Actor Tom Hanks is on the beat, flagging car for police
NEW YORK » Actor Tom Hanks is on the beat in New York City, using Twitter to alert police to a car with a slew of tickets on its windshield.
Turns out were paid.
The Daily News reports that the New York Police Department responded when the Academy Award winning star of “Philadelphia,” “Forrest Gump” and “Sully” on Saturday tweeted: “Sir? Move. Your. Car! Hanx.” He also posted a picture of the burgundy sedan with at least a half dozen tickets bulging from beneath windshield wipers at East 79th Street and Park Avenue.
A police official returned the tweet, requesting the car’s location. The newspaper says police believe the car’s owner likely paid the tickets online. The car’s owner eventually moved it. the tickets
Cast member Vanessa Bayer leaving ‘SNL’
NEW YORK » “Saturday Night Live” is losing cast member Vanessa Bayer following this season finale.
Bayer is finishing her seventh season with NBC’s comedy institution, and her memorable impressions include Miley Cyrus, Rachel from “Friends” and Jonah the Bar Mitzvah Boy. She’s been with the show longer than any other female cast member.
Bayer, who’s acted in movies recently including “Trainwreck,” announced her departure on Instagram Saturday. She said her tenure has been a dream come true.
Another veteran cast member, Bobby Moynihan, is leaving for a role on a CBS sitcom. weekend’s
‘Deadliest Catch’ star pleads not guilty in Uber incident
SEATTLE » Celebrity crabboat captain Sig Hansen has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges that he spit on an Uber driver last week in Seattle.
The Seattle Times reports that the 51-year-old “Deadliest Catch” star entered the pleas in Seattle Municipal Court on Saturday to charges of assault and property destruction. He’s been accused of spitting on the driver and denting the car after learning he couldn’t pay cash for his family’s ride home.
Hansen had been celebrating Norway’s Constitution Day in Seattle’s historically Scandinavian neighborhood, Ballard, before the incident.
As he left the court hearing, Hansen said he feels terrible and embarrassed about what happened.
Magistrate Park Eng ordered him to abstain from alcohol and drugs.
Winfrey extols life of ‘inner truth’ at Skidmore graduation
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. » Oprah Winfrey advised graduates at Skidmore College to follow their “inner truth” and live a spiritual life during a commencement speech Saturday in upstate New York.
The author, actress and former talk show host spoke at the graduation in Saratoga Springs, where one of the more than 600 members of the Class of 2017 included a student who had attended her Leadership Academy.
The media mogul opened the academy in 2007 for poor girls in South Africa.
Winfrey is speaking at another commencement Sunday at Smith College, a women’s liberal arts school in Northampton, Massachusetts. Another one of her Leadership Academy alumna will be receiving a degree there.
After receiving an honorary doctorate of letters in the arts from the private liberal arts college during the ceremony held at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Winfrey lectured graduates on some of the secrets to her success.
“I have been so blessed to live inside the dream of God,” she said, noting that she has learned to follow her “inner truth” in career decisions going back more than three decades.
“It’s a big, bad world out there,” she advised, but encouraged the graduates by adding: “There is nothing more powerful than you using your personality to serve the calling of yourself.”
Alleged bomb scare briefly delays Cannes film screening
CANNES, FRANCE » A bomb scare has caused the Cannes Film Festival to briefly evacuate the Debussy theater before the first screening of director Michel Hazanavicius’ movie “Redoubtable,” a film in competition for the Palme d’Or prize.
Those attending the screening Saturday night were ushered away from the theater in the French Riviera city. Journalists were later told that the suspicious item was found to be not dangerous. After a delay of about 30 minutes, the theater was opened.
The scare prompted several “bomb scare” jokes from critics who didn’t care for Hazanavicius’ last Cannes entry, the badly reviewed “The Search.”
France has been under a state of emergency since 2015, when extremist attacks in Paris left 130 people dead in one night in November.