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Reese Witherspoon ‘cried 16 times’ at Golden Globes

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Published: 11:12 EST, 8 January 2018 | Updated: 13:20 EST, 8 ..

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January 8, 2018

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By Christine Rendon For Dailymail.com

Published: 11:12 EST, 8 January 2018 | Updated: 13:20 EST, 8 January 2018

It's the show she both executive produces and stars in.

And Reese Witherspoon could not contain her emotions as her hit HBO series, Big Little Lies, became the recipient of four Golden Globes during Sunday night's awards show in Los Angeles.

Speaking with Entertainment Tonight following the ceremony, Witherspoon, 41, explained in disbelief, 'I'm overwhelmed. I've cried 16 times.'

'I've cried 16 times!' Reese Witherspoon could not contain her emotions as her hit HBO series, Big Little Lies, became the recipient of four Golden Globes during Sunday night's awards show in Los Angeles

Big winner: Big Little Lies co-stars Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern and Alexander Skarsgard won individual awards for best actress, best supporting actress and best actor while the series also won a Golden Globe

Big Little Lies co-stars Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern and Alexander Skarsgard won individual awards for best actress, best supporting actress and best actor while the series also won a Golden Globe.

The big night also saw Witherspoon introduce Oprah Winfrey as she accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award.

Witherspoon revealed she became emotional even after Winfrey asked her to do the honors of presenting her at the awards show.

'When she asked me to do it in December, I wept,' she told ET. 'Then I didn’t sleep for like three or four days. I was very deeply moved because she’s an incredible, kind, magnanimous person who cares about literally every person.

Awards glory: The cast of Big Little Lies celebrated four Golden Globes at the HBO after-party. From l-r, Nicole Kidman, Zoe Kravitz, Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Shailene Woodley

'She sees everyone. She’s just a great equalizer. She just really deeply cares about humanity as a whole.'

Witherspoon celebrated the show's accomplishments at the HBO after party that night alongside her co-stars.

The actress, who was a producer on the show as was Kidman, partied up a storm with Dern.

The two women were snapped laughing after posing for photos together at the party.

Success: Witherspoon, a producer on the mini series, and Dern, who won for best supporting actress, were in high spirits

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* PRICES MAY NOT BE AS ADVERTISED…NOW GET ONE LIKE IT Agenda: The two women each spoke out during the telecast on NBC to support the Time's Up movement and call for greater equality for women and justice for victims of sexual assault

Agenda: The two women each spoke out during the telecast on NBC to support the Time's Up movement and call for greater equality for women and justice for victims of sexual assault

In her acceptance speech earlier, Dern had urged for protection and support for victims of sexual harassment and assault.

'I urge all of us to not only support survivors and bystanders who are brave enough to tell their truth, but to promote restorative justice,' the 50-year-old actress said.

Skarsgard, in his acceptance speech after winning a best supporting actor award for his role as Kidman's husband in the hit mini series, paid tribute to his female co-stars.

'I am here tonight because I had a privilege of working with a group of extraordinarily talented women,' he said in his acceptance speech.

Kidman, after being presented with her award, said: 'I do believe and I hope that we can elicit change through the stories we tell and the way we tell them.'

Supportive: Alexander Skarsgard, who won a best supporting actor award for his role as Kidman's husband, paid tribute to his female co-stars

For the cause: Woodley - who wore a Ralph Lauren Collection silk beaded turtleneck and black tulle evening skirt - brought as her 'date' the activist Calina Lawrence

For the cause: Woodley – who wore a Ralph Lauren Collection silk beaded turtleneck and black tulle evening skirt – brought as her 'date' the activist Calina Lawrence

75TH ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS WINNERS – FILM

Best Motion Picture – Drama

Call Me by Your Name

Dunkirk

The Post

The Shape of Water

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – WINNER

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

The Disaster Artist

Get Out

The Greatest Showman

I, Tonya

Lady Bird – WINNER

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama

Jessica Chastain, Molly's Game

Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water

Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – WINNER

Meryl Streep, The Post

Michelle Williams, All the Money in the World

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name

Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread

Tom Hanks, The Post

Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour – WINNER

Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Judi Dench, Victoria & Abdul

