LOS ANGELES (AP) — The estate of Michael Jackson on Thursday sued HBO over a documentary about two men who accuse the late pop superstar of molesting them when they were boys, saying the film violates a 1992 contract to air a Jackson concert.
The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court alleges that by co-producing and airing “Leaving Neverland,” as HBO intends to do next month, the cable channel is breaching a deal to not disparage the singer. The decades-old contract allowed the cable network to air “Michael Jackson in Concert in Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour” and included language that HBO would not disparage Jackson at any future point.
According to the suit, the film implies Jackson molested children on the very tour that the concert footage came from.
“It is hard to imagine a more direct violation of the non-disparagement clause,” says the suit, which asks the court to order arbitration and says damages could exceed $100 million.
The film premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival, where its subjects Wade Robson and James Safechuck received a standing ovation and took questions afterward along with director Dan Reed. The first installment of the four-hour documentary will first air on HBO on March 3, with the second half airing the following night. Britain’s Channel 4 will air it around the same time.
HBO did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit, but the channel has consistently defended the documentary in the face of complaints from the estate.
The lawsuit states in its opening sentence that “Michael Jackson is innocent. Period,” and goes on to recount the criminal investigation and 2005 trial in which Jackson was acquitted, highlighting the conflicting statements through the years of Robson and Safechuck, who are described as “admitted perjurers” in the suit. Both men told authorities that Jackson did not molest them, later claiming they were abused in lawsuits filed after the singer’s death and in graphic detail in “Leaving Neverland.”
It also reiterates the estate’s position that it was irresponsible for the film not to include any defense of Jackson from those who knew him or further fact checks of the men.
HBO responded with a statement saying its plans to air “Leaving Neverland” remain unchanged.
“Dan Reed is an award-winning filmmaker who has carefully documented these survivors’ accounts,” the network’s statement said. “People should reserve judgment until they see the film.”
Reed is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit.
“Michael is an easy target because he is not here to defend himself, and the law does not protect the deceased from defamation, no matter how extreme the lies are,” the lawsuit states. “Michael may not have lived his life according to society’s norms, but genius and eccentricity are not crimes.”
President of the European Council Donald Tusk | Jack Taylor/Getty Images
Tusk snubs Juncker on post-Brexit day summit
Commission president wanted EU leaders to meet the day after Brexit.
In a letter sent overnight, European Council President Donald Tusk rescheduled a special post-Brexit summit called for by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker for the day after the U.K. exits the EU.
In his State of the Union address, Juncker called on Tusk and Romania, the country holding the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU in the first half of 2019, to organize a special summit in Romania’s Sibiu on March 30, 2019, the day after the U.K. is expected to leave the EU.
While Tusk did as he was asked, inviting EU leaders to Sibiu during the digital summit in Tallinn last month, he instead chose to schedule the meeting on May 9, 2019, when the EU celebrates Europe Day, according to an agenda published Tuesday.
Preben Aamann, Tusk’s spokesman, said the summit was scheduled on May 9 as it would not be ideal to meet just after Brexit to celebrate.
A senior European Council source said while the Commission can ask for a meeting, “The formal scheduling of an EU summit can only be set by Tusk, only the president of the European Council can set the agenda of a summit.”
The European Commission declined to comment.
In Juncker’s speech in September, he said: “My hope is that on 30 March, 2019, Europeans will wake up to a Union where we stand by all our values. Where all member states respect the rule of law without exception.”
Actor Ben Stiller reprised his role as former Trump attorney Michael Cohen on the latest “Saturday Night Live” for the show’s cold open.
The opening skit mocked the proceedings of last week’s House Oversight Committee hearing chaired by Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), who was played by cast member Kenan Thompson.
Also appearing was former cast member Bill Hader, who played the part of ranking committee Republican Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH).
SNL mocked the hearing given Cohen previously pled guilty to lying to Congress.
“Thank you for inviting me here today to correct the record under oath,” Stiller’s Cohen said. “Of course, the first time I testified was also under oath. But this time, I like really mean it.”
Sugar made from beets
in France | Philippe Huguen/AFP via Getty Images
Europe’s sugar firms fear an October surprise
As a system of strict sugar quotas ends, some will get more cash; others pain.
