Last month, controversy erupted online amid reports that Amazon would be spending upwards of $465 million on just one season of its much-anticipated &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; series, putting it well on track to become the most expensive television show ever produced.
Speaking during an executive roundtable for <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/hollywood-top-female-executives-1234950963/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Hollywood Reporter</a> this week, Amazon Studios Chief Jennifer Salke defended the obscene dollar amount by noting that other streaming giants are spending just as much on titles with an even smaller name recognition than Tolkien&#8217;s beloved fantasy epic, such as Netflix recently spending $469 million on two sequels for &#8220;Knives Out.&#8221;
“The market is crazy, as you saw with the Knives Out deal.” Salke said. “This is a full season of a huge world-building show. The number is a sexy headline or a crazy headline that’s fun to click on, but [the budget] is really building the infrastructure of what will sustain the whole series.”
Salke noted that numbers can instantly go sky-high when a bidding war erupts.
“But it is a crazy world and various people on this Zoom, mostly Bela and me, have been in bidding situations where it starts to go incredibly high,&#8221; she said. &#8220;There’s a lot of wooing and we have to make decisions on where we want to stretch and where we want to draw the line. As for how many people need to watch ‘Lord of the Rings?’ A lot. (Laughs.) A giant, global audience needs to show up to it as appointment television, and we are pretty confident that that will happen.”
All three of Peter Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; movies cost an estimated $280 million while &#8220;The Hobbit&#8221; prequels cost somewhere around $623 million, as noted by <a href="https://www.indiewire.com/2021/05/amazon-justifies-lord-of-the-rings-series-budget-1234636906/?fbclid=IwAR2hGpU2PlX8KKPr0ctaRl7ZP6G4g0Pc2j0Np-MxGlnXGNvz-WbHtrcyCuM">Indiewire</a>, which means that Amazon will be spending half of what it cost for Peter Jackson to produce six theatrical releases over the course of a decade. In the case of Tolkien&#8217;s masterpiece, higher costs did not necessarily translate into better material, given that critics and audiences overwhelmingly favored the original trilogy. For perspective, not a single entry of &#8220;The Hobbit&#8221; series broke an 8.0 in the IMDB ratings and went no higher than <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_hobbit_the_desolation_of_smaug">75% on Rotten Tomatoes</a>.
Despite the large price tag, not all of it will be going to production, considering that the rights to Tolkien’s property alone cost an estimated $250 million to acquire. The show will reportedly center on the mythical Second-Age of Middle-earth during the time of the dark lord Sauron’s conquests prior to the One Ring falling into obscurity.
“This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and will take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung by the finest of threads, and the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness,” says the show’s official description. “Beginning in a time of relative peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf-capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the furthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that live on long after they are gone.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-largest-television-series-ever-made-amazons-lord-of-the-rings-season-one-to-cost-465-million">‘The Largest Television Series Ever Made’: Amazon’s ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Season One To Cost $465 Million</a>
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In 2019, the Oscars upended its decades-long tradition of having a host when comedian Kevin Hart stepped down from the coveted gig over old jokes that offended members of LGBTQ community. Since then, the show has gone hostless and has suffered tremendously in the ratings as a result. Comedian Billy Crystal, who has hosted the show eight times in his career, says the tradition needs to come back.
Speaking with <a href="https://people.com/movies/billy-crystal-explains-why-the-oscars-needs-a-host/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">PEOPLE</a>, Crystal said the host serves as the show&#8217;s center by being simultaneously a voice for the audience and voice for Hollywood.
&#8220;To me, a show needs a host, you need a center,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Let&#8217;s face it, after the first 40 minutes, four out of five people have lost. By the end of the night, the winners are all backstage and you&#8217;re dealing with disgruntled people who are disappointed. You want to make them feel good and the home audience to stay with the show.&#8221;
In 2020, when the Oscars decided to go hostless for a second time in a row, Crystal said that the Oscars without a host made the show boring overall.
“I always loved being out there. I loved the, I guess, the trust, you know, that the movie academy had in me to get out there, and I felt like it was a great honor to do it. And I think that when you have a show that’s as long as it is, things are going to happen,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-oscars-have-no-host-again-billy-crystal-sounds-off-like-a-trial-without-witnesses">he said</a>. “And I think the problem with the no-host thing, perhaps, is that there’s not somebody out there to capitalize on that moment, like you do when the wrong best picture was nominated.”
