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Monday, January 8, 2018
Denton Record-Chronicle
Women claim voice at Globes
BRIEFLY
AROUND THE WORLD
Beijing
32 missing, oil tanker
on fire off China’s coast
Screen awards
tinged by ‘Me Too’
movement; Oprah:
Their time is up!’
By Jake Coyle
AP Film Writer
Burke, and Meiyl Streep with
domestic worker advocate Ai-
ss
jen Poo.
An Iranian oil tanker collided
with a bulk freighter and caught
fire off China’s east coast, leaving
the tankers entire crew of 32
missing and causing it to spill oil
into the sea, authorities said
Sunday.
Chinese authorities dis-
patched police vessels and three
cleaning ships to the scene after
the collision, which happened
late Saturday. The South Korean
coast guard also sent a ship and
a plane to help search for the
missing crew members — 30
Iranians and two Bangladeshis.
Panama-registered
tanker Sanchi was sailing from
Iran to South Korea when it col-
lided with the Hong Kong-regis-
tered freighter CF Crystal in the
East China Sea, 160 miles off the
coast of Shanghai, China’s Min-
istry of Transport said.
All 21 crew members of the
Crystal, which was carrying
grain from the United States,
were rescued, the ministry said.
The Crystal's crew members
were all Chinese nationals.
“May we teach all of our chil-
dren that speaking out without
fear of retribution is our new
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North Star,” said Dem, accept-
ing her Globe.
Other winners continued the
theme. Amazon’s recently de-
buted The Marvelous Mrs.
Maisel, about a 1950s housewife
who takes up stand-up comedy,
won best TV series comedy, and
best actress for Rachel Brosna-
han. Elisabeth Moss, accepting
an award for her performance in
Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale,
movingly dedicated her award
to Margaret Atwood, whose
book the show is based on. The
Handmaid’s Tale later added
the award for best TV series,
drama.
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With a red carpet dyed black
by actresses dressed in a color-
coordinated statement, the
Golden Globes were trans-
formed into an A-list expression
of female empowerment in the
post-Harvey Weinstein era.
Oprah Winfrey led the charge.
“For too long women have
not been heard or believed if
they dared to speak their truth to
the power of those men,” said
Winfrey, accepting the Cecil B.
DeMille Award for lifetime
achievement. “But their time is
up. Their time is up!”
More than any award hand-
ed out Sunday at the Beverly
Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills,
California, Winfrey’s speech,
which was greeted by a rousing,
ongoing standing ovation, en-
capsulated the “Me Too” mood
at an atypically powerful Golden
Globes. The night — usually one
reserved for more carefree par-
tying — served as Hollywood’s
fullest response yet to the sexual
harassment scandals that have
roiled the film industry and laid
bare its gender inequalities.
‘A new day is on the hori-
zon!” promised Winfrey, who
noted she was the first black
woman to be given the honor.
With a cutting stare, present-
er Natalie Portman followed
Winfrey’s speech by introduc-
ing, as she said, “the all-male”
nominees for best director.
The movie that many believe
speaks most directly to the cur-
rent moment
boards Outside Ebbing, Mis-
souri, about a mother avenging
the rape and murder of her
daughter
night’s top film. It won best pic-
ture, drama, best actress, drama,
for Frances McDonnand, best
supporting actor for Sam Rock-
well and best screenplay for
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Photos by Paul Drinkwater, NBC/AP
Oprah Winfrey accepts the Cecil B. DeMille Award as presenter Reese Witherspoon looks on,
right, at the 75th Golden Globe Awards on Sunday in Beverly Hills, Calif.
“We no longer live in the
blank white spaces at the edge of
print,” said Moss, referencing
Atwood’s prose. “We no longer
live in the gaps between the sto-
ries. We are the stories in print
and we are writing the stories
ourselves.”
