NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ann Rutherford, an actress most known for a small role playing Scarlett O'Hara's optimistic younger sister in 'Gone With The Wind,' has died in Los Angeles.
Rutherford, who had a career in film, radio and television, died at her home on Monday in Beverly Hills after suffering from heart problems, a close friend and fellow actress Anne Jeffreys told The Los Angeles Times. The Times said she was 94.
Under contract with MGM, she first came to prominence as regular opposite Mickey Rooney in the long-running Andy Hardy film series playing Hardy's teenage girlfriend, Polly Benedict.
She was cast in dozens of other films, including with Vivien Leigh in the classic 1939 film 'Gone With The Wind,' which Rutherford told The Times she had implored then studio head Louis B. Mayer she wanted to do because, 'I just wanted to watch the book come to life.'
She retired from films around 1950 but returned in the early 1970s including guest appearances on the 'The Bob Newhart Show.'
(Reporting By Christine Kearney, editing by Sofina Mirza-Reid)
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Katy Perry to star in new comic book
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pop star Katy Perry will become the latest celebrity to be depicted in the biography comic book 'Fame' series, publisher Bluewater Productions said on Wednesday.
The 27-year-old's life shown in 'Fame: Katy Perry' has her moving from a Californian churchgoing upbringing under her Christian parents to bouncing around several music labels in Los Angeles until striking a deal that landed her first big hits, 'I Kissed A Girl,' and 'Hot n Cold.'
Perry, who has delved into colorful, fantasy-filled recreations of herself in music videos not unlike a comic book character, will also be the subject of a 3-D concert documentary due for release next month.
Her marriage to actor and comedian Russell Brand ended late last year.
(Reporting by Christine Kearney; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte and Dale Hudson)
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The 27-year-old's life shown in 'Fame: Katy Perry' has her moving from a Californian churchgoing upbringing under her Christian parents to bouncing around several music labels in Los Angeles until striking a deal that landed her first big hits, 'I Kissed A Girl,' and 'Hot n Cold.'
Perry, who has delved into colorful, fantasy-filled recreations of herself in music videos not unlike a comic book character, will also be the subject of a 3-D concert documentary due for release next month.
Her marriage to actor and comedian Russell Brand ended late last year.
(Reporting by Christine Kearney; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte and Dale Hudson)
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012
If it's Tuesday, Clinton must be in Batumi
BATUMI, Georgia (Reuters) - If it's Tuesday, this must be Batumi.
A sunny day in early June finds U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Georgia's Black Sea resort of Batumi, a beach town decidedly off the beaten path of high-level diplomacy.
The resort, with modern high-rise hotels contrasting with ornate, tsarist-era buildings, is the sixth stop in the seven countries that Clinton is visiting during an eight-day trip to Scandinavia, the Caucasus and Turkey.
In the final of the four years she says she will serve as secretary of state, Clinton had made time to tour the Arctic by boat, to dine in Copenhagen's Tivoli gardens and to visit this town on the Black Sea.
While renowned for her work ethic and mastery of detail, Clinton at times seems to be looking ahead to the next chapter of her life and willing to do things that she might not have done earlier in her tenure as secretary of state.
In the past few months, Clinton has gone whale-watching off the coast of Mexico, danced and drank beer at a bar in the Colombian Caribbean port of Cartagena and, in Norway on Saturday, took a two-hour cruise through the Arctic on a research trawler.
WAITING TO EXHALE
Work, however, follows her everywhere.
To take just one example, while en route to Denmark last week, Clinton called U.N. special envoy Kofi Annan from her plane to discuss the worsening crisis in Syria, in which government forces have killed more than 10,000 people, according to the United Nations.
In Copenhagen on Thursday, Clinton said she hankers to do ordinary things after two decades near the pinnacle of American politics.
'I would like to be able to just take a long walk,' she told Danish students. 'I'm just looking forward to exhaling and seeing what else lies ahead.'
Asked if she could rule out running for U.S. president in 2016, she replied: 'Yes.' She unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for president in 2008 in a tough battle against Barack Obama, who went on to win the presidency and then asked her to serve as his secretary of state.
The five nights that she spent during her current trip in Denmark, Norway and Sweden - countries with which the United States has few, if any, disagreements - was an unusual expenditure of time for a U.S. secretary of state.
Swedish diplomats told their American colleagues they believed it had been more than three decades since a U.S. secretary of state had come to Sweden just for bilateral talks rather than for an international conference or wider meeting.
