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Saturday 26 September 2020
Holly Hunter suits up as U.S. prosecutor in 'The Comey Rule'

By LYNN ELBER real-life ones. That includes
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Holly King, whom she portrayed
Hunter has been entrusted in the 2001 TV movie "When
with playing an array of re- Billie Beat Bobby," about
al-world women, from ten- the 1970s battle-of-the-sex-
nis great Billie Jean King to es tennis match between
a cheerleading mom gone King and Bobby Riggs (Ron
astray to her latest role, a Silver).
federal prosecutor caught Hunter received an Emmy
in the maw of politics. nod for the role and won
In Showtime's "The Comey the trophy for a pair of
Rule," the Oscar-winning other TV movies, 1993's
actor ("The Piano") was "The Positively True Adven-
cast as Sally Yates, whose tures of the Alleged Texas
decadeslong career im- Cheerleader-Murdering
ploded along with that of Mom" and 1989's "Roe vs.
FBI director James Comey Wade."
and others serving in the "In a way, the greatest
Trump administration. thing I got out of playing
For Hunter, the project's Billie was Billie as a friend,"
main draw was playing Hunter said. It also made
Yates, "who has enormous playing her more difficult,
integrity, and brought an "because I was afraid I was
incredible positive, ethical This image provided by Showtime shows Holly Hunter, left, as Sally Yates and Jeff Daniels as James going to completely screw
energy and intellect to the Comey in a scene from "The Comey Rule." Hunter plays former federal prosecutor Sally Yates in her up."
Justice Department," she Showtime’s two-part drama, debuting Sunday and Monday, Sept. 27 and 28. She is also "steadfast
said. The two-part drama Associated Press friends" with Susan Zirinsky,
debuts 9 p.m. EDT Sunday the inspiration for the driven
and Monday. paign and the election of Daniels, and Brendan older Black woman whose TV news producer in 1987's
In Yates' 2017 Congressio- Donald Trump, her respect Gleeson's Trump occupy land was at risk of being "Broadcast News." Hunter
nal testimony on Russian grew — even more so after center stage in the drama taken. said she and the journalist,
election interference, she meeting her fellow native from writer-director-pro- "I had never tried a case who was an associate pro-
came across as poised and Georgian. ducer Billy Ray, an Oscar- before. I didn't even know ducer on the film, became
exacting, befitting a lawyer "She's got a great sense of nominated screenwriter for where to stand. ... But that close after it was made.
who reached the level of humor. She's very, very real, "Captain Phillips" and "Shat- jury did right," Yates tells a "I was at such a different
deputy U.S. attorney gen- very down-to-earth," Hunt- tered Glass." Ray adapted young aide. "You remem- place in my career, which
eral (and, for 10 days, act- er said. "She's an enormous- Comey's book, "A Higher ber that, next time some- is to say at the beginning,"
ing attorney general, until ly optimistic woman. ... I Loyalty," supplemented by body tells you this country Hunter recalled. "I wasn't
she was fired after refusing think that there are a lot of interviews. can't be its best self or the worried about offending
to enforce a travel ban on people in government who Yates, who is briefly men- law doesn't matter." Susan or not bringing Su-
Muslims). are incredibly optimistic tioned in Comey's account, Actors can become at- san to life. I was just worried
As Hunter became more and have real hopes, real gets her say here. In one tached to the fictional about myself. I was worried
versed in Yates' role in dreams about things that scene, she recalls her work characters they play, but about, like, 'Wow, am I ac-
events surrounding the they want to accomplish." on a lawsuit in which an Hunter has developed tually going to be able to
2016 presidential cam- Comey, played by Jeff all-white jury found for an bonds with some of the do this?'"q

Nobel laureate refuses local honor over Poland's LGBT 'rift'

zenship from the region game," said Tokarczuk, the southwestern city of Wro-
of Poland where she lives winner of the 2018 Nobel claw, explained her rea-
because she would have Prize in literature and a vo- sons behind declining the
had to share the honor with cal supporter of lesbian, honor.
a Roman Catholic bish- gay, bisexual and trans- "Instead of being a joyous
op who has made hostile gender people. celebration of a sense of
comments about the LGBT Dec has repeatedly de- community, it is a vivid illus-
community. scribed the LGBT rights tration of the painful rift in
Tokarczuk said in a tweet movement as a threat to our society," she said. q
Friday that while she appre- the Catholic Church and to Solution Sudoku
ciated being considered, Poland, which is predomi-
she "sadly" couldn't accept nantly Catholic.
Lower Silesia's honorary Local councilors linked to
citizenship. She said that Poland's centrist opposi-
receiving it at the same tion Civic Coalition party
time as Bishop Ignacy Dec nominated Tokarczuk as
In this Friday, Oct. 11, 2019 file photo, Polish writer and Nobel
Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk reacts to the media during a press would highlight the "pain- a honorary citizen, while
conference in Duesseldorf, Germany. ful rift" in Poland over LGBT members of the right-wing
Associated Press rights. Law and Justice party that
"I do not want to become governs the country rec-
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Olga Tokarczuk has de- an object of such actions ommended Dec.
Nobel Prize-winning writer clined an honorary citi- and an element in this Tokarczuk, who lives in the
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