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30-01-2025
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Everyone Aboard American Airlines Jet That Collided With Army Helicopter Feared Dead
Everyone aboard an American Airlines jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members that collided with an Army helicopter was feared dead in what was likely to be the worst U.S. aviation disaster in almost a quarter century, officials said Thursday. At least 28 bodies were pulled from the icy waters of the Potomac River after the midair collision Wednesday night when the helicopter apparently flew in the path of the jet as it was landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, officials said. More from The Hollywood Reporter Bill Burr Calls Howie Mandel a "Hollywood Whore" After Billy Corgan Ambush During Podcast Appearance AFM to Return to Los Angeles for 2025 Edition 'Plainclothes' Review: Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey Smolder and Sweat as Closeted Gay Men in Bristling Police Entrapment Drama Crews were still searching for other casualties but did not believe there were any survivors, which would make it the deadliest U.S. air crash in nearly 24 years. 'We are now at the point where we are switching from a rescue operation to a recovery operation,' said John Donnelly, the fire chief in the nation's capital. 'We don't believe there are any survivors.' The body of the plane was found upside down in three sections in waist-deep water. The wreckage of the helicopter was also found. Donnelly said first responders on Thursday were searching an area of the Potomac River as far south as the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, roughly 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) south of the airport. There was no immediate word on the cause of the collision, but officials said flight conditions were clear as the jet coming from Wichita, Kansas, with U.S. and Russian figure skaters and others aboard, was making a routine landing when the helicopter flew into its path. 'On final approach into Reagan National it collided with a military aircraft on an otherwise normal approach,' American Airlines CEO Robert Isom said. 'At this time we don't know why the military aircraft came into the path of the … aircraft.' Three soldiers were onboard the helicopter during a training flight, an Army official previously said. Images from the river showed boats around the partly submerged wing and the mangled wreckage of the plane's fuselage. Investigators will try to piece together the aircrafts' final moments before their collision, including contact with air traffic controllers as well as a loss of altitude by the passenger jet. 'I would just say that everyone who flies in American skies expects that we fly safely,' Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said. 'That when you depart an airport, you get to your destination. That didn't happen last night and I know that President Trump, his administration, the FAA, the DOT, we will not rest until we have answers for the families and for the flying public. You should be assured that when you fly, you're safe.' Reagan Airport will reopen at 11 a.m. Thursday, the Federal Aviation Administration announced. The FAA previously said it would be closed until 5 a.m. Friday. Duffy, just sworn in earlier this week, was asked if he could reassure Americans that the United States still has the safest airspace. 'Can I guarantee the American flying public that the United States has the most safe and secure airspace in the world? And the answer to that is, absolutely yes, we do,' he said. 'We have early indicators of what happened here. And I will tell you with complete confidence that we have the safest airspace in the world.' The last major fatal crash involving a U.S. commercial airline occurred in 2009 near Buffalo, New York. Everyone aboard the Bombardier DHC-8 propeller plane was killed, including 45 passengers, two pilots and two flight attendants. Another person on the ground also died, bringing the total death toll to 50. An investigation determined that the captain accidentally caused the plane to stall as it approached the airport in Buffalo. Passengers on Wednesday's flight included a group of figure skaters, their coaches and family members who were returning from a development camp that followed the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita. 'U.S. Figure Skating can confirm that several members of our skating community were sadly aboard American Airlines Flight 5342, which collided with a helicopter yesterday evening in Washington, D.C.,' U.S. Figure Skating said in a statement. 