At each stop in Scandinavia, Clinton warmly thanked the Nordic countries, known for their commitment to aid donations and their involvement in global challenges. Aides said Clinton made the visit to show her appreciation.
She also made time for a boat ride in each country.
She spent about half an hour cruising along Copenhagen's main canal with Denmark's foreign minister, taking in everything from the city's new black glass-enclosed royal theater to its iconic 'little mermaid' statue.
At Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt's invitation, she spent about four hours in meetings aboard a small luxury boat, passing red Swedish summer cottages as well as stately mansions as they cruised among the Stockholm archipelago's rocky islands.
DISCUSSING SYRIA IN THE ARCTIC
To suggest that the boat rides were simply sightseeing would be unfair. On the Stockholm cruise, she held meetings with Bildt, who likes to show the archipelago's rugged beauty to visiting dignitaries, as well as with the Swedish defense minister.
After a day of talks with Norwegian officials in Oslo, Clinton flew to Norway's Arctic city of Tromso to highlight the strategic importance of the Arctic region.
The two hours that she spent cruising the local fjord getting briefings aboard a research vessel sought to illustrate the geopolitical significance of the Arctic as its ice melts and vast mineral resources and new shipping routes become available.
After getting off the boat, and before flying to Stockholm, Clinton spoke to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, again to discuss the violence in Syria.
From Sweden, Clinton flew to Armenia on Monday, urging it, and neighbor Azerbaijan, not to allow their long-standing territorial dispute to erupt into a regional conflagration. She is due to visit Azerbaijan on Wednesday.
In Georgia, she has diplomatically pressed the government to hold free and fair parliamentary elections.
Even the visit to Batumi, a resort town that is attracting five-star hotels and an investment from New York real estate mogul Donald Trump, has a foreign policy point.
Aides said the visit would dramatize the difference between the booming Georgian resort and the isolated towns in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, two Georgian enclaves over which Russia tightened its control after a five-day war in 2008.
She wraps up her trip in Istanbul for talks on Syria on Wednesday night and a counter-terrorism conference on Thursday before returning to Washington that night.
On Friday, she will hit the ground running, holding talks with Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, hosting a lunch for Philippine President Benigno Aquino and meeting Annan to discuss Syria.
Asked in January what she would do after she left the State Department, Clinton said it would probably be 'a good idea to just find out how tired I am.' She then added: 'I will just work as hard as I can to the last minute.'
(Editing by Will Dunham)
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A sunny day in early June finds U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Georgia's Black Sea resort of Batumi, a beach town decidedly off the beaten path of high-level diplomacy.
The resort, with modern high-rise hotels contrasting with ornate, tsarist-era buildings, is the sixth stop in the seven countries that Clinton is visiting during an eight-day trip to Scandinavia, the Caucasus and Turkey.
In the final of the four years she says she will serve as secretary of state, Clinton had made time to tour the Arctic by boat, to dine in Copenhagen's Tivoli gardens and to visit this town on the Black Sea.
While renowned for her work ethic and mastery of detail, Clinton at times seems to be looking ahead to the next chapter of her life and willing to do things that she might not have done earlier in her tenure as secretary of state.
In the past few months, Clinton has gone whale-watching off the coast of Mexico, danced and drank beer at a bar in the Colombian Caribbean port of Cartagena and, in Norway on Saturday, took a two-hour cruise through the Arctic on a research trawler.
WAITING TO EXHALE
Work, however, follows her everywhere.
To take just one example, while en route to Denmark last week, Clinton called U.N. special envoy Kofi Annan from her plane to discuss the worsening crisis in Syria, in which government forces have killed more than 10,000 people, according to the United Nations.
In Copenhagen on Thursday, Clinton said she hankers to do ordinary things after two decades near the pinnacle of American politics.
'I would like to be able to just take a long walk,' she told Danish students. 'I'm just looking forward to exhaling and seeing what else lies ahead.'
Asked if she could rule out running for U.S. president in 2016, she replied: 'Yes.' She unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for president in 2008 in a tough battle against Barack Obama, who went on to win the presidency and then asked her to serve as his secretary of state.
The five nights that she spent during her current trip in Denmark, Norway and Sweden - countries with which the United States has few, if any, disagreements - was an unusual expenditure of time for a U.S. secretary of state.
