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Derek Jacobi reveals ‘hateful’ director that left him terrified

Derek Jacobi reveals ‘hateful’ director that left him terrified

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Sir Derek Jacobi has spent almost 70 years in showbusiness – but there’s just one director he’s worked with who’s “terrified” him. The veteran actor, 87, opened up about his life and career in a new interview, revealing that working with theatre director John Dexter was a difficult experience. Jacobi and Dexter worked together multiple times at the National Theatre, with Dexter directing him in Othello in 1964 and Armstrong’s Last Goodnight the following year among other plays. Dexter, who also worked with Sir Laurence Olivier and Dame Maggie Smith, died during heart surgery aged 64 in March 1990. Theatre director John Dexter (Getty Images) When asked whether he had always got on with people he worked with, Jacobi told The Guardian: “Mercifully, I have forgotten the bad times. Genuinely. I must have had them, but too infrequently for them to …

Melania Trump says Jimmy Kimmel’s joke about her was ‘hateful and violent’ : NPR

Melania Trump says Jimmy Kimmel’s joke about her was ‘hateful and violent’ : NPR

First lady Melania Trump attends the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C., on April 25. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images First lady Melania Trump is not happy about late night host Jimmy Kimmel’s recent joke about her. “Look at Melania, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow,” Kimmel quipped during a sketch on his show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” The segment was the comedian’s mock alternative speech to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which aired two days before the real event the Trumps attended together ended in gunfire. Authorities subdued a heavily armed man who they say entered the Washington Hilton ballroom in an attempt to target administration officials. In a post on X, the first lady called Kimmel’s joke about her “hateful and violent.” “His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America,” she wrote. “People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each …

Heated Rivalry stars hit out at online abuse: ‘None of us need your hateful love’

Heated Rivalry stars hit out at online abuse: ‘None of us need your hateful love’

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Several key castmembers and the director of hit Canadian show Heated Rivalry have condemned so-called “fans” using hateful language towards them and their co-stars. Hudson Williams, 25, who plays the lead role of Shane Hollander in the gay ice hockey romance, shared the post to his Instagram Story on Monday (9 March). “Don’t call yourself a fan if you share racist, homophobic, biphobic, misogynistic, ageist, ableist, parasocial [or] bigoted comments of any kind,” the message said. “None of us need your hateful ‘love’.” The message added: “We all respect and support and love each other and are on the same side. If you can’t accept that gtfoh [get the f*** out of here].” Williams’s co-star François Arnaud, 40, who plays the character of Scott Hunter in the same series, shared the same post to his own Instagram Stories. open image in …

Colleges Are Stuck Between Bad Options for Fighting Hateful Ideas

Colleges Are Stuck Between Bad Options for Fighting Hateful Ideas

Pity Chris Summerlin, the dean of students at the University of Florida. He’s being sued by an anti-Semite, and that’s not the worst of his predicament. So far, judges who have ruled on the case have given mixed verdicts on whether he is likely to win or lose at trial. Summerlin deserves to lose on the merits: He expelled a law-school student for speech that, while morally degenerate, is properly protected by the First Amendment. And––this is the pitiable part––it’s easy to see how he might have concluded that giving a bigot grounds to win a civil-rights lawsuit was his best option. College deans and administrators keep confronting the same dilemma: They face intense pressure to punish speech that elicits fear or moral disgust on campus. They also have legal obligations—and face countervailing pressure—to refrain from violating the free-speech rights of students. They cannot always do both. The result is cases such as Damsky v. Summerlin—cases that might be avoided under a better approach to fighting anti-Semitism and other hateful ideas. Preston Damsky was a …