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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Ang Lee sees clout of Chinese film awards growing Associated Press Writer
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee believes the modest clout of the premier awards for Chinese-language films will grow as the market for such films increases. The Taiwanese filmmaker spoke Tuesday in Taipei ahead of next week’s 50th annual Golden Horse Awards, which showcases films from Taiwan, mainland China, Singapore and Hong Kong. The event is the equivalent of the Oscars, and Lee will be a juror selecting winners in 22 categories, ranging from Best Feature Film to Best Action Choreography. Asked about Hollywood’s relative indifference to the Golden Horse event, Lee says that will change as the market for Chinese films grows. “I think in 10 years’ time our market
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is bigger than the Hollywood market,” he said. “So it comes naturally.” While the Golden Horse event is a staple for Asian film fans, with glitzy local television coverage and legions of screaming fans blanketing the award venue to get a close look at their favorite stars, it has little impact outside the region. A-list Hollywood personalities almost never attend, and few films showcased here make a splash in theaters outside of Asia.
Still, Lee said, it was not necessary for the Golden Horse Awards to do anything special to make a bigger impact in Hollywood, because “Chinese-speaking people are probably four times more than English-speaking people.” “I think as long as we’re influential in the Chinese-speaking world it will prevail, it will ripple out,” he said of the awards, adding that while the Golden Horse event will likely have its ups and downs “eventually, I think it will get picked up.” This year’s Golden Horse awards are scheduled to be distributed Nov. 23.
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2 planes, 3,000 people: Misery in typhoon-hit city
Government handles abrasion ‘selectively’ Bali Post
DENPASAR - Abrasion hitting Bali is getting more serious. The latest data in the Bali-Penida River Agency based on Satellite Image 2009 indicate the length of coastal abrasion reached 181.7 km throughout Bali. Probably, this amount can increase because the recount to coastal abrasion will be undertaken next year. So far, only 93.351 km of the total beach length can have been addressed. Meanwhile, the coastal abrasion that has not been addressed reached 88.349 km.
Deputy of Friends of the Earth Indonesia (Walhi) of Bali Chapter, Suriadi Darmoko, observed that all this time the government’s priority in handling abrasion was only focused on the beach in tourism area potentially generating dollars. Meanwhile, the beaches under control of fishermen or having no tourism potential were neglected though they were equally being hit by the abrasion. “In most cases, the abrasion in
tourism area is much faster, so different treatment is given to the fishing beach where the abrasion is much slower. Lebih Beach, for example, is given much slower handling than the beach with great tourism potential. This mindset must be changed because the abrasion treatment is for the people’s welfare. Thus, all the beaches having the potential of abrasion in Bali must be given priority in the handling so they will not be
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exhausted by the abrasion,” explained the man familiarly called Moko. Moko added the government was often inconsistent with the abrasion treatment plan that had ever been made including never accommodating the ideas of the observers and environmentalists related to the abrasion handling. Even, the government seemed to give impression that it just received the feedback ‘selectively.’
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Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK — Alec Baldwin probably isn’t relishing his part in this scene — a courtroom face-off with a Canadian actress charged with stalking him. Baldwin is expected to testify Tuesday in Genevieve Sabourin’s (ZHAHN’-vee-ehv sahboor-EHN’) trial in New York City. Prosecutors say she bombarded the actor with messages professing her love and showed up uninvited at his New York and Hamptons homes in 2012. Baldwin told police that he’s had dinner with her but that their relationship was purely professional. She says they had a 2010 tryst and a two-way exchange of emails. Her lawyer says Sabourin wasn’t stalking the “30 Rock” star — just seeking “closure” after he stopped talking to her. Baldwin’s wife, Hilaria, is also expected to testify. Baldwin’s spokesman has declined to comment on the trial.
FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2013 file photo, Alec Baldwin, left, and Hilaria Thomas arrive at the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
The photo shows abrasion that happened in Jembrana Regency. Abrasion hitting Bali is getting more serious. The latest data in the BaliPenida River Agency based on Satellite Image 2009 indicate the length of coastal abrasion reached 181.7 km throughout Bali. IBP/File Photo