Swedish diplomats told their American colleagues they believed it had been more than three decades since a U.S. secretary of state had come to Sweden just for bilateral talks rather than for an international conference or wider meeting.
At each stop in Scandinavia, Clinton warmly thanked the Nordic countries, known for their commitment to aid donations and their involvement in global challenges. Aides said Clinton made the visit to show her appreciation.
She also made time for a boat ride in each country.
She spent about half an hour cruising along Copenhagen's main canal with Denmark's foreign minister, taking in everything from the city's new black glass-enclosed royal theater to its iconic 'little mermaid' statue.
At Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt's invitation, she spent about four hours in meetings aboard a small luxury boat, passing red Swedish summer cottages as well as stately mansions as they cruised among the Stockholm archipelago's rocky islands.
DISCUSSING SYRIA IN THE ARCTIC
To suggest that the boat rides were simply sightseeing would be unfair. On the Stockholm cruise, she held meetings with Bildt, who likes to show the archipelago's rugged beauty to visiting dignitaries, as well as with the Swedish defense minister.
After a day of talks with Norwegian officials in Oslo, Clinton flew to Norway's Arctic city of Tromso to highlight the strategic importance of the Arctic region.
The two hours that she spent cruising the local fjord getting briefings aboard a research vessel sought to illustrate the geopolitical significance of the Arctic as its ice melts and vast mineral resources and new shipping routes become available.
After getting off the boat, and before flying to Stockholm, Clinton spoke to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, again to discuss the violence in Syria.
From Sweden, Clinton flew to Armenia on Monday, urging it, and neighbor Azerbaijan, not to allow their long-standing territorial dispute to erupt into a regional conflagration. She is due to visit Azerbaijan on Wednesday.
In Georgia, she has diplomatically pressed the government to hold free and fair parliamentary elections.
Even the visit to Batumi, a resort town that is attracting five-star hotels and an investment from New York real estate mogul Donald Trump, has a foreign policy point.
Aides said the visit would dramatize the difference between the booming Georgian resort and the isolated towns in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, two Georgian enclaves over which Russia tightened its control after a five-day war in 2008.
She wraps up her trip in Istanbul for talks on Syria on Wednesday night and a counter-terrorism conference on Thursday before returning to Washington that night.
On Friday, she will hit the ground running, holding talks with Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, hosting a lunch for Philippine President Benigno Aquino and meeting Annan to discuss Syria.
Asked in January what she would do after she left the State Department, Clinton said it would probably be 'a good idea to just find out how tired I am.' She then added: 'I will just work as hard as I can to the last minute.'
(Editing by Will Dunham)
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Sunday, June 3, 2012
Rhode Island's Olivia Culpo crowned Miss USA
(Reuters) - Olivia Culpo of Rhode Island was named Miss USA on Sunday after saying it would be fair for transgendered contestants to win the pageant, giving her a crown that she will wear when representing the United States at the Miss Universe pageant later this year.
Culpo, 20, competed in the traditional swimsuit and evening gown competitions at the Las Vegas pageant, but also answered a question - tweeted in from an audience member - about an issue that earlier this year vexed the organizers of the Miss Universe pageant in Canada when a transgendered woman wanted to compete.
Culpo was asked if it was fair that a transgender woman would win Miss USA over a natural born woman, and she answered, 'I do think that would be fair, but I can understand that people would be a little apprehensive to take that road.'
She went on to say that there are 'so many people out there who have a need to change for a happier life. I do accept that because I believe it is a free country.'
The audience reaction seemed mixed initially but quickly turned to cheers and Culpo gave two thumbs ups.
Later, when the winner's crown was placed on Culpo's head, tears came to her eyes as she accepted the congratulations of fellow contestants and walked the stage as the new Miss USA in a flowing, purple evening gown that was among the few splashes of color in a competition that featured several white dress.
Culpo, of Cranston, Rhode Island, is a student at Boston University.
Her parents were both musicians, and she began playing cello in the second grade. She has played at the Boston Symphony Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York City, and she continues to perform.
Miss Maryland, Nana Meriwether, was the runner-up, and contestants from Ohio, Nevada and Georgia rounded out the top five finalists. Miss Congenialtiy went to Miss Iowa, Rebecca Hodge, and the most photogenic award went to Miss Oregon, Alaina Bergsma
The Miss Universe pageant will be held in December, but a location has yet to be named.