Many of Europe’s sugar businesses are looking to October with a sense of fear and uncertainty as the sector faces its biggest overhaul in decades.
On Saturday, Brussels will lift a purdah that has shielded beet growers from the ravages of the open market since the 1960s.
The European Commission now runs the sugar market, specifying how much sugar beet countries can grow while simultaneously paying farmers a fixed price. This system — in parallel with high tariffs on sugar cane imports from the rest of the world — largely cossets beet farmers from the boom and bust of other commodity markets.
But this sugar regime ends on September 30 — an event many fear will spur previously hamstrung businesses to churn out more sugar and send prices tumbling.
There’s a precedent for such a scenario. In 2015, the Commission ended milk quotas, which — alongside a disastrous combination of lower oil prices and Russia’s food import ban — led to vast milk overproduction, sending prices into a death spiral and forcing thousands of farms to shut. Brussels mobilized €1 billion to stave off total collapse.
Brussels and most farmers have drawn lessons from that crisis and are confident a sugar shock won’t compare to the milk one. While some are certain to go out of business, most worry about the uncertainty of modifying a system whose fundamentals have puttered along unchanged since its introduction in 1968.
“This is a new era,” said Rafał Strachota, the director of the Polish beet growers’ lobby KZPBC. “We do not really know what will happen.”
Marie-Christine Ribera, director general of sugar manufacturers’ lobby CEFS, said that the overriding feeling was one of uncertainty.
Brooding in beet country
Europe’s sugar sector is dominated by sugar beet, a turnip-shaped root that thrives in the damp and loamy soils of Northern Europe. Some 1.5 million hectares of the European Union — an area slightly larger than Montenegro — are devoted to the crop.
The Continent’s relationship with beets is a global exception, however. The world receives about 80 percent of its sugar through cane, a tropical crop, while beet processing in Europe makes up the remainder.
This quirk harks back to the Napoleonic wars, when British gunboats blockaded the trade routes to France’s Caribbean possessions, effectively cutting off mainland Europe’s access to sugar. French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte invested heavily in embryonic beet-refining technology to overcome the shortage.
In 1968, Brussels was designing a farm policy to keep consumer prices fair while seeking to avoid extreme market volatility. The Commission introduced its production quotas and a floor price, which is set at €26 per metric ton.
“It’s been a very stable system,” Ribera said.
The great fear is discarding this system will mean competitive farms use their newfound freedom to plant more beets, which would flood the market and depress prices.
CEFS, the sugar lobby, and agricultural workers’ union EFFAT, warned in March of a “harsher market environment” after quotas. “This could have consequences for the 28,000 direct workers and 137,000 farmers that depend on the sector, as well as for the vulnerable rural communities, of which sugar factories are often the economic backbone,” the two groups said.
Overproduction fears are justified. Europe’s largest sugar companies are all set to exploit the new situation to ramp up exports.
Britain’s AB Sugar, for example, says it expects to produce 50 percent more after October.
Wolfgang Heer, the CEO of Europe’s largest refiner, Germany’s Südzucker, said: “We know that volatility in our sugar sector will increase,” Reuters reported in July. He expects the deregulation to allow his company to expand.
No milk crisis 2.0
Brussels anticipated a milk-style market catastrophe and began releasing sugar-pricing data in July to help businesses and farmers better track the market. It will also allow governments to top up agricultural subsidies for sugar farmers in order to cushion any shocks.
Ruud Schers, a sugar analyst at Rabobank, said the milk and sugar sectors are incomparable. Beet farmers tend to grow other crops such as cereals or potatoes, which shields them from too much market turbulence.
Growers can also switch strategy from one year to the next because the beet harvest is annual, he added. Dairy farmers, in contrast, tend to be specialized and cannot as easily rid themselves of cows they bought during flush years.
Europe already ran the gauntlet of a harrowing sugar reform in 2006. The Commission pushed to pivot the sector closer to world markets by opening up imports from developing countries while lowering the guaranteed sugar price by 36 percent.
Grower numbers dropped from some 300,000 in 2005 to about 140,000 in 2016, while the number employed in sugar processing fell from about 50,000 to about 30,000 over the same period.
“We have prepared ourselves,” Ribera said, adding that one factory out of two closed during the 2006 reform.
Calamity cane
Many think that Europe’s small but historic cane refiners will receive the strongest post-quota thumping.
