PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
PJ Grisar
By PJ Grisar
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Culture Should we really keep comparing Trump to Hitler?
Yesterday, a few hundred feet from the White House Rose Garden, Donald Trump’s Justice Department stage-managed a show of force against his own citizens. Today, the president is being compared to Adolf Hitler — again. Before curfew went into effect at 7 p.m. on Monday, peaceful protesters at Lafayette Square were met with police in…
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Culture Played a cop? Donate to bail funds, urges actor Griffin Newman
With film and TV production shut down for the foreseeable future, many actors are relying on royalties from reruns and syndication to get by. But self-proclaimed “out-of-work actor” Griffin Newman is using his own to help protestors raise bail. Late Monday night, Newman, best known for playing moth-themed superhero Arthur on Amazon’s “The Tick” and…
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Fast Forward Gal Gadot criticized for ‘anti-racist’ post, IDF service
“Wonder Woman” star Gal Gadot is once again under fire for her response to a national calamity — this time, critics aren’t taking aim at her singing voice, but her military record. This weekend Gadot posted an Instagram message urging followers to be “vocally anti-racist” in response to the protests surrounding the death of George…
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Culture Woody Allen’s ‘Rainy Day’ tops global box office, heading for UK
Woody Allen’s 2019 film, “A Rainy Day in New York,” available for streaming this week in the UK, is doing good numbers at the box office – relatively speaking. The film topped the global box office in mid-May, earning over half a million in South Korea since opening in the country, which recently eased restrictions…
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Culture Our dream cast for the new ‘Fiddler’ film
Casting in Hollywood is as precarious as a fiddler on the roof. Did you know, for instance, that James Caan was nearly Han Solo or that Armie Hammer was this close to being Batman? Things fall through. But here at the Forward, every one of us is a casting director, trying to fit our favorite…
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Culture The Weinstein brothers and Disney named in underage rape lawsuit
Now serving a 23-year-prison sentence, convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein may once again face a legal battle — this time he wouldn’t be alone. On May 28, four women filed a sexual abuse lawsuit in New York, naming Weinstein, his brother and former producing partner, Robert Weinstein, and the Walt Disney Company, which owned the Weinstein’s…
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Culture Is Netflix’s Jeffrey Epstein doc too slick for its own good?
When Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell in August, 2019, there were widespread rumors from across the political spectrum that he was, in fact, murdered by his powerful acquaintances. It seemed unbelievable that the accused sex trafficker, just released from suicide watch following an earlier attempt to take his own life,…
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Culture ‘Hamilton’ director set for new film of ‘Fiddler’
Miracle of miracles, we’re getting another film adaptation of “Fiddler on the Roof.” And this time, the director’s Jewish. Thomas Kail, the Tony-winning director of “Hamilton” is set to helm the new adaptation of Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock’s classic musical, Deadline reports, with a script by Kail’s former collaborator, Tony-winner Steven Levenson (“Dear Evan…
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