Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet certainly has a way with words — and he did not mince any when he delivered a blistering takedown of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion</a> (DEI) standards that now limit him and others who share his profession.
Mamet made the comments during an <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-04-21/david-mamet-hollywood-diversity-dei-initiatives-festival-of-books" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with Los Angeles Times deputy entertainment editor Matt Brennan and the outlet&#8217;s Festival of Books — hosted by University of Southern California — where he was promoting his memoir, &#8220;Everywhere an Oink, Oink.&#8221;
&#8220;DEI is garbage. It’s fascist totalitarianism,&#8221; Mamet told Brennan. His memoir, which was published last fall, tells his life story in a series of anecdotes — and follows his political metamorphosis as well. Mamet refers to himself as a &#8220;red diaper baby,&#8221; the child of two communists — and details how he made the journey from the far Left to his current position: supporting former President Donald Trump.
The award-winning playwright and <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000519/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">screenwriter</a> — whose works include &#8220;Glengarry Glen Ross,&#8221; &#8220;The Untouchables,&#8221; and &#8220;Hannibal&#8221; — also took issue with the new &#8220;inclusion standards&#8221; that have been implemented by the Academy of Motion Pictures, noting that for films to even be considered for awards, they had to check certain boxes according to DEI standards.
&#8220;I can’t give you a stupid f***ing statue unless you have 7% of this, 8% of that,&#8221; Mamet complained. &#8220;It’s intrusive.&#8221;
He did not spare the feelings of those charged with implementing the new standards either, referring to them in his memoir as &#8220;diversity capos&#8221; and &#8220;diversity commissars.&#8221;
Mamet conceded that Hollywood had long been a place where discrimination had thrived — but argued that the executives dictating the new rules were better suited to &#8220;selling popcorn&#8221; than to creating a less restrictive environment.
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&#8220;The [film industry] has little business improving everybody’s racial understanding as does the fire department,&#8221; he said.
Despite his long career in Hollywood, Mamet said that he&#8217;s been shuffled off the main stage in recent years — but he did not blame the shift in his political views for that. Instead, he said that his age was the likely culprit — and younger directors preferred to work with people closer to their own age.
&#8220;Nobody’s going to pay me a lot of money anymore. Nobody’s going to let me have a lot of fun,&#8221; he said.

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‘DEI Is Garbage’: Pulitzer Prize Winner Delivers Scathing Takedown Of Woke Hollywood

'DEI Is Garbage': Pulitzer Prize Winner Delivers Scathing Takedown Of Woke Hollywood

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Will and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jada-pinkett-smith">Jada Pinkett Smith</a>’s charity faced a steep decline in donations following the infamous slapping incident at the 2022 Oscars, per a new Variety <a href="https://variety.com/2024/film/news/will-jada-pinkett-smith-charity-to-close-chris-rock-slap-1235947358/">report</a>. 
The famous <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">couple</a> created the Will And Jada Smith Family Foundation in 1996 as a place to advocate for issues they cared about such as mental health, wellness, arts education, and sustainability, the outlet noted. But tax records indicate that donations plummeted after the 94th Academy Awards ceremony when Will stormed onto the stage and slapped event host Chris Rock across the face for making a joke about Jada’s bald head.
The incident has had long-lasting effects on the “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/will-smith">Men In Black</a>” star, who has since issued numerous public apologies. 
One apparent outcome was the decreased <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/charity">donation</a> amounts to the Will And Jada Smith Family Foundation. Per <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/954607014/202241749349100229/full">data</a> available on ProPublica, foundation revenue was $1,760,000 in 2020 and $2,138,660 in 2021. After the slap, filings for 2022 showed just $365,870 in donations, representing a drop of 83% compared to the previous year. Variety noted that this decline was due in part to the withdrawal of major contributions from American Airlines and CAA, which had donated $76,160 and $100,000 in 2021 respectively.
An unnamed source allegedly told the outlet that the Smiths were winding down the charity with the intention of shutting it down. 
The Smiths made headlines last year when Jada revealed they weren&#8217;t technically together anymore. The actress made the revelation in October 2023 that she and Will have been separated since 2016 despite presenting as a united front, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jada-pinkett-smith-says-she-and-will-smith-have-been-separated-since-2016">reported</a>. 
She told interviewer Hoda Kotb during an NBC News interview at the time, “Why [the relationship] fractured&#8230; that’s a lot of things. By the time we got to 2016, we were just exhausted with trying. I think we were both kind of just still stuck in our fantasy of what we thought the other person should be,” she said. 
“I made a promise that there will never be a reason for us to get a divorce. We will work through … whatever,” the celeb said of why they never officially divorced. “I just haven’t been able to break that promise.”
Fans had previously been confused about Jada admitting to having a romantic relationship with another man while married to Will in 2020, which she discussed during an episode of her “Red Table Talk” series. This led to rumors that the Smiths were in an open marriage, which they didn’t refute until years later when Jada admitted they were actually separated at the time of her “entanglement.”

