Actress Cicely Tyson will receive honorary Academy Award
LOS ANGELES — Actress Cicely Tyson will finally receive an Oscar.
The 93-year-old acting legend will get an honorary Oscar statuette this fall at the film academy’s Governors Awards. The award will make her the first black woman to receive an honorary Oscar, according to People.
Tyson was Oscar-nominated only once for the 1972 film “Sounder.” The prolific stage and screen actress has appeared in films like “The Help” and “Diary of a Mad Black Woman.”
Composer Lalo Schifrin and publicist Martin Levy will also be getting honorary Oscar statuettes at the ceremony, while producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall will receive the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the honorees last Wednesday after a Tuesday night vote by its board of governors.
“Choosing the honorees for its awards each year is the happiest of all the Board of Governors’ work,” academy president John Bailey said in a statement. “And this year, its selection of five iconic artists was made with universal acclaim by the Academy’s 54 spirited governors.”
The Oscar statuette is intended to “honor extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement, exceptional contributions to the state of motion picture arts and sciences, or for outstanding service to the Academy.” None of the honorees have been awarded an Oscar before.
Schifrin, 86, is a six-time nominee, who has composed original scores for over 100 films including “Cool Hand Luke” and “Dirty Harry.”
Levy will be the first publicist to receive an honorary Oscar. His work on the campaign for “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” led to a four-decade partnership with Steven Spielberg, including on films like “Schindler’s List,” ”Saving Private Ryan” and “E.T. The Extra Terrestrial.”
Also Spielberg-adjacent are Kennedy and Marshall, this year’s Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipients, who together have received best picture nominations for films like “The Sixth Sense,” ”Munich” and “Seabiscuit.” Kennedy, who will be the first woman to collect the Thalberg award, was also nominated for “E.T.,” ”War Horse” and “Lincoln.”
The 10th annual Governors Awards will be held in Los Angeles on Nov. 18.
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photo credit: Honoree Cicely Tyson arrives at the 38th Annual Kennedy Center Honors Gala at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on December 6, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Kris Connor/Getty Images)
Toni Braxton Says She’s Disappointed By Tamar’s “Animations” On “Iyanla Fix My Life.”
Last week, we reported that in the midst of their contractual drama with WE tv, and their seemingly on-going family issues, the Braxton sisters would sit down with Iyanla Vanzant on her show “Iyanla Fix My Life.”
It’s not the first time a Braxton sister has worked with Iyanla. Trina sat down with her ex-husband Gabe to discuss the issues in their marriage, their rocky divorce and the relationship Gabe has with their sons. In that episode, Iyanla alluded to the fact that the way Trina handled her relationship with Gabe could be traced back to what she saw her mother do with her father. It sparked something in her and she walked out of the room.
But perhaps in this upcoming episode, it’s a topic we’ll be able to explore as the women chat about their familial bonds and where they have been breaks along the way.
In one clip that’s already surfaced, Toni shares that she is often disappointed by the level of animation Tamar exudes when she attempts to relay a story. I think Tamar’s extra-ness is something we’ve all noticed. But if you thought Iyanla was going to scold Tamar for her exuberance, then you thought wrong. Watch how this particular moment unfolded onscreen.
Tamar: The show was completely different and then it turned it into a dramatic shenanigan, example of a family.
Tamar shares an example of how she felt the editors manipulated footage from the show.
Toni: I wish my sister could narrate without all the expressions
Iyanla: Is that the person or is that the performance?
Toni: No that’s the person. That’s from infancy.
Iyanla: How does that make you feel when you see that?
Toni: I feel disappointed that she has to be animated to express herself.
Iyanla: That’s just who she is, from infancy. And that makes me feel…
Toni: Disappointed.
Iyanla: …in her big personality, in who she’s been all of her life.
Toni: That’s not a nice thing to feel.
Iyanla: I know. Not at all.
Toni: Got it. Sorry Tay.
Tamar: That’s okay.
We can’t wait to see this episode.
The two-part finale airs on Thursday, Sept, 27 and Thursday, Oct. 4 at 9 p.m. on WE tv.
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Penn Badgley says he was molested by ‘Gossip Girl’ fans
Penn Badgley says he suffered sexual assault at the hands of over-zealous “Gossip Girl” fans.
“I think as an actor you can become an object of desire, which is something women are already accustomed to more or less around the world — I’ve definitely been, I mean, I don’t want to sound sensationalist, but I’ve literally been molested — just in the literal sense of the word — by many people in the moment,” Badgley, 32, told The Daily Beast. “Because that’s what they do.”
The actor, who stars as stalker Joe Goldberg in Lifetime’s “You,” clarified that as a white male, he faces fewer problems than others who are less privileged, but cited Terry Crews as an example of famous men who’ve been sexually assaulted, noting, “these things very much happen, you know.”
Badgley explained that his character in “You” raises a lot of debate in the light of the #MeToo movement.
“I think that’s the interesting thing about this show, is that Joe looks like me, he acts and talks like me to a degree, so I think the audience is supposed to be like, ‘Aw, that might be nice if someone was that infatuated with me,’” he said.
He continued, “I think it’s significant that a show like this is coming out now, because if it had come out any other time, we might not have been having these necessary conversations around it. And we might have been all too ready to consume something that I think actually has some really dangerous seeds in it.”
Badgley struggled with making his character sympathetic, like when a director tried to get him to play Joe as “less disgusting” when the character was masturbating on the street by making him close his eyes.
