30 Established 1961 Tuesday, October 31, 2017 Lifestyle Features Kevin Spacey apologizes, comes out as gay after ‘sexual advance’ claim

evin Spacey came out as gay early yesterday and Spacey were performing in Broadway shows, Spacey Kapologized to actor Anthony Rapp, who accused the invited the then 14-year-old to a party at his New York Hollywood star of making a sexual advance on him at a apartment. Spacey would have been 26 at the time. Rapp 1986 party when he was only 14 years old. Spacey’s said he was in Spacey’s bedroom watching TV when announcement, posted on his Twitter account at midnight, Spacey appeared in the doorway at the end of the night, came after Rapp-best known after all the other guests had for being part of the original left, “kind of swaying” and cast of the hit Broadway musi- apparently drunk. Rapp said cal “Rent”-made the accusa- Spacey picked him up, put tion in an interview with him on the bed and lay on top Buzzfeed News. of him. Spacey, 58, a double Oscar Deeply “He was trying to seduce This file photo taken on February 23, 2016 shows actor Anthony Rapp, cast member in “Star Trek: Discovery,” winner and star of the Netflix me,” Rapp told Buzzfeed. “I Kevin Spacey arriving for the season 4 premiere poses at the premiere of the new television series in series “House of Cards,” said inappropriate don’t know if I would have screening of the Netflix show “House of Cards” in Los Angeles. — AFP/AP photos he did not remember the used that language. But I was Washington, DC. encounter but that “if I did drunken behavior aware that he was trying to get behave then as he describes, I with me sexually.” Rapp said owe him the sincerest apology he squirmed away after a brief for what would have been period of time and went into powerful men in the entertainment industry. Publicly accus- Backlash against Spacey’s announcement was quick to deeply inappropriate drunken behavior.” the bathroom. Shortly after, he left Spacey’s apartment and ing Spacey is “not to simply air a grievance,” he said, “but to build, with commentators slamming the actor’s declaration The actor-whose sexuality had been an open secret in went home. Rapp, who was living in New York with his try to shine another light on the decades of behavior that that he is gay as a cynical ploy to distract attention from the Hollywood for years went on to say that Rapp’s accusation mother, stressed that a young teen going alone to a party at have been allowed to continue because many people, includ- troubling allegation of sexual misconduct with a young teen. “encouraged me to address other things about my life.” “As an adult actor’s home was not considered a cause for con- ing myself, being silent.” “‘Sure, I may have tried to rape a 14-year-old boy when I those closest to me know, in my life I have had relationships cern at the time. “It was a different era,” he said. “I went to “I’m feeling really awake to the moment that we’re living was 26, but I’m gay!’ is a pretty horrible defense,” conserva- with both men and women. I have loved and had romantic work by myself. I would walk to the subway, and go to the in, and I’m hopeful that this can make a difference.” More tive commentator Ben Shapiro tweeted. “No no no no no! encounters with men throughout my life, and I choose now theater by myself.” than 50 women, including top actresses Gwyneth Paltrow, You do not get to ‘choose’ to hide under the rainbow! Kick to live as a gay man. “I want to deal with this honestly and Angelina Jolie and Mira Sorvino, have accused Weinstein of rocks!” comedian Wanda Sykes said on Twitter. — AFP openly and that starts with examining my own behavior.” ‘A pretty horrible defense’ misconduct including rape, sexual abuse and harassment. Rapp said he felt compelled to speak out after a recent The now-disgraced tycoon was sacked as co-chairman of ‘Trying to seduce me’ deluge of accusations against movie mogul Harvey The Weinstein Company and also resigned from its board. Rapp, 46, told Buzzfeed that in 1986, while both he and Weinstein sparked an examination of abuses committed by He has denied forcing himself on his accusers.