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Will And Jada Pinkett Smith’s Charity Faces 83% Decline In Donations Following Oscars Slap, Rumored To Be Closing Soon: Report

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Nearly 500 Hollywood celebrities signed an open letter to protest director <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jonathan-glazer">Jonathan Glazer</a>’s Oscars acceptance <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/oscars">speech</a>. 
Some of the A-listers who added their names to the letter include stars Debra Messing, Eli Roth, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Julianna Margulies. The document, which was published by <a href="https://variety.com/2024/film/news/jonathan-glazer-oscar-speech-zone-of-interest-open-letter-1235944880/amp/">Variety</a> on Monday, accuses Glazer of likening Israel’s response to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hamas">Hamas</a> terrorist attack to the actions of Nazis during World War II.
“We refute our Jewishness being hijacked for the purpose of drawing a moral equivalence between a Nazi regime that sought to exterminate a race of people, and an Israeli nation that seeks to avert its own extermination,” the letter said in part.
“Every civilian death in Gaza is tragic. Israel is not targeting civilians. It is targeting Hamas. The moment Hamas releases the hostages and surrenders is the moment this heartbreaking war ends. This has been true since the Hamas attacks of October 7th,” the letter goes on.
“The use of words like ‘occupation’ to describe an indigenous Jewish people defending a homeland that dates back thousands of years, and has been recognized as a state by the United Nations, distorts history.”
The celebrities also accuse Glazer of giving “credence to the modern blood libel that fuels a growing anti-Jewish hatred around the world, in the United States, and in Hollywood.”
“The current climate of growing antisemitism only underscores the need for the Jewish State of Israel, a place which will always take us in, as no state did during the Holocaust depicted in Mr. Glazer’s film,” the letter states.
Glazer, who is British, won the Academy Award for Best International Feature for his film “Zone of Interest,” a historical drama about Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss living with his family next to the concentration camp.
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“All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present — not to say, ‘Look what they did then,’ rather, ‘Look what we do now.’ Our film shows where dehumanization leads, at its worst,” the director said during his speech.
He continued, “It shaped all of our past and present. Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation, which has led to conflict for so many innocent people. Whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the victims of this dehumanization, how do we resist?”
Glazer’s speech has received a lot of criticism since the Oscars on March 10. A 94-year-old Holocaust survivor previously slammed the speech, calling it “actually inaccurate and morally indefensible,” as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/94-year-old-holocaust-survivor-issues-fiery-open-letter-denouncing-jonathan-glazer">reported</a>.

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Hundreds Of Hollywood Celebs Publicly Denounce Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars Speech

