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10-06-2025
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Donald Trump Threatens That Any Protesters At Upcoming Military Parade 'Will Be Met With Very Big Force'
Donald Trump warned that those who come out to protest Saturday's military parade, held on the same day as his 79th birthday, 'will be met with very big force.' 'If there's any protests that wants to come out, they will be met with very big force,' Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday. '…And I haven't even heard about a protest, but, you know, this is people that hate our country. But they will be met with very heavy force.' More from Deadline Condé Nast Taps Mark Guiducci To Lead Vanity Fair CNN Gets A Big Viewership Bump With Live Telecast Of 'Good Night, And Good Luck' Michael Stipe, Jason Isbell & Brandi Carlile Among Artists Featured On Album To Benefit Democracy Forward's Legal Challenges Nationwide protests are being planned for Saturday in what is being organized as No Kings Day, with more than 1,500 events planned across the country. Trump's comments come after his decision to send 2,000 National Guard troops to respond to protests in Los Angeles over ICE's immigration raids. On Monday, military officials announced that hundreds of Marines also will be deployed, while Governor Gavin Newsom said that an additional 2,000 National Guard troops have been ordered. Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and other local officials say that Trump's sending of the military is an overreaction that has inflamed the situation. Newsom and state Attorney General Rob Bonta sued the Trump administration, arguing that the president overstepped his authority. The military parade will be held on Saturday evening in Washington, with plans for a show of fighter jets, helicopters, tanks and, per Axios, and even rocket launchers and missiles. The purpose of the parade is to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Army, but Trump will have a reviewing stand on the Ellipse as the parade makes its way up Constitution Avenue. The parade will cost $45 million, including as much as $16 million to repair streets, according to NBC News. The costs are estimates, but some lawmakers, including Republicans, have questioned the expenditure. Per Fox News' Jennifer Griffin, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told reporters on Tuesday, 'Never been a big fan of goose-stepping soldiers in big tanks and missiles rolling down the street.' For the Army's bicentennial on June 14, 1975, President Gerald Ford did not preside over a military parade but attended a ceremony at Fort Benning, GA. Ford started his speech by quipping about his recent stumble down the steps of Air Force One during a visit to Salzburg, Austria. Best of Deadline Sean 'Diddy' Combs Sex-Trafficking Trial Updates: Cassie Ventura's Testimony, $10M Hotel Settlement, Drugs, Violence, & The Feds A Full Timeline Of Blake Lively & Justin Baldoni's 'It Ends With Us' Feud In Court, Online & In The Media Where To Watch All The 'John Wick' Movies: Streamers That Have All Four Films
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10-06-2025
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Condé Nast Taps Mark Guiducci To Lead Vanity Fair
Condé Nast has selected Mark Guiducci, creative editorial director at Vogue, to lead Vanity Fair as global editorial director. Radhika Jones, who led the publication for seven years, recently stepped down. More from Deadline CNN's Gets A Big Viewership Bump With Live Telecast Of 'Good Night, And Good Luck' Michael Stipe, Jason Isbell & Brandi Carlile Among Artists Featured On Album To Benefit Democracy Forward's Legal Challenges Denise Rehrig Named Executive Producer Of ABC News Live's 'Prime With Linsey Davis' In a statement, Guiducci said, 'The world today is spinning faster than ever, as the forces of Hollywood, politics, the arts, money, and style collide with the drama of a Verdi opera in its final act. At the center of it all, documenting the stakes and the spectacle, is Vanity Fair.' He will oversee all markets where Vanity Fair is published, including the United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy and Spain. Vanity Fair, revived in the early 1980s by Condé Nast, proved to be hugely influential with its cover celebrities, fashion and investigative features, packed with pages of ads from top name luxury brands. But the magazine industry as a whole isn't what it once was, and Vanity Fair has deployed a number of endeavors to capture the digital audience. According to the Alliance for Audited Media, the circulation of Vanity Fair was about 1.25 million as of the end of last year. Anna Wintour, chief creative officer of Condé Nast, said in a statement, that Guiducci was 'an energetic and creative editor at the center of his generation and a leader under whom Vanity Fair will