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The “Hoaxtroversy” is our corrupt establishment media’s latest way to pretend bigotry is still a major problem in America. Which means that the media’s need to manufacture a hoaxtroversy (a controversy that proves to be a hoax) actually serves as yet one more slice of proof of just how little racism, sexism, and homophobia exists in this country.

Pro-abortion activist and actress Alyssa Milano has unveiled a map of the United States that she insists will help Hollywood studios, actors, producers, and directors decide “where it is safe for women to work” after several states passed laws restricting abortions after a heartbeat is detected. 

Smollett is a national joke whose only hope of employment is to allow himself to be exploited as a sideshow freak in some straight-to-DVD dreck looking to turn Smollett’s status as a pariah into free publicity.  

Unplanned’s success is yet more proof that the fascist establishment no longer has the ability to control the flow of information or shape public opinion.

Radio stations around the country are dropping music from Grammy-nominated rock star Ryan Adams following a series of allegations of sexual misconduct against him, including inappropriate contact with a minor, Variety reports. 

Tere will be a reckoning, experts say, a legal and reputational one that could result in Smollett being tossed in the clinks, followed by a career wilderness from which he will never return.

This Variety review reads exactly like the notes Joseph Stalin gave Soviet filmmakers.

Disney is standing firm on the decision to fire Guardians director James Gunn.

Variety, one of Hollywood’s most influential trade publications, is being raked over the coals with social media users blasting the outlet for failing to invite female writers to an event meant to highlight the industry’s top talent.

Roseanne isn’t just beating its competition on Tuesday nights, as the numbers show, its beating the competition every other night of the week as well.

PBS has indefinitely suspended longtime talk show host Tavis Smiley over “troubling allegations” that he sexually harassed staffers, and retaliated against those who refused him.

Rose McGowan claims she told actor Ben Affleck that Harvey Weinstein allegedly raping her. Not only did she tell Affleck, she claims to have told him almost immediately after the alleged crime way back in 1997.

Out of the growing fear that the Harvey Weinstein sex scandal is about to spin out of control, is about to bring down those (like Ben Affleck) who are not useless has-beens like Harvey, the bombshell news that The Weinstein Company board knew of Harvey’s payoffs to women is being downplayed, especially by the Hollywood trades. Nevertheless, it is still a bombshell.

Good faith searches reveal that, as of this writing, nowhere on the home page of either Variety, Deadline, or the Hollywood Reporter will you find a headline with the words “Ben” or “Affleck.” How is this possible in a news cycle where Hollywood’s Batman is being dubbed “Buttman” due to a whole new round of groping allegations?

Thursday’s New York Times bombshell, which has effectively ended Oscar-winning producer and Democrat super-donor Harvey Weinstein’s career, contains two equally disturbing pieces of news, only one of which the national media will report and explore.

The awesome news is that cord-cutting *is* accelerating. There is no question about it.

During comments aired on Friday’s edition of CNN’s “The Lead,” Joe Bel Bruno, Managing Editor of Variety, argued that there hasn’t been anyone among the Hollywood left saying that violent remarks about President Trump go too far, and the left

Just three weeks into her new Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly program, Megyn Kelly’s “star is dimmer than ever,” according to television industry publication Variety.

Golden Globe-winning actress Jessica Chastain says she fears “good people will become crazy”under the Trump administration.

Chelsea Clinton opened up about her political activism, Donald Trump’s presidency, the next chapter of the Clinton Foundation and her social media use in a wide-ranging interview Tuesday for the cover of Variety’s “Power of Women New York” issue.

Chelsea Clinton will receive a “Lifetime Impact Award” as one of Variety magazine’s Lifetime Impact Honorees for humanitarian work.

Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, Girls star and showrunner Lena Dunham, Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones, Buzzfeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith, late-night host Jimmy Fallon and Grammy Award-winning musician Alicia Keys are among those featured in Hollywood trade publication Variety’s 2016 “New Power of New York” list.

Hollywood trade publication Variety will host its first conference on diversity and inclusion in the entertainment industry in November, the outlet announced Monday.

Talk show host Chelsea Handler ripped Donald Trump in an interview at Variety’s Entertainment and Tech Summit this week, calling the Republican presidential candidate a representation of “everything that’s wrong in the world.”

The first reviews for the all-female-led Ghostbusters reboot are in, and they’re not good.

Actress Rose McGowan defended fellow actress Renée Zellweger and blasted Variety’s new chief film critic Owen Gleiberman — who wrote an article late last month taking a critical look at Hollywood’s obsession with plastic surgery — in an essay for the Hollywood Reporter this week.

Veteran actor Robert De Niro told an Obama birther joke and followed it up with a one-liner about Republicans while honoring Morgan Freeman at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Chaplin Award ceremony in New York on Monday.

Kelly shares this year’s honors with actresses Lupita Nyong’o and Julianne Moore, fashion designer Vera Wang and renowned ballet dancer Misty Copeland. The five women will be feted at Variety’s Power of Women luncheon in Manhattan on April 8. As part of the outlet’s special issue, Kelly spoke at length about her public battle with GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, her desire to interview Democrat frontrunner Hillary Clinton and her future at Fox News.

Left-wing actress Lena Dunham says she has received “more hostility” from supporters of democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders than she ever has from conservatives.

Startup film distributor Supergravity Pictures is now marketing the 2015 Australian documentary Gayby Baby, which tells the stories of four different children being raised in gay and lesbian families.

Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly has been selected along with four other female entertainment industry leaders to receive Lifetime Impact honors at Variety’s annual Power of Women: New York event next month.

Former 60 Minutes journalist Michael Bronner is developing a feature film based on the upcoming memoir of Canadian-Egyptian former Al-Jazeera reporter Mohamed Fahmy, who spent more than a year in Egypt’s most notorious prison on allegedly false charges.

Actor Stephen Furst, who is best known for playing the role of Flounder in 1978’s “Animal House,” has accused the Academy of “ageism and sexism” in choosing to “scapegoat” its older white male members “in order to deflect the criticism about the lack of diversity” in this year’s all white acting nominees.

During a recent interview with Variety, Sylvester Stallone revealed he once considered going into politics and said he thinks Republican frontrunner Donald Trump is of a rare breed of people who are “larger than life.”

In evaluating his least favorite films of 2015, Variety film critic Peter Debruge slammed leftwing filmmaker Michael Moore’s latest project as “an embarrassment to America.”

While discussing wage inequality for women in Hollywood, actress Sandra Bullock said she’s glad the film industry is being held accountable for its business practices.