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Alec Baldwin to be Charged with Manslaughter in Set Shooting, 2023

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SANTA FE, New Mexico — On Thursday, prosecutors said that actor Alec Baldwin and a weapons specialist would be charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a cinematographer on a film set in New Mexico. They will be charged with this because they had a “criminal disregard for safety.”

Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies put out a statement about the charges against Baldwin and Hannah Gutierrez Reed, who were in charge of weapons on the set of “Rust.”

Halyna Hutchins died on October 21, 2021, after being hurt during rehearsals at a ranch outside Santa Fe. Baldwin was pointing a gun at Hutchins when it went off, killing her and injuring the director, Joel Souza.

According to the district attorney’s office, assistant director David Halls, who handed the gun to Baldwin, has agreed to plead guilty to negligent use of a deadly weapon.

Involuntary manslaughter can mean that a person killed someone else while doing something legal but dangerous and acting carelessly or recklessly.

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Baldwin Set To Spend 18 Months In Prison

According to New Mexico law, the charge is a fourth-degree felony punishable by up to 18 months in prison and a $5,000 fine. Since the crime was done with a gun, the charges also include a clause that could lead to a five-year mandatory prison sentence.

According to Carmack-Altwies, charges will be filed by the end of January, and Baldwin and Gutierrez Reed will be summoned to appear in court. She said that prosecutors wouldn’t use a grand jury but instead would rely on a judge to decide if there was enough evidence to go to trial.

Andrea Reeb, the special prosecutor in the case, said there was a “pattern of criminal disregard for safety” on the movie set.

“If any of these three people — Hannah Gutierrez Reed or David Halls — had done their job, Halyna Hutchins would be alive today. “It’s as simple as that,” said Reeb, a newly sworn Republican state legislator.

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A ‘Miscarriage Of Justice’

Baldwin’s lawyer called the charges “a terrible miscarriage of justice.”

“There was no reason to believe there was a live bullet in the gun — or anywhere on the movie set,” the actor said. He believed the people he worked with, who told him that the gun didn’t have any live rounds. “We will fight these charges and win,” said Luke Nikas.

The lawyer for Gutierrez Reed said that the charges were based on “a very flawed investigation and a wrong understanding of the full facts.”

“We intend to bring the full truth to light and believe Hannah will be found not guilty by a jury,” Jason Bowles said.

Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza was responsible for the first investigation into Hutchins’ death. He said there was “a degree of neglect” on the film set. But after a year-long investigation, he gave the results to prosecutors in October and let them decide if criminal charges should be brought. The report did not say how live ammunition ended up on the set.

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Baldwin Just Wants To Clear His Name

Baldwin, best known for his roles in “30 Rock” and “The Hunt for Red October,” as well as his “Saturday Night Live” impression of former President Donald Trump, has called the killing a “tragic accident.”

He attempted to clear his name by suing the people who handled and supplied the loaded gun handed to him. Baldwin, who also worked on “Rust,” said he was told the gun was secure.

Baldwin said in his lawsuit that while he and Hutchins were rehearsing a scene, he pointed the gun at her, pulled back, and let the hammer go, which caused the gun to fire.

The New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator found that the shooting was an accident after they did an autopsy and looked at the police reports.

New Mexico’s Occupational Health and Safety Bureau fined Rust Movie Productions the maximum after hearing a long list of safety problems. One of the problems was that production managers didn’t do much or anything when blank ammunition went off twice on the set before the fatal shooting.

Rust Movie Productions is still arguing about why regulators gave them a $137,000 fine because production managers on the set didn’t follow standard safety rules for guns.

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Gun Safety Concerns Were Addressed On-set

Most of the investigation has focused on Gutierrez Reed, the armorer in charge of guns on the set and an outside ammunition supplier. Gutierrez Reed’s attorney claims she did not put a live round in the gun that killed Hutchins and believes she was the victim of sabotage. Authorities stated that they had found no evidence of this.

