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Actress Dakota Fanning announces the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards nominations at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills on Monday. — AFP
Netflix dominates Golden Globes nominations as 'Marriage Story' scoops 6
LOS ANGELES — Hollywood disruptor Netflix dominated the Golden Globe nominations on Monday as its heart-wrenching divorce saga "Marriage Story" grabbed six nods including best drama, kicking off the race for the Oscars.The streaming giant, which has spent billions to lure the industry's top film-making talent and fund lavish awards season campaigns, trounced the traditional Tinseltown studios with a whopping 17 film nominations."I'm not surprised by the dominance — I'm surprised by how massive the dominance is," Lorenzo Soria, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, said at the Beverly Hills ceremony."The announcements this morning are sort of like a coming-of-age of the streaming services.""The Irishman," Martin...
December 09, 2019

Netflix dominates Golden Globes nominations as 'Marriage Story' scoops 6

Jeff Kinney
Great day for losers: Wimpy Kid author gets French medal
PARIS — The Wimpy Kid has finally done good — and his creator Jeff Kinney has even got a medal from France to prove it.The American creator of the bestseller "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" books was made an officer of France's Order of Arts and Letters on Monday, an honor also conferred on Nobel laureates T. S. Eliot and Seamus Heaney as well as music megastars such as Bono and David Bowie.As the medal was pinned to his chest, Kinney, 48, said he never expected his stories to become such a cult children's hit, selling more than 200 million copies worldwide and spawning four movies.In fact, the cartoonist said that the misadventures of 12-year-old weakling Greg Heffley was initially aimed at adults nostalgic for their middle-school years.But the geeky loser was quickly adopted...
December 09, 2019

Great day for losers: Wimpy Kid author gets French medal

(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 28, 2018 Rapper Juice Wrld performs at Power 105.1's Powerhouse 2018 at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.    Chicago-born rapper Juice WRLD, one of a wave of young artists who made a name on streaming platforms before breaking out in the mainstream, died on Sunday at the age of 21, US media reported. / AFP / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Bennett Raglin
Rising US rap artist Juice WRLD dies at 21
NEW YORK — Chicago-born rapper Juice WRLD, one of a wave of young artists who earned attention on streaming platforms before breaking out as chart-toppers and social media celebrities, died Sunday at the age of 21, according to local authorities.A spokeswoman from the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office in Illinois confirmed the death of the rapper, born Jarad Higgins, at 3:14 a.m. (0914 GMT). An autopsy has been set for Monday.Police said that a 21-year-old man had suffered a medical emergency at Chicago's Midway International Airport after getting off a private jet.Celebrity news outlet TMZ reported that Higgins had suffered a seizure.Juice WRLD's breakout single "Lucid Dreams," rose to number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2018, with his follow-up album...
December 09, 2019

Rising US rap artist Juice WRLD dies at 21

Michelle Obama, Julia Roberts urge Vietnam girls to stay in school
CAN GIUOC, Vietnam — Former US first lady Michelle Obama and Hollywood A-lister Julia Roberts toured a high school in rural Vietnam on Monday, urging a classroom of teenage girls to stay focused on their education to transform their lives.The promotion of girls' schooling has been the cornerstone of Obama's charitable work since her husband Barack Obama left office in 2017 after two terms as US president."When you educate a girl you give them power and a voice and an opportunity to improve their lives and the lives of their family and the lives of their community," Obama said at Can Giuoc high school in southern Long An province in the Mekong Delta.Accompanied by Roberts and Jenna Bush Hager, daughter of former US President George W. Bush, Obama encouraged the girls to...
December 09, 2019

Michelle Obama, Julia Roberts urge Vietnam girls to stay in school

Actress Dakota Fanning, left, and Susan Kelechi Watson attend the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards nominations announcement at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills on Monday. — AFP
'Marriage Story' tops Golden Globes nominations with 6
LOS ANGELES — "Marriage Story," Netflix's heart-wrenching divorce saga, topped the Golden Globe nominations Monday with six nods including best drama, kicking off the race for the Oscars."The Irishman," Martin Scorsese's three-and-a-half-hour gangster epic, and "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," Quentin Tarantino's nostalgic love letter to 1960s Tinseltown, were hot on its heels with five each.The nominations traditionally see the stars and movies destined for awards success start to break away from the competition — the Globes are seen as a key bellwether for February's Academy Awards."Marriage Story" earned nominations for its stars Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver, and for its screenplay, but director Noah Baumbach missed...
December 09, 2019

