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Friday, August 8, 2014
Wesley Snipes: ‘You can’t take life too seriously’ Associated Press
LONDON — U.S. action star Wesley Snipes is back on the big screen for the first time since his release from prison as he joins Sylvester Stallone and the cast of “The Expendables 3.” Speaking ahead of the movie’s world premiere Monday, Snipes joked that Stallone had him in mind for the first “Expendables” movie but he was “just a little occupied at the time.” “They reserved a spot for me and
when the opportunity came along he reached out again and said come join us, we would like you to be a part of this.” Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison in 2008 after failing to file income tax returns. He began his jail term in December 2010.The movie makes reference to Snipes’ time behind bars with a taxevasion joke in the opening scenes. “Whether I do something really funny or really stupid, it is okay with me,” says Snipes. “I think that is what life is about. You can’t take life itself too seriously.”
In the documentary of his record-breaking deep-sea dive, “Deepsea Challenge 3D,” James Cameron asks, “Am I a filmmaker who does exploration work on the side, or am I an explorer who does filming on the side?” It’s a good question. It’s now been five years since Cameron’s last feature film (a little independent movie called “Avatar”), and in that time, the priorities of the most bankable director in Hollywood have sometimes been as murky as the deep sea. He has spent those years producing a fleet of documentaries about ocean exploration and deep-water life forms. His biggest project hasn’t been a mega blockbuster but building a deep-diving sub and piloting it more than 35,000 feet down into the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the Mariana Trench. “I make the Hollywood movies to pay for the exploration,” Cameron said in a recent phone interview from California. Certainly, many moviegoers are eager for Cameron to get back on a film set. After some earlier postponements, he’s on his way, currently finishing the scripts and design work for three planned “Avatar” sequels. But for now, on Friday, he’s releasing in theaters a 3-D film for National Geographic that chronicles his 2012 dive into another alien world, “the last great frontier,” as he calls the ocean. For Cameron, the movie is a testament to the spirit of exploration, which he feels is flagging in America. Cameron’s dive, nearly seven miles deep, was only the second manned-dive to reach the bottom of the Challenger Deep, the deepest known point of the seabed. Some 68 new species were identified from the sub, which was equipped with 3-D cameras. “I think explorers feel a sense of the sacred,” said Cameron of descending into such a remote abyss. “Something that’s beyond themselves, when they go to a place that’s never been witnessed before and bare witness for the first time.” “Deepsea” co-director John Bruno had to capture it all in stormy conditions and while coordinating 3-D cameras that
each took two men to operate. “The ocean hasn’t read the script, so it’s not going to cooperate,” says Cameron. “And the sub is a bit like a diva movie actress. You’re not always going to get it on camera when you want it.” The similarities of leading an expedition team and a feature film crew are, to Cameron, identical. Ever the taskmaster, the documentary shows him prodding his scientists on their time tables. In Cameron’s day job, the interaction would be the same. Speaking of time tables, there is the pace of work on the “Avatar” films,
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“At the end of the day, nobody really cares. You’re going to be forgotten anyway. The issues and problems that you think are like mountains that you have to deal with now, after time goes by, nobody cares,” he continues. “Might as well have a good time with it.” The 52-year-old actor is currently looking for new action projects, with a return to the blood-soaked universe of vampire “Blade” at the top of his list. “A lot of people are calling for it and I would like to do it,” he says.
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which are scheduled for release in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Though Cameron earlier said the screenplays (which he’s writing with Josh Friedman, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver and Shane Salerno) would be finished by the end of the spring, they’re still being completed. “It’s going to be another couple months, I would say, at least,” said Cameron. “We will serve no wine before it’s time, and I would be pretty stupid to run off and start shooting ‘Avatar’ until the scripts are perfect. Whether that compromises our announced release date of Christmas ‘16, at this point I can’t really say until we break down the budget and schedule.” Cameron said he’s working seven days a week on “Avatar” as the pages “pour in,” but with one exception. He’s taking an upcoming vacation to Tahiti for — what else? — a little scuba diving.
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The file photo shows Balinese children performed Kecak Dance during the opening of Bali Art Festival. Bali remains to become a favorite tourist destination in the world. Aside from the beauty of nature, Bali becomes an international tourist destination due to the ancestral heritage, namely its sublime culture.
Facing tourism competition
Balinese culture must be nurtured Bali Post
NUSA DUA - Bali remains to become a favorite tourist destination in the world. Aside from the beauty of nature, Bali becomes an international tourist destination due to the ancestral heritage, namely its sublime culture. On that account, the Balinese community has to maintain and preserve it. “Looking ahead, the tourism industry continues to grow, but to Bali, I have confidence that cultural tourism remains excellent. Cultural tourism and the beauty of nature are fixed price,” said a tourism practitioner, Dewa Gde Ngurah Byomantara. He added the beauty of nature could be found in some countries. Even, some provinces in Indonesia also offered tremendous beauty of
nature. Meanwhile, Bali had added value namely cultural tourism that did not exist in other regions or countries. Other than maintaining and preserving nature, the main priority should be given to culture. “I do hope that religious-based culture of Bali should always be fostered. Then, educational institutions should also contribute. For example, we are encouraging the
students of the Bali Tourism Institute (STP) Nusa Dua Bali through their extra-curricular activities to live and practice our culture. It is an extraordinary grace of God to Balinese people becoming prominent in the tourism sector,” said Director of the STPND Bali. The challenge of tourism in the future, according to Byomantara, was that tourism players should aggressively prepare themselves for the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) 2015. Meanwhile, his party had made various preparations since 20 years ago. “We must prepare ourselves as well as possible to face the AEC. Even, we can become the center of excellence
in Asia-Pacific,” he said. He was confident the graduates of tourism school in Bali, chiefly the STPND, had been well prepared for the AEC. It happened because many graduates of tourism school worked and even became the citizens of the ASEAN countries, including in Singapore and Malaysia. “In those countries they can compete. I am very confident we can compete in the AEC,” he said. When asked whether the number of hotels and villas, especially in Southern Badung, had been saturated, Byomantara claimed that he did not dare to make such a conclusion. No studies were made to ascertain whether the number of hotels still
lacked or had surpassed. “Without a benchmark, we cannot conclude that way. Actually in 2014, I have suggested making a study so that people will not talk nonsense but must be based on data,” said Byomantara. Most importantly, the tourism development should be carried out equally in the future. An effort should be made to stimulate or encourage young people to attend schools in the field of tourism. After graduating, they were expected to build tourism in their respective region. “Thus, the even distribution of tourism in Bali can be reached and will not only be dominated by the people of Southern Badung,” he said. (kmb36)