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EXCLUSIVE Hank Azaria feels awful about his years-long portrayal of Apu — but there’s still a way he can get right with the Indian community which he, and others, feel has been harmed by the character. Shereen Bhalla — a rep for the Hindu American Foundation — tells TMZ … Hank doesn’t have to torment himself for his work on “The Simpsons,” or at least he doesn’t have to do it alone. Bhalla says she and the staff at HAF would love to have a sit-down with him. She tells us comin...

No matter who he plays, Bob Odenkirk is a somebody By James Owen Bob Odenkirk pulls off a nifty trick in the action-revenge flick "Nobody," in that I never once became distracted that Bob Odenkirk was the lead in an action-revenge flick. The film feels like a Liam Neeson vehicle infused with the “gun fu” style of "John Wick" and then crafted into the plot structure of David Cronenberg’s "A History of Violence." Which is to say it’s clever, well-choreographed and stylistic. But it’s n...

Columnist Max Fawcett wonders why the Alberta government can't face reality and stop trying to revive the Northern Gateway pipeline project.

Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out whats clicking today in entertainment. John Cleese mocked "The Simpsons" actor Hank Azaria’s recent apology for the Apu character by jokingly apologizing for past Monty Python sketches.  Azaria found himself at the heart of controversy in 2017 when a documentary sparked a conversation about him, a White person, voicing the Indian-American character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon on the show since 1989. The actor appeared o...

  Joshua Kim asked the question whether the COVID pandemic will finally render desk telephones, a venerable technology, obsolete and redundant.  As with Monty Python, ("Im not dead"), any such declaration might be premature.  It might well depend on the particular desk. Granted telephony was invented about 145 years ago, telephone systems and customs have changed numerous times since.   The year I was born, National Geographic ran an advertisement by Bell Telephone, "Good news travels fas...

The Simpsons actor Hank Azaria apologising for voicing an Indian character. Cleese has previously railed against cancel culture, hitting out at permanently offended woke people, insisting that they have no sense of humour and are contributing to the death of comedy. Not wishing to be left behind by Hank Azaria, I would like to apologise on behalf on Monty Python for all the many sketches we did making fun of white English people Were sorry for any distress we may have caused — John Cleese (...

14 Apr 2021 Monty Python veteran John Cleese is mocking fellow actor Hank Azaria over his apology for voicing the role of Apu on Fox’s  The Simpsons. In a sarcastic gesture, Cleese offered his own apology for making fun of “white English people” in numerous Monty Python sketches. John Cleese tweeted his pretend apology Tuesday, just days after Hank Azaria said during a podcast interview that he feels the need “to go to every single Indian person in this country and personally apologiz...

Skip to main content Currently Reading A Tribute to Richard Rush: The Maverick Who Made The Stunt Man Didnt Direct Many Films, but Was Always Ahead of the Curve Owen Gleiberman, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Richard Rush, the director of “The Stunt Man,” died April 8 at the age of 91, and if you look up his credits he has only 14 of them (and one was an episode of “The Mod Squad”). In a career that spanned 35 years, he made just a dozen features. Yet to an unusual degree, he meant e...

CHILDREN ventured into the jungle for a special class - with many meeting other babies for the first time. Hartbeeps held their first ever class for Ulverston parents and their newborns and toddlers yesterday, which owner Philipa Chadwick said had a great turnout. She said: “We started with toddlers, lots of toddlers, and our youngest baby was three weeks old in our final class. “It was really interesting because some of them just stared at each other and just ignored everything. Yo...

So you can add "author" to Brian Johnson's resume. The AC-DC lead singer's autobiography will be titled 'The Lives of Brian'. It'll be out in October. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)