Lily Gladstone on Devery Jacobs’ ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Criticism: “This Movie Gave a Lot of People a Chance to Speak”
In an interview published Tuesday, the Golden Globe winner also stressed that she didn't "want to bring heat back on" her 'Reservation Dogs' co-star, while also noting that "ultimately, Osage reaction is what I care about the most."
Lily Gladstoneis defending herReservation Dogsco-starDevery Jacobs‘ right to her opinion aboutKillers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese’s take on theOsage murders.
The Golden Globe winner briefly addressed theEchostar’s comments about the film, in which Jacobsdescribed the experienceof watching it as “hellfire.” The film chronicles the “reign of terror,” a string of unsolved murders by white Americans as part of a plot to steal the wealth of the Osage tribe, which retained the mineral rights, including oil leases, on their reservation.
This was carried out in part by white men marrying women of the tribe and becoming guardians of their Osage partner’s estate. In the film, Gladstone plays Mollie Burkhart, an Osage woman who is targeted alongside her family by her husband, Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), for their oil headrights on their Oklahoma reservation.
In a thread of posts shared on X (formerly known as Twitter), Jacobs wrote, “Imagine the worst atrocities committed against yr ancestors, then having to sit thru a movie explicitly filled w/ them, w/ the only respite being 30min long scenes of murderous white guys talking about/planning the killings.”
Gladstone toldRolling Stonethat she and Jacobs are friends, with the latter allowing theKillers of the Flower Moon star to crash “on her couch in Toronto when Certain Women played at TIFF.” As a fellow Native woman, Gladstone expressed that she did not “want to bring heat back on [Jacobs] for this because I think that’s unfair. Her reaction is hers.”TheUnknown Countrystar and writer went on to add that reactions like Jacobs’ are “a response to a lot of trauma that particularly Native women feel seeing these things for the first time,” before noting that she herself “had a lot of time acclimating myself to the script.
“The Osage people have had their lives to understand this history,” she continued. “The process of making this movie gave a lot of people a chance to speak. Ultimately, Osage reaction is what I care about the most.”
While much of the buzz around the film praised its Indigenous representation, Jacobs was not the only person to speak up about the film’s white-led perspective, with Christopher Cote — the film’s Osage language consultant —tellingThe Hollywood Reporterat the film’s L.A. premiere that after seeing the film, he had “some strong opinions.”
“As an Osage, I really wanted this to be from the perspective of Mollie and what her family experienced, but I think it would take an Osage to do that,” Cote said. “Martin Scorsese, not being Osage, I think he did a great job representing our people, but this history is being told almost from the perspective of Ernest Burkhart, and they kind of give him this conscience and kind of depict that there’s love. But when somebody conspires to murder your entire family, that’s not love. That’s not love, that’s just beyond abuse.”
Last Sunday, Gladstone won the Golden Globe in the best performance by a female actor in a motion picture — drama category for her role in the film, marking afirst for the Indigenous acting communityand awards show. She is expected to be among the Oscars’ best actress nominees and is currentlya frontrunner to take the Academy Award.
Lynn Yamada Davis, ‘Cooking with Lynja’ TikTok star and ‘internet’s grandma,’ dies at 67
Lynja, as Davis became known mononymously online, was beloved for her quirky personality and dance moves in her innuendo-filled cooking tutorials.
Lynn Yamada Davis, an influencer whose zany cooking tutorials drew the admiration of millions on her TikTok account Cooking With Lynja, died on Jan. 1 at Riverview Medical Center in New Jersey, the New York Times reports. She was 67.
Her cause of the death was esophageal cancer, Davis’ daughter, Hannah Mariko Shofet, told the Times. The beloved social media star had been fighting the disease since before the start of her TikTok career in 2019, according to Forbes, who included Davis on its “50 under 50” list in 2022.
Davis’ TikTok career began during the pandemic when she partnered on a set of cooking tutorial videos with her youngest son, Tim Davis, 27, in the hopes of honing his cinematography skills. That signature style, with quick cuts and floating edits of Davis, was on prominent display in every Cooking With Lynja video.
Her son told the Times he wanted to make the videos to learn his mom’s recipes and create a “time capsule” of moments spent with her.
On Jan. 12, he posted a TikTok confirming her death and sharing pictures of her life with her fans, saying, “Her final moments were super peaceful, and thankfully she was surrounded by the people she loved most: her friends and family.”
Davis’ first TikTok to hit over a million views was posted on June 26, 2020 and showed her making a bacon, egg and cheese in a way her fans described as “charismatic” and “grandmotherly.”
