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The Herald Scotland
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
Adrien Brody, more unite to support AIDS research after Trump cuts
The charity said the benefit has so far raised nearly $300 million for its research programs on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Celebrities including "Sing Sing" actor Colman Domingo, award-winning actor Taraji P. Henson and Michelle Rodriguez of the "Fast and Furious" franchise expressed concern about what U.S. President Donald Trump's budget and staffing cuts could mean for AIDS research and prevention around the world. See the photo: Emma Watson touches down in France for rare Cannes Film Festival appearance The United States' "recent reduction of a lot of those resources globally has affected the AIDS community profoundly," said Rodriguez on the red carpet ahead of the dinner. "It becomes more important than ever, the work that amfAR does, not only in the research to generate drugs, just the advocacy that they have globally," added the actor. The United Nations AIDS agency warned in March that there could be 2,000 new HIV infections a day across the world and a ten-fold increase in related deaths if funding frozen by the United States is not restored or replaced. "It's very disappointing when people are going to die for something they don't have to die from," said Henson, the event's host and actor from "Hidden Figures" and TV series "Empire." Teri Hatcher, Ed Westwick, Heidi Klum and Lauren Sanchez, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' fiancee, also attended the dinner that featured a performance by pop rockers Duran Duran. Contributing: Miranda Murray, Rollo Ross, Reuters
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Celebrities unite at exclusive Cannes gala to support AIDS research after Trump cuts
By Miranda Murray and Rollo Ross CANNES, France (Reuters) - Famed actors, directors and music acts like Adrien Brody, Duran Duran and Spike Lee escaped the Cannes Film Festival's crowded Croisette boulevard on Thursday evening for the exclusive grounds of the nearby Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc for a good cause. With tickets starting at $25,000, the amfAR charity dinner has been bringing stars to Cap d'Antibes, Cannes' quieter, palm-lined neighbour, since 1993 in the name of HIV/AIDS research. The charity said the benefit has so far raised nearly $300 million for its research programs on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Celebrities including "Sing Sing" actor Colman Domingo, award-winning actor Taraji P. Henson and Michelle Rodriguez of the "Fast and Furious" franchise expressed concern about what U.S. President Donald Trump's budget and staffing cuts could mean for AIDS research and prevention around the world. The United States' "recent reduction of a lot of those resources globally has affected the AIDS community profoundly," said Rodriguez on the red carpet ahead of the dinner. "It becomes more important than ever, the work that amfAR does, not only in the research to generate drugs, just the advocacy that they have globally," added the actor. The United Nations AIDS agency warned in March that there could be 2,000 new HIV infections a day across the world and a ten-fold increase in related deaths if funding frozen by the United States is not restored or replaced. "It's very disappointing when people are going to die for something they don't have to die from," said Henson, the event's host and actor from "Hidden Figures" and TV series "Empire." Teri Hatcher, Ed Westwick, Heidi Klum and Lauren Sanchez, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' fiancee, also attended the dinner that featured a performance by pop rockers Duran Duran.
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
World War II brought these top actors and spotlight of Hollywood to Fort Worth
Our Uniquely Fort Worth stories celebrate what we love most about North Texas, its history & culture. Story suggestion? Editors@ Hollywood was in Fort Worth news earlier this year with the nomination of Fort Worth's Abraham Alexander for an Academy Award for Best Song of the Year (from the 2024 movie 'Sing Sing'). The Nigerian-born Alexander attended Texas Wesleyan University before launching a musical career. Filmmakers' interest in Fort Worth might have originated in 1920 when the fledgling Lone Star Pictures announced plans to film its first motion picture here, 'a romance of the Texas oil fields.' It never happened, but in the years to come, some well-known Hollywood actors had a soft spot in their hearts for Cowtown. Gene Autry visited Fort Worth in 1936 and asked the manager of the New Liberty theater, 'Do they like my pictures here?' The manager assured him, 'Next to Buck Jones, you're tops!' Twenty years later, Fort Worth made Jimmy Stewart an honorary citizen and deputy sheriff. Fort Worth was also home to some top Hollywood talent during World War II. They were here because of Tarrant Field — renamed Carswell Air Force Base in 1948 — as part of the Army Air Forces Training Command. In the summer of 1942, the the command opened a combat training school at Tarrant Field for pilots on the heavy bombers being produced next door at the Consolidated Vultee plant (now Lockheed Martin). George Gobel was one of the Hollywood types who answered his country's call in 1942. At the time, he was a little-known singer-turned-comedian who had been performing since