'Marriage Story' tops Golden Globes nominations with 6

Iranian actress and singer Golshifteh Farahani attends the 18th edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival in Marrakech, Morocco, in this Dec. 2, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Exiled actress Farahani decries 'massacre' in Iran
MARRAKESH, Morocco — Exiled Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani has condemned what she called a "massacre" in her homeland, which has been rocked by a wave of deadly protests.Farahani, Iran's first actress to star in a Hollywood film since the 1979 revolution, said in an interview that the Iranian people were "suffering economically, politically and democratically."The United States said on Thursday that Iranian authorities may have killed more than 1,000 people in a crackdown on demonstrations, after the government abruptly hiked fuel prices.According to London-based human rights group Amnesty International, at least 208 people died in the protests that erupted on Nov. 15."It's a massacre, with hundreds of people dead," Farahani said on the...
December 06, 2019

Exiled actress Farahani decries 'massacre' in Iran

US actor Leonardo DiCaprio speaks onstage at the 2019 Global Citizen Festival: Power The Movement in Central Park in New York in this Sept. 28, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Di Caprio among celebrities backing new climate initiative
NEW YORK — Actor Leonardo di Caprio joined former US vice president Al Gore and other personalities on Wednesday in backing a new initiative to seek solutions to climate change.Leading figures from politics, economics, science and entertainment are lending their support to Countdown, which seeks to build support for zero-net emissions and is organized by the TED conference platform.TED President Chris Anderson and former UN environment chief Christiana Figueres launched the program in New York on Wednesday."The idea is not to plunge in with something competitive that's already out there but identify the best solutions ... to amplify them and activate them by bringing together these different groups," Anderson said.UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, chairman of the...
December 04, 2019

Di Caprio among celebrities backing new climate initiative

From left to right: Producer Michael G. Wilson with cast members Léa Seydoux, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Ana de Armas, Daniel Craig, Naomie Harris, Lashana Lynch and producer Barbara Broccoli attend the 'Bond 25' Film Launch at Ian Fleming's Home 'GoldenEye', in Montego Bay, Jamaica, in this April 25, 2019 file photo. — AFP
First glimpse of latest Bond film goes online
LONDON — Car chases, machine gun fire and love interest: fans of James Bond on Wednesday got their first taste of the upcoming film featuring the fictional British superspy, "No Time To Die".A trailer on the official 007 Twitter account shows sharp-suited Bond, played by British actor Daniel Craig, evading capture in his Aston Martin sports car and jumping off a viaduct.Making a return alongside the suave secret agent is actress Lea Seydoux, whose character Madeleine Swann provided the obligatory love interest in the last film, "Spectre" (2015)."Why would I betray you?" she asks Bond as they hurtle through narrow streets at breakneck speed while being shot at."We all have our secrets," Bond replies. "We just didn't get to yours...
December 04, 2019

First glimpse of latest Bond film goes online

Italian photographer Paolo Roversi, left, and British actress Claire Foy, center, and Pirelli's CEO Marco Tronchetti Provera attend the presentation of the Pirelli 2020 Calendar
Claire Foy among faces of 'Juliet' in Pirelli's 2020 calendar
VERONA, Italy — Actresses Claire Foy, Emma Watson and Yara Shahidi are the faces of Juliet in the 2020 Pirelli calendar, giving a nod to Shakespeare for the just-released 47th edition.Photographed by Italian photographer Paolo Roversi, the "Looking for Juliet" calendar published by the Italian tire manufacturer also features Mia Goth, Kirsten Stewart, Whoopi Goldberg and others, including Roversi's daughter Stella.Verona, the setting of "Rome and Juliet", is the backdrop for Roversi's images in color and black and white, showing the actresses interpreting Juliet in period costume. Other images were shot in Paris, with the models posing as themselves in modern dress.Goldberg, 64, said she was thrilled to take part."When they said they wanted me to be in...
December 04, 2019

Claire Foy among faces of 'Juliet' in Pirelli's 2020 calendar

An artwork entitled ‘Collective Conscience’ by Colombian artist Oscar Murillo, is pictured during the press view of the four artists shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2019, at the Turner Contemporary in Margate, southeast England, in this Sept. 26, 2019 file photo. — AFP
UK art prize winners launch attack on British government
LONDON — The Turner Prize has stoked controversy again after the joint winners attacked the British government and the rise of far-right politics across the world.Oscar Murillo, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock and Tai Shani were handed the coveted visual arts award at the Turner Contemporary gallery in the seaside town of Margate on Tuesday night.The four shortlisted artists sent a plea to the judges to award the prize to them all jointly, explaining they had formed a collective to show solidarity at a time of global "political crisis".Cammock, whose submission examined women in the civil rights movement in 1960s Northern Ireland, said the four had decided among themselves that they were all winners.She said after accepting the award they were "all engaged in forms of...
December 04, 2019

UK art prize winners launch attack on British government

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