'We are devastated by this unspeakable tragedy and hold the victims' families closely in our hearts.' U.S. Figure Skating did not identify any of the members of its team that were aboard the flight. Two of the coaches were identified by the Kremlin as Russian figure skaters Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, who won the pairs title at the 1994 world championships and competed twice in the Olympics. The Skating Club of Boston lists them as coaches and their son, Maxim Naumov, is a competitive figure skater for the U.S. It's not the first time that the U.S. figure skating community has been rocked by an air tragedy. The 18-member U.S. team that was set to compete in the 1961 world championships at Prague died when Sabena Flight 548 crashed on Feb. 15, 1961, in Berg-Kampenhout, about 45 minutes outside of Brussels. Also killed were six U.S. coaches and four skating officials, along with some family members. This is a developing story. Best of The Hollywood Reporter Most Anticipated Concert Tours of 2025: Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar & SZA, Sabrina Carpenter and More Hollywood's Highest-Profile Harris Endorsements: Taylor Swift, George Clooney, Bruce Springsteen and More Most Anticipated Concert Tours of 2024: Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, Olivia Rodrigo and More
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30-01-2025
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Joel Edgerton on Directing Harrison Ford in New Glenmorangie Whisky Ad Campaign, Getting Him to Wear a Kilt and Embrace Being an ‘Older Dude': ‘Let's Not Try and Hide It' (EXCLUSIVE)
Joel Edgerton has directed two feature films, 'The Gift' and 'Boy Erased,' but he is now making his advertising directorial debut with Glenmorangie Scotch Whisky's new ad campaign starring Harrison Ford. The legendary actor plays himself as he travels to Andross Castle in Scotland to film the campaign. After insisting on not doing any sort of action movie-like stunts, Ford is seen meditating, riding a bike and sipping whisky in front of a cozy fire. At one point, he even slips into a kilt. More from Variety 'Train Dreams' Review: A Landmark Homage to the Unsung Workers of the American West Plays Out Across Forests and Joel Edgerton's Face Tom Blyth on Playing a Closeted Gay Cop in 'Plainclothes' and His 'Intimate, Really Vivid' Sex Scenes With Russell Tovey Russell Tovey Says 'Plainclothes' Co-Star Tom Blyth 'Is Full of Stardust' and Teases 'Doctor Who' Spin-Off 'The War Between the Land and the Sea' Feels 'Like an Indie Film' The campaign, titled 'Once Upon a Time in Scotland' and consisting of several video spots, plays into Ford's reputation of being a bit of a curmudgeon. 'I'd watched a lot of his interviews, and I realized that true or false, there's a persona of Harrison's that is quite gruff and, you know, grumpy, but he's a bit like an avocado,' Edgerton tells me. 'He's rock solid on the outside but he's very soft in the middle. He has an emotional softness and a sensitivity and a humanity that he then covers with this sort of prickly outside.' This Q&A with Edgerton has been edited for length and clarity. What's your favorite Harrison Ford movie? That's very hard. If you ask 12-year-old Joel, it would be 'Indiana Jones.' But as I grew up, I think 'The Fugitive' is one of the most excellent thrillers made of all time. He does the empathetic every man. Weirdly, my other obsession in the '80s were Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger. But you never thought those guys wouldn't get through the mess. You always assume there's no way they're going to lose but I love that Harrison made us feel like he didn't know the answer. He had to work it out, and I think that's why we all connected with him. I will say Harrison definitely is one of my heroes. There is a photo that exists somewhere of me with a brown, sort of fedora on my head and a brown sort of plastic leather jacket that I found somewhere. And I rubbed dirt on my face to look like stubble. I am aware that you got to be careful about meeting your heroes. I did wonder, 'Is Harrison best left as a hero in my mind?' There's a certain actor in Hollywood who said, 'Never meet your heroes unless they're Harrison Ford' and he was fucking right, man. He was such a legend in person as much as he lives as a legend in my mind. What was it like meeting him for the first time? We had lunch. I was with this gang when he got there. While he was shaking my hand, he said, 'I heard they want me to ride a horse and fly a plane, and I'm not doing any