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The United Nations Security Council on Thursday expressed concern about the humanitarian situation in Ethiopia's Tigray region and allegations of human rights violations, including reports of sexual violence against women and girls. "The members of the Security Council expressed their deep concern about allegations of human rights violations and abuses, including reports of sexual violence against women and girls in the Tigray region and called for investigations to find those responsible and bring them to justice," the 15-member council said in a statement agreed on Thursday.
Executives, experts, and influencers join the Yahoo Finance team to discuss what's moving the world of finance.
Executives, experts, and influencers join the Yahoo Finance team to discuss what's moving the world of finance.
Executives, experts, and influencers join the Yahoo Finance team to discuss what's moving the world of finance.
Executives, experts, and influencers join the Yahoo Finance team to discuss what's moving the world of finance.
Executives, experts, and influencers join the Yahoo Finance team to discuss what's moving the world of finance.
For the Indians abroad who live in rich countries where vaccines are available, and healthcare infrastructure more reliable, the distress over the surge is especially high.
His manifesto could create headaches for Sadiq Khan with progressive policies like a cap on the price of croissants.
The furore created by what looks to be a now-failed plan for a breakaway European soccer 'Super League' was born out a need to stabilise the games finances its architects argued. That was down from 9.3 billion euros in 2018/19, and although it is partly distorted by the fact COVID-19 led to some broadcast revenues pushed back into the next accounting year, it is estimated the pandemic will cost those 20 clubs over 2 billion euros in missed revenue by the end of this season.
Even in a TV landscape strewn with new streaming services, media is still all about the bundle. The rise of mighty new platforms bolstered with high-wattage content has been heralded as evidence of the great un-bundling in the pay-TV sector, a trend that does not bode well for Hollywood’s balance sheets. But as the TV […]
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“The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” tops the chart for the second week in a row Hulu made its first appearance on Nielsen’s weekly list of the top 10 most-watched streaming originals with the Season 2 premiere of “Solar Opposites.” In total, the animated comedy from “Rick & Morty” duo Justin Roiland and Mike McMahan was watched for 196 million minutes the week of March 22. No other original series from the Disney-owned streamer has cracked the top 10 since Nielsen started putting out its weekly rankings last August. For the second week in a row, Marvel’s “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” topped the list, pulling in 628 million minutes in the week of its second episode. Disney+’s last Marvel series, “WandaVision” debuted with two episodes in January, drawing 434 million minutes in its first week. Also Read: Here’s How Much ‘Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ Debut Topped ‘WandaVision’ in Viewership Netflix dominated the rest of the list, with the supernatural Arthur Conan Doyle series “The Irregulars” coming in at second place with 424 million minutes, more than 200 million minutes fewer than “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.” Other Netflix titles on the list include “Ginny & Georgia,” the Spanish-language “Who Killed Sara” and “The Crown.” On the movie side, Eric Andre’s “Bad Trip” topped the list with 308 million minutes, followed by “Yes Day,” “Deadly Illusions” and “Operation Varsity Blues,” all from Netflix. “Moana” and “Raya and the Last Dragon” from Disney+ and “Coming 2 America” at Amazon also made ths list. Read original story Hulu Debuts on Nielsen’s Top 10 Streaming Originals List With ‘Solar Opposites’ Season 2 At TheWrap
Katie Dippold wrote the most recent draft of the script “Dear White People” director Justin Simien is in talks to direct Disney’s “Haunted Mansion” movie, based on the ride, according to an individual with knowledge of the project. “Ghostbusters” and “The Heat” writer Katie Dippold wrote the most recent draft of the screenplay. Dan Lin and Jonathan Elrich, who produced 2019’s billion-dollar grossing “Aladdin” remake, is producing the film via their Rideback banner. Also Read: ‘Ghostbusters’ Writer Katie Dippold to Pen New ‘Haunted Mansion’ Movie First launched as an attraction back in 1969 at Disneyland, “Haunted Mansion” places riders inside “doom buggies” that take a tour of a haunted manor. A movie based on the attraction starring Eddie Murphy was first released back in 2003. “Haunted Mansion” has been in development at Disney for several years, as the project was first announced at Comic-Con in July 2010. At one time, Guillermo Del Toro was attached to direct and Ryan Gosling was in talks to star. Simien first broke out writing, directing, and producing his Sundance break out hit “Dear White People” which was critically acclaimed. Netflix would adapt “Dear White People” into a television series with Simien serving as the creator and executive producer. The fourth season of “Dear White People” is currently in production. Simien would soon follow with another Sundance hit “Bad Hair,” which was acquired by Hulu and premiered on the streamer last October. Justin Simien is repped by CAA and Grandview. Deadline first reported the news. Read original story Justin Simien in Talks to Direct Disney’s ‘Haunted Mansion’ Movie At TheWrap
