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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

MMR on Ent News: Halle Berry

PHOTO: Actress Halle Berry speaks at the AOL 2016

Halle Berry is speaking out about the Oscars diversity controversy.

Berry appeared at the 2016 MAKERS Conference at the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. on Tuesday, and discussed the criticism that the Academy Awards are facing due to the lack of diversity in the Oscar nominations.

The 49-year-old actress is the first and only African-American woman to win an Academy Award for "Best Actress," for her role in 2001's "Monster Ball." Berry stated that the fact that no other woman of color has won a "Best Actress" Oscar since then is "heartbreaking."

"Honestly, that win almost 15 years ago was iconic, it was important to me, but I had the knowing in the moment that it was bigger than me," Berry said. "I believed that in that moment, that when I said ‘The door tonight has been opened,' I believed that with every bone in my body that this was going to incite change because this door, this barrier, had been broken."

"To sit here almost 15 years later, and knowing that another woman of color has not walked through that door, is heartbreaking. It’s heartbreaking, because I thought that moment was bigger than me. It’s heartbreaking to start to think maybe it wasn’t bigger than me. Maybe it wasn’t. And I so desperately felt like it was," she continued.

MMR on Ent News: Kim Tweets spiral

On Feb. 1, Kim Kardashian tweeted a poll that may forever shake the foundation of American democracy. Going head-to-head with the Iowa presidential caucus on the same day, Kardashian asked her Twitter audience what Kanye West's new album should be called.

She got more votes than the entire Iowa caucus.

The exact tally for people partaking in the Iowa caucus is still unknown. But according to an article published by the Des Moines Register earlier today, Republicans had around 180,000 caucusgoers while Democrats had an amount likely less than 240,000.

Combining these two rough numbers gives us an estimate of 420,000 total participants.

MMR ON NEWS: Bernie Sanders Exploits Hillary Clinton's Flaws In A Way Most Republicans Can't

The tally from the Iowa caucuses shows that Hillary Clinton got more delegates than Bernie Sanders. But nobody outside of Clinton headquarters thinks she won anything.

Clinton took 701 “state equivalent delegates” from the caucuses, according to the Iowa Democratic Party, while Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont, took 697. Basically, they tied.

The result represents a remarkable achievement for Sanders, who entered the race with virtually no name recognition and who once trailed in the polls by 50 percentage points. It’s also a blow to Clinton, the presumptive front-runner who now faces an extended fight for her party’s nomination, with her liabilities as a candidate on full display.

Monday, January 25, 2016

MMR on Ent News: Jamie Foxx Saves a life

Jamie Foxx was a real-life action hero Monday night when he pulled a man from a burning car outside his home in Hidden Valley, California. The truck skidded off the road, rolled into a ditch, and caught on fire, trapping the driver inside. Foxx rushed to help after calling 911.

“Jamie didn’t hesitate. He jumped out and ran to the car,” a member of Foxx’s publicity team told ABC News. “Jamie told CHP that he heard the accident and also a person screaming from the overturned vehicle,” an account on the Facebook page Safety for Citizens reads. Though a police reportomits Foxx’s name, it describes the action outside the actor’s home: “Two witnesses that were near the collision scene ran to the burning, overturned truck in an attempt to free the driver. One of the witnesses retrieved a rescue tool from his vehicle allowing the two citizens to break the window, cut the seat belt, and extricate the driver.” Though Foxx reportedly called 911 before approaching the vehicle, a separate witness told TMZ that the actor, fearing an explosion, dragged the driver “about 30 feet away” from the burning wreck.

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