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Hollywood Rebukes Trump, Saves “The Apprentice” With Nominations for Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong

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Hollywood has rebuked Donald Trump.

Despite all efforts to kill it, “The Apprentice” received two Oscar nominations this morning.

Sebastian Stan was nominated for Best Actor, Jeremy Strong for Supporting Actor.

Stan plays Donald Trump and Strong plays Roy Cohn in their early days when Trump was making his rise through New York media.

The movie depicts Donald raping wife, Ivanka.

Briarcliff Entertainment picked up the film when no one else would. But with no money to promote it, and heavy resistance from the movie’s financiers, “The Apprentice” had a short, sad run in the box office.

But now “The Apprentice” is back in the conversation, big time!

The irony is that in real life Trump thinks he’s going to have an influence on Hollywood by appointing “ambassadors,” the town really hates him.

Trump’s “ambassadors” — Stallone, Gibson, Voight — are meaningless in the real world.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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