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Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
ABC Execs Hit 'The View' Hosts With This Shocking Trump Request: Report
Disney and ABC News heads reportedly called on the hosts of 'The View' to dial down political talk on the program — and the panel wasn't having it, sources told The Daily Beast. The hosts — Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, former Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin, Ana Navarro and Sara Haines — areknownfor dishing blunt takes on President Donald Trump's administration, and the panels' discussions certainly haven't stopped since his election. The political rhetoric seemingly disturbed top executives such as Disney CEO Bob Iger and ABC News President Almin Karamehmedovic, the latter of whom met with the hosts and the show's executive producer Brian Teta to suggest that they cool it, The Daily Beast reported Wednesday. The women of 'The View,' sources explained, weren't having it with the 'silly' requests and look to just 'keep doing their thing' on the program. 'This is what our audience wants. Isn't it gonna look kind of bad if we're all of a sudden not talking about politics?' one source familiar with the meeting reportedly said of the hosts' response to their boss. ABC executives have previously pressured hosts over their Trump talk, with late night host Jimmy Kimmel revealing in 2022 that the network's top bosses asked him to tone it down when he began to regularly quip about Trump. Kimmel told the 'Naked Lunch' podcast that he informed execs that he wouldn't let up on the jokes even if they fired him. They eventually backed away from the ask, he noted. The Daily Beast report arrives as '60 Minutes' faces increased scrutiny from CBS, with leadership examining what's included in upcoming episodes (despite the program typically operating independently) as the network hopes to settle a lawsuit with Trump. Karamehmedovic, in his meeting with 'The View' hosts and the show's producer, suggested the show lean into discussions outside politics, pointing to highly rated episodes with 'celebrity guests,' sources told The Daily Beast. The meeting was reportedly seen less as an 'edict' by the network but nonetheless, it disturbed the hosts. Navarro went on to talk with Iger last week about the request and, after she expressed her gratitude for Disney continuing to give the hosts a platform 'in a politically turbulent environment,' he signaled his support for the show before suggesting they 'tone down its political rhetoric,' sources told The Daily Beast. Representatives for ABC News, Disney and Navarro did not respond to The Daily Beast's requests for comment. Check out more of the outlet's report on 'The View' . Trump Claimed This Photo Proved 'Genocide' Of White South Africans, But There's 1 Big Problem Trump Administration 'Unquestionably' Violated Deportation Order, Judge Says 250 Celebrities Signed A Full-Page Ad To Support Planned Parenthood Amid Trump's Attacks
Metropolis Japan
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Metropolis Japan
Queer
William S. Burroughs wrote this 206-page semi-autobiographicalnovella in the early '50s, partly as a companion piece to Junkie andpartly as a warmup for Naked Lunch. But Hollywood shied awayfrom it until now, partly because its homoerotic nature wasconsidered too 'obscene' for those times, and partly because nodirector as gutsy as Luca Guadagnino was on the scene is a mysterious American addict and alcoholic living in lonelyexile in Mexico City in the '50s, whiling away his days getting very,very drunk, interacting with a few fellow loser expats andshooting up. The first part of this flick is a devastatingly effectiveportrait of a self-destructive man lost in abortive passion anddesperate for human connection. If Daniel Craig was looking for away to distance himself from his James Bond/action herotypecasting, I'd say he found it in this soul- (and skin-) baring seem to look up for Lee with the arrival in town of Gene(Daan de Wit), a beautiful young man, sexually hetero but mostlyjust apathetic. He accepts Lee's advances but with frustratingindifference and even annoyance. Lee persuades him to go withhim to South America in search of a powerful hallucinogenicknown as yage, and then things go psychedelically off the this is where Luca Guadagnino shines. A genuine visionary ifsomewhat erratic, he made the excellent Call Me by Your Name butalso the awful Suspiria. Once in the jungle, he drops the plot,which would be a greater crime if there actually was a plotinstead of an admittedly brilliant character study. And buckle up!Then it just ends. Burroughs never finished the book. This is a filmthat will be appreciated more by critics and cineasts than general audiences. Regardless of how surreal or off-topic a Guadagnino film gets, though, it's never less than visually riveting. And theterrific, anachronistic soundtrack keeps things nicely not on the director's vibe and put off by the film'sexplicit eroticism may find it – what's the word? — challenging. It'scertainly not for the faint of heart, but as we regress steadilytoward 50s prurience these days, it's as fulfilling as it is rebellious. (137 min)
