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PEOPLE & ARTSFriday 11 December 2015 Matt Damon will
give speech at MIT
Streisand upstaged by Katzenberg at breakfast event commencement
SANDY COHEN Nanci Ryder, left, and Jeffrey Katzenberg attend the The Holly- The audience was cried CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) —
AP Entertainment Writer wood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Breakfast at Milk Stu- out by the time Streisand Matt Damon shot to fame
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bar- dios on Dec. 9, 2015, in Los Angeles. took the stage to accept in the 1997 movie “Good
bra Streisand was the (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP) the Sherry Lansing Leader- Will Hunting” as a gifted
guest of honor at the annu- ship Award, saying she’s janitor at the Massachu-
al Women in Entertainment les with female Hollywood full academic scholarships angry that women are setts Institute of Technol-
breakfast Wednesday, but executives for a year of to Loyola Marymount Uni- still so underrepresented ogy. Now, he has been
it was Hollywood publicist mentoring. versity, inspiring another in Hollywood, politics and selected to deliver the uni-
Nanci Ryder and studio Singer Meghan Trainor an- round of tears in the room. medical research. versity’s 2016 commence-
chief Jeffrey Katzenberg nounced at Wednesday’s “I never thought I would “Gender discrimination ment address. MIT an-
who moved the audience breakfast that three of get to go to college,” one drives me crazy,” Strei- nounced Thursday that the
most. those girls would receive honoree said through sobs. sand said. “Women are still Academy Award-winning
Ryder, who was diagnosed treated as second-class actor, filmmaker, social ac-
with Lou Gehrig’s disease citizens in the workplace tivist and Cambridge na-
last year, appeared with and equal representation tive will address graduates
Katzenberg at the industry in Congress.” on June 3. Damon said in
event. Because she can One area where women a statement that it’s an
no longer speak, he read outpace men is in death honor to be named com-
a statement she had writ- from heart disease, she mencement speaker “at a
ten, and as he did, Ryder said. Streisand endowed school that I couldn’t have
wailed and dabbed her her namesake Women’s gotten into.” MIT President
eyes with Kleenex. By the Heart Center at Cedars- L. Rafael Reif says Damon
time he finished the state- Sinai in 2012 to conduct re- has “made us think about
ment, he was crying, too, search and develop treat- our world in new ways, and
as were most of the guests ments specifically for wom- through his service, he has
at Milk Studios, where the en’s cardiac conditions. made it a better place.”
breakfast was held. “In the last 55 years, al- Anish Punjabi, president
“I aspire to be half the per- most all research has been of MIT’s Class of 2016, says
son you are,” Katzenberg done on men,” she said. Damon is an inspiration to
told Ryder through tears. “Gender inequality even students who teaches that
In her statement, Ry- extends to mice in the labs: the world needs more well-
der urged the entertain- They’re all male! So even rounded leaders.
ment powerhouses at the female mice are discrimi-
Hollywood Reporter’s an- nated against.” Actor Kirk Douglas
nual Power 100 breakfast Like Ryder, Streisand en- donates $15 million
to work together to create couraged the powerful toward care center
gender equity in the indus- people in the room, in-
try. cluding the young women LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor
“I wish my disease were receiving college scholar- Kirk Douglas and his wife
as easy to fix as this,” she ships, to unite and speak have donated $15 million
wrote. up for gender equality. toward a Motion Picture
Beyond its annual Power “Our instinct for love and Television Fund campus in
100 list of the most influen- compassion is something Woodland Hills, California,
tial women in Hollywood, that this world, this cha- to help build a care cen-
the Hollywood Report- otic world, needs more ter for Hollywood industry
er’s Women in Entertain- than ever,” Streisand said. members suffering from
ment initiative includes “Speak up until women Alzheimer’s disease. The
a mentorship program, are treated equally by the Los Angeles Daily News
which pairs girls in under- people who pay us, by the reports that the center will
served areas of Los Ange- people who heal us, and be named after Douglas
and is expected to cost
Joan Collins says Christmas bittersweet without Jackie $35 million in total. Officials
announced Wednesday
LEANNE ITALIE ones for the holidays. professional front. ing some of her “Dynasty” — Douglas’s 99th birthday
Associated Press “We were three siblings. She has a recurring role as dresses, elegant furniture — that his gift will kick the
NEW YORK (AP) — Christ- We used to call ourselves the sassy Grand Duchess and jewelry. design and planning of
mas will be bittersweet for the Three Musketeers,” Alexandra of Oxford on The sale will be held Dec. the new facility into high
Dame Joan Collins coming Collins said. “Her children E!’s over-the-top “The Roy- 16 by the Beverly Hills, Cali- gear. Douglas was born Is-
so soon after the death of are wonderful and we’re als.” The author of numer- fornia, house Julien’s Auc- sur Danielovitch in 1916 in
her sister, Jackie. all going to be together in ous books, Collins released tions. Amsterdam, New York. He
“I’m still missing my sister a London for Christmas hav- “The St. Tropez Lonely “I’m very into clothes, I’m changed his name to Kirk
lot,” she said, her voice soft- ing the traditional family Hearts Club” in November. very into fashion and I nev- Douglas as he started his
ening during an interview Christmas with the turkey It’s a satirical murder-mys- er buy anything unless I re- acting career. The cleft-
this week. “Her children and the cake and the pres- tery novel that unfolds dur- ally, really love it so it’s al- chin leading man went on
and her grandchildren miss ents. It won’t be the same ing high season among the ways a little difficult for me to receive three Academy
her terribly, as does our without Jackie, but we’re rich and richer on the Côte to get rid of things,” Collins Award nominations and
brother, Bill.” gonna do it.” d’Azur. said. “But you can’t hang starred in such Hollywood
Jackie Collins lost her battle At 82, the “Dynasty” star And she’s been busy, too, on to things.” classics as “Spartacus”
with breast cancer Sept. 19 who built a badass reputa- in her closets. She’s put- Also included in the sale: and “Lust for Life.”q
at age 77. Older sister Joan tion on her vengeful Alexis ting about 450 personal Two love letters written to
will be with Jackie’s three Carrington Colby charac- and professional items on her by Warren Beatty in
children and other loved ter is as busy as ever on the the auction block, includ- 1960.q
