Entertainment news: Ellen; Eddie Redmayne; Dolly Parton; Sam Smith - Windy City Times
Hillary Clinton, Caitlyn Jenner and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai will kick off the 13th season of Ellen DeGeneres' The Ellen Show," according to Page Six. According to USA Today, she said, "I wanna say also it feels good to be chosen, but there was a time in my life that I was not chosen. I was the opposite of chosen because I was different, and I think I wanna make sure that everyone knows that what makes you different right now, makes you stand out later in life. So you should be proud of being differentyou should be proud of who you are. Eddie Redmayne will star as transgender icon Lili Elbe in the upcoming film The Danish Girl, and wants to world to know what he learned: Gender and sexuality aren't related, according to TheWrap. "My greatest ignorance when I started was that gender and sexuality were related. " Although Redmayne has played gay men on stage before, including the gay son of a fictitious American president in 2008 production of Now or Later, he explained the story of Einar Wegener/Lili Elbe was different. Redmayne also said he saluted Caitlyn Jenner's courage. NBC will make a television movie based on the Dolly Parton song "Jolene," according to TheWrap. Source: www.windycitymediagroup.com
