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5:40 PM ET, January 29, 2017

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New York Times:
Iranian Director Asghar Farhadi Won't Attend Oscar Ceremony  —  TEHRAN — The Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, whose film “The Salesman” is nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign-language movie, said on Sunday that he would not attend the Oscars ceremony next month even if he were granted …
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Dean Balsamini / Page Six:
Director can't attend Oscars under Trump's new restriction  —  An Iranian film director up for an Oscar won't be able to attend the ceremony in Los Angeles because of President Trump's restrictions on visitors from seven Muslim-majority nations, it was reported Saturday.
Discussion: TMZ.com
New York Times:
Refugees Detained at U.S. Airports; Trump Immigration Order Is Challenged  —  President Trump's executive order closing the nation's borders to refugees was put into immediate effect on Friday night.  Refugees who were airborne on flights on the way to the United States when the order was signed were stopped and detained at airports.
Associated Press:
Oscar-nominated Emmanuelle Riva dies in Paris, age 89  —  PARIS (AP) — Emmanuelle Riva, a French star of screen and stage who was nominated for an Academy Award for best actress in 2013, has died.  She was 89.  —  Riva died Friday afternoon in a Paris clinic after a long illness, her agent …
Discussion: Dlisted, People.com and The Wrap
Hollywood Reporter:
John Hurt, Oscar-Nominated Star of ‘The Elephant Man,’ Dies at 77 (Report)  —  The British actor of stage and screen also received an Academy Award nom for ‘Midnight Express’ and was memorable in ‘Alien,’ three Harry Potter films and ‘Doctor Who.’  —  John Hurt, the esteemed British actor known …
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Ashleigh Rainbird / mirror:
Legendary actor John Hurt has died, aged 77.  —  The Elephant Man star, whose career spanned over six decades, had battled with both cancer and an intestinal complaint in recent years.  —  Survived by his wife of 12 years, Anwen Rees-Myers, he recently starred as a priest in the Oscar nominated biopic …
Discussion: Page Six
E! Online:
Law & Order's Saffron Burrows Gives Birth to a Baby Girl  —  Saffron Burrows has a big reason to celebrate 2017.  —  E! News has exclusively learned that the Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. star gave birth to a baby girl named Daisy Alice Winnie Balian-Burrows on January 23.
Discussion: People.com
Taylor Ferber / Us Weekly:
Jon Hamm Admits He Never Watches Old ‘Mad Men’ Episodes — Here's Why  —  We'll always have Don Draper.  It's only been two years since Mad Men ended its award-winning run.  Although fans continue to binge on the show in all of its smoke-infused glory, Jon Hamm could honestly do without that walk down memory lane.
Julia Marsh / Page Six:
Uma Thurman wins primary custody of 4-year-old daughter  —  Uma Thurman smiled broadly as she signed off on a deal with her French financier-ex Arpad “Arki” Busson, an agreement that gives her primary custody of their 4-year-old daughter.  —  “It's a wonderful thing to have closure,” …
Francesca Bacardi / E! Online:
Selena Gomez and The Weeknd Take Their Romance to Italy  —  Selena Gomez and The Weeknd are taking their romance to a different continent.  —  The couple traveled to the Italian city of Florence, E! News has learned, where they dined at Trattoria Borgo Antico for lunch.
Discussion: Dlisted and TMZ.com
Carlos Greer / Page Six:
Huge shakeup at ‘Today’ to make way for Megyn Kelly  —  NBC is canceling the third hour of “Today” to make way for new star Megyn Kelly, sources exclusively confirm to Page Six.  —  We're told Kelly will take over either the 9 a.m. hour from Tamron Hall and Al Roker or will replace Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford.
Jocelyn Vena / Bravo TV Official Site:
One of the Real Housewives of Orange County Confirms She Won't Return  —  Find out which Housewife is stepping away from #RHOC.  —  After five seasons on The Real Housewives of Orange County, one of the ladies is stepping away.  Heather Dubrow announced on her podcast, Heather Dubrow's World, that she will not return to the show.
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From Mediagazer:

Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post:
OpenAI suspends early access to Sora after ~20 artists leaked access to the tool in protest of the company's treatment of creative professionals as “PR puppets”

Marty Swant / Digiday:
US filing: Google sent subpoenas in October 2024 to OpenAI, Perplexity AI, and Microsoft for the remedies part of the US v. Google search antitrust trial

Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Charlie Rose settles with three former CBS employees who sued him in 2018 for sexual harassment; CBS fired Rose in November 2017 after a Washington Post report

 
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