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| Witherspoon pleads no contest, video of drunken arrest posted on Internet Posted: 03 May 2013 07:12 PM PDT
The deputy solicitor of the Municipal Court of Atlanta, Ronda Graham, said in a statement on Thursday that "the pending criminal matters against Ms. Reese Witherspoon and Mr. Jim Toth have been resolved". Toth, 42, entered a guilty plea to drunk driving and received a US$600 fine. He must also complete 40 hours of community service. In a video of the arrest posted on the celebrity website TMZ, Witherspoon is shown accusing the state trooper who arrested her of harassment. "Do you know my name?" she asks. "You're about to find out who I am." The video was viewed more than 120,000 times on YouTube by yesterday afternoon, and was picked up by other media outlets. Witherspoon, who won a best actress Oscar for her portrayal of the country singer June Carter Cash in "Walk the Line", apologised for her actions in an interview on the "Good Morning America" television show on Thursday. She said she panicked after Toth was arrested and had told the officer "crazy things" after having too many glasses of wine in a restaurant in Atlanta, where she is filming a movie. "I have no idea what I was talking about. And I am so sorry. I was so disrespectful to him," the mother of three said. They were stopped after Toth crossed a double line on the road and then failed a blood-alcohol test. — Reuters |
| PepsiCo drops rapper Lil Wayne over controversial lyric Posted: 03 May 2013 06:44 PM PDT
Lil Wayne, 30, had been the face of the PepsiCo drink Mountain Dew's "Deweezy" campaign, a play on the rapper's "Weezy" nickname. "We do not plan any additional work with Lil Wayne moving forward," a Mountain Dew representative said in a statement. "His offensive reference to a revered civil rights icon does not reflect the values of our brand." The Deweezy campaign website was taken down. In a remix of the song "Karate Chop" by rapper Future, Lil Wayne likens the beating of Till to sex. The song was leaked onto the Internet in February and prompted an apology from Future's record company, Epic Records, after Till's family complained. But the controversy did not stop there. In a letter to Till's family this week, Lil Wayne called the reference "inappropriate" but stopped short of an apology. Till, an African-American from Chicago, was beaten and murdered in 1955 at the age of 14 for allegedly whistling at a white woman in the village of Money, Mississippi, where he was visiting family. An all-white jury acquitted two white men of Till's murder, sparking national outrage. The trial is credited with mobilising the civil rights movement and drawing attention to racial injustice and violence in the American South. On Wednesday, PepsiCo pulled a series of online ads for Mountain Dew by rapper Tyler, The Creator, which was criticised for embracing racial stereotypes and trivialising violence towards women. Epic Records is owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a division of Sony Corp. — Reuters |
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