of that.' I felt good because that's exactly what the first spot was going to be about — him going, 'I don't want to do what they want me to do.' We hit it off and by the end of the meeting, he was like, 'I'll do whatever you want me to do.' What was it like telling Harrison Ford to do another take on something? He was awesome. We shot a lot in three days. We shot a lot of material, like 20 to 30 minutes of him doing things. But I was terrified because most campaigns you shoot are a 60-second spot in two days. We were doing four separate stories each day. I thought I was going to have a heart attack before I even got there. But he was often ready before the camera was ready. He would change in a cupboard if he needed to. How many kilts did he try on before you found the right one? We had a beautiful kilt made. When I was younger, I never thought I'd ever have lunch with Harrison so I certainly could never have imagined that one day I'd be working with Harrison Ford and that these words were going to come out of my mouth, 'Harrison, can I get you to wear a kilt?' He seems to have bed head throughout the campaign. Was that on purpose? One of the great things for me is I didn't come from a world of advertising and I've never worked in that world before, I only know about being the receiver of so many ads throughout my entire life. Campaigns are usually about beautification and wish fulfillment, and we often then get actors or celebrities, and we try and age them down or we make them more beautiful. There's an aspect to this campaign that is super subtle, which I think is about embracing who you are and acknowledging your fears, whether you're scared you're not cool enough or you're an older person now and you just want to avoid certain things. I was like, 'Harrison is an older dude. Let's not try and hide it.' And by the way, we didn't have enough time to spend on all that crap. But, yeah, be who you are. We should love everybody for who they are, whatever their age, shape, whether their hair is tussled or not. How much whisky was being consumed while you were shooting? It is important to know your product. We had a couple of amazing tastings with Dr. Bill Lumsden, who creates the whisky. We had a tasting of the full gamut, but we didn't let it get too much in the way of shooting. It is important to relax at the end of the day, and what a great way to do it. They gifted Harrison, myself and all the crew and team special bottles of whisky. I think Harrison got one of the oldest bottles ever — from the year I was born. I have to ask you about voicing Policeman on 'Bluey.' How did that come about? 'Bluey' has been in my life since my niece became obsessed with it, and then, because I'm an actor and I'm Australian, and those guys operate out here, they asked me to do a voice. Now my kids are 'Bluey'-obsessed so it gives me a lot of credibility. But also they hear your voice but they can't quite put it together. I walk around bragging it's me, but they're like, 'No, it's not.' Watch the 60-second Glenmorangie spot below. Best of Variety What's Coming to Netflix in February 2025 New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week 'Anora,' 'Nosferatu,' 'Nickel Boys' and More Could Use DGA, PGA and WGA Noms for Big Boosts in Oscar Race
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29-01-2025
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‘Omaha' Star John Magaro Takes Sundance Audiences for a Ride
Name: John Magaro Sundance project: 'Omaha,' a quiet drama about a father on a mysterious road trip from Utah to Nebraska with his two young children and dog. More from WWD Russell Tovey Dives Into Undercover Drama 'Plainclothes' at Sundance Stephanie Suganami on Her Journey to an A24 Horror Star in Sundance Movie 'Opus' 'True Detective' Breakout Kali Reis Heads to Sundance With 'Rebuilding' Notable past credits: Magaro stars in historical drama 'September 5,' nominated for best film at the Golden Globes earlier this month; he was one of the stars of 2023 Sundance film 'Past Lives,' and starred in Kelly Reichardt's 'First Cow' and 'The Big Short.' 'I've talked to some parents who've seen it already, and they all say the same thing,' says John Magaro of reaction to his new film 'Omaha,' a couple days after the premiere. 