Such crashes were so common along 31st Street that business owners regularly texted one another photos showing the
. Getting an Oscar is especially exciting for Curtis who remembers as a teen having to wait until the night after to watch the broadcast in the U.K.“I’ve been excited by their existence for 50 years,” he said. “This is particularly a special award, but it’s not work for which one expects praise or needs praise. So it’s very lovely.”
Curtis spoke to The Associated Press about his second career, the state of romantic comedies andsecond act. Remarks have been edited for clarity and brevity.CURTIS: No, it’s been one of those cascading things. I have always found that if you create a sort of venue for generosity, the public reaction is so often astonishing. When did this first TV show, we thought we’d make £5 million, but we made £15 million. The next year we made £27 million. I would have had to be a monster not to continue with it. I thought it was going to last a year. Instead, it’s lasted a lifetime.
CURTIS: We have a younger generation that is very passionate about issues of gender and diversity and climate. There’s a more sophisticated understanding of how you solve problems and change things. A lot of it is about giving power to people on the ground. And particularly since the pandemic, it’s important to go on pointing out how much difference a small amount of money can make abroad and at home.CURTIS: I don’t see the things as different. What is slightly peculiar is that I have written two very serious movies, one about malaria and the other
But when doing my own films, I’ve focused more on private romantic things and not gone all out on the stuff that I do the charity work for.
CURTIS: I’m a bit puzzled by it. I can’t but sort of think it’s almost a lucky break. I remember once bumping into Chris Rock, who I had never met, and he said to me, “I like your films because they’ve got man jokes in them.” I think he was saying that the sentiment is repeatedly either undercut or reinforced by jokes that you don’t quite expect. There must be something in that combination that makes feel people feel comfortable with the heart of it., said the private plane departed Westchester County Airport in White Plains, New York, at around 11:30 a.m. heading north to Columbia County Airport in Hudson.
Piloted by Michael Groff, the plane had left the Boston suburbs early Saturday morning, picking up Karenna Groff and Santoro in White Plains before making the short trip to the Catskills to celebrate Karenna Goff’s 25th birthday.But at about 11:57 a.m., Michael Groff informed air traffic control that he’d missed the initial approach to the runway at Columbia County Airport, according to the report. The controller then gave him new instructions for the landing, which Groff acknowledged a little after 12 p.m.
About a minute later, though, the controller warned Groff the plane was flying at a low altitude, the report states. The pilot never responded, and, despite multiple warnings, air traffic control received no further radio transmissions from the plane until radar contact was eventually lost.The Mitsubishi MU-2B-40 crashed in snow covered terrain roughly 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of the airport.