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Rihanna to release $250 special edition of Unapologetic album We know the music industry has changed quite a bit over the last few decades. Vinyl records were replaced by cassettes, which were replaced by CDs, which were eventually made more or less obsolete by the digital music revolution. But here’s something we never thought we’d see any time soon: a $250 album.
That’s right! Just in time for Christmas, pop queen Rihanna will be releasing a special version of her new album Unapologetic, which drops on November 16. In all fairness it’s not just an album. It’s — drumroll please — the “Diamonds Executive Platinum Box” version of the album. That means it also includes a gaggle of goodies like special collectible
colored vinyl remixes of the single “Diamonds,” a T-shirt featuring a photo of the 24-year-old songstress taken by photographer Michael Muller, along with seven lithographs, stickers, a notebook filled with copies of notes handwritten by RiRi herself, a DVD with neverbefore-seen footage, and an oldschool Viewmaster where fans can view 3D images of the “Rude Boy”
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singer as part of a style transformation slideshow. The box of swag will be available December 11. Singer Rihanna poses after being symbolically crowned queen of the West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval in West Hollywood, California October 31, 2012.
Denzel soars as troubled pilot in ‘Flight’ If “Flight” weren’t so exceptionally crafted and acted, this tale of self-destruction and eventual redemption might feel like the sort of feel-good fare you’d see on the Lifetime Movie Network, or even a 12-step-program promotion. Instead, director Robert Zemeckis’ first live-action film since 2000’s “Cast Away” is by turns thrilling, engrossing and even darkly funny, anchored by a tremendous performance from Denzel Washington. This is one of those Washington roles, like his Oscar-winning work in “Training Day,” in which he exudes a potent mix of damage and bravado, control and danger, but he’s so incredibly charismatic even as he does bad deeds that you can’t help but root for him. Here, Zemeckis and screenwriter John Gatins have given him a deeply flawed character and placed him in a complicated situation, and allowed him to put the best of what he can do on display. Washington stars as Whip Whitaker, a veteran airline pilot and serious alcoholic. When we first see h i m , h e ’s waki n g u p
wasted and naked in a hotel outside the Orlando airport alongside an equally wasted and naked (and very sexy) flight attendant. A sip of beer, a hit off a joint, a line of coke and he’s ready for his 9 a.m. flight — swaggering, commanding, even charming. Clearly, he’s done this before. But then a major mechanical failure en route to Atlanta forces him to pull off a daring crash landing in the middle of a field in a breathtakingly spectacular extended action sequence. (If you thought the plane crash in “Cast Away” was a doozy, this one’s just as harrowing.) While the head flight attendant (Tamara Tunie) calmly, competently follows Whip’s instructions, the deeply religious, judgmental co-pilot (Brian Geraghty) is useless as he panics and prays. Afterward, Whip is rightly hailed as a hero for saving so many lives. But the subsequent federal investigation also reveals his rampant substance abuse, which only fortifies his denial. It’s a murky area that allows a lot of room for us to debate within ourselves: Yes, the plane malfunctioned, but Whip didn’t exactly belong in the cockpit in that state. Then again, no sober pilot could have achieved what he did, as if his looseness somehow kept him even-keeled. While there are no easy answers, increasingly difficult questions keep cropping up. Bruce Greenwood, Don Cheadle and John Goodman all give strong supporting performances as the people around Whip who keep him functioning in various ways as the investigation (and hungry media hordes) close in around him. Greenwood exudes an easy Southern warmth as the union representative assigned to work with Whip, Cheadle is the all-business voice of reason as the hotshot lawyer flown in from Chicago to fend off criminal charges and Goodman is, unsurprisingly, a hilarious force of nature as Whip’s pusher/ enabler/friend.
Brad Pitt donates $100K for gay marriage effort
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Brad Pitt has agreed to donate $100,000 to help the Human Rights Campaign raise money for its efforts to support same-sex marriage initiatives in several states. The nation’s largest gay rights group announced Wednesday that Pitt agreed to match contributions from the group’s members up to $100,000. In an e-mail to members of the Human Rights Campaign, Pitt wrote that it’s “unbelievable” that people’s relationships will be put to a vote on Election Day. Same-sex marriage will be on the ballot in Maryland, Maine, Minnesota and Washington state.
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The file photo showed sound system project in Art Center. The sound system project was one of the findings in BPK Audit. In the findings of the BPK, it was mentioned there were some costliness for the e-government system worth IDR 3.6 billion as well as in the procurement of heavy equipment, sound system equipment, CCTV, electrical installations and telephone in the Culture Agency worth IDR 6.2 billion. IBP/File Photo
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DENPASAR - Bali Government seems to have not accepted the findings of the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) related to Local Government Financial Report (LKPD) for the fiscal year 2010, 2011 and the first half of 2012. The audit noted number of costliness in the procurement of goods and services. In the findings of the BPK, it was mentioned there were some costliness for the e-
government system worth IDR 3.6 billion as well as in the procurement of heavy equipment, sound system equipment, CCTV, electrical installations and telephone in the Culture
Agency worth IDR 6.2 billion. Governor of Bali, Made Mangku Pastika, said his party would coordinate the findings on the costliness with the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK). “State loss due to lack of volume of work has mostly been followed up, while the state loss caused by the indication of price costliness of the work has been coordinated with the Supreme Audit Agency of the RI,” he said in a
plenary session of the Bali House on Tuesday (Oct 30). Meanwhile Chairman of the PDI-P Faction of the Bali House, Ketut Tama Tenaya, said the BPK had standards and validation in calculating the procurement of goods or in the government that should surely become a reference for the examined, in this regard the Bali Government. If the Bali government had a different perception from the standards of the
BPK, he said, it would be difficult to find out the common ground. “Actually, the BPK has already owned a standard rule in determining the costliness or not,” he said. Tama Tenaya added that in following up the findings of the BPK, Bali government was requested to refer to the standards of BPK because they had surely referred to the prevailing legislation. Continued on page 6