Broadway actors protest for inclusion and removal of accused producer Scott Rudin
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More than 100 Broadway and theater actors, staff and workers marched in protest Thursday, calling the full resignation of Scott Rudin and demanded additional diversity in the industry. Rudin, an award-winning film, television and theater producer, is accused of bullying and harassing employees.
"We want to shut Scott Rudin out of the Broadway League," Nattalyee Randall, march co-organizer, told CBS New York, referring to theater's biggest union. Rudin stepped back from his current and upcoming Broadway and film projects, including the highly-anticipated Broadway revival of "The Music Man" starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster. This comes after accusations of bullying, harassment and abuse by current and former employees that were detailed in a recent expose published in the Hollywood Reporter.Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday said it will consider the constitutionality of the Federal Communications Commission's Universal Service Fund, agreeing to review a lower court decision that upended the mechanism for funding programs that provide communications services to rural areas, low-income communities and schools, libraries and hospitals.
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