Steven Spielberg Waited 60 Years to Tell This Story

Nov 17, 2022 | Movies have been around for roughly 130 years; Spielberg’s career has covered more than a third of that, and counting.

President Obama Plays Daniel Day Lewis in White House Skit
The White House releases a video of Barack Obama pretending to be method actor Daniel Day-Lewis portraying the president. A skit for the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, Obama speaks, as Day-Lewis, about the difficulty in impersonating the presidential voice, as well as the time it takes to create the fake Obama ears. Steven Speilberg, who introduces the video, says he chose method actor Day Lewis as he would 'dive in and really become Barack Obama'

Steven Spielberg Was Target of Arab League Boycott, WikiLeaks Cable Shows
THE GUARDIAN: Leaked dispatch reveals diplomats from 14 Arab states voted to ban the director's films in response to his donation to Israel

A WikiLeaks cable reveals that Steven Spielberg and his Righteous Persons Foundation were the target of an Arab League boycott. Photograph: The Guardian
Steven Spielberg was blacklisted by the Arab League's Central Boycott Office after making a $1m (£645m) donation to Isreal during the 2006 conflict in Lebanon.

A US embassy memo released by WikiLeaks reveals that during a meeting of the group in April 2007, diplomats or representatives from 14 Arab states voted to ban all films and other products related to Spielberg or his Righteous Persons Foundation.

At the confidential US briefing, the head of the Syrian regional office for the boycott of Israel, Muhammad al-Ajami, said that Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen had agreed to ban all Spielberg's works. >>> Amelia Hill | Friday, December 17, 2010

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Steven Spielberg Joins Campaign to Prevent Gay Marriage Ban
Steven Spielberg considers that the ban will “legalize discrimination”. Photo courtesy of The Telegraph
THE TELEGRAPH: Steven Spielberg and his wife have become the latest Hollywood celebrities to help bankroll a bid to defeat a referendum seeking to outlaw gay marriage in California.

The director and Kate Capshaw have donated $100,000 to a campaign to defeat a controversial ballot initiative that will be voted on during the November 4 election.

The measure, known as proposition 8, seeks a ban on same-sex marriage in the wake of the landmark California Supreme Court ruling in May that overturned a previous ban on gay weddings.

The effort to defeat the ban has already attracted the financial backing of actor Brad Pitt, who last week also donated $100,000 to opponents of the proposition.

"By writing discrimination into our state constitution, Proposition 8 seeks to eliminate the right of each and every citizen in our state to marry regardless of sexual orientation," Spielberg and Capshaw said in a statement.

"Such discrimination has no place in California's constitution, or any other."

Marvin Levy, Spielberg's spokesman, later added: "Obviously, he's hopeful that this proposition can be defeated, and that everyone has the same rights."

Same-sex marriage is legal in only two US states - California and Massachusetts, where gay weddings have been legal since 2004. Steven Spielberg Joins Campaign to Prevent Gay Marriage Ban >>> | September 24, 2008

The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback – USA)
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