the age of 11. The military sent him to Fort Worth to teach men to fly the B-24 Liberator. When off duty, Gobel entertained the men on his guitar, weaving humor into his act. He got the nickname 'Lonesome George' for his low-key, self-deprecating humor. He also coined a catch phrase that would follow him the rest of his life: 'Well, I'll be a dirty bird.' After the war, Gobel performed in night clubs until in 1954 he got his own TV show. When that ended in 1957, he moved on to Broadway and the movies. In 1972, he became a regular on Hollywood Squares. Gobel attributed his success to compensating for what nature didn't give him and to luck. He told an interviewer years later, 'When I went into the Air Force, I was 5 feet 4½ inches. The limit was 5 feet 5. Life has always been like that.' Burgess Meredith may have been Fort Worth's favorite actor-turned-soldier and was certainly the biggest stage and screen star to come to town in uniform. Star-Telegram readers learned about him in 1937 when he was proclaimed 'the brightest young star on Broadway.' Five years later, he came through Fort Worth as a buck private on a troop train. In August 1942, he came back to Fort Worth, disembarking at the Texas & Pacific station as Lt. Burgess Meredith of the Army Air Forces. He was assistant public relations officer at Tarrant Field. He had spent the previous month making the training film 'Rear Gunner' with co-star Ronald Reagan. It was so good, the government released it in theaters. Lt. Meredith's work with the Air Training Command wasn't what intrigued readers after Fort Worth Press columnist Jack Gordon informed his female readers that the twice-divorced Meredith was available. In short order he was romantically linked with a Fort Worth woman, Mary Parker, though Meredith dismissed the rumors, saying, 'We're just good friends.' After the war, Meredith did not miss a beat resuming his film career. Eventually, he created the acclaimed roles of 'The Penguin' on the 'Batman' TV series (1966-68) and Mickey, Rocky Balboa's crusty trainer, in three Sylvester Stallone movies. William Holden was the third Hollywood star to 'play' Fort Worth during World War II. Born William Franklin Beedle, he took the stage name he is known by when he first began acting. In August 1942, he left behind a budding acting career to enter the Army, showing up in Fort Worth that fall as a private working behind a desk at Tarrant Field. He was soon off to Air Force Officer Candidate School in Miami. When Holden came back to Fort Worth he was wearing the gold bars of a second lieutenant. No flier, Holden was assigned to the public relations office, serving as liaison with the city of Fort Worth while doing weekly radio broadcasts of 'The Army Air Force Show' over the Mutual Broadcasting network, which included KFJZ. Rather than tell his listeners about the war in the abstract, he told human-interest stories about servicemen who had performed heroically. The broadcasts from (Will Rogers) Municipal Auditorium proved hugely popular with the local audience. And as an officer Holden got to move out of the barracks, initially into the Worth Hotel, then into an apartment near TCU. In January 1943, Holden was joined by his wife, actress Brenda Marshall, who had North Texas roots, having been a student in 1936 at Texas Women's College (Denton). Her latest movie, 'Life Begins at 8:30,' was playing at the Hollywood theater when she got to town. In May 1944, she was back in Fort Worth visiting her husband and appearing with him on his radio show. Holden's official duties took him out into the community doing public relations for the Army Air Forces. He was elected executive vice president of the Chamber of Commerce and coached third base for a Fort Worth Cats exhibition game. When not doing his military duties, Holden could be seen playing the drums, jamming with fellow musicians in the Den Room of the Hotel Texas. In 1959, while promoting his latest movie, 'The Horse Soldiers,' Holden cane through Fort Worth for the first time since the war. He reminisced with reporters about his two-year stay in Fort Worth during the war, mentioning sharing an apartment with big-league baseball player Hank Greenberg, another enlistee with the Air Training Command. Holden recalled how they hung out their wash on the railing of their second-floor apartment, much to the dismay of the owner. When the Army sent Holden back to California to work with the Motion Picture Unit making training films, he was replaced on the Army Air Forces radio show by another actor-turned-soldier, George Montgomery. Often compared to Clark Gable, Montgomery had worked steadily in Hollywood right up until 1943, when he joined the Army Air Forces' First Motion Picture Unit, a U.S. Army unit made up entirely of film professionals. Cpl. Montgomery came to Fort Worth for a month in January 1944 to be 'guest host' for the radio show while Holden was away. After the war, Hollywood seemed to have fallen completely in love with Fort Worth. In 1951, the major studios had three movies in production about our city: Warner Brothers' 'Fort Worth' with Randolph Scott, RKO's 'High Frontier' with Anne Baxter, and Twentieth Century Fox's 'Follow the Sun' with Glenn Ford. Only the Warner Brothers and Twentieth Century Fox films reached the screen, but Hollywood was not done with Fort Worth, nor Fort Worth with Hollywood. Author-historian Richard Selcer is a Fort Worth native and proud graduate of Paschal High and TCU.