“I only closed my eyes for one take, because I was pretty adamant about not wanting to do it. And it’s because it was so much creepier with my eyes open,” Badgley said. “Like, why are we trying — Joe is masturbating on the side of the street as he watches a young woman … and we’re worried about it being too creepy?! Do we not think it’s already crossed that line? So I was always kind of on the sidelines like, ‘We don’t need to defend Joe.’”
As a result of the sudden and overwhelming fame and obsessive, occasionally Joe-like fans he faced with the sexy CW hit series, Badgley admits that he “definitely took a breather” from Hollywood before ultimately returning to television.
“I definitely had to question if I wanted to keep doing what I’ve been doing. But I’m excited — I think,” he shared. “When it comes to the fame side of things, I don’t think anybody, whether they’re famous or not, could claim to understand that phenomenon or have any sort of power over it. So I’m just cautious and careful.”
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‘Insecure’ Actress Claims She’d Cancel Her Own Show If Melania Trump Liked It. Melania Calls Her Bluff.
Actress Issa Rae, who writes and stars in the hit HBO comedy, “Insecure,” told Glamour magazine this week that she was thrilled to find out Michelle Obama watched (and liked) her show, but, Rae added, she’d be less than thrilled to find out the current First Lady, Melania Trump, was a fan.
“You really watch it?’ She was like, ‘Yes. Sasha and Malia put me on to it,’” Rae recalled about her conversation with the former First Lady. “It was like talking to my auntie. It bums me out that I will never have that feeling again of the First Family f**king with us so hard and getting us.”
“If Melania [Trump] said that to me, I would be like, ‘Well, I guess it’s canceled. We’re not making this show. It’s not ours anymore,” Rae added.
It turns out, not only does Melania watch the show, she also saw Rae’s interview, and her office fired back, calling Rae’s bluff.
Obviously Rae isn’t going to cancel her hit HBO show in the middle of its run just because its available on cable to anyone with a television and a credit card and she shouldn’t. It would be silly for Rae to punish herself because someone who thinks “the wrong way” enjoys some comedy.
Fortunately, the actress and comedian has a sense of humor, and played along with Grisham, referencing a joke-conspiracy theory about Melania Trump hiring a stand-in.
Melania may not be the most beloved First Lady of all time — at least by the Left — but she might actually be the sharpest. Nothing gets past her.
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Woman Now Regrets Sharing Photo Of ‘Cosby Show’ Actor Geoffrey Owens Working At Trader Joe’s
A photograph of a former Cosby Show cast member working at a New Jersey Trader Joe’s—which was published in the Daily Mail and on FoxNews.com—sparked outrage from people who believed that the amateur photographer (and the media) was job-shaming the actor, Geoffrey Owens.
Shopper Karma Lawrence, who took the picture, told the Daily Mail at the time, “I used to watch The Cosby Show all the time; it was my favorite show. It was definitely him. I would have thought after The Cosby Show he would maybe be doing something different. It was a shock to see him working there and looking the way he did. It made me feel really bad. I was like, ‘Wow, all those years of doing the show and you ended up as a cashier.’ Other fans would be surprised for sure as well.”
Now, after many people shared their disgust that Owens was being judged negatively for having a job, Lawrence feels bad about her decision. In an interview with NJ.com, she explained, “I don’t know why I snuck a picture. I figured everybody does it. I don’t know what possessed me. I just did it. I didn’t even think about it. I just kind of did it on impulse and it was a bad impulse.”
Lawrence also insisted, “It wasn’t malicious. That’s on my kids, my grandkids, my parents. I’m not that type of a person. I’m not the monster they’re making me out to be,” and lamented the backlash she’s received: “So much hate. So much nastiness. Oh, it’s been terrible. They write Karma’s a b****. It’s bad.”
Owens, for his part, said he took the job at Trader Joe’s because his teaching and acting gigs just weren’t adding up to enough for himself and his family. And he wasn’t ashamed of working there. “There’s no job that’s better than another job,” Owens said on Good Morning America. “It might pay better, it might have better benefits, look better on a resume or on paper, but actually it’s not better. Every job is worthwhile and valuable.”
Lawrence, who says she thought that he was working at the grocery store because his Cosby Show residuals were cut in the wake of Bill Cosby’s predatory behavior being publicized, had this message for Owens, “I would tell him, ‘I am extremely, extremely apologetic about what has happened.’ And if I could take it back, I would.”
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20th Century Fox Deletes The Predator Scene Featuring Registered Sex Offender
There’s helping out a friend, there’s forgiving a man who’s served his time, and then there’s describing the crimes for which that time was served—risk of injury to a child and enticing a minor by computer, both felonies—as the product of someone who was “caught up in a bad situation versus [doing] something lecherous.” Shane Black, who wrote the original Lethal Weapon and wrote/directed Iron Man 3, did all three of those things when he cast his friend Steven Wilder Striegel in a small role in his upcoming movie The Predator, and then explained this decision to press. Striegel was arrested in 2009 and pleaded guilty to the two felonies mentioned above—risk of injury to a child and enticing a minor by computer, both felonies—for which he served six months in prison.
The Los Angeles Times’ Amy Kaufman reports that The Predator star Olivia Munn discovered the information about Striegel’s convictions. In the movie, she shares a scene with Striegel. She contacted 20th Century Fox, the studio releasing The Predator, which ordered the excision of said scene. In a statement, a 20th Century Fox spokesperson said of Striegel: “We were not aware of his background during the casting process due to legal limitations that impede studios from running background checks on actors.”
Black told the Times in a written statement, “I personally chose to help a friend. I can understand others might disapprove, as his conviction was on a sensitive charge and not to be taken lightly.” Striegel told the Times he’s known Black for 14 years.
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