Oprah Winfrey and several folks from "Selma," the movie she is producing, dined with a dear friend in Buckhead over the weekend. Art Smith, Winfrey's former personal chef, is now running things at Southern Art at the InterContinental hotel, so what better place for the "Selma" team to break bread?
"Thanks, Art! Everything was yummy," posted "Selma" director Ava DuVernay with a photo of herself, the chef and "Selma" star David Oyelowo, who plays the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the movie about King's marches from Selma to Montgomery.
"Selma" filmed last week at the Georgia State Capitol building and has previously filmed at metro Atlanta locations including the Marietta-Cobb Museum of Art. In addition to producing, Winfrey plays Annie Lee Cooper, "an elderly woman and visible leader amongst the civil rights protesters in Selma who tried to register to vote and was unfairly denied by the sheriff," according to Paramount. The movie will have a limited U.S. release on Christmas Day and will open everywhere on Jan. 9.
Gary Oldman joins celebrity apology tour
Gary Oldman is the latest star with Atlanta ties to say something, then think better of it and apologize.
Known for a wide range of roles including Sirius Black in "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," Commissioner Gordon in "The Dark Knight" and "The Dark Knight Rises" and Sid Vicious in "Sid and Nancy," Oldman blasts what he describes as politically correct Hollywood in a long (and often profane) interview in the current issue of Playboy.
Oldman, who was in Atlanta for the 2012 movie "Lawless," in which he played Floyd Banner, is catching heat for some of his comments including those sort of, kind of taking up for Mel Gibson, saying he "got drunk and said a few things," along with hothead Alec Baldwin. (A quick Google search easily yields their various lunatic rants.)
Now Oldman says he’s “deeply remorseful” about some of the things he said, which makes him just the latest celebrity to shoot from the lip first, and ask for forgiveness later.
Actor Jonah Hill, who appeared in the locally shot sci-fi bromantic comedy "The Watch," recently apologized for hurling a gay slur at an aggressive photographer; Justin Bieber, who calls Atlanta his "second home," apologized after videos from years ago surfaced showing him first telling a racist joke and then singing a racist song. "Happy" singer Pharrell Williams, whose hit song was mixed here, noted his Native American heritage in a 2010 interview with Oprah Winfrey's magazine but recently said he was sorry for wearing a Native American headdress on the July cover of Elle UK.
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