Before makeup artist Molly R. Stern makes up the famous faces of clients including Maya Rudolph and Amy Poehler, she spends considerable time on skincare prep. “By stimulating your skin with great products and generating blood flow, you end up not needing as much makeup, which always feels good,” she says. Stern does a lot […]
Scottish pop rockers were known for songs like “Saturday Night” and “Bye, Bye Baby” Les McKeown, the Scottish lead singer of the ’70s pop rock band Bay City Rollers, has died. He was 65. McKeown’s passing was announced through his Twitter page on Thursday, with his family Keiko and Jubei McKeown saying he died suddenly at his home on Tuesday, April 20. “It is with profound sadness that we announce the death of our beloved husband and father Leslie Richard McKeown,” read the message. “We are currently making arrangements for his funeral and ask for privacy after the shock of our profound loss.” Also Read: Jim Steinman, Rock Composer for Meat Loaf and Celine Dion, Dies at 73 McKeown formed Bay City Rollers in 1973 and hit the pop charts behind their first single “Remember,” which topped out at No. 6 on the UK charts. The band was known for their hooky, bubblegum pop tracks in the vein of bands like The Partridge Family, and their Scottish good looks didn’t hurt with teen girl fans either. The band’s best known songs included “Bye, Bye Baby” and “Give A Little Love,” which both hit No. 1 in the UK, before finally scoring a major hit in the U.S. behind “Saturday Night.” Between 1975 and 1978, the band played sold out gigs in the U.S., Japan, Britain, Europe, New Zealand and Australia. Les McKeown left the band in 1978, which led the band to change its name to just The Rollers and recruit a new singer, but they quickly fizzled out. McKeown reunited for a series of reunion shows in 1982, then recorded an album, 1985’s “Breakout,” that would be their first studio LP in seven years. McKeown even continued touring with Bay City Rollers to this day and had a series of tour dates lined up for this summer. Read original story Les McKeown, Bay City Rollers Lead Singer, Dies at 65 At TheWrap
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Martin Scorsese and Irwin Winkler will executive produce John Carney, the director of “Once” and “Sing Street,” will direct an original musical film called “Fascinating Rhythm” that is inspired by the life and music of American composer George Gershwin. Martin Scorsese and Irwin Winkler will produce the film that they developed in partnership with Carney. It’s not a biopic but a drama about a young woman’s magical journey through past and present New York City that’s inspired by Gershwin’s music and his career and will feature Gershwin’s music throughout. The Gershwin estate is on board with the film, and Endeavor Content is already out to market to present “Fascinating Rhythm” to buyers. Also Read: Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson Join Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Carney will direct and also co-wrote the screenplay with Chris Cluess. George Gershwin is famous for some of America’s most well-known classical, pop and jazz standards, having written orchestral compositions like “Rhapsody in Blue,” “An American in Paris” and “Fascinating Rhythm,” as well as the opera “Porgy and Bess” that spawned the hit “Summertime.” Gershwin’s life was made into a fictionalized biopic “Rhapsody in Blue” by Warner Bros. in 1945. Carney is the director of the musical films “Once,” “Begin Again” and “Sing Street.” “Sing Street” was his last film from 2016, and he also directed episodes of the 2019 series “Modern Love.” Winkler is also a producer on a new film adaptation of Gerswin’s “Porgy and Bess” that “Mudbound” director Dee Rees is directing at MGM. Winkler is represented by attorney Dave Feldman, Scorsese is represented by LBI Entertainment and WME, Carney is represented by WME and Casarotto, and Cluess is represented by UTA. Read original story John Carney to Direct Musical ‘Fascinating Rhythm’ Inspired by Life of George Gershwin At TheWrap