Kevin Hart had been slated to host the 2019 Oscars but stepped down within 48 hours of accepting the gig after the Academy demanded he apologize for his past jokes.
“I’m not going to continue to go back and tap into the days of old when I moved on, and I’m in a completely different space in my life,” Hart said in a video on Instagram at the time. “I’m going to be me; I’m going to stand my ground.”
Hours later, Hart stepped down from his dream of hosting the Oscars and apologized to the LGBTQ community for his “insensitive words.”
“I have made the choice to step down from hosting this year’s Oscars … this is because I do not want to be a distraction on a night that should be celebrated by so many amazing talented artists,” he wrote on Twitter. “I sincerely apologize to the LGBTQ community for my insensitive words from my past.”
Speaking with Men’s Health a year later, Hart expressed regret with how he handled the situation, saying he had acted immaturely.
“With the whole Oscars thing, there was a big gap between what I thought the problem was versus what the problem really was,” <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/trending-news/a30469053/kevin-hart-car-accident-recovery-interview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hart told the magazine</a>. “I got 10 years where I made sure not to joke or play in the way that I did back then because it was a problem. I don’t care if you’re gay or not gay. I’m a people person. I’m going to love you regardless. It wasn’t until close friends like Wanda Sykes, Lee Daniels, and Ellen talked to me and explained what they didn’t hear me say that I understood. Then I was like, ‘Oh, s*** — I did f*** up.’”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kevin-hart-caves-apologizes-over-oscars-controversy-i-did-f-up">Kevin Hart Caves, Apologizes Over Oscars Controversy: ‘I Did F*** Up’</a>
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Add Judge Judy to the list of celebrities coming out against PC cancel culture.
Speaking to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/judge-sheindlin-ending-judge-judy-1234950880/">The Hollywood Reporter</a> (THR), Judge Judy Sheindlin said that America has become a &#8220;frightening place to be&#8221; thanks to those perpetuating cancel culture.
&#8220;To have a fear of speaking your opinion, for fear of being put on somebody&#8217;s list and canceled? It&#8217;s a frightening place for America to be,&#8221; the judge said. &#8220;I&#8217;m not a big fan of the PC police.&#8221;
&#8220;Is it PC to say to people who are 19 or 23 years old, have no job, no prospects and six children, ‘Find something else to do with that organ?’ No. But where I come from, I&#8217;ve seen the ravages of that kind of neglect,&#8221; she added.
Judge Judy differentiated cancel culture with accountability by saying people who are actually bad and have done wrong should be &#8220;prepared to pay the piper.&#8221;
&#8220;If you’re a bad person, if you’ve done something wrong, you’ve got to be prepared to pay the piper,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And there are people who have done just that. They’ve paid the price with their good name, their footprint. That’s a good thing.&#8221;
During the 2020 Democratic primary, Judge Judy endorsed former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg for president, saying he was the only one who could bring a divided America together.
“I’ve never seen Americans so angry with each other as a family and it became sort of frightening when you couldn’t go to a social gathering and have a difference of opinion… if you view America as the greatest family on the planet, I felt as if it was time for America, which is the greatest country in the world, to have the greatest president,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-judge-judy-endorses-mike-bloomberg-2020-on-the-view-greatest-president">she said</a>. “When I looked at the field of 2020 candidates … there was no other voice, for me, other than the voice of someone who has experience in governance second only to the President of the United States.”
It seems that almost every week, a celebrity has come out against cancel culture. Last week, “The Who” frontman Roger Daltrey denounced the woke generation for making life miserable for everyone.
“It’s just getting harder to disseminate the truth,” Daltrey said. “It’s almost like, now we should turn the whole thing off. Go back to newsprint, go back to word of mouth, and start to read books again. It’s becoming so absurd now with AI, all the tricks it can do, and the woke generation,” he said. “It’s terrifying, the miserable world they’re going to create for themselves. I mean, anyone who’s lived a life and you see what they’re doing, you just know that it’s a route to nowhere. Especially when you’ve lived through the periods of a life that we’ve had the privilege to. We’ve had the golden era. There’s no doubt about that.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-whos-roger-daltrey-woke-generation-creating-a-miserable-world-for-themselves">The Who’s Roger Daltrey: Woke Generation Creating A ‘Miserable World … For Themselves’</a>
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Judge Judy Knocks Cancel Culture: ‘I’m Not A Big Fan Of The PC Police’

