Glenn honored at film premiere
John Glenn, depicted in Hidden Figures as a space trailblazer who also gave critical support to pioneering black women at NASA, was fondly remembered by the cast at the movie’s New York premiere.
“He’s a hero. John Glenn was always on the right side of history. During a time when these women, because of their gender and the color of their skin, were oftentimes treated like second-class citizens, he extended his hand out, and he trusted women, and women of color, with his life,” said Janelle Monae, one of the film’s stars.
Glenn, a former U.S. senator from Ohio, died last week at 95.
Hidden Figures tells the story of three black mathematicians at NASA who did the calculations that led to Glenn’s orbit in 1962.
Ex-child star fired as radio host
A Los Angeles radio station says former Brady Bunch star Susan Olsen has been fired after she got into an online confrontation with openly gay actor Leon Acord-Whiting.
LA Talk Radio announced Friday it will not tolerate hateful speech and it has severed ties with the host.
Us Weekly reports Acord-Whiting criticized Olsen after he was a guest on her show. Olsen, who played Cindy Brady in the TV show, posted on her Facebook page that Acord-Whiting blocked her “before I could even get one hit in.” Acord-Whiting later posted a screenshot of a Facebook message he says Olsen sent to him.
In the screenshot, Olsen appears to call the actor an offensive term for gay men.