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he Emmy nominations on Tuesday widen their periphery.” But while black yielded a step forward for diversity, and Asian actors made gains this year, Ta new record for and nods the lack of any Latino actors in the mix aplenty for ESPN’s popular Michael was glaring. Jordan documentary. Here are some top ere is a list of the nominees in key , “The Kominsky Kate McKinnon, “” takeaways form the announcement by Newcomers fare well categories for the 72nd Emmy Method” Annie Murphy, “Schitt’s Creek” the Television Academy, ahead of the The amount of television content eligi- HAwards, which will be handed out Eugene Levy, “Schitt’s Creek” Yvonne Orji, “Insecure” on September 20: ble for Emmys increases just about every in on September 20. HBO’s Ramy Youssef, “Ramy” Cecily Strong, “Saturday Night Live” year, and this year, while Netflix earned a “Watchmen” leads the way with 26 nomi- record 160 nominations, a few new nations, and is competing in the limited LEAD ACTRESS, COMEDY OUTSTANDING LIMITED SERIES streaming platforms earned their first series categories. Christina Applegate, “Dead to Me” “Little Fires Everywhere” nods. Disney+ made its mark with 19 Amazon hit comedy “The Marvelous Mrs , “The Marvelous Mrs “Mrs America” nominations — 15 of them for its flagship Maisel” was in second place with 20 Maisel” “Unbelievable” series, the “Star Wars” spinoff “The nominations. On the drama side, dark Linda Cardellini, “Dead to Me” “Unorthodox” Mandalorian.” Apple TV+ nabbed 18 crime thriller “Ozark” and family drama Catherine O’Hara, “Schitt’s Creek” “Watchmen” nominations, including for Jennifer “Succession” led the pack with 18 nomi- , “Insecure” Aniston, Steve Carell and nations each. Tracee Ellis Ross, “black-ish” OUTSTANDING TELEVISION MOVIE for its flagship launch program “The “American Son” Morning Show.” The fledgling short-form OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES SUPPORTING ACTOR, DRAMA “Bad Education” streaming platform Quibi also scored 10 “Better Call Saul” Nicholas Braun, “Succession” “Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings: These Old nominations, including for cop spoof “” Billy Crudup, “The Morning Show” Bones” revival “Reno 911!” and dystopian thriller “The Handmaid’s Tale” Kieran Culkin, “Succession” “El Camino: A Movie” “Most Dangerous Game.” “Killing Eve” Mark Duplass, “The Morning Show” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs “The Mandalorian” , “Better Call Saul” the Reverend” Father/daughter nominees “Ozark” Matthew Macfadyen, “Succession” In this file photo an Emmy statue is seen on “” actor “” , “The Handmaid’s Tale” LEAD ACTOR, LIMITED the stage at the 71st Emmy Awards and his daughter “Succession” Jeffrey Wright, “Westworld” SERIES OR MOVIE Governors Ball press preview at LA Live in shared the limelight Tuesday as they Jeremy Irons, “Watchmen” Los Angeles, .—AFP both received Emmy nods. Jones was OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES SUPPORTING ACTRESS, DRAMA , “Bad Education” nominated for outstanding guest actor “” , “The Crown” Paul Mescal, “Normal People” Diversity for the NBC tearjerker, for which he won “Dead to Me” , “Big Little Lies” Jeremy Pope, “Hollywood” Of the more than 100 acting nomina- an Emmy in 2018. His daughter, who “The Good Place” Julia Garner, “Ozark” , “I Know This Much Is True” tions in the series, limited series and tele- earned fame as a member of the original “Insecure” Thandie Newton, “Westworld” vision movie categories, more than a cast of the Broadway musical “,” “The Kominsky Method” Fiona Shaw, “Killing Eve” LEAD ACTRESS, LIMITED third of them went to black actors—a joined the club of Emmy nominees for “The Marvelous Mrs Maisel” Sarah Snook, “Succession” SERIES OR MOVIE new record. Among them are her role in the Quibi drama “Schitt’s Creek” , “Big Little Lies” , “Mrs America” (“Pose”), Sterling K. Brown (“This Is Us” “#FreeRayshawn.” “I’m still in shock! “What We Do In The Shadows” Samira Wiley, “The Handmaid’s Tale” Shira Haas, “Unorthodox” and “The Marvelous Mrs Maisel”), Issa Thank you to @TelevisionAcad for this , “Watchmen” Rae (“Insecure”) and Regina King Emmy nomination!” Jasmine Cephas LEAD ACTOR, DRAMA SUPPORTING ACTOR, COMEDY , “” (“Watchmen”). The increased number of Jones said in a tweet, in which she also Jason Bateman, “Ozark” Mahershala Ali, “Ramy” , “Little Fires nominations for black performers con- congratulated her dad. “Proud to be a Sterling K. Brown, “This Is Us” , “The Kominsky Method” Everywhere” firmed efforts by the Television Academy part of important stories during this cli- Steve Carell, “The Morning Show” , “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” Programs with most overall nominations: to boost racial diversity on the small mate,” she added. Brian Cox, “Succession” Sterling K Brown, “The Marvelous Mrs “Watchmen” - 26 screen. “Black Lives Matter. Black The salacious Netflix series “Tiger Billy Porter, “Pose” Maisel” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” - 20 Stories Matter,” the Academy tweeted King,” which was all the rage at the onset , “Succession” William Jackson Harper, “The Good “Succession” - 18 Tuesday. The Emmy nominations of the COVID-19 lockdown, will face off Place” “Ozark” - 18 announcement comes amid a national against “The Last Dance,” which LEAD ACTRESS, DRAMA Daniel Levy, “Schitt’s Creek” “The Mandalorian” - 15 reckoning over race, with protests revolves around basketball legend , “The Morning Show” , “The Marvelous Mrs “Schitt’s Creek” - 15 against racism and police brutality taking Michael Jordan’s career with the , “The Crown” Maisel” “Saturday Night Live” - 15 place across the country. Bulls, in the outstanding docu- Jodie Comer, “Killing Eve” Kenan Thompson, “Saturday Night Live” “The Crown” - 13 “This type of representation is a long mentary or nonfiction series category. , “Ozark” Top five platforms with most overall nomi- time coming. There’s no shortage of tal- The two shows will compete against , “Killing Eve” SUPPORTING ACTRESS, COMEDY nations: ent within the black community,” Yahya ’s “Hillary,” about failed presidential Zendaya, “Euphoria” Alex Borstein, “The Marvelous Mrs Netflix: 160 Abdul-Mateen II, a nominee for HBO’s candidate , PBS’s Maisel” HBO: 107 “Watchmen,” told Entertainment Tonight. “American Masters,” which examines the LEAD ACTOR, COMEDY D’Arcy Carden, “The Good Place” NBC: 47 “ it takes certain circum- lives of outstanding artists, and HBO’s , “black-ish” Betty Gilpin, “GLOW” ABC: 36 stances in the world for people to open “McMillion$,” about the McDonald’s , “Black Monday” Marin Hinkle, “The Marvelous Mrs FX: 33—AFP their eyes and people to open up, to Monopoly game scam.—AFP Ted Danson, “The Good Place” Maisel”

everal top musicians, including Last month, British rock legends the Mick Jagger and Sheryl Crow, Rolling Stones threatened legal action Shave signed a letter demanding against Trump for his use of their classic that politicians get their consent before “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” playing their songs at campaign rallies. at campaign rallies. The same month, The soundtrack to political events was a the family of rock musician Tom Petty hot topic during the 2016 election and is issued a cease and desist letter over again this year, with several stars Trump’s use of “I Won’t Back Down” at a objecting to President rally in Tulsa on June 20. Queen com- playing their songs without permission. plained when Trump walked on stage to Michael Stipe of REM, Regina Spektor their anthem “We Are The Champions” and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler were during a Republican Party event in among others to put their name on the Cleveland, Ohio in the run-up to the letter, which was written in partnership 2016 presidential election. Pharrell with the Artist Rights Alliance, Rolling Williams, Rihanna, Aerosmith, Adele, Stone magazine reported. “No artist Neil Young and the estate of singer should be forced to compromise their Prince all have also hit out after Trump values or be associated with politicians used their songs. Other signatories of they don’t respect or support,” the Artist the letter revealed Tuesday include Rights Alliance tweeted on Tuesday. “To Lionel Ritchie, Elvis Costello, and bands defend free speech and political Blondie, Green Day and Pearl Jam, expression, we’re calling on campaigns said. — AFP to get permission before using music at political events,” it added.

