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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Six-time Oscar nominated, Emmy, Golden Globe and Tony Award winning actress Glenn Close will be honored with the AGA Leadership Award for her philanthropic endeavors at the second annual American Giving Awards (AGAs) presented by Chase. Hosted by Joel McHale (NBC's "Community," "The Soup"), the AGAs will air on Saturday, December 8 (8-10 p.m. ET) on NBC from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, CA. (Photo:...
CALGARY, May 3, 2012 /CNW/ - Award-winning actress Glenn Close will be a keynote speaker during: Together Against Stigma: Changing How We See Mental Illness, the 5(th) International Stigma Conference being held in Ottawa from June 4-6. Hosted by the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) and the World Psychiatric Association Scientific Section on Stigma and Mental Illness, the conference will bring together mental health researchers, policy makers, and service users from around...
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Lionsgate® (NYSE: LGF) family of companies earned six Academy Award nominations from the Motion Picture Academy of Arts & Sciences today as Summit Entertainment's A BETTER LIFE earned a Best Actor nomination for Demian Bichir, Lionsgate's WARRIOR earned a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Nick Nolte, Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions' MARGIN CALL earned a Best Original Screenplay nomination and Roadside...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Oct. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The 15th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Film Awards, presented by Starz Entertainment, are pleased to announce that five-time Oscar nominee Glenn Close will be honored with the "Hollywood Career Achievement Award" at the festival's Hollywood Film Awards Gala Ceremony, which will take place October 24, 2011 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20111003/DC78926) The...
American movie star Glenn Close has joined an elite list of celebrities who have had their genome sequenced in the name of science. Close joins the ranks of notable celebrities such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Craig Venter. Glenn Close, who is known for her movie roles in "Fatal Attraction", "The Big Chill" and "101 Dalmatians", said the offer was too good to pass up. "For me, anything that can move the science forward is worthwhile," Close said in a telephone interview with Reuters. "It's...
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- DIAMONDS were the ideal adornment to phenomenal frocks on the world's most celebrated stars at the 16th Annual Screen Actor's Guild Awards. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100118/NY39143LOGO ) It was Saturday night out in Hollywood with fashion forward diamond jewelry paired with youthful short dresses and timeless diamonds paired with demure gowns. Two of the best diamond looks included ravishing Kate Hudson in a long diamond sautoir...
Mad Men won the Emmy Award for outstanding drama series for a second consecutive year in Los Angeles Sunday. Glenn Close picked up the prize for lead actress in a drama for her work on Damages. The award was presented shortly after the telecast's traditional In Memorium segment, which celebrated the lives and careers of Paul Newman, Natasha Richardson, Farrah Fawcett, Eartha Kitt, Karl Malden, Van Johnson, Ed McMahon, Patrick Swayze, Henry Gibson, Michael Jackson and other luminaries who...
By Alan Pergament Well, the Emmy Awards made history Sunday night in more ways than one. As expected, it honored deserving cable shows and actors at a historic level. The victories of AMC's "Mad Men" as best drama and Glenn Close as best dramatic actress for FX's "Damages" weren't unexpected. Bryan Cranston's win as best dramatic actor for AMC's "Breaking Bad" was a shocker, even though I predicted it. The only big network winner was NBC's "30 Rock," which won as best comedy for the...
By LYNN ELBER By Lynn Elber The Associated Press LOS ANGELES The sleek '60s drama "Mad Men" made Emmy history Sunday as the first basic-cable show to win a top series award while the sitcom "30 Rock" and its stars Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin also emerged as winners. "We're all so very grateful to have jobs in this turkey-burger economy," Fey said after accepting the best comedy series trophy for her satire about a late-night TV show. "This is the greatest job I've ever had in my life,"...
By GREG HERNANDEZ Glenn Close is one of the few actresses who can truly say she's done it all. For decades, she's been turning in stellar performances in movies ("The Big Chill,""101 Dalmations,""Fatal Attraction"), television ("Serving in Silence,""Sarah Plain and Tall,""A Lion in Winter") and on the Broadway stage ("Sunset Boulevard,""Death of a Maiden,""Barnum"). But it is only in recent years that Glenn, a five-time Oscar nominee and three-time Tony winner, has agreed to take a regular...