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Add Judge Judy to the list of celebrities coming out against PC cancel culture.

Judge Judy Knocks Cancel Culture: &#039;I&#039;m Not A Big Fan Of The PC Police&#039;

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On Tuesday, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan revealed that the city&#8217;s Piccadilly Circus underground station would be plastered wall-to-wall with a digital drawing from famed British artist David Hockney that was little more than a misshapen yellow circle — a derivative of the London Tube logo — and the station name &#8220;Piccadilly Circus&#8221; crammed into a space so tiny that the artist left &#8220;S&#8221; hanging below the rest of its alphabetic compadres in a separate line below.
Here&#8217;s how <a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/1968014-1968014">Artnet</a> described it: &#8220;A jejune design that recalls Windows 98-era of Microsoft Paint, Hockney’s interpretation of the iconic London tube logo boasts a malformed, highlighter-yellow &#8216;O&#8217; and a station name board the color of everyone’s favorite purple dinosaur. The artist even ran out of space for the words &#8216;Piccadilly Circus,&#8217; cramming in a rogue &#8216;s&#8217; below.&#8221;
&#8220;Brilliant work from David Hockney in Piccadilly—the first of a series of major art projects we’ve commissioned as part of our brand new <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LetsDoLondon?src=hashtag_click">#LetsDoLondon</a> campaign. Lots more to come very soon!&#8221; Sadiq Khan said in his post as he unveiled the new &#8220;art&#8221; installment. Behold the British taxpayer dollars at work:
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Brilliant work from David Hockney in Piccadilly—the first of a series of major art projects we’ve commissioned as part of our brand new <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LetsDoLondon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LetsDoLondon</a> campaign. Lots more to come very soon! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DavidHockney?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DavidHockney</a> <a href="https://t.co/djW8BGSNuu">pic.twitter.com/djW8BGSNuu</a>
&mdash; Mayor of London (@MayorofLondon) <a href="https://twitter.com/MayorofLondon/status/1392134314939371527?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Outside of the Piccadilly Circus station, wandering pedestrians are also invited to feast their eyes on a series of Hockney&#8217;s digital paintings, including one that featured no discernible drawings whatsoever, displaying only the words, &#8220;Remember that you cannot look at the sun or death for very long.&#8221; According to the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9561307/Sadiq-Khan-launches-7m-Lets-London-campaign-attract-staycationers-capital.html">Daily Mail</a>, the art displays are part of Khan&#8217;s £7m “Let&#8217;s Do London” campaign that seeks to bolster tourism in the city in the waning days of the COVID-19 pandemic:
<blockquote>Labour incumbent Mr. Khan formally signed in for a second term on stage at Shakespeare&#8217;s Globe this morning unveiling the £7 million-plus &#8216;Let&#8217;s Do London&#8217; campaign as an immediate priority.
The programme, which has been developed and funded in partnership with the city&#8217;s hospitality, culture, and retail industries, is aimed at bringing in a wealth of domestic tourism to help London&#8217;s economy get back on its feet as <a id="mol-2562be10-b16a-11eb-934a-dd11d9585c60" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/coronavirus/index.html">Covid-19</a> restrictions are eased.
The features will range from celebrations of London&#8217;s food offerings, to a variety of new public art installations including a redesign of Transport for London&#8217;s iconic &#8216;Hockney Circus&#8217; roundel in a special artwork from David Hockney.
In summer, the city&#8217;s museums, galleries and cultural and grassroots music venues will have extended opening hours, while major creative festivals such as London Fashion Week will return to the capital in autumn.</blockquote>
Some Londoners did not agree with Khan&#8217;s take on Hockney&#8217;s work:
&#8220;If you had said this was a children’s competition to redesign the logo and this was the winner I’d have equally believe it,&#8221; said one user.
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If you had said this was a children’s competition to redesign the logo and this was the winner I’d have equally believe it
&mdash; Freddie Collier (@FreddieCollier) <a href="https://twitter.com/FreddieCollier/status/1392135396419645442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2021</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Listen. I respect art. I do. But I&#8217;ve seen better work on Fiverr. Is there a message I am missing? Like is the S meant to mean Sadiq taking London over the edge? What&#8217;s the point?&#8221; said another user.
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Listen. I respect art. I do. But I&#39;ve seen better work on Fiverr.
Is there a message I am missing? Like is the S meant to mean Sadiq taking London over the edge? 
What&#39;s the point?
&mdash; georgegaz (@georgegaz) <a href="https://twitter.com/georgegaz/status/1392136097816317952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2021</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Don’t get me wrong, I love some art. But how much did this cost? And isn’t TFL practically bankrupt? Can’t believe you got re-elected,&#8221; tweeted another.
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Don’t get me wrong, I love some art. But how much did this cost? And isn’t TFL practically bankrupt? Can’t believe you got re-elected 🤦🏼‍♂️
&mdash; Seamus (@Seamus__Duff) <a href="https://twitter.com/Seamus__Duff/status/1392137537548951556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2021</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;London: &#8216;David, you said you’d have something to us by today?&#8217; *crashing noise* London: &#8216;David? Are you there?&#8217; *panicked scribbling sounds* David Hockney: &#8216;Yes, yes. Just sending it…'&#8221; tweeted Luke Benson.
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London: “David, you said you’d have something to us by today?”
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London: “David? Are you there?”
*panicked scribbling sounds*
David Hockney: “Yes, yes. Just sending it…”
&mdash; Luke Benson (@Mr_LukeBenson) <a href="https://twitter.com/Mr_LukeBenson/status/1392148294965645319?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2021</a></blockquote>
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan Mocked Online After Spending Taxpayer Money On Modern Art Displays

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On Tuesday, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan revealed that the city&#039;s Piccadilly Circus underground station would be plastered wall-to-wall with a digital drawing from famed British artist David Hockney that was little more than a misshapen yellow circle — a derivative of the London Tube logo — and the station name &quot;Piccadilly Circus&quot; crammed into a space so tiny that the artist left &quot;s&quot; hanging below the rest of its alphabetic compadres in a separate line below.