grow in ways I can foresee and, no doubt, many ways I can't. None of us knows what the future will bring — only that Vanity Fair will define it under Mark.' Guiducci has been in his position at Vogue since 2020. In their announcement, Condé Nast highlighted some of his new initiatives at Vogue, including the launch of a TikTok channel and a flagship podcast, as well as the model search Open Casting call. Guiducci previously was editor in chief of Garage, the art publication, and he also worked in the features department at Vogue and as assistant to the managing editor at Vanity Fair. Best of Deadline Sean 'Diddy' Combs Sex-Trafficking Trial Updates: Cassie Ventura's Testimony, $10M Hotel Settlement, Drugs, Violence, & The Feds A Full Timeline Of Blake Lively & Justin Baldoni's 'It Ends With Us' Feud In Court, Online & In The Media Where To Watch All The 'John Wick' Movies: Streamers That Have All Four Films
Time of India
09-06-2025
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Clooney Takes Subtle Dig At Trump On Tony Awards Red Carpet
/ Jun 09, 2025, 07:00PM IST George Clooney took an indirect dig at U.S. President Donald Trump during a Tony Awards red carpet interview. The actor-filmmaker was talking 'power' dynamics in today's America as he discussed his latest project, 'Good Night, And Good Luck'. Clooney pointed at how themes of his Broadway play ring true today. Watch-
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06-06-2025
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Sean 'Diddy' Combs Used Ex-Girlfriend 'Jane' As A Drug Mule, Last 'Freak-Off' Occurred Just Before Arrest, Sex-Trafficking Trial Hears
Drugs were a big part of Sean 'Diddy' Combs' life and so-called 'freak-offs,' the jury in the Bad Boy Records founder's sex-trafficking trial have repeatedly heard, and this morning the court learned how he used the people in his inner circle to get Ecstasy and more in his hands. They also heard how Combs continued to engage in the drug-fueled sex sessions ever as the law closed in on him last year. 'I just asked her if this was safe and okay,' Combs' ex-girlfriend 'Jane,' a pseudonym, said detailing a conversation with the ex-mini mogul's then top aide Kristina Khorram about her concerns of taking a bag of drugs from LA to Miami. On her second day on the stand, Jane revealed that 'KK' replied, 'it's fine, I do it all the time, just put it in your checked in luggage.' More from Deadline Judge Threatens To Bar Sean 'Diddy' Combs From Courtroom If He Continues To Interact With Jurors Sean 'Diddy' Combs: An Updated Timeline Of Charges, Allegations & Consequences The Rap Mogul Faces George Clooney Previews Saturday's Live Telecast Of 'Good Night, And Good Luck' On CNN: "Some Networks Aren't Really Up For Doing This Right Now"; How To Watch In her sometimes-tear-filled testimony under questioning from the U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, 'Jane' spoke of other occasions when she transported Ecstasy across state lines in a plane for Combs. On the subject of drugs, which 'Jane' like previous witness and Combs' ex Cassie Ventura testified as well, said pills, cocaine and more were a primary inducement for the marathon 'freak-off' sex sessions with male escorts. To that, the witness spoke of Combs getting his personal assistants and security details to procure more when his current stash ran out for the often filmed 'freak-offs' Those sex sessions took more and more of a toll on 'Jane,' the witness said Friday, stating how she unsuccessfully begged Combs to have the other men wear condoms, the long days some of the 'freak-off' went, and the fears she had things could get violent with everyone on drugs. On trial in New York City since May 12, the 55-year-old Combs could end up spending the rest of his life in prison if found guilty on federal charges of racketeering, sex trafficking, transportation to engage in prostitution and more. From 'Jane' the past two days and before that Ventura's pal Bryana Bongolan, who had told the court Wednesday that Combs had dangled her off a 17th-story balcony in 2016, the panel of eight men and four women in the courtroom has heard explicit and sometimes heartrending testimony about rapes, emotional and physical violence, blackmail, and filmed drug-juiced 'freak-offs' from the 'Me & U' singer, male escorts, and his ex-personal assistant 'Mia.' Like other witnesses in the trial, 'Mia' also spoke of watching the much-accused Combs beat, abuse and manipulate Ventura, as he did to many of the people in his orbit. In a preemptive move from their opening statement, the defense has admitted their client is guilty of domestic violence, has been a heavy drug user, a swinger, and is overall not a very nice person. Yet, in that admission, which also saw attempts to undermine the credibility of accusers like Ventura, and 'Jane,' attorney Teny Geragos made a point over and over of