Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
The Hollywood Reporter published a story detailing accusations against Rudin, a powerful producer of movies and Broadway plays.
He and Ellison worked together on the 2010 film of True Grit and several other projects. Among the allegations in the Reporter story: Rudin smashing a computer monitor on an assistant’s hand after the employee couldn’t get Rudin a reservation on a sold-out flight, sending the assistant to the emergency room; throwing other objects in the office, including a laptop computer and a glass bowl; telling Slave Play author Jeremy O.
Harris “you’re a baby playwright who has written one good play, no one gives a FUCK what you have to say”; making “racially insensitive jokes about President Barack Obama”; calling Whoopi.