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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 29 July 2017
Tracy Morgan relishes post-crash

chance to be ‘better man’

By LYNN ELBER, Morgan said his brush with than me.” He indicated
AP Television Writer death had a profound ef- the physical effects of the
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — fect on him. That includes crash may not be entirely
Tracy Morgan has a ready the kind of sitcom he’s in the past, saying people
answer when asked about doing. In “The Last O.G.,” around him on set makes
getting a second chance Morgan plays an ex-con, sure he takes regular breaks
after his near-fatal crash Tray, who finds the life and during the workday.
three years ago. the Brooklyn, New York, “The Last O.G.” co-stars
“Thank God. That’s all I’ve neighborhood he left be- Haddish as Tray’s ex-girl- Tracy Morgan poses for a portrait while promoting “The Last
gotta say,” Morgan told a hind is gone. Morgan has friend, Shay, the mother O.G.” during the Television Critics Association Summer Press
TV critics’ meeting Thurs- surrounded himself with a of twins he didn’t know he Tour on Thursday, July 27, 2017, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
day, where he was promot- strong cast, including “Girls had. In the 15 years he was Associated Press
ing his new TBS comedy Trip” breakout star Tiffany imprisoned, Shay moved
“The Last O.G.” Haddish and Cedric the on, marrying a successful
In 2014, the former “30 Entertainer. Why didn’t he man (Ryan Gaul) who is
Rock” and “Saturday Night just go with a “Tracy Mor- helping raise the children.
Live” star suffered severe gan Show” that gave him Gaul’s character is white,
head trauma when a truck all the laughs? and Morgan said the sit-
slammed into the back of “Maybe I’m just a bet- com is deliberately inclu-
the limo van he was riding ter man since the acci- sive.
in. Comedian James Mc- dent. Maybe I’m just a New York is home to more
Nair, his friend and collabo- better man,” he said. “It than black people, and all
rator, was killed. ain’t about me. It’s bigger lives matter, he said.q

George Clooney threatens

prosecution over pics of baby twins

In this Feb. 24, 2017, file photo actor George Clooney and Amal Clooney arrive at the 42nd Cesar
Film Awards ceremony at Salle Pleyel in Paris.
Associated Press

By The Associated Press French magazine Voici raphers “scaled our fence,
George Clooney says pho- were taken at the Cloo- climbed our tree and ille-
tographers who captured neys’ residence in the Lom- gally took pictures of our
images of him and his bardy region of Italy. The infants inside our home.”
wife, human rights lawyer magazine claims the pho- He adds that the photog-
Amal Clooney, cradling tos are the first to be made raphers, the photo agency
their newborn twins will be public of twins Ella and Al- and the magazine will face
“prosecuted to the fullest exander, who were born prosecution because the
extent of the law.” June 6. safety of the couple’s chil-
The pictures published by The actor says the photog- dren “demands it.”q