76th Emmys: Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Billy Crudup win in Supporting Actor categories
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Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Billy Crudup won the Emmys for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, respectively, during Sunday night’s 76th annual Emmy Awards.
Moss-Bachrach won for his role as Richie in the FX series The Bear, while Crudup was awarded for his portrayal of Cory Ellison in the Apple TV+ series The Morning Show.
The other nominees for Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series were Lionel Boyce, Paul W. Downs, Paul Rudd, Tyler James Williams and Bowen Yang.
In the Supporting Actor in a Drama Series category, the other nominees included Tadanobu Asano, Mark Duplass, Jon Hamm, Takehiro Hira and Jack Bowden.
While most of the world knew Christopher Reeve as Superman, to his three children — Matthew, Alexandra and Will Reeve — he was simply their beloved dad.
The three siblings watched firsthand as their father went from movie star to pioneering activist for spinal cord injury research after a near-fatal horse-riding accident in 1995 left him paralyzed from the neck down at the age of 42.
Then, in 2004, Christopher Reeve died unexpectedly due to heart failure.
In addition to his children, by the actor’s side from his accident to his death was his beloved wife Dana Reeve, mom to Will Reeve and stepmom to Matthew Reeve and Alexandra Reeve.
Less than one year after delivering a eulogy at her husband’s funeral, Dana Reeve, a non-smoker her entire life, was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer.
She died seven months later on March 6, 2006, at the age of 44.
“Despite the love and security that my siblings provided me, and my family provided me, and my adoptive family provides me, that was the moment, March 6, 2006 … I’ve been alone since then,” Will Reeve, who was 13 when he lost his mother, said in a new documentary, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, that explores the actor’s life.
Prior to her death, Dana Reeve made sure Will was taken care of, arranging for him to live with the family of his best friend.
His older siblings also dropped everything to help him. Alexandra was a law student at the time and Matthew a producer.
In their conversation with ABC News’ Diane Sawyer, Will Reeve, now an ABC News correspondent, posed a question to his siblings that he had never before asked them — did people worry enough about them after their father and Dana Reeve died.
“I don’t think I’ve ever thought about that,” Alexandra replied. “The job at hand was keeping things going, keeping us OK, keeping everyone OK, honoring them in the right way, setting you up for success.”
Speaking to ABC News’ Rebecca Jarvis in an interview with Good Morning Americawhich aired on Thursday, the multi-hyphenate media mogul said, “We are in for the ride of our lives” with the technology.
“Life for all of us is about to be very different,” she said.
Winfrey told Jarvis she has always seen herself as “the surrogate viewer” of the topics she explores and understands that if she is curious to understand something, she isn’t the only one.
“If I don’t know the answer, I know that the other millions of people who are watching are feeling the same,” she said, adding that her first encounter with the AI didn’t happen until her first conversation with Sam Altman, the CEO of Open AI, the company behind the AI-based virtual assistant ChatGPT.
She continued, “After he was telling me about all the things that I could do, I was saying, ‘Okay, don’t be scared. Don’t be scared. You can get the ChatGPT app.'”
Winfrey shared her first experience with ChatGPT was asking the app to provide AirBnb listings for a friend.
“And it was miraculous to me that before you can practically finish the requests, the answer has come back to you,” she said.
In the new ABC primetime special, Winfrey explores “the profound impact of artificial intelligence on people’s daily lives, demystifying the technology and empowering viewers to understand and navigate the rapidly evolving AI future,” according to a press release.
AI and the Future of Us will premiere on Thursday, Sept. 12 on ABC at 8 pm E.T. and be available to stream on Hulu the next day.
One of the most recognized names in Hollywood is going after one of the most recognized trades about Hollywood.
Francis Ford Coppola is suing Variety — and two of its writers specifically — for libel over articles that alleged he made unwanted advances toward female extras on his movie Megalopolis.
The coverage claimed Coppola hugged, kissed and danced with extras behind the scenes of a party scene in the film.
Incidentally, Lauren Pagone, one of those actresses quoted in an Aug. 2 follow-up article, has sued “the filmmaker and others in Georgia forcivil battery, civil assault, and negligent failure to prevent sexual harassment,” according to Deadline.
Coppola’s motion, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday, doesn’t mention that lawsuit.
However, the trade says his suit claims the original July 26 article contains “false and defamatory statements” meant to “damage” his reputation and cause him “severe emotional distress.”
Deadline quotes the suit from Coppola’s attorneys: “Some people are creative. Very few people are creative geniuses. In the world of motion pictures, Plaintiff Francis Ford Coppola … is a creative genius. Some people are jealous and resentful of genius. Those people therefore denigrate and tell knowing and reckless falsehoods about those of whom they are jealous.”
Further, it says, “Variety Media, LLC … its writers and editors, hiding behind supposedly anonymous sources, accused Coppola of manifest incompetence as a motion picture director, of unprofessional behavior on the set of his most recent production,” adding, “Each of these accusations was false and knowingly so.”
Coppola is seeking $15 million in damages.
After the original Variety piece broke, Deadline ran an interview with another extra, Rayna Menz, who insisted the director “did nothing to make me or for that matter anyone on set feel uncomfortable.”
