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‘Scandal’ Finale On Small Screen And Onstage At Television Academy

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday May 16, 2013 @ 11:54pm PDTTags: Joe Morton, Kerry Washington, Scandal, Shonda Rhimes

Diane Haithman is a contributor to Deadline.

Scandal Season FinaleScandal fans watched tonight’s jam-packed season finale and received a major revelation SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT! because of a single line (“Dad???”).  The ABC drama’s ’gladiators’ as they are called heard it live at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences at the end of the first-ever onstage table read of the show using the finale script. The session ended about 10 minutes into the 10 PM PT airing. The cast whooped and hollered too. “The satisfying part is, I knew all along,” Morton crowed as the cast finished reading Act 6 which revealed that Rowan (Joe Morton) is the father of Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington). At the top of the session, show creator/executive producer Shonda Rhimes said she hoped the experiment would give the audience a feeling of what it’s like to be in the room at a real table read. Washington said she didn’t know that would be a plot twist until the first table read of the script. “I grew up in a household where Joe Morton is a great American hero,” she said. “Every week I would say: ‘Joe, I really hope we have some scenes together. He’d say: ‘We do. We do.’ ”

Related: ABC To Air Some Dramas In Two Batches Of 12 Episodes

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OSCARS: Jane Fonda Named Presenter Along With Kristen Stewart, Jennifer Garner & Kerry Washington

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday February 21, 2013 @ 10:08am PSTTags: Jane Fonda, Jennifer Garner, Kerry Washington, Kristen Stewart, Oscars

Oscarcast producers Craig Zadan and Neil Maron have already enlisted Barbra Streisand and Shirley Bassey for show duties, and now have added another nod to that generation with seven-time nominee and two-time winner Jane Fonda. Here’s the release that just went out:

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – Academy Award® winner Jane Fonda will join Jennifer Garner, Kristen Stewart and Kerry Washington to present on the Oscar telecast, show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today.

Fonda earned seven nominations and won Academy Awards for her roles in “Klute” and “Coming Home.” Garner was seen in this year’s “The Odd Life of Timothy Green” and will be seen next in “Dallas Buyers Club.” Stewart is best known for her role as Bella Swan in the “Twilight” saga and also starred in 2012′s “On the Road” and “Snow White and the Huntsman.” Washington starred in the Best Picture Nominee “Django Unchained” and was seen in “A Thousand Words.” Washington is also the star of ABC’s hit drama “Scandal.”

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‘Scandal’ Creator Shonda Rhimes Says Season 2 Will “Ramp Up The Drama”: TCA

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday January 11, 2013 @ 5:46pm PSTTags: ABC, Kerry Washington, Scandal, Shonda Rhimes

Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage.

Scandal creator/executive producer Shonda Rhimes says producers of the ABC series to “ramp up the drama” for the second season. During a conversation on the series’ Hollywood set at the … Read More »

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‘Scandal’s Kerry Washington On ‘Django Unchained’: TCA

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday January 11, 2013 @ 5:45pm PSTTags: Django Unchained, Kerry Washington, Scandal

Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage.

Kerry Washington, the star of ABC’s Scandal who also has a key role in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, was tactfully circumspect today when Deadline asked about Spike Lee’s comments regarding … Read More »

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Scarlett Johansson & Kerry Washington Urge Democrats To Get Out The Vote

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday September 6, 2012 @ 4:48pm PDTTags: Democratic National Convention, Kerry Washington, Scarlett Johansson, The Avengers

“What has been accomplished and what is at stake, whether we can get health care, afford to go to college, be guaranteed equal pay, all of these things are at great great risk,” The Avengers star told the … Read More »

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Scarlett Johansson And Kerry Washington’s DNC Focus: Student Loans, Women’s Rights

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday September 6, 2012 @ 1:03pm PDTTags: Barack Obama, Democratic National Convention, Kerry Washington, Scarlett Johansson
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: The Democratic Party has firmed Scarlett Johansson and Kerry Washington to give major speeches at the Democratic National Convention tonight at 7 PM. The choice of the actresses is hardly random. Organizers of President Obama‘s re-election campaign have taken a decidedly different track with its use of Hollywood celebrities than the Republicans did last week with Clint Eastwood’s rambling lecture to an empty chair that had many scratching their heads.

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Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman & Kerry Washington On DNC Schedule: CNN

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday September 5, 2012 @ 9:14am PDTTags: Barack Obama, Democratic National Convention, Kerry Washington, Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson

The trio and longtime supporters of President Obama would appear Thursday, the same night Obama and Joe Biden will accept the nomination of their party during the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC. CNN … Read More »

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‘Django Unchained’ A ‘Shaft’ Prequel? So Says Quentin Tarantino: Comic-Con

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday July 14, 2012 @ 1:42pm PDTTags: Comic-Con, Comic-Con Wrap-Up, Django Unchained, Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Quentin Tarantino

Luke Y. Thompson is contributing to Deadline’s coverage of Comic-Con.

Django UnchainedDjango Unchained a Shaft prequel? Really? There’s one more week of shooting on Django, and they just did scenes with Jonah Hill as a member of the Regulators (the pre-Civil War version of the KKK). Quentin Tarantino said it turned into one of the funniest scenes he’s ever done, which he says is up there with the name-colors conversation in Reservoir Dogs. There is one character in the movie that ties into the larger Tarantino-verse which he’s keeping a surprise, but he says Kerry Washington‘s character Brunhilde von Shaft is, in his mind, an ancestor of John Shaft – this prompted QT to start singing the theme song out loud. The panel was moderated by Anthony Breznican from Entertainment Weekly, who said he needed a whole new level of grandiloquent profanity to describe Django, a “twisted, bloody fairy tale,” before introducing Jamie Foxx, Walton Goggins, Don Johnson (with Jeff Bridges-looking facial hair and gray ponytail), Christoph Waltz (long hair and a bushy white beard that almost looks false, like Santa Claus), Washington, and Tarantino (in a leather jacket, dorky felt fedora, and a T-shirt depicting many of his characters as kids playing in a sandbox).
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Kerry Washington, Nick Offerman To Announce 64th Primetime Emmy Nominations

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday June 14, 2012 @ 10:22am PDTTags: Emmys, Kerry Washington, Nick Offerman

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA, June 14, 2012 – Kerry Washington (Scandal) and Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) will join Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Chairman-CEO, Bruce Rosenblum at 5:40 AM PST on July 19th to announce the 64th Primetime Emmy® Awards Nominations. Returning as producer of this year’s nomination telecast is Spike Jones Jr., who will also once again be serving as the producer for the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards. The ceremony will take place at the Television Academy’s Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre in North Hollywood.

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Kerry Washington Lands ‘Django Unchained’ Lead

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday October 26, 2011 @ 8:29am PDTTags: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained, Film Castings, Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Leonardo DiCaprio, Quentin Tarantino
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Kerry Washington has won the role of Broomhilda in Django Unchained. Director Quentin Tarantino made his choice and The Weinstein Company began exclusive negotiations with her CAA reps last night. She’ll play the long-suffering slave wife of Django (Jamie … Read More »

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EMMYS: Still more New Presenters Named

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday September 13, 2011 @ 7:25pm PDTTags: Bryan Cranston, Claire Danes, Jason O'Mara, Jon Cryer, Kerry Washington

(September 13, 2011) – Primetime Emmy Award nominee Jon Cryer along with Scott Caan, Bryan Cranston, Claire Danes, Jason O’Mara and Kerry Washington are announced as additional presenters for the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards. The

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