Lynja, as Davis became known mononymously online, was adored for her quirky personality and dance moves in her innuendo-filled cooking tutorials, which ranged from Philly cheesesteaks to sauteed squash. She garnered over 17 million followers on TikTok, over 2 million on Instagram and over 9 million on YouTube. In 2022, she won two Streamys in the Editing and Food categories.
Davis was also known for her frequent collaborations with former “MasterChef” finalist Nick DiGiovanni, who also has built a substantial following on social media.
“I’ll always remember her as the woman who fought off her cancer diagnosis for as long as she could humbly and quietly without ever complaining until it got the best of her,” says DiGiovanni.
Davis’ son Tim says he will continue to upload Cooking with Lynja videos recorded before her death — like a recent video of her and DiGiovanni going truffle hunting and making pasta. Once the last video is uploaded, he says the account will stop posting.
Davis was a third-generation American with four Japanese grandparents. She graduated from MIT with a degree in civil engineering before earning her master’s degree in business administration and public health from Columbia University’s Business School. Davis spent her career working for the federal government and at AT&T Labs for 29 years before her post-retirement stint as the “internet’s grandma,” as her fans frequently called her.
She is survived by her second husband, Keith Davis; her sons, Tim and Sean Davis; her daughters, Hannah Mariko Shofet and Becky Steinberg; her two siblings, Jay Yamada and Karen Dolce Yamada, and two grandchildren.
“So glad that you guys all got to experience how wonderful of a person she was, and how you guys treated her so well,” Tim says in his TikTok tribute. “So thank you for the last couple years. We had so much fun making videos.”
Harvard's president, Claudine Gay, resigned after conservative activists revealed she had plagiarized.
The hedge fund manager and prominent Harvard donor Bill Ackman helped lead the charge against Gay.
BI analyzed Ackman's wife's doctoral dissertation and found numerous instances of plagiarism.
The billionaire hedge fund manager and major Harvard donor Bill Ackmanseized on revelations that Harvard's president, Claudine Gay, had plagiarized some passages in her academic work to underscore his calls for her removal following what he perceived as her mishandling of large protests against Israel's bombardment of Gaza on Harvard's campus.
An analysis by Business Insider found a similar pattern of plagiarism by Ackman's wife, Neri Oxman, who became a tenured professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2017.
Oxman plagiarized multiple paragraphs of her 2010 doctoral dissertation, Business Insider found, including at least one passage directly lifted from other writers without citation.
Her husband, Ackman, has taken a hardline stance on plagiarism. On Wednesday, responding to news that Gay is set to remain a part of Harvard's faculty after she resigned as president, he wrote on X that Gay should be fired completely due to "serious plagiarism issues."
"Students are forced to withdraw for much less," Ackman continued. "Rewarding her with a highly paid faculty position sets a very bad precedent for academic integrity at Harvard."
An architect and artist who experiments with new ways to synthesize materials found in nature, Oxman has been the subject of profiles in major outlets such as The New York Times and Elle. She has collaborated with Björk, exhibited at New York's Museum of Modern Art, and had paparazzi stake her out after Brad Pitt visited her lab at MIT in 2018.
In 2019, emails uncovered by the Boston Globe showed Ackman pressured MIT to keep Oxman's name out of a brewing scandal over an original sculpture she gave to Jeffrey Epstein in thanks for a $125,000 donation to her lab.
While MIT and Pershing Square Foundation continue to describe her as a professor in online biographies, a spokesperson for Pershing Square Capital Management said she left MIT in 2020 "after she got married, became a mother, and moved to New York City." After this article was published, MIT responded to a prior request for comment, writing that Oxman left MIT in June 2021.
Her husband, meanwhile, has been vocal about wanting to see MIT's president, Sally Kornbluth, fired since Kornbluth testified on December 5 in front of a congressional panel examining how university presidents handled student protests against Israel's war in Gaza. Kornbluth said in her opening statement that she didn't support "speech codes" that would restrict what students say during protests.
Ackman attacked Kornbluth's testimony, as well as that of Gay and the University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill, as tantamount to supporting antisemitism. He also criticized the president's stated goals of improving campus diversity, equity, and inclusion as "violations of basic American principles."
"To the @MIT governing boards: Let's make a deal. If you promptly terminate President Kornbluth, I promise I won't write you a letter," Ackman posted on X on December 10, referring to an open letter he sent to Harvard's governing board criticizing Gay's leadership.
Both Oxman and Ackman declined to comment when reached by Business Insider. Both posted lengthy responses on X to the piece shortly after it was published.
