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Daily Mail
3 hours ago
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- Daily Mail
Mia Farrow supported by 'very proud' son Ronan as she lands first Tony Awards nod at 80
First-time nominee Mia Farrow brought along her lucky charm - son Ronan Farrow - to the 78th Annual Tony Awards, which were held at Radio City Music Hall in Midtown Manhattan on Sunday. The 80-year-old actress beamed while glammed up in a cream-colored, three-piece white pantsuit with matching platform boots and a golden clutch purse. The 37-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner contrasted his famous mother by donning an all-black silk suit with buckled dress shoes. Mia (born Maria) welcomed Ronan (born Satchel) during her 11-year relationship with estranged ex-partner Woody Allen, but he's long been rumored to be the biological son of Frank Sinatra. Joining the Farrow mother-son duo was his partner Hamer Morgenstern dressed in a classic tuxedo. 'Hey, I'm here at the Tony Awards with my mom, Mia Farrow, who is nominated. Very proud of her!' The New Yorker investigative journalist gushed via Instagram while crossing his fingers. Indeed, the Beverly Hills-born nepo baby scored her first-ever Tony nomination for best performance by a leading actress in a play for her role as Iowa homeowner Sharon in The Roommate, which marked her fourth Broadway play. Ironically, Mia's Roommate castmate Patti LuPone from Jen Silverman's two-person play was snubbed for a nomination following the scandal over her saying Broadway rival Audra McDonald was 'not a friend.' But Farrow did reveal in Interview last week that her character does most of the heavy lifting: 'Mostly it was me, because if you read the script, I initiate just about every conversation.' In the end, the Rosemary's Baby alum lost the Tony Award to Succession alum Sarah Snook, who made her Broadway debut as the titular role in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Ronan helped fuel the #MeToo movement by creating Catch and Kill (book, podcast, and HBO series) on disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. Farrow published similar sexual harassment/assault take-downs on Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Supreme Court associate justice Brett Kavanaugh, Matt Lauer, Les Moonves, and more. It all likely stemmed from the Surveilled star's real-life estrangement from his 89-year-old famous father after Mia accused the disgraced filmmaker of molesting their adopted daughter Dylan at age seven in 1992. But Farrow did reveal in Interview last week that her character does most of the heavy lifting: 'Mostly it was me, because if you read the script, I initiate just about every conversation' In the end, the Rosemary's Baby alum lost the Tony Award to Succession alum Sarah Snook, who made her Broadway debut as the titular role in The Picture of Dorian Gray One week later, Allen - who was never charged or prosecuted - sued Mia for full custody of Ronan and her adopted children Dylan and Moses. In his 33-page decision in 1993, Justice Elliott Wilk rejected Woody's (born Allan Konigsberg) bid for custody of all three children and called his behavior toward Dylan 'grossly inappropriate' while also rejecting the sexual abuse allegations. And while 39-year-old Dylan still stands by the allegations, her 47-year-old brother Moses publicly denied she was ever abused and alleged Farrow had abused him in a 2018 WordPress post. In 1997, the four-time Oscar winner married the Golden Globe winner's adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn - with whom he had a secret affair in 1992 - and they later adopted 25-year-old daughter Bechet Allen and 24-year-old daughter Manzie Tio Allen. Tony Awards 2025 nominees Best Musical Buena Vista Social Club Dead Outlaw Death Becomes Her Maybe Happy Ending Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical Best Revival of a Play Eureka Day — Author: Jonathan Spector Romeo + Juliet Thornton Wilder's Our Town Yellow Face — Author: David Henry Hwang Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play George Clooney — Good Night, And Good Luck Cole Escola — Oh, Mary! Jon Michael Hill — Purpose Daniel Dae Kim — Yellow Face Harry Lennix — Purpose Louis McCartney — Stranger Things: The First Shadow Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical Darren Criss — Maybe Happy Ending Andrew Durand — Dead Outlaw Tom Francis — Sunset Blvd. Jonathan Groff — Just In Time James Monroe Iglehart — A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical Jeremy Jordan — Floyd Collins Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play Glenn Davis — Purpose Gabriel Ebert — John Proctor Is The Villain Francis Jue — Yellow Face - WINNER Bob Odenkirk — Glengarry Glen Ross Conrad Ricamora — Oh, Mary! Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical Brooks Ashmanskas —SMASH Jeb Brown — Dead Outlaw Danny Burstein — Gypsy Jak Malone — Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical - WINNER Taylor Trensch — Floyd Collins Best Direction of a Play Knud Adams — English Sam Mendes — The Hills Of California Sam Pinkleton — Oh, Mary! Danya Taymor — John Proctor Is The Villain Kip Williams — The Picture Of Dorian Gray Best Book of a Musical Buena Vista Social Club — Marco Ramirez Dead Outlaw — Itamar Moses Death Becomes Her — Marco Pennette Maybe Happy Ending — Will Aronson and Hue Park Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical — David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson and Zoë Roberts Best Scenic Design of a Play Marsha Ginsberg — English Rob Howell — The Hills of California Marg Horwell and David Bergman — The Picture of Dorian Gray Miriam Buether and 59 — Stranger Things: The First Shadow Scott Pask — Good Night, and Good Luck Best Costume Design of a Play Brenda Abbandandolo — Good Night, And Good Luck Marg Horwell — The Picture of Dorian Gray Rob Howell — The Hills Of California Holly Pierson — Oh, Mary! Brigitte Reiffenstuel — Stranger Things: The First Shadow Best Lighting Design of a Play Natasha Chivers — The Hills Of California Jon Clark — Stranger Things: The First Shadow Heather Gilbert and David Bengali — Good Night, And Good Luck Natasha Katz and Hannah Wasileski — John Proctor Is The Villain Nick Schlieper — The Picture Of Dorian Gray Best Sound Design of a Play Paul Arditti — Stranger Things: The First Shadow Palmer Hefferan — John Proctor Is The Villain Daniel Kluger — Good Night, And Good Luck Nick Powell — The Hills Of California Clemence Williams — The Picture of Dorian Gray Best Choreography Joshua Bergasse — SMASH Camille A. Brown — Gypsy Christopher Gattelli — Death Becomes Her Jerry Mitchell — BOOP! The Musical Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck — Buena Vista Social Club Best Play English — Author: Sanaz Toossi The Hills of California — Author: Jez Butterworth John Proctor Is The Villain — Author: Kimberly Belflower Oh, Mary! — Author: Cole Escola Purpose — Author: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Best Revival of a Musical Floyd Collins — Book/Additional Lyrics: Tina Landau; Music & Lyrics: Adam Guettel Gypsy Pirates! The Penzance Musical Sunset Blvd. Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Laura Donnelly — The Hills Of California Mia Farrow — The Roommate LaTanya Richardson Jackson — Purpose Sadie Sink — John Proctor Is The Villain Sarah Snook — The Picture Of Dorian Gray - WINNER Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical Megan Hilty — Death Becomes Her Audra McDonald — Gypsy Jasmine Amy Rogers — BOOP! The Musical Nicole Scherzinger — Sunset Blvd. Jennifer Simard — Death Becomes Her Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play Tala Ashe — English Jessica Hecht — Eureka Day Marjan Neshat — English Fina Strazza — John Proctor Is The Villain Kara Young — Purpose Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical Natalie Venetia Belcon — Buena Vista Social Club Julia Knitel — Dead Outlaw Gracie Lawrence — Just In Time Justina Machado — Real Women Have Curves: The Musical Joy Woods — Gypsy Best Direction of a Musical Saheem Ali — Buena Vista Social Club Michael Arden — Maybe Happy Ending David Cromer — Dead Outlaw Christopher Gattelli — Death Becomes Her Jamie Lloyd — Sunset Blvd. Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre Dead Outlaw — Music & Lyrics: David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna Death Becomes Her — Music & Lyrics: Julia Mattison and Noel Carey Maybe Happy Ending —Music: Will Aronson; Lyrics: Will Aronson and Hue Park Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical — Music & Lyrics: David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson and Zoë Roberts Real Women Have Curves: The Musical — Music & Lyrics: Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez Best Orchestrations Andrew Resnick and Michael Thurber — Just in Time Will Aronson — Maybe Happy Ending Bruce Coughlin — Floyd Collins Marco Paguia — Buena Vista Social Club David Cullen and Andrew Lloyd Webber — Sunset Blvd. Best Scenic Design of a Musical Rachel Hauck — Swept Away Dane Laffrey and George Reeve — Maybe Happy Ending Arnulfo Maldonado — Buena Vista Social Club Derek McLane — Death Becomes Her Derek McLane — Just In Time Best Costume Design of a Musical Dede Ayite — Buena Vista Social Club Gregg Barnes — BOOP! The Musical Clint Ramos — Maybe Happy Ending Paul Tazewell — Death Becomes Her Catherine Zuber — Just In Time Best Lighting Design of a Musical Jack Knowles — Sunset Blvd. Tyler Micoleau — Buena Vista Social Club Scott Zielinski and Ruey Horng Sun — Floyd Collins Ben Stanton — Maybe Happy Ending Justin Townsend — Death Becomes Her Best Sound Design of a Musical Jonathan Deans — Buena Vista Social Club Adam Fisher — Sunset Blvd. Peter Hylenski — Just In Time Peter Hylenski — Maybe Happy Ending Dan Moses Schreier — Floyd Collins
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
'Data can be weaponized': Ronan Farrow sounds alarm on DOGE access to private Social Security data
Ronan Farrow, contributing writer to the New Yorker, talks with Jen Psaki about the Supreme Court granting DOGE access to private, personal social security data, and how Elon Musk's agitated behavior, combined with the sensitivity of personal data, makes our new reality particularly perilous. "There is an erratic person who has his own complicated international alliances and business interests who is controlling key functionality that the American people depend on."