Hundreds Of Hollywood Celebs Publicly Denounce Jonathan Glazer's Oscars Speech

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In the wake of the inflammatory remarks by film director Jonathan Glazer at the Oscars, <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/jonathan-glazer-oscars-speech-condemned-holocaust-survivors-foundation-1235850275/">David Schaecter</a>, a 94-year-old survivor of the Holocaust, issued a public letter to him in which he denounced his statements.
Glazer won an Oscar for directing “Zone of Interest,” a film about the family of Rudolf Hess, the head of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The entire movie is about the Hess family living at Auschwitz in a house while the viewer never sees the victims of the Holocaust.
Glazer said in his Oscars <a href="https://www.vulture.com/article/oscars-2024-jonathan-glazer-speech-full-transcript.html">speech</a>:
<blockquote>
Thank you to the Academy for this honor and to our partners A24, Film4, Access, and Polish Film Institute; to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum for their trust and guidance; to my producers, actors, and collaborators. All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present — not to say, “Look what they did then,” rather, “Look what we do now.” Our film shows where dehumanization leads, at its worst. It shaped all of our past and present. Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation, which has led to conflict for so many innocent people. Whether the victims of October the 7 in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the victims of this dehumanization, how do we resist? Aleksandra Bystroń-Kołodziejczyk, the girl who glows in the film, as she did in life, chose to. I dedicate this to her memory and her resistance. Thank you. 
</blockquote>
The letter from the Holocaust survivor stated:
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I am 94 years old and the only member of 105 souls in my family to survive the Holocaust. I miraculously survived nearly three years in the hell of Auschwitz and one year in the hell of Buchenwald. I watched in anguish Sunday night when I heard you use the platform of the Oscars ceremony to equate Hamas&#8217;s maniacal brutality against innocent Israelis with Israel&#8217;s difficult but necessary self-defense in the face of Hamas&#8217;s ongoing barbarity.
Your comments were factually inaccurate and morally indefensible.
The &#8220;occupation&#8221; of which you speak has nothing to do with the Holocaust. The Jewish people&#8217;s existence and right to live in the land of Israel predates the Holocaust by hundreds of years. Today&#8217;s political and geographic landscape is the direct result of wars started by past Arab leaders who refused to accept Jewish people as their neighbors in our historic homeland. Now that several Arab countries are making peace with Israel because security and prosperity are better for all people, Iran and its terrorist proxies started another war, abetted by too many who, through naiveté or malice, blame &#8220;the occupation.&#8221;
Worse is that you chose to use the Holocaust to validate your personal opinion. You made a Holocaust movie and won an Oscar. And you are Jewish. Good for you. But it is disgraceful for you to presume to speak for the six million Jews, including one and a half million children, who were murdered solely because of their Jewish identity.
And it is disgraceful for you to presume to speak for those of us who personally saw the world stand silent as our mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins were murdered. We actually had nowhere to go &#8211; no possible place of refuge. No country would accept us even though world leaders knew full well that thousands of Jews were being murdered every day. There was no Jewish nation to which we could flee.
You should be ashamed of yourself for using Auschwitz to criticize Israel.
</blockquote>
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94-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Issues Fiery Open Letter Denouncing Jonathan Glazer

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The 96th <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/oscars">Academy Awards</a> attracted 19.5 million viewers on Sunday, the largest audience since pre-pandemic highs in 2020.
According to <a href="https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/2024-oscar-ratings-academy-awards-1235933476/">Variety</a>, this number slightly increased from last year’s 18.8 million <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/television">viewers</a>. The outlet also noted that the broadcast received a 3.8 rating among the key demographic of adults aged 18-49.  
The Oscars aired one hour earlier than normal, beginning at 7:00 p.m. ET and lasting until 10:30 p.m.
These numbers represent a continued rebound after the 2021 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">awards show</a> drew a record-low viewership of just 10.4 million viewers due to the ongoing COVID pandemic. The event in 2021 was held in person but was delayed to April after initially being scheduled for February. There was no host, and invites were limited to nominees, presenters, and their guests.
Numbers started climbing again in 2022 when 16.6 million viewers tuned in, and the ratings have been incrementally increasing ever since. 
This year’s Oscars <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hollywood">ceremony</a> was dominated by the historical drama “Oppenheimer,” which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oppenheimer-sweeps-96th-academy-awards">won seven categories</a> of the 13 it was nominated for, including the highly coveted Best Picture. The film also won Best Actor (Cillian Murphy), Best Director (Christopher Nolan), Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.), Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, and Best Film Editing.
“We made a film about the man who created the atomic bomb, and for better or for worse, we’re all living in Oppenheimer’s world,” Murphy said during his acceptance speech.
The second most winning film was “Poor Things,” which won in four out of the 11 nominated categories, including Best Actress for Emma Stone. 
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Meanwhile, the Martin Scorsese drama “Killers of the Flower Moon” and Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro” had no wins. The summer blockbuster “Barbie” only won for Best Original Song (“What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell).
The event was hosted again by late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, who got mixed reviews on some of his jokes. Viewers were especially <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jimmy-kimmel-jokes-about-robert-downey-jr-s-past-drug-addiction-during-oscars">taken aback</a> when Kimmel made fun of Best Supporting Actor winner Robert Downey Jr. for struggling with substance abuse more than twenty years ago.