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In the 1986 science-fiction comedy &#8220;Short Circuit&#8221; – one of the many &#8220;E.T.&#8221; knockoffs that permeated throughout the go-go decade – actor Fisher Stevens played Ben Jabituya, an eccentric Indian man with a thick, stereotypical accent. Over the years, the role has been criticized as a work of “brown face,” being that Stevens darkened his skin for the role and has no Indian ancestry.
Speaking to <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/fisher-stevens-regrets-controversial-short-circuit-role-191051910.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Yahoo Entertainment</a>, Stevens said he often feels guilt for the role and agrees with those who feel offended by it.
&#8220;It definitely haunts me,&#8221; he told the outlet. &#8220;I still think it&#8217;s a really good movie, but I would never do that part again. The world was a different place in 1986, obviously.&#8221;
In fairness to Stevens, the role he initially signed on for was written as a white man until the filmmakers decided to change the character&#8217;s ethnicity after he had been cast. He was 21 at the time.
&#8220;They rewrote it, and were like, &#8216;Can you play it?&#8217; I said, &#8216;Yeah, I can do it. Let me learn.&#8217; It&#8217;s a weird thing when you&#8217;re 21 and you&#8217;re trying to get a job,&#8221; he explained.
Stevens reprised the role in 1998&#8217;s &#8220;Short Circuit 2.&#8221; Yahoo Entertainment noted that Stevens did commit to learning more about Indian culture prior to filming and apparently gave such a convincing portrayal that comedian Aziz Ansari actually believed Ben Jabituya was played by a real Indian man:
<blockquote>Stevens did commit himself to learning about India, a place he had never visited prior to shooting Short Circuit. <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/arts/television/aziz-ansari-on-acting-race-and-hollywood.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ylk="slk:As he told Indian-American comedian and actor, Aziz Ansari, in a 2015 New York Times interview" data-rapid_p="38" data-v9y="1">As he told Indian-American comedian and actor, Aziz Ansari, in a 2015 New York Times interview</a>, Stevens worked with a dialect coach and read multiple books about the country&#8217;s history and culture. Later on, he moved to India for a month before traveling to the Toronto set of Short Circuit 2.
All that preparation apparently came across in the performance: in his New York Times article, Ansari remembers thinking that Ben was played by an Indian actor when he saw the film as a child. &#8220;I rarely saw any Indians on TV or film, except for brief appearances as a cabdriver or convenience store worker,&#8221; Ansari writes. &#8220;This made Short Circuit 2 special.&#8221;
It was only later on in college that the Master of None creator learned that the character was actually played by Stevens in &#8220;brownface,&#8221; and experienced a profound sense of disillusionment. &#8220;As a child, I thought the villain of the film was Oscar Baldwin. &#8230; As an adult, I thought the bad guy was actually Mr. Stevens, who mocked my ethnicity.&#8221;</blockquote>
Stevens said that he still gets heat from Indian friends for taking on the role and that his wife will occassionally guilt-trip him. &#8220;I have friends who are Indian, and they&#8217;re still mad at me. They&#8217;re like, &#8216;What were you thinking?&#8217; My wife isn&#8217;t happy about it either. She keeps telling me, &#8216;Look what you did!'&#8221; he said.
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Fisher Stevens Regrets Playing An Indian Man In ‘Short Circuit’

In the 1986 science-fiction comedy &quot;Short Circuit&quot; – one of the many &quot;E.T.&quot; knockoffs that permeated throughout the go-go decade – actor Fisher Stevens played Ben Jabituya, an eccentric Indian man with a thick, stereotypical accent. Over the years, the role has been criticized as a work of &quot;brown face,&quot; being that Stevens darkened his skin for the role and has no Indian ancestry.

Fisher Stevens Regrets Playing An Indian Man In &#039;Short Circuit&#039;

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Don&#8217;t expect actress Emily Blunt to be flying around in tights alongside Thor and Iron Man any time soon.
Speaking on “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBQmOrmN20k" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Howard Stern Show</a>” on Wednesday, Blunt rejected rumors that she and her husband, John Krasinski, were slated to star in the &#8220;Fantastic Four&#8221; film for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), adding that she had no plans to join the MCU anytime soon.
“That is fan-casting,” she said. “No one has received a phone call. That’s just people saying, ‘Wouldn’t that be great?’”
Blunt almost joined the MCU in 2010 when she was offered the role of &#8220;Black Widow&#8221; in &#8220;Iron Man 2&#8243; – a role that eventually went to Scarlett Johansson. Though she does not like superhero movies, she does not think they are somehow beneath her talent.
“It’s not that it’s beneath me. It’s not that because I love Iron Man,&#8221; she said. “I wanted to work with Robert Downey Jr. It would’ve been amazing. But I don’t know if superheroes are for me. They’re not up my alley.”
“It’s been exhausted. I think it’s just that we are inundated. It’s not only all the movies, it’s the endless TV shows as well,” she continued. “It’s not to say that I would never want to play one ― it would just have to be something so cool, and like a really cool character, and then I’d be interested. In general, I don’t race to see superhero movies. They leave me feeling a bit cold. I can’t explain it. I can’t get in there.”
The debate over superhero movies and their impact on pop culture exploded into the zeitgeist in 2019 when Academy Award-winning directors Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola both declared that the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) – and superhero movies in general – were merely a corporate-sponsored theme park ride.
“I tried, you know? But that’s not cinema,” Scorsese <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/martin-scorsese-shreds-marvel-movies-says-theyre-not-cinema">told Empire Magazine</a>. “Honestly, the closest I can think of them, as well made as they are, with actors doing the best they can under the circumstances, is theme parks. It isn’t the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being.”
“Watchmen” creator Alan Moore was even blunter in his critique of superhero movies, describing them as infantile at best and Nietzschean at worst.
“I think the impact of superheroes on popular culture is both tremendously embarrassing and not a little worrying,” said Moore. “While these characters were originally perfectly suited to stimulating the imaginations of their twelve or thirteen-year-old audience, today’s franchised übermenschen, aimed at a supposedly adult audience, seem to be serving some kind of different function, and fulfilling different needs.”
Moore went on to describe superhero movie audiences as adults clinging to their childhoods while seeking reassurance about the 20th century.
“Primarily, mass-market superhero movies seem to be abetting an audience who do not wish to relinquish their grip on (a) their relatively reassuring childhoods, or (b) the relatively reassuring 20th century,” said Moore. “The continuing popularity of these movies to me suggests some kind of deliberate, self-imposed state of emotional arrest, combined with a numbing condition of cultural stasis that can be witnessed in comics, movies, popular music and, indeed, right across the cultural spectrum.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watchmen-creator-alan-moore-issues-scathing-takedown-of-superhero-movies-todays-franchised-ubermenschen">‘Watchmen’ Creator Alan Moore Issues Scathing Takedown Of Superhero Movies: ‘Today’s Franchised Ubermenschen’</a>
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Emily Blunt Won’t Star In A Superhero Movie Any Time Soon: ‘Not Up My Alley,’ ‘Leave Me Feeling A Bit Cold’