The 86-year-old actress talks to TheWrap about her emotional acceptance speech after winning for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” When friends come over to visit Louise Fletcher at her Los Angeles condo, many are eager to take a look at one eight-pound object, which sits on a bookshelf along with other gadgets and mementos in her small office. “It’s usually the first thing they want to see, even before they see me,” Fletcher told TheWrap with a hearty laugh. “They always ask if they can hold it and they always say, ‘Oh, it’s heavy.'” For sure, it is heavy. Fletcher is referring to the Academy Award that she won 45 years ago, on March 29, 1976. Gerald Ford was president, the United States was celebrating its bicentennial, and Fletcher was terrifying audiences all over the world with her cold-eyed lead portrayal of Nurse Ratched, an iconic movie antagonist, in Milos Forman’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” But that night, people watching the Oscars saw a very un-Ratched expression of emotion from the stage. Fletcher delivered one of the all-time great Oscar acceptance speeches. In barely more than a minute, she moved from bright self-deprecating humor to tearful tribute, as the actress honored her mother and father, who were both deaf. Fletcher, her voice breaking, spoke to her parents in American Sign Language. “I wanted to say thank you for teaching me to have a dream,” she said on stage, as her finger made a curling motion next to her head with the word dream. “You are seeing my dream come true.” In a recent interview days before this year’s Oscar ceremony — which includes six nominations for an onscreen depiction of the deaf experience, “Sound of Metal,” — Fletcher spoke to TheWrap about her parents and her memories of that night 45 years ago. “I don’t know how so many years could go by so fast,” she sighed. “It was 45 years ago and I wasn’t too young when I made the movie. Well, I mean, I was 41, and that seemed old to me back then, which is a funny thing to say now that I’m 86.” Fletcher had begun her acting career as an ingenue, appearing on television in episodes of “Maverick” and “The Untouchables” in the 1950s. But after marrying in 1960 and having two sons, she stepped away from acting for more than a decade, returning for a supporting role in 1974’s “Thieves Like Us.” Around that time, Forman was casting “Cuckoo’s Nest” and having a difficult time finding an actress who would agree to play Nurse Ratched. Ratched, the hospital administrator who jousts with Jack Nicholson’s Randle McMurphy, is one of the filmdom’s great antagonists. While the head nurse in Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel was more of a robotic authority figure, the film’s version of Ratched has become the universal face of bureaucratic control: rigid and joyless, but also clever enough to use her gifts at gaslighting to maintain her power. Also Read: ‘Ratched’ Is Netflix’s Top New Series Debut of 2020 The role didn’t appeal to anyone Forman approached, a list that reportedly included Anne Bancroft, Angela Lansbury, Jane Fonda, Ellen Burstyn and Geraldine Page. Fletcher once sat across from Fonda at a Hollywood event and was tempted to ask if she’d actually turned the part down — but didn’t broach the topic. “Maybe they were scared of the role or maybe they just hadn’t sat down to talk with Milos,” Fletcher said. “You don’t know anything about Nurse Ratched. She leaves the hospital at night and comes back in the morning. So Milos did a very clever thing by breaking her down to simple parts to help me understand.” Along with Forman, Fletcher decided that Ratched was a virgin, a detail that would never be revealed in the film. And her hairstyle, curved up into cat ears, was a deliberate throwback to the pin-ups of the 1940s. “The hair was my key into the character,” she said. “It said to me that Nurse Ratched’s life had kind of stopped decades earlier. Everything, every day is the same, nothing ever changes. That’s how she stays safe and stays in control.” Fletcher described the filming of “Cuckoo’s Nest” as profound, but she said she didn’t regain a good smile on her face again for about a month after the movie had wrapped, having lived so long in Ratched’s dour, disapproving persona. That most certainly was not the case on the night of the Academy Awards. When presenters Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland read Fletcher’s name, audiences watching at home saw a beaming, cheerful woman in a peach-pink silk dress, bounding energetically to the podium. Fletcher had shed any traces of Ratched, but she acknowledged her character in her first remarks: “I’ve loved being hated by you.” Jerry Bick, Fletcher’s husband at the time (they divorced in 1977), assisted with the next part of her speech. “Before the ceremony, I had said to him, ‘If somehow I won, I’d never be able to stop crying.’ So he said, ‘Say something funny then.’ He was a very funny guy and he came up with the line to praise my colleagues on the film: ‘You made being in a mental institution like being in a mental institution.’ The audience laughed, which was reassuring.'” But then Fletcher’s tone changed completely as she spoke to the world in her first language, American Sign Language. Her mother, Estelle, was born deaf and her father, the Reverend R.C. Fletcher, lost his hearing at the age of 3. After the couple met at Washington D.C.’s Gallaudet University, R.C. entered the Episcopal seminary and eventually opened 42 churches for the hearing impaired in 11 states throughout the South. In Birmingham, Alabama, where Louise was raised as the second of four children, her father oversaw two churches; one was built specifically for African-Americans, who could not worship in the other because of segregation. Also Read: Milos Forman, ‘Amadeus’ and ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ Director, Dies at 86 “We had the most amazing childhood, my brother and sisters and I,” Fletcher recalled. “My parents would tell us, ‘You can do anything you want with your life, whatever you choose is fine with us.’ I didn’t fully realize it until later how rare that is.” In the weeks leading up to the Oscars in 1976, Fletcher knew what she needed to say. “If I got the chance, I would have to thank them. I was compelled to thank them. I don’t know how to impress on you what it meant to be their child. It was such a beautiful, rich childhood for all of us. I needed my parents to know that they were the reason that I succeeded.” She didn’t tell anyone that she intended to sign a portion her speech. Except for her sister Georgianna, whom she called up for a quick ASL tutorial. “She had studied deaf education,” Fletcher said. “And at that time there was a great debate about sign language, because ASL is more symbolic than verbatim spoken English. You mainly use the nouns and verbs in a sentence, but as a result a lot of deaf people would have a full education but they would lack the ability to write proper English.” Louise Fletcher looks at the Oscar statuette she won for “One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest” at a 2003 exhibit in Beverly Hills. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) Fletcher’s sister told her that she should use a version of ASL that would be understood as perfect English. “So instead of saying, ‘I want thank mother father,’ she coached me on how to sign all the little words. There were no camera phones back then, so it took awhile for her to explain everything to me.” “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Next” won five Oscars that night, for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Adapted Screenplay. Only “It Happened One Night” and “The Silence of the Lambs” have achieved the same sweep. In Alabama, R.C. and Estelle Fletcher were watching the show on TV. “The local ABC affiliate went to their house with a camera crew,” Fletcher said with a laugh, “and of course my parents just opened the door and let them to come in. So I got to see a video of them watching me on television when I won. I saw their reaction in the moment, which was such a wonderful thing. They were so moved and so proud.” Also Read: Sundance Winner ‘CODA’ Set for August Release on Apple TV+ Fletcher’s father died at the age of 87 in 1988. His death was reported in major newspapers, which wrote of his trailblazing work in founding congregations for the deaf. Her mother died six years later, at the age of 91. Fletcher has two sons to whom she remains close. They were texting their mom on a group thread, in fact, during TheWrap’s interview. And though she has continued to act in films and on television (“Flowers in the Attic,” “Picket Fences,” “Shameless”), she’ll always be identified for her performance as Ratched. She still receives loads of fan mail, from Russia and China and Greenland. Some people send her photos of the most intense moments in “Cuckoo’s Nest,” like when Ratched is being strangled by McMurphy, for her to sign. She obliges. Her Oscar speech has a legacy all its own as well, especially this year, with the deaf-community drama “Sound of Metal” in the thick of the race and major heat for this year’s Sundance hit “CODA,” a coming-of-age drama about the daughter of deaf parents. Perhaps because of the juxtaposition of such a sincere, lovely sentiment being delivered by the embodiment of a classic movie villain, or just the sheer unexpectedness of it, Fletcher’s onstage moment still resonates. Fletcher said she’s touched when people, still to this day, recall the speech. “I didn’t actually think I would get a chance,” she said, “but I knew I wanted do it the right way if I did win. It was actually very simple. I wanted my parents to know they gave me the kind of love that every child should have. The luckiest day of my life was when I was born as their daughter.” Also Read: ‘CODA’ Filmmaker, Actors on Depicting Deaf Culture: ‘Hollywood Needs to See This’ (Video) Read original story Louise Fletcher Explains Why She Accepted Her Oscar in Sign Language 45 Years Ago At TheWrap
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