May Day protests are expected to renew focus with President Trump in the office, the LA clippers season is over, what to binge watch this month.
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LA May Day march: Exploring immigration and labor unions
In Los Angeles, over a hundred unions and labor groups are turning out for the march to city hall.
Monday’s May Day march has one central issue at its core: immigration policy. But labor hasn’t always been welcoming to immigrant workers. Especially immigrants without legal status.
For a look at how the relationship between labor and the undocumented workforce has changed over the years, we spoke to Harley Shaiken who teaches economics at UC Berkeley.
Later, we were joined by KPCC’s Leslie Berestein Rojas. She was at MacArthur Park where the LA march kicked off Monday morning.
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Human Voter Guide: Get ready for the local election on May 16
On the Lot: Writers strike may be averted, hackers ransom Orange Is The New Black
The Writers Guild contract with producers expires at midnight tonight, and the union says it will walk out barring a last minute agreement. But Vanity Fair's Rebecca Keegan says reports over the weekend show the two sides moving closer together.
Even if the writers and producers can't agree by the deadline, there may be good reason to delay the walk out, especially if negotiators for the writers think they are close to resolving differences. And Keegan says studio executives held a conference call over the weekend, and reportedly pushed for a resolution to prevent a strike.
Those executives have other things to worry about, too. A hacker, or possibly a group of hackers, released the entire 5th season of the Netflix hit, Orange Is The New Black. That new season doesn't show up on the streaming service until next month. The hackers claim they put up the files only after Netflix refused to pay a ransom. And they claim to have copies of a variety of other shows set to run on everything from ABC to the National Geographic Channel.
Hollywood has battled piracy for decades, and not always very successfully. But this new wrinkle in ransomware could prove even trickier. It's been reported that the Netflix breach targeted an independent post-production company working for Netflix. Expect a renewed push for data security across the wide array of firms that provide Hollywood services, and may have unreleased material on their servers.
Luther, Goliath and Feud - the best things to binge watch right now!
Every month we take a look at all of the options you have to stream, from Hulu and Netflix to Amazon Prime, HBO Now and Showtime Anytime.
Mark Jordan Legan is our guide for The Binge - and he's here to highlight some great shows or movies you should start watching right now.
Here are his picks!
Idris Elba stars in the incredibly well received, award winning British crime drama. Elba plays a British Police Inspector named John Luther, who has many personal demons and a fiery temper that gets him in trouble with his superiors but no one is better at solving cases.
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The way Luther does his job is he obsessively goes over every single detail, he’s like a dog after a bone.
Billy Bob Thornton won a Golden Globe for his performance in the first season and it is very well deserved. Thornton is outstanding in the lead role of Billy McBride – a formerly big time lawyer who drank it all away and is now basically washed up.
The show is also very well acted – not only from Thornton but Molly Parker, Maria Bello and William Hurt are just a few of the veteran actors who deliver excellent performances.
From producer Ryan Murphy, who has given us everything from Glee to American Horror Story, this anthology series tells the story of the infamous filming of the classic psychological thriller, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. The the 8 part series focuses on the feud between it’s two aging stars Bette Davis and Joan Crawford – superbly played by Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange.
It's campy and catty but also sad and smart and incredibly moving. And there is a great supporting cast – everyone from Stanley Tucci as Jack Warner to scene-stealing Judy Davis as Gossip Maven Hedda Hopper. I do have to say though, that of all the episodes the pilot is probably the weakest, so hang in there – this is one of those series that just gets better and better with each episode. A remarkable recreation of Hollywood back in the day.
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