Earlier this year, Jenna Talackova, who underwent gender-reassignment surgery at age 19 and holds legal documents affirming her identity as a woman, was initially kicked out of the competition in the Miss Canada division, but was later reinstated by the Miss Universe organization's owner, Donald Trump.
Talackova, now 23, went on to compete in last month's Miss Canada pageant but did not win.
(Reporting by Bob Tourtellotte; Editing by Jackie Frank)
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Culpo, 20, competed in the traditional swimsuit and evening gown competitions at the Las Vegas pageant, but also answered a question - tweeted in from an audience member - about an issue that earlier this year vexed the organizers of the Miss Universe pageant in Canada when a transgendered woman wanted to compete.
Culpo was asked if it was fair that a transgender woman would win Miss USA over a natural born woman, and she answered, 'I do think that would be fair, but I can understand that people would be a little apprehensive to take that road.'
She went on to say that there are 'so many people out there who have a need to change for a happier life. I do accept that because I believe it is a free country.'
The audience reaction seemed mixed initially but quickly turned to cheers and Culpo gave two thumbs ups.
Later, when the winner's crown was placed on Culpo's head, tears came to her eyes as she accepted the congratulations of fellow contestants and walked the stage as the new Miss USA in a flowing, purple evening gown that was among the few splashes of color in a competition that featured several white dress.
Culpo, of Cranston, Rhode Island, is a student at Boston University.
Her parents were both musicians, and she began playing cello in the second grade. She has played at the Boston Symphony Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York City, and she continues to perform.
Miss Maryland, Nana Meriwether, was the runner-up, and contestants from Ohio, Nevada and Georgia rounded out the top five finalists. Miss Congenialtiy went to Miss Iowa, Rebecca Hodge, and the most photogenic award went to Miss Oregon, Alaina Bergsma
The Miss Universe pageant will be held in December, but a location has yet to be named.
Earlier this year, Jenna Talackova, who underwent gender-reassignment surgery at age 19 and holds legal documents affirming her identity as a woman, was initially kicked out of the competition in the Miss Canada division, but was later reinstated by the Miss Universe organization's owner, Donald Trump.
Talackova, now 23, went on to compete in last month's Miss Canada pageant but did not win.
(Reporting by Bob Tourtellotte; Editing by Jackie Frank)
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Sarah Jessica Parker plans Obama fundraiser
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - 'Sex and the City' star Sarah Jessica Parker is borrowing a tactic from the George Clooney fundraising book, planning a campaign dinner for President Barack Obama and offering a chance to win two tickets with $3 online donations.
Parker, who is married to actor Matthew Broderick, sent an email to supporters and appeared in an advertisement on Sunday's MTV Movie Awards telling people of the online donations and tickets to the affair at her New York home.
'I'm hosting this event on June 14th because there is so much at stake this year and I want to keep doing what I can,' she wrote in the email. 'I hope you'll help me welcome President Obama and the First Lady to New York.'
The email ask for donations of '$3 or whatever you can to be automatically entered.' Parker's spokeswoman confirmed the event and the email but did not give further details about the cost of tickets for the fundraiser or how many people were expected.
Oscar winner Clooney hosted a dinner last month at his home in the Los Angeles area where some 150 people paid $40,000 a ticket to see the president.
The event raised nearly $15 million with more than half coming from small-amount donors who entered an online ticket raffle by pledging donations of $3 or more. The winners were Beth Topinka, a science teacher from New Jersey, and Karen Blutcher, who works at a public utility company in Florida.
(Reporting By Bob Tourtellotte; Editing by Bill Trott)
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Parker, who is married to actor Matthew Broderick, sent an email to supporters and appeared in an advertisement on Sunday's MTV Movie Awards telling people of the online donations and tickets to the affair at her New York home.
'I'm hosting this event on June 14th because there is so much at stake this year and I want to keep doing what I can,' she wrote in the email. 'I hope you'll help me welcome President Obama and the First Lady to New York.'
The email ask for donations of '$3 or whatever you can to be automatically entered.' Parker's spokeswoman confirmed the event and the email but did not give further details about the cost of tickets for the fundraiser or how many people were expected.
Oscar winner Clooney hosted a dinner last month at his home in the Los Angeles area where some 150 people paid $40,000 a ticket to see the president.
The event raised nearly $15 million with more than half coming from small-amount donors who entered an online ticket raffle by pledging donations of $3 or more. The winners were Beth Topinka, a science teacher from New Jersey, and Karen Blutcher, who works at a public utility company in Florida.