Don&#039;t expect actress Emily Blunt to be flying around in tights alongside Thor and Iron Man any time soon.

Emily Blunt Won&#039;t Star In A Superhero Movie Any Time Soon: ‘Not Up My Alley,’ ‘Leave Me Feeling A Bit Cold’

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Fans of Chick-fil-A will have to choose their desired sauce wisely due to a shortage.
According to CNN, Chick-fil-A will now be limiting the number of sauces customers select to manage supply-chain issues.
&#8220;The chicken chain said Wednesday that industry-wide supply chain issues, which are <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/08/business/supply-chain-shortages-pandemic/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">affecting essentially every aspect of the economy</a>, has resulted in a &#8216;shortage of select items&#8217; that Chick-fil-A serves, including sauces,&#8221; reported the outlet.
Chick-fil-A will now only allow one dipping sauce per item. In a statement on its website, the famed fast-food restaurant said it will resolve the problem as soon as possible.
&#8220;We are actively working to make adjustments to solve this issue quickly and apologize to our guests for any inconvenience,&#8221; the company said.
CNN profiled the sharp burden placed on fast-food restaurants due to labor shortages in recent months, including chicken venues such as KFC, Wingstop, and others:
<blockquote>Fast food restaurants have been hit especially hard in recent months with both a labor shortage and supply chain issues. For example, ketchup packets have <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/08/business/ketchup-shortage-heinz/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">come in short supply</a> amid heightened demand. Heinz recently announced a 25% increase in production.
The fried chicken wars are putting a strain on the poultry population. Major chains, including KFC, Buffalo Wild Wings and Wingstop, are &#8220;paying steep prices&#8221; for chicken and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/11/business/chicken-shortage-tyson-roosters/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">suppliers are having trouble keeping up demand</a> because of difficulties attracting workers.
Luckily for Chick-fil-A, the company says it hasn&#8217;t been affected by the chicken shortage.</blockquote>
Chick-fil-A and conservatives had a bit of a falling-out in 2019 when the company severed its charitable donations to The Salvation Army and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes after LGBTQ activists branded them as homophobic. The Daily Wire&#8217;s Matt Walsh <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-chick-fil-a-just-caved-to-the-rage-mob-theyre-about-to-learn-the-hard-way-that-surrendering-never-pays-off">argued</a> at the time that the company&#8217;s capitulation to the &#8220;rage mob&#8221; would do little to help its bottom-line by alienating its core supporters and drawing in no new customers since leftists would boycott the business either way.
&#8220;The change of heart is somewhat confounding. Yes, they’ve been boycotted on and off for the past seven years. Yes, LGBT activists were prone to lashing out at the restaurant’s &#8216;hate chicken,'&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;But none of this appeared to be negatively affecting the company’s bottom line. Indeed, the opposite was the case. The initial boycott in 2012 gave rise to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2012/08/01/us/chick-fil-a-appreciation/index.html">Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day</a>, where fans of the restaurant waited in lines wrapped around the block to show their support in the form of eating their delicious chicken. The enthusiasm never died. Chick-fil-A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boycott-backfire-new-rankings-show-chick-fil-amanda-prestigiacomo">rose in popularity</a> during the intervening years, tripling its sales and becoming one of the top three restaurant chains in the country.&#8221;
&#8220;This capitulation will not stop the bleeding, because there was no bleeding,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Now that might change. This move is much more likely to alienate Chick-fil-A’s supporters than to appease its critics. Surrendering to political correctness almost never pays off, and Chick-fil-A isn’t likely to be an exception.&#8221;
This article has been revised for clarity. 
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-chick-fil-a-just-caved-to-the-rage-mob-theyre-about-to-learn-the-hard-way-that-surrendering-never-pays-off">WALSH: Chick-Fil-A Just Caved To The Rage Mob. They’re About To Learn The Hard Way That Surrendering Never Pays Off.</a>
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Chick-Fil-A Is Facing A Sauce Shortage

