Billy Dee Williams defended the right of actors to portray characters in blackface while chatting with Bill Maher.The 87-year-old Star Wars actor stopped by Maher's podcast Club Random in an episode posted on his YouTube channel on Sunday.When the topic turned to Laurence Olivier's portrayal of the title role in the 1965 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, Williams was pleased with Olivier's parodies of stereotypes associated with black people.But the 68-year-old Real Time host - who...
Billy Dee Williams defended the right of actors to portray characters using Blackface while chatting with Bill Maher.
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What the fuck did I just watch? I haven’t seen a security interference / impact a play like this since Little Big League. Of course this happens in an A’s game. Total wackjob franchise surrounded with
Police said the 31-year-old woman was attacked on Sunday, April 7
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The United States government has provided assurances requested by the High Court in London which could finally pave the way for WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange to be extradited from the United Kingdom. Last month, the High Court ruled that, without certain US guarantees, Assange, 52, would be allowed to launch a new appeal against being […]
We think our faces are our own. But technology can use them to identify, influence and mimic us. This week, TED speakers explore the promise and peril of turning the human face into a digital tool.
A security guard has been killed and seven others injured in a shooting in Doral, Florida just west of Miami.
An opposition MP punched a colleague in Georgia’s parliament on Monday, 15 April, during a parliamentary debate about a controversial bill. Scuffled erupted inside during the discussion of a law calling for media and non-commercial organisations to register as being under foreign influence if they receive more than 20 per cent of their budget from abroad. Mamuka Mdinaradze, head of the Georgian Dream Party fraction, was punched in the face by MP Alexander Elisashvili, accusing his colleague of...
Incident in which Mamuka Mdinaradze was struck by Aleko Elisashvili prompts fight between legislatorsGeorgian politicians have come to blows in parliament as ruling party legislators looked to advance a controversial bill on “foreign agents” that has been criticised by western countries and prompted protests at home.Footage broadcast on Monday on Georgian television showed Mamuka Mdinaradze, leader of the ruling Georgian Dream party’s parliamentary faction and a driving force behind the bill,...