Spielberg film wins top TIFF prize
Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical comingof-age drama “The Fabelmans” won the Toronto International Film Festival’s top prize, the People’s Choice Award, solidifying its early status as an Academy Awards front-runner.
Toronto’s audience award was announced Sunday as the film festival wrapped up its 47th edition. The event brought the world premieres of a number of anticipated crowd-pleasers, including the Viola Davis-led “The Woman King,” Rian Johnson’s “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” and Billy Eichner’s “Bros.”
Toronto’s audience award, voted on by festival moviegoers, is a muchwatched harbinger of the coming awards season. Each of the last 10 years, the TIFF winner has gone on to be nominated for best picture at the Oscars — and often won it.
This year, no film came into the festival more anticipated than “The Fabelmans,” Spielberg’s memory-infused film about his childhood that Universal Pictures will release Nov. 11. Michelle Williams and Paul Dano play the parents in the film, with newcomer Gabriel LaBelle as teenage Spielberg, Sammy Fabelman.
The first runner-up to the prize was Sarah Polley’s “Woman Talking,” about the female members of a Mennonite colony gathered to discuss years of sexual abuse. The second runner-up went to Johnson’s “Glass Onion,” the director’s whodunit sequel for Netflix.
Tupper disputes Heche’s son’s claim to estate:
Anne Heche’s ex-boyfriend James Tupper filed court documents Thursday in Los Angeles in which he claimed he is the rightful executor of the late actor’s
estate. The filing comes after Heche’s son Homer Laffoon, 20, filed a petition in August to be named administrator of Heche’s estate, saying the actor died without a will.
But Tupper claims in the filing that Heche did have a will in which she named him executor and that she emailed it to him in 2011.
According to the document, Tupper said Laffoon was “not suitable for appointment as personal representative of this estate” and that the person in charge of the estate should be “someone with more experience and sophistication.”
While Tupper isn’t opposed to personally handling the estate, he says his first choice is to hire a neutral, third-party professional fiduciary to manage it.
Actor Silva dies: Henry Silva, a prolific character actor best known for playing villains and tough guys,
has died at age 95. Silva’s son Scott Silva said his father died Wednesday of natural causes.
Henry Silva had a long and busy career in film and television, with hundreds of credits before retiring from acting in 2001. He had a breakthrough role on stage and screen in the 1950s as a drug dealer in “A Hatful of Rain,” and supporting parts in two of Frank Sinatra’s best known movies, both from the early 1960s: the Las Vegas heist film “Ocean’s Eleven” and the Cold War thriller “The Manchurian Candidate.”
Sept. 20 birthdays: Actor Sophia Loren is 88. Bassist Chuck Panozzo is 74. Guitarist Peter White is
68. Actor Betsy Brantley is
67. Actor Gary Cole is 66. Actor Kristen Johnston is
55. Actor Moon Bloodgood is 47. Actor Enuka Okuma is 46. Actor Jon Bernthal is
46. Actor Crystle Stewart is
41. Actor Aldis Hodge is 36. Actor Malachi Kirby is 33.