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Actor Terry Crews has opened up about overcoming a porn addiction that nearly torpedoed his 30-year marriage.
Though Terry Crews has been open about his porn addiction since 2015, he hasn&#8217;t detailed the full extent of the toll it took on his marriage to Rebecca King Crews. Speaking with &#8220;<a href="https://people.com/celebrity/terry-crews-says-porn-addiction-almost-destroyed-his-marriage-fame-made-it-worse/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">PEOPLE Every Day</a>,&#8221; Crews and his wife said that the addiction pushed them into thinking about marital separation.
&#8220;The best piece of advice I ever got was a good friend of mine, he was the first guy I called when Rebecca was like, ‘don’t come home.’ He said ‘Terry, you need to get better for you,’&#8221; the actor explained. &#8220;You have to understand that was a watershed moment. In my culture, as a man in sports, you do things to get things. You do good things to get cookies, you know? You work hard to get money, you do these things to get sex, but to actually improve just for yourself, that was a foreign thought.&#8221;
Crews later added that his cultural upbringing as a black man in Detroit made him reject the idea of therapy as something only &#8220;crazy&#8221; people do.
&#8220;Culturally, you have to understand, where I grew up, I grew up in Flint, Michigan, African American culture, going to therapy was admitting you’re crazy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It was something that you didn’t do. Also, sports culture was one where anger helped you. It was aggression, it was competition, everything had to be perfection or nothing. So, you’re talking about things that help people as a man, it got me really, really far business-wise but it was disintegrating my family.&#8221;
Crews said that his success actually made the situation worse by giving him a safe space to hide.
&#8220;Success is the warmest place to hide,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I had so many people that were telling me I was great and there was no problem. Hollywood didn’t care. It still doesn’t care if you lose your family, it happens every day. They’re like, &#8216;Hey man, now we can put you in three movies!’&#8221;
&#8220;So fame just made it worse,&#8221; said Rebecca. &#8220;So it’s really true that power and success amplifies what’s going on inside you. And that is why I couldn’t help him and I’m thankful and I’m lucky that he made the choice to do that.&#8221;
Rebecca said that she began to see &#8220;real behavioral&#8221; change in Crews beyond his porn addiction.
&#8220;I say he’s still earning it,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But the truth be told, progressively, I saw what I felt was real fruit, real change, real behavioral change in my spouse. It was in the way he stopped reacting angrily to everything. It was in the newfound patience that I saw with me and with his children. Once he healed his own trauma, he was not reflecting and deflecting his pain as anger to the rest of the world.&#8221;
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Actor Terry Crews has opened up about overcoming a porn addiction that nearly torpedoed his 30-year marriage. Though Terry Crews has been open about his Actor Terry Crews has opened up about overcoming a porn addiction that nearly torpedoed his 30-year marriage.  

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Actor Rob Lowe celebrated his 31 years of sobriety from drugs and alcohol by giving thanks to those who helped him along the journey.
In an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/COs6AjnleaG/">Instagram</a> post, the former &#8220;Wayne&#8217;s World&#8221; star shared a photo of himself biking on the beach with no shoes as he poured out his message of grace.
&#8220;Today I have 31 years drug and alcohol free,&#8221; wrote Lowe. &#8220;I want to give thanks to everyone walking this path with me, and welcome anyone thinking about joining us; the free and the happy. And a big hug to my family for putting up with me!!&#8221;
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During a press conference last year, Lowe credited none other than Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler for helping him get sober.
&#8220;I’ve been sober for 30 years. When I first got sober, I thought, my life is sober. My fun is done, and I’m not going to be cool anymore,&#8221; <a href="https://ew.com/tv/2020/01/07/rob-lowe-steven-tyler-sobriety-911-lone-star/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">he said</a>. &#8220;I came home when I was probably sober two or three weeks and I got a call from Steven Tyler, who I did not know. He called to say ‘I heard you are in recovery and I just wanted to say hey, I’m thinking of you dude.’ If it’s good enough for f***ing Steven Tyler, it’s good enough for me.&#8221;
Though his political stance is murky, Rob Lowe has never conformed to Hollywood leftist norms by dismissing conservative ideas. The Hollowverse <a href="https://hollowverse.com/rob-lowe/">characterized him</a> as a liberal-leaning man that respects conservative views. For instance, he previously said, “Liberal politics is built on empathy. I think conservative politics, from my opinion, is built on logic.”
During the 2016 election, Rob Lowe voiced his support for the movie “13 Hours,” which chronicled the 2012 attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi.
“If you haven’t seen 13 Hours, it’s a perfect #MemorialDay movie. A reminder of everything we should never forget. Particularly in 2016,” he tweeted.
In June of last year, Lowe stunned Conan O&#8217;Brien when he revealed that Justice Clarence Thomas is a good friend of his.
According to Lowe, the two met when he was inducted into the Horatio Alger Society a few years ago, prompting their friendship.
“I do know him. I got inducted into the Horatio Alger Society a couple years ago. … It’s a very exclusive, very amazing society that provides scholarships for kids who come from terrible, terrible backgrounds,” Lowe said. “But they are the best and the brightest in their classes. And the people in it are pretty studly. He’s one of them. That’s how we met. They put the medal on me in the halls of the Supreme Court.”
“Wow. Okay,” O’Brien said.
Lowe described Thomas as a generous man who even provided some helpful career advice to his own son.
“The reason I bring it up is he’s one of those people who occupies such a perception in people’s minds and he’s like, ‘If you ever need anything, call my number. This is my cell phone,’” Lowe said. “And then my son Matthew was going to law school. So I had some ideas about clerking and things like that.”
“So I call this cell phone and he answers it. And you’re like, ‘Geeze. Shouldn’t there be, like, a vetting process?’ And 45 minutes he’s giving me advice on what my son should do vis-a-vis law school and clerking,” he continued.
Related:<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rob-lowe-stuns-conan-obrien-by-revealing-friendship-with-justice-clarence-thomas"> Rob Lowe Stuns Conan O’Brien By Revealing Friendship With Justice Clarence Thomas</a>
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Rob Lowe Celebrates 31 Years Of Sobriety: ‘I Want To Give Thanks’

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Actor Rob Lowe celebrated his 31 years of sobriety from drugs and alcohol by giving thanks to those who helped him along the journey. 

