People: Refugees ‘running out of places,’ Jolie says
After visiting a camp for Syrian refugees in southeastern Turkey on Saturday, actress Angelina Jolie said the world is living through an era of mass displacement.
Jolie, reading from a prepared speech alongside United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees Antonio Guterres, told journalists that “never before have so many people been dispossessed or stripped of their human rights.”
Jolie’s visit is the latest in a series of visits to Turkey as part of her work as the UNHCR’s special envoy. It is meant to bring attention to the plight of refugees, whose number has reached a record 60 million worldwide, according to the U.N.
“People are running out of places to run to,” she said, emphasizing “the need to be open and tolerant to people … who may not be able to return home.”
Turkey now officially hosts the world’s largest refugee community – about 1.6 million, according to the latest U.N. figures. As the war in neighboring Syria rages into its fifth year, the flow shows no sign of abating.
Linklater loses again over archive fire
“Boyhood” director Richard Linklater again has lost in a lawsuit against his insurance company over what he says was $500,000 in property and film memorabilia destroyed by Texas wildfires in 2011.
A Texas appeals court last week upheld an earlier ruling against Linklater, who lost old scripts, videos and memorabilia from “Dazed and Confused” and his other films in the massive blaze. The Golden Globe winner had used a storage building in Bastrop County as a personal archive for his career.
Truck Insurance Co. denied Linklater’s claim on the basis that the storage building was not covered by the filmmaker’s policy.
The birthday bunch
Actor Bernie Kopell is 82. Actor Monte Markham is 80. Actress Mariette Hartley is 75. Comedian Joe Flaherty is 74. Rock singer-musician Ray Davies (The Kinks) is 71. Actress Meredith Baxter is 68. Actor Michael Gross is 68. Rock musician Nils Lofgren is 64. Country singer Kathy Mattea is 56. Country singer Allison Moorer is 43. Actress Juliette Lewis is 42. Rock musician Mike Einziger (Incubus) is 39. Actor Chris Pratt is 36. Rock singer Brandon Flowers is 34. Britain’s Prince William is 33. Pop singer Kris Allen (TV: “American Idol”) is 30.