'So many people have been like, 'I was so devastated, I called my family. I needed to talk to my family right after.'' Magaro stars in director Cole Webley's feature debut as a young widowed dad of two children. The family has fallen on hard times: At the start of the film, they get evicted from their home and set out on a roadtrip from Utah to Nebraska. Neither the kids nor the audience know why they're headed there, but suspicion starts to creep in midway through the film. The quiet film, set primarily on the road, was shot in Salt Lake City with a mostly Utah-based crew. The actor was last at Sundance in 2023 with breakout hit 'Past Lives,' which went on to become a major award season contender. 'It's early days,' Magaro says of the positive reaction to 'Omaha.' 'This is my fourth time here now. So I know with films that come here, this is the beginning of a long journey. You have to sell it. Then you have to introduce it to the public. There's still so far to go. But obviously it's good to have the initial reaction be so positive.' Magaro was introduced to Webley through mutual connections, including several directors the actor had worked with on recent projects including 'Leroy, Texas,' directed by Webley's former BYU classmate Shane Atkinson. Magaro felt a quick affinity for his character after reading Robert Machoian's script. 'What resonated most with me is that I'm a father. My daughter is almost five years old,' he says. 'I think most fathers can relate to that feeling of being desperate and wanting to keep a good facade up to protect your children; doing everything you think that's in your capability to protect your children. And then the nightmare of potentially losing your children — I mean, that's most parents' biggest fear,' he adds. 'I obviously have never been pushed to that limit like the dad is in this film, but when you're a parent you can't help but think of, god, what if I was in those shoes?' Much of the film's power is conveyed in the unspoken moments onscreen, as the trio stops to fly kites at the Bonneville Salt Flats, for lunch at a roadside fast-food restaurant, and at the zoo in Omaha. 'I like directors or writers who are willing to let silence tell the story,' Magaro says. 'Where only the things that need to be said are said, and letting everything else play through the silences. I think that's one of the most magical things about cinema.' Reflecting on his experience as a Sundance regular, Magaro pointed to the festival's role as a launchpad for new voices in American cinema. 'So many great auteurs are introduced to the world here at Sundance, and it really is the forefront of what's happening in American cinema,' he says. 'It's such a joy to be here as an American actor.' After Sundance, Magaro was headed home to New York for a few days before heading to London for the U.K. premiere of 'September 5.' Afterward, he'll head to Berlin for the premiere of another film, 'Köln 75,' about jazz musician Keith Jarrett. 'Probably the most famous jazz pianist of all time,' says Magaro, who plays Jarrett in the film. 'He did this concert in Cologne, Germany, in the '70s that was put together by an 18-year-old girl. It was really difficult, there was a lot of challenges to make it happen. And they put it on, they recorded it, and it is now still the highest selling solo live jazz album of all time.' From there, he'll go to the Santa Barbara International Film Festival where he's being honored at the Virtuoso Awards. He'll have a short break before going back to begin filming the second season of 'The Agency' in April; the season one finale aired just before Sundance. 'It's been so nice to be here, and hear people who found the series and are really responding to it,' he says. 'I'm really excited to see where the show goes.' Best of WWD Gia Carangi: Remembering Fashion's 'First Supermodel,' Her Tragic Legacy & Last Photos Grace Kelly's Daughter Princess Caroline of Monaco's Style Evolution: From '70s Party Girl Glamour to '80s Trends [PHOTOS] Angelina Jolie's '90s to Early 2000s Outfits: A Rebellious Style Journey to Red Carpet Glamour [PHOTOS]
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29-01-2025
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Jinkx Monsoon on Trump's Transgender Military Ban: ‘This Isn't the First Time They've Made It Illegal to Be Us, We're Still Here'
