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Natalie Cole, Grammy winning singer, has died
LOS ANGELES — Natalie Cole, the daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, who carved out her own success with R&B hits like “Our Love” and “This Will Be” before triumphantly intertwining their legacies to make his “Unforgettable” their signature hit through technological wizardry, has died. She was 65.
While Cole was a Grammy winner in her own right, she had her greatest success in 1991 when she re-recorded her father’s classic hits — with him on the track — for the album “Unforgettable ... With Love.” It became a multiplatinum smash and garnered her multiple Grammy Awards, including album of the year. Cole died Thursday evening at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles due to complications from ongoing health issues, her family said
in a statement. “Natalie fought a fierce, courageous battle, dying how she lived ... with dignity, strength and honor. Our beloved Mother and sister will be greatly missed and remain UNFORGETTABLE in our hearts forever,” read the statement from her son Robert Yancy and sisters Timolin and Casey Cole. “I had to hold back the tears. I know how hard she fought,” said Aretha Franklin in a statement. “She fought for so long. She was one of the greatest singers of our time.” Other celebrities honored Cole on social media. In a tweet, actress Marlee Matlin called Cole a lovely songbird and a great actress, writing “she is now singing in heaven.” Patti LaBelle tweeted, “She will be truly missed but her light will shine forever!” Natalie Cole had battled drug problems and hepatitis that forced her to undergo a kidney transplant in May 2009. Cole’s older sister, Carol “Cookie” Cole, died the day she received the transplant.
George Lucas apologizes for calling Disney ‘white slavers’ LOS ANGELES — George Lucas has apologized for criticizing Disney’s handling of “Star Wars” and saying he had sold his characters to “white slavers” in a recent interview with Charlie Rose. In a statement issued Thursday, Lucas says he misspoke and used a “very inappropriate analogy.” It was not clear what the “Star Wars” creator meant by the “white slavers” comment, and Rose did not ask a follow-up question on his PBS show that aired Dec. 24. The charged words nonetheless sparked ire when the interview was posted online Wednesday. “I rarely go out with statements to clarify my feelings but I feel it is important to make it clear that I am thrilled that Disney has the franchise and is moving it in such exciting directions,” said Lucas
in his statement. He sold his company, Lucasfilm, to the Walt Disney Co. in 2012 for $4.06 billion, and the studio charged ahead in developing “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” with director J.J. Abrams and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. Disney has laid plans for two more “Star Wars” films and three anthology films set in the Star Wars universe over the next few years. Lucas discussed his decision to stay out of the new installments in the hourlong interview with Rose and had criticized Disney’s retro, fan-centric approach to “The Force Awakens.” The interview was conducted prior to the Dec. 14 premiere of the film, where Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger thanked Lucas, who was in attendance, for his “sheer genius” in creating “Star Wars.” (ap)
Their brother, Nat Kelly Cole, died in 1995. Natalie Cole was inspired by her dad at an early age and auditioned to sing with him when she was just 11 years old. She was 15 when he died of lung cancer, in 1965. She began as an R&B singer but later gravitated toward the smooth pop and jazz standards that her father loved. Cole’s greatest success came with her 1991 album, “Unforgettable ... With Love,” which paid tribute to her father with reworked versions of some of his best-known songs, including “That Sunday That Summer,” ‘’Too Young” and “Mona Lisa.” Her voice was spliced with her dad’s in the title cut, offering a delicate duet a quarter-century after his death. The album sold some 14 million copies and won six Grammys, including album of the year as well record and song of the year for the title track duet. She was also nominated for an Emmy award in 1992 for a televised performance of her father’s songs. “That was really my thank you,”
she told People magazine in 2006. “I owed that to him.” Another father-daughter duet, “When I Fall in Love,” won a 1996 Grammy for best pop collaboration with vocals, and a follow-up album, “Still Unforgettable,” won for best traditional pop vocal album of 2008. Cole made her recording debut in 1975 with “Inseparable.” The music industry welcomed her with two Grammy awards in 1976 — one for best new artist and one for best female R&B vocal performance for her buoyant hit “This Will Be (An Everlasting Love).” She also worked as an actress, with appearances on TV’s “Touched by an Angel” and “Grey’s Anatomy.” Natalie Cole grew up in Los Angeles’ posh Hancock Park neighborhood, where her parents had settled in 1948 despite animosity from some white residents about having the black singer as a neighbor. When told by residents who said they didn’t want “undesirable people” in the area, the singer said, “Neither do I, and if I see (any), I’ll be the first to complain.” (ap)
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EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. — Actor Alec Baldwin and director Richard Linklater have braved the chilly waters off New York’s Long Island at separate polar bear plunges on New Year’s Day. Newsday reports that Baldwin dived into the Atlantic Ocean on Friday to benefit an East Hampton rehabilitation facility. Linklater took part in a nearby plunge benefiting the East Hampton Food Pantry. Baldwin is a Long Island native and a regular at glitzy charity events on the island’s East End. The Texas-based Linklater was vacationing in the area and decided to join the plunge. He said it was “really cool, so many people coming out for a good reason.” Baldwin has starred in numerous films as well as the NBC show “30 Rock.” Linklater’s films include “Dazed and Confused,” ‘’School of Rock” and “Boyhood.” (ap)
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Tourists play banana boat in Serangan Beach, Bali Island. The world-renowned tourist island of Bali will seemingly find it hard to achieve its target of attracting four million tourists throughout 2015 due to various incidents.
