The Miss Universe Organization is arguably in better hands now. On Wednesday, it was announced that Anne Jakkaphong Jakrajutatip — a Thai media tycoon who has been open about her experiences as a trans woman — purchased the pageant for 20 million, CNN reports. Jakrajutatip is also the CEO of Jkn Global Group Pcl, a Thailand-based media distribution company. With the acquisition, she becomes the first woman to own the organization, the same company once owned by former President Donald Trump.
Jakrajutatip, who said in a release she was “incredibly honored” to make the purchase of the company,...
Jakrajutatip, who said in a release she was “incredibly honored” to make the purchase of the company,...
- 10/28/2022
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett’s play The Diary of Anne Frank is getting a timely retooling. Director Stan Zimmerman is helming a new version of the play that will change the narrative from the Nazis’ hunting down and oppression of Jewish people to a story about Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents hunting down illegal immigrants.
The reimagined play is set to run for a limited three-week run at the Dorie Theatre in Los Angeles starting Sept. 6. The original follows Frank as she chronicles her Jewish family hiding during the WWII Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The new production from Pop-Up Playhouse and Anne Kathryn Parma is inspired by a true story of a Jewish woman in Los Angeles who created a safe house for a Latina mother and her two daughters after her husband was deported by Ice.
Zimmerman is a former writer from the original Roseanne run — not...
The reimagined play is set to run for a limited three-week run at the Dorie Theatre in Los Angeles starting Sept. 6. The original follows Frank as she chronicles her Jewish family hiding during the WWII Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The new production from Pop-Up Playhouse and Anne Kathryn Parma is inspired by a true story of a Jewish woman in Los Angeles who created a safe house for a Latina mother and her two daughters after her husband was deported by Ice.
Zimmerman is a former writer from the original Roseanne run — not...
- 8/4/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Tasha Dixon, who was Miss Arizona in 2001, said that Donald Trump would casually walk into pageant dressing rooms while contestants were nude or changing into bikinis, according to CBS 2 Los Angeles. Dixon was 18 years old at the time and Trump was the owner of the Miss USA pageant, along with Miss Universe and Miss Teen USA pageants. “Our first introduction to him was when we were at the dress rehearsal and half naked changing into our bikinis,” Dixon told the station. “He just came strolling right in. There was no second to put a robe on or any sort...
- 10/12/2016
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
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