Is Oscar Honoree Jean-Luc Godard an Anti-Semite and 8 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today

godard_reg225.jpgAlso in this morning's edition of The Broadsheet: Bill Maher breaks his silence on Zach Galifianakis and Weedgate... Snow White 3D gets a director... Keith Olbermann suspends one of his signature bits... and more ahead.

· Who knew Jean-Luc Godard's honorary Oscar would be filled with so much intrigue? The New York Times reports that articles in the Jewish press over the last month "have revived a simmering debate over whether Mr. Godard, an avowed anti-Zionist and advocate for Palestinian rights, is also anti-Jewish." For their part, the Academy will "sidestep" the issue while making their Godard clip reel by not including his more controversial work, like a much-discussed scene in Here and There which crosscuts Adolf Hitler and Golda Meir. It's also probably a good thing he's not even going to bother to accept the award. [NYT]

· It looks like Zach Galifianakis didn't smoke pot on Real Time with Bill Maher last week. So says Bill Maher. "I think it was cloves or something," he told Wolf Blitzer. "Zach's crazy, he's not that crazy." Or is he? [CNN]

· Speaking of Zach Galifianakis and weed, how's this for irony? There's a new strain of marijuana making its way through California called "Mel Gibson." According to one person, it's named after the deserving actor because "once you smoke it, you go ballistic." Just what you want in your pot! [TMZ]

· Sony Pictures is still under the impression Ghostbusters III is going to exist. Production Weekly reports that the studio is going into production on the Ivan Reitman film next May. Somewhere, Bill Murray just saw this news, cleared his throat and went back to being Bill Murray. [@prodweek]

· Leave it to Roger Ebert to write an outstanding essay on the NSFW craze. Please note: The essay is NSFW. (Naked ladies!) [Roger Ebert]

· Tarsem Singh has signed on to direct Snow White 3D. To answer your question: No, this isn't the same Snow White reboot that Johnny Depp is circling. Go, Hollywood? [The Wrap]

· After being highly critical of Jon Stewart's Rally for Sanity over the weekend, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann has done the kneejerk thing and suspended his famous "Worst Person in the World" segment. "Its satire and whimsy have gradually gotten lost in some anger, so in the spirit of the thing, as of right now, I am unilaterally suspending that segment with an eye towards discontinuing it," said Olbermann. "We don't know how that works long-term. We might bring it back. We might bring back something similar to it. We might kill it outright." [THR/The Live Feed]

· Congratulations to the San Francisco Giants, who won the World Series last night by beating the Texas Rangers 3-1 and winning the series in five games. Congratulations to the Rangers for embarrassing the New York Yankees in the ALCS, and then subsequently losing to the Giants. [ESPN]

· Today is Election Day so be an American and go vote. How's that sound? Find your local polling place here. [Google]



Comments

  • Furious D says:

    1. An elderly Frenchman might be an anti-Semite? I am shocked and appalled!
    2. Come on, Galifinakis is not Charlie Sheen, he might actually get in trouble if he did it.
    3. You know what this means. Thousands of racist tirades being made while ordering pizza in the wee hours of the night.
    4. It's on the slate right after the Arrested Development movie is finished.
    5. What constitutes "not safe for work" when you work for a pornographer? Maybe I don't want to know.
    6. Hi-ho-hi-ho, it's off to do a sh*tty remake we go.
    7. HOW WILL I KNOW WHICH REPUBLICAN TO HATE THIS WEEK!?! I need guidance because there are just too many of them for me to sort.
    8. There was a World Series?
    9. True story about an election:
    When my father was young he got a job as a monitor for a polling station. Basically his job was to sit with representatives of the political parties and watch the place to make sure there were no shenanigans.
    About halfway through election day, an old man in his 70s shows up, casts his ballot, and then asks: "Do you mind if I wait out front for my father?"
    Figuring that the father must be really old everyone said it was okay. But after a minute one of the poll workers remembered something.
    "Hey," said the poll worker, "your father died twenty years ago!"
    The old man responded: "Yeah, but he still voted in the last three elections, he's bound to show up for this one."