More than 30 prominent figures from the entertainment industry have signed an open letter urging Congress to reject deep cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Medicaid. The letter, published by nonprofit organization Feeding America on June 25, described the proposals as “unacceptable and wrong” while warning that millions of Americans rely on…
“Saturday Night Live” continued to roast key White House figures in this weekend’s episode, which saw President Donald Trump and his inner circle checking in to the “The White Lotus.” Retitled “The White POTUS,” James Austin Johnson returned as the US president, parodying Jason Isaac’s beleaguered financier from the HBO show. In the wake of…
Among the lineup for the Cannes Film Festival’s 78th edition are some big names from Hollywood and global cinema. We already knew that Tom Cruise will light the fuse on Paramount/Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning on May 14 out of competition, while there was plenty of speculation that Scarlett Johansson would have a…
I love Jesse Eisenberg. From his wunderkind roles in Roger Dodger and The Squid and the Whale to his twitchy performances in The Social Network and The End of the Tour — and interviews with me and so many others — he’s always been a jolt of energy. Rarely does a celebrity work so hard…
Topline A video of celebrities appearing to denounce Kanye West’s antisemitism is circulating social media—but Scarlett Johansson slammed the video in a statement Wednesday, clarifying it is not actually her, while urging the government to pass legislation that limits the use of AI. Johansson has previously criticized what she believed to be an AI imitation…
Scarlett Johansson has issued a statement speaking out against a viral AI-created video in which celebrities protest Kanye West‘s recent wave of antisemitic posts. An AI version of Scarlett Johansson begins the clip, which features her and the likes of Jack Black, Mila Kunis, Drake, Steven Spielberg and others, all wearing T-shirts with the Star…
Top Hollywood stars have banded together to protest Kanye West‘s antisemitism — sort of. A viral video (below) depicts Jewish celebrities such as David Schwimmer, Steven Spielberg, Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, Scarlett Johansson, Sacha Baron Cohen and others wearing an anti-Kanye T-shirt. Except this protest video was generated using AI. The creator of the video…
A video released on social media on Tuesday shows a wide array of Jewish celebrities, including Steven Spielberg and Woody Allen, wearing a T-shirt with a raised middle finger and the word “Kanye” — a rejection of the rapper Kanye West’s antisemitism. The video resembles any number of PSAs created by Jewish advocates, with…
Last May, actress Scarlett Johansson released a blistering statement about the release of a new voice for OpenAI‘s ChatGPT 4.0 bot, called “Sky.” To many — including her “closest friends,” Johansson said — the voice was indistinguishable from her own. That would have been unsettling enough, but it so happened that the tech giant had…