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Tuesday 10 November 2015

Caitlyn Jenner, Reese Witherspoon honored at Glamour Awards

and the victorious U.S. roles as way to fight the an earlier this year. Her
women’s soccer team. gender gap in Hollywood. docuseries, “I Am Cait,”
This year is the 25th anniver- The company’s “Wild” and was just picked up by E! for
sary of the awards, and for- “Gone Girl” earned Oscar a second season.
mer honorees Madeleine nominations for Wither- Beckham gained fame as
Albright, Serena Williams spoon, Laura Dern and Ro- a Spice Girl, but has since
and Billie Jean King were samund Pike. become a highly respect-
among those scheduled Copeland became the first ed fashion designer.
to be on hand for the fes- female African-American The U.S. women’s soccer
tivities. Amy Schumer was principal at American Bal- team handily defeated Ja-
scheduled to open the let Theatre in June. pan to win the 2015 World
ceremony, and Jennifer Jenner, a former Olym- Cup in July, and was re-
Hudson and Ellie Goulding pic hero and Kardashian- cently welcomed at the
to perform. Jenner family reality star, White House by President
Jenner is not the first trans- came out as a trans wom- Barack Obama.q
gender woman to be a
In this July 15, 2015 file photo, Caitlyn Jenner accepts the Glamour Woman of the
Arthur Ashe award for courage at the ESPY Awards at the Year; last year, actress La-
Microsoft Theater, in Los Angeles. verne Cox was honored.
Still, Jenner’s inclusion
Associated Press sparked some backlash
on social media. “We pre-
JOCELYN NOVECK tan mixes high-wattage fer to focus on the posi-
tive,” Jenner said through
AP National Writer celebrities with lesser a spokesman ahead of the
announcement.
NEW YORK (AP) — Caitlyn known names, and this Cindi Leive, Glamour’s ed-
itor-in-chief, told The Asso-
Jenner, undoubtedly one year, the award winners in- ciated Press that criticism
of the most talked-about clude five women touched of Jenner’s inclusion “cer-
women in the world, is by the South Carolina tainly gives you an appre-
ciation for the hostility to
being honored as one church massacre — Alana the trans community that
still exists out there.”
of Glamour magazine’s Simmons, Nadine Collier, Among the achievements
Women of the Year on Bethane Middleton-Brown, of some of this year’s hon-
Monday in a glittery cer- Felicia Sanders and Polly orees:
Witherspoon co-founded
emony along with fellow Sheppard — and lauded a production company,
Pacific Standard, which
honorees like actress Re- in the aftermath as “The aims to make films featur-
ing strong female lead
ese Witherspoon, dancer Peacemakers of Charles-
Misty Copeland and de- ton.” Also to be honored:
signer Victoria Beckham. Entrepreneur Elizabeth

The annual ceremony at Holmes, Planned Parent-

Carnegie Hall in Manhat- hoood’s Cecile Richards

Philip Seymour Hoffman’s brother,
mother honored at festival

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — In this Jan. 19, 2014, file photo, Philip Seymour Hoffman poses
The brother and mother for a portrait at The Collective and Gibson Lounge Powered by
of Philip Seymour Hoffman CEG, during the Sundance Film Festival, in Park City, Utah.
have been honored at a
film festival in the late ac- Associated Press
tor’s family’s western New
York hometown. dedication embodies the Philip Seymour Hoffman
The High Falls Film Festival city’s film legacy. died of a drug overdose
in Rochester opened Sun- Gordy and Philip credited in 2014. The film festival re-
day with the hometown their mother with inspiring sumes Thursday and runs
premiere of “Dog Bowl,” their passion for movies. through Nov. 16.q
a short film written and di-
rected by Gordy Hoffman,
who grew up in suburban
Fairport and now lives in
Los Angeles.
Festival officials presented
Philip and Gordy’s moth-
er, Marilyn O’Connor, with
the Rochester Film Legacy
Award. The award honors
a filmmaker or supporter
based in the Rochester
area whose passion and