Exclusive: Slow Burn is one of the most popular podcast franchises with seasons on Watergate and the impeachment of President Clinton as well as a TV adaptation on MGM+.
Slate is now supersizing the audio series by ordering two seasons at once. The company is preparing a seasons on the Briggs Initiative—the country’s first statewide referendum on gay rights as well as Fox News.
The idea is the two seasons will appeal to both long-term Slow Burn fans as well as new listeners who are interested in news and politics but are looking for a different way into the discussions as the country heads closer to a Presidential election.
Derek John, Executive Producer of Narrative Podcasts at Slate, told Deadline that these stories will appeal to both the “most politically-engaged” listeners as well as “those who have become disillusioned with day-to-day coverage”.
“Our goal with Slow Burn is...
Slate is now supersizing the audio series by ordering two seasons at once. The company is preparing a seasons on the Briggs Initiative—the country’s first statewide referendum on gay rights as well as Fox News.
The idea is the two seasons will appeal to both long-term Slow Burn fans as well as new listeners who are interested in news and politics but are looking for a different way into the discussions as the country heads closer to a Presidential election.
Derek John, Executive Producer of Narrative Podcasts at Slate, told Deadline that these stories will appeal to both the “most politically-engaged” listeners as well as “those who have become disillusioned with day-to-day coverage”.
“Our goal with Slow Burn is...
- 2/22/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The Go-Gos, Ava Duvernay and Los Lobos will be among the honorees inducted into the California Hall of Fame next week.
Governor Gavin Newsom and First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom will headline a ceremony at the California Museum on Feb. 6.
Other inductees include master chef Helene An, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, computer scientist Vinton Cerf, federal judge and civil rights leader Thelton E. Henderson, basketball player and sports broadcaster Cheryl Miller, former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and artistic director and choreographer Brenda Way.
The inductees will be the 17th class of individuals to receive the honors, which were started by then-California First Lady Maria Shriver.
Governor Gavin Newsom and First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom will headline a ceremony at the California Museum on Feb. 6.
Other inductees include master chef Helene An, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, computer scientist Vinton Cerf, federal judge and civil rights leader Thelton E. Henderson, basketball player and sports broadcaster Cheryl Miller, former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and artistic director and choreographer Brenda Way.
The inductees will be the 17th class of individuals to receive the honors, which were started by then-California First Lady Maria Shriver.
- 1/30/2024
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Charlie Walker, a San Francisco business owner and social justice icon who was portrayed by Mike Colter in the 2022 biopic I’m Charlie Walker, died Thursday in his hometown, it was announced. He was 89.
Colter, perhaps best known for his turns as Marvel hero Luke Cage, starred alongside Safiya Fredericks and Dylan Baker in the June release from Famm Films and Shout! Studios that was directed by Patrick Gilles.
The son of sharecropper parents, Walker became a successful trucker and in the 1960s led protests to open public construction jobs to Black contractors who were being deliberately snubbed.
He hired trucks that cleaned up San Francisco Bay after a devastating 1971 oil spill, helped good friend and then-Assembly member Willie Brown safely exit City Hall after the 1978 assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk and became one of the first Black employees at the San Francisco Chronicle.
Last year,...
Colter, perhaps best known for his turns as Marvel hero Luke Cage, starred alongside Safiya Fredericks and Dylan Baker in the June release from Famm Films and Shout! Studios that was directed by Patrick Gilles.
The son of sharecropper parents, Walker became a successful trucker and in the 1960s led protests to open public construction jobs to Black contractors who were being deliberately snubbed.
He hired trucks that cleaned up San Francisco Bay after a devastating 1971 oil spill, helped good friend and then-Assembly member Willie Brown safely exit City Hall after the 1978 assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk and became one of the first Black employees at the San Francisco Chronicle.
Last year,...
