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NBA star Kobe Bryant wins Oscar for animated short
LOS ANGELES - Retired basketball star Kobe Bryant has won five NBA titles, but taking home an Oscar on his first attempt was a bigger thrill than the victories earned with the Los Angeles Lakers, the 39-year-old future Hall of Famer said on Sunday. “I feel better than winning the championship, to be honest with you. I swear I do,” Bryant told news media backstage after accepting the Academy Award for “Dear Basketball,” the animated short film he wrote and produced. “To be here right now and to have like ... a sense of validation is ... this is crazy, man,” Bryant added. “It’s crazy.” “Dear Basketball” is based on the National Basketball Association great’s 2015 poem, published on the Player’s Tribune website, announcing his final NBA season. Bryant narrated the five-minute film, which was directed by Glen Keane and scored by Oscar winner John Williams. The film shows top moments from Bryant’s career animated in hand-drawn images while he recites the letter about his devotion to the sport from a young age and a body that will no longer allow him to compete at the highest level. Bryant, who played 20 seasons, has started his own production company in retirement, Kobe Studios. He told news media he sought out Oprah Winfrey and TV producer Shonda Rhimes for guidance when he launched the studio. Bryant shared his advice for athletes navigating retirement, which can often be daunting, as many are often young and have to fill their time after decades of training and competition. “The hardest thing for athletes to do is when you start over, you really have to quiet the ego and you have to ... begin again,” Bryant said. “You have to be a learner all over again. You have to learn the basics of things, and, you know, that’s really the hardest part.” (rtr)
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Kobe Bryant holds his Oscar for Best Animated Short, with wife Vanessa.
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Terry Bryant, accused of stealing Frances McDormand’s best actress Oscar at the lavish Governor’s Ball party, is seen in this still image from Reuters video in Hollywood, California, U.S., March 4, 2018.
Frances McDormand wins, loses and reunites with best actress Oscar
LOS ANGELES - Like a scene from a Hollywood caper film, a tuxedo-clad photographer foiled another man’s attempt to make off with Frances McDormand’s Oscar from an official Academy Awards after-party on Sunday. Los Angeles police said on Monday that party-goer Terry Bryant was arrested on a grand theft charge and was being held on $20,000 bond. It was unclear if he had an attorney. Bryant was arrested after McDormand’s best actress Oscar went missing briefly at the lavish Governor’s Ball party in Hollywood, where Academy Award winners have their statuettes engraved following the annual ceremony. McDormand, 60, won the award for her role as an angry, grieving mother in “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” “I lost my Oscar,” the two-time Oscar winner said, shrugging her shoulders as she left the party, according to video recorded by Reuters Television. The Reuters video captured Bryant leaving the ball holding the Oscar
and saying, “We got it. We did it. We did it. I got to go.” The Los Angeles police department said in a statement that the photographer, whom they did not identify, grew suspicious when he failed to “recognize Bryant as a recipient from the awards show.” He followed Bryant out of the party “and without any resistance from Bryant took the Oscar from him,” the statement said. It was not clear how Bryant took possession of the Oscar, or in what capacity he was attending the event, but police said he had a ticket to enter. Bryant also posted a video on social media of himself at the event holding an Oscar statuette and telling other guests he was a winner. “After a brief time apart, Frances and her Oscar were happily reunited. They celebrated the reunion with a
double cheeseburger from In and Out,” McDormand’s representative, Simon Halls, said in a statement, referring to the California fast-food chain. Halls did not say whether McDormand planned to press charges. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which retains some rights to the Oscar statuettes it hands out, did not return a request for comment on Monday. Before McDormand retook possession of her Oscar, Reuters photographer Mario Anzuoni saw an Academy official at the Governor’s Ball hand the recovered statuette to best actor winner Gary Oldman to return to McDormand. Oldman posed for photos with the two Oscars but returned McDormand’s to officials because the actress had already left the ball. (rtr)
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Police officers stand at crime scene tape, as a tent covers a park bench on which former Russian inteligence officer Sergei Skripal, and a woman were found unconscious after they had been exposed to an unknown substance, in Salisbury, Britain, March 6, 2018.
Unidentified substance leaves former Russian double agent SALISBURY - British police raced on Tuesday to identify the substance suspected of striking down a former Russian double agent convicted of treason in Moscow for betraying dozens of spies to British intelligence. Britain’s top counter-terrorism officer, Mark Rowley, said investigators needed to be “alive to the fact of state threats” after Sergei Skripal, once a colonel in Russia’s GRU military intelligence service, was taken ill. The 66-year-old former spy and his 33-year-old daughter, Yulia, were found on Sunday unconscious on a bench outside a shopping centre in the English city of Salisbury after exposure to what police said was an unknown substance. Both were critically ill in intensive care. Skripal, who passed the identity of dozens of spies to the MI6 foreign intelligence agency, was given refuge in Britain after he was exchanged in 2010 for Russian spies caught in the West as part of a Cold War-style spy swap at Vienna airport. While the British authorities
said there was no known risk to the public, police sealed off the area where the former spy was found and a pizza restaurant called Zizzi in the centre of Salisbury. Some investigators wore yellow chemical suits. “We’re speaking to witnesses, we’re taking forensic samples at the scene, we’re doing toxicology work and that will help us to get to an answer,” Rowley told BBC radio. He said counterterrorism police were assisting the investigation. “We have to remember: Russian exiles aren’t immortal, they do all die and there can be a tendency to conspiracy theories. But likewise
we have to be alive to the fact of state threats,” he said, pointing to the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. A British inquiry said President Vladimir Putin probably approved the 2006 murder of ex-KGB agent Litvinenko with radioactive polonium-210 in London. The Kremlin has repeatedly denied any involvement in the killing of Litvinenko. Litvinenko, 43, an outspoken critic of Putin who fled Russia for Britain six years before he was poisoned, died after drinking green tea laced with the rare and very potent radioactive isotope at London’s Millennium Hotel.
It took some time for British doctors to discern the cause of Litvinenko’s illness. British police did not release the names of those who were being treated but two sources close to the investigation told Reuters that the critically ill man was Skripal. It was unclear what the substance was, they said. The BBC, which first reported Skripal’s name, said his daughter Yulia was the 33-year-old woman found beside him. The Kremlin said it was ready to cooperate if Britain asks it for help investigating the incident with Skripal. “Nobody has approached us with such a request,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a conference call with reporters when asked if the British authorities had been in touch seeking help. “Moscow is always open for cooperation.” Calling it a “tragic
situation,” Peskov said the Kremlin did not have information about the incident. RUSSIAN SPY Asked to respond to British media speculation that Russia had poisoned Skripal, Peskov said: “It didn’t take them long.” Skripal was arrested in 2004 by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) on suspicion of betraying dozens of Russian agents to British intelligence. News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.