Newer EU countries such as Romania, or those with deep ties to former colonies in the tropics such as Britain and Portugal, still have refineries that use cane sugar — which they buy under import tariffs they argue are prohibitively high. These refiners fret that even-cheaper beets will undercut them.
Miguel Geraldes, the CEO of Portuguese cane refiner RAR, said imports account for 70 percent of his costs and he has already slashed personnel. “If we continue to pay high premium to our suppliers we will be out of business,” he said.
He added that to compete fairly with beet growers, the Commission needs to reduce import tariffs. “The problem is that the Commission doesn’t care,” he said, adding that he would support leaving the EU.
Tate & Lyle Sugars — Britain’s cane refiner — backed Brexit for the same reason.
Brussels points to the fact that cane refiners can import duty-free from developing countries. However, the refiners argue they need access to large producers such as Brazil.
For both cane and beet, the end of sugar quotas heralds a great unknown. Yet few really imagine a Europe without its sugar industry.
Ribera said of October 1: “It really is a revolution — but it’s just a date.”
Actress Ellen Page addressed her role in promoting the Jussie Smollett hate hoax in an op-ed published Wednesday and refused to apologize to President Donald Trump and Vice President Pence for blaming them for the “attack.”
“The conversation around Jussie Smollett has led us all to examine hate violence and its implications and aftermath,” Ellen Page wrote in The Hollywood Reporter.
“I had no reason to doubt Jussie. My work on Gaycation — the docuseries I produced to chronicle LGBTQ+ stories from around the world — introduced me to many survivors of hate violence. I know how prevalent and pernicious it can be. If this situation was staged, it could make victims even more reluctant to report these crimes. Very real crimes.”
Page wrote:
In the article, she fails to apologize for her role in casting blame on Donald Trump and Mike Pence for the “attack” on Empire actor Jussie Smollett, that Chicago police now believe was staged by the actor himself.
Following the hoax attack, the Juno actress appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and blamed the Trump administration for the hoax attack. Many Hollywood celebrities also blamed Trump and his supporters for the “attack.”
“The vice president of America wishes I didn’t have the love with my wife,” the 32-year-old said.
“If you are in a position of power and you hate people, and you want to cause suffering to them, you go through the trouble, you spend your career trying to cause suffering, what do you think is going to happen? Kids are going to be abused and they’re going to kill themselves, and people are going to be beaten on the street!”
Page even defended Smollett personally, saying, “We have a media that says it’s a debate that whether or not what happened to Jussie Smollett is a hate crime. It’s absurd. Its not a fucking debate.”
That interview, posted on Colbert’s YouTube page under the title, “Ellen Page Calls Out Hateful Leadership,” went viral.
The Aston Villa playmaker has become one of the most sought-after talents in the Premier League but he is focused on the present and England ambitions
Jack Grealish is taking the transfer talk that he continues to generate with “a pinch of salt”, with a deaf ear being turned to rumours of interest from the likes of Manchester United and Liverpool.
The Aston Villa playmaker has emerged as one of the most sought-after talents in the Premier League.
Having taken on the role of club captain and talisman at Villa Park, Grealish is trying to carry Dean Smith’s side towards top-flight survival.
He is taking on that challenge against a backdrop of intense speculation regarding his future.
A big-money move is considered to be a matter of time, with leading lights across England ready to buy into the current ability and future potential of a creative 24-year-old.
Grealish is aware of the buzz he has created, but that is nothing new to a man who has been tipped for big things since bursting onto the scene as a teenager.
He told the Express and Star: “Of course it’s nice.
“Who doesn’t like to be talked about in a nice way? But, to be honest, I try and take everything with a pinch of salt.
“I had it all five years ago when I broke through and I was getting talked about a lot. I was 19 years old, going online reading about myself and I couldn’t believe it. I was in the papers all the time and they were asking: ‘Is this the new big thing?’
“Then just one thing goes wrong and it all comes down on you like a ton of bricks. It is nice to read and nice to listen to, but I don’t let it get to me too much, because I know how quickly it can change.”
While interest is expected to be ramped up in Grealish over the summer, his focus remains locked on doing his best for Villa and putting himself in contention for a place in Gareth Southgate’s England squad for Euro 2020.
“I can’t help but think of playing for England because that is what I want to do,” he added.
