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people & arts Friday 22 december 2017
Hollywood accusers named

AP Entertainers of the Year

By MARK KENNEDY TV figures, chefs, journalists, HBO and his new movie
AP Entertainment Writer entertainers, politicians and was abandoned just days
NEW YORK (AP) — Argu- publishers was also named before its premiere.
ably the biggest thing that the top news story of 2017 The accusations have re-
came from Hollywood this in an AP poll . The reckon- verberated into the kitch-
year wasn’t a movie or a TV ing began in early October ens of chef Mario Batali,
show. It had heroines and when a bombshell New at PBS, where Tavis Smiley
villains, but no script. And York Times article revealed was dropped, and at NPR,
it went viral despite having decades of sexual harass- which cut ties with Charlie
no big publicity machinery ment against women — Rose. It reached into the
behind it. employees and actresses, venerable New York’s Met-
The women who initially including actress Ashley ropolitan Opera, where
spoke out against sexual Judd — by movie mogul longtime conductor James
misconduct in Hollywood Harvey Weinstein. The New Levine was suspended, and
this fall — inspiring millions Yorker also revealed other the Def Jam empire, where
to tell their own stories of allegations against Wein- Russell Simmons stepped
harassment and illegality stein. down. The allegations also
on social media — have Within days, a #MeToo knocked a senator from This combination photo shows actresses listed in alphabetical
been named The Associat- movement was born and Congress, with Al Franken order, top row from left, Asia Argento, Rosanna Arquette, Jessica
ed Press Entertainers of the the allegations have been resigning. Barth, Cara Delevingne, Romola Garai, Judith Godreche,
Year, voted by members of felt at the venerable “To- Others who received votes Heather Graham, Angelina Jolie, Ashley Judd, Rose McGowan,
the news cooperative and day” show with the ouster this year for Entertainer of Lea Seydoux and Mira Sorvino, who have made allegations
AP entertainment report- of Matt Lauer to the film “All the Year were Jimmy Kim- against producer Harvey Weinstein.
ers. The wave of sexual mis- the Money in the World” mel, Gal Gadot, Kendrick Associated Press
conduct allegations that from which Kevin Spacey Lamar and Luis Fonsi and tainer of the Year winners Swift, Jennifer Lawrence,
have stretched across the was erased. Louis C.K. was Daddy Yankee, among have included Lin-Manuel Lady Gaga, Tina Fey and
country to fell prominent abandoned by Netflix, FX, others. Previous AP Enter- Miranda, Adele, Taylor Betty White.q
Avedon foundation criticizes new bio of photographer

By HILLEL ITALIE contradictions in them can
AP National Writer give you whiplash.”
NEW YORK (AP) — The The alleged errors range
publisher of a new Richard from the terms of an Ave-
Avedon biography says it don’s contract with Conde
will look into alleged inac- Nast in the 1960s to Stevens’
curacies raised by the late claim that she was “at his
photographer’s founda- side” when the photogra-
tion, but rejected calls to pher Avedon died in 2004.
withdraw the book. The foundation also alleges
Earlier this week, the Rich- that Stevens borrowed
ard Avedon Foundation is- material from a fictional-
sued a long list of “exagger- ized memoir Avedon had
ations and inaccuracies” worked on.
in “Avedon: Something “Stevens appears to be
Personal,” co-authored by lifting various stories out of
Steven M.L. Aronson and this fictional work, lightly
former foundation head editing and rewriting them,
and longtime Avedon col- and then presenting them
league Norma Stevens. as both her own work and
The foundation is asking as biographical fact,” the
that the Penguin Random foundation’s executive di-
House imprint Spiegel & rector, James Martin, said
Grau cease publication in a statement.
of the book, which came On Thursday, the publisher
out last month and draws said that it will correct any
upon interviews with many mistakes for future editions, In this Oct. 9, 2002 file photo, Richard Avedon poses in front of his self-portraits, part of the exhibit
of Avedon’s friends and as- but plans no other chang- “Richard Avedon: Portraits,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
sociates. es. Associated Press
“Everyone saw one side of “The book is an important traditional biography. those of over a hundred
him—but together the tes- and meaningful account As the flap copy says, that other people who knew
timonies of his assistants, by the person who was in the book is ‘equal parts him well and contributed
models and lovers add up a privileged position to ob- memoir, biography, and their own memories and
to a mosaic of the man,” serve and know Richard oral history.’ It consists in impressions. The story she
The New York Times wrote Avedon as well as anybody large measure of impres- tells recounts the tales he
in a Dec. 12 review. “The else and to reflect on him,” sions_those of his close told her in the almost thirty
snapshots are affection- the statement reads. “Fur- friend and business partner years she worked along-
ate and admiring, and the thermore, the book is not a Norma Stevens, as well as side him.”q