Sublime: The great Shelley Winters who passed away this weekend:
Several actors have won more than one Academy Award. But Shelley Winters was the only star who scored multiple trophies–and an underwater rescue of Gene Hackman.
Winters, the unsinkable two-time Oscar winner who worked and worked and worked, whether the job came in a prestige picture (Lolita), a disaster epic (The Poseidon Adventure), an exploitation flick (Bloody Mama) or a Pauly Shore vehicle (Jury Duty), died Saturday of heart failure at a nursing home in Beverly Hills, reports said.
Winters, who suffered a heart attack last October, was 85.
In all, Winters’ on-screen career spanned 56 years and 130 films and made-for-TV movies, per the stats at the Internet Movie Database. Key credits included: 1959’s The Diary of Anne Frank and 1965’s A Patch of Blue), for which she won Best Supporting Actress Oscars; and 1951’s A Place in the Sun and 1972’s The Poseidon Adventure), for which she received a Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress nomination, respectively.
Ridiculous: Michael Jackson interviewing for a "real job".
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Michael Jackson seems to be settling in to the Persian Gulf. He has shopped for real estate here, been spotted in glitzy malls — and now it appears that Jackson is interviewing for a job.
The singer, his reputation in tatters at home after winning a grueling molestation trial in California last year, is negotiating a position as a consultant with a Bahrain-based company that plans to set up theme parks and music academies in the Middle East, according to a press release.
AAJ Holdings Ltd., owned by Bahraini businessman Ahmed Abu Bakr Janahi, said it wanted to hire the 47-year-old Jackson to give advice on setting up entertainment businesses.