What to Know
- Oscar voters showered Alfonso Cuaron's "Roma" and Yorgos Lanthimos' "The Favourite" with a leading 10 nominations to the 91st Academy Awards
- It's been two years since she was stiffed by Fyre Festival organizers, but a Bahamian caterer is finally getting paid for feeding hundreds
- A New Jersey-based “community restaurant” owned by Jon Bon Jovi and his wife will serve a free meal to furloughed federal workers
Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019
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1. Bale, Gaga, Close and Spike Lee Earn Oscar Nods
Oscar voters showered Alfonso Cuaron's "Roma" and Yorgos Lanthimos' "The Favourite" with a leading 10 nominations to the 91st Academy Awards, while two dominant but contentious Hollywood forces — Netflix and Marvel — each scored their first best picture nomination.
Though many expected "A Star Is Born," Bradley Cooper's tear-inducing revival of one of Hollywood's most oft-remade show-business myths, to top nominations, Cooper was surprisingly overlooked as director and the academy instead put its fullest support behind a pair of smaller films by international directors.
With "Roma," Netflix has scored its first best picture nomination, something the streaming giant has dearly sought.
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2. Stiffed Caterer in Fyre Festival Doc Raises More Than $160K
It's been nearly two years since she was stiffed by Fyre Festival organizers, but a Bahamian caterer is finally getting paid for feeding hundreds of frustrated festivalgoers -- and then some.
Maryann Rolle, the restaurant owner featured in one of two competing documentaries about the failed 2017 festival released over the weekend, has raised more than $160,000 on a GoFundMe fundraiser she created a few days before the two films hit Netflix and Hulu.
In the Netflix documentary -- titled "Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened" -- Rolle said she had to drain $50,000 from her personal savings account to pay her employees and bills after she was jilted by the festival and its architect, convicted New Jersey fraudster Billy McFarland.
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3. Furloughed? Bon Jovi Wants to Help With a Free Lunch
A New Jersey-based “community restaurant” owned by Jon Bon Jovi and his wife will serve a free meal to furloughed federal workers.
JBJ Soul Kitchen, which is owned by Dorothea and Jon Bon Jovi, is teaming up with the Murphy Family Foundation — New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and his wife’s philanthropic organization — to offer the meal, according to a release.
“Since founding the Soul Kitchen, we wanted to ensure that anyone struggling with food insecurity had a place to go,” Bon Jovi and his wife said in a statement.
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