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March 12, 2023
Jamie Lee Curtis wins Best Supporting Actress Oscar
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jamie Lee Curtis has made his long-awaited first Oscar nomination count.
Curtis won Best Supporting Actress for her role as Deirdre Beaubeirdre in “Everything, Everywhere, All At Once.” She plays an IRS agent who has multiple appearances across different timelines in the multiverse.
“My mom (Janet Leigh) and my dad (Tony Curtis) were both nominated for Oscars in different categories,” Curtis said, beginning to cry as he accepted the award. “I just won an Oscar!”
The 64-year-old actor became the eighth oldest in the category’s history to win. She surpassed Judi Dench, who held the spot for her role in “Shakespeare in Love.”
Curtis starred in a number of films, including the “Halloween” franchise films from 1978, as well as other notable projects such as “Trading Places”, “My Girl”, “True Lies” and “Knives Out “. But it was her performance in “Everything Everywhere All at Once” that finally landed her in the Oscars record books.
Last month, Curtis won the SAG Awards for Best Supporting Actress.
Curtis beat out Angela Bassett, Kerry Condon, Hong Chau and Stephanie Hsu in the category.
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Hugh Grant appears to be rolling his eyes after awkward Oscars red carpet interview with Ashley Graham
The Oscar for the cringest interview on the red carpet goes to…
The ‘Love Actually’ star didn’t seem to like questions like:
But things really seemed to get worse (uh, worse?) when the model asked Grant about her very memorable cameo in “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.” In the film, Grant plays the husband of Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), revealing that the detective is gay.
“Well, I’m barely into it. I’m in it for three seconds,” Grant told Graham when she asked him what he thought of his role.
“Yeah, but still, you came and had fun, right?” poor Graham tried.
“Uh, almost,” Grant replied.
Graham, realizing she would get absolutely nothing from this exchange, wrapped things up, then thanked Grant for his time.
“It was nice talking to you,” Graham said, prompting Grant to look away, make a troubled face and seemingly roll his eyes.
Twitter users also had a lot to say about the interview. Check out their comments below:
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Georgia police arrest brothers who allegedly stabbed man for arguing over Mexican politics and religion
Police in Carrollton, Georgia are investigating a brutal stabbing that allegedly took place after a dispute over Mexican politics and religion.
The Carrollton Police Department said brothers Hector and Jesus Rodriguez were charged with using a sharp object to attack and stab Gonzalo Garza-Garcia on Saturday night.
Jesus Rodriguez, left, and Hector Rodriguez (Carrollton Police Department)
Officers responded to a report of an altercation between three or four Hispanic men around 5:20 p.m. on March 11, with one of the men suffering from stab wounds and “bleeding heavily”.
SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN GEORGIA FOR THEFT OF NEARLY 700 BOXES OF BABY FORMULA POWDER
When officers arrived, an investigation revealed that Garza-Garcia had been attacked by the Rodriguez brothers with a sharp object.
Police said the two men fled from officers in a vehicle and after a short chase, the Rodriguez brothers stopped the vehicle and were arrested.
The roof of a police patrol car at night, with flashing blue and red lights. (Stock)
Garza-Garcia was taken to an Atlanta hospital and listed in critical condition.
GEORGIA MURDER SUSPECT SEEN DROPPED FROM HOUSE FOR HOURS BEFORE MISSED HEARING
Witnesses told police the altercation began over Mexican politics and religion, but not specifically what the men were arguing about.
The investigation into the incident is active and anyone with information is encouraged to call the Carrollton Police Department at 770-834-4451 or visit the department’s website at www.carrolltonpd.com for submit advice.
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Ke Huy Quan wins Oscar for best supporting actor for ‘Everything Everywhere’
Enlarge this image Ke Huy Quan accepts the Academy Award for best supporting actor for Everything Everywhere All at Once at the 95th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on March 12, 2023 in Hollywood, Calif. Kevin Winter/Getty Images
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Ke Huy Quan capped off a glorious awards season run on Sunday evening by winning the Oscar for best actor in a supporting role for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
In an emotional speech, Quan acknowledged the long road to his first Oscar win, stretching back even before his career as a child actor.