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Six months after his infamous rant on the set of &#8220;Mission: Impossible 7&#8221; went viral, actor Tom Cruise has finally broken his silence on the controversy.
In December, while filming the movie, audio was released of Tom Cruise excoriating members of his crew for not practicing strict COVID-19 safety protocols.
&#8220;If I see you do it again, you’re f**king gone. And if anyone in this crew does it, that’s it — and you too and you too. And you, don’t you ever f**king do it again,&#8221; he reportedly said. &#8220;They’re back there in Hollywood making movies right now because of us. We are creating thousands of jobs, you motherf**kers.&#8221;
“That’s it. No apologies. You can tell it to the people that are losing their f***ing homes because our industry is shut down,&#8221; he shouted.
Speaking with <a href="https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/tom-cruise-dangerous-stunt-motorbike-mission-impossible-7/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Empire Magazine</a>, Cruise clarified that he was not yelling at the entire movie crew — only a select few people.
&#8220;I said what I said,&#8221; Cruise told the outlet. &#8220;There was a lot at stake at that point. But it wasn&#8217;t my entire crew. I had the crew leave the set, and it was just select people.&#8221;
Cruise noted that filming was &#8220;never shut down again.&#8221;
“All those emotions were going through my mind,” he said. “I was thinking about the people I work with, and my industry. And for the whole crew to know that we’d started rolling on a movie was just a huge relief. It was very emotional, I gotta tell you.”
While celebrities from Whoopi Goldberg to George Clooney defended Cruise&#8217;s rant, actress and famed Scientologist defector Leah Remini claimed they were all been duped by a publicity stunt.  Writing in the anti-Scientology blog <a title="(opens new window)" href="https://tonyortega.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-describedby="external-disclaimer" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:3;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="6" data-v9y="1">The Underground Bunker</a>, Remini called Cruise’s tirade a “psychotic rant” from an “abusive person.”
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“Tom does not care about the families of his crew; this is all for publicity,” Remini wrote. “Tom does not believe in family values. I mean, how anyone is falling for this is just mind-blowing. I would bet that Tom had this rant written for him and had his Scientology assistant record and release it. Hearing a rich actor with enormous power address his crew in this way is a sign of weakness and a deeply troubled person.”
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“Tom seems to think that Hollywood is incapable of making films without his help. Saying such a thing indicates the godlike figure Tom believes he is, and what he is told by Scientology,” Remini continued. “The reality is, anyone who is working in Hollywood today is working under strict COVID guidelines. Anyone who is working knows this. Tom Cruise is not dictating how films are being made, even if he seems to think so.”
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“He is an abusive person. I witnessed it, I’ve been a recipient of it on a small level, and I’ve been told of similar abuse by his former girlfriend, his employees, and his friends,” Remini wrote. “This is the real Tom.”
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“This is not just a guy in the middle of a public place standing up to someone for not wearing a mask. This is Tom friggin’ Cruise wielding his power and threatening and degrading his crew,” she later noted.
In response to Remini’s claims, the Church of Scientology told <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/leah-remini-slams-tom-cruises-on-set-covid-safety-rant-he-is-an-abusive-person/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:9;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="8" data-v9y="1">The Wrap</a> that she is an “unreliable source” and that the church has taken action to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leah-remini-tom-cruises-psychotic-rant-a-publicity-stunt">Leah Remini: Tom Cruise’s ‘Psychotic Rant’ A Publicity Stunt</a>
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Tom Cruise Breaks Silence On Famed ‘Mission: Impossible’ COVID Rant: ‘I Said What I Said’

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Six months after his infamous rant on the set of &quot;Mission: Impossible 7&quot; went viral, actor Tom Cruise has finally broken his silence on the controversy. Six months after his infamous rant on the set of &quot;Mission: Impossible 7&quot; went viral, actor Tom Cruise has finally broken his silence on the controversy. 

Tom Cruise Breaks Silence On Famed &#039;Mission: Impossible&#039; COVID Rant: &#039;I Said What I Said&#039;

