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Lifestyle FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2017 actress to boycott Oscars over 'racist' Trump visa ban he Iranian star of Oscar-nominated film foreign language film at the Academy "The Salesman" said yesterday she Awards, which take place next month. Twould boycott the awards in protest at Farhadi won an Oscar in 2012 for his film "A President Donald Trump's "racist" ban on Separation". Visa applications from Iraq, Syria, Muslim immigrants. "Trump's visa ban for Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen are all Iranians is racist. Whether this will include a expected to be stopped for a month under a cultural event or not, I won't attend the draft executive order published in the #AcademyAwards 2017 in protest," tweeted Washington Post and New York Times. The Taraneh Alidoosti, the film's 33-year-old lead draft order also seeks to suspend the US actress. Trump is reportedly poised to stop refugee program for four months as officials visas for travellers from seven Muslim coun- draw up a list of low risk countries. —AFP tries, including Iran, for 30 days. He told ABC News on Wednesday that his plan was not a "Muslim ban", but targeted This image released by Cohen Media countries that "have tremendous terror." "The group shows , left, Salesman", directed by acclaimed Iranian film- and Taraneh Alidoosti in a scene maker is nominated for best from "The Salesman." — AP US television icon dead at 80

egendary actress Mary Tyler Moore, who delighted a genera- 'Effortless piece of cake' also married in real life. On the big screen, Moore starred opposite tion of Americans with her energetic comic performances and "A minute's silence as we remembered one of the true greats of Elvis Presley in "Change of Habit," and with Julie Andrews in Lbroke barriers with her iconic portrayal of a single career TV comedy," tweeted actor Stephen Fry, who was rehearsing on the "Thoroughly Modern Millie." She earned an Oscar nomination for woman, died Hollywood stage made famous by Moore's show. Michael Keaton her role in 's searing family drama "Ordinary People." Wednesday after years of ill health. She was 80. Moore's epony- described her as "iconic, my boss, castmate and a friend" while film- She also took home numerous Emmy awards for her television mous sitcom-set in Minneapolis-ran for seven seasons in the 1970s maker Kevin Smith said she was a "tireless defender of animals, and work and a Tony Award for a Broadway performance in "Whose Life and was named by Time Magazine as one of 17 shows that scourge of diabetes." "Truly she turned the world on with her smile," Is It Anyway." Behind the scenes, Moore faced a number of personal "changed television." She died in hospital in Connecticut, according he added, referring to the lyrics of her show's theme song. Talk show difficulties, including an addiction to alcohol. Her only child, Richie, to media reports, after battling diabetes for years and undergoing host and actress Ellen DeGeneres said Moore "changed the world for born during her first marriage to Richard Meeker, struggled with brain surgery in 2011. all women" while Congresswoman Betty McCollum of Minnesota emotional issues and drug abuse. He shot and killed himself in "Today, beloved icon Mary Tyler Moore passed away at the described the actress as one of the state's "favorite honorary daugh- 1980, at age 24, in an incident that was officially deemed an acci- age of 80 in the company of friends and her loving husband of ters." dent. over 33 years, Dr S Robert Levine," her longtime representative Moore's first big break came in 1961, when she played spunky Moore, who was born in New York and moved to as a Mara Buxbaum told AFP in a statement. "A groundbreaking stay-at-home wife Laura Petrie on "The Show." In the child, married her third husband, Robert Levine, in 1983. She was an actress, producer, and passionate advocate for the Juvenile popular sitcom, the TV couple famously slept in separate twin-size active spokeswoman for animal rights and for diabetes, which she Diabetes Research Foundation, Mary will be remembered as a beds, and Moore was limited to wearing capri pants in just one was diagnosed with in her 30s. "(Diabetes) has taken a toll on her. fearless visionary who turned the world on with her smile." "The scene per episode. Van Dyke said working with the "beautiful, bright She's not well at all," Van Dyke told the "Larry King Now" show in Mary Tyler Moore Show" was radical in its time-featuring a single and talented," Moore was "an effortless piece of cake." Speaking at October 2015. Gabrielle Carteris, president of the SAG-AFTRA actors' woman, living on her own, and chasing her dream as a television the 2012 Screen Actors Guild awards, where he presented Moore union, described Moore as a "television legend" who was an agent reporter. with a lifetime achievement award, Van Dyke said he initially had his of change at a time when independence for women was not the It also spawned numerous spin-offs for its popular supporting doubts about the unknown 20-something, wondering, "Can she do societal norm. — AFP cast of quirky, slightly neurotic characters, launching Moore's comedy?" behind-the-scenes career. As top executives of MTM Enterprises, Moore and then-husband created and produced "The Emmy winner, Oscar nominee Mary Tyler Moore Show" and its spinoffs, and were also responsible It turns out, he said, she could do "everything." She danced, sang, for hit shows including "," "St. Elsewhere" and did slapstick, and was such a perfect onscreen match for him, Van "Remington Steele." Dyke said, that many viewers wondered whether the couple were

A single rose sits by the life-size bronze In this file photo, Shia LaBeouf arrives This March 31, 1981 file photo shows This May 25, 1964 file photo shows Dick Van Dyke, left, and statue of Mary Tyler Moore at the at the premiere of "Man Mary Tyler Moore at the 53rd Academy Mary Tyler Moore, co-stars of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" Minneapolis Visitor Center, Down" at ArcLight Cinemas Hollywood. Awards in Los Angeles. backstage at the Palladium with their Emmys for best actor Wednesday. and actress in a series at the Television Academy's 16th annu- al awards show, in Los Angeles. — AP photos