“My journey started on a boat,” Quan said. “I spent a year in a refugee camp. And somehow, I ended up here.”
The win hardly comes as a surprise. For his role as Waymond, a meek husband who guides his distant wife through the zany contours of the multiverse, Quan has been showered with numerous accolades, including the Screen Actors Guild and Gotham awards.
The role in Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s sci-fi/fantasy epic has served as a formidable and beloved comeback for the performer, who first rose to prominence as a child star in movies like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Goonies. As a young adult, however, the opportunities dried up – until, decades later, he landed upon Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Quan is only the second Asian performer to win the Oscar for actor in a supporting role after Haing S. Ngor for The Killing Fields in 1985.
These Pics of Bennifer & More at the 2003 Oscars Will Cause Nostalgia
This was Bennifer 1.0.
Back in 2003, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck were the it couple turning heads when they walked the red carpet at the 2003 Oscars.
And if that image of the then-newly engaged pair doesn’t serve as the ultimate throwback, there’s more where that came from.
Halle Berry and her now ex-husband Eric Benét—they divorced in 2005—also stunned as they stepped out hand-in-hand. Not to mention, Diane Lane and Josh Brolin, who got engaged just a few months after the March 2003 ceremony, also made the 75th Academy Awards their date night.
However, it wasn’t just couples who took over the red carpet, as winners Nicole Kidman and Catherine Zeta-Jones also stunned. Meanwhile, nominee Queen Latifah also stole the show with her gorgeous soft blue look.
But, enough from us. Ahead of the 2023 Oscars March 12, read on for a look back at what the Academy Awards looked like two decades ago…
March 11, 2023
Chinese police torture elderly Christian for 24 hours
Officers under the authority of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tortured an elderly Christian for 24 hours in an attempt to make him “fabricate charges” against the pastors of his church, ChinaAid reported this week.
The elderly man, identified only as “Brother Wang”, is a member of the Xi’an Abundance Church in Shanxi Province. Church Pastor Lian Changnian, his son Pastor Lian Xuliang, and Fu Juan, a church colleague, were all arrested for fraud on August 17, 2022. The three were held under residential surveillance at a designated location ( RSDL) where they, too, suffered torture.
Church officials said plainclothes policemen driving an unmarked vehicle picked up Brother Wang from his workplace on the morning of March 1. The police took him to a small hotel where they tied his hands and feet to a chair and started threatening him.
Two policemen named Wei and Zhang reportedly interrogated Brother Wang, momentarily untied him to turn on a camera and film him, after which he was immediately tied up again.
Brother Wang was tied to the chair for a 24-hour period during which he did not drink water, eat anything, or be allowed to sleep, but he never betrayed the pastors of his church. Authorities released Wang on the morning of March 2.
During his captivity, Wang’s family searched for him and eventually learned from the police that he had been detained by National Security agents from the Chanba Public Security Bureau.
According to ChinaAid, Wang’s case is unfortunately not unusual, as the police tortured many Christians, including church pastors, during their investigation of the Church of Abundance in Xi’an.
The crackdown on Christian churches has intensified under President Xi Jinping’s regime, as the CCP exerts ever-greater control over church practices.
As Breitbart News reported, the CCP has now begun requiring Christians to register on a government-run “Smart Religion” app in order to attend worship services in Henan province.
A separate reservation must be made each time a person wishes to attend church and checked before entering, so the government can also monitor the frequency of worship. This added barrier to worship is said to have deterred many people from going to church, especially older Christians who are unfamiliar with using smart phones.
Thomas D. Williams is the Breitbart Rome bureau chief and author of The Coming Christian Persecution.
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Crystal Palace host reigning Premier League champions Manchester City at Selhurst Park as the evening kicks off.
