LOS ANGELES: Elisabeth Moss on Sunday took home a top Emmy for depicting a victim of a cult, although in real life she is a member of the controversial Church of Scientology.
The 35-year-old, earlier known for roles in “The West Wing” and “Mad Men,” won her first Emmy for a role in “The Handmaid’s Tale” in the category of best actress in a drama series.
The series by on-demand service Hulu — which also won best drama in the television awards — tells of a misogynistic authoritarian regime that establishes control in New England in response to a fertility crisis.
Her role has repeatedly drawn attention to her affiliation with Scientology, the faith she shares with Hollywood celebrities such as Tom Cruise.
When an Internet user took to Instagram last month and politely asked her if Scientology reminded her of Gilead, the controling tyrant in “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Moss rejected the comparison.
“Religious freedom and tolerance and understanding the truth and equal rights for every race, religion and creed are extremely important to me. The most important things to me probably,” she wrote.
Actress Leah Remini drew new attention to Scientology with a documentary on the church, which she describes as persistently seeking money and control out of its members and ruthlessly going after critics.
“Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath” also won an Emmy on Sunday, for best informational series or special. The church has rejected the documentary, aired by the A&E network.
Raised by Scientologist musician parents in Los Angeles, Moss said in a 2015 interview for the Screen Actors Guild Foundation that her entire family consisted of artists and she never imagined a different career path.
She was discovered as a young girl when she was playing in a local production of “The Sound of Music.”
She started landing television roles at age 7 — first in family programming but eventually being cast in “Picket Fences,” a quirky police drama about odd happenings in a small town in Wisconsin.
Moss became known to a wider public by playing Zoey Bartlet, the president’s eldest daughter, on White House drama “The West Wing.”
A student at Georgetown University, Zoey Bartlet became the center of several episodes. Her relationship with an African American man set off a white supremacist attack, while separately her French boyfriend drugs her, causing a crisis.
Moss began to take more ambitious roles as an adult. At age 24 she started to play Peggy Olson in “Mad Men” — a cerebral secretary who tries to work her way up but keeps fighting to get ahead in a macho, male-dominated advertising agency.
She has also acted in New York and London and become a frequent presence in cinema, playing in films ranging from the journalism drama “Truth” to the thriller “Queen of Earth.”
Even before leaving “Mad Men,” Moss took a new direction by joining New Zealand director Jane Campion’s series “Top of the Lake,” portraying a detective who searches for a missing pregnant 12-year-old.
Moss won a Golden Glove and credited Campion with giving her a fresh outlook on the range of roles she could play.
Elisabeth Moss, a Scientologist, wins Emmy for depicting cult
Elisabeth Moss, a Scientologist, wins Emmy for depicting cult
Some Warren Buffett wisdom on his last day leading Berkshire Hathaway
OMAHA, Nebraska: The advice that legendary investor Warren Buffett offered on investing and life over the years helped earn him legions of followers who eagerly read his annual letters and filled an arena in Omaha every year to listen to him at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meetings.
Buffett’s last day as CEO is Wednesday after six decades of building up the Berkshire conglomerate. He’ll remain chairman, but Greg Abel will take over leadership.
Here’s a collection of some of Buffett’s most famous quotes from over the years:
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“Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.”
That’s how Buffett summed up his investing approach of buying out-of-favor stocks and companies when they were selling for less than he estimated they were worth.
He also urged investors to stick with industries they understand that fall within their “circle of competence” and offered this classic maxim: “Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1.”
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“After they first obey all rules, I then want employees to ask themselves whether they are willing to have any contemplated act appear the next day on the front page of their local paper to be read by their spouses, children and friends with the reporting done by an informed and critical reporter.
“If they follow this test, they need not fear my other message to them: Lose money for the firm and I will be understanding; lose a shred of reputation for the firm and I will be ruthless.”
That’s the ethical standard Buffett explained to a Congressional committee in 1991 that he would apply as he cleaned up the Wall Street investment firm Salomon Brothers. He has reiterated the newspaper test many times since over the years.
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“You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.”
Many companies might do well when times are good and the economy is growing, but Buffett told investors that a crisis always reveals whether businesses are making sound decisions.
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“Who you associate with is just enormously important. Don’t expect that you’ll make every decision right on that. But you are going to have your life progress in the general direction of the people you work with, that you admire, that become your friends.”
Buffett always told young people that they should try to hang out with people who they feel are better than them because that will help improve their lives. He said that’s especially true when choosing a spouse, which might be the most important decision in life.
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“Our unwavering conclusion: never bet against America.”
Buffett has always remained steadfast in his belief in the American capitalist system. He wrote in 2021 that “there has been no incubator for unleashing human potential like America. Despite some severe interruptions, our country’s economic progress has been breathtaking.”
