Actor and Ais Board Member Emily Blunt hosted the American Institute for Stuttering's 2022 Freeing Voices, Changing Lives Gala last week in New York City.
Emily Blunt Hosted The American Institute For Stuttering's 2022 Freeing Voices
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The event raised funds to support Ais’s mission to provide free or low-cost therapy to underserved people who stutter. The evening paid tribute to the late journalist and author, Sir Harold Evans, who was an active member of the Ais Board for close to two decades. Along with his wife, Tina Brown, they created the Freeing Voices, Changing Lives Gala to raise much needed funding for therapy and to increase public awareness about stuttering
The organization presented Aig & Lucy Fato, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Global Head of Communications & Government Affairs with the Catherine Montgomery Advocacy Award in recognition for Aig’s commitment to fostering an inclusive workplace and for...
Emily Blunt Hosted The American Institute For Stuttering's 2022 Freeing Voices
Credit/Copyright: Getty Images
The event raised funds to support Ais’s mission to provide free or low-cost therapy to underserved people who stutter. The evening paid tribute to the late journalist and author, Sir Harold Evans, who was an active member of the Ais Board for close to two decades. Along with his wife, Tina Brown, they created the Freeing Voices, Changing Lives Gala to raise much needed funding for therapy and to increase public awareness about stuttering
The organization presented Aig & Lucy Fato, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Global Head of Communications & Government Affairs with the Catherine Montgomery Advocacy Award in recognition for Aig’s commitment to fostering an inclusive workplace and for...
- 7/18/2022
- Look to the Stars
A heartrending documentary about newspaper editor Harold Evans’s campaign for justice for thalidomide victims
This powerful documentary from the makers of McCullin revisits Harold Evans’s fight to win justice for those whose lives were irrevocably changed by the drug thalidomide. It is by turns enraging, enlightening, heartbreaking and, ultimately, uplifting. Working around British laws that stifled public discussion of the scandal, crusading newspaper editor Evans mounted a moral campaign in the early 70s that highlighted the drinks and pharmaceuticals company Distillers’ callous disregard for the catastrophic human cost of the “wonder drug”. Tracing the origins of thalidomide back to concentration camp experiments (hence the “Nazi war crime” subtitle), this is both a tribute to the brave resilience of parents and children and a paean to a past age of honest, old-school investigative journalism.
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This powerful documentary from the makers of McCullin revisits Harold Evans’s fight to win justice for those whose lives were irrevocably changed by the drug thalidomide. It is by turns enraging, enlightening, heartbreaking and, ultimately, uplifting. Working around British laws that stifled public discussion of the scandal, crusading newspaper editor Evans mounted a moral campaign in the early 70s that highlighted the drinks and pharmaceuticals company Distillers’ callous disregard for the catastrophic human cost of the “wonder drug”. Tracing the origins of thalidomide back to concentration camp experiments (hence the “Nazi war crime” subtitle), this is both a tribute to the brave resilience of parents and children and a paean to a past age of honest, old-school investigative journalism.
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- 1/24/2016
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw and Henry Barnes review a documentary on the Thalidomide scandal that digs into the drug’s history as an experimental compound developed by the Nazis and pays tribute to the heroic efforts of the Sunday Times, lead by Harold Evans, which persisted in an investigation into Thalidomide-affected children in the face of cover ups and lawsuits. Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime is released in the UK on Friday 22 January
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- 1/21/2016
- by Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw, Henry Barnes, Dan Susman, Tom Silverstone and Andrea Salvatici
- The Guardian - Film News
The Good Lie discussion moderated by Pen American Center president Peter Godwin Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Joanna Coles, Peter Godwin, Dr. Amanda Foreman, Gayle King, Diane Sawyer, Mike Nichols, George Stephanopoulos, Fareed Zakaria, Tina Brown and Sir Harold Evans with the Us Fund for Unicef, and Samantha Power, Us Ambassador to the United Nations, hosted a special screening of Philippe Falardeau's The Good Lie starring Reese Witherspoon, Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany, Emmanuel Jal and Kuoth Wiel with a screenplay by Margaret Nagle.
Soon-Yi Previn, Molly Smith, Trent Luckinbill, Karen Sherwood, Nile Rodgers, Lynn Stratford, John Prendergast, Chuck Scarborough, Ed Lloyd, Angelina Jacob, Jennifer Duneier, Felicia Taylor, Jill Martin, Bill Blakemore and Phyllis Lee were among those joining in with our hosts for the Warner Bros. screening at Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle near Central Park.
Screenwriter Margaret Nagle with The Good Lie star Kuoth Wiel: "And suddenly I hear,...
Joanna Coles, Peter Godwin, Dr. Amanda Foreman, Gayle King, Diane Sawyer, Mike Nichols, George Stephanopoulos, Fareed Zakaria, Tina Brown and Sir Harold Evans with the Us Fund for Unicef, and Samantha Power, Us Ambassador to the United Nations, hosted a special screening of Philippe Falardeau's The Good Lie starring Reese Witherspoon, Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany, Emmanuel Jal and Kuoth Wiel with a screenplay by Margaret Nagle.
