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Actress Alex Borstein won the award for a best supporting actress in a comedy series during the 71 st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards Sunday. When accepting her award, however, she told a touching story about her grandmother’s bravery fighting the Nazis.
After a few quick jokes, Borstein announced that she was dedicating her award to the “strength of a woman.”
“To my mother… to my grandmother,” she said. “They are immigrants, they are Holocaust survivors. My grandmother turned to a guard. She was in line to be shot into a pit. She said, ‘What happens if I step out of line?’ And he said, ‘I don’t have the heart to shoot you but somebody will,’ and she stepped out of line. And for that, I am here and my children are here. So step out of line, ladies, step out of line. ”
Borstein’s character in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel ”is a kind of comic sherpa to lead Mrs. Maisel to stand-up stardom. While the show is set in the 1950 ‘s in a posh New York neighborhood and a traditional Jewish family.Borstein plays a feminist realistready to take on the male-dominated stand-up scene.
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Thomas Cook’s 178 – year existence was reported to be coming to an end on Monday after the British travel firm struggled to find private investment to keep it afloat, potentially affecting thousands of holidaymakers.
The operator has said it needs £ (million) $ 250 million) or else it will face administration, which could affect 600, 000 holidaymakers and require Britain’s largest peacetime repatriation.
A source close to the negotiations told AFP that the company had failed to find the cash from private investors and would collapse unle ss the government intervened.
But ministers are unlikely to step in due to worries about the pioneering operator’s longer-term viability, the Times reported, leaving it on the brink.
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In a powerful and passionate speech accepting his Emmy, “Pose” actor Billy Porter showered the audience with love and proudly reminded all of their right to belong and be loved.
“Oh, my God. God bless you all! The category is love, y’all, love!” Porter exclaimed.
The epic FX show “Pose” depicts Black and Latinos in the LGBTQ ballroom culture of New York City in the 1980 s in the first season and the early 1990 s in the second season.
“I am so overwhelmed and so overjoyed to have lived long enough to see this day,” he said. “James Baldwin wrote, ‘It took many years of vomiting up the filth I was taught about myself and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.’ I have the right. You have the right. We all have the right. “
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A blockbuster Tutankhamun show set a new all-time French record Sunday, with 1. 42 million visitors flocking to see the exhibition in Paris, the organisers said .
The turnout beat the previous record set by another Tutankhamun show billed as the “exhibition of the century” in 1967, when 1. 24 million queued to see “Tutankhamun and His Times” at the Petit Palais.
“Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh” – which has been described as a “once in a generation” show – will open in London in November.
The last time a show of comparable size about the boy king opened there in 1972 it sparked “Tutmania”, with 1.6 million people thronging the British Museum.
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