- 2/1/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jerry Brown in Marina Zenovich’s Jerry Brown: The Disrupter: “It’s a very strange world. It’s Alice in Wonderland.” Photo: courtesy of Marina Zenovich
Marina Zenovich’s inspiring Jerry Brown: The Disrupter features on-camera in-person interviews with former California governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Gray Davis, former assembly speaker Willie Brown, former treasurer Kathleen Brown (Jerry’s sister), Anne Gust Brown (his wife), Peter Coyote, journalists Todd Purdum, Miriam Pawel, George Skelton, Dan Walters, and Warren Olney.
Marina Zenovich with Anne-Katrin Titze on Jerry Brown: “He’s a searcher, he’s curious, he’s inquisitive, he’s intelligent.”
Some of the famous people supporting Jerry Brown’s runs for governor and president are never mentioned by name, they just show up in the background. And the Dead Kennedys’ California Über Alles is strategically placed on the soundtrack.
“The harder you swim upstream the faster you go downstream,” Jerry Brown...
Marina Zenovich’s inspiring Jerry Brown: The Disrupter features on-camera in-person interviews with former California governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Gray Davis, former assembly speaker Willie Brown, former treasurer Kathleen Brown (Jerry’s sister), Anne Gust Brown (his wife), Peter Coyote, journalists Todd Purdum, Miriam Pawel, George Skelton, Dan Walters, and Warren Olney.
Marina Zenovich with Anne-Katrin Titze on Jerry Brown: “He’s a searcher, he’s curious, he’s inquisitive, he’s intelligent.”
Some of the famous people supporting Jerry Brown’s runs for governor and president are never mentioned by name, they just show up in the background. And the Dead Kennedys’ California Über Alles is strategically placed on the soundtrack.
“The harder you swim upstream the faster you go downstream,” Jerry Brown...
- 11/23/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The 1971 San Francisco oil spill that dumped more than 800,000 gallons of crude off its coast was an environmental disaster. But for a shrewd Black trucking entrepreneur named Charlie Walker, it was a golden opportunity to puncture the racism in his industry and to make some serious cash from a rich, embattled oil company. For as long as the system let him, of course.
In telling the story of Walker’s crafty exploits saving a beach and fighting discrimination, the independently made “I’m Charlie Walker” from writer-director Patrick Gilles is its own amorphous discharge, if not so slick.
It boasts a commanding, old-school star-wattage turn from Mike Colter (“Luke Cage”) as the hustling, tussling Walker, but its mix of sidelined Black history and fight-the-power narrative is too messy to have the impact it should, especially after the handful of memorable black-themed Bay Area stories we’ve gotten of late.
Also...
In telling the story of Walker’s crafty exploits saving a beach and fighting discrimination, the independently made “I’m Charlie Walker” from writer-director Patrick Gilles is its own amorphous discharge, if not so slick.
It boasts a commanding, old-school star-wattage turn from Mike Colter (“Luke Cage”) as the hustling, tussling Walker, but its mix of sidelined Black history and fight-the-power narrative is too messy to have the impact it should, especially after the handful of memorable black-themed Bay Area stories we’ve gotten of late.
Also...
- 6/9/2022
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
How many people even remember Crossroads? The 1986 movie starring Ralph Macchio and Joe Seneca as two musicians at different stages in their lives wasn’t something that managed to stand the test of time when it came to the memories of many film lovers. But the story, despite being claimed to borrow from many other movies, was still sound since Eugene, played by Macchio, was portrayed as a young musician who goes on a quest for a legendary musician that was said to have sold his soul to the devil for his talent. When he finds Willie Brown he goes
The Movie Crossroads Could Use a Reboot...
The Movie Crossroads Could Use a Reboot...
- 4/6/2022
- by Tom Foster
- TVovermind.com
Steve DeAngelo has been doing this for a long time.
The man affectionately known as the “father of the legal cannabis industry,” a distinction given by former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, began advocating for legalization all the way back in the 1970s. Little did he know then that the following decade Ronald Reagan would hamstring the movement by demonizing the plant and using it as a pretext to lock up hundreds of thousands of people of color. The tide began to turn in the late 1990s, after medical cannabis was legalized in California.
