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Julie Robinson Belafonte, Dancer, Actress and Activist, Is Dead at 95 – The New York Times

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April 16, 2024

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With the singer Harry Belafonte, she was half of a celebrated, and sometimes denounced, interracial power couple who pressed the cause of civil rights in the 1960s.
By Ian Zack
Ian Zack, a New York journalist and author, is writing a biography of Harry Belafonte.
Julie Robinson Belafonte, a dancer, actress and, with the singer Harry Belafonte, half of an interracial power couple who used their high profiles to aid the civil rights movement and the cause of integration in the United States, died on March 9 in Los Angeles. She was 95.
Her death, at an assisted living facility in the Studio City neighborhood, was announced by her family. She had resided there for the last year and nine months after living for decades in Manhattan.
Ms. Belafonte, who was white and the second wife of Mr. Belafonte, the Black Caribbean American entertainer and activist, had an eclectic career in the arts. At various times she was a dancer, a choreographer, a dance teacher, an actress and a documentary film producer.
Ms. Belafonte traveled the nation and the world with her husband and their children during Mr. Belafonte’s sold-out concert tours in the late 1950s and ’60s, presenting an image of a close interracial family that was otherwise rarely seen on television or in newspapers and magazines.
She was at Mr. Belafonte’s side when they planned and hosted fund-raisers for civil rights groups, including the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the more militant Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
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Hrithik Roshan reacts as Fighter breaks Animal's record, becomes biggest Bollywood film on Netflix – Hindustan Times

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April 29, 2024

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Fighter had its OTT release on Netflix on March 21, 2024. Hrithik Roshan, Deepika Padukone and Anil Kapoor’s aerial action film was released in theatres on January 25, 2024. On Thursday, Hrithik took to Instagram Stories to re-share a tweet about Fighter leaving behind Ranbir Kapoor‘s blockbuster Animal and Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Dunki to become the most viewed Hindi film in first 10 days on Netflix. Also read: Fighter becomes 3rd most popular non-English film on Netflix
Originally shared by Bollywood Box Office on X, the tweet read, “Fighter has broken all previous records on Netflix for a Bollywood Film, leaving behind the previous bests Animal and Dunki by a wide margin. This Hrithik Roshan-starrer garnered 12.4 million views in just 10 days. It has become the fastest Bollywood film to get these figures.” Sharing it on Instagram Stories, Hrithik wrote, “Yo! (dizzy emoji).”
Animal dropped on Netflix on January 26, 2024, on the occasion of Republic Day, while Dunki made its debut on the platform on February 15, 2024. While Animal was released in theatres on December 1, 2023, Dunki’s theatrical release date was December 21, 2023.
The film, directed by Siddharth Anand, features Hrithik Roshan, Deepika Padukone, Anil Kapoor, Karan Singh Grover and Akshay Oberoi as IAF officers. It is about a new and elite unit, Air Dragons, which is commissioned by the Air Headquarters in response to militant activities in Kashmir.
As an excerpt from Hindustan Times’ Fighter movie review read, “Fighter is a full-on entertainer that engages and excites in equal parts. It is high on patriotism but it never resorts to chest-thumping chants of Jai Hind or Hindustan Zindabad. The scene where Hrithik makes a reference to IOP (India Occupied Pakistan) in the climax certainly calls for loud cheers, and proves why Hindi films know best how to show love for their country. Watch Fighter for a pure paisa vasool experience, good-looking performances and some gravity-defying aerial action that won’t give you a headache but leave you with a sense of pride.”
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Gender Pay Gap: Modeling Agent Says Industry's Pay Gap Unfair – TIME

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April 28, 2024

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A top modeling agent wants to end the industry’s gender pay gap—which, unlike most industries, advantages women over men.
Elizabeth Rose, the director of London’s Premier Model Management, told BBC that she wants her female and male clients to get paid the same rate for the same work. The industry’s pay gap has been documented before, with Fortune reporting that the top female models bring home millions more dollars than men. For instance, Gisele Bündchen, the highest earning female model, brought home $42 million in 2013, per Forbes, while the top earning male model, Sean O’Pry, only took home $1.5 million that year.
“It’s unfair for men [and] I wouldn’t say it’s female empowerment at all,” Rose told BBC.
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One reason for the pay gap? The women’s fashion industry brings in $621 billion worldwide a year, while the men’s industry only makes $4oo billion, according to ABC. And while female models can become household names, sign multi-million contracts for brands, and walk the runways at much-publicized fashion weeks twice a year, male models just don’t get the same attention.
But of course, modeling is only one of a few industries where women make more than men. In 2015, women, on average, made only about 80% of what men made.
Still, Rose says she’s determined to make sure male models aren’t discriminated against because of their gender, asking companies she works with to pay male models as much as female models.
“The more models are made aware of it, the more you can try and help change it, because the more agents that say, ‘No, we’re not accepting this,’ that’s the only way it’ll ever change,” Rose told BBC. “And models standing up and saying, ‘I’m not going to do this unless I’m paid the same as the woman.’”

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