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Taylor Swift, Austin Butler, Keke Palmer and Ke Huy Quan invited to join Film Academy
Read full article: Taylor Swift, Austin Butler, Keke Palmer and Ke Huy Quan invited to join Film AcademyTaylor Swift, best supporting Oscar actor winner Ke Huy Quan, “Elvis” star Austin Butler and “Nope’s” Keke Palmer and The Weeknd have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
SAISD debuts new fast-track evening high school
Read full article: SAISD debuts new fast-track evening high schoolSAISD’s Evening Flex High School is a new instructional model aimed to accelerate the process of earning credits online and in the evening. Learn how your student can earn credit for secondary courses.
Hollywood power publicist and pal to stars Nanci Ryder dies
Read full article: Hollywood power publicist and pal to stars Nanci Ryder diesNanci Ryder, a powerful Hollywood publicist and co-founder of BWR Public Relations who became close to such stars as Rene Zellweger and Courteney Cox, died Thursday of Lou Gehrigs disease in Los Angeles. Zellweger thanked Ryder in her best actress acceptance speech when she won the Academy Award for Judy earlier this year. Stints at Goldberg-Ehrlich Public Relations and Management and Michael Levine Public Relations followed, before she formed Nanci Ryder Public Relations in 1984, with Fox as her first client. In 1987, she co-founded the firm BWR Public Relations with Paul Baker and Larry Winokur. This spring, the firm's parent company, Burson Cohn & Wolfe, shut down BWR Public Relations, moving staffers or laying them off.