OYAC’s chairperson, Farea Al- stances to produce the song. “We faced posed the music and sent it to distribu- Saqqaf recently expressed her many challenges while producing the tor, Al-saidawi who did his part and sent Lgreat joy on the production of a song and could not shoot a video clip the song to Al-Mesbah without meeting new song written by the great poet, thus we opted to archive photos from once”, he explained noting that this was Waddah, the music composed by KTV and ATV channels”, she explained the most bizarre experience for him. Abdullah Al-Qa’oud, distributed by expressing gratitude to both channels Distributor, Al-saidawi also expressed Rabea’ Al-Saidawi and sung by Abdul and Kuwait Sheraton Hotel. his pride with the experience as well as Aziz Al-Mesbah under the title of ‘Ya On his part, music composer cooperation with the production team Hamam’(Oh, pigeons). Abdullah Al-Qa’oud stressed that he and Al-saqqaf. Young singer, Abdul Al-Saqqaf stressed that the artists was overwhelmed when LAPA offered Aziz Al-Mesbah also expressed joy for In this file photo English singer, songwriter and actor Mick Jagger arrives for the screening of responded and communicated with the project and found the song lyrics cooperating with the group. the film “The Burnt Orange Heresy” during the closing night of the 76th at LOYAC despite COVID-19 circum- extraordinary. “Due to COVID-19, I com- Venice Lido. — AFP

he Virgin Galactic spaceship that will cabin, which will have seats for six pas- is close to a large oval-shaped porthole, et standing out against a jet black sky. The spacecraft will be taken up by a someday carry very moneyed sengers and a two-member crew, will and a camera is attached to each window So far, 600 people who have paid up special plane and released in high alti- Ttourists boasts windows and cam- feature 12 windows and 16 cameras. It is in such a way that passengers can be to $250,000 — Virgin Galactic calls them tude. Seconds later, the spaceship—part eras galore for easy selfies with planet designed to give the best possible view photographed with Earth behind them, “future astronauts”—have been waiting plane, part rocket—will ignite its engine Earth. The company, founded by British of our planet. with no need to take a selfie of their own. for years to take their seat on and blast upward with an acceleration of billionaire Richard Branson, provided a An AFP reporter made a remote tour of The travellers can unbuckle their seatbelts SpaceShipTwo. Its development has 3.5 g, meaning three and a half times virtual tour Tuesday of the inside of the the spacecraft with a virtual reality head- and float. Portholes in the ceiling will give been delayed by a devastating crash of that of Earth’s gravitational force. — AFP ship that will transport people willing to set provided by the company. Each seat them a spectacular view of the blue plan- the first one in 2014 due to a pilot error. pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a brief taste of being at the edge of space. Besides all the windows and cam- eras, the craft will have a mirror in the back of the cabin so people can admire themselves. There is no firm date for the first com- mercial flight and the company has repeatedly pushed it back, but execu- tives said recently it is a question of months and not years away. Several test flights must still be made before Branson himself steps aboard. The inside of the Images courtesy of Virgin Galactic show the Virgin Galactic spaceship cabin design and seats.—AFP photos