Rose McGowan says she regrets Natalie Portman Oscars dress comments

McGowan tweets that she ‘lost sight of the bigger picture’ after calling fellow actor a ‘fraud’

Rose McGowan has expressed regret for her attack on Natalie Portman over the latter’s Oscar dress “protest”, which took aim at the exclusion of women from the best director Academy Award nominations.

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Rose McGowan: Natalie Portman’s Oscars dress protest ‘deeply offensive’

McGowan posts Facebook attack on Portman, who wore a gown embroidered with names of female directors snubbed at awards

Activist and actor Rose McGowan has labelled Natalie Portman a “fraud” for wearing a dress to the Oscars embroidered with the names of female film-makers including Greta Gerwig and Lulu Wang who were passed over for best director nominations.

In a post on Facebook, McGowan said Portman had made “the kind of protest that gets rave reviews from the mainstream media” but was “more like an actress acting the part of someone who cares. As so many of them do.”

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Eight sexual assault cases added to Harvey Weinstein investigation

The disgraced Hollywood mogul has not been charged in the cases, which are being reviewed by Los Angeles prosecutors

Prosecutors in Los Angeles are reviewing eight cases accusing disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, an official said Thursday.

The Los Angeles and Beverly Hills police departments each brought four investigations to prosecutors, according to Ricardo Santiago, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

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Rose McGowan Urges The Media To Stop Covering Donald Trump

Actress Rose Mcgowan has slammed the media for "propagating this propaganda" surrounding presidential hopeful Donald Trump. In an open letter addressed to "Enablers and Donald" and posted online, the Grindhouse star has attacked the journalists and news reporters who have been covering the Republican Party's candidate for the White House race, accusing them of stressing her and "most of the nation" out.