(Reporting By Bob Tourtellotte; Editing by Bill Trott)
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Saturday, June 2, 2012
Obama takes time to relax in Chicago hometown
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Life's simple pleasures are complicated when you are the president of the United States.
Barack Obama, savoring fine late spring weather after a rare night under his own roof - the first since April, 2011 - took a three-block stroll early on Saturday through his old Chicago neighborhood. He was preceded by a wave of dark-suited secret service agents and stalked by a slow-rolling convoy of armored SUVs.
Looking relaxed and chatting with close adviser Valerie Jarrett, Obama was paying a visit on long-time Chicago friend Martin Nesbitt.
With the leafy street in Chicago's Hyde Park blocked off by police cars and flooded with security, the short walk looked anything but spontaneous. Yet Obama appeared in good spirits and shouted across the street to reporters to inquire if they had stayed up late the night before.
The president had jokingly told supporters the previous night that he was looking forward to puttering around his backyard and cooking in his own kitchen, but he told reporters he 'woke up too late' to fix his own breakfast.
Obama has plenty of reasons to crave a good night's sleep. Polls show him locked in a close race with his Republican rival Mitt Romney for the November 6 election and recent news on the economy has been grim.
Data on Friday showed unemployment creeping up to 8.2 percent in May, challenging his re-election campaign message that the economy is healing after the recession he inherited upon taking office in 2009.
(Reporting By Alister Bull; Editing by Vicki Allen)
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Barack Obama, savoring fine late spring weather after a rare night under his own roof - the first since April, 2011 - took a three-block stroll early on Saturday through his old Chicago neighborhood. He was preceded by a wave of dark-suited secret service agents and stalked by a slow-rolling convoy of armored SUVs.
Looking relaxed and chatting with close adviser Valerie Jarrett, Obama was paying a visit on long-time Chicago friend Martin Nesbitt.
With the leafy street in Chicago's Hyde Park blocked off by police cars and flooded with security, the short walk looked anything but spontaneous. Yet Obama appeared in good spirits and shouted across the street to reporters to inquire if they had stayed up late the night before.
The president had jokingly told supporters the previous night that he was looking forward to puttering around his backyard and cooking in his own kitchen, but he told reporters he 'woke up too late' to fix his own breakfast.
Obama has plenty of reasons to crave a good night's sleep. Polls show him locked in a close race with his Republican rival Mitt Romney for the November 6 election and recent news on the economy has been grim.
Data on Friday showed unemployment creeping up to 8.2 percent in May, challenging his re-election campaign message that the economy is healing after the recession he inherited upon taking office in 2009.
(Reporting By Alister Bull; Editing by Vicki Allen)
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Friday, June 1, 2012
Home sweet home: Obama to sleep under own roof in Chicago
CHICAGO (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, sneaking a break from the glamour of the White House, told supporters on Friday he was looking forward to spending a night in his own home and savoring life's simple pleasures.
'I am sleeping in my own bed tonight,' Obama said at an enthusiastic fund-raising event in Chicago, his adopted home town. 'I'm going to go into my pantry. I might cook something for myself, potter around in the back yard a little bit.'
Obama, joking with reporters last month after a NATO summit in Chicago, made it clear he missed visiting his home in the upscale Hyde Park neighborhood, after security and traffic concerns had made it impossible for him to go home for a night.
The president's wife and daughters were not expected to join him in Chicago, where he was attending three fundraising events after visiting Minneapolis to talk about the economy. Obama is scheduled to fly back to Washington on Saturday.
Obama last popped into his Chicago home in January, but did not spend the night on that occasion, the White House said.
(Reporting by Alister Bull; editing by Todd Eastham)
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'I am sleeping in my own bed tonight,' Obama said at an enthusiastic fund-raising event in Chicago, his adopted home town. 'I'm going to go into my pantry. I might cook something for myself, potter around in the back yard a little bit.'
Obama, joking with reporters last month after a NATO summit in Chicago, made it clear he missed visiting his home in the upscale Hyde Park neighborhood, after security and traffic concerns had made it impossible for him to go home for a night.
The president's wife and daughters were not expected to join him in Chicago, where he was attending three fundraising events after visiting Minneapolis to talk about the economy. Obama is scheduled to fly back to Washington on Saturday.
Obama last popped into his Chicago home in January, but did not spend the night on that occasion, the White House said.
(Reporting by Alister Bull; editing by Todd Eastham)
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