{"id":32135,"date":"2016-09-19T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=32135"},"modified":"2016-09-20T01:02:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T07:02:41","slug":"jill-soloway-of-transparent-wins-emmy-for-directing-compares-trump-to-hitler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/jill-soloway-of-transparent-wins-emmy-for-directing-compares-trump-to-hitler\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Soloway of &#8216;Transparent&#8217; wins Emmy for directing, compares Trump to Hitler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (JTA) \u2013 \u201cTransparent,\u201d the comedy series about a Jewish family whose father comes out as transgender, won Emmy Awards for director Jill Soloway and lead actor Jeffrey Tambor.<\/p>\n<p>The Emmys took a shine to Jewish talent on Sunday in Los Angeles on a night that Soloway compared Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler in widely reported remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters backstage after winning her award, Soloway said Trump is &#8220;the most dangerous monster to ever approach our lifetime. He\u2019s a complete dangerous monster and at any moment that I have to call him out for being an inheritor of Hitler I will.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJews were other-ized in Nazi Germany to gain political power for Hitler, and right now Donald Trump is doing the same thing,\u201d she said. \u201cHe\u2019s other-izing people. He calls women pigs if they don\u2019t look like beauty pageant contestants; he blames Muslims and Mexicans for our problems; he makes fun of disabled people. This is other-izing with a capital \u2018O.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other Jewish winners included the Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn, the descendent of an old Prussian Jewish family on his father\u2019s side, who garnered the prize for supporting actor in a drama for his role in \u201cBloodlines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hank Azaria won for guest actor in the drama series \u201cRay Donovan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David Benioff and Daniel B. Weiss were honored for outstanding writing for the \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d episode \u201cBattle of the Bastards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Susanne Bier took top spot as director of \u201cThe Night Manager\u201d in the limited series, movie or dramatic special category.<\/p>\n<p>Among the evening\u2019s disappointments was a strikeout for Amy Schumer, who had been nominated for four acting and writing awards, and the slighting of Larry David\u2019s impression of Bernie Sanders in \u201cSaturday Night Live.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Jill%20Soloway%20of%20%27Transparent%27%20wins%20Emmy%20for%20directing%2C%20compares%20Trump%20to%20Hitler\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7139],"tags":[5943,2008,8790,8795,8788,2784],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32136,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32135\/revisions\/32136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}