“I hope I have done enough but I also think I can perform better and that is the God’s honest truth.
“People on the outside might say I am doing well, but I know for a fact I can do better and score more goals and get more assists.”
Grealish added on the challenge he faces to earn senior international recognition: “What will be hard at the moment is with the position I am playing in at the moment, people would probably say I am playing as a winger.
“If you look at England’s wingers, I doubt I would have much of a chance of starting in front of [Raheem] Sterling, [Jadon] Sancho and [Marcus] Rashford, who are all unbelievable players!
“I’ve always said my favourite position would be playing in midfield. That is where I would love to play for England.
“It is where I would want to play for Villa, but it just so happens at the moment I am playing well in the position I am in and it is better for the team.
“If I was fortunate enough to get a call-up, the position I would want to play is in midfield.”
David Davis and Michel Barnier leave after addressing journalists in Brussels | Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images
After 3 rounds of Brexit talks, a gaping divide
EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier insists leaving the EU and the single market will have consequences for the UK.
Brussels had long warned the U.K. that Brexit could not mean keeping the privileges of EU membership without the obligations.
But after three rounds of formal negotiations, and a flurry of papers laying out where it stands on key issues, London’s approach looks less to EU leaders like the “cherry-picking” they warned against and more like a demand for a whole cherry pie — with a big scoop of ice cream on top to boot.
On every major issue, from rejecting the EU’s approach to a financial settlement to trying to fast-forward the discussion of a new trade and customs deal, and refusing to accept the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice, the U.K. has laid out a vision of a post-EU future in which things only get better for Britain — and at no cost.
These disagreements are at the heart of an impasse that both sides fear no amount of negotiating will break: EU leaders and their negotiators insist that Britain must accept that there are negative consequences of leaving the EU while the U.K. government is intent on proving to its constituents that the country is better off single than attached.
“I see in several [of the U.K.’s] proposals a certain nostalgia, through precise demands, which would amount to wanting to continue to benefit from the advantages of the EU’s single market without being part of it,” the EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, said at a joint news conference Thursday to wrap up the latest, abbreviated round of talks, which lasted just two days.
“Brexit means Brexit,” Barnier continued, turning U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May’s famous phrase against her. “Leaving the single market means leaving the single market and, if that is the decision, it has consequences.”
Barnier’s remarks prompted his British counterpart, David Davis, to fire back: “I wouldn’t confuse a belief in the free market for nostalgia.”
But that shot seemed to fall flat, as Davis was forced to concede that negotiators have made excruciatingly meager progress on the big issues, and that the clock is ticking fast toward the March 29, 2019 deadline — at which point the U.K. will automatically cease to be a member of the bloc, even if no withdrawal agreement has been reached.
Davis also publicly declared a frustration that U.K. officials have voiced privately for weeks — their view that the EU27 are being overly rigid in their demands and have given Barnier and his team no flexibility to compromise. Again repeating his line that the EU’s rigid sequencing of the talks (divorce first, future relationship second) makes no sense, Davis implored his interlocutor to put “people over process.”
‘High-stress week’
While the sides had agreed to hold one week of formal negotiations per month, this week’s round was reduced to barely 48 hours, beginning Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. and ending Thursday before noon. Each side described the compressed talks this week as extremely tense — “a high-stress week,” Davis said — largely because the U.K. rejected the core basis of the EU’s demand for a financial settlement. That position left Barnier and other EU negotiators deeply frustrated.
Brussels repeatedly has sought to portray the financial settlement as a matter of the U.K. fulfilling prior commitments, including its share of the EU’s current long-term budget plan, which runs up to 2020 and which the U.K. approved.
At Thursday’s news conference, however, Davis characterized the EU position as a “claim” and said the U.K. disputed the legal basis that Brussels had put forward.
“The European Union made a claim on the United Kingdom, on the United Kingdom taxpayer, for a large sum of money —unspecified, but undoubtedly large — and on the basis of what it determined to be our legal obligations,” he said.
At another point, Davis said the U.K. had a duty to rigorously “interrogate” the EU position adding: “It’s fair to say, across the piece we have a very different legal stance.”
A senior EU official briefed on the talks by Barnier agreed: “On the big things, it will clearly need a different momentum to get somewhere.”