The Guardian
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Sean Penn says he'd work with Woody Allen again ‘in a heartbeat'
Sean Penn has reiterated his defence of Woody Allen, saying he would 'work with him in a heartbeat'. Penn was speaking on The Louis Theroux Podcast, and told Theroux that while he felt he didn't know Allen well enough to know for certain that '100% this didn't happen', he said: 'The stories are mostly told by people that I wouldn't trust with a dime. It just seems so heavily weighted in that way.' Allen is accused of sexual abuse by the director's adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow; Allen has always denied the allegations and two official investigations by social services departments in Connecticut and New York state were closed after finding no evidence against him. Allen's son, investigative journalist Ronan Farrow, has been outspoken in support of Dylan, while adopted son Moses Farrow has been equally outspoken in defence of Allen. Penn worked with Allen on the 1999 film Sweet and Lowdown, for which he was nominated for an Oscar. Penn said: 'I am not aware of any clinical psychologist or psychiatrist or anyone I've ever heard talk or spoken to around the subject of paedophilia that, in 80 years of life, there's accusations of it happening only once. I'm not aware of that. And when people try to associate what were his, let's say, much younger girlfriends, right or wrong … is to me a different conversation.' He added: 'I see he's not proven guilty, so I take him as innocent, and I would work with him in a heartbeat.' In the same interview Penn cast new light on his meeting with former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in 2018 at the height of the Syrian civil war. Penn was working on a now-abandoned documentary about the Arab Spring uprisings. Penn told Theroux he wanted permission to speak to Isis prisoners and speak to Syrians 'on the street … without a minder'. According to Penn, al-Assad's response was, 'Absolutely, we have nothing to hide', and then invited him to lunch. Penn said: 'I got into his car and … we drove about 20 minutes through Damascus. To this day, I have to believe it was The Truman Show. That every block all the way to his house was staged. People driving up next to him and saying, 'hello, Mr President'. 'Hey, how are you?' This kind of thing. Virtually no visible security.' 'We went to the house. Again, no sign of security of any kind. He's there with his wife and his children. His children are as western as any California kid, and they're listening to Kanye and dancing around.' However, Penn said as negotiations progressed, access was denied and he decided to drop the film. Penn also had harsh comments on both Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Trump, he said, might be 'extremely smart for his time and what it valued', adding: 'But what he values is so base. I won't equate that with intelligence. It's truly void of soul. And really, it actively engages in cruelty.' Penn said that Musk, who until recently was heading a so-called 'department of government efficiency' for Trump's administration resulting in the shutdown of swathes of public services, appeared only to 'value destruction of things and people', adding. 'I can't associate that with any intelligence that's going to do humankind any good.' Saying he had met Musk 'on several occasions', Penn suggested that Musk's insecurities were down to being a 'prematurely balding teenager, white in apartheid South Africa, who has no social skills' and that in his view Musk was a combination of 'a lot of destructive energy and a lot of stuff that may end up being very productive for other generations'. Penn also reflected on his tempestuous relationship with Madonna, to whom he was married between 1985 and 1989, and in the course of which he had a number of run-ins with paparazzi. Responding to Theroux's question about Madonna's statement in her 1991 documentary In Bed with Madonna that Penn was 'the love of her life', Penn said: 'She's very sweet. Look, she's been a good friend for a lot of years. It didn't take us long to realise that we had mistaken a good first date for a wedding partner. It didn't take us long to recover after we got divorced, maybe a year, in a friendship. I have a lot of fond memories of it – it's not all jail. But there was a lot of alcohol and she'd be fairly accusing me of that.' Penn also said that he may have helped accelerate the rise of celebrity culture by his occasionally violent responses to harassment by the media. '[It] added to the idea you can go provoke people like this idiot. I'm probably partially responsible for this explosion that led to all this. Extreme creepy fascination with famous people and things like that. My life was much simpler before [meeting Madonna]. But she became a lightning rod of attention. I was there.'
Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Mia Farrow Says Her Kids Will be Coming Over for Mother's Day: 'Hopefully They'll Bring Food!' (Exclusive)
Mia Farrow is going to have a Mother's Day to remember! In a conversation with PEOPLE at the 2025 Tony Awards junket on Thursday, May 8, Farrow, 80, opened up about how she plans to spend the holiday. "Oh, my kids are coming over. Not all, but most. Or anyway some and grandchildren. And I don't really know," she says. "I know Ronan's [Farrow] coming from New York and I really don't know. Hopefully they'll bring food or take me out." Farrow is a mom to 14 children, three of whom have died — Tam died in 2000, Lark died in 2008 and Thaddeus died in 2016. PEOPLE spoke with her following her nomination for the 2025 Tony Awards in the category of Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play. She received the nomination for her role in the Broadway production of The Roommate. She is up against Laura Donnelly (The Hills of California), LaTanya Richardson Jackson (Purpose), Sadie Sink (John Proctor Is the Villain) and Sarah Snook (The Picture of Dorian Gray). While speaking to PEOPLE about what being up for the award means to her, she says it makes her think about her own mother, Maureen O'Sullivan. "I'm absolutely gobsmacked. It's such an honor, and I know everyone says that, but it's so personal, and I hadn't expected it, and I did burst into tears, and I wish my mom could be here," says Farrow. "She would've been so happy and proud, I think." Farrow first told PEOPLE she "burst into tears" in an exclusive statement following her nomination. "I wish my mom were here – she would have been so proud of me. I'm so overwhelmed with gratitude to be among these nominees, as this is just the best community in the world. I'm still in the 'oh my God, oh my God, oh my God' mode," her statement added. O'Sullivan, who was also an actress, died in 1998 at the age of 87. Farrow says she and her mother were very close. "I loved her so much and I carry her with me everywhere, and I have a way of communicating with her just to share my life, the best of it, with my mom," she says. "I believe that there is some sort of afterlife that people just don't get extinguished and that my mom is somewhere and I know she's with me." Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. The 78th Tony Awards, hosted by Cynthia Erivo, will air live on CBS and stream live on Paramount+ from Radio City Music Hall in New York City on June 8. Read the original article on People
Yahoo
06-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
What Ketamine Does to the Human Brain
Last month, during Elon Musk's appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference, as he hoisted a chain saw in the air, stumbled over some of his words, and questioned whether there was really gold stored in Fort Knox, people on his social-media platform, X, started posting about ketamine. Musk has said he uses ketamine regularly, so for the past couple of years, public speculation has persisted about how much he takes, whether he's currently high, or how it might affect his behavior. Last year, Musk told CNN's Don Lemon that he has a ketamine prescription and uses the drug roughly every other week to help with depression symptoms. When Lemon asked if Musk ever abused ketamine, Musk replied, 'I don't think so. If you use too much ketamine you can't really get work done,' then said that investors in his companies should want him to keep up his drug regimen. Not everyone is convinced. The Wall Street Journal has reported that Musk also takes the drug recreationally, and in 2023, Ronan Farrow reported in The New Yorker that Musk's 'associates' worried that ketamine, 'alongside his isolation and his increasingly embattled relationship with the press, might contribute to his tendency to make chaotic and impulsive statements and decisions.' (Musk did not respond to my requests for comment. In a post on X responding to The New Yorker 's story, Musk wrote, 'Tragic that Ronan Farrow is a puppet of the establishment and against the people.') Ketamine is called a dissociative drug because during a high, which lasts about an hour, people might feel detached from their body, their emotions, or the passage of time. Frequent, heavy recreational use—say, several times a week—has been linked to cognitive effects that last beyond the high, including impaired memory, delusional thinking, superstitious beliefs, and a sense of specialness and importance. You can see why people might wonder about ketamine use from a man who is trying to usher in multi-planetary human life, who has barged into global politics and is attempting to reengineer the U.S. government. With Musk's new political power, his cognitive and psychological health is of concern not only to shareholders of his companies' stocks but to all Americans. His late-night posts on X, mass emails to federal employees, and non sequiturs uttered on television have prompted even more questions about his drug use. Ketamine's great strength has always been its ability to sever humans from the world around them. It was first approved as an anesthetic in 1970, because it could make people lose consciousness without affecting the quality of their breathing. In the 1990s, as a street drug known as Special K, ketamine took ravers to euphoric states. Then, in the 2000s, researchers found that doses of ketamine that didn't put people to sleep could rapidly reduce symptoms of depression, because, the thinking went, the drug altered