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
Demi Moore, Colman Domingo lead 'Strange Arrivals,' based on alien abduction case
Demi Moore and Colman Domingo are teaming up for a new film. The duo will star in the upcoming Roger Ross Williams-directed film "Strange Arrivals," production company See-Saw Films announced Friday. According to Deadline, the film is inspired by the true story of Betty and Barney Hill, an interracial couple who claimed they were abducted by extraterrestrials in 1961, on their way back from a trip to Niagara Falls. The best of Demi Moore Williams took to Instagram on Friday to share the news about "Strange Arrivals," writing in the caption that he was "so thrilled to be working with @see_saw_films on my second feature film, led by the incredible @kingofbingo and the phenomenal @demimoore." "I couldn't have asked for two more extraordinary actors," he continued. Williams praised Jane Anderson, the screenwriter for the project, and called her script "masterful," saying he "fell in love" with it the first time he read it. "She has brilliantly woven together history, science fiction, and a tragic love story," he added. "I couldn't be in better hands than with producers Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Samantha Lang, and Anne Carey." Williams also revealed that the film is based off "a wonderful podcast" of the same name by Toby Ball. Colman Domingo on the 'hopeful' message of Oscar-nominated film 'Sing Sing' Moore and Domingo were both nominated for Academy Awards earlier this year. Moore was nominated for best actress for her performance in "The Substance," while Domingo was nominated for best actor for his role in "Sing Sing." Domingo was also nominated in 2024 for the same category, for his role in "Rustin."
Perth Now
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
ASAP Rocky offers baby name hint
A$AP Rocky and Rihanna plan to follow their family tradition in naming their next baby. The couple revealed earlier this week they are expecting their third child together, and now the 36-year-old rapper - whose real name is Rakim Mayers - has confirmed the tot will be given a moniker that begins with R, just like their other kids, RZA, two, and 22-month-old Riot. Rocky appeared on 'Late Night With Seth Meyers' on Wednesday (07.05.25) and the host congratulated him on the baby news before asking: 'Your first two kids have 'R' names, obviously you and Rihanna have 'R' names. "Is this a lock that the third will have an 'R' name, do you think?' Rocky confirmed: "For sure.' Elsewhere in the interview, the 'Fashion Killa' hitmaker revealed his beloved grandmother Cathy partied all night at his Met Gala afterparty because she was so keen to meet his fellow co-chair from the event, Colman Domingo. He joked: 'She was really ambitious about going because she wanted to meet her husband." Rocky confirmed Cathy stayed the whole night because she "was waiting on her boo to show up,' but the 'Sing Sing' star failed to attend so 'she didn't get to meet him unfortunately.' Rihanna, 37, confirmed her pregnancy shortly before she arrived at the Met Gala by releasing a portrait by photographer Miles Diggs showing off her growing bump. The 'Diamonds' hitmaker arrived late to Monday's (05.05.25) Met Gala, which took place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, wearing a Marc Jacobs outfit - a grey bustier and a floor-length black skirt - amid the spectacle's theme of "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style". Although Rihanna rocked up after the floral carpet had ended, Rocky had arrived earlier in the evening and spoke to reporters about their baby news. He told them: "It is time to just show the people what we were cooking up." He also said: "Thank you, thank you, thank you. "I'm glad everybody's happy for us because we're definitely happy." Rihanna is no stranger to announcing a pregnancy on a worldwide stage. The star confirmed she was pregnant with Riot during her performance at the 2023 Super Bowl Halftime Show. Just days later, Rihanna admitted "everything changed" for the couple when they welcomed their first child into the world, but the birth of RZA made the pair "closer". Speaking to British Vogue magazine in February 2023, she said: "We're best friends with a baby. "We have to be on the same page, but we've always kind of had that in our relationship. "Everything changes when you have a baby, but I wouldn't say it's done anything but made us closer."