2024 Oscars Viewership Increased From Last Year, Was Most Watched Since Pandemic

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/al-pacino">Al Pacino</a> released a statement after facing backlash for his delivery of the most anticipated honor of the night at the 96th <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/oscars">Academy Awards</a>. 
&#8220;There seems to be some controversy about my not mentioning every film by name last night before announcing the best picture award,&#8221; the 83-year-old star said Monday in a <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/al-pacino-addresses-didnt-mention-best-picture-nominees/story?id=108030856">statement</a>, per ABC News. &#8220;I just want to be clear it was not my intention to omit them, rather a choice by the producers not to have them said again since they were highlighted individually throughout the ceremony.&#8221;
&#8220;I was honored to be a part of the evening and chose to follow the way they wished for this award to be presented,&#8221; Pacino added.
The “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hollywood">Scarface</a>” actor was facing heat online from viewers who were confused by his delivery. 
&#8220;My friends! Thank you, thank you,&#8221; he began from the stage on Sunday. &#8220;This is the time for the last award for the evening and it&#8217;s my honor to present it. Ten wonderful films were nominated but only one will take the award for best picture. And I have to go to the envelope for that. And I will…. Here it comes.&#8221;
&#8220;And my eyes see &#8216;Oppenheimer,'&#8221; Pacino said after opening the envelope.
When the audience didn’t react immediately, Pacino started naming the film&#8217;s producers. “Yes, Emma Thomas, Charles Roven,&#8221; he said.
Previous presenters at Sunday&#8217;s ceremony had done much bigger lead-ups to announcing the winners, highlighting all the nominees and complimenting their performances. The only other category that didn’t include the presenter reading all the nominees before announcing the winner was Best Original Song.
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&#8220;I realize being nominated is a huge milestone in one&#8217;s life and to not be fully recognized is offensive and hurtful,&#8221; Pacino concluded in the statement. &#8220;I say this as someone who profoundly relates with filmmakers, actors and producers so I deeply empathize with those who have been slighted by this oversight and it&#8217;s why I felt it necessary to make this statement.&#8221;
“Oppenheimer” was the big winner at the 2024 Oscars, taking home wins in seven categories including Best Picture, Best Actor (Cillian Murphy), Best Director (Christopher Nolan), Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.), Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, and Best Film Editing. The film was nominated in 13 categories.

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Al Pacino Explains Not Announcing All Best Picture Nominees: ‘A Choice By The Producers’

Al Pacino Explains Not Announcing All Best Picture Nominees: 'A Choice By The Producers'