Jinkx Monsoon walked the pink carpet at the Season 2 premiere of 'Sketchy Queens' Tuesday night in Hollywood. The Broadway star and'Drag Race All Stars' winner responded to Donald Trump's transgender military ban saying, 'This isn't the first time they've tried to make it illegal to be us, and we're still here.' Late Monday night, Trump issued an executive order to ban transgender troops from serving openly in the military. The order was issued to 'ensure the readiness and effectiveness of our Armed Forces.' More from Variety Harvey Guillén Says L.A. Wildfires Left Him in a 'Depressed Dark Place': 'We Need to Create Entertainment Because We Need to Escape' Joel Edgerton on Directing Harrison Ford in New Glenmorangie Whisky Ad Campaign, Getting Him to Wear a Kilt and Embrace Being an 'Older Dude': 'Let's Not Try and Hide It' (EXCLUSIVE) Tom Blyth on Playing a Closeted Gay Cop in 'Plainclothes' and His 'Intimate, Really Vivid' Sex Scenes With Russell Tovey 'This is the farthest we've come, and if they think that people will willingly go back into the shadows…I mean TV would suck without us,' said Monsoon, who has spoken out about Trump's anti-Trans rhetoric in the past. 'No one's going to want to get rid of us for TV's sake alone.' Also in attendance were 'RuPaul Drag Race: All Stars' Season 9 winner Angeria Paris VanMicheals, BenDeLaCreme and trans advocate and drag queen Abigail Beverly Hillz. Hillz echoed Monsoon saying, 'Trans and gender diverse people are going absolutely nowhere. I have known who I am my entire life. I was born intersex, and I transitioned gender presentations when I was a teenager.' Hillz called for people to remember 'our humanity.' BenDeLaCreme reinforced the power of community coming together as LGBTQ+ rights come under attack from the Trump administration. He said, 'I think it's so important right now that everybody be doing more to get face to face. Get offline, meet your neighbors or get your friends together for a dinner party.' He and Monsoon had recently wrapped their holiday tour which saw the duo perform in cities across the country. Said BenDeLaCreme, 'It's a really special thing to be able to do to make so many people laugh. To feel thousands of people in a room feeling the same emotions — it's such a gift.' 'Sketchy Queens' airs on World of Wonder's WoW Presents Plus every Monday and follows Monsoon and Krug in various sketches. Elaine Carroll, Brandon Rogers and Michael Vegas, and former 'Drag Race' stars Angeria Paris VanMichaels and Salina EsTitties are among the guest stars this season. With the first episode titled 'Burn the Witch,' Krug teased what audiences can expect from the season: 'Some funny goofs, gags, and some glam.' Monsoon also admitted she keeps her 'Drag Race' crown and scepter in her office on a shelf with 'other trophies.' Asked what's the one trophy she'd like to add to her shelf, Monsoon replied, 'Tony.' She added, 'But I want to get it when I fully earned it, not just because of a sensational moment. I want to get it when I fucking did the work, and everyone agrees that I got it.' Best of Variety What's Coming to Netflix in February 2025 New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week What's Coming to Disney+ in February 2025
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27-01-2025
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‘Plainclothes' Review: A Closeted Cop Is Tempted by the Gay Men He's Tailing in Steamy '90s-Set Psychodrama
These days, gay men can arrange sex by a smartphone app as easily as ordering a pizza. But back in the '90s, when 'Plainclothes' takes place, such trysts not only had to be coordinated in person, but could be punished by arrest. Audiences of a certain age and demographic almost certainly remember the risk and fear (not to mention the illicit excitement) back then, when undercover police monitored public 'tearooms' for lewd behavior. In writer-director Carmen Emmi's 'we've come a long way, baby' debut, the cops take it one step further, luring homosexuals into exposing themselves. But what if the officer in question was closeted and one of these strangers slipped him his phone number? That's the intriguing — if credulity-stretching — premise of 'Plainclothes,' which casts Tom Blyth (the outlaw star of Epix's 'Billy the Kid') as Lucas, a second-generation cop with all kinds of identity issues. He seems relatively comfortable with the assignment early on, hanging out at the shopping mall, where his job is to catch the eye of an interested stranger, follow him to the bathroom and then bust the 'pervert' once he does something illegal (which, in this case, is simply flashing his wares). More from Variety 'Rebuilding' Review: Josh O'Connor Is a Rancher Who's Lost Everything in a Drama That Mostly Just Sits There 'Atropia' Review: Alia Shawkat Trains Troops Assigned to a Fake Iraqi Town in a Self-Reflexive War Comedy That Peters Out 'The Legend of Ochi' Review: Practical Magic Breathes Life Into A24's Grounded Fantasy Preaching Man's Coexistence With Nature The police officers can't speak during the process, lest the entire operation be considered entrapment. That suits Lucas fine … until he meets Andrew ('Looking' heartthrob Russell Tovey), who beckons