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  • Australian singer-turned-actress Olivia Newton-John dies at 73

    By means of IANS

    NEW YORK: Olivia Newton-John, the Australian actress and singer absolute best recognized for her function as Sandy Olsson within the blockbuster film “Grease” and for giving hit numbers akin to 1981’s “Bodily,” has died on Monday, in line with a remark from her husband. She was once 73-years-old.

    Her authentic Fb web page showed the inside track on Monday in a remark, “Dame Olivia Newton-John (73) gave up the ghost peacefully at her Ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded via friends and family. We ask that everybody please appreciate the circle of relatives’s privateness throughout this very tough time.”

    “Olivia has been a logo of triumphs and hope for over 30 years sharing her adventure with breast most cancers. Her therapeutic inspiration and pioneering revel in with plant drugs continues with the Olivia Newton-John Basis Fund, devoted to researching plant drugs and most cancers. In lieu of flora, the circle of relatives asks that any donations be made in her reminiscence to the Olivia Newton-John Basis Fund.”

    The singer printed in September 2018 that she was once getting handled for most cancers on the base of her backbone. It was once her 3rd most cancers analysis, following bouts with breast most cancers within the early ’90s and in 2017.

    NEW YORK: Olivia Newton-John, the Australian actress and singer absolute best recognized for her function as Sandy Olsson within the blockbuster film “Grease” and for giving hit numbers akin to 1981’s “Bodily,” has died on Monday, in line with a remark from her husband. She was once 73-years-old.

    Her authentic Fb web page showed the inside track on Monday in a remark, “Dame Olivia Newton-John (73) gave up the ghost peacefully at her Ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded via friends and family. We ask that everybody please appreciate the circle of relatives’s privateness throughout this very tough time.”

    “Olivia has been a logo of triumphs and hope for over 30 years sharing her adventure with breast most cancers. Her therapeutic inspiration and pioneering revel in with plant drugs continues with the Olivia Newton-John Basis Fund, devoted to researching plant drugs and most cancers. In lieu of flora, the circle of relatives asks that any donations be made in her reminiscence to the Olivia Newton-John Basis Fund.”

    The singer printed in September 2018 that she was once getting handled for most cancers on the base of her backbone. It was once her 3rd most cancers analysis, following bouts with breast most cancers within the early ’90s and in 2017.

  • Oscars 2022: Jessica Chastain wins very best actress Oscar for ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’

    By way of AFP

    UNITED STATES: Jessica Chastain on Sunday took house the Oscar for very best actress, a praise for her outstanding bodily transformation right into a larger-than-life US televangelist in “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.”

    Chastain, 45, gained over Academy citizens with a efficiency that noticed her don advanced prosthetics, wigs and layers of Tammy Faye Bakker’s trademark heavy make-up on a daily basis on set with a purpose to embrace the overdue singer-turned-minister and LGBTQ activist.

    She bested Olivia Colman (“The Misplaced Daughter”), Penelope Cruz (“Parallel Moms”), Nicole Kidman (“Being the Ricardos”) and Kristen Stewart (“Spencer”) to win the prize.

  • WCC participants meet Kerala ladies’s panel leader, call for justice for survivor of attack case

    By means of PTI

    KOZHIKODE: The participants of Ladies in Cinema Collective (WCC) on Sunday known as on Kerala Ladies’s Fee chairperson P Satheedevi right here and recommended her to verify justice for the survivor within the sexual attack case, involving Malayalam actor Dileep.

    In addition they sought her intervention to make public the Hema committee record at the issues confronted through ladies in movie business.

    Later, Satheedevi advised the journalists that the Fee will be sure that each and every film manufacturing area has an inner proceedings committee.

    “All establishments must have an inner grievance committee, however manufacturing homes wouldn’t have one. The fee got here to grasp that lots of the manufacturing corporations lack the elemental consciousness referring to the sort of committee,” she identified.

    Satheedevi additional mentioned the inner grievance committee will instill self belief in younger ladies who input the movie business and the manufacturing homes have a accountability to verify their security and safety at paintings and “they’re legally certain” to represent the sort of panel.

    WCC participants Anjali Menon, Parvathy Thiruvothu, Padma Priya, Deedi Damodaran, Padmini and Sayanora met the Chairperson on the executive visitor area in Kozhikode.

    Requested concerning the Hema committee, the chairperson mentioned it was once just a learn about committee and now not a fee constituted underneath the Enquiry Fee Act and therefore there was once no want to position its record within the Meeting.

    “On the other hand, regulation is needed to control and track the actions that happen within the film business. We are hoping a legislation will probably be introduced through the Cultural division within the state,” she mentioned.

    The Chairperson opined that the society must again the actor who confronted sexual attack and condemned the social media slur confronted through her.

    Hema committee was once shaped in 2017 to review the issues confronted through ladies within the movie business. The panel had just lately submitted its report back to the federal government after recording observation of round 60 actors. The record isn’t launched but.

    The WCC participants had been on a warpath for the reason that actors’ frame, AMMA, had made up our minds to reinstate distinguished actor Dileep, who was once arrested on fees of conspiracy within the actress attack case in February 2017 and later launched on bail.

    A platform of ladies actors, administrators, scriptwriters and singers of the Malayalam business, the WCC was once introduced quickly after the actress attack incident, to verify gender justice and safeguard ladies’s rights within the movie international.