emphasizing that Combs isn't on trial in this criminal case for any of that, and that his relationships, as kinky as things could get, were always with consenting adults. Thursday saw things get even more immediately tense for Combs, as the usually lenient Judge Arun Subramanian threatened to have the sweater wearing and white-haired defendant removed from his own trial if he kept 'nodding vigorously' and interacting with the jury. There was little response from usually verbose lead defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo except a promise to make sure Combs maintained proper courtroom decorum. Combs certainly made a few looks in the jury's way today, but the judge seemed to let it go – for now. Having been involved with Combs since early 2021, self-described online influencer and single mother 'Jane' first told the lower Manhattan courtroom of who sweet and loving Combs was during the early days of their relationship. How he offered to pay for a house for her, and supplement her income now that she was spending so much time with him. However, as Ventura and others have stated, that shifted over time and the accused appeared to employ old school pimp tactics to control and totally dominate the woman. Again, like he did with Ventura and others, as the prosecution clearly intends to convey to the jury, a sometimes semen-smeared Combs used the same M.O. of drugs, blackmail, fear and violence to make a baby oiled up, lingerie and high-heels wearing 'Jane' participate in the 'freak-offs.' 'Jane' told the jury of a September 2023 text she sent to Combs on her anguish over the 'freak-offs' and being forced to have sex with other paid men for Combs' pleasure. 'It's hurting me, she told Combs, 'It's dark, sleazy and makes me feel disgusted with myself.' The text added: 'I don't want to play this role anymore. I'm so much more than this …I feel like it's the only reason you have me around and pay for the house.' 'Girl, stop,' Combs tersely replied. Originally only taking place in upscale hotel suites from May 2021 to October 2023, sometimes with escorts and sometimes with porn stars, the 'freak-offs' or 'hotel nights' came to an end for about three months, 'Jane' said today. The conclusion of the sex sessions came about a month before Ventura filed her very quickly settled ($20 million) abuse and assault suit against her 2007-2018 boyfriend Combs. After that suit, dozens and dozens of other civil suits against Combs followed, as well as raids of his L.A. and Miami homes by the feds and CNN's broadcasting of hotel security footage of the 'All About the Benjamins' performer kicking, berating and beating Ventura as she sought to escape a 2016 L.A. 'freak-off.' On her last day on the stand, the then heavily pregnant Ventura was forced by the defense to admit she is going to receive a $10 million settlement from the owners of the InterContinental. Today, 'Jane' said that the 'freak-offs' picked up again in February 2024, but now they took place at Combs' Florida home. There were a total of five such sessions, 'Jane' noted, with the last one occurring in August 2024, just a few weeks before Combs was arrested in NYC on the charges he is facing in this trial. Set to end before the July 4 holiday, Judge Subramanian promised the jurors, the trial runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. ET every weekday – except when it goes longer at the judge's discretion. Best of Deadline 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery 2025 TV Cancellations: Photo Gallery 'Stick' Soundtrack: All The Songs You'll Hear In The Apple TV+ Golf Series
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06-06-2025
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George Clooney Previews Saturday's Live Telecast Of ‘Good Night, And Good Luck' on CNN: 'Some Networks Aren't Really Up For Doing This Right Now'
Decades before CNN agreed to a live telecast of Broadway's Good Night, and Good Luck on June 7, George Clooney had originally envisioned it as a special for CBS, not a movie for theaters and a play on Broadway. 'But then there was that mishap with Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake at the Super Bowl,' recalls Clooney to Deadline. 'And suddenly I got a call from the head of CBS saying, 'we're out of the live TV business.' So we wrote it as a movie.' More from Deadline 'Good Night, And Good Luck's Penultimate Performance On Broadway To Air Live On CNN 'Good Night, And Good Luck' Starring George Clooney Recoups $9.5 Million Broadway Investment Biden Blasts Trump Over "False" Claims That Aides Ran Country During His Presidency; Current POTUS Admits He Has No Proof For Allegation - Update Clooney's vision has finally come full circle. For the penultimate performance of Good Night, and Good Luck — which opened in April and has since become the highest-grossing production in the history of the Shubert Organization — Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre will be equipped with 21 cameras for the live broadcast that's set to kick off at 7 p.m. ET Saturday on CNN and CNN International. It will also stream live on and via CNN's apps on connected TVs and mobile devices, without requiring a cable login, as well as on Max across all subscription plans. 