On Sunday afternoon, a London derby will begin as Fulham take on an Arsenal side looking to extend their lead at the top of the table as they seek a first league title in 19 years.
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The Senate adopts the pension reform before a decisive week
The Senate, dominated by the right, adopted on Saturday March 11, late in the evening, the pension reform project by 195 votes for and 112 against, after ten days of heated debate.
Late in the evening, the Senate, with a right-wing majority, adopted the pension reform on Saturday March 11 after ten days of heated debate, offering the government a first legislative success on this highly contested text.
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne did not hide her satisfaction after this vote obtained by 195 votes against 112.
“An important step has been taken,” she said in a statement to AFP, convinced that “there is a majority” in Parliament to adopt the reform.
Because the flagship project of Emmanuel Macron’s second five-year term will continue its legislative journey and is entering a decisive week. A crucial vote probably awaits him Thursday in the National Assembly.
Race against timeThe Senate completed its race against the clock a day ahead of the deadline set for midnight Sunday, under the article of the Constitution to which the government has resorted to limit the time for legislative debates.
“Finally, here we are!”, exclaimed the boss of the senators Les Républicains Bruno Retailleau who asked the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt to send a message to President Emmanuel Macron. “We vote for the reform, but we do not vote (for) him”.
On the left, Socialist Senator Monique Lubin castigated a “brutal” reform. “It’s a black day for all the employees of this country”.
The Senate “played its role” and had the sole objective “the interest of the country and that of the French”, on the contrary estimated its president Gérard Larcher (LR).
In February, the avalanche of amendments tabled by the left alliance (Nupes) had prevented the National Assembly from deciding on this reform, which was contested on all sides. She had not even managed to examine article 7 at the heart of the project, providing for the decline of the starting age from 62 to 64 years.
In the Senate, where insubordinate France (LFI) has no elected representatives, the exchanges were less peaceful than expected and contrasted with the usually cozy atmosphere of the Luxembourg Palace.
The express procedure of 44.3In order to accelerate the debates which dragged on, Olivier Dussopt had drawn the weapon of Article 44.3 of the Constitution on Friday.
A procedure which allows a single vote on the whole of the text without putting to the vote the amendments to which the government is unfavorable.
The examination of the bill was therefore able to move forward at a brisk pace, especially after the new boost driven by Mr. Retailleau who renounced on Saturday afternoon his emblematic amendment on special pension schemes benefiting certain categories of workers.
While the Senate concluded the review of the reform, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets during a seventh day of action, which mobilized significantly less than the previous six.
The Ministry of the Interior counted 368,000 demonstrators in France, including 48,000 in Paris. This is the weakest mobilization since the beginning of the protest movement.
The determination is “strong”, nevertheless assured the general secretary of the CFDT Laurent Berger who regularly underlines the historical character of the popular opposition to this reform.
After the Senate, it is now the turn of the joint committee (CMP) to enter the scene. This conclave will bring together 7 deputies, 7 senators and as many alternates on Wednesday in a closed room at the Palais Bourbon with the aim of reaching a compromise on the measures that the Assembly and the Senate have not voted on in the same terms.
The presidential camp and the right seem to have control of this CMP, with respectively 5 and 4 holders each, including Olivier Marleix, boss of the LR deputies, in favor of the reform. A new day of demonstrations, the eighth, will be organized by the unions, in parallel with the meeting.
Assumption 49.3In the best of scenarios for the executive, if deputies and senators reach an agreement within this commission, the revised text will have to be validated Thursday March 16 from 9 a.m. in the Senate, then at 3 p.m. in the Assembly. This last vote, if it is positive, will be worth definitive adoption by the Parliament.
But doubts about the existence of a majority in the Assembly have revived the hypothesis of recourse by the government to Article 49.3 of the Constitution. It allows adoption without a vote but exposes the executive to the risk of a motion of censure.