The Academy Awards were last night, and the awards show was less of a failure than usual; it was more entertaining than usual.
Sure, it was still roughly nine hours long, but it had its moments.
First, “Oppenheimer” did really well. The film walked away with Best Picture, Christopher Nolan properly won best director, Cillian Murphy came away with Best Actor, and Robert Downey Jr. walked away with Best Supporting Actor.
My second main concern was seeing the film “Barbie” fail. I got my wish. It did not do well. It won one award, Best Original Song, which is the only Oscar that “Barbie” should have been up for in the first place.
The highlight of the Oscars award evening was John Mulaney, who was genuinely funny. He should definitely host the Oscars next year.
With all that said, the Oscars show is still a trash fire filled with trash human beings.
That is the message for today. Hollywood is a place filled with people who do not share your values. They do not like your values. They are very beautiful and very glamorous people — and they have very, very small moral brains. Their small moral brains are not capable of understanding the world around them.
They live in this little artistic bubble, the Bohemian grove of Los Angeles, in which everyone is tolerant of everyone else&#8217;s excesses and in which everyone thinks exactly the way they do. 
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Here’s the way Hollywood thinks of itself: If everyone would think like Hollywood does, they, too, would have massively dysfunctional marriages, drug problems, and screwed-up children. Then everything would be better.
They are the expositor of higher morality to you, the tiny little peons, the humdrum little people. There was a lot of that last night.
Jimmy Kimmel should never host the Oscars again. He is not good at hosting the Oscars because he&#8217;s an unpleasant human being.
But the real lack of morality at the Oscars arose because Hollywood has decided to root for Hamas.
Granted, that is not a great shock.
Since October 7, I have been repeatedly making the point that for the West, it really is not about what&#8217;s happening between Israel and Hamas. The real conflict happening in the West is a conflict over our own moral value system. If we cannot see the distinction between Israel and Hamas, if hundreds of thousands of young people are marching in the streets in support of an actual, honest to God, genocidal terror group — who rapes women, murders babies, and throws gay people off of buildings on the routine and wants to maintain control of the Gaza Strip — and those young people and other people in the West are rooting for them, that says something about the vacuum at the heart of the West.
If a moral conflict exists over that particular conflict, then that demonstrates a lackluster moral center in the West, which will lead to the dissolution of the West as a whole. Any civilization that cannot tell the difference between Israel and Hamas is a civilization that is doomed to decline and disrepair.
Naturally, Hollywood is on the side of Hamas, with a bunch of moral idiots who were wearing Gaza cease-fire pins. It’s important to understand that when they call for a cease-fire, what they really mean is that they want to leave Hamas in place in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas is currently holding 134 hostages; we don&#8217;t know how many are alive and how many are dead. They are holding women, elderly, and babies in captivity. They have raped an enormous number of these women.
When these people want a cease-fire and they try to put pressure on Israel, they&#8217;re neglecting the point that Hamas has rejected every cease-fire proposal that takes them out of power.
There were a bunch of dolts wearing cease-fire pins at the Oscars, Billie Eilish and Mark Ruffalo among them. Of course, Ruffalo is just a full-on anti-Semite at this point. He has been anti-Israel and anti-Semitic for years and years.
But the greatest exemplar of a person with no moral character and no moral spine at the Oscars, a simply anti-moral person, was Jonathan Glazer, the director of a movie called “Zone of Interest.”
“Zone of Interest” is an excellent film about the Hess family. Rudolf Hess was the head of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The movie is about the Hess family living at Auschwitz in a house; the entire movie is just the family at the house. In the movie, the Holocaust doesn&#8217;t exist — except we know the Holocaust exists in the background. There is a smokestack and people randomly screaming in the background; shots are heard far away. The movie is quite good because it demonstrates how easy it is for people to ignore a Holocaust that&#8217;s happening — as long as they benefit from it and get to enjoy their lives.
The entire movie is about the banality of evil. But then Glazer won an Oscar and got a chance to speak.
And here’s the thing: Jonathan Glazer is the villain in his own movie, and he doesn&#8217;t even know it.
Here’s what Glazer said in his Oscars <a href="https://www.vulture.com/article/oscars-2024-jonathan-glazer-speech-full-transcript.html">speech</a>:
<blockquote>Thank you to the Academy for this honor and to our partners A24, Film4, Access, and Polish Film Institute; to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum for their trust and guidance; to my producers, actors, and collaborators. All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present — not to say, “Look what they did then,” rather, “Look what we do now.” Our film shows where dehumanization leads, at its worst. It shaped all of our past and present. Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation, which has led to conflict for so many innocent people. Whether the victims of October the 7 in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the victims of this dehumanization, how do we resist? Aleksandra Bystroń-Kołodziejczyk, the girl who glows in the film, as she did in life, chose to. I dedicate this to her memory and her resistance. Thank you. </blockquote>
Glazer is moral trash. He is so because when he says he wants to refute his own Jewishness and the Jewishness of the people who are standing with him and the use of the Holocaust in order to defend what Israel is doing right now, he&#8217;s the villain in his own film.
This is what happens on the Left. Dara Horn wrote a book called “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/People-Love-Dead-Jews-Reports/dp/B09CFYVY3F/ref=sr_1_1?crid=VMA8FUA9FWO6&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.FicNOkN5MWzacGW4ivPqUsuPN5LpC3SIrR1tKRjtzDZ19bMdHiZIJjK4N57eZ4yGe8lsl-LJIKHrzjnRhyuGBfZun8TLB5DpMuu-1ig3TOVFdK7euaYwbZGqpqxzlUN9batiOqOuHCdjGUVXQF1Do7-KiAAqRms9nD8Vidh3wZDT5dAQE3-YpxzXmNgiqAlyNIKRhB2Cu5fF-7Q_a68CV49F9pEdg6VHdkLdFHtYm9M.eJhthHlJNX3-EOPYmWXpmOkq6ECXYA_qIOWzkwFk6W4&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=People+Love+Dead+Jews+dara+horn&amp;qid=1710186918&amp;sprefix=people+love+dead+jews+dara+horn%2Caps%2C107&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">People Love Dead Jews</a>.” Excellent book, uncomfortable title. She begins the book by telling the story of the house occupied by Anne Frank while the Nazis were looking for Jews in Amsterdam.
There&#8217;s a museum there now. A few years ago there was a major controversy at the Anne Frank house. The major controversy was that there was a young Orthodox Jewish child who was at the front door as a greeter wearing his kippah — and people were uncomfortable with him wearing his kippah. So, the Anne Frank house told the Jewish boy to cover up his kippah. They told him to wear a baseball cap. 
Dara Horn’s point is that people love dead Jews, meaning the best Jews are the ones who are silent and dead, while the ones who are living and actually standing up for their own capacity to live, the ones who actually defend themselves, those are the Jews who make people like Jonathan Glazer very uncomfortable.
The entirety of “Zone of Interest” is about the absence of Jews. Not a Jew appears in the movie. The Jews are silent. Apparently, the best Jews, according to Glazer, are the ones who are nameless, faceless, and dead. Those are the ones who are really good because they&#8217;re victims.
Those are the ones whose bodies he can rifle through for an Oscar while simultaneously ignoring the Jews who are getting slaughtered in the Gaza envelope, or the Jewish men who are being wounded or killed in the Gaza Strip. He gets to sit there and morally preen; he gets to live in his house amidst the chaos, ignoring the live Jews, the ones who are actually screaming right now.
He can ignore those ones in favor of the dead Jews. That&#8217;s what he&#8217;s doing.
When people use their Jewishness as a cover to rip on Israel&#8217;s capacity to defend itself, they are virtually always people who don&#8217;t know anything about Judaism. They are born Jewish but have very little Jewish practice. They spend zero time in the Jewish community, but then pull out their “as a Jew” card in order for them to demonstrate their fealty to Left-wing principles or anti-Israel principles.
Whenever people say, “As a Jew,” you should ask them, “How often do you go to synagogue? How much do you care about your Judaism? How much does any of that mean to you?”
People like Glazer are part of this broad moral trash pantheon in Hollywood, the system that believes the West itself is bad, the West itself is the problem.
You don&#8217;t see Glazer talking about the evils of Hamas or the evils of the Assad government in Syria. You see Glazer talking about Israel. Why? Because he gets to rifle through the bodies, and he gets to look good while being the villain in his own film.
Hollywood is completely disconnected from reality, but they do have an impact on how people view morality.
And that is why Hollywood remains a dangerous place for the creation of culture.
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The Oscars: Why Hollywood Remains A Dangerous Place For The Creation Of Culture

