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Everything you need to know about the 2023 Academy Awards
By The Associated Press on February 17th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – Hollywood is gearing up for the 95th Academy Awards, where “Everything Everywhere All at Once” comes in the lead nominee and the film industry will hope to move past “the slap” of last year’s ceremony. Here’s everything you need to know about the 2023 Oscars, including when they are, where to ... Read More »
1 responseAlan Gilbert extends contract with Hamburg orchestra to ’29
By The Associated Press on February 17th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – Alan Gilbert agreed Friday to a five-year contract extension as chief conductor of the Elbphilharmonie Orchestra in Hamburg, Germany, a deal that runs through the 2028-29 season. The New Yorker, who turns 56 on Feb. 23, became the orchestra’s chief conductor the 2019-20 season. Gilbert also is music director of the ... Read More »
1 responseUS prosecutors ask for 25 more years in prison for R. Kelly
By Michael Tarm, The Associated Press on February 16th, 2023
CHICAGO (AP) – Federal prosecutors Thursday asked a judge to give singer R. Kelly 25 more years in prison for his child pornography and enticement convictions last year in Chicago, which would add to 30 years he recently began serving in a New York case. The 56-year-old wouldn’t be eligible for release until he was ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!HarperCollins union approves contract, ends 3-month strike
By Hillel Italie, The Associated Press on February 16th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – Striking union members at HarperCollins Publishers have approved a tentative agreement reached last week and will return to work Tuesday, ending a walkout that lasted more than three months and became the center of an ongoing debate about salaries in the industry. More than 200 members, from editorial assistants to publicists ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rise of Asian leads in network TV shows, now ABC’s ‘Company’
By Terry Tang, The Associated Press on February 16th, 2023
In fourth grade, Catherine Haena Kim could not muster the courage to audition for the female lead of her school’s production of William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” But her teachers saw something in the way she held herself in the classroom. “My teachers actually gave me the part because whenever I did speak up, I was ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Biden hosts screening of film about lynching of Emmett Till
By Darlene Superville, The Associated Press on February 16th, 2023
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden on Thursday was hosting a screening of the movie ” Till,” a wrenching, new drama about the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, who was brutally killed after a white woman said the Black 14-year-old had made improper advances toward her. Guests for the screening were to include members of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!YouTube CEO steps down, severing longtime ties to Google
By Michael Liedtke, The Associated Press on February 16th, 2023
NEW YORK – Susan Wojcicki, a longtime Google executive who played a key role in the company’s creation, is stepping down as YouTube’s CEO after spending the past nine years running the video site that has reshaped entertainment, culture and politics. In an email to YouTube employees that was shared publicly Thursday, the 54-year-old Wojcicki ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. MLA the latest politician with mixed messaging for non-English media
By The Canadian Press on February 16th, 2023
VICTORIA – British Columbia Liberal leader Kevin Falcon says he supports supervised drug injection sites, but when member of the legislature Teresa Wat spoke to the audience of a Mandarin news show last week, she had a different message. Wat, speaking on Phoenix TV’s Daily Topic Show, said “we are very opposed to so-called safe ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Bruce Willis has frontotemporal dementia, condition worsens
By The Associated Press on February 16th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – Nearly a year after Bruce Willis’ family announced that he would step away from acting after being diagnosed with aphasia, his family says his “condition has progressed.” In a statement posted Thursday, the 67-year-old actor’s family said Willis has a more specific diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia. “While this is painful, it ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Zelenskyy asks for support for Ukraine at Berlin film fest
By The Associated Press on February 16th, 2023
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday asked artists and filmmakers to unequivocally declare their support for his country during a live video address at the opening of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival. Referring to the Berlin Wall which divided the German capital from 1961 to 1989 into the capitalist west and communist east, Zelenskyy ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CNN’s Don Lemon regrets saying Nikki Haley past her ‘prime’
By David Bauder, The Associated Press on February 16th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – Don Lemon startled some colleagues on CNN’s morning show Thursday with his implication that Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, at age 51, was past her prime. Lemon, with “CNN This Morning” co-hosts Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins, was discussing Haley’s suggestion a day earlier that politicians over age 75 should be ... Read More »
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