DENPASAR - The world-renowned tourist island of Bali declined in the past three months, will seemingly find it hard to achieve its target of attracting he said. Until November 2015, the number four million tourists throughout 2015 due to various incidents, of tourist arrivals in Bali was recorded a tourism observer said. “Natural disasters including the eruption of volcanoes, which hindered flights from and to Bali’s Ngurah Rai Airport, caused foreign tourists to postpone their visit to Bali,” Made Sudana said on Saturday. A clash between two mass organizations in the resort island which claimed the lives of people has beAndy Kropa/Invision/AP, File
come a special note for foreign tourists to visit Bali because they did not want their security to be threatened while traveling to Bali, he said. Because of the incidents, the number of tourists particularly from neighboring Australia, Singapore and Malaysia, who make up the vast majority of tourist arrivals in Bali,
at 3,633,056, while the number of tourist arrivals in December 2015, seemed to be unable to meet the target of four million tourist arrivals, he said. After all, the local government and tourism operators in Bali must thank God that the number of tourist arrivals inched closer to the target, he said. The Bali Tourism Office said in
a report released recently that the number of tourists visiting Bali in the January-November 2015 period reached a total of 3,633,056, up by 6.25 percent as compared to the same period a year earlier. The number of Australians visiting Bali declined to 94,449 in October from 101,625 in September and further plummeted to 56,719 in November last year. Likewise, the number of Malaysian tourists fell 15 percent to 168,231 in the January-November 2015 period
from 198,133 in the same period a year earlier and the number of Singaporean tourists declined 19 percent to 125,876 from 156,892. (ant) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.
Bali’s vehicle volume reaching maximum capacity
THERE are currently almost as many vehicles as there are people on the Island of the Gods, with 3 million registered vehicles (60 percent of which are motorcycles) and a population of approximately 4 million people. “Every family has at least one motorcycle and some households have
more motorcycles than people,” said Head of the Bali Transportation Agency, Ketut Artika. Artika added that there is a 13 percent increase in the number of vehicles on the road every year, whereas there is only a 1 percent increase in the amount of road space. Ideal transportation density for big cities is between 15 to 20 percent of all space devoted to roads. However
in Denpasar, only 6 percent of the total area of the city is road space. Bali’s overall VC Ratio (volume capacity for roads) is already at 0.8 percent whereas 1 percent is considered severe. All of this makes for a lot of traffic congestion on the roads of Bali. Roads need to be widened and new road networks need to be built to accommodate the increased num-
ber of vehicles. “I think that for the region of Sarbagita (Denpasar, Badung, Gianyar and Tabanan—Ed) the cost of increasing the amount of space used for roads is prohibitively expensive,” said Artika recently. He suggests that instead, road user movement needs to be regulated. Parking tariffs could be increase to dissuade people from using private vehicles, taxes on
privately owned vehicles should be increased, and enforcing parking regulations to ensure that existing roads remain fluid, are some ways of improving the situation. “We hope, to at least be able to maintain the current volume and not have it continue to grow,” said Artika. Continue to page 2 Efforts ...