Ben Shapiro

Jimmy Kimmel

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jimmy-kimmel">Jimmy Kimmel</a> used part of his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/oscars">Oscars</a> monologue to make wisecracks about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/robert-downey-jr">Robert Downey Jr.&#8217;s</a> substance abuse issues 20 years ago.
The late-night host set it up by joking that “Oppenheimer” director Christopher Nolan didn’t have an internet connection so his “porn addiction” would not distract him while working. 
&#8220;Congratulations to [Cillian Murphy&#8217;s] costar Robert Downey Jr. This is the highest point of Robert Downey Jr.&#8217;s career,&#8221; Kimmel said. He paused and said, &#8220;Well, one of the highest points.&#8221;
The 58-year-old actor smiled at first and tapped his nose as the audience laughed along. The actor’s “Oppenheimer” costar, Emily Blunt, reached across to grab Downey Jr.&#8217;s shoulders in a show of support as he kept a tight smile on his face.
Kimmel responded to the nose-tap gesture, saying, &#8220;Was that too on the nose, or was that a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/drugs">drug</a> motion you made?&#8221;
RDJ then made a circling motion indicating the host should &#8220;wrap it up&#8221; and mouthed, &#8220;Keep it going,&#8221; as the camera stayed focused on him for several more seconds.
Kimmel followed that with another joke. &#8220;Look at this guy, he&#8217;s so handsome, so talented. He&#8217;s won every award there is to win. Is that an acceptance speech in your pocket or do you just have a very rectangular penis?&#8221; he quipped.
&#8220;Not even 20 years ago, things weren&#8217;t going that great for Robert. He played the villain and, correct me if I have this wrong, in a movie where Tim Allen turns into a dog?&#8221; At this point, Downey Jr. looks annoyed.
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&#8220;If you ever decide to remake that film, I have just the guy to play Tim Allen,&#8221; the Oscars host continued as the camera panned to the dog Messi from “Anatomy of a Fall.”
&#8220;Messi has an overdose scene, if you&#8217;ve seen it, you know it is incredible,&#8221; Kimmel said.
Downey Jr. won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for “Oppenheimer.” This was his first Academy Award win and third nomination. The actor previously spent time in jail in 1999 on drug-related charges and had several infamous public mishaps during the height of his addiction struggles. RDJ has been sober since 2003.

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Jimmy Kimmel Jokes About Robert Downey Jr.’s Past Drug Addiction During Oscars

