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| | Helena Bonham Carter: We have a 'moral responsibility' to say The Crown is dramatized | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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It continues to amuse me to see how many ?Establishment? figures in the UK have their panties in a twist about The Crown. Specifically, The Crown?s Season 4, where Princess Diana is introduced and a new generation watches as the ?Establishment? sets out to gaslight, marginalize and destroy a young woman. The fact that Diana could keep her wits and her truth throughout those years is extraordinary, and seeing Diana?s ordeal dramatized in The Crown has destroyed two decades of careful PR from Prince Charles. Charles is SO MAD about it. And I still believe that Charles is behind all of the efforts to delegitimize The Crown. So? did Charles call up Helena Bonham Carter, who starred for two seasons as Princess Margaret?
The calls for Netflix to add a disclaimer to its hit royal series The Crown dont appear to be dying down any time soon. HELENA BONHAM CARTER ? who plays Princess Margaret in seasons 3 and 4 ? has now added her voice to the growing argument, saying that producers have a moral responsibility to tell viewers that its a drama.
Speaking on a newly-released episode of an official podcast for the show, she claimed there was an important distinction to make between our version of the events depicted, and the version.
It is dramatized, she said. I do feel very strongly, because I think we have a moral responsibility to say, Hang on guys, this is not it?s not a drama-doc, we?re making a drama. So they are two different entities.
[From The Hollywood Reporter]
Yes, everyone should know that The Crown is a drama. Which is why Netflix has categorized as a Drama for the past four seasons. Which is why the actors involved have won awards in Drama categories. Which is why Peter Morgan has won awards for writing television screenplays for original works. In all of the conversations around The Crown these days many of them by Gen Z literally no one is claiming that The Crown is a documentary, or that everything shown on The Crown is 100% accurate. Morgan and the actors have always made it perfectly clear that the show has always been dramatizations based on history. Again, the broad strokes are right. It?s absurd for Prince Charles and HELENA BONHAM CARTER and all of these government ministers to fuss about it, my God.
Photos courtesy of Netflix/The Crown.
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| | Felicity Huffman scored a comeback role on a TV pilot, one year after leaving prison | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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People compared Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman?s situations constantly during the Operation Varsity Blues scandal, but their crimes were somewhat different. Felicity?s crimes were limited to scamming her daughters? SAT exams, whereas Lori and Mossimo scammed the academic system in a bunch of different ways, from falsifying their daughter?s sports careers, to paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to get Olivia into USC. I?ll be honest, both Lori and Felicity sound like terrible mothers and horrible helicopter parents, so they had that in common. But being charged with federal crimes hit Felicity a lot harder than Lori. Felicity immediately sought and received a plea deal. She pleaded guilty last fall, and she got sentenced to 14 days in federal prison. She only served 11 days before being released, and she recently completed all of her community service hours and all of that. So now Felicity is ready for a comeback, and she?s found her comeback vehicle:
Felicity Huffman has landed her first project following her involvement in the college admissions scandal. The Oscar winner, 57, is set to headline a new as-yet-untitled ABC half-hour comedy, PEOPLE confirms. According to Deadline, the show, written by Becky Hartman Edwards, is inspired by Susan Savage, the real-life owner of the Sacramento River Cats, a Triple-A baseball team.
She is honored and grateful to be a part of this project, a source close to Huffman tells PEOPLE.
The project ? which has a pilot production commitment at ABC ? stars Huffman as a woman who inherits her husbands minor-league baseball team after his sudden death, per Deadline. She attempts to navigate her new normal with the help of her son, played by Zack Gottsagen, a baseball lover with Down syndrome.
Huffman, who previously won an Emmy for her work on ABCs Desperate Housewives, is also set to executive produce the series alongside Edwards and Savage. The news comes after a representative for the actress confirmed to PEOPLE last month that she had completed her full sentence in the college admissions scandal, which included jail time, community service and supervised release.
[From People]
It sounds like an interesting project, and it?s just a pilot? for ABC, which will probably pick it up for a season at least. It?s been a full year since Felicity completed her prison sentence, which is probably by design. My guess is that a crisis manager advised Felicity to do the time and community service quietly, with no drama, and then seek out a wholesome TV project for her ?comeback? but only after a year has passed. I?m sure Lori Loughlin got the same advice, but Lori?s not taking that advice Lori has been attention-seeking this whole damn time. Lori will want to come back next month.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Backgrid.
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| | Rita Ora fined $12k for having a birthday party in London | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Rita Ora is among the celebrity brain trust that believes that they are exempt from COVID. Like the Kardashians and Cardi B, Rita thought her birthday would provide immunity from the virus. Rita hosted a crowd of around 30 people in a restaurant in West London while the whole of London was still in lockdown. After getting caught and fined 10,000 pounds ($12K US), Rita issued an apology claiming it was a spur of the moment decision. She checked all the boxes in her public apology by citing errors in judgement, irresponsible actions and knowing the devastation of the virus first hand. If she?d truly meant all that, she wouldn?t have had a party in the first place. Here is Rita?s full ?apology?:
According to TMZ, Rita voluntarily paid her fine. I?m sure somebody told her she owed it and she paid it without being dragged to court, but I don?t know if that makes it voluntary. I don?t believe that Rita got a restaurant mandated to shut down except for take-away to open on the spur of the moment. She must have told the restaurant, Casa Cruz, that she?d pay their penalties up front and they were probably desperate enough to agree. That doesn?t let them off the hook, but it does show how little celebrities think of others. The entire apology reeks of the adage ?it?s easier to apologize than ask permission.? I mentioned last week and am still furious at our governor for attending a birthday party at French Laundry against his own guidelines a few weeks ago. He did the same thing, apologized, said he was in the wrong and made a terrible decision. I like Gov Newsom well enough, but I am absolutely convinced he went to that party knowing it was wrong and with the intention of issuing that bs apology afterwards. Rita, on the other hand, thought she wouldn?t get caught.
In addition to Rita, actor Laurence Fox also hosted a large lunch with friends this past weekend, bragging about it on social media and also getting sternly admonished by Boris Johnson publicly. At least Rita apologized. Fox, on the other hand, tweeted about hugging his friends and encouraged people to break lockdown to stick it to the NHS because ?compliance is violence? (his words).
Just held a persons hand as they died alone, without their family or loved ones by their side. Glad you enjoyed your meal. https://t.co/L4FrRUnIdx pic.twitter.com/RWkBELdRXA
Joanna ? (@joanna_louise0) November 30, 2020
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