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LOS ANGELES — George Clooney is frustrated by the way the media is treating Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, comparing it to how the media covered Princess Diana.
Clooney told reporters Meghan is “a woman who is seven months pregnant and she has been pursued and vilified and chased in the same way that Diana was and it's history repeating itself.”
Diana died in a car crash while being pursued by paparazzi in 1997.
Clooney and his wife attended the former Meghan Markle's wedding to Diana's son, Prince Harry, last year.
Clooney made the comments at the Television Critics Association conference in Pasadena, Calif. He is promoting his upcoming Hulu series “Catch-22.”
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NEW YORK — In her seventh Oscar nomination, Glenn Close is poised to win her first Academy Award. But if she doesn't, the 71-year-old actress says not to cry for her.
Close tells The Associated Press she doesn't want “a pity Oscar.” If she loses, Close says she's decided to look at the camera and say: “I'm OK.”
Close has emerged as the best-actress favorite after wins at the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild Awards. But the category is competitive, with Lady Gaga and Olivia Colman also in the mix.
Close has six times before been nominated but never won.
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NEW YORK — Katie Couric is writing a memoir, one she is counting on to live up to its title: “Unexpected.”In an announcement Tuesday, the publisher Little, Brown and Company, told The Associated Press that the book was scheduled for spring 2021.Couric plans to share details both “hilarious” and “humiliating” as she looks back on her prize-winning, 40-year career.She will touch upon everything from the #MeToo movement, which led to the firing of her former “Today” show colleague Matt Lauer, to what her publisher is calling her own “proto-#MeToo brushes with workplace sexism, like the time a high-ranking executive commented on her breast size in front of the top brass during an editorial meeting.”She also will write about the death from colon cancer of her first husband, Jay Monahan, and her own battles with bulimia and lifelong insecurity.Financial terms for her memoir were not disclosed. Couric's previous books include “The Best Advice I Ever Got” and the children's story “The Brand New Kid.”
