NEW YORK — An important pretrial hearing in Harvey Weinstein's sexual assault case played out in secret after a judge ruled Friday that the movie mogul's right to a fair trial outweighed news organizations' arguments for keeping the courtroom open. Both the prosecution and defense asked that the hearing be...
At Sundance, Powerhouse Documentaries Will Be Everywhere
LOS ANGELES — The Sundance Film Festival has another batch of buzzy documentaries premiering this year with subjects ranging from Harvey Weinstein to disgraced bio-tech company Theranos. The mountainside festival that kicks off Thursday in Park City, Utah, is considered to be the premier spot to launch a non-fiction film...
CBS' Moonves Is Latest Powerful Exec Felled in #MeToo Era
NEW YORK — The #MeToo movement fighting sexual misconduct had already claimed one of Hollywood's top movie moguls in Harvey Weinstein. Now it has done the same for Leslie Moonves, one of the television industry's most powerful executives. The CBS Corp. announced its chairman's exit late Sunday, hours after The...
Weinstein Faces Sex Charges in Prosecution Amid #MeToo
NEW YORK — Flinching when he heard himself described as a man who used power to prey on women, Harvey Weinstein was arraigned Friday on charges of rape and a criminal sex act in the first criminal prosecution to result from the wave of allegations against him that sparked a...
Nunes Desperately Needs to Find His Lost Sense of Humor
It hasn't been on display lately and Stephen Colbert would never vouch for it, but Rep. Devin Nunes does have a sense of humor. So I've made it my job to help my congressman laugh again. On the March 2 edition of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," the host skewered...
Is Google Giving Conservatives the Shaft?
While watching football this past weekend, I noticed Google’s latest TV ad for its search engine (see video above). For 120 seconds, slick images are mixed with text of what we searched this last year. But, what struck me was the manipulation that America only cares about liberal issues. OK,...
Is Google Giving Conservatives the Shaft?
While watching football this past weekend, I noticed Google’s latest TV ad for its search engine (see video above). For 120 seconds, slick images are mixed with text of what we searched this last year. But, what struck me was the manipulation that America only cares about liberal issues. OK,...