How does Hollywood handle allegations of impropriety and how much do race, power and a willingness to play the game matter? Where one man triumphed, another faltered. In 2016, the Oscar hopes of “The Birth of a Nation” director and star Nate Parker were derailed after college rape charges resurfaced, even though he was found to be innocent. With Hollywood’s renewed embrace of Mel Gibson after his public fall from grace, there is a question of which accusations of wrongdoing are too big for a career to overcome and whether those standards are applied equally. Affleck’s Oscar campaign had been dogged by two 2010 civil suits involving allegations of sexual harassment, both of which were later settled. Larson hugged him as she handed him the Oscar, but some interpreted her stance during his speech as a silent protest of sexual harassment. The actress - who won an Oscar last year for her portrayal of a survivor of rape - stood unmoving as Affleck delivered his acceptance speech at Sunday’s Academy Awards. READ MORE: Oscars’ ‘Gary From Chicago’ finished a 20-year stint in prison just before meeting Hollywood’s A-listīrie Larson did not applaud, which sparked speculation that she wasn’t happy about Casey Affleck’s Oscar win for supporting actor. “Jimmy Kimmel Live” dropped a planned bit with Coe from its Monday lineup, a spokesperson told the Chicago Tribune, after the show “made the creative decision to focus on other topics.” The couple, who were plucked off Hollywood Boulevard on Sunday by the folks setting up Kimmel’s stunt, were chatting up Chicago media on Monday, and the Chicago Bulls tweeted, “Gary from Chicago! We’ve got you covered if you want to come to a game!” Coe was resentenced earlier this year under California’s Proposition 36 and was released Thursday. That last one also put him in the Megan’s Law sex offenders’ database. The devil, of course, is in the details: It was a three-strikes conviction in 1997 on petty theft with violent priors, which included a 1985 robbery in Michigan, a 1982 robbery in Illinois and an attempted rape in 1978. If you watched the Oscars, you know the rest.” He got out on Friday, and was sight seeing with his lovely fiancé Vicky. He got a life sentence for stealing perfume in 1997, and we finally won release this year. “For those of you who missed it, I spent years working on Gary’s case. “I spent this afternoon laughing and crying with Gary and Vicky,” public defender Karen Nash posted Monday on Facebook. Gary Alan Coe, the first unsuspecting tourist Jimmy Kimmel introduced to front-row A-listers on Sunday night, was released from prison only three days before he was kissing Nicole Kidman’s hand and getting “married” to fiancee Vickie Vines by Denzel Washington.įULL STORY: From prison to the Oscars, ‘Gary From Chicago’ writes his own Hollywood ending Turns out viral sensation “Gary From Chicago,” a.k.a. Jimmy Kimmel and the Oscars are unlikely to win any awards for casting. “I just thought, Oh, my God, how does this happen?” Boone Isaacs said. But speaking with the New Yorker at the Governors Ball shortly after the show ended, she seemed as mystified as everyone else. The academy did not immediately respond to The Times on Tuesday to weigh in on Beatty’s statement.īoone Isaacs has not yet commented publicly in any detail about the best picture bungle. Since then, The Times and other outlets have reported extensively – if not exhaustively – on the events that led to the Oscars gaffe. Indeed, just hours after the ceremony, PricewaterhouseCoopers issued its own statement apologizing for the fact that “the presenters had mistakenly been given the wrong category envelope.”
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“I feel it would be more appropriate for the president of the Academy, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, to publicly clarify what happened as soon as possible,” Beatty said.īeatty’s statement follows one issued Monday by the academy, apologizing for the mistake and saying that PricewaterhouseCoopers – the accounting firm that handles the Oscar envelopes – has “taken full responsibility for the breaches of established protocols that took place during the ceremony.” In a statement released Tuesday to the Associated Press, the actor declined to comment further on the fumble in which he and fellow presenter Faye Dunaway mistakenly named “La La Land” the best picture winner rather than “Moonlight.” Two days after the Oscars, still facing questions about the best picture snafu in which he unwittingly found himself embroiled, Warren Beatty called on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to “publicly clarify” what exactly happened. (Chris Pizzello / Invision / Associated Press)
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