Jimmy Kimmel Jokes About Robert Downey Jr.'s Past Drug Addiction During Oscars

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&#8220;The Holdovers&#8221; star Da&#8217;Vine Randolph had nothing but praise for God during her acceptance speech on Sunday at the 96th <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/oscars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Academy Awards</a>.
During the Oscars awards show at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, the 37-year-old actress got emotional before she took the stage to accept the award for Best Supporting Actress, her first ever Oscar and first nomination.
&#8220;God is good. God is so good,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/THR/status/1766970140325769336?s=20">Randolph</a> told the room of Hollywood stars. &#8220;God is so good.&#8221;
Randolph then told the story of how she was never supposed to be part of Hollywood and how it was her mother who gave her the encouragement to try something different.
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&#8220;You know, I didn&#8217;t think I was supposed to be doing this as a career,&#8221; the actress explained. &#8220;I started off as a singer, and my mother said to me, go across that street to that theater department, there&#8217;s something for you there. And I thank my mother for doing that.&#8221;
&#8220;Thank you to all the people who have stepped in my path and has been there for me,&#8221; she added. &#8220;And who has ushered me and guided me. I am so grateful to all you beautiful people out here.&#8221;
&#8220;For so long, I have always wanted to be different,&#8221; Randolph continued. &#8220;And now I&#8217;ve realized I just need to be myself. And I thank you for seeing me.&#8221;
She then closed out her speech by thanking her publicist and said she prays to God she gets to &#8220;do this more than once.&#8221;
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In &#8220;The Holdovers,&#8221; Randolph played Mary Lamb, the grieving mother of a son who was killed while serving his country, who works as a cook in a prep school. She ends up spending the Christmas vacation with a troubled student, played by Dominic Sessa, and a history teacher, played by Paul Giamatti.
A description about the movie <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14849194/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reads</a>, &#8220;A cranky history teacher at a prep school is forced to remain on campus over the holidays with a grieving cook and a troubled student who has no place to go.&#8221;
Randolph&#8217;s breakout role has been huge for her. She previously took home a Golden Globe, a Critics Choice Award, BAFTA, and SAG Award for her performance in the movie, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/10/entertainment/davine-joy-randolph-oscars-2024/index.html">CNN</a> noted.
&#8220;The Holdovers&#8221; is nominated for a total of five Oscars at Sunday’s show, which includes Best Picture and a Best Actor nod for Giamatti, CNN noted.

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‘The Holdovers’ Star Da’Vine Joy Randolph Praises God In Oscars Acceptance Speech

Actor Robert Downey Jr. admitted it was probably better that he did not win the Oscar when he was nominated for the best actor award three decades ago — for his performance in the 1993 biopic &#8220;Chaplin.&#8221;
The &#8220;Iron Man&#8221; star made the revelation on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; last week, just after the news broke that he had been nominated in the best supporting actor category for his turn as Admiral Lewis Strauss in the Christopher Nolan-directed &#8220;Oppenheimer&#8221; (2023).
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&#8220;You lost to Al Pacino for &#8216;Scent of a Woman,'&#8221; Joy Behar pointed out. &#8220;Now you say it actually would have been the worst thing for you to have won that year.&#8221;
Downey Jr. laughed, saying, &#8220;Ah, because I was young and crazy and it would have put me under the impression that I was on the right track. Whoopi remembers.&#8221;
&#8220;We were all on those tracks together,&#8221; Whoopi Goldberg — who co-starred with Downey Jr. in the 1991 film &#8220;Soapdish&#8221; — just laughed in response.
The &#8220;Tropic Thunder&#8221; star was not exaggerating when he said his early career was &#8220;crazy&#8221; — in 1996, he was arrested on drug and weapons charges. After violating the terms of his parole, he was arrested again and sentenced in 1999 to three years in prison — but ultimately served 15 months. He was pardoned in 2015 by then Governor Jerry Brown (D-CA).
His entrance into the Marvel Cinematic Universe — as Tony Stark/Iron Man in 2004&#8217;s &#8220;Iron Man&#8221; — marked his comeback in Hollywood after an early career that he described as &#8220;30 years of dependency, depravity and despair.&#8221;
In addition to &#8220;Oppenheimer&#8221; and the best actor nod for &#8220;Chaplin, Downey Jr. was also nominated in the <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000375/awards/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">best supporting actor</a> category for his role in 2009&#8217;s &#8220;Tropic Thunder.&#8221;

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Robert Downey Jr. Is Glad He Didn’t Win 1993 Best Actor Oscar: Here’s Why