Margot Robbie, I, Tonya

Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird – WINNER

Emma Stone, Battle of the Sexes

Helen Mirren, The Leisure Seeker

Best Director

Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water – WINNER

Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk

Ridley Scott, All The Money in the World

Steven Spielberg, The Post

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Steve Carell, Battle of the Sexes

Ansel Elgort, Baby Driver

James Franco, The Disaster Artist – WINNER

Hugh Jackman, The Greatest Showman

Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out

Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture

Mary J. Blige, Mudbound

Hong Chau, Downsizing

Allison Janney, I, Tonya – WINNER

Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird

Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water

Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture

Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project

Armie Hammer, Call Me by Your Name

Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water

Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World

Sam Rockwell, "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" – WINNER

Best Original Score in a Motion Picture

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

The Shape of Water – WINNER

Phantom Thread

The Post

Dunkirk

Best Original Song

Home from Ferdinand

Mighty River from Mudbound

Remember Me from Coco

The Star from The Star

"This Is Me" from The Greatest Showman – WINNER

Best Screenplay in a Motion Picture

The Shape of Water

Lady Bird

The Post

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – WINNER

Molly's Game

Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language

A Fantastic Woman

First They Killed My Father

In the Fade – WINNER

Loveless

The Square

Best Animated Feature Film

The Boss Baby

The Breadwinner

Ferdinand

Coco – WINNER

Loving Vincent

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Sydney seaplane crash: Exhaust fumes affected pilot, report confirms

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January 30, 2021

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The pilot of a seaplane that crashed into an Australian river, killing all on board, had been left confused and disorientated by leaking exhaust fumes, investigators have confirmed.

The Canadian pilot and five members of a British family died in the crash north of Sydney in December 2017.

All were found to have higher than normal levels of carbon monoxide in their blood, a final report has found.

It recommended the mandatory fitting of gas detectors in all such planes.

British businessman Richard Cousins, 58, died alongside his 48-year-old fiancée, magazine editor Emma Bowden, her 11-year-old daughter Heather and his sons, Edward, 23, and William, 25, and pilot Gareth Morgan, 44. Mr Cousins was the chief executive of catering giant Compass.

The family had been on a sightseeing flight in the de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver plane when it nose-dived into the Hawkesbury River at Jerusalem Bay, about 50km (30 miles) from the city centre.

The final report by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) confirmed the findings of an interim report published in 2020.

It said pre-existing cracks in the exhaust collector ring were believed to have released exhaust gas into the engine bay. Holes left by missing bolts in a firewall then allowed the fumes to enter the cabin.

“As a result, the pilot would have almost certainly experienced effects such as confusion, visual disturbance and disorientation,” the report said.

“Consequently, it was likely that this significantly degraded the pilot’s ability to safely operate the aircraft.”

The ATSB recommended the Civil Aviation Safety Authority consider mandating the fitting of carbon monoxide detectors in piston-engine aircraft that carry passengers.

It previously issued safety advisory notices to owners and operators of such aircraft that they install detectors “with an active warning” to pilots”. Operators and maintainers of planes were also advised to carry out detailed inspections of exhaust systems and firewalls.

Read from source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55862128

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Australia unlikely to fully reopen border in 2021, says top official

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January 23, 2021

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Australia is unlikely to fully open its borders in 2021 even if most of its population gets vaccinated this year as planned, says a senior health official.

The comments dampen hopes raised by airlines that travel to and from the country could resume as early as July.

Department of Health Secretary Brendan Murphy made the prediction after being asked about the coronavirus’ escalation in other nations.

Dr Murphy spearheaded Australia’s early action to close its borders last March.

“I think that we’ll go most of this year with still substantial border restrictions,” he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Monday.

“Even if we have a lot of the population vaccinated, we don’t know whether that will prevent transmission of the virus,” he said, adding that he believed quarantine requirements for travellers would continue “for some time”.

Citizens, permanent residents and those with exemptions are allowed to enter Australia if they complete a 14-day hotel quarantine at their own expense.

Qantas – Australia’s national carrier – reopened bookings earlier this month, after saying it expected international travel to “begin to restart from July 2021.”

However, it added this depended on the Australian government’s deciding to reopen borders.

Australia’s tight restrictions

The country opened a travel bubble with neighbouring New Zealand late last year, but currently it only operates one-way with inbound flights to Australia.