Soon-Yi Previn, Molly Smith, Trent Luckinbill, Karen Sherwood, Nile Rodgers, Lynn Stratford, John Prendergast, Chuck Scarborough, Ed Lloyd, Angelina Jacob, Jennifer Duneier, Felicia Taylor, Jill Martin, Bill Blakemore and Phyllis Lee were among those joining in with our hosts for the Warner Bros. screening at Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle near Central Park.
Screenwriter Margaret Nagle with The Good Lie star Kuoth Wiel: "And suddenly I hear,...
- 10/3/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
As Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014 draws to a close (with some outro parties still to take place over the weekend of course), it’s time to take a look at this year’s award winners. In a ceremony held this morning at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre, the top-doc Special Jury Award was won by Jacqui Morris and David Morris’ combative documentary on Sir Harold Evans and The Sunday Times’ decade-long campaign to gain compensation for victims of Thalidomide. It’s thrilling to see a special mention handed out to Andre Singer’s Night Will Fall – and that both documentaries deal with the gruesome legacies of the Nazis. For the full list of winners, see below.
Special Jury Award
Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime (Jacqui Morris, David Morris)
Special mention to Night Will Fall (Andre Singer)
In The Dark Sheffield International Audio Award
Everything, Nothing, Harvey Keitel...
Special Jury Award
Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime (Jacqui Morris, David Morris)
Special mention to Night Will Fall (Andre Singer)
In The Dark Sheffield International Audio Award
Everything, Nothing, Harvey Keitel...
- 6/12/2014
- by Andrew Latimer
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Harold Evans, the publisher of Random House, calls me at The New Yorker, where I work. “I’d like to have a word with you,” he says. “Can we have coffee sometime, perhaps?” It is 1995, and Evans and I have met at parties given by his wife, who happens to be Tina Brown, who happens to be the editor of The New Yorker. “How about today?” “Let me check with my assistant,” Evans says. A minute or so later, he says, “Well, yes—can you come up right now?” The vowels, in his Beatles-esque accent, make the words sound a little like “coom oop.” At the elevator bank of The New Yorker, I run into Nancy Franklin, later to become the TV critic for the magazine. We call each other “Nosy,” for “Nosy Parker”—the British slang term for a snoop. “Where are you going at this time of day,...
- 11/16/2013
- by Daniel Menaker
- Vulture
It may well say “News” on the tin, but that is definitely not a Ronseal style indication of what you’re going to get. Indeed Fox News is the diametric opposite of a news channel. It is a single point of view impersonating the news, and that single point of view belongs to Rupert Murdoch, or Beelzebub as I like to call him. Sir Harold Evans, the editor of The Sunday Times between 1967 and 1981, described Murdoch as “evil incarnate” in his evidence, under oath, to the Leveson Inquiry. The playwright Dennis Potter named his cancer after him. Roger Simon, the chief political columnist of Politico, recalls a conversation with Murdoch after he had purchased the newspaper he worked for. “I don’t understand anything about American sport,” confessed Murdoch, “but I know the coloureds like it.”
Murdoch was able to buy The Times and The Sunday Times in 1981 without the...
Murdoch was able to buy The Times and The Sunday Times in 1981 without the...
- 6/3/2013
- by Basil Creese Jr
- Obsessed with Film
Sydney - Russell Crowe has taken to Twitter to deny U.K. media reports that he'll play Rupert Murdoch in a new film based on Good Times, Bad Times, the memoirs of former Sunday Times editor Sir Harold Evans. "I haven't been approached by anyone to play Rupert Murdoch. That's just a beat up. I am off to build a boat. Will be gone for quite some time," Crowe tweeted Tuesday, referring to his role in Darren Aronofsky’s Noah, which starts shooting in New York next month. On Monday, the London Evening Standard reported "there has been talk of Russell Crowe
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- 6/27/2012
- by Pip Bulbeck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
If you were attempting to make a biopic of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.s life, where would you begin? Would you focus on the pioneer.s early days? His ascension through the communication ranks? His massive acquisitions? Or the high-profile scandal that rocked Murdoch.s empire and brought an end to his infamous News of the World? Needless to say, there.s a ton of compelling material to comb over, and that will be a task handed to U.K. production company What.s It All About? now that they.ve acquired the rights to tell Murdoch.s life story on film. Harold Evans. biography, Good Times, Bad Times, will be used as the blueprint for the Murdoch pic, according to Variety. Evans was editor of Murdoch.s The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981. He.s currently married to magazine editor-in-chief Tina Brown. The trade confirms that the planned Murdoch biopic...
- 4/18/2012
- cinemablend.com
Hacking debates are breaking out at every turn. Here, in chronological order, are three major examples about to take place:
Hacked Off Lib Dem fringe meeting
Phone hacking, privacy and libel – the future of the press. A panel of speakers includes actor Hugh Grant, Index on Censorship chief executive John Kampfner, lawyer Charlotte Harris, Guardian media chief Dan Sabbagh and Lib Dem media spokesman Don Foster MP.