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Actress Isla Fisher, wife of comedic actor Sacha Baron Cohen, denounced Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly allowing hateful voices on the platform leading up to the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill.
Speaking with Marie Claire magazine, Fisher claimed that Facebook hosted &#8220;conspiracy theories&#8221; and &#8220;lies that cost lives.&#8221; Her rhetoric was specifically pointed at the January 6 riot.
&#8220;It is something that we all need to be as proactive as possible about right now. It was clearly the spread of online conspiracy theories that led to the storming of Capitol Hill,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;And people like Mark Zuckerberg are making money off lies that cost lives, and these social media companies should be creating jobs that save lives,&#8221; Fisher added. &#8220;No account on social media should incite violence, or spread hate or false information.&#8221;
Fisher concluded Facebook and other platforms should invest more money in moderation, even though the platforms have purged their sites of figures they deemed divisive, such as President Donald Trump.
&#8220;I think these companies can afford to hire moderators to prevent misinformation being spread, and to save lives,&#8221; she concluded.
Fisher&#8217;s husband, Sacha Baron Cohen, publicly backed the blacklisting of President Trump on every major internet platform.
“Virtually every social media company has removed Trump…EXCEPT YouTube. Trump’s YouTube channel is STILL showing videos of his election lies to MILLIONS of people!” Cohen tweeted in January as he tagged YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki as well as Google CEO Sundar Pichai in the post.
YouTube later banned Trump from the platform.
Last Wednesday, Facebook&#8217;s oversight board upheld the former president&#8217;s ban on Facebook and Instagram, though it demanded that the platform clarify its terms of service and revisit Trump‘s ban in six months.
As The Daily Wire reported on Monday, a recent NBC News poll showed that a majority of Americans believe social media has further deepened America&#8217;s divide.
&#8220;The poll showed that among respondents who said they use social media at least once per day, 49% of respondents said that it makes their lives better, while 37% of daily social media users said that social media makes their lives worse,&#8221; said the report. &#8220;Among all adults responding to the poll (rather than only those who use social media each day), 32% said that social media makes their lives better, while 24% said that it makes their lives worse. Overall, 66% of respondents said they use social media at least once a day, while 69% answered the same way in March 2019. In April 2021, the poll showed that 41% of respondents said that they have made an effort to limit the amount of time they use their smart phone in the last year or two. When asked the same question in March 2019, 48% of respondents said they had made an effort to limit smart phone use.&#8221;
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nbc-news-poll-majority-of-americans-think-social-media-does-more-to-divide-us-than-bring-us-together">NBC News Poll: Majority Of Americans Think Social Media Does More To Divide Us Than Bring Us Together</a>
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Actress Isla Fisher, wife of comedic actor Sacha Baron Cohen, denounced Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly allowing hateful voices on the platform Actress Isla Fisher, wife of comedic actor Sacha Baron Cohen, denounced Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly allowing hateful voices on the platform leading up to the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill. 

Isla Fisher: Mark Zuckerberg Hosted &#039;Lies That Cost Lives&#039;

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As Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) works for preserve her position within House GOP leadership, unlikely allies have rushed to her defense, including convicted felon O.J. Simpson.
In a video posted to Twitter on Monday Simpson, who was famously acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman in the mid-1990s before being convicted of armed robbery in the 2000s, said that Liz Cheney has earned his respect because she &#8220;stands up for truth.&#8221;
“I gotta admit, I was not a fan of Liz Cheney,&#8221; he said. “Don’t get me wrong, I’m 50-50 on her politics, but I didn’t like her. And then I just realized recently, the reason I didn’t like her had to do with her father, probably my least favorite politician of my adult life, former Vice President Dick Cheney.&#8221;
“Then I saw a show the other day and I saw a quote by Voltaire and it said that patriotism was the enemy of mankind,” Simpson said as he reflected upon how the quote made him to think about &#8220;the Republican Party.”
Notably, Simpson misquoted the philosopher who said, “It is lamentable that to be a good patriot, one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.&#8221;
According to O.J., truth has become the &#8220;enemy&#8221; to many Republican politicians.
“It’s seems that that big truth and honesty, seems to be the enemy of many of these Republican politicians,” he said. “And Liz Cheney stands up for the truth, that’s got her a lot of heat. She may lose her position in the party, she may even lose her career as a politician, but that is something to be admired. Standing up for the truth, that’s something I know her father wouldn’t have done so, right now I’m kind of a fan of Liz Cheney.&#8221;
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To dislike doesn’t mean to disrespect. <a href="https://t.co/nOK2SuY5hx">pic.twitter.com/nOK2SuY5hx</a>
&mdash; O.J. Simpson (@TheRealOJ32) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheRealOJ32/status/1391781652997697545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The former football star, a.k.a. “The Juice,” fell from stardom when he stood credibly accused in the stabbing death of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman. A jury acquitted Simpson in the infamous criminal trial, later memorialized for a new generation in the FX miniseries, “The People vs. O.J. Simpson.”
The football player-turned-actor was later found civilly liable in a 1997 “wrongful death” case. To this day, he still owes the Goldman and Brown families an estimated $70 million in civil damages.
In 2007, Simpson was found guilty of an armed robbery and kidnapping in Las Vegas, Nevada. Simpson was sentenced to 30 years in prison with the possibility of parole in nine years. Eventually, the Nevada parole board ruled in Simpson’s favor, granting him early release.
Simpson has since joined social media and posts frequent commentary on political and cultural subjects.
As to Liz Cheney&#8217;s future in the Republican Party, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has endorsed replacing her as the House Republican Conference Chair. A vote is expected to happen later this week.
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OJ Simpson Backs Liz Cheney: ‘Truth And Honesty’ Is The ‘Enemy’ To Many ‘Republican Politicians’

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As Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) works for preserve her position within House GOP leadership, unlikely allies have rushed to her defense, including As Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) stands on the precipice of being ousted from her leadership position among the House GOP, she has garnered support from some colorful characters, to say the least, with convicted felon O.J. Simpson being chief among them. 

OJ Simpson Backs Liz Cheney: &#039;Truth And Honesty&#039; Is The &#039;Enemy&#039; To Many &#039;Republican Politicians&#039;

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