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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pauses as he makes a statement to media gathered outside the High Court in London. You've read his leaks. Now watch his show. International secret-buster Julian Assange said Tuesday he's launching his very own television series. The guests haven't been disclosed, but the 40-year-old Australian has promised to give viewers more of what he's been supplying for years: Controversy.
International secret-buster Julian Assange says he's launching his very own television series. The guests haven't been disclosed, but the 40-year-old Australian has promised to give viewers more of what he's been supplying for years: Controversy.
WikiLeaks said in a statement late Monday that the show is intended to "draw together controversial voices from across the political spectrum -- iconoclasts, visionaries and power insiders -- each to offer a window on the world tomorrow."
How the show will be produced and who will carry it remain open questions.
WikiLeaks referred queries about the series to the hitherto-obscure Quick Roll Productions.
Hasty Pudding honors Segel
Actor Jason Segel can add a Hasty Pudding pot award to his career highlights.
Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals on Monday named Segel its Man of Year.
The student group is the nation's oldest undergraduate drama troupe. It'll host a parade and roast for Segel on Feb. 3.
Segel got his start in the short-lived but critically acclaimed television series "Freaks and Geeks."
He later wrote and starred in the 2008 movie "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," which earned more than $100 million worldwide. And he co-wrote and starred in last year's "The Muppets."
He plays Marshall Eriksen on the CBS comedy "How I Met Your Mother."
Lee bemoans lack of diversity
Spike Lee just premiered the fifth film in his "continuing chronicles of Brooklyn, N.Y.," at the Sundance Film Festival, but the filmmaker is still frustrated at the lack of diversity in the entertainment industry.
Lee said Monday that in the "upper echelons of television and studios, it's 1950. It's Eisenhower."
He says there is much work to be done before the film industry reflects the diversity of the United States. He noted that the U.S. Census shows that "white Americans will be a minority by 2045, maybe sooner," and said it makes "good business sense" for companies, including entertainment companies, to diversify their workforce.
Lee unveiled "Red Hook Summer" on Sunday.
Leibovitz back in groove
Photographer Annie Leibovitz says she has come back from some dark days and revived her creativity with a new project now on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum that is a departure from her popular celebrity portraits.
Two years ago, Leibovitz was facing millions in debt and a mismanaged fortune that nearly cost her legal rights to some of the most memorable images she created.
On Tuesday, she led a tour through the photos she says renewed her inspiration. The images in "Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage" include depictions of landscapes and people, but no faces.
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Today's birthdays
Blues singer Etta James, 74; actress Leigh Taylor-Young ("Peyton Place," "Soylent Green"), 67; actress Jenifer Lewis ("The Preacher's Wife"), 55; actress Dinah Manoff ("Empty Nest"), 54; actress Ana Ortiz ("Ugly Betty"), 41; guitarist Matt Odmark of Jars of Clay, 38; singer Alicia Keys, 31; actor Michael Trevino ("The Vampire Diaries"), 27.
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