It is a Lib Dem conference fringe event, being held on Sunday (18 September) at Birmingham's International Conference Centre from 1pm. Organised by the Hacked Off campaign.
Evans joins the media great and good
The press we deserve: a conversation with Sir Harold Evans. Joining the former Sunday Times editor will be Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, his predecessor Peter Preston, Chris Byrant MP, newly-departed New York Times editor Bill Keller, Economist editor John Micklethwait and BBC director-general Mark Thompson.
It's on Tuesday next, 20 September,...
Hacked Off Lib Dem fringe meeting
Phone hacking, privacy and libel – the future of the press. A panel of speakers includes actor Hugh Grant, Index on Censorship chief executive John Kampfner, lawyer Charlotte Harris, Guardian media chief Dan Sabbagh and Lib Dem media spokesman Don Foster MP.
It is a Lib Dem conference fringe event, being held on Sunday (18 September) at Birmingham's International Conference Centre from 1pm. Organised by the Hacked Off campaign.
Evans joins the media great and good
The press we deserve: a conversation with Sir Harold Evans. Joining the former Sunday Times editor will be Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, his predecessor Peter Preston, Chris Byrant MP, newly-departed New York Times editor Bill Keller, Economist editor John Micklethwait and BBC director-general Mark Thompson.
It's on Tuesday next, 20 September,...
- 9/16/2011
- by Roy Greenslade
- The Guardian - Film News
After months of speculation, several comical implosions, and two debates, former U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman was finally ready to announce today that he is ready to announce a bona fide presidential bid on June 21. Flanked by Sir Harold Evans and Henry Kissinger, Huntsman led slide at a Reuters event that he is planning an official entry next Tuesday.
- 6/14/2011
- by Frances Martel
- Mediaite - TV
President Obama's former ambassador to China declared Tuesday he'll announce his candidacy against his old boss "a week from today." The Daily Beast's McKay Coppins reports from the event. Plus, read about the Mormon moment in this week's issue of Newsweek.
Jon Huntsman, Jr. told a VIP crowd of journalists, diplomats, and CEOs Tuesday afternoon that he plans to announce his presidential candidacy in one week, joking that "since we're in selected company and there aren't many people listening in" he could safely declare his intentions.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Why Obama's Still Untouchable in 2012
Huntsman, a moderate Republican who is fluent in Mandarin, is expected to announce his candidacy at Liberty State Park in New Jersey on June 21. His campaign will be based in Florida.
Tuesday's event was a Thomson Reuters luncheon featuring a discussion about the rising power of China, between Huntsman-who served as U.
Jon Huntsman, Jr. told a VIP crowd of journalists, diplomats, and CEOs Tuesday afternoon that he plans to announce his presidential candidacy in one week, joking that "since we're in selected company and there aren't many people listening in" he could safely declare his intentions.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Why Obama's Still Untouchable in 2012
Huntsman, a moderate Republican who is fluent in Mandarin, is expected to announce his candidacy at Liberty State Park in New Jersey on June 21. His campaign will be based in Florida.
Tuesday's event was a Thomson Reuters luncheon featuring a discussion about the rising power of China, between Huntsman-who served as U.
- 6/14/2011
- by McKay Coppins
- The Daily Beast
The towering figure of U.S. foreign policy died yesterday at the age of 69. Jonathan Alter, Peter Beinart, and Sir Harold Evans remember the top diplomat's brilliant drive and contributions all over the world.
An American in FullBy Jonathan Alter
Related story on The Daily Beast: Egypt's Church Bombing: Was Al Qaeda Responsible?
Richard Holbrooke was a larger-than-life figure on the U.S. political landscape who shaped his times as much as any secretary of state. Jonathan Alter reflects on his impact on Bosnia, Afghanistan and Foggy Bottom.
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A Dominant Diplomatic ForceBy Peter Beinart
Richard Holbrooke pushed harder and cared more than other American foreign policy players. Peter Beinart on Holbrooke's special blend of superpower swagger and moral passion.
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Richard Holbrooke's Brilliant DriveBy Harold Evans
The gifted diplomat dedicated his life to making the world a more just and peaceful place-typical of the dedicated diplomats now vilified by the anarchists at WikiLeaks,...
An American in FullBy Jonathan Alter
Related story on The Daily Beast: Egypt's Church Bombing: Was Al Qaeda Responsible?
Richard Holbrooke was a larger-than-life figure on the U.S. political landscape who shaped his times as much as any secretary of state. Jonathan Alter reflects on his impact on Bosnia, Afghanistan and Foggy Bottom.
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A Dominant Diplomatic ForceBy Peter Beinart
Richard Holbrooke pushed harder and cared more than other American foreign policy players. Peter Beinart on Holbrooke's special blend of superpower swagger and moral passion.
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Richard Holbrooke's Brilliant DriveBy Harold Evans
The gifted diplomat dedicated his life to making the world a more just and peaceful place-typical of the dedicated diplomats now vilified by the anarchists at WikiLeaks,...
- 12/14/2010
- by The Daily Beast
- The Daily Beast
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