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PEOPLE & ARTS Friday 15 december 2017

In this Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015, file photo, Morgan Spurlock
attends an event at the SVA Theatre in New York.
Associated Press In this Aug. 10, 2017 file photo, Providence Municipal Court Judge Frank Caprio sits on the bench
in Providence, R.I.
Spurlock on sexual Associated Press

harassment: ‘I am Show about viral video judge

part of the problem’ gets national syndication deal

By MICHELLE R. SMITH parking meters. Clips from where he calls children
ATLANTA (AP) — Declaring assistant who worked at his Associated Press the show have had more to the bench to help pass
“I am part of the problem,” office and whom he called PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — than 1 billion views on so- judgment on their parents.
documentarian Morgan “hot pants” or “sex pants.” A TV show featuring an cial media. One shows him listening
Spurlock confessed in an In the post, Spurlock says 81-year-old municipal The judge said Wednes- sympathetically to a wom-
online post to sexual ha- he thought the nickname court judge in Rhode Island day he’s happy people will an whose son was killed
rassment and infidelity, and was funny but later realized who has made a splash on be able to see his city in a then dismisses her tickets
said a woman accused he was demeaning her. social media is going na- favorable light. He wants and fines of $400.
him of rape in college. “So, when she decided to tional. his new viewers to see the The judge will not be paid
In the post, which he linked quit, she came to me and The producers of the lo- good government can do, for the deal, he said. His
to from his verified Twitter said if I didn’t pay her a cal show “Caught in Provi- he said. brother, Joseph, runs City-
account, Spurlock wrote settlement, she would tell dence” have struck a deal “I hope that people will life Productions, which has
that as he watches other everyone,” he wrote. “Be- with FOX Television Stations take away that the institu- produced the show for
influential men brought ing who I was, it was the to air the show in major me- tions of government can more than two decades.
down by allegations of last thing I wanted, so of dia markets starting next function very well by ex- Joseph Caprio recently
sexual misconduct, “I don’t course, I paid.” fall, they announced this ercising kindness, fairness struck a deal with Debmar-
sit by and wonder ‘who will Spurlock also wrote that week. and compassion in their Mercury to co-produce
be next?’ I wonder, ‘when he has “been unfaithful to The show is filmed in the deliberations. We live in a the syndicated show. On
will they come for me?’” every wife and girlfriend I courtroom of Providence very contentious society,” Wednesday, he was cel-
Spurlock recounted a sex- have ever had.” Municipal Court Judge he said. “I would hope that ebrating his rise from de-
ual encounter in college “Over the years, I would Frank Caprio , who pre- people will see that we can cades of public access TV
which he said he thought look each of them in the sides with a folksy humor dispense justice without to a nationally syndicated
was consensual, but said eye and proclaim my love and compassion as people being oppressive.” show.
the woman believed it was and then have sex with dispute their tickets for red- Among his most popular “It’s unbelievable. It’s a
rape. other people behind their light running and expired videos have been those dream,” he said. q
“I tried to comfort her. To backs,” Spurlock wrote.
make her feel better,” Spurlock wrote that he will
Spurlock wrote. “I thought do better and will be more Oprah Winfrey to receive
I was doing ok, I believed honest with others and
believed she was raped. post by saying: “I’ve talked Cecil B. DeMille Award at Globes
she was feeling better. She with himself. He ends the
That’s why I’m part of the enough in my life. ... I’m fi-
problem.” nally ready to listen.” LOS ANGELES (AP) — admired figures today”
Spurlock also said he paid Spurlock is best known for Oprah Winfrey will receive and “one of the most influ-
a settlement to a female his Oscar-nominated 2004 the Cecil B. DeMille Award ential women of our time”
documentary “Super Size at January’s Golden in a statement Wednes-
Me” on the fast-food in- Globes. day.
dustry, in which he ate Morgan Freeman made The DeMille Award is given
nothing but McDonald’s the announcement for the annually to an “individual
food to show the health Hollywood Foreign Press As- who has made an incred-
effects of the industry. He sociation during its broad- ible impact on the world of
has produced dozens of cast of the “Golden Globe entertainment.”
other documentaries and 75th Anniversary Special” Winfrey will receive the In this Oct. 21, 2017 file photo,
TV shows and completed Wednesday on NBC. award during the 75th Oprah Winfrey arrives for the
a sequel to “Super Size Me” HFPA President Meher Tat- annual Golden Globe David Foster Foundation 30th
this year.q na called Winfrey “one of Awards ceremony on Jan. Anniversary Miracle Gala and
the most respected and 7, 2018.q Concert. Associated Press