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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 24 June 2017
Depp’s ‘assassin’ comments the latest in celebrity anger

Kathy Griffin, who lost her
By MARK KENNEDY job co-hosting CNN’s New
AP Entertainment Writer Year’s Eve special and had
NEW YORK (AP) — Johnny all her upcoming comedy
Depp has sparked contro- shows canceled after pos-
versy for joking about as- ing for a photograph in
sassinating Donald Trump which she gripped a like-
during an appearance at ness of the president’s sev-
a large festival in Britain, ered, bloody head. Pop
the latest example of artists star Madonna also was
using violent imagery when criticized for saying at a
dealing with the president. rally that she had thought
“When was the last time “an awful lot about blow-
an actor assassinated a ing up the White House.”
president?” Depp asked Musicians have also gone
the crowd at Glastonbury after the president, with a
Festival, in reference to the Snoop Dogg’s video of him
death of Abraham Lincoln shooting a Trump-lookalike
by John Wilkes Booth in clown and Moby putting
1865. The 54-year-old “Pi- out a video in which Trump
rates of the Caribbean” resembles a Nazi-like Iron
star then added: “I want to Man who takes over the
qualify, I am not an actor. world with a missile-firing
I lie for a living. However, it Actor Johnny Depp introduces a film at the Glastonbury music festival at Worthy Farm, in Somer- machine shaped like a
has been awhile and may- set, England, Thursday, June 22, 2017. swastika and dollar symbol.
be it is time.” Associated Press Trump’s election has not
The Secret Service in a quieted many in the arts
statement said Friday it “is screening of his 2004 film, the way, this is going to be cized for its production of community who assailed
in the press. It will be horri-
“Julius Caesar” that por-
aware of the comments in “The Libertine.” He played the candidate, with Robert
question. For security rea- Trump last year in a Funny ble.” Depp’s remarks came trayed a Trump-like dicta- De Niro saying he’d “like
eight days after a gunman tor in a business suit with a
sons, we cannot discuss or Die video parody of the to punch” Trump “in the
specifically nor in general businessman’s 1987 book, opened fire on Republican long tie who gets knifed to face,” Carly Simon repur-
lawmakers as they prac-
death onstage. The theater
terms the means and meth- “The Art of the Deal.” posing her song “You’re So
ods of how we perform our He seemed to know his ticed for a charity baseball said it never advocates vio- Vain” into an anti-Trump
lence as a solution to politi-
game.
protective responsibilities.” comments were going to anthem and singer-rapper
Depp was at the festival get him into trouble, pref- Depp’s remarks come cal problems. Will.i.am’s damning video
weeks after The Public The-
The show followed con-
Thursday to introduce a acing his remarks with, “By
ater in New York was criti- demnation for comedian “GRAB’m by the ....”q
Former U.S. attorney Preet
Bharara has a book deal Colbert goes to Russia, vows

NEW YORK (AP) — Preet to search for Comey ‘tapes’
Bharara, the former U.S.
Attorney fired earlier this
year by President Donald LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ste-
Trump, has a book deal. phen Colbert is on a mis-
Alfred A. Knopf announced sion to Russia.
Thursday that Bharara was The host of CBS’ “The Late
working on a book about Show” is on assignment
the “search for justice” there for a future broad-
that would come out early cast, the network said
in 2019. Bharara was U.S. In this April 25, 2017 file pho- Thursday.
Attorney for the Southern to, former U.S. Attorney Pre- Colbert, whose steady
District of New York for 7 et Bharara attends the TIME political wisecracks have
1/2 years. His prominent 100 Gala, celebrating the been accompanied by a
cases included the con- 100 most influential people rise in his ratings, wasted
viction of Sheldon Silver, in the world, in New York. no time in taking a dig at
former Speaker of the New Associated Press President Donald Trump
York State Assembly. Bha- day. “The law is merely an over the possibility of tapes
rara was fired abruptly by instrument, and without involving fired FBI Director
Trump in March and has the involvement of hu- James Comey.
since said the president man hands, it is as lifeless “Don’t worry, Mr. President. In this May 2, 2016 file photo, Stephen Colbert arrives at The Met-
tried to cultivate a relation- and uninspiring as a violin I’m in Russia. If the “tapes” ropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit Gala in New
ship with him, potentially kept in its case,” Bharara exist, I’ll bring you back a York.
compromising his inde- said. “People will regard a copy!” Colbert tweeted. Associated Press
pendence. He has called result as just if they regard His message came after Colbert also posted a A CBS spokeswoman said
the conversations “weird the process leading to it as Trump said on Twitter that photo of himself wearing a she had no information on
and peculiar.” Bharara ex- fair and if they believe the he has no recordings of his trench coat and in front of where Colbert was visiting
pects to “address the cir- people responsible for it private conversations with a grand building that ap- or how the material he was
cumstances that led to his are fair-minded. Comey, despite an earlier peared to be the Winter gathering in Russia would
firing,” Knopf spokesman That is the process I want to suggestion that they might Palace in St. Petersburg. be used.q
Paul Bogaards said Thurs- illuminate in this book.”q exist.