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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Tired celebs show up in NYC for ‘24 Hour Plays’
Entertainment
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NEW YORK — The stars were out in force on Broadway on Monday — and they were frantic. The coffeefueled benefit performance of “The 24 Hour Plays” was held at the American Airlines Theatre, an annual event in which more than two dozen actors — this time including Jesse Tyler Ferguson, James McAvoy, Jason Biggs and Zachary Levi — teamed up with six writers and six directors to write and rehearse a half-dozen plays over a single day. The event raised $500,000. to play her usual seductress, and so was cast as an assassin. Another actor wanted to die onstage and a third suggested he might like to be a murderer. Four people oddly brought clown props. There was a cramming-for-collegefinals feel about the venue in the hours before the show, with actors busy tweaking their lines and bonding over catered food or lounging about. The fact that several were “Saturday Night Live” veterans — Dratch, Pharoah and Taran Killam — seemed to help their moods. “I have a knack for retention,” Killam said. Although Lucas stunningly shaved his beard onstage, the evening belonged to Cross, a veteran of five previous shows. The comedian appeared in the last four plays uttering a single line: “Oh, come
Maria Bartiromo leaving CNBC after 2 decades
on. It’s just milk.” He explained that he didn’t have time to commit all day this year but managed to get lured onboard if he did just a walk-on. “That’s what it is for me: meeting celebrities,” Cross deadpanned backstage. “I just don’t get the opportunity to meet and chitchat — just small talk. I don’t want to talk about anything substantive. Just small talk with celebrities is kind of my thing.”
FILE - This Sept. 10, 2013 file photo shows actor Ewan McGregor at the press conference for “August: Osage County” at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto.
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The six playwrights were David Lindsay-Abaire, Jonathan Marc Sherman, Lynn Nottage, Theresa Rebeck, Rachel Axler and Devin Mojica, a sophomore from New York University who earlier won a spot. Some of the other stars who showed up included David Cross, Gina Gershon , Sasha Alexander , Rachel Dratch, Rosie Perez, Diane Neal, Carmen Ejogo , Tim Daly, Anthony Mackie, Jordin Sparks, Michael Kenneth Williams, Bryan Greenberg, Josh Lucas, Jay Pharoah, Ben Shenkman, Krysta Rodriguez and Maggie Q. They were asked to audition with a prop and a costume, both of which often found their way into the final play. Frequently the actors wanted to show another side. Natalie Dormer asked not
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Indonesia reviews Australia cooperation
Agence France-Presse
JAKARTA - Indonesia announced Tuesday that it is reviewing cooperation with Canberra over “hurtful” claims that its president’s phone was tapped, as Australia’s leader issued a qualified response that stopped well short of an apology. In a series of angry tweets, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said ties with Canberra had been damaged and “deplored” what he described as a lack of remorse on the part of the Australian prime minister.
His outrage over reports that his phone and those of his wife and ministers were targeted by Australian spies came a day after Indonesia recalled its ambassador from Canberra in protest. Indonesia is “reviewing the bi-
lateral cooperation because of Australia’s hurtful action”, Yudhoyono said in a tweet, referring to the accounts of spying in documents leaked by US intelligence fugitive Edward Snowden to Australian media. Indonesia and Australia are close strategic and trading partners and have traditionally worked together in many areas, including on antiterrorism initiatives and on the sensitive issue of asylum-seekers. “I also deplore the Australian
PM’s statement that wiretapping in Indonesia is considered a small thing, without any feeling of remorse,” Yudhoyono said. “The acts by the US and Australia are very damaging to their strategic partnerships with Indonesia, a fellow democratic country,” he added, referring to allegations the US has also been spying from its embassy in Jakarta. Following the president’s angry tweets, Prime Minister Tony Abbott told the Australian parliament that
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Yudhoyono was “one of the very best friends that we have anywhere in the world”. “That’s why I sincerely regret any embarrassment recent media reports have caused him.” But he added: “Australia should not be expected to apologise for the steps we take to protect our country now or in the past, any more than other governments should be expected to apologise for the similar steps that they have taken.”
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FILE - In this March 9, 2012 file photo, Maria Bartiromo attends The Third Annual DVF Awards held at the United Nations in New York.
Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES — CNBC says veteran anchor and reporter Maria Bartiromo is leaving the business news channel. Bartiromo’s contract ends Nov. 24, concluding 20 years with CNBC, the channel said Monday. The New York Times and others reported Bartiromo is joining Fox Business
Network. The Fox network said it had no immediate announcement to make Monday. The Drudge Report was first to report Bartiromo’s move. Bartiromo joined CNBC in 1993 after five years as a producer and assignment editor with CNN Business News. At CNBC, she pioneered daily live reporting from the floor of the New York Stock
Exchange and won an Emmy Award for a documentary on Google. Her high-profile work at CNBC and photogenic looks earned her the nickname “Money Honey.” Bartiromo anchors CNBC’s “Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo” and the syndicated “On the Money with Maria Bartiromo.” CNBC is owned by NBCUniversal.
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Australian tourists stroll along on white sand at Kuta Beach. Indonesia announced Tuesday that it is reviewing cooperation with Canberra over “hurtful” claims that its president’s phone was tapped.