Celebrities get in on the gun control debate

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:50:00 +0000

Adam Scott, Chris Rock, Tony Bennett and Amanda Peet appeared on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to push Congress to pass gun control legislation.

"I still haven't gotten over Connecticut," Bennett said in a press conference, referring to the Newtown school shootings.

"I'm just here to support the president of the United States," said Chris Rock. "The president and the first lady are kind of like the mom and the dad of the country, and when your dad says something, you listen. And when you don't, it usually bites you in the ass later on."

"These shootings are rapidly becoming part of our culture, something you almost anticipate hearing about when you turn on your television or your computer," said Adam Scott. "But this one, it was clear to me as it was to millions of others, if we as a people don't act after Sandy Hook, then what's next?"

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Chris Rock and Julie Delpy on interracial sex

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:20:00 +0000

Chris Rock and Julie Delpy make a striking couple – and I’m not talking about what you might think I’m talking about. The fact that their characters are of different races isn’t presented as a huge deal in Delpy’s new film “2 Days in New York,” and as they both said in our conversation, it increasingly isn’t such a big deal in the real world either. Whether sitting next to each other on a sofa at the Sundance Film Festival or playing a squabbling married couple on-screen, their modes of being in the world could hardly be more different. (An earlier version of this interview was published from Sundance.)

Rock is a cool, laconic, thoughtful character, a man of few words who takes the time to ponder things before reacting. Delpy seems jumpy and overcaffeinated, constantly in motion; she talks a blue streak, laughs at her own jokes, half-seriously accuses me of sexism. In fact, she describes herself as “panicky and neurotic,” and “a little bit nuts.” (Oh, and just to be clear: Despite what you may read below, Rock and Delpy are not a couple in real life.)

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Celebrities get in on the gun control debate

Chris Rock and Julie Delpy on interracial sex