‘Pineapple pen’ star to serenade Trump on his Japan visit

S President Donald Trump will be Arabella Kushner, the six-year-old daugh- serenaded with a bizarre hit song ter of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, Uabout a “pen-pineapple-apple-pen” was seen singing along to the tune in a clip on his visit to Japan next week. Japan will shared on Instagram in November by her roll out wacky crooner Pikotaro-whose mother. The repetitive earworm, whose 45-second “PPAP” ditty went viral last video features the dancing Pikotaro year after being shared by pop star Justin dressed in his garish animal-print costume, Bieber-when Trump comes to town at the set a Guinness World Record as the short- start of an Asian tour, Kyodo News est song to break into the Billboard Hot agency reported. 100. Trump is also set to play a round of The singer, apparently a favourite of golf with Japanese pro Hideki Matsuyama Trump’s grandchildren, will attend a dinner during his visit. — AFP Japanese comedian Pikotaro posing during a press hosted by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo conference at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Abe, government sources told Kyodo. Japan in Tokyo.

Lauren Friedman, daughter of lawyer Samuel Friedman, poses with photos of her father, and a telegram from Thurgood Marshall, in her New York apartment. — AP photos ‘Marshall’ scores with those ‘Suburbicon’ tanks, ‘Jigsaw’ who knew late justice