Hollywood’s awards season is
seen as wide open. And though
the Globes have little correlation
with the Oscars, a handful of
movies came away with big
wins.
writer-director Martin McDo-
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Accepting her award,
McDormand granted she was
befuddled at the identities of the
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Battle looms for Syrian
province held by rebels
Hollywood Foreign Press Asso-
ciation, but gave them credit. “At
least they managed to elect a fe-
male president,” she said. She
added that the evening indeed
had a special feeling.
“Trust me, the women in this
room tonight are not here for the
food,” said McDormand.
Host Seth Meyers opened
the night by diving straight into
material about the sex scandals.
“Good evening ladies and re-
maining gentlemen,” he began.
In punchlines on Weinstein —
“the elephant not in the room” —
Kevin Spacey and Hollywood’s
deeper gender biases, Meyers
scored laughs throughout the
ballroom, and maybe a sense of
release.
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Frances
McDormand
accepts the
award for
best actress
in a motion
picture dra-
ma for her
role in “Three
Billboards
Outside Ebb-
ing, Mis-
souri.”
Syrian government forces
and allied militiamen are ad-
vancing on the largest remain-
ing rebel-held territory in the
country’s north, forcing thou-
sands of civilians to flee toward
the border with Turkey in freez-
ing winter temperatures.
The offensive on Idlib — a
large province in northwestern
Syria packed with civilians and
dominated by al-Qaida-linked
militants — was expected after
the defeat of the Islamic State
group late last year. Last week,
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey
Lavrov said the main military
operations against IS in Syria
have ended and signaled that
the focus would shift to al-Qai-
da-linked militants.
The Idlib offensive carries sig-
nificant risks. The province bor-
dering Turkey is home to more
than 2.6 million Syrians, accord-
ing to the U.N., including more
than 11 million who fled fighting
elsewhere in the country.
Jerusalem
Israel: 20 activist groups
to be denied entry
Israel on Sunday identified
20 activist groups from around
the world whose members will
be banned from entering the
country over their calls to boy-
cott the Jewish state, stepping
up its fight against a movement
it views as a serious threat.
Israel last year enacted a law
that would ban any activist who
“knowingly issues a public call
for boycotting Israel.” The list
made public Sunday, which in-
cludes a Nobel Peace Prize win-
ning organization, follows up on
that legislation.
A statement by the Strategic
Affairs Ministry said those who
have carried out “significant, on-
going and consistent harm to Is-
rael through advocating boy-
cotts may be considered to have
their entry barr ed.” It said “cen-
tral figures in key boycott orga-
nizations” risked being prevent-
ed entry. The 2017 law does not
apply to Israeli citizens, the
statement said.
Greta Gerwig’s mother-
daughter tale Lady Bird won
best picture, comedy or musical,
and best actress honors for
Saoirse Ronan. Guillermo del
Tor o’s Cold War-era fantasy The
Shape ofWater won for its score
and del Toro’s directing. The
emotional Mexican-born film-
maker wiped back tears and
managed to quiet the music that
urged him off.
Notably left empty-handed
were Christopher Nolan’s Dun-
kirk, Jordan Peele’s horror sen-
sation Get Out and Steven Spiel-
berg’s The Post, starring Tom
Hanks and Meryl Streep. At the
top of the show, Meyers alluded
to Spielberg’s film’s awards-sea-
son bona fides, feigned to pre-
sent an armful of Globes before
the show even started.
A
Hollywood’s most powerful
women: Nicole Kidman, for her
performance in HBO s Big Lit-
tle Lies, a series she and Reese
Witherspoon also produced.
Kidman chalked the win up to
“the power of women.”
Big Little Lies won a leading
four awards, including best lim-
ited series and best supporting
actress for Laura Dem. Like sev-
en other female stars, Dern
walked the red carpet with a
women’s rights activist as part of
an effort to keep the Globes
spotlight tr ained on sexual ha-
rassment. Dem was joined by
farmworker advocate Monica
Ramirez, Michelle Williams
with “Me Too” founder Tarana
Three Bill-
“For the male nominees in
the room tonight, this is the first
time in three months it won’t be
terrifying to hear your name
read out loud,” said Meyers.
