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Bill Ayers, the former Weather Underground far-left radical who Sarah Palin made famous in 2008 by suggesting he was a "pal" of President Barack Obama, will make his first appearance on the Fox News Channel on Monday. Megyn Kelly will press him on the bombings and deaths he has alleged to have been involved with. Sitting next to Ayers in Kelly's studio was Dinesh D'Souza, who arranged for the interview, insiders tell The Hollywood Reporter. D'Souza was invited on The Kelly File to tape what might become a one-hour special on his upcoming movie, America, the follow-up

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The Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater Company in Los Angeles is set to raise the curtain on a production that will challenge audiences’ views on immigration and its small cast’s ability to bring life to characters some may perceive as stereotypes. “Long Way Go Down,” which will have its West Coast premiere May 17, centers on Nini and Violetta, two young illegal immigrants trying to make a dangerous, smuggled crossing into the United States. The play was written by Zayd Dohrn, the son of Bernardine Rae Dohrn and Bill Ayers, both former members of the left-wing radical group the Weather Underground Organization. The Weathermen, as they were known, conducted a bombing campaign against public buildings during the Vietnam War. Dohrn said his writing was influenced by the politics of his family. “I’m not sure I would say that it exactly follows in the footsteps of what my parents were doing,...

On Thursday’s The O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly and guests discussed the hiring of radical Leftists by universities and the recent crop of stories concerning liberal professors’ controversial classroom acts. Joining him to discuss were were Bob Zelnick, journalism professor at Boston University, and Fox News radio host Todd Starnes. O’Reilly criticized Columbia University’s hiring, earlier this month, of former Weather Underground radical Kathy Boudin, adding that colleges across the country are hiring “radical left people."...

Political thriller The Company You Keep tells the story of a 30 year long FBI search for a Weather Underground terrorist, to be played by Robert Redford, who must escape the law after his identity is exposed by an ambitious reporter portrayed by Shia Labeouf. If you didn’t hear it with your own ears, Nick Nolte is in talks for this movie, which is adaptation of the Neil Gordon novel of the same name, but the details of his role haven’t been announced yet.

As you can see Redford directs and stars as a former terrorist. Book-to-script adaptation was penned by The Limey and upcoming Haywire writer Lem Dobbs. After the fact that the script for The Limey is rather stunning, and Haywire is laid out properly, his involvement in The Company You Keep could be a good sign. Redford has a talent for directing (Ordinary People, Quiz Show...

Cinematographer Haskell Wexler on fiction, film, and foreign policy at Ida's Doc U: Straight Shooting - A Conversation with World-Class Documentary DPs held April 25, 2011Listen Now!

Haskell Wexler is an academy award winning Cinematographer responsible for films like American Graffiti and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. But he was also an underrated director of documentaries touching on topics like sleep deprivation, torture, and the infamous Weather Underground. This past month he discussed his work with a panel of cinematographer at Cinefamily's Silent Movie Theater for a discussion on ...

It’s been a big week — and not quite in a good way — for Richard Wolstencroft of the Melbourne Underground Film Festival, whose home was raided by Australian police looking for banned film L.A. Zombie. It’s a situation that sucks because it’s happening at all, but good because it’s bringing attention to archaic Australian censorship. The story was written up everywhere from the New York Times to The Advocate. Nicest of all, though, was a personal letter of support from Noah Cowan of the Toronto International Film Festival, which screened the film earlier this year. Jay Hollinsworth created a simply amazing poster mashup of one of the most hackneyed visual cliché’s of all time: Looking down a foreshortened gun barrel. Great job, Jay! Oscars.org has video highlights from the Governor’s Awards, including tributes to Jean-Luc Godard from Haskell Wexler, Vincent Cassel, Phil Robinson and more.

Is this the long-awaited October surprise? In an apparent effort to position opponent John McCain as fundamentally on the wrong side of the economic fight (and maybe also to direct attention away from growing buzz on his association with former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers), today the Obama campaign has posted on YouTube a 13 minute documentary on the Keating Five scandal. Keating Economics: John M ...