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| Oprah, James Earl Jones to receive Oscars Posted: 04 Aug 2011 07:03 AM PDT  Oprah at an appearance as chairman, CEO, and chief creative officer of OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, during the OWN session at the 2011 Summer Television Critics Association Cable Press Tour in Beverly Hills, California, July 29, 2011. — Reuters pic Winfrey and Jones, both past Oscar nominees, will receive their awards at the academy's annual Governors Awards on November 12, along with makeup artist Dick Smith, who will also be honoured with an Oscar.  James Earl Jones: Veteran of more than 50 films. — Reuters pic Winfrey, who will be honoured with the Jean Hersholt award, was nominated as best actress in her debut film, "The Color Purple", in 1985. Smith, who is known as the "godfather of makeup", won an Oscar in 1984 for "Amadeus". His other noteworthy films include "The Godfather", "The Exorcist" and "Taxi Driver". Both honorary awards, as well the Jean Hersholt award, are in the form of Oscar statuettes. — Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search. |
| Calls in UK to have CNN host quizzed on hacking Posted: 04 Aug 2011 04:02 AM PDT LONDON, Aug 4 — British lawmakers today called for US talk show host Piers Morgan to return to Britain to answer questions about phone-hacking after allegations made by the ex-wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney. Heather Mills' claims that a journalist had listened to voicemail messages on her mobile phone has added fuel to the flames of a scandal that has engulfed Rupert Murdoch's News Corp empire and much of the British establishment.  Piers Morgan denies any wrongdoing. — Reuters pic She said the journalist — who was not Morgan, a former newspaper editor — had admitted hacking her phone. So far, allegations about the hacking scam have been mainly limited to the News of the World newspaper, owned by News Corp's British newspaper arm News International. The Sunday tabloid was closed last month amid public fury after it emerged that hacking victims included a missing schoolgirl later found murdered, and other victims of crime. Mills' claim widened the hacking scandal to other titles, and turned the spotlight on Morgan, who once edited the News of the World and then the Daily Mirror until 2004. He said in a 2006 article for Britain's Daily Mail newspaper that he had listened to one of Mills' phone messages. Morgan, now a chat-show host for CNN in the United States, issued a statement denying any wrongdoing. "Heather Mills has made unsubstantiated claims about a conversation she may or may not have had with a senior executive from a Trinity Mirror newspaper in 2001," he said, describing her claims as "somewhat extravagant". "To reiterate, I have never hacked a phone, told anyone to hack a phone, nor to my knowledge published any story obtained from the hacking of a phone," he added. Therese Coffey, a Conservative legislator who sits on a parliamentary committee investigating phone-hacking, said Morgan needed to do more than issue statements from the United States. "I just hope that the police take the evidence and go with it and if Mr Morgan wants to come back to the UK and help them with their inquiries — and I don't mean being arrested in any way — I'm sure he can add more light," she told the BBC. Harriet Harman, deputy leader of the opposition Labour Party, said Morgan had questions to answer. "It's not good enough for him to say, or somebody to say on his behalf, I always comply with the law, the Press Complaints Commission (newspaper watchdog) code of conduct," she told Sky News. — Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search. |
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