The first award of the night,
perhaps fittingly, went to one of
emerged as the
Grenade suspected in man’s death
Woman injured;
Swedish police see
gangs using devices
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ed hand grenade from the
ground and it detonated in his
hand Sunday, killing him and
injuring his companion, Swed-
ish police said.
The blast took place about 11
a.m. just outside the Varby Gard
subway station in Huddinge, a
residential district in greater
Stockholm, said regional police
spokesman Sven-Erik Olsson.
“The man was seriously in-
jured after he picked up some-
thing fr om the ground and this
device exploded,” Olsson said.
The man, in his 60s, was
rushed to hospital but later died
while the woman, in her
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tion Sunday in Stockholm, near where two people were in-
jured by some kind of explosion. Police say a man in his 60s
died after picking up a suspected hand grenade.
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at the scene indicated the explo-
sive could be a hand grenade,
possibly an old one.
“Were suspecting that it’s a
hand grenade of some sort,” Lars
Alvarsjo, chief of Stockholm’s
southern police district, told
Swedish national broadcaster
SVT.
blast to make sure there were no
additional explosive devices.
Alvarsjo said Swedish police
have “unfortunately” noticed a
rise in the use of hand grenades
by criminal groups in the Nordic
country. The thr ee biggest cities
in Sweden — Stockholm, Gote-
borg and Malnro — have seen
several violent gang-related inci-
dents in the past few years.
mid-40s,
wounds to her face and both legs,
Olsson said. The couple had been
cycling past the device when the
man stopped to investigate it.
Police said fragment dam-
ages on the victims and findings
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Vale de Salgueiro,
Portugal
Tradition has town kids
smoking for Epiphany
The Epiphany celebrations in
the Portuguese village of Vale de
Salgueiro featur e a tradition that
each year causes an outcry
among outsiders: Parents en-
couraging their childr en, some as
young as 5, to smoke cigarettes.
Locals say the practice has
been passed down for centuries
as pail of a celebration of life tied
to the Christian Epiphany and
the winter solstice — but nobody
is sure what it symbolizes or ex-
actly why parents buy the packs
of cigarettes for their children
and encourage them to take par t
Guilhermina Mateus, a 35-
year-old coffee shop owner, cites
custom as the reason why she
gives her daughter cigarettes,
“I can’t explain why. I don’t
see any harm in that because
they don’t really smoke, they in-
hale and immediately exhale, of
course,” Mateus said.
Police checked in and around
the subway station after the
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Moody Blues’ Ray Thomas dies
LONDON (AP)
Thomas, a founding member of
British rock group the Moody
Blues, has died at 76, months be-
fore the band is due to be induct-
ed into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame.
fellow musicians including Mike
Pinder and Denny Laine.
The band’s roots lay in blues
and R&B, but its 1964 hit “Go
Now” was a foretaste of the lush,
orchestral sound that came to be
called progressive rock.
The Moody Blues’ 1967 al-
bum Days ofLuture Passed is a
prog-rock landmark, and
Thomas’s flute solo on the single
“Nights in White Satin” one of its
defining moments.
Thomas wrote several songs
for the band, including the trip-
py “Legend of a Mind” and “Vet-
eran Cosmic Rocker.”
Thomas released two solo al-
bums after the band broke up in
1974. The Moody Blues later re-
formed, and Thomas remained
a member before leaving around
the turn of the millennium due
to poor health.
Ray
His music label, Esoteric Re-
cordings/Cherry Red Records,
said Thomas died suddenly
Thursday at his home in Surrey,
south of London.
“We are deeply shocked by
his passing and will miss his
warmth, humor and kindness,”
the label said Sunday. “It was a
privilege to have known and
worked with him and our
thoughts are with his family and
his wife Lee at this sad time.”
No cause of death was given,
but Thomas disclosed in 2014
that he had been diagnosed with
prostate cancer.
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