The man affectionately known as the “father of the legal cannabis industry,” a distinction given by former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, began advocating for legalization all the way back in the 1970s. Little did he know then that the following decade Ronald Reagan would hamstring the movement by demonizing the plant and using it as a pretext to lock up hundreds of thousands of people of color. The tide began to turn in the late 1990s, after medical cannabis was legalized in California.
- 4/20/2021
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
The BET Awards mistakenly included politician Willie Lewis Brown Jr. in its "In Memoriam" segment on Sunday night. Brown, the former mayor of San Francisco, is alive.
The show's producers likely meant to spotlight former NFL star Willie Brown, who died in October at age 78. The Hall of Fame cornerback played with both the Denver Broncos and the Oakland Raiders before going on to coach.
Willie Brown, the 86-year-old retired politician, served in California's State Assembly for 30 years, including 15 as speaker. Later, he became the first Black person to serve as mayor of San ...
The show's producers likely meant to spotlight former NFL star Willie Brown, who died in October at age 78. The Hall of Fame cornerback played with both the Denver Broncos and the Oakland Raiders before going on to coach.
Willie Brown, the 86-year-old retired politician, served in California's State Assembly for 30 years, including 15 as speaker. Later, he became the first Black person to serve as mayor of San ...
- 6/29/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Fox Nation host Tomi Lahren has apologized for a tweet about Kamala Harris that insinuated California’s junior senator slept her “way to the top with Willie Brown.”
Lahren’s tweet during the Democratic presidential candidate debate on Wednesday referenced Harris’ past relationship with former California Assembly Speaker and later San Francisco mayor in the mid-1990s.
“Kamala did you fight for ideals or did you sleep your way to the top with Willie Brown?” Lahren tweeted. She later linked to a USA Today story wherein Brown talked about his past relationship with Harris and acknowledged influencing her early career.
Brown served over 30 years in the California State Assembly, spending 15 years as its speaker and was widely acknowledged as one of the state’s most powerful politicians. Harris dated the married Brown despite a 30-year age gap and received her first significant political appointments from him.
In his capacity as speaker,...
Lahren’s tweet during the Democratic presidential candidate debate on Wednesday referenced Harris’ past relationship with former California Assembly Speaker and later San Francisco mayor in the mid-1990s.
“Kamala did you fight for ideals or did you sleep your way to the top with Willie Brown?” Lahren tweeted. She later linked to a USA Today story wherein Brown talked about his past relationship with Harris and acknowledged influencing her early career.
Brown served over 30 years in the California State Assembly, spending 15 years as its speaker and was widely acknowledged as one of the state’s most powerful politicians. Harris dated the married Brown despite a 30-year age gap and received her first significant political appointments from him.
In his capacity as speaker,...
- 8/1/2019
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Conservative firebrand and Fox Nation host Tomi Lahren on Thursday apologized for a comment about Sen. Kamala Harris’ personal life that she live-tweeted during Wednesday’s Democratic primary debate.
Instead of sticking to the debate like many media personalities, Lahren asked Harris a very personal question: “Kamala did you fight for ideals or did you sleep your way to the top with Willie Brown??”
After widespread criticism for stepping over the line, Lahren backtracked by saying, “I apologize for my comment on Kamala’s personal relationship. It was the wrong choice of words. There are many other things to take her to task for and I will stick to those.”
Also Read: Tomi Lahren Rips Critics of 'Straight Pride Parade': 'Open Season on Straight White Men'
While her tweet was quickly and widely condemned — even by her own colleagues — Lahren initially doubled down Wednesday night, tweeting a link to a...
Instead of sticking to the debate like many media personalities, Lahren asked Harris a very personal question: “Kamala did you fight for ideals or did you sleep your way to the top with Willie Brown??”
After widespread criticism for stepping over the line, Lahren backtracked by saying, “I apologize for my comment on Kamala’s personal relationship. It was the wrong choice of words. There are many other things to take her to task for and I will stick to those.”