Multiple instances of plagiarism from a 2010 dissertation
In Oxman's dissertation, completed at MIT, she plagiarized a 1998 paper by two Israeli scholars, Steve Weiner and H. Daniel Wagner, a 2006 article published in the journal Nature by the New York University historian Peder Anker, and a 1995 paper published in the proceedings of the Royal Society of London. She also lifted from a book published in 1998 by the German physicist Claus Mattheck and, in a more classical mode of plagiarism, copied one paragraph from Mattheck without any quotation or attribution.
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"The basic building block of the bone family of materials is the mineralized collagen fibril," Weiner and Wagner wrote in their paper. "It is composed of the fibrous protein collagen in a structural form that is also present in skin, tendon, and a variety of other soft tissues. The collagen constitutes the main component of a three-dimensional matrix into which, and in some cases onto which, the mineral forms."
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That passage was included in its entirety in Oxman's dissertation. She cited Weiner and Wagner but did not include the passage in quotation marks, a violation of MIT's academic-integrity handbook, both as it is currently written and as it was at the time.
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Similarly, in most of the other instances that BI identified in which Oxman lifted passages from other works, she cited the author but did not put quotation marks around the plagiarized material.
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MIT's academic-integrity handbook notes that authors must either "use quotation marks around the words and cite the source," or "paraphrase or summarize acceptably and cite the source." Oxman published her thesis in 2010; identical language appeared in MIT's handbook at least as far back as 2007.
From MIT's academic-integrity handbook. MIT
Oxman also took a passage from Mattheck's book without attribution and inaccurately attributed a passage she lifted from the Royal Society of London paper to two different sources.
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She also recycled phrasing she used in her dissertation in subsequent papers. The opening paragraph of her dissertation, for instance, appears almost word-for-word in an article she published in 2013. While re-using material isn't a formal violation of MIT's academic-integrity code, a guide to "ethical writing" recommended by the university to its scholars and students warns against it..
Ackman said Harvard president's plagiarism made her unfit to work
Like Oxman, Gay was found to have lifted passages from other academics' work without using quotation marks while citing the authors.
Gay's plagiarism was seen by some academics, including many of those she plagiarized, as relatively inconsequential.
George Reid Andrews, a history professor at the University of Pittsburgh and one of the people Gay plagiarized, told the New York Post that what Gay did "happens fairly often in academic writing and for me does not rise to the level of plagiarism."
"I am glad she read my work, learned from it, and recommended it to her readers," Andrews continued.
But for Bill Ackman, the plagiarism wasn't only cause for Gay's immediate ouster as Harvard's president — it also warranted her total removal from its faculty. In the weeks leading up to her resignation as president, he posted more than a dozen times about her plagiarism on X.
Ackman, a Harvard graduate worth roughly $4 billion, has been a prolific donor to the school. His most substantial donation, of $25 million in 2014, supported the expansion of the economics department and the endowment of three professorships. He also made a smaller contribution to the rowing crew, a team he was part of as an undergraduate.
Ackman and Oxman married in 2019 and their first child was born the same year. In 2015, Ackman purchased a luxury apartment in New York's swanky One57 building, which Oxman also lists as an address, according to public records. The couple are listed as trustees for the Pershing Square Foundation, a charitable organization.
Ackman began campaigning for Gay's removal in the wake of widespread protests on Harvard's campus related to Israel's invasion of Gaza in October. Ackman decried the protests as antisemitic and accused Gay of not doing enough to protect either Jewish students or "academic freedom."
"President Gay catalyzed an explosion of antisemitism and hate on campus that is unprecedented in Harvard's history," he wrote last month on X.Ackman also intimated that he had inside information that Gay had only been offered the job as Harvard's president because she is a Black woman. Gay became the school's first Black president and the second woman president in July.
On X, he wrote that he had been informed that Harvard would not choose a president "who did not meet the DEI office's criteria." Gay, he implied, would most likely "not have obtained" the role of president "were it not for a fat finger on the scale."
Gay's plagiarism was surfaced by the right-wing activist Christopher Rufo, who was forthright about his plans to "smuggle" the news of the plagiarism "into the media apparatus" to lend credence to those calling for Gay's resignation.
Harvard's governing body, the Harvard Corporation, initially stood by Gay's handling of the on-campus protests and her plagiarism. In recent weeks, though, pressure on Gay to resign has mounted, spearheaded in no small part by Ackman.
Gay resigned as Harvard's president on Tuesday. In a letter to the Harvard community, Gay wrote that she was stepping down in part due to "personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus."
But Ackman remains on the hunt for one more head. Of the three university presidents who testified in front of Congress in a disastrous early December session, two of them — Gay and Magill — are no longer in their posts. One remains Kornbluth, the president of MIT, where Oxman wrote her thesis and worked from 2010 to 2020.
When a user on X asked Ackman why he wasn't going after Kornbluth, Ackman's response was to the point.