'This is just the natural gestation,' says Clooney of Good Night, and Good Luck's trajectory from a 2005 film to a first-ever live telecast of a Broadway play. 'Obviously some of the networks aren't really up for the idea of doing this right now. I think they're all a little shellshocked from tariff talk and lawsuits and everything else.' That's where Warner Bros Discovery came in. In early May, Clooney called CEO David Zaslav about finding the right platform for the play that recently received five Tony Award nominations, including Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for Clooney. 'I have a little bit of a history with doing live television,' says Clooney. 'I talked NBC into doing ER as a live show, and then I did a live movie called Fail Safe for CBS. Saturday is a good night for us because it's our last evening performance. Our run is over so it's not costing the play anything anymore. Why don't we open it up and show people how fun it is to come to New York to see a play?' CNN anchors Anderson Cooper and Pamela Brown will lead special live coverage that begins at 6:30 pm ET outside of the Winter Garden Theatre. Immediately following the broadcast, Cooper will host an exclusive special to discuss the production and state of global journalism. Den of Thieves is producing the live show. Executive producers are Clooney, Grant Heslov, Deena Katz, Jeff Skoll and Todd Wagner, as well as Jesse Ignjatovic, Evan Prager and Barb Bialkowski. The plan isn't to infringe on the audience who bought tickets a long time ago, insists Clooney. Cameras with long lenses will be perched in the back of the house while others will be hidden in speakers and TV monitors so viewers can get up close and personal shots of the action. 'We're not re-blocking the play,' says Clooney of the drama that he co-wrote with Heslov, who will serve as co-director of the telecast with Micah Bickham. 'We made this play from a movie. We don't need to do another movie. We're not doing that kind of coverage. It's still a play and we want people to see the audience and we want people to see big wider shots, to see how sets are changing and then to get in closer. So it's a bit of everything. We want it to feel like a very unique theater experience.' The only instructions for the theater audience that night will be to get their butts in the seats before curtain. 'It's going to get a little ugly if you come walking in once the show starts. There are no commercial breaks or anything,' says Clooney. 'It's a funny thing that happens in a live show. I remember the Obamas were here the other day and everybody was so excited. The play was four minutes shorter than it normally is. So I expect having done live television before with ER and with Fail Safe, I expect the show will pick up a little pace. But we'll get into a groove.' If there's one message that Clooney hopes to get across to viewers, it's the importance of a free press and speaking truth to power — one of the key tenets of the Clooney Foundation for Justice that the actor has run with his wife, Amal, since 2016. 'Murrow was taking on McCarthy at a time when people were afraid. And you could see fear permeating in the law firms and in the networks and in the universities,' says Clooney. 'It's a good thing to remind ourselves that we've been afraid before and we survive these things and we will get through it. The most important thing you can do is to constantly challenge people in power. You have to or they win.' Good Night, and Good Luck closes its theatrical run with a matinee performance on Sunday, June 8. There is talk about taking the show to London — which Clooney addressed recently on Late Night with Seth Meyers — but it doesn't sound like the actor plans to keep his hair tinted black for a new run across the pond. 'We have a home there and it might be fun to do something in London, but I think there should be someone else involved in it first and then maybe I could come in for a while afterwards,' he tells Deadline. 'It's fun to see other people take a turn with it to see what they do with it.' Until then, he's sorry to say goodbye to Broadway but is looking forward to putting his feet up and getting back to normal. 'I feel very lucky to be part of the person giving that message out, and I will miss that terribly,' he says. 'But I'm ready to grow some gray hair out, that's for sure.' Best of Deadline 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery 2025 TV Cancellations: Photo Gallery 'Stick' Soundtrack: All The Songs You'll Hear In The Apple TV+ Golf Series