Also Read: Tomi Lahren Rips Critics of 'Straight Pride Parade': 'Open Season on Straight White Men'
While her tweet was quickly and widely condemned — even by her own colleagues — Lahren initially doubled down Wednesday night, tweeting a link to a...
- 8/1/2019
- by Lindsey Ellefson
- The Wrap
A new interview with defrocked TV star Roseanne Barr claims the originators of the #MeToo movement are “Hos” and had harsh words for Sen. Kamala Harris, Christine Blasey Ford and others.
In an interview with Fox News host Candace Owens on the Candace Owens Show, Barr let loose with a verbal slam on the women whose stories created the worldwide movement against sexual harassment. “They’re pretending that they didn’t go to trade sexual favors for money,” Barr said, asking why some women find themselves in men’s hotel rooms at 3 a.m.
She added: “Well, you ain’t nothing but a ho. I know a ho when I see one.”
Barr also had choices words about comedian Louis C.K., whom Owens raised. “That’s who I’m talking about, too.” As for Harris, Barr said, “Look at Kamala Harris, who I call Kama Sutra Harris. We all know what she did…...
In an interview with Fox News host Candace Owens on the Candace Owens Show, Barr let loose with a verbal slam on the women whose stories created the worldwide movement against sexual harassment. “They’re pretending that they didn’t go to trade sexual favors for money,” Barr said, asking why some women find themselves in men’s hotel rooms at 3 a.m.
She added: “Well, you ain’t nothing but a ho. I know a ho when I see one.”
Barr also had choices words about comedian Louis C.K., whom Owens raised. “That’s who I’m talking about, too.” As for Harris, Barr said, “Look at Kamala Harris, who I call Kama Sutra Harris. We all know what she did…...
- 3/3/2019
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Ousted ABC star Roseanne Barr used her interview on Sunday’s first episode of “The Candace Owens Show” to issue a fresh round of incendiary comments, questioning the #MeToo movement and slamming several politicians along with Christine Blasey Ford.
Regarding the #MeToo movement and sexual misconduct, Barr explained that someone she had spoken to had said, “‘[The women] were there in the room because they thought they were getting a job 15 years ago,'” a reasoning Barr didn’t find compelling.
“Well, it’s because they’re hos,” she said. “Like if you don’t run out of the room and go, ‘Excuse me you don’t do that to me,’ and leave, but you stayed around because you’re like, ‘Well I thought maybe he was going to give me a writing job,’ well, you aren’t nothing but a ho.”
She went on to blame women who came forward with...
Regarding the #MeToo movement and sexual misconduct, Barr explained that someone she had spoken to had said, “‘[The women] were there in the room because they thought they were getting a job 15 years ago,'” a reasoning Barr didn’t find compelling.
“Well, it’s because they’re hos,” she said. “Like if you don’t run out of the room and go, ‘Excuse me you don’t do that to me,’ and leave, but you stayed around because you’re like, ‘Well I thought maybe he was going to give me a writing job,’ well, you aren’t nothing but a ho.”
She went on to blame women who came forward with...
- 3/3/2019
- by Erin Nyren
- Variety Film + TV
“Fourteen people came up to me and said you should be president,” says Melissa Murray, the interim dean of the Berkeley Law School. She is talking to Gavin Newsom, who just delivered the school’s commencement address. Newsom has been the mayor of San Francisco, and he’s currently lieutenant governor of California, an elected position that’s basically a glorified understudy for governor. Yet to see the mob scene of cooing law students around the 50-year-old candidate for governor — who stands six feet three with a full head of...
- 8/18/2018
- by Neil Strauss
- Rollingstone.com
To start off with this is not the Brittney Spears Crossroads as you might remember, but instead a movie featuring Ralph Macchio that you might not even know about. When guitarist Eugene Martone meets up with Willie Brown, a failed blues musician, he embarks on a journey that will test not only his musical skills, but also his loyalty to a man that eventually becomes one of his best friends. His love for the music becomes the only thing that saves both of them and eventually impresses the individual that holds both his and Willie’s fate in his hands. It’s
10 Things You Didn’t Know about Crossroads (Not the One With Britney Spears)...
10 Things You Didn’t Know about Crossroads (Not the One With Britney Spears)...
- 3/25/2018
- by Tom
- TVovermind.com
Jeff Guinn doesn’t like the expression “drinking the Kool-Aid.”