Using this device would be “dangerous”, “a form of democratic vice”, warned Laurent Berger.
At the Palais Bourbon, the right is very divided on this text although it is traditionally in favor of postponing the legal retirement age. At this stage, only between 30 and 35 LR deputies (out of 61) plan to vote for the text, around fifteen to oppose it, and around ten to abstain, according to an internal source.
A sign of unease among some right-wing elected officials, the LRs have not filled up in the Senate either. Six of them voted against and 18 abstained.
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Why It Took 13 Years to Release Avatar: The Way of Water
“Good things take time, I think, and Jim understands that,” Worthington told E! News’ Francesca Amiker ahead of the film’s Dec. 16 release, as he and Saldaña agreed, simply, that Cameron was the reason they had no qualms about committing to what’s been a decade-plus-long saga. “This was his labor of love.”
“But,” added the Australian-raised actor, whose paraplegic ex-Marine Jake Sully decided at the end of Avatar that he’d rather fight for the Na’vi way of life alongside love Neytiri (Saldaña), “we didn’t take the 10 years off, or the 13 years off. It was about 2013 when [Cameron] said to us, ‘I know how to extend this story and extend this family, and tell a great saga.”
At that time, Saldaña noted, “it had only been three years since we had released the movie.”
Worthington added, “We were excited about the potential of what he was telling us.”
“And here’s the beautiful thing,” Saldaña continued, “if there’s anyone who has complete and utter respect for audiences and fans, it’s James Cameron. Yes, he could’ve taken advantage of the momentum of Avatar 1 and whipped out a formulaic Avatar 2— and then it would have lost its purity, the essence of what made it so special. So, good things do take time. He did have to take a break and go live his life. He did more expeditions, he spent time with his family that are his ride-or-die—especially Suzy—that always have his back and are really holding down the fort.”
Kiska, ‘the loneliest whale in the world,’ dies at Canada amusement park
Enlarge this image Kiska, Marineland’s last living orca, is seen at the amusement park in 2012. Tara Walton/Toronto Star via Getty Images
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Kiska, the last captive killer whale in Canada — also known as “the loneliest whale in the world” — has died, according to local media.
The orca, believed to be 47 years old, died on Thursday, Ontario’s solicitor general ministry spokesperson Brent Ross confirmed to CBC. Kiska, who spent over four decades in captivity, resided at Marineland, a zoo and amusement park in Niagara Falls, after being captured in Icelandic waters in 1979 alongside Keiko, the star of the movie, Free Willy, the publication reported.
The news comes four years after the country officially banned whales, dolphins and porpoises from being bred or held in captivity. However marine mammals, like Kiska, that were already held in captivity would remain so, according to the new legislation.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), said Kiska “spent her final years isolated in a cramped tank, swimming in endless circles or sometimes floating listlessly.”
Kiska’s life of continued isolation led the Whale Sanctuary Project to describe her as “the loneliest whale in the world.”
Both animal rights groups reported that Kiska died of a bacterial infection. NPR has not independently confirmed the cause of death. Ross told CBC that animal welfare officials had conducted a necropsy of the mammal. Marineland has not returned NPR’s multiple messages seeking comment.
Kiska underwent several hardships while residing at the amusement park, according to PETA. This included the deaths of all five of her calves and the departure of her sole tankmate, Ikaika, in 2011, according to the animal rights organization. Footage of Kiska purportedly slamming her face against her tank multiple times also began circulating on social media in 2021.
Animal welfare activists have responded to the news of the death with concerns about the orca’s treatment while in captivity.
“It is heartbreaking to know that Kiska will never have the chance to be relocated to a whale sanctuary, and experience the freedom that she so deeply deserved,” Camille Labchuk, executive director of Animal Justice, told CBC.
There are at least 55 orcas being held in captivity in marine parks around the world, as of Jan. 9, according to the Whale and Dolphin Conservation. SeaWorld, which has three marine parks in the United States, holds more orcas in captivity than any other individual park.
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