SDC Radio Networks March 2015 -002

SDC Radio Networks March 2015 -002

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Keira Knightley: Paparazzi Used to Call Me a "Whore," Spit At Me, Tried to Take Photos Up My Skirt

by MARC MALKIN Tue., Feb. 17, 2015 1:53 PM PST

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Keira Knightley became a target of the paparazzi at about 18 years old when she co-starred alongside Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom in the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie.

And the throngs of photographers following her every move was brutal.

"Having 20 to 30 men who you don't know on a 24-hour surveillance outside your house calling you a 'whore' every time you leave the door to try to get a reaction from you is quite a difficult thing to deal with," Knightley said last night at a TimesTalks and TIFF Q&A with her Imitation Game co-star Benedict Cumberbatch.

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"It was a time when there was a lot of money for pictures of women crying or of women in some state of undress," she continued. "You'd walk down he street and you'd have men trying to get under your skirt to take pictures up your skirt and all the time calling you a 'whore' or all the time spitting at you or all the time trying to get a reaction from the guy you were with because it would make the price of that photograph quadruple."

Cumberbatch summed up it pretty well when he said, "It's just disgusting behavior."

Fortunately, Knightley said things are "completely different" for her now.

"I think there's a certain point where you get married, you get pregnant and they're like, 'Hey, she's not going out and getting drunk,'" said Knightley, who is expecting her and hubby James Righton's first baby. "I think there is a level that you grow out of it."

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Cumberbatch had just flown into L.A. yesterday from the U.K., where he married Sophie Hunter on Valentine's Day.

When the the panel moderator alluded to the wedding by saying, "Congratulations, your personal life has changed recently," Cumberbatch raised an eyebrow and joked, "Has it?" (FYI: We did notice that he fiddled a bit with his shiney new wedding band,)

Both Knightley and Cumberbatch are up for Oscars for their work in The Imitation Game, the true story of Alan Turing, a British mathematician who broke the Nazi code during WWII. He later committed suicide after being prosecuted for being gay and undergoing court-ordered chemical castration.

The Oscars will be handed out on Feb. 22 during a live telecast on ABC starting at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT.

For Presidents’ Day We Made You Some Pages

• For Presidents’ Day We Made You Some Pages

  
  Ashleigh Axios

  February 15, 2015 
  06:39 PM EST

  

  As celebrated on the third Monday in February each year, Presidents’ Day is yet again upon us.

  This is often the time of year students across the country study U.S. Presidents, especially Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, both of whom have birthdays celebrated in February. Luckily, we’ve revamped our Presidents’ pages in time for the holiday, so whether you’re a student or adult, you can more easily buff up on American history.

  

  18TH CENTURY

  1. George Washington
  2. John Adams

  19TH CENTURY

  3. Thomas Jefferson
  4. James Madison 
  5. James Monroe 
  6. John Quincy Adams 
  7. Andrew Jackson 
  8. Martin Van Buren 
  9. William Henry Harrison 
  10. John Tyler 
  11. James K. Polk 
  12. Zachary Taylor 
  13. Millard Fillmore 
  14. Franklin Pierce 
  15. James Buchanan 
  16. Abraham Lincoln 
  17. Andrew Johnson 
  18. Ulysses S. Grant 
  19. Rutherford B. Hayes 
  20. James Garfield 
  21. Chester A. Arthur 
  22. Grover Cleveland 
  23. Benjamin Harrison 
  24. Grover Cleveland
  25. William McKinley

  20TH CENTURY

  26. Theodore Roosevelt 
  27. William Howard Taft 
  28. Woodrow Wilson 
  29. Warren G. Harding 
  30. Calvin Coolidge 
  31. Herbert Hoover 
  32. Franklin D. Roosevelt 
  33. Harry S. Truman 
  34. Dwight D. Eisenhower 
  35. John F. Kennedy 
  36. Lyndon B. Johnson 
  37. Richard M. Nixon 
  38. Gerald R. Ford 
  39. James Carter 
  40. Ronald Reagan 
  41. George H. W. Bush 
  42. William J. Clinton

  21ST CENTURY

  43. George W. Bush 
  44. Barack Obama

  The Presidential biographies on WhiteHouse.gov are from “The Presidents of the United States of America,” by Frank Freidel  and Hugh Sidey. Copyright 2006 by the White House Historical Association.

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