Episode 40: Plus, why did social media label Ellie Kemper a “KKK princess”?
Daniel Goldblatt | June 3, 2021 @ 5:07 PM
This week on “TheWrap-Up,” hosts Sharon Waxman and Daniel Goldblatt discussed the big Memorial Day Weekend box office numbers, the drama surrounding Ellie Kemper’s beauty pageant appearance when she was 19 and the big paydays for Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav.
Then, it’s part two of TheWrap’s “Conversations on Cancel Culture” series. In this discussion, we talk about film and separating art from the artist. Should old movies with problematic themes be forgotten or explained? Should we avoid entertainment made by actors or filmmakers whose behavior we question? The panel was moderated by Stephen Galloway, dean of the film school at Chapman University, and features critics Alonso Duralde of TheWrap, Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post and Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune.
Skye Townsend (“A Black Lady Sketch Show”) along with crisis PR manager
Matthew Hiltzik.
PANELIST BIOS:
Ann Hornaday began her career at Ms. Magazine and eventually started writing about movies for the New York Times. In 1995 she became the movie critic at the Austin American-Statesman before becoming a movie critic for the Baltimore Sun. In 2002, Hornaday began working at the Washington Post, where she is currently a film critic. Ann is the author of “Talking Pictures: How to Watch Movies” and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism in 2008.
Michael Phillips is the Chicago Tribune film critic. Prior to that, he was the theater critic for the Los Angeles Times and the San Diego-Union Tribune, and started out his career as the arts editor and film critic for the Twin Cities weekly City Pages. He’s co-hosted over 100 episodes of “At the Movies,” including a season with A.O. Scott, and more recently introduced 100 or so films on Turner Classic Movies.
It is a grave and serious examination by John Harwood as he traces back the perceived incivility today in Washington to the obstinate actions of GOP leaders in Congress. Harwood references an article from 2012, written by Tom Mann and Norm Ornstein, that supposedly exposes the Republicans of being an apocalyptic cult, to put things mildly and absent of all melodrama. Their conclusions – that the GOP had become ideologically extreme, scornful of compromise, unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science, dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.
Sounds harsh, to be sure. But here is where it is rather telling. In order to find this example of extreme partisan obstinance in Congress, Harwood had to reach back nearly a decade, meaning he had to overlook the behavior and actions witnessed in 2020. It is a curious choice, because if one is to be bothered by a single party working to oppose all it can as far as legislation is concerned –
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