Related Blogs
- Related Blogs on Captioning Fail: Actress mistakenly ID’ed as Boston Bombing Suspect
Category: Celebrities
Celebrity shows off her signing skills
Lawless star Jessica Chastain surprised onlookers by communicating through ASL with a deaf fan. Read the story here.
Tom Cruise: Another Swatting Hoax
It happened again to a Hollywood celebrity. Someone made an emergency call today, claiming shots were fired at the home of Tom Cruise. Beverly Hills police surrounded his house, but the call was a fake. Police are now trying to figure out who made it. It has recently happened to other celebrities, too: Simon Cowell, Ashton Kutcher, Charlie Sheen, Miley Cyrus, and Justin Bieber. LA police arrested a preteen a few months ago for making "swatting calls" in at least two of those cases. The boy used a computer program to make TTY calls, typically used by the deaf and hard-of--hearing. ‘Swatting’ suspect may avoid charges
Police in LA say the 12-year-old who used TTY to summon Swat teams to celebrity homes may not face criminal charges. He used a computer program that allowed him to make the fake emergency calls through the system set up for the deaf. He was able to get SWAT teams to the homes of Ashton Kutcher and Justin Bieber by saying a gunman had fired shots and was threatening to shoot any police that came to the residents. Even if the boy avoids jail, his parents may be on the hook for bills reaching the tens of thousands of dollars. A video report from KTLA-TV is posted on DeafNewsToday.com or read more from KTLA here.
Katie Couric: Very Humiliating
Playing a dancing bear is better than playing a Deaf person, according to talk show anchor Katie Couric. It was "humiliating" to be cast as a deaf person in a high school musical, Couric says. After the former morning talk show anchor objected to playing the role, she was given the part of a dancing bear. She says playing that part was acceptable to her. Couric made the remarks to the LA Times during a promotional tour of her new TV talk show. Read the full story here.Read More at DeafNewsToday.com
Justin Bieber Hearing Loss Suit
An Oregon woman is suing Justin Bieber for $9 million because a screaming fan permanently damaged her hearing during one of his shows. Stacey Wilson Betts claims it happened at a July 14th, 2010 concert in Portland. According to her suit she now suffers from "hearing loss, severe tinnitus" and an oversensitivity to certain frequency ranges of sound in both ears. No comment so far from Bieber.
Read More at DeafNewsToday.com
Johnny Depp’s ASL skills
Johnny Depp is responding to critics who say he did a poor job of signing the lyrics to a new Paul McCartney song in a music video. As we reported to you back in April, he appears with Natalie Portman in My Valentine. At one point Depp signs enemy instead of valentine. But the actor responds that he was only following the directions that he was given on the set. He was mislead and didn't know any better. However, Depp says "it was a gas – sign language is apparently very interpretive. It’s all kind of different.” The video is posted below on DeafNewsToday.com.
Read More at DeafNewsToday.com
Springsteen on Stage
Sign interpreters at this year's New Orleans Jazz Fest got a treat while they were translating the performance of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. The Boss decided to join them for a moment and you see the result in a video below. Holly Maniatty and Edie Jackson even got Springsteen to sign along with them.
Read More at DeafNewsToday.com
Perez on Sign "Amateurs"
Perez Hilton weighs in on the sign language flubs by Johnny Depp and Natalie Portman. Read about it here.
Read More at DeafNewsToday.com
My Valentine
Paul McCartney's new music video features sign language from Natalie Portman and Johnny Depp. There is a version featuring Portman by herself, Depp by himself, and a third version combining both. My Valentine is from his most recent album Kisses on the Bottom. The idea for using sign in the video came from McCartney's fashion designer-daughter Stella. The combined video is posted below on DeafNewsToday.com.
Read More at DeafNewsToday.com
