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. In a news release Monday, Raf Simons, Calvin Klein’s new chief creative officer, called the underwear campaign an “acknowledgement of remarkable actors who are revealing something important of being a man today in what they do.” On a side note, the fashion label dressed four “Moonlight” cast members - Naomie Harris in a white strapless sequin dress and Rhodes, Sanders and Hibbert (who played lead character Chiron at different ages) in tuxedos - for the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday. The campaign shows Ali as well as actors Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders and Rhodes (the latter smiling and posing in black briefs in a club chair). In the photos, the older actors of “Moonlight” are dressed in what appear to be dark T-shirts and pants as well as in underwear. In a post-Oscars move, Calvin Klein unveiled the underwear campaign Monday. The campaign could broaden visibility and appeal for the indie movie, which was made on a shoestring budget. The ads are already causing a commotion on the Internet, leaving many to possibly swoon after seeing photos of Oscar winner (and shirtless Calvin Klein model) Mahershala Ali and Trevante Rhodes (wearing briefs).Ĭalvin Klein’s new spring 2017 underwear campaign, honoring the actors of “Moonlight,” the first LGBTQ film to win best picture at the Academy Awards, will run as print advertisements and appear on billboards. Turn your attention away from the best-picture envelope mishap at the Oscars on Sunday and check out the new black-and-white men’s underwear campaign from Calvin Klein, celebrating the Academy Award-winning “Moonlight.” “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)