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Billy Bush says he’s ready to get back into television

NEW YORK (AP) — Former been hired as co-host of
“Today” co-host Billy Bush the “Today” show, lost
says he’s a better man his job. He said he went
and ready to get back into through a lot of soul search-
television seven months ing and spent seven days
after being fired following on a spiritual retreat with
the release of a videotape no phones. He reads, med-
in which he can be heard itates and is doing yoga.
engaging in lewd talk with “I have changed in a way
Donald Trump. that I think will make me
In an interview posted better at my job,” Bush
Sunday, Bush told The Hol- said. “I’ve come out of this
lywood Reporter the past with a deeper understand-
months have “been a roll- ing of how women can
er coaster” that included connect to the feeling of
an apology to his three having to fight extra hard
daughters. for an even playing field.”
Bush said his then 15-year- The 2005 video shows
old daughter, Mary, called Trump, who was the star
him in tears from her board- of “The Apprentice,” riding
ing school when the news on an “Access Hollywood”
broke, and asked him why bus with then-host Bush.
he could be heard laugh- In this Sept. 19, 2014 file photo, Billy Bush arrives at the Operation Smile’s 2014 Smile Gala in Bev- At one point, Trump de-
ing at the things Trump was erly Hills, Calif. scribes trying to have sex
saying on the old tape. Associated Press with a married woman. He
“It hit really hard, and I The 2005 tapes featuring demnation from politicians tion” from a decade ago. also brags about women
stopped for a second, and Trump’s shockingly vulgar on both side of the aisle. He later said that he never letting him kiss and grab
I said, ‘I have no answer for and sexually charged com- In a videotaped apology, did any of the actions de- them because he is fa-
that that’s any good. I am ments emerged a month Trump declared he was scribed on the tape, and mous.
really sorry. That was Dad in before the November elec- wrong but also dismissed dismissed his words as lock- “When you’re a star they
a bad moment a long time tions, rocking Trump’s cam- the revelations as “noth- er room talk. let you do it,” Trump says.
ago,” Bush said. paign and prompting con- ing more than a distrac- Bush, who had recently “You can do anything.”q
Kristen Stewart dives into grief in Cannes directorial debut

JAKE COYLE award for the Cannes entry vors discovery over heavily
AP Film Writer “The Clouds of Sils Maria”) scripted control.
CANNES, France (AP) — a performer of twitchy, “The worst is when direct-
Kristen Stewart’s directing alive sensitivity. ing becomes correcting,”
ambitions go all the way “I am so sensitive it drives she says. “It’s like: ‘Do it all
back to when she was an me crazy,” says Stewart. yourself then. Why are you
11-year-old performing “It’s funny (that) the first even making movies?’ I
in the 2002 David Fincher movie I wanted to make don’t want packaged and
thriller “Panic Room.” was basically just a movie delivered ideas.”
“I was working with Jodie about somebody who is “Come Swim,” abstract
Foster and I was like, ‘I’m like, ‘You don’t get it! It’s and impressionistic, is cer-
going to direct. I’m going horrible!’” tainly not that. For an ac-
to be the youngest direc- Cannes has been an espe- tress who remains a con-
tor that like exists,’” Stewart Actress Kristen Stewart poses for photographers upon arrival at cially meaningful place for siderable box-office draw,
recalled in an interview at the screening of the film 120 Beats Per Minute at the 70th inter- Stewart, having come here her film is little concerned
the Cannes Film Festival. national film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May with her two Olivier Assayas with matching audience
It took longer than Stewart 20, 2017. Associated Press. collaborations, “Personal expectations.Right now,
expected, but she has now Shopper” and “Clouds of she’s trying to carve our
made a short film titled to learn.” you’re trudging through Sils Maria,” and the Jack more time for directing —
“Come Swim” that, after “Come Swim,” which will that water, you feel so Kerouac adaptation “On a challenge for a perform-
debuting at Sundance, she later debut on the wom- alone,” Stewart says on a the Road.”Still, coming er drawn to independent
has brought to Cannes. en’s website Refinery 29, balcony overlooking the to Cannes as a director productions.“I mean I love
It announces her filmmak- isn’t your standard actor- Cannes coastline. “We’ve is what most filmmakers acting too, though. Like
ing ambitions and opens made directorial debut. It’s all been there. But when dream of.“Oh my God, I’m I don’t want to trade one
a new chapter in the a 17-minute metaphorical you’re in it, you feel like you like tripping out. It’s crazy. I for the other. But acting in
fast-moving career of the rendering of a feeling, of can’t participate in life.” mean honestly, I think Thi- movies is so time consum-
27-year-old actress. Stew- the overwhelming oppres- In many ways, “Come erry (Fremaux, festival di- ing that I need to sort of
art is already developing sion of heartbreak and Swim” reflects something rector), is being nice to me be like, ‘No.’ I need to sort
several other projects and grief. A man is submerged, essential about Stewart: or something,” says Stew- of allow myself to not be
plans to turn “Come Swim” literally, by water every- she is hyper alert to her sur- art. “He’s just like, ‘OK you greedy or something,” says
into a feature-length film. where. roundings and her emo- can show your little movie Stewart.Making “Come
When she told Foster she Stewart describes the film tions. It’s a quality that has here.’I’m like, ‘Thank you!’” Swim,” she says, is the most
was finally making some- as about “aggrandized probably helped make her, Getting behind the cam- fun she’s had on a set.
thing, Stewart says, “She pain” and says its imagery in the eyes of many (par- era was also a way for “I look at it and it’s its own
was like, ‘Dude, the first has haunted her for four ticularly the French, who Stewart to be the kind of thing and it’s like, ‘I’m so
thing you’re going to real- years. made her the first Ameri- director she herself ap- proud of it,’” says Stewart.
ize is that you have nothing “You don’t realize when can actress to win a Cesar preciates — one that fa- q