Producer Paul Junger Witt dies
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A spokeswoman says producer Paul Winger Witt, whose credits included TV’s “Golden Girls” and the film “Dead Poets Society,” has died. He was 77.
Spokeswoman Pam Golum says Witt died at his Los Angeles area home Friday after battling cancer.
Witt’s long list of TV credits included “The Partridge Family,” ‘’Soap,” ‘’Benson,” ‘’Empty Nest” and the TV movie “Brian’s Song.”
He produced big-screen films including “Three Kings” and “Insomnia.”
Campaign unrolled for Cannes Festival
PARIS (AP) — Participants at the Cannes Film Festival will be given fliers warning “Proper Behavior Required” as part of an anti-sexual harassment campaign at the May 8-19 event.
The top women’s rights official for the French government announced Friday that she reached a deal with Cannes organizers for the campaign. It will include written warnings urging appropriate behavior and a hotline for victims and witnesses to report abuse.
Secretary of State for Women’s Affairs Marlene Schiappa noted that Cannes is one of the places where disgraced Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein allegedly raped and harassed women.
Image removed from photo contest
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Natural History Museum has disqualified a photograph from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition after concluding that the image of an anteater moving toward a termite mound at night involved at taxidermy specimen.
The photograph taken in Brazil’s Emas National Park won the “Animals in their Environment” category in 2017.
The museum says it had been contacted by anonymous sources who questioned the image’s authenticity. Experts compared the image to high-resolution pictures of a taxidermy anteater on display at one of the entrances to the Emas National Park and concluded the allegation was true.
Photographer Marcio Cabral strongly denies that the anteater in the image is a taxidermy. specimen.
The museum decided the image broke the rules of the competition requiring entrants not to deceive the viewer.