That the two sides remain so bitterly divided on the issues that the EU identified as the core divorce terms makes it increasingly unlikely that the European Council at its summit on October 19-20 will determine that “sufficient progress” has been made to move on to the next phase of talks, including a future trade relationship and potential transition period.
The two sides did report technical progress on some points, particularly in relation to preserving the Common Travel Area between the Republic of Ireland and the U.K., as well as on the issues of cross-border workers, social security rights, and ongoing cases before the European Court of Justice.
But those technical steps forward were far overshadowed by the broader stalemate.
Barnier, who seemed irritated throughout the press conference (although he told journalists he was “calm like a mountaineer”), offered a dark assessment of this week’s talks and of where the negotiations seem to be headed. “We haven’t noted any decisive progress on the principal subjects,” he said, adding: “At the current state of progress, we are far from assessing that progress has been sufficiently made to be able to recommend to the European Council that it engage in discussions on the future relationship.”
Davis cast this week’s talks more positively, calling them “a productive, important stepping stone.” But he also accused the EU of being overly rigid in its approach. That charge is certain to infuriate the EU27 leaders, who view their position as consistent and transparent, even as a large segment of the political and chattering classes in the U.K. seem stuck in the same Leave-Remain debate that raged before the June 2016 referendum.
“Our discussions this week have exposed yet again, that the U.K.’s approach is substantially more flexible and pragmatic than that of the EU because it avoids unnecessary disruption for businesses and consumers,” Davis said. “We proposed pragmatic solutions to prevent this disruption and we urge the EU to be more imaginative and flexible in their approach to withdrawal.”
Quentin Ariés, Giulia Paravicini and Maïa de La Baume contributed reporting.
Cette fois, c’est officiel: Cara Delevingne et Michelle Rodriguez sont en couple. L’actrice a confirmé la rumeur dans le Mirror.
Elles font fantasmer les hommes et pourtant elles ne mangent pas de ce pain là. Elles, ce sont Cara Delevingne et Michelle Rodriguez. Mardi, l’actrice est venue confirmer une rumeur qui courait depuis plusieurs jours. Oui, elle et le mannequin sont en couple. L’information est tombée dans le Mirror. Une terrible nouvelle pour la gent masculine. Depuis six semaines, les amoureuses partagent leur vie entre Londres et la Californie, tout en s’arrangeant pour passer le plus de temps ensemble. Les deux femmes avaient déjà donné un premier indice sur leur supposée idylle. Début janvier, le mannequin et la jolie brune avaient été photographiées en train de s’embrasser lors d’un match des New York Knicks au Madison Square Garden. Une proximité qui laissait déjà peu de doute sur leur relation.
Si les deux femmes n’ont jamais caché leur bisexualité, la romance étonne. Outre leurs 14 années d’écart, les deux beautés n’évoluent pas dans le même registre. Agée de 35 ans, Michelle Rodriguez n’est pas un modèle de raffinement. La native de San Antonio a déjà eu affaire plusieurs fois à la police. Bagarreuse, la jolie brune, d’origine dominicaine et portoricaine, a d’ailleurs construit sa carrière d’actrice sur ce côté garçon manqué, notamment grâce à la saga Fast and Furious. A côté, Cara Delevingne apparaît comme une petite chose. Presque fragile. Egérie de Burberry, mannequin en vogue du moment, la jeune femme ne laisse personne insensible. Mais rassurez-vous, la magnifique blonde dispose aussi d’un caractère bien trempé. La petite sœur de Poppy Delevingne n’est en effet pas la dernière quand il s’agit de donner dans la provocation.
Au final, on en viendrait presque à se dire que les deux femmes se sont parfaitement trouvées. Un avis que semble partager Michelle Rodriguez: « Tout se passe super bien. Elle est tellement sympa. Quand on a commencé à se fréquenter, je me disais juste qu’elle était incroyable. Nous passons nos meilleurs moments ensemble. Mais elle est vraiment dure. Vous ne voudriez pas avoir de souci avec elle », confie l’actrice d’Avatar dans les colonnes du Mirror. Michelle Rodriguez se serait-elle assagie au contact du top ? Seul l’avenir nous le dira. En attendant, messieurs, sortez vos mouchoirs.
Dans les colonnes du magazine VSD, la journaliste de France 2, Aïda Touirhi révèle qu’elle est séparée de son mari.