Investigators discovered 500 rounds of ammunition — a mix of blanks, dummy rounds, and what appeared to be live rounds — at the movie set on the outskirts of Santa Fe. According to industry experts, live rounds should never be used on set.

In April 2022, the Santa Fe Sheriff’s Department released many files, including a clip from Hutchins’s lapel camera showing him coming in and out of consciousness as a medical helicopter landed. The evidence also included interviews with witnesses, email threads, text conversations, lists of weapons, and hundreds of photos.

State workplace safety regulators stated that when “Rust” ceased filming, immediate gun-safety concerns were addressed and that new safety inspections would accompany a return to filming in New Mexico.

Hutchins’ family — widower Matthew Hutchins and son Andros — settled a lawsuit against producers in a deal that aims to restart filming with Matthew Hutchins as executive producer.

The death of Hutchins has changed how film crew unions and Hollywood producers talk about safety provisions in contracts. It has also caused other filmmakers to use computer-generated images of gunfire instead of real guns with blank ammunition to reduce risks.

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Jason Kelce Smashes Football Fan’s Phone

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Retired Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce destroyed a Penn State football fan’s phone after the alleged heckler called his brother, Travis Kelce, a fag.

In now-viral footage published on X (previously Twitter) on Saturday, Nov. 2, the retired Philadelphia Eagles great was seen accompanied by football fans outside Beaver Stadium in State College, Pa., for the Penn State-Ohio State game.

As the individual capturing the tape lifted a fist to Jason, 36, and called his name for a fist bump, another man nearby hurled the homophobic slur at the retired Philadelphia Eagles star.

Hey, Kelce. How does it feel that your brother is a queer dating Taylor Swift?” the man questioned, referring to Travis, 34, who has been seeing Swift since 2023. Jason turned around seconds later, snatched the man’s phone, and crushed it to the ground.

“Looked like a Penn State student was getting in Kelce’s face for no reason,” the original X user who submitted the video remarked. “Wild scene in State College.”

Additional footage on X shows Jason smashing the phone on asphalt before picking it up and walking away. The phone’s owner, wearing a Penn State hoodie at the time of the incident, was shown in many videos strolling closely behind Jason and recording him before the conflict occurred.

Another footage published on X, which appears to have been filmed after Jason shattered the man’s phone, showed the hooded Penn State supporter trudging through a mob to pick up his phone off the ground.

“Give me my phone, bro,” he seemed to say to Jason.

The NFL alum seized the gadget first, then stood in front of the man and asked, “Who’s the fag now?” Others appeared to interfere.

The incident occurred while Jason was at Beaver Stadium for an appearance on ESPN’s College GameDay. The Ohio State Buckeyes won Saturday’s game 20-13 over the Penn State Nittany Lions.

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Shaun White’s Proposal To Nina Dobrev Was Romantic Gold

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Shaun White, the Olympic snowboarding champion, already has an impressive medal tally, but his surprise proposal to Nina Dobrev deserves a gold medal.

On Wednesday, the couple announced their engagement on Instagram. Dobrev posted photographs of the two hugging under an arch of white roses and showing off her five-carat Lorraine Schwartz engagement ring.

“RIP boyfriend, hello fiancé,” Dobrev said in the caption.

However, the photographs only tell half the tale, as Shaun devised an elaborate plan to surprise Dobrev with his proposal.

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Shaun White’s Proposal To Nina Dobrev Was Romantic Gold

According to a Vogue interview published Wednesday, Shaun said he assembled a team of people from the couple’s inner circle and Vogue personnel to trick Dobrev into thinking she had been invited to an intimate dinner party with Anna Wintour.

White claimed that his publicist emailed Dobrev a forged invitation to the event, which was scheduled to take place at the Golden Swan in New York City.

Dobrev accepted the invitation, joking that Shaun made it “look so legitimate.”

He even asked Dobrev’s stylist to outfit her in Chanel for the event.

