that a blatant power grab will destabilize the country’s frail system of checks and balances.
Mirren contrasted Meir’s leadership — who frequently offered coffee to her military aides while they met in her kitchen to deliberate strategy — with Netanyahu’s, who has a reputation for being haughty and out of touch with ordinary Israelis.
“She had enormous power, but she was perfectly content to toddle around the kitchen, making everyone coffee and being the grandmother,” Mirren explained. “It’s a very different attitude towards power — from the male, Netanyahu type of power to the female, Golda Meir kitchen power.”
Helen Mirren, who plays Israel’s first female prime minister in her upcoming film, says she was inspired by the country’s current prime leader’s huge demonstrations.
Mirren’s visit also coincides with Netanyahu’s government’s efforts to strengthen its grip on the West Bank. His administration has approved plans for thousands of new homes in West Bank settlements, raising tensions with Palestinians.
This year, Israeli fire has killed over 150 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, and Palestinian attacks against Israelis have killed at least 25 people. According to Israel, most Palestinians slain were militants, while stone-throwers and individuals who were not participating in violence were also killed.
Some of Netanyahu’s supporters are West Bank settlement leaders who have pushed to undermine Palestinians’ national ambitions, a view Meir memorably voiced in 1969.
“There was no such thing as Palestinians,” Meir told the Sunday Times. Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s far-right Finance Minister, recently repeated Meir, saying, “There is no such thing as a Palestinian people.”
Lior Ashkenazi, the Israeli actor who plays the Israeli army’s commander in the film, believes Meir would support moves to annex the West Bank.
“Even though she was a socialist,” Ashkenazi explained, “I think she would definitely support the settlers.”
The film, directed by Guy Nattiv and written by Nicholas Martin, concentrates on Meir’s leadership during the 1973 Mideast war when an Arab coalition led by Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on Yom Kippur, the Jewish calendar’s holiest day.
Helen Mirren, who plays Israel’s first female prime minister in her upcoming film, says she was inspired by the country’s current prime leader’s huge demonstrations.
Israel emerged triumphant from the battle under the leadership of Meir and Israeli military officers, with its forces within 70 miles (120 kilometers) of Cairo, Egypt’s capital. The outcome of the conflict set the framework for a deal between Israel and Egypt.
However, Israel suffered severe casualties during the war, and Meir was chastised for the government’s lack of preparation and refusal to act on intelligence signaling an impending invasion. Meir resigned the following year, and the national trauma caused by the war triggered a process that brought the right-wing Likud party, which Netanyahu now heads, to power in 1977.
Mirren, a British-born actor, has received both Oscar and Emmy nominations for her roles as Queen Elizabeth II in “The Queen” and Sofia Tolstoy in “The Last Station.”
SOURCE – (AP)
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Jason Kelce Smashes Football Fan’s Phone
Retired Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce destroyed a Penn State football fan’s phone after the alleged heckler called his brother, Travis Kelce, a fag.
In now-viral footage published on X (previously Twitter) on Saturday, Nov. 2, the retired Philadelphia Eagles great was seen accompanied by football fans outside Beaver Stadium in State College, Pa., for the Penn State-Ohio State game.
As the individual capturing the tape lifted a fist to Jason, 36, and called his name for a fist bump, another man nearby hurled the homophobic slur at the retired Philadelphia Eagles star.
Hey, Kelce. How does it feel that your brother is a queer dating Taylor Swift?” the man questioned, referring to Travis, 34, who has been seeing Swift since 2023. Jason turned around seconds later, snatched the man’s phone, and crushed it to the ground.
“Looked like a Penn State student was getting in Kelce’s face for no reason,” the original X user who submitted the video remarked. “Wild scene in State College.”
“Kelce how does it feel that your brother is a f****t for dating Taylor Swift?”
Jason Kelce proceeded to slam this kids phone on the ground.
Looked like a Penn State student was getting in Kelce’s face for no reason. Wild scene in State College pic.twitter.com/3PEdZXWhSg
— Chives (@jarrett_daveler) November 2, 2024
Additional footage on X shows Jason smashing the phone on asphalt before picking it up and walking away. The phone’s owner, wearing a Penn State hoodie at the time of the incident, was shown in many videos strolling closely behind Jason and recording him before the conflict occurred.
Another footage published on X, which appears to have been filmed after Jason shattered the man’s phone, showed the hooded Penn State supporter trudging through a mob to pick up his phone off the ground.
“Give me my phone, bro,” he seemed to say to Jason.
The NFL alum seized the gadget first, then stood in front of the man and asked, “Who’s the fag now?” Others appeared to interfere.
The incident occurred while Jason was at Beaver Stadium for an appearance on ESPN’s College GameDay. The Ohio State Buckeyes won Saturday’s game 20-13 over the Penn State Nittany Lions.
