A British media group born out of a pro-Palestinian "hack for Gaza" is running a worldwide campaign to keep cinemas from screening Sacha Baron Cohen's upcoming film, while insisting the effort has nothing to do with the Jewish actor's support for Israel. NewsCord, a U.K.-based outfit founded in late 2023, roughly a month after Hamas's […] The post Anti-Israel group with Irish media backing is behind campaign to block Sacha Baron Cohen's new Ali G film appeared first on American Almanac .
A British media group born out of a pro-Palestinian "hack for Gaza" is running a worldwide campaign to keep cinemas from screening Sacha Baron Cohen's upcoming film, while insisting the effort has nothing to do with the Jewish actor's support for Israel. NewsCord, a U.K.-based outfit founded in late 2023, roughly a month after Hamas's October 7 attack, has been flooding theaters with what it describes as tens of thousands of emails from moviegoers demanding they refuse to show Ali G: Who Iz I?, the first Ali G film in two decades. The group frames its objection as a stand against racial stereotypes. But financial disclosures reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show that an Irish investor who also bankrolls an anti-Israel publication…Open
Actress Isla Fisher, 50, went public with a blunt story about losing interest in a man she was dating after her divorce from Sacha Baron Cohen, and the reason had nothing to do with what he said. Fisher appeared on the Overheard Happy Hour TikTok account and shared what she called a "dating ick" from […] The post Isla Fisher opens up about post-divorce dating after split from Sacha Baron Cohen appeared first on American Almanac .
Actress Isla Fisher, 50, went public with a blunt story about losing interest in a man she was dating after her divorce from Sacha Baron Cohen, and the reason had nothing to do with what he said. Fisher appeared on the Overheard Happy Hour TikTok account and shared what she called a "dating ick" from her new life as a single woman. The moment that ended things, she told the hosts, came down to the way a grown man chased his own dog. "I liked somebody. His dog ran away and he chased his dog," Fisher said. The problem was not the pursuit itself but the form. "But instead of chasing upright, he ran low with his hands outstretched, like a cartoon." Fisher delivered the punchline without hesitation: "By the time he caught the dog, he had…Open