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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freePlaywright and screenwriter Tony Kushner has spoken out in support of director Jonathan Glazer who is facing backlash over his Oscars acceptance speech.Kushner, who has won Pulitzer and Tony awards for his play Angels in America, said on the Haaretz Podcast released Wednesday that he identified with Glazer’s speech and described it as “really sort of unimpeachable, irrefutable…

The playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner has come to the defence of director Jonathan Glazer, whose speech at the Oscars nearly a fortnight ago continues to polarise opinion.Picking up his award for best foreign language film on 10 March, Glazer related his film, The Zone of Interest, to current events in the Middle East.He said he hoped his movie, which shows the domestic lives of Rudolph and Hedwig Höss just outside the walls of Auschwitz, where he was camp commandant, “shows where dehumanisation leads, at its…

Tony Kushner has come out in support of Jonathan Glazer‘s Oscars acceptance speech, describing the British directer’s comments at the ceremony as an “unimpeachable irrefutable statement.” Speaking on the Haaretz Podcast which was released Wednesday, Kushner, a four-time Academy Award nominated screenwriter, was asked about his feelings about a number of topics related to the Israel-Gaza conflict and was directly about Glazer’s speech which has been attacked by some Jewish figures in Hollywood and was…

Kushner was reportedly grilled on whether or not his father-in-law, former President Trump, truly believed the election had been stolen from him Donald Trump’s son-in-law and former advisor Jared Kushner has reportedly testified before Special Counsel Jack Smith’s grand jury investigating the former president’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.  According to The New York Times, Kusher was reportedly grilled as to whether or not the former president earnestly…

Mehul Reuben DasDec 20, 2022 16:08:28 ISTElon Musk had long ago announced that he does not want to be the CEO of any of his companies, and that he would much rather spend his time working with the engineers at SpaceX, Tesla and some of his other companies. Just hours before he put up the poll asking if he should step down as Twitter’s CEO, Elon Musk met Jared Kushner and some Saudi and Qatari moguls at the FIFA World Cup Final. Musk, who has been looking for investors for Twitter, has allegedly been told to step away as…

It’s lunchtime a couple of weeks before Christmas. Past the tree in the glitzy lobby of Claridge’s hotel in London ambles a man who, in his octagonal glasses, workman’s jacket, jeans and trainers, looks a little out of place. Once installed in his room, however, Tony Kushner is entirely in his element. Insights on art, history and politics pour out at the slightest prompting. He cites writers from Conor McPherson to Robert Lowell, gives a lightning-quick insight into Othello (too cruel a play, he says, for him to catch…

Kushner Cos. is making an unsolicited bid for Veris Residential Inc., an owner primarily of New Jersey rental apartments, in a deal that would value Veris at about $4.3 billion including debt, according to a person familiar with the matter. Kushner, best known as Jared Kushner’s family real-estate company, offered $16 a share for the real-estate investment trust, the person said. The shares of the company, formerly known as…

While chief of staff to Donald Trump, the retired general John Kelly “shoved” Ivanka Trump in a White House hallway, Jared Kushner writes in his forthcoming memoir.The detail from Breaking History, which will be published in August, was reported by the Washington Post.Kushner, the Post said, writes that he and his wife saw Kelly as “consistently duplicitous”.“One day he had just marched out of a contentious meeting in the Oval Office. Ivanka was walking down the main hallway in the West Wing when she passed him. Unaware…