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Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Jennifer Lawrence to play war photographer
LOS ANGELES - Jennifer Lawrence will star in Steven Spielberg’s “It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War,” US media said Monday.
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Warner Bros studio secured the rights to the memoir by Lynsey Addario, the award-winning American international photojournalist, after an auction, Variety said. “American Sniper” producer Andrew Lazar will also be involved, it said, citing sources. Addario has traveled to war-torn
countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq and was part of a New York Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009. Lawrence, 24, who won an Oscar in 2013 for “Silver Linings Playbook” and starred in “The Hunger Games” movies, is currently shooting David O. Russell’s “Joy,” which is set for release at Christmas. (afp)
John Legend talks about justice at Bahrain concert
MANAMA, Bahrain — Awardwinning American singer and songwriter John Legend took to the stage in Bahrain on Monday night, performing to a soldout crowd of more than 2,000 people despite calls by some activists to cancel the concert due to concerns over human rights abuses in the Gulf Arab nation. “When you look at me you might see international superstar John Legend, but I’m also the descendant of slaves... but we fought for change,” he told the concert-goers before singing his Oscarwinning song “Glory,” the anthem for the film “Selma,” which is based on the historic 1965 march in Alabama led by Martin Luther King Jr. While not addressing the turmoil in Bahrain directly, Legend explained he was at the festival “to celebrate art and its power to bring us together and help us see each other’s humanity.” “I feel like it’s part
of my job to express myself freely and passionately about the issues that I care about,” he said, as the crowd cheered in support. “A just society is not one built on fear or repression or vengeance or exclusion, but one built on love,” added Legend, who has spoken out in support of freedom of expression and civil rights issues in the United States. Bahrain, a close U.S. ally that hosts
Navy’s 5th fleet, has seen nearly daily protests by members of the Shiite majority demanding a greater say in the Sunni-led monarchy. Several thousand protesters have been jailed and dozens killed in the tinyisland nation over the last four years. The concert was guarded by anti-riot police vehicles outside the entrance to the historic open-air Arad Fort in Bahrain’s capital. Several Bahraini activists took to Twitter to urge Legend to boycott the 10th annual Spring of Culture festival, organized by the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities. In a statement to The Independent newspaper before the concert, Legend addressed calls for him to back out of the Bahrain show, and said he has “spent quite a bit of time thinking about human rights, civil rights and other issues of justice.” He said that he felt participating in the conversation was the best way to drive progress. (ap)
Salonga says she is in talks on taking role in “Allegiance”
MANILA — Tony award winner Lea Salonga says talks have not yet been finalized on her joining the cast of George Takei’s musical “Allegiance” on Broadway, but added it is a show she wants to be part of. The Broadway veteran played the lead female role Kei Kimura when the musical made its sold-out premiere in 2012 at the Old Globe in San Diego, California, “Star Trek” actor Takei’s personal and heartfelt show about Japanese-Americans imprisoned during World War II goes to Broadway this fall with him in a starring role. “Of course I’d like to be a part of it, if only to be part of something that’s very important in Broadway history,” Salonga told The Associated Press in a telephone interview late Monday. But she said things were still being discussed by her agent and the show producers, so she could not say if she will be part of the musical. “Allegiance” is multigenerational tale with two love stories that’s framed by a Japanese-American war veteran looking back on his family’s time in a Wyoming internment camp. Previews begin Oct. 6. It will mark the first Asian-led cast of a musical on Broadway in more than a decade, since “Flower Drum Song.” The story of “Allegiance” covers an important part of American history, when tens of thousands of AsianAmericans were put in camps just because they looked like the enemy, said Salonga. “This kind of prejudice and bigotry is actually still happening,” added the 44year-old Salonga. “It’s still relevant and that’s the sad and scary part of it.” She said with very few Asian-led musicals on Broadway, “Allegiance” is “a big, big deal” and also excites her because it will be another milestone for Takei. The actor famous for playing Hikaru Sulu in “Star Trek” turned his childhood memories in an internment camp into the musical. “George Takei who is almost 80 years old is going to make his Broadway debut which is really, really exciting for me as a friend of his and as one who worked with him and he’s somebody I used to watch on TV when I was a kid,” she added. Takei turns 78 next month. Salonga — the original “Miss Saigon” in London and New York who also starred in the Broadway revival of “Flower Drum Song” in 2002 — will have a concert on March 14 at the Town Hall in New York. She has also been busy as a coach in “The Voice of the Philippines” singing contest that ended its second season Sunday. She continues as coach in the next season of the kid’s edition of the contest. Salonga said she loves grooming the next generation of artists in the Philippine music industry. “It’s something I would like to do even off camera, even when I’m not in front of an audience,” she said. (ap)
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Australians to be moved to execution site Wednesday
Following a coordination meeting DENPASAR - Two Australian drug smugglers on death row in Indonesia will be transferred Wednesday from their jail on Bali to an island off Java where they will be put to death, an of- with other officials on Tuesday, Samiarso told reporters: “The coordination ficial said. Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, the ringleaders of the socalled “Bali Nine” drug trafficking gang, and officials escorting them will be flown in two military aircraft, said Momock Bambang Samiarso, head of the Bali prosecutor’s office. Officials are yet to announce a date for their executions, but the transfer indicates it is imminent.
The men, in their early 30s, were convicted of trying to smuggle heroin out of Indonesia in 2005 and sentenced to death the following year. They recently lost their appeals for presidential clemency, typically a death row convict’s last chance to avoid the firing squad, and are expected to be put to death soon.
Canberra has mounted a sustained diplomatic campaign to stop the executions from going ahead, but President Joko Widodo has been a vocal supporter of the death penalty and has refused to change course.
has been completed. (The transfer) will be carried out tomorrow.” The Australians are being transferred to Nusakambangan island, which is home to several prisons. Five people, including foreigners, were put to death on the island in January. The Australians are among a group of foreigners, including a Frenchman and a Brazilian, who have lost their appeals for clemency and are facing imminent execution. Authorities must give convicts 72 hours notice before
they are put to death. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has made repeated appeals for Chan and Sukumaran’s lives to be spared. Chan’s brother, Michael, called on Widodo to show mercy in an appearance on Indonesian television at the weekend. “Andrew is a changed man from 10 years ago,” he said, urging Widodo to give him a “second chance”. (afp) 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.
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Australian Consul, Majel Hind (right) accompanied Raji Sukumaran, mother of death convicted Myuran Sukumaran during a visit to Kerobokan Jail on Tuesday, March 3, 2015. Two Australian drug smugglers on death row in Indonesia will be transferred Wednesday from their jail on Bali to an island off Java where they will be put to death, an official said.