the physical circuitry of the brain. In 2019, the FDA approved a nasal spray containing a form of ketamine called esketamine (sold under the brand name Spravato) for patients with depression who hadn't responded to other treatments. Spravato came with a list of rules for how the drug should be administered: in a certified medical setting by a health-care professional, and with limited dosage amounts determined by how long a person has been in treatment. But Spravato's approval was followed by a surge in prescriptions for generic ketamine, which, because it's already FDA-approved as an anesthetic, can be administered off-label without the rules that govern esketamine. (Recreational use has shot up over the past decade too.) Some providers pair low-dose injections with talk therapy. Across the country, bespoke ketamine clinics offer shots and lozenges to treat a wide variety of mental-health conditions, including anxiety and PTSD; some focus on IV drips at doses high enough that maintaining a conversation is not feasible. Few take insurance. One market report estimated that the ketamine industry was worth nearly $3.5 billion in 2023. Outside the clinic, the drug is reportedly popular among Silicon Valley's tech elite, and a feature at some wellness retreats, including those for leadership development, corporate team building, or couples counseling. Research has not yet established the side effects of long-term ketamine therapy, but older studies of recreational users offer some insight on heavy, extended dosing. Celia Morgan, now a psychopharmacology professor at the University of Exeter, in England, led a 2010 study that followed 120 recreational ketamine users for a year. Even infrequent users—those who used, on average, roughly three times a month—scored higher on a delusional-thought scale than ex–ketamine users, people who took other drugs, and people who didn't use drugs at all. Those who averaged 20 uses a month scored even higher. People believed that they were the sole recipients of secret messages, or that society and people around them were especially attuned to them. The psychological profile of a frequent ketamine user, Morgan and her team concluded, was someone who had 'profound' impairments in short- and long-term memory and was 'distinctly dissociated in their day-to-day existence.' Morgan's study was not designed to determine whether people who are more likely to be delusional are also more likely to recreationally use ketamine, but Morgan told me that stopping the drug, in most cases, will dramatically reduce these side effects. Psychedelic enthusiasts have for decades cautioned about the dangers of prolonged ketamine use, including serious damage to the bladder, intense stomach cramps, and a struggle to stop using. In 1994, the researcher D. M. Turner wrote, 'A fairly large percentage of those who try Ketamine will consume it non-stop until their supply is exhausted.' John Lilly, a neurophysiologist and psychedelic researcher who once used LSD to investigate dolphin communication, famously abused ketamine until he believed that he was contacted by an extraterrestrial entity who removed his penis. 'For anyone who is using a very significant amount of ketamine on a regular basis over a long period of time, I think there's good reason to suspect that they could have different kinds of cognitive and psychological forms of impairment,' David Mathai, a psychiatrist who offers ketamine therapy to some of his patients in Miami, told me. Such theoretical impairments would be concerning in any context—but especially when contemplating a person who has achieved enough power to be unironically described as co-president of the United States. To be sure, ketamine may have nothing to do with his actions. He may be simply acting in accordance with his far-right political ideology. Musk also famously brags that he rarely sleeps —never a good strategy for measured speech or actions. Musk hasn't publicly acknowledged the risks of ketamine, despite having once claimed that SSRIs, the drugs commonly used to treat depression, 'zombify' patients. Other highly visible ketamine promoters tend to do the same. Dylan Beynon, the founder of the ketamine telemedicine company Mindbloom, recently wrote on X, 'Ketamine is not physically addictive. SSRIs are very difficult to wean off of for many.' (Beynon's wife, the former head of engineering at Mindbloom, now works at DOGE.) Although ketamine doesn't lead to the same kind of physical withdrawal symptoms as opioids or alcohol, Morgan, the University of Exeter professor, said its abuse potential is widely accepted, partly because people build a tolerance to the drug very quickly. In the United Kingdom, where health data are more centralized, more than 2,000 people sought treatment for ketamine addiction in 2023. More to the point, ketamine's most dramatic risks depend on simply how much ketamine a person takes, and for how long. Swaths of the tech world have long been drawn to Stoic philosophy, which encourages a detachment from that which is out of your control. Stoicism offers excellent coping strategies in the face of adversity—useful in an industry where most start-ups fail—but taken to extremes, it can also be a pathway to disengagement from the world and people around you. Ketamine, similarly, can afford its users space between themselves and overwhelming despair, which might help explain how it can treat depression, Mathai, the Miami psychiatrist, said. But there are consequences for leaning into that escape for too long.
