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Monday, October 27, 2014
Lupita Nyong’o seeks US slave-trade preservation
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Jenny McCarthy brings her personality to radio Associated Press
NEW YORK — For those who wonder if that so-called “honeymoon period” for a newly married couple is real, look no further than TV-radio personality Jenny McCarthy and actor-singer Donnie Wahlberg. The two wed in late August and have no problem in the PDA department. Wahlberg recently sat in the room as McCarthy spoke to press for her new SiriusXM radio show “Dirty, Sexy, Funny”. “We go to each other’s jobs to spend time with each other,” said McCarthy. (Wahlberg shoots the CBS cop drama “Blue Bloods” in New York.) In between interviews, the two kiss, speak softly to one another or McCarthy sits on his lap. As for her work life, that’s great too, says McCarthy. “Dirty Sexy Funny” is a brand McCarthy created to give female comedians “the opportunity to shine.” There’s been a tour, a TV special and now this radio show. It began as a limited weekly summer run and is now a daily live radio show, airing 10 a.m. to noon EDT. McCarthy, who has made a living off her personality appearing on her own short-lived
VH1 show and as a panelist on “The View” says radio seems to be the right career move for right now. “I always thought I needed to be in front of the camera but I had no idea of the freedom that I’m allowed with talk radio,” she said. McCarthy says she’s spent years trying to find the gig best suited to her personality. “I’ve been in holding deals since I was 23, network after network trying to fit me in,” she says. “They’d pay me money to sit and wait for them to write a show and no one could quite figure out how to write a character for me. Because I realized I really liked myself as the best character. That’s why I moved into talk. To be your authentic self today too is so welcomed, I think, by audiences.” On “Dirty Sexy Funny”, the 41-year-old will conduct interviews and discuss various topics. She also has creative control. “I am the one who is in charge of me,” she says.
RICHMOND — “Twelve Years a Slave” actress Lupita Nyong’o is lending her star power to the opposition to a minor league baseball stadium in what was once the center of Richmond’s thriving slave-trading center. Nyong’o has been posting antistadium opinions on social media to her millions of followers, and has personally appealed to Mayor Dwight C. Jones to withdraw support of the stadium that is the centerpiece of an economic development project. “Evidence of America’s slave history simply must be preserved, as the legacy of slavery affects all American people,” she wrote in a letter dated Oct. 19 to Jones. In response, Jones invited Nyong’o to visit the former capital of the Confederacy to see Shockoe Bottom and plans to preserve its slave-trading past. “Our plans show where we want to invest in that history and lift that history up for future generations to learn from,” Jones wrote. The stadium-centered project is proposed for Shockoe Bottom, the city’s oldest neighborhood and once the bustling center of the slave-trade. By some estimates, more 300,000 men, women and children were jailed, bought and sold in the Bottom and shipped throughout the Southern states in the decades leading to the Civil War. The stadium proposal has unleashed pent-up frustration among those who believe the city has literally buried that shameful chapter of its history. The area is now home to nightclubs, restaurants, former tobacco warehouses transformed into townhouses and parking lots. Nyong’o has a “12 Years a Slave” connection to the neighborhood. The celebrated film depicts the life of Solomon Northrup, who is kidnapped and sold into slavery. He is initially held in a Shockoe Bot-
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tom jail where slaves were chained before they were sold to growers in the Deep South. Nyong’o was recruited for the campaign by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which listed Shockoe Bottom in June as one of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. “We see Shockoe Bottom as not just a state of Virginia treasure, but a national treasure,” the trust’s president, Stephanie Meeks, said in an interview Tuesday. The campaign, she said, is part of the trust’s efforts to raise awareness about oftenoverlooked historic resources related to the experiences of black, Hispanic and other minority Americans. While she stressed that the trust is not opposed to development, Shockoe Bottom’s history should be acknowledged and recognized. “Much of what was there has been destroyed and what is there is buried,” Meeks said. “We’d like to have a comprehensive archaeological exploration of this site.” Meeks said the trust reached out to “some friends in the film industry” who suggested Nyong’o might be interested in the Shockoe Bottom campaign.
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New Indonesian President Joko Widodo (middle) unveiled his cabinet Sunday, which included the country’s first female foreign minister, after a lengthy delay caused by anticorruption authorities’ concerns about several candidates.
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JAKARTA - New Indonesian President Joko Widodo unveiled his cabinet Sunday, which included the country’s first female foreign minister, after a lengthy delay caused by anticorruption authorities’ concerns about several candidates. Key figures include Retno Marsudi as foreign minister, Bambang Brodjonegoro as finance minister and Sofyan Djalil as chief economics minister. It included eight women, a higher number than in the previous cabinet. The 34-member cabinet is broadly split between professionals and party politicians, as Widodo seeks to balance a pledge to pick the best people in their fields with pressure to reward parties who backed him
at July’s election. The team of ministers will be key in helping Widodo, known as Jokowi, push through much-needed reforms to boost Southeast Asia’s top economy and help the country’s poorest, as he faces stiff opposition in parliament from a coalition that backed his election rival. The daughter of Megawati Sukarnoputri, the head of Widodo’s party, and other figures close to her were named as ministers,
which will add to concerns the former president may seek to influence policy from outside government. The announcement was expected as early as Tuesday, a day after Widodo was inaugurated as leader of the world’s third-biggest democracy. But he took the unprecedented step of asking the powerful Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to vet the candidates. He was seeking to avoid the mistakes of his predecessor, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, whose government was hit by a string of corruption scandals that dented its popularity. “We wanted the chosen people to be clean so we consulted the KPK,”
Widodo said, as he announced the cabinet. The agency raised concerns about eight prospective ministers, forcing Widodo -- Indonesia’s first leader from outside the political and military elites -- to scramble to find replacements. Since the downfall of dictator Suharto in 1998 after three decades in power, it has been common practice in Indonesian politics for prospective leaders to promise cabinet posts to allies in exchange for support. Widodo, a 53-year-old former furniture exporter, pledged to eschew backroom deal-making in a bid to usher in a clean new form of government after beating
controversial ex-general Prabowo Subianto in the election. But growing pressure in recent weeks prompted him to make a concession, and he agreed to give out around half the jobs to allies. Most prominently, Puan Maharani, the daughter of Megawati, was named head of one of four powerful “coordinating ministries”, which oversee several other ministries. She is heading the ministry for culture and human development. A close Megawati confidant, Rini Soemarno, was named stateowned enterprises minister, while another figure close to her, former army chief of staff Ryamizard Ryacudu, was selected as defence minister.