Robert Downey Jr. Is Glad He Didn't Win 1993 Best Actor Oscar: Here's Why

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The Academy Award nominations for 2023 were announced on Tuesday and Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro gleefully noted that the film “Barbie,” which centered on attacking the so-called “patriarchy,” was not nominated in the two most prominent female categories while the leading man in the film garnered a nomination.
“So in easily the funniest story of the day, &#8216;Barbie,&#8217; which, as you know, I loved,” he joked, “I thought it was an amazing film — by which I think it was absolutely overrated, trash, was unwatchable. I think that people who say they like it are lying.”
“Like Michael Moore&#8217;s movies, I think that this movie makes no sense. It has plot holes. It&#8217;s badly written, too,” he continued.
“Now, this is hilarious,” he laughed.  “It was nominated for Best Picture. I know what you guys are doing. The film made a ton of money and all the critics pretended they loved it because they had to. So it was nominated for Best Picture. Okay, fine. That&#8217;s stupid.”
He noted that while Ryan Gosling, who played Ken, was nominated for Best Supporting Actor and America Ferrera was nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category “for her garbage speech about how women have it so tough and ‘Oh my God, it&#8217;s so hard to be a woman,” “You know who wasn&#8217;t nominated? Barbie. Margot Robbie was not nominated. You know who else was not nominated? The greatest director of all time, Greta Gerwig.”
“Who&#8217;s the greatest?” he joked. “We all love all of her work because she&#8217;s the greatest director who’s ever directed and because everything she says is wise and brilliant and she&#8217;s so wise. She was not nominated either. “
“Oh, the patriarchy, the power of the patriarchy, even overcoming Barbie itself,” he quipped, adding, “The patriarchy will rule supreme. Because I&#8217;m gonna predict right here, right now, that Oppenheimer wins Best Picture. So in the Barbenheimer fight, Oppenheimer, which is an all-time great movie, is going to defeat Barbie, which is trash. And it should.”
“I&#8217;m rooting very, very hard for Ryan Gosling to win for Barbie because the funniest possible outcome for the movie Barbie would be for Ken to win the only award. I&#8217;m there for it. I love that the Academy accidentally did this and even more, I want only Ken from the Barbie movie to win. Those are my demands. I want it to lose every other category but only the men win. Not even because I care, but because it would be hilarious. It&#8217;d be super hilarious if the patriarchy ends up winning in a movie made about how terrible the patriarchy supposedly is,” he concluded.

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‘The Power Of The Patriarchy’: Shapiro Laughs As Anti-Patriarchy ‘Barbie’ Gets Shut Out Of Two Key Female Oscar Nominations

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hillary-clinton">Hillary Clinton</a> is being mocked on social media for comparing herself to Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, who both were not <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">nominated</a> for individual Academy Awards for their work on “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/barbie">Barbie</a>.”
“Greta &amp; Margot, While it can sting to win the box office but not take home the gold, your millions of fans love you. You’re both so much more than Kenough. #HillaryBarbie,” the former Democratic presidential candidate shared on X.
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Greta &amp; Margot,
While it can sting to win the box office but not take home the gold, your millions of fans love you.  
You’re both so much more than Kenough.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HillaryBarbie?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HillaryBarbie</a>
&mdash; Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1750185844219015517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Clinton’s replies were flooded with people deriding her for making the comparison and reminding the 76-year-old politician about the massive error she made by not campaigning in Wisconsin ahead of the 2016 election, which many analysts believe is a major reason she lost to Donald Trump.
“Margot really should’ve visited Wisconsin,” one popular <a href="https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1750190955544666316">reply</a> says.
“How dare those other women get nominated. This is just more proof of sexism in the entertainment industry,” another <a href="https://twitter.com/Quipple/status/1750192708843368692">says</a>.
“Barbie was a bad movie. Just because it made a lot of money doesn’t make it good or a winner. Similarly, just because Hillary Clinton got a lot of votes doesn’t make her good or President of the United States,” another comment said. “Oppenheimer was a much better film. And Trump a better candidate.”
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“Oppenheimer” had the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oppenheimer-leads-2024-oscars-nominations-with-13-see-the-full-list">most Oscar nominations</a> this year with 13 total, including Best Picture and Best Director. The second most-nominated film was “Poor Things” with 11. “Barbie” received eight, including the coveted Best Picture, but fans were annoyed that the film’s lead actress, Robbie, didn’t get put in the running for Best Actress and that Gerwig wasn’t a contender for Best Director.
Meanwhile, the film’s male lead, Ryan Gosling, did get chosen as a nominee for Best Supporting Actor. “Barbie” actress America Ferrara was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
This news comes after “Barbie” filmmakers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oscars-committee-determines-barbie-is-an-adapted-screenplay-not-original">fought</a> to have it submitted into the “Original Screenplay” category but failed. Since it was classified as an Adapted Screenplay, the film will compete against impressive contenders, including both “Poor Things” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” making it much harder to score a win.
The Oscars is set to air on Sunday, March 10, and will again be hosted by late-night star Jimmy Kimmel.

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Hillary Clinton Trashed For Making ‘Barbie’ Oscars Snubs About Herself

Hillary Clinton Trashed For Making 'Barbie' Oscars Snubs About Herself

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