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Friday, July 5, 2019
Italian star Claudia Cardinale puts her wardrobe up for sale PARIS - The wardrobe of screen legend Claudia Cardinale is to go under the hammer in Paris next week, with the star saying her clothes show “the liberation of women”. The Italian actress who featured in such classics as “The Leopard”, Fellini’s “8 1/2” and Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in the West” told AFP: “These dresses don’t show just my story but a chapter in women’s history.” Born in Tunisia, where she first came to notice after winning a beauty contest in 1957, Cardinale was both a sex symbol and an outspoken advocate of women’s rights. “You can feel I think the liberation of women of my generation” through the clothes, she added. The Nina Ricci haute couture gown that she wore to the Oscars in 1965 is expected to attract the most bidding at the Sotheby’s auction on July 9. Sotheby’s fashion specialist Julia Guillon said the sequin-
embroidered dress could go for as much as 20,000 euros ($22,500). “It’s a mythic dress that she wore on several big occasions,” the expert added. Guillon said Cardinale’s wardrobe shows how society changed during her time at the top, going from “rather sober evening dresses to a pyjama number emblematic of the new more relaxed lifestyle and the even freer dresses of the 1970s.” The star said that each piece has a memory for her, none more so than a black satin dress with pink sequins she wore to the premiere of the 1971 spaghetti western “The Legend of Frenchie King”, in which she co-starred with Brigitte Bardot. “Everyone thought we were rivals, but we were complementary. I came in the dress and Brigitte was magnificent dressed as a man,” Cardinale added. The wardrobe of French star Catherine Deneuve sold for more than $1 million at Christie’s in Paris in January. (net)
Friday, July 5, 2019
Oscar Winner Malek sought reassurances over Bond film role IBP/net
LONDON - Oscar winner Rami Malek has revealed he thought twice before signing up to play the lead villain in the latest long-awaited James Bond film opposite Daniel Craig.
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Italo-Tunisian actress Claudia Cardinale poses during a photo session at the Sotheby’s showroom next to dresses and outfits from her wardrobe that will go on auction.
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The US actor, who won the Oscar this year for his performance as Freddie Mercury in “Bohemian Rhapsody”, said he feared his Egyptian ancestry could lead to the part being a caricature of a Middle Eastern terrorist. Malek told reporters in New York that he raised his concerns with the film’s director Cary Fukunaga and received reassurances that was “not his vision”, according to Britain’s Daily Mirror tabloid. “That was one thing that I discussed with Cary,” he said. “I said, ‘We cannot identify him with any act of terrorism reflecting an ideology or a religion.
“’That’s not something I would entertain, so if that is why I am your choice then you can count me out’. “But that was clearly not his vision. So he’s a very different kind of terrorist,” the actor added. Malek, who was born in Los Angeles in 1981 to parents who immigrated to the United States from Egypt three years earlier, has said he identifies strongly with his Egyptian heritage. “I am Egyptian. I grew up listening to Egyptian music,” he told GQ magazine last year. “These are my people. I feel so gorgeously tied to the culture and the human beings that exist there.”
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Malek will star alongside Craig -- who is set to bow out after five films and eight years as 007 -- in the 25th edition of one of the world’s most enduring franchises. However, the as-yet untitled film has been besieged by problems, most recently with Craig undergoing minor ankle surgery after an injury on set. The production was repeatedly delayed over script disputes and after Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle quit the project. The film is now due to open in cinemas in the United States, Britain and France on April 8, 2020. (afp)
Motorists drive past a light rapid transit (LRT) construction site in downtown Jakarta on July 3, 2019.
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Jakarta residents sue Indonesia government over air pollution
Residents of Indonesia’s capital on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the government over the toxic levels of air pollution that regularly blanket the city. Jakarta has been shrouded in hazardous smog for much of the past month, with air quality readings recording high concentrations of harmful microscopic particles known as PM2.5. Fed up with what they say is worsening air pollution, a group of 31 concerned residents has sued President Joko Widodo, as well as the ministry of environment and forestry, ministry of health, and Jakarta’s governor. The plaintiffs -- which include activists, office workers and motorcycle taxi drivers -- want to raise
awareness about the issue and force the government to act. “(The government) has neglected people’s rights to breathe healthy air,” lawyer Nelson Nikodemus Simamora told reporters after filing the lawsuit. “They have not maintained air quality at a level that is healthy enough for the 10 million people living here.” Toxic smog saw Jakarta ranked as the most polluted city in the world for several mornings running last month, forcing residents to
wear pollution masks and sparking a storm of social media criticism. Air Visual, an independent online air quality index (AQI) monitor, pegged Jakarta at the “very unhealthy” level of 231 on June 25, higher than notoriously polluted cities like India’s capital New Delhi and Beijing in China. Environment groups blame the air pollution on a cocktail of vehicle fumes, smoke and emissions from coal-fired power plants that ring greater Jakarta. Greenpeace Indonesia last week recommended people don masks to protect themselves from respiratory illness. “The number of unhealthy days for 2018 is twice as high as the
figure for 2017,” Bondan Andriyanu, climate and energy campaigner for the group, told AFP. “The government should recognise the issue, they are still using outdated regulation from the ‘90s.” Public discontent has been growing, especially online where social media users have been posting pictures of the city blanketed in a grey haze. “As a mother of two I’m worried about the air pollution issue,” 35-year-old office worker Dita Nadine told AFP. “The government should address the cause of the problem... how long will we let this problem continue?” The environment ministry did
not immediately respond to AFP’s requests for comment on the lawsuit, but the head of Jakarta’s environment agency, Andono Warih, played down the problem. On Monday, he denied that Jakarta had the world’s worst air pollution, the Jakarta Post reported, citing lower government figures established using a different methodology. (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.