People in the News

People in the News
Black Swan star Winona Ryder remembers fellow Hollywood actor Mel Gibson as being “anti-Semitic and homophobic” long before his taped racist rants were broadcast around the world, the New York Post reported yesterday. “Fifteen years ago, I was at one of those big Hollywood parties, and he was really drunk,” Ryder says in the January issue of GQ magazine. “I was with my friend, who’s gay …
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Blake Edwards dies at 88; ‘Pink Panther’ director was master of slapstick comedy
Writer-director Blake Edwards was also known for his legendary disputes with studio chiefs. He collaborated in film with his wife, Julie Andrews, and his movie ’10’ was a cinematic sensation in 1979. Blake Edwards, a writer-director who battled depression in his personal life yet was known as a modern master of slapstick and sophisticated wit with hit films such as the “Pink Panther” comedies …
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