Tom Pollock, the former Universal Pictures chairman whose tenure included blockbusters like “Jurassic Park,” died Sunday.Regina Hall and Tami Roman also star in Romany Malco’s serious-minded satire “Tijuana Jackson: Purpose Over Prison,” releasing online.Beyoncé's “Black Is King” premieres Friday on Disney+.Ben Stiller, Andrew Lloyd Webber and John Cusack were among the many who paid tribute to director Alan Parker, who died Friday after a long illness.Students and alumni from the L.A.'s most exclusive private high schools have launched Instagram campaigns sharing stories of racism and bias on campus.Before Manhattan Beach shut it down, Bruce’s Beach was a famous Black-owned beach resort. Cliff, in a wetsuit and scuba mask, absently points a harpoon gun toward his wife. He is a former Green Beret and served in WWII and Korea. Then again, which is the lesser of two evils? Hollywood's Cliff Booth. But, this is a good place to start.One question we may want to ask ourselves regarding the boat scene is whose perspective are we seeing?
All rights reserved. Now, some want the city to atone for its actions.What the Emmy-nominated miniseries gets wrong about feminism past and present.Travelers are finding many public restrooms closed these days, due to the pandemic. There’s the crash of a wave and the scene ends.If the rumor that swirls around Cliff colors the response of others to him — “I don’t dig the vibe he brings on a set,” says a stunt coordinator played by Kurt Russell — it also partly explains the air of sad resignation that surrounds him, as Cliff lives somewhat in exile in a trailer behind a drive-in movie theater in the Valley.In a recent interview with The Times, Pitt was asked the question directly: Did Cliff kill his wife?Pitt confirmed that he had to answer that central question of Cliff’s guilt in constructing his performance, but he’s not interested in sharing.The movie does offer a few possible clues: At one point, Cliff says he spent time on a chain gang in Texas for hitting a police officer. — but a flashback reveals that Cliff and his wife, Billie, played by Rebecca Gayheart, were both drinking heavily and arguing while alone on a boat out at sea. Hollywood Weighs In - YouTube
He declines the advances of a young hitchhiker played by Margaret Qualley, noting that he has long avoided jail and that he isn’t going to be finally sent away over a potentially underage girl (using tangier language than that).But the mystery of what happened to Cliff’s wife means that what could be the coolest, most heroic character in the movie is nevertheless left with this dark cloud hanging over him.The L.A. Times podcast “The Reel” discusses Quentin Tarantino’s highly personal historical epic “Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood.”Get our revamped Envelope newsletter, sent twice a week, for exclusive awards season coverage, behind-the-scenes insights and columnist Glenn Whipp’s commentary.
If Tarantino is suggesting that a good person can suffer because they’re unable to shake the accusations that were never proved in court, what does he want us to think about the current climate in Hollywood?It’s impossible to ignore the fact that so many women have come forward with accusations against powerful men, including Tarantino’s own longtime producer, who Thurman holds responsible and who The other possibility is that the boat scene is not a speculative imagining but a more truthful representation and that Cliff is actually guilty. He heard accounts of what went down and pieced together a scenario from speculation. He's affable and good-natured with an edge of arrogance, casually racist but somehow still likeable.