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Shaun White’s Proposal To Nina Dobrev Was Romantic Gold
Shaun White, the Olympic snowboarding champion, already has an impressive medal tally, but his surprise proposal to Nina Dobrev deserves a gold medal.
On Wednesday, the couple announced their engagement on Instagram. Dobrev posted photographs of the two hugging under an arch of white roses and showing off her five-carat Lorraine Schwartz engagement ring.
“RIP boyfriend, hello fiancé,” Dobrev said in the caption.
However, the photographs only tell half the tale, as Shaun devised an elaborate plan to surprise Dobrev with his proposal.
Shaun White’s Proposal To Nina Dobrev Was Romantic Gold
According to a Vogue interview published Wednesday, Shaun said he assembled a team of people from the couple’s inner circle and Vogue personnel to trick Dobrev into thinking she had been invited to an intimate dinner party with Anna Wintour.
Dobrev accepted the invitation, joking that Shaun made it “look so legitimate.”
He even asked Dobrev’s stylist to outfit her in Chanel for the event.
Dobrev said she recognized what was happening when she entered the venue and saw White standing beneath the flowery arch.
Shaun’s Proposal To Nina Dobrev Was Romantic Gold
“I went into shock,” Dobrev admitted, later adding that White “said all the right things” before she agreed.
According to the publication, after Shaun proposed, the couple partied into the early morning hours with close friends and relatives.
“Best night of my life,” Shaun captioned his Instagram story on Wednesday.
The duo first became romantically involved in 2020, and they have since publicly recorded their relationship, globe vacations, and White’s Olympic farewell on social media.
SOURCE | CNN
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Hollywood Actress Teri Garr Passes Away at 79
Hollywood actress Teri Garr, known for her roles in classics like “Young Frankenstein” and “Tootsie,” has passed away at 79. She died Tuesday of multiple sclerosis “surrounded by family and friends,” said publicist Heidi Schaeffer.
Admirers took to social media in her honor, with writer-director Paul Feig calling her “truly one of my comedy heroes. I couldn’t have loved her more” and screenwriter Cinco Paul saying: “Never the star, but always shining. She made everything she was in better.”
Throughout her career, the performer, often known as Terri, Terry, or Terry Ann, seemed destined for show business from a young age.
Her father was Eddie Garr, a well-known vaudeville comic, and her mother was Phyllis Lind, one of the original high-kicking Rockettes at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. Their daughter began dancing classes at six and was performing with the San Francisco and Los Angeles ballet companies by age fourteen.
She was 16 years old when she joined the road crew of “West Side Story” in Los Angeles, and she began starring in small roles in films as early as 1963.
In an interview from 1988, she described how she landed the role in “West Side Story.” After being rejected at her initial audition, she returned the following day dressed differently and was accepted.
Teri Garr, a comedian
Teri Garr then found steady work as a movie dancer, appearing in the chorus of nine Elvis Presley films, including “Viva Las Vegas,” “Roustabout,” and “Clambake.”
She has also appeared on various television shows, including “Star Trek,” “Dr. Kildare,” and “Batman,” and was a featured dancer on the rock ‘n’ roll music show “Shindig,” the rock concert performance “T.A.M.I.,” and a cast member of “The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour.”
Her breakthrough role was as Gene Hackman’s girlfriend in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 thriller The Conversation. This led to an interview with Mel Brooks, who offered her the Gene Wilder’s German lab assistant role in Young Frankenstein if she could speak with a German accent.
“Cher had this German woman, Renata, making wigs, so I got the accent from her,” Garr once said.
The film established her as a great comic performer, with New Yorker film writer Pauline Kael calling her “the funniest neurotic dizzy dame on screen.”
Her big smile and off-center appeal helped her land roles in “Oh, God!” with George Burns and John Denver, “Mr. Mom” (as Michael Keaton’s wife), and “Tootsie,” in which she played the girlfriend who loses Dustin Hoffman to Jessica Lange and discovers he has dressed up as a woman to revive his career.
A gift for spontaneous humor
Teri Garr, best known for comedy, has shown in films such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Black Stallion, and The Escape Artist that she can also tackle drama.
She had a gift for spontaneous humor, frequently playing David Letterman’s foil during early guest appearances on N.B.C.’s “Late Night With David Letterman”.
Her appearances grew so frequent, and the pair’s good-natured bickering so convincing that rumors of romantic involvement circulated for a while. Years later, Letterman acknowledged those early appearances with helping the program become a success.
During those years, Garr began to experience “a little beeping or ticking” in her right leg. It started in 1983 and expanded to her right arm, but she thought she could handle it. By 1999, her symptoms had gotten so bad that she saw a doctor and was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
After disclosing her diagnosis, Garr became a spokesman for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, giving hilarious remarks at events in the United States and Canada.
Source: AP
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