Gays hail Foster’s Globe speech

NEW YORK (AP) – Jodie Foster’s rambling, fascinating and intensely personal remarks at the Golden Globes were not merely the watercooler moment of the ceremony. They were a big moment for the gay community, and many advocates — though not all — were cheering her on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) for finally referring publicly to her sexual orientation, albeit in her own... 

Jodi Foster reveals she’s gay

BEVERLY HILLS, California (AP) – Jodie Foster came out without really coming out, and suggested she was retiring from acting without exactly saying so, in a long, breathless and rambling speech at Sunday night’s Golden Globe Awards.  Read More »

Lifetime achievement award for Foster

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Double-Oscar winner Jodie Foster will receive a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes ceremony in January, recognizing her 40-year career as an actress, director and movie producer, organizers said recently.  Read More »

Winslet finds delight in ‘Carnage’

WHEN Roman calls, Kate goes to work. Holidays can wait. That’s Roman, as in Polanski, and, Kate as in Winslet, whose new film “Carnage,“ a satirical comedy of manners that skewers overbearing parents, opens on Friday, one day after earning Winslet a Golden Globe nomination for acting. “I had planned not to work,“ Winslet told Reuters in a telephone interview. “But that... 

Sentencing delayed for Foster’s dad

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Scheduling issues have delayed the sentencing of Jodie Foster’s estranged father, who faces more than 25 years behind bars after being convicted of bilking more than $100,000 from the poor and elderly in a home-building scheme. City attorney’s spokesman Frank Mateljan says Lucius Foster will return to court Friday morning. The 89-year-old was convicted of 21 misdemeanor...