Australia has also discussed the option of travel bubbles with other low-risk places such as Taiwan, Japan and Singapore.

A vaccination scheme is due to begin in Australia in late February. Local authorities have resisted calls to speed up the process, giving more time for regulatory approvals.

Australia has so far reported 909 deaths and about 22,000 cases, far fewer than many nations. It reported zero locally transmitted infections on Monday.

Experts have attributed much of Australia’s success to its swift border lockdown – which affected travellers from China as early as February – and a hotel quarantine system for people entering the country.

Local outbreaks have been caused by hotel quarantine breaches, including a second wave in Melbourne. The city’s residents endured a stringent four-month lockdown last year to successfully suppress the virus.

Other outbreaks – including one in Sydney which has infected about 200 people – prompted internal border closures between states, and other restrictions around Christmas time.

The state of Victoria said on Monday it would again allow entry to Sydney residents outside of designated “hotspots”, following a decline in cases.

While the measures have been praised, many have also criticised them for separating families across state borders and damaging businesses.

Dr Murphy said overall Australia’s virus response had been “pretty good” but he believed the nation could have introduced face masks earlier and improved its protections in aged care homes.

In recent days, Australia has granted entry to about 1,200 tennis players, staff and officials for the Australian Open. The contingent – which has recorded at least nine infections – is under quarantine.

Read from source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55699581

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Covid: Brisbane to enter three-day lockdown over single infection

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January 9, 2021

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The Australian city of Brisbane has begun a snap three-day lockdown after a cleaner in its hotel quarantine system became infected with coronavirus.

Health officials said the cleaner had the highly transmissible UK variant and they were afraid it could spread.

Brisbane has seen very few cases of the virus beyond quarantined travellers since Australia’s first wave last year.

It is the first known instance of this variant entering the Australian community outside of hotel quarantine.

The lockdown is for five populous council areas in Queensland’s state capital.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced the measure on Friday morning local time, about 16 hours after the woman tested positive.

Ms Palaszczuk said the lockdown aimed to halt the virus as rapidly as possible, adding: “Doing three days now could avoid doing 30 days in the future.”

“I think everybody in Queensland… knows what we are seeing in the UK and other places around the world is high rates of infection from this particular strain,” she said.

“And we do not want to see that happening here in our great state.”

Australia has reported 28,500 coronavirus infections and 909 deaths since the pandemic began. By contrast, the US, which is the hardest-hit country, has recorded more than 21 million infections while nearly 362,000 people have died of the disease.The lockdown will begin at 18:00 on Friday (08:00 GMT) in the Brisbane city, Logan and the Ipswich, Moreton and Redlands local government areas.

Residents will only be allowed to leave home for certain reasons, such as buying essential items and seeking medical care.

For the first time, residents in those areas will also be required to wear masks outside of their homes.

Australia has faced sporadic outbreaks over the past year, with the most severe one in Melbourne triggering a lockdown for almost four months.

A pre-Christmas outbreak in Sydney caused fresh alarm, but aggressive testing and contact-tracing has kept infection numbers low. The city recorded four local cases on Friday.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s government has pledged to start mass vaccinations in February instead of March as was planned.

Lockdown interrupts ‘near normal’ life in Brisbane

Simon Atkinson, BBC News in Brisbane

At 8:00 today I popped to the local supermarket for some bread, milk – and because it’s summer here – a mango. I was pretty much the only customer.

When I went past the same shop a couple of hours later it was a different story – 50 people standing in the drizzle – queuing to get inside as others emerged with bulging shopping bags. “Heaps busier than Christmas,” a cheery trolley attendant told me. “It’s off the scale”.

Despite the “don’t panic” messages from authorities, pictures on social media show it’s a pattern being repeated across the city.

While shutdowns are common around the world, the tough and sudden stay-at-home order for Brisbane has caught people on the hop here after months of near normality.

But while such a rapid, hard lockdown off the back of just a single case of Covid-19 will seem crazy in some parts of the world, I’ve not come across too many people complaining.

And I don’t think that’s just because Aussies love to follow a rule. This is the first time the UK variant of the virus has been detected in the community in Australia.

And nobody here wants Brisbane to go through what Melbourne suffered last year. Even if it means going without mangoes.

Read from source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55582836