upreme Court Justice Thurgood Factual liberties Marshall’s widow, Cecilia, has seen two Koskoff said he reviewed old newspaper No. 1 in the box-office Sshowings of the new movie “Marshall” articles , investigators’ notes and what about her late husband. She liked it, but had remained of court files. He looked at letters one observation about actor Chadwick between Marshall and co-counsel Friedman Boseman, who plays the civil rights pioneer and notes Marshall took during jury selec- eorge Clooney’s “Suburbicon” notched an outlier in a horror marketplace dominated by respected filmmakers, including Darren and legal giant. “He’s a very good-looking tion. There was no transcript of the court Gone of the most dismal wide-release films that typically favor spooks over spurts.” Aronofsky’s “mother!” which also sputtered at the man, but he’s not as handsome as my hus- proceedings. As a result, much of the court- debuts in recent years on a sluggish pre- Opening-weekend moviegoers also weren’t over- box office and garnered an even worse F band was,” she told her son John after see- room dialogue is made up, as is the nature of Halloween weekend where the horror sequel whelmed, giving the film a modest B CinemaScore. ing the film, he said. the relationship between the two lawyers. “Jigsaw” topped all releases despite an underper- CinemaScore. The Miles Teller PTSD drama “Thank You For The question of looks aside, what movie- The movie takes other factual liberties: a forming debut. The eighth “Saw” film landed at But that rating still easily surpassed the D- Your Service,” directed by “American Sniper” goers get in “Marshall” is a film faithful to court scene that opens the movie happened No. 1 with $16.3 million in North American ticket minus grade that greeted Clooney’s latest direc- writer Jason Hall, also opened weakly with $3.7 the facts and to the man, according to those after, not before the Spell case. In the movie, sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. That torial effort. Despite debuting on more than million in 2,054 theaters for DreamWorks and who have studied the real-life Connecticut Spell’s socialite employer claims she was came in below industry expectations and sug- 2,000 screens, “Suburbicon” managed just $2.8 Universal. Business overall was slow ahead of rape case from 1941 and those who knew raped twice; accounts from the time have gested the revived “Saw” franchise isn’t connect- million, making it one of Paramount Pictures’ Halloween. Weekend ticket sales totaled about Marshall. He died in 1993 at age 84. Michael her saying it was three times. ing with audiences the way other recent horror worst performing wide-releases ever and marking $75 million, according to comScore, making it the Koskoff, a lawyer who wrote the screenplay Friedman was slender and athletic, not entries have. a new box-office low for Clooney as a director second-lowest grossing frame of the year in the with his son, says he began with the infor- the heavyset character played by Josh Gad. In its first release since the Harvey Weinstein and star Matt Damon. US and Canada. But overseas, where “Thor: mation he had about the case, then filled in Friedman’s daughter Lauren, who was also scandal began unfolding, the beleaguered “Obviously we are disappointed in these Ragnarok” began its worldwide rollout, was a dif- the gaps. involved in the movie, said one thing the film Weinstein Co. feebly released a horror sequel of results which we don’t feel are indicative of the ferent story. The Disney release grossed $107.6 In early 1941, Marshall was in Bridgeport, doesn’t show was that the night of the ver- its own: “Amityville: The Awakening.” It played in quality and message of his original movie,” said million internationally from about 52 percent of Connecticut, to represent Joseph Spell, a dict, her parents had left town because of an unusual Saturday-only engagement on just 10 Kyle Davies, president of distribution for the marketplace. The “Thor” sequel opens in black chauffeur accused by his wealthy, death threats. But more is accurate than not screens, and grossed a mere $742. “Jigsaw” dis- Paramount. “Suburbicon,” which debuted at the North America, China and elsewhere on Friday. white employer of rape. Because Marshall in the film, including even details about tributor Lionsgate also claimed the No. 2 spot Venice Film Festival, was crafted as a fusion Yet a release in China couldn’t rescue the box- was an out-of-state attorney, he enlisted the minor characters. “Some of the things you with $10 million in the second week of release for between an old Joel and Ethan Coen home-inva- office disappointment “Blade Runner 2049.” help of a local lawyer, Sam Friedman, who would think are not true were true,” Koskoff “Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween.” sion comedy script and a more pointed satire of Denis Villeneuve’s film, starring Ryan Gosling and was white and had expertise in trying civil said, referencing a point in the movie where Made for about $10 million, “Jigsaw” comes racism in a 1959 suburb. Critics didn’t respond Harrison Ford, added $16.6 million overseas this cases, not criminal ones. Friedman, in the courtroom, demonstrates seven years after the notoriously gruesome fran- well to the mix, either; its Rotten Tomatoes score weekend, including its China debut. The film, dis- The movie, which came out this month, being gagged. chise - famously dubbed “torture porn” - bid is just 26 percent fresh. tributed by Warner Bros. in North America and shows a 32-year-old Marshall, with one Details moviegoers learn about adieu with “Saw 3D: The Final Chapter.” Critics Paramount paid $10 million for domestic distri- Sony internationally, has earned $223.4 million Supreme Court argument under his belt and Marshall’s life also are correct, including the weren’t happy to see its return, giving “Jigsaw” a bution rights for the Black Bear Pictures produc- globally in three weeks of release. — AP more than a decade before his victory in the fact that his first wife, Vivian “Buster” 39 percent Rotten Tomatoes score. The tion, made for about $25 million. The studio has landmark Brown v. Board of Education case Marshall, suffered multiple miscarriages Hollywood Reporter said the film “now feels like recently backed several divisive releases from that outlawed segregation in public schools. before her death from cancer in 1955. It Koskoff said there is “nothing particularly wasn’t until his second marriage, to Cecilia significant” about the case depicted in the Suyat, that he became a father. One of their movie, but it is representative of the legal two boys, John Marshall, reviewed multiple work Marshall was doing in the early 1940s drafts of the movie’s script and helped the on behalf of the NAACP: traveling around scriptwriters capture his dad. John Marshall the United States to defend black men said the film’s director, Reginald Hudlin, accused of crimes, and doing it at great per- called him half a dozen times asking whether sonal risk. certain details were right, down to whether his father smoked. The filmmakers faithfully captured his father’s sense of humor, his confidence and his mastery of the law, John Marshall said. University of Maryland law professor Larry Gibson, a Marshall biographer, agreed that the movie’s creators got how Marshall carried himself. “Life hung on him kind of loosely,” he said. Susan Low Bloch, a Georgetown professor who clerked for Marshall at the Supreme Court, said the movie captured the personality, sense of humor and thoroughness of the Marshall she knew. Moviegoers who linger in the theater through the credits will get to hear Marshall himself in a bit of old audio. He says in part: “You know, there are so many people, indeed my own sons at times, look at me with an expression on their face that they don’t believe what This Aug 22, 1958, file photo shows happened in the past.” — AP Thurgood Marshall outside the Supreme This image released by Lionsgate shows Laura Vandervoort This file image released by Paramount Pictures shows Julianne Moore, left, and Court in Washington. in the horror film, “Jigsaw.” — AP photos Matt Damon in a scene from “Suburbicon.”