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From actors to execs to CEOs to politicos, a lengthy roster of culturally relevant movers and shakers has been added to the lineup for next year’s South by Southwest Conference which runs March 8-17, 2019 in Austin, Tex. Joseph Lubin, the Founder of ConsenSys and co-founder of blockchain platform Ethereum, has been…

UPDATED with video: In a rambling one-hour interview, Roseanne Barr took Sean Hannity’s suggestion that she address directly address former President Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett for having tweeted about her: “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes has a baby=VJ”. [Watch above, and more below] "If she's…

As Roseanne Barr prepares for her interview with Sean Hannity on Thursday, Valerie Jarrett — the former adviser to President Obama who Barr called out in a racist tweet that got her fired by ABC — was on The View today and had some advice for potential viewers: “I think there are just so many issues that are more…

Roseanne Barr, following through on her pledge to bypass “stressful & untrustworthy” TV interviews, has posted a promised YouTube message to explain “what happened & why” with regard to her tweet about Valerie Jarrett – the one that compared the former Obama aide to a Planet of the Apes character and torpedoed Barr’s…

Speaking at the Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards in Los Angeles on Wednesday, ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey talked about the importance of standing up to things that don’t match our values and beliefs. Dungey made the comments while accepting the Lucy Award for Excellence in Television, which came on…

Refresh for updates Roseanne Barr says the tweet that got her sitcom Roseanne canceled – the one likening former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett to a Planet of the Apes character – was not only not racist, but was a condemnation of anti-semitism. “Rod Serling wrote Planet of The Apes,” Barr tweeted tonight. “It was about…

It’s been 24 hours since Roseanne Barr has tweeted, finally making good on Tuesday’s promise to leave Twitter after apologizing for her TV empire toppling tweet in which she described former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett as "Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj". Since Tuesday’s tweet, Barr’s Twitter…

We’ve reached the “I am not a racist” stage of Roseanne Barr’s grief over losing her big come-back break over yet another tweet comparing a black female member of the Obama administration to an ape, this time Valerie Jarrett. Of course, that claim lost about 30% of its impact when she also retweeted what purports to…

Roseanne Barr has gone from an apology to everyone who worked on her ABC sitcom for her “stupid” tweet that cost them their jobs, to attacking any of them who dared to denounce/despair over that tweet comparing Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett to an ape. "Don't feel sorry for me, guys!!," Roseanne tweeted initially. "I…

UPDATED 6:40 AM PT with additional tweets: After announcing Tuesday morning that she was leaving Twitter following the first wave of backlash against her racially insensitive “ape” tweet about Valerie Jarrett, Roseanne Barr returned to the social media platform with a vengeance Tuesday night, tweeting, retweeting and…

Former Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, who’d been previously scheduled to appear on MSNBC’s town hall about racism in America, finally takes the opportunity to weigh in on the racist tweets Roseanne Barr sent out about her earlier in the day. Very early Tuesday morning, Barr had tweeted comparing Jarrett to an ap…

ABC has abruptly canceled Roseanne Barr’s hit comedy series revival following a morning in which the star launched a tirade of racist and anti-semitic tweets. “Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show,” ABC Entertainment president…