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  • 2017-01-09 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Meryl Streep Applaud Roman Polanski at the Academy Awards? (en)
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  • On 9 January 2017, the day after after Meryl Streep delivered a speech critical of President-elect Donald Trump as she was awarded the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the annual Golden Globes ceremony, an image macro purportedly showing the actress cheering for director Roman Polanski — who fled the United States in the 1970s to avoid imprisonment for the sexual assault of a minor — at the Academy Awards ceremonies in 2003 was circulated on social media: The image of Steep's applauding (along with nearly everyone else present) was indeed taken from the Academy Awards ceremony of 2003, just after Polanski was announced as the winner in the Best Director category for his film The Pianist. The event captured in the screenshot can be glimpsed at the 1:10 mark of the following video: This video was widely shared online in an effort to portray Streep (and other Hollywood elites) as hypocritical: Streep's speech at the Golden Globes also sparked the ire of president-elect Donald Trump, largely because the actress brought attention to a 2015 incident when Trump reportedly mocked a handicapped reporter: Trump responded to Streep's comments on Twitter, calling her one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood and denying that he had mocked a disabled reporter: (en)
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