First, he says, it’s inaccurate: Most of the 918 people who died in the 1977 Jonestown massacre in a remote commune in Guyana, in South America, actually killed themselves by drinking a cyanide solution laced with Flavor Aid, an inexpensive knock-off.
More troubling to Guinn is the glib judgment implied in that expression — and how it has too simply come to represent the willingness of fools to follow deranged leaders.
As Guinn found out while researching and writing The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple, released in bookstores on Tuesday,...
First, he says, it’s inaccurate: Most of the 918 people who died in the 1977 Jonestown massacre in a remote commune in Guyana, in South America, actually killed themselves by drinking a cyanide solution laced with Flavor Aid, an inexpensive knock-off.
More troubling to Guinn is the glib judgment implied in that expression — and how it has too simply come to represent the willingness of fools to follow deranged leaders.
As Guinn found out while researching and writing The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple, released in bookstores on Tuesday,...
- 4/11/2017
- by Greg Hanlon
- PEOPLE.com
In a segment on MSNBC’s Hardball about the dynamics that lead to a victory for President Barack Obama in the 2012 elections, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown said that he found the Democratic Party’s fortune in the last cycle not necessarily indicative of future success. Brown said that Democrats did not win races at the state-level in the numbers they should have and, in combination with Mitt Romney’s weak candidacy, the “cult of the personality” around Obama was more responsible for his victory than the Democratic Party's appeal.
- 1/19/2013
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
On Thursday’s Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown performed a postmortem on Wednesday night’s presidential debate which most political observers agreed President Barack Obama lost. Matthews was confused how, “objectively,” a man with such “scope,” “relevance,” and an “I.Q. in the hundred and whatever range” lost the debate. Brown said that he thought Obama was concerned that if he took on Mitt Romney, the public may have perceived him as “taking advantage of a lesser.”...
- 10/4/2012
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
Rush Limbaugh irritated the many Democrats at junk-bond billionaire Michael Milken's annual conference in Beverly Hills Tuesday night -- especially John Landis. The "Animal House" director was standing in the back of the Beverly Hilton ballroom, next to Post correspondent David Finnigan, when the bombastic conservative graded President Obama "barely a D." Landis stuck his tongue out and loudly razzed the talkmeister and walked out. Obama got an A and an A- from the Democrats on the panel,...
- 5/1/2009
- NYPost.com
Actress Jennifer Siebel has married San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom in Montana.
The couple wed on Saturday with a friend officiating the ceremony in Stevensville.
U.S. TV star Siebel, who features in hit new show Life opposite British star Damian Lewis, wore a Vera Wang gown. Her sisters served as bridesmaids.
Guests included former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and Sex + The City star Jason Lewis, according to People.com.
The couple wed on Saturday with a friend officiating the ceremony in Stevensville.
U.S. TV star Siebel, who features in hit new show Life opposite British star Damian Lewis, wore a Vera Wang gown. Her sisters served as bridesmaids.
Guests included former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and Sex + The City star Jason Lewis, according to People.com.
- 7/28/2008
- WENN
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has tied the knot with actress and producer Jennifer Siebel. Newsom, 40, married Siebel, 34, in Stevensville, Montana on Saturday evening. The ceremony was officiated by a friend of the couple, Carol Simone, according to the mayor's office. Siebel, who has a recurring role on the NBC series Life, wore a Vera Wang gown and jewelry by S.H. Silver Company. The couple's sisters served as bridesmaids, while Newsom's nieces were the flower girls and Siebel's godson served as the ring bearer."I want it to be everything for her that she ever dreamed of," Newsom told...
- 7/25/2008
- by Michael Y. Park
- PEOPLE.com
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