Dobrev said she recognized what was happening when she entered the venue and saw White standing beneath the flowery arch.

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Shaun’s Proposal To Nina Dobrev Was Romantic Gold

“I went into shock,” Dobrev admitted, later adding that White “said all the right things” before she agreed.

According to the publication, after Shaun proposed, the couple partied into the early morning hours with close friends and relatives.

“Best night of my life,” Shaun captioned his Instagram story on Wednesday.

The duo first became romantically involved in 2020, and they have since publicly recorded their relationship, globe vacations, and White’s Olympic farewell on social media.

SOURCE  | CNN

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Hollywood Actress Teri Garr Passes Away at 79

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Teri Garr, known for her roles in classics like "Young Frankenstein" and "Tootsie," has passed away at 79.

Hollywood actress Teri Garr, known for her roles in classics like “Young Frankenstein” and “Tootsie,” has passed away at 79. She died Tuesday of multiple sclerosis “surrounded by family and friends,” said publicist Heidi Schaeffer.

Admirers took to social media in her honor, with writer-director Paul Feig calling her “truly one of my comedy heroes. I couldn’t have loved her more” and screenwriter Cinco Paul saying: “Never the star, but always shining. She made everything she was in better.”

Throughout her career, the performer, often known as Terri, Terry, or Terry Ann, seemed destined for show business from a young age.

Her father was Eddie Garr, a well-known vaudeville comic, and her mother was Phyllis Lind, one of the original high-kicking Rockettes at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. Their daughter began dancing classes at six and was performing with the San Francisco and Los Angeles ballet companies by age fourteen.

She was 16 years old when she joined the road crew of “West Side Story” in Los Angeles, and she began starring in small roles in films as early as 1963.

In an interview from 1988, she described how she landed the role in “West Side Story.” After being rejected at her initial audition, she returned the following day dressed differently and was accepted.

Teri Garr, a comedian

Teri Garr then found steady work as a movie dancer, appearing in the chorus of nine Elvis Presley films, including “Viva Las Vegas,” “Roustabout,” and “Clambake.”

She has also appeared on various television shows, including “Star Trek,” “Dr. Kildare,” and “Batman,” and was a featured dancer on the rock ‘n’ roll music show “Shindig,” the rock concert performance “T.A.M.I.,” and a cast member of “The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour.”

Her breakthrough role was as Gene Hackman’s girlfriend in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 thriller The Conversation. This led to an interview with Mel Brooks, who offered her the Gene Wilder’s German lab assistant role in Young Frankenstein if she could speak with a German accent.

“Cher had this German woman, Renata, making wigs, so I got the accent from her,” Garr once said.

The film established her as a great comic performer, with New Yorker film writer Pauline Kael calling her “the funniest neurotic dizzy dame on screen.”

Her big smile and off-center appeal helped her land roles in “Oh, God!” with George Burns and John Denver, “Mr. Mom” (as Michael Keaton’s wife), and “Tootsie,” in which she played the girlfriend who loses Dustin Hoffman to Jessica Lange and discovers he has dressed up as a woman to revive his career.

 A gift for spontaneous humor

Teri Garr, best known for comedy, has shown in films such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Black Stallion, and The Escape Artist that she can also tackle drama.

She had a gift for spontaneous humor, frequently playing David Letterman’s foil during early guest appearances on N.B.C.’s “Late Night With David Letterman”.

Her appearances grew so frequent, and the pair’s good-natured bickering so convincing that rumors of romantic involvement circulated for a while. Years later, Letterman acknowledged those early appearances with helping the program become a success.

During those years, Garr began to experience “a little beeping or ticking” in her right leg. It started in 1983 and expanded to her right arm, but she thought she could handle it. By 1999, her symptoms had gotten so bad that she saw a doctor and was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

After disclosing her diagnosis, Garr became a spokesman for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, giving hilarious remarks at events in the United States and Canada.

Source: AP

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