«Je n’ai pas à lui demander son avis d’autant que nous sommes séparés.» Telle est la réponse qu’a donné Aïda Touihri au journaliste de VSD Paul Wermus qu’il lui demandait si son mari, diplomate, la conseillait pour mener à bien sa carrière.
Très discrète sur sa vie privée, Aïda, maman de deux garçons (Adam 9 ans et Eloan 5 ans) était depuis 2003 en couple avec son ex mari. Au début de son idylle avec ce dernier, elle avait d’ailleurs démissionné de Radio France pour partir le rejoindre sur son lieu de travail (l’Algérie) où elle fut correspondante pour Jeune Afrique, Radio Orient et RMC Info comme nous le rapportait la rubrique CV de Stars de VSD.
Dans un portrait que lui a consacré Le Monde, on apprenait aussi que la présentatrice de Grand Public sur France 2était la troisième d’une fratrie de huit qui affiche vingt-trois ans d’écart entre la plus grande sœur et le plus petit frère.
Même fraîchement célibataire, Aïda qui en plus de Grand Public sur France 2, présente Comme à la maison, diffusé chaque samedi à 13h15 sur France Bleu, va semble-t-il devoir attendre encore un peu avant de regoûter à l’un de ses péchés mignons… «Célibataire et sans enfants, j’étais une adepte des grasses matinées, mais, aujourd’hui, je suis obligée de me contenter de sept heures», regrettait-elle dans une interview au magazine Elle.
Pour l’aider dans sa nouvelle vie, Aïda peut en tout cas compter sur sa meilleure amie Laurence Roustandjee (Miss Météo de M6) avec qui elle aime partir se ressourcer quelques jours en Corse dès que son emploi du temps le lui permet.
L’acteur qui devait remettre l’Oscar du meilleur film d’animation avec la chanteuse Idina Menzel a fortement écorché le nom de la jeune femme. Donnant ainsi naissance au «travoltifie».
Dimanche soir avaient lieu les Oscars et, sur la scène du Dolby Theater de Los Angeles, les stars se sont succédé. Parmi elles John Travolta, dont l’intervention a été l’un des moments forts de cette cérémonie.
En effet, le comédien –qui a soufflé ses soixante bougies le 18 février– a commis la bourde de la soirée en déformant le nom de celle qui a remporté l’Oscar de la meilleure chanson, Indila Menzel. Devenue «Adele Dazim» pour on ne sait quelle raison, la chanteuse ne s’en est cependant pas offusquée. Mais les spectateurs, eux, ont vu dans ce « fourchage » de langue un nouveau jeu à la mode.
Ainsi, quelques internautes se sont inspirés de cette distorsion pour créer un nouveau concept: la «travoltification». Le principe: rentrer son nom dans une application disponible sur internet et se voir attribuer une autre appellation. A titre d’exemple, Jennifer Lawrence devient alors Jessica Lee, Angelina Jolie se transforme en Alana Jerkson et George Clooney en Grace Cozzins. Hilarant et addictif, Gala vous joint le lien pour que vous aussi vous puissiez vous amuser: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/low_concept/2014/03/john_travolta_called_idina_menzel_adele_dazeem_what_s_your_travolta_name.html
En outre, de nombreux profils en l’honneur d’Adele Dazim ont vu le jour sur les réseaux sociaux.
Gentiment moqué, John Travolta a donc tenu à exprimer ses regrets dans un communiqué paru hier. «Je m’en suis mordu les doigts tout la journée», a avoué le célèbre partenaire d’Olivia Newton-John dansGrease. Puis, jouant sur le registre de l’humour: «Après, je me suis demandé… que dirait Idina Menzel? Elle dirait «Laisse tomber, Laisse tomber!» ». Une référence au titre Let it go tiré de la bande originale du Disney la Reine des Neiges et grâce auquel Idina a gagné sa statuette. Cette dernière peut d’ailleurs chaleureusement remercier John Travolta puisque ce petit buzz a, au passage, permis de faire la publicité de son prochain spectacle à Broadway, If/Then.
En somme, John Travolta a compris que le mieux était de dédramatiser la situation et de jouer la carte de l’autodérision. Après tout, les lapsus arrivent à tout le monde, même au Pape.