Reuters Entertainment News Summary
Following is a summary of current entertainment news briefs.
Ex-rugby player's journey from spinal cord injury to mountain tops told in film
Former professional rugby player Ed Jackson, who defied medical opinion by learning to walk again after a near-fatal spinal cord injury, says victims of trauma should resist the impulse to suffer in silence. Jackson broke his neck when he mistakenly dived into the shallow end of a swimming pool in 2017. He was paralysed from the shoulders down and told he would never walk again.
Russia declares U.S. Clooney Foundation an undesirable organisation
Russian prosecutors said on Monday they had designated The Clooney Foundation for Justice, a U.S. non-profit group, as an "undesirable" organisation for carrying out work at "a Hollywood scale" to discredit Moscow. The Foundation was founded by actor George Clooney and his wife, human rights lawyer Amal Clooney.
Tajik-Russian musician Manizha defies ban to sing for peace
Manizha, the last musician to represent Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest but unable, she says, to perform live in her adoptive country, has released a defiant anti-war track. "Gun", a reworking of a track she wrote a decade earlier, was released late last month as a single. It will also be part of Extended Play (EP) "Hope" for release on Sept. 4.
French movie giant Alain Delon dies aged 88
French actor Alain Delon, who melted the hearts of millions of film fans whether playing a murderer, hoodlum or hitman in his postwar heyday, has died, his three children said on Sunday. He was 88. Delon had been in poor health since suffering a stroke in 2019, rarely leaving his estate in Douchy, in France's Val de Loire region.
Hollywood stars to add sizzle to Democrats' convention
A month after turning its back on the Democrats, Hollywood is sending star power to the party's national convention this week to formally nominate Kamala Harris for U.S. president. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, John Legend, Billy Porter and Mindy Kaling are among the entertainment luminaries expected in Chicago, site of the four-day Democratic National Convention that starts on Monday.
