DuVernay, company to be honored
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay will be honored next month by MacDowell, which is presenting its inaugural Marian MacDowell Arts Advocacy Award to her media company and arts collective ARRAY.
The award is named for the co-founder of MacDowell, the artist residency in New Hampshire where James Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein and many others have been visiting fellows. DuVernay, known for such movies as “Selma” and “13th,” founded ARRAY in 2012 as a way of amplifying the work of women and people of color.
“I am touched that our narrative change collective ARRAY, which is built upon a mission to articulate and amplify stories from the widest range of art makers, is being honored in Ms. MacDowell’s name,” DuVernay said in a statement. “I look forward to cultivating a partnership between ARRAY and MacDowell to enable more artists of color, specifically women, to be a part of the residency program in coming years.”
Teigen hospitalized halfway through pregnancy:
Chrissy Teigen has been hospitalized for excessive bleeding while pregnant with her and husband John Legend’s third child.
On Sunday, the model and cookbook author offered an update from her hospital bed on her health, explaining on Instagram that she has been on “super serious” bed rest for the last few weeks.
Teigen added that the experience has been “so weird” because she has been feeling “really good” and the baby is “so strong,” despite her placenta being “really, really weak.” As such, she asked people to stop worrying, insisting
that she doesn’t share pregnancy updates to receive pity messages.
Phoenix, Mara reportedly name baby after brother:
Joaquin Phoenix and fiancée Rooney Mara reportedly have welcomed their first child — a boy named after the actor’s late brother, River Phoenix.
However, the private actors weren’t the ones to reveal the news. It was Russian filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky who spilled the beans this weekend while promoting his film “Gunda” at the Zurich
Film Festival.
Reps for Joaquin Phoenix and Mara did not immediately respond to requests for confirmation.
Phoenix, 45, and Mara, 35, met in 2013 and reportedly were engaged last year. River is the first child for each of them.
BTS announces new album release:
K-pop stars BTS will drop their fifth full-length album, “BE
(Deluxe Edition),” on
Nov. 20, the band’s label, Big Hit Entertainment, said Sunday.
BTS contributed to the album’s concept, composition and design so it “contains the most ‘BTS’ music,” read the announcement. “It is an album that conveys consolation to fans and the world, starting with the story of BTS. I hope you discover the traces of BTS’ thoughts, emotions and worries throughout the album while also experiencing a richer musical spectrum.”
Sept. 29 birthdays: Singer Jerry Lee Lewis is 85. Actor Ian McShane is 78. TV personality Bryant Gumbel is 72. Comedian Andrew “Dice” Clay is 63. Singer-bassist Les Claypool is 57. Singer Devante Swing is 51. Actor Zachary Levi is 40. Actor Chrissy Metz is 40. Actor Kelly McCreary is 39. Singer Phillip Phillips is 30. Singer Halsey is 26.