People: Actor James Cromwell escorted from NY event for heckling
Actor James Cromwell was one of two people escorted from an upstate New York business event for protesting an award given to an energy company.
The Times Herald-Record of Middletown reported the 75-year-old actor whose work includes “Babe” and “L.A. Confidential” was removed from the Tuesday event in New Windsor when he and Pramilla Malick began heckling the award presented to CPV Valley Energy Center.
Cromwell and Malick said the company’s natural gas-fired electricity plant being built in a nearby town is a dangerous polluter threatening the environment and the people living there.
Cromwell was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actor for 1995’s “Babe,” which ends with his farmer character telling the film’s star, “That’ll do, pig. That’ll do.”
Paltrow brings Goop to pop-up shop
Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle site Goop is alive and well in the analog world.
Paltrow, with a hand from the fashion house of Valentino, hosted the media Wednesday at her pop-up shop Goop Mrkt, open through Dec. 24 at The Shops at Columbus Circle in midtown Manhattan’s Time Warner Center.
“It’s so nice for all of us as a company to experience the digital come to life in brick and mortar, and to be able to bring the whole lifestyle piece to an actual physical store,” Paltrow told the Associated Press.
Among the beauty products, housewares and other goods selected by Paltrow for the shop is a playful collection of sparkly, star-adorned dresses, jackets, sneakers and accessories from Valentino creative directors Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli for the capsule collection dubbed Valentino x goop.
Paltrow said she enjoyed Thanksgiving with her “consciously uncoupled” ex Chris Martin and their kids, along with singing on Coldplay’s track “Everglow” from the upcoming album.
“We had a really nice time,” she said.
Carey hospitalized for severe flu
Pop star Mariah Carey is recovering after being hospitalized with a severe case of the flu.
The singer was taken to a hospital on Wednesday morning, according to a report on People.com.
A representative for Carey said Thursday the singer had been feeling under the weather with the flu for the past few days and she is doing well now. The statement said Carey, who is doing a series of Christmas shows at the Beacon Theatre in New York, will perform as scheduled.