Lucas to the last stall. Suddenly, Lucas is overwhelmed with feelings, which Emmi suggests by splicing VHS footage into the scene — a sophisticated if somewhat distracting technique for putting audiences in Lucas' fragmented headspace. Instead of arresting Andrew, Lucas lets him go, taking the stranger's number and calling him to arrange a more conventional date. It's around this time that Lucas starts to develop a conscience about arresting men for desires he shares — though he's desperate to hide that dimension of himself from his mother (Maria Dizzia). Emmi was but a boy in 1997, the year when 'Plainclothes' is set, which makes the degree to which he successfully re-creates the atmosphere — as well as the uncertainty and paranoia — of that time rather remarkable. Gay cruising depends largely on unspoken cues: a lingering glance, an interested look back, the conspicuous adjustment of one's 'basket.' Here, such behavior is not as sexy as Drew Lint's 'M/M' or as amusing as Tsai Ming-liang's art-house 'Goodbye Dragon Inn,' and yet, it's encouraging to see these codes re-created by a young filmmaker, who uses mirrors placed directly above a bank of urinals to let the characters' eyes do the talking. For Lucas, whose understanding ex-girlfriend (Amy Forsyth) is the only person he's told of his bi-curious inclinations, the conflicted young man finally seems ready to explore his attraction to men — and he wants Andrew to be his first. 'Plainclothes' presents this experimental impulse in a semi-romantic light, even though neither man can 'host.' Lucas, who gives Andrew a fake name, worries what the neighbors will think, while his crush claims to be a husband and father with a high-profile job as some kind of 'administrator.' That means finding somewhere public to rendez-vous and eventually hook up — which of course exposes Lucas to the same laws he's tasked with enforcing. Lucas' commanding officer (John Bedford Lloyd) explains that someone who'd had oral sex in such a spot went on to molest some little girls. Now concerned citizens are demanding a crackdown, which seems like a stretch. Police have needed less reason than that to target homosexual activity, and as a training film shows, they've gone so far as to hide cameras behind one-way mirrors in order to discourage such behavior. After striking out at a repertory movie palace, Andrew suggests a local park, which introduces another dimension of '90s-era cruising Emmi must have read up on (for context, George Michael was arrested by an undercover vice cop in a Los Angeles toilet, and later outed by a British tabloid after paparazzi caught him cruising London's Hampstead Heath). The 'Plainclothes' pair have better luck, getting it on in a public greenhouse before Andrew's beeper goes off. To the uninitiated, when it comes to trysts between closeted men, there are all kinds of rules, both unwritten and explicit. Andrew warns Lucas that he rarely sees anyone more than once, but Lucas ignores his boundaries. The hot-blooded cop is hooked, running Andrew's license plate through the police database and proceeding to stalk him at work — a bad idea on his part, but a satisfying one, dramatically speaking, since doing so inadvertently exposes the man Lucas had started to believe was his soulmate. You can't entirely blame Lucas for wanting a relationship, though toilets aren't typically the place to find one. Surely even small-town Mansfield, Mass., has a gay bar — or else, a short drive to Boston might do the trick — but Lucas' only exposure to gay culture is the bathroom he's been surveilling. (It may be hard for younger audiences to imagine, but before Ellen DeGeneres came out in 1997, the media was relatively skittish about anything queer, depriving Lucas and his peers of role models or basic information.) As impressive as Emmi's ultra-subjective multimedia approach can be at times, the mix of formats and different timelines occasionally feels like a strategy to mislead. The film has a few major plot holes, mostly concerning the present-tense family meal where Lucas seems to be having a nervous breakdown. He can hardly contain his secret any longer, but when his uncle's new girlfriend (Alessandra Ford Balazs) threatens to expose him, Lucas flips out, and Erik Vogt-Nilsen's editing gets downright tortured. 'Plainclothes' builds to an intense and ultimately cathartic climax, but there's something retrograde about the shame Lucas feels. Emmi wants us to experience his protagonist's sense of suffocation, when looking back from the presence, we just want to shout: 'It gets better!' Best of Variety The Best Albums of the Decade
