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Katy Perry, spider-dog top popular online videos Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Katy Perry and a dog dressed like a spider are among 2014’s top online video subjects. Perry’s “Dark Horse” reigned supreme on YouTube’s top 10 most popular music videos, while a prank featuring a dog done up as a spider chasing unsuspecting pedestrians led the site’s top 10 trending videos. YouTube said Tuesday the top trending videos for 2014 were based on views, shares, comments, likes and more. Perry’s “Dark Horse” has galloped away
Hugh Jackman talks fish, blood and his new show Associated Press
NEW YORK — Before Hugh Jackman could appear in his current Broadway play, “The River,” he had to learn his lines, dig deep into his character and do something he’s never done before: gut a fish. His character is a fisherman who in one scene pulls out a real 3-pound sea trout, cuts it open with a fearsome-looking knife, removes the internal organs, chops a fennel bulb, slips lemon slices into the skin and seasons the flesh before popping the dish in a fake oven. It’s a mesmerizing scene and Jackman — a man who plays a sharp-clawed Wolverine in the movies — seems completely at ease as he unhurriedly prepares the fish like a Food Network veteran. He wasn’t always so calm. “I was originally a little nervous about it,” said Jackman over lunch in Manhattan. “I’d never done it before and I knew it had to look like he’d been doing it his whole life.” So Jackman did what any actor worth his salt does: He consulted chefs and practiced. He originally planned to gut a fish every day for months until it became second nature, but he was told the better route was to gut 40 in a single, fishy session. He got out his knives and made fish fil-
lets and fish sticks and fish soup. “There are fish cakes still frozen in my freezer,” he said, laughing. “No one’s having fish at my house for a long time.” The scene comes in the middle of Jez Butterworth’s enigmatic play about love and repetition. Various women from the fisherman’s past enter and leave his remote fishing cabin, warping time and space. “I think the more poetically you take the piece, and less literally you take the piece, the deeper you go with it,” Jackman said. “Ultimately, I think it’s a play that just spoke to me and my heart. I read it and I was like, ‘Wow. There’s something very true and real and honest about connection, about loss, about the search in life.’ That’s something that I’ve always had.” Jackman, who plays the pirate Blackbeard in next year’s “Pan” and said he’s close to starring in an original movie musical about P.T. Barnum, threw himself into the new play. He spoke to memory experts and read works by psychotherapist Carl Jung. “The River,” at Circle in the Square Theatre, has been a sellout, in part to Jackman’s star power. But even with his comfort in front of an audience, the fish-gutting scene didn’t go too smoothly when he first performed it, despite all the practice.
with over 715 million views, and Polish prankster Sylwester Wardega’s spider-dog video has caught more than 113 million views.
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Other top trending video subjects included soccer stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar in a Nike commercial, a singing nun on the Italian edition of “The Voice,” a group of strangers kissing for the first time and the comic book characters Superman and Goku engaging in a fictional rap battle. Enrique Iglesias, Shakira, Jason Derulo and Sia were among other artists with music videos on YouTube’s list.
Liverpool exits Champs League, Juve advances
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Sierra Leonean docs strike again over Ebola care
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Bale says Moses could be considered a ‘terrorist’
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — To prepare for his role as Moses in “Exodus: Gods and Kings,” Christian Bale watched Monty Python’s “The Life of Brian” and Mel Brooks’ “History of the World, Part One.” The Oscar-winning actor found Moses a complicated man, and didn’t want his version of the biblical hero to be too haughty. “It’s a very fine line between getting it right and doing an unwished for ‘Life of Brian,’” Bale said, adding that the Monty Python classic’s chipper tune, “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life,” played in his mind often on set. Bale stars opposite Joel Edgerton in the Ridley Scott epic opening Friday. Other stars include Sigourney Weaver and John Turturro. The film has been criticized for casting white actors as Egyptians, and some have called for
a boycott. Scott has said those people need to “get a life.” Bale became interested in the role after learning more about Moses, he said: “A man of absolutely ridiculously strong conviction who also is capable of debilitating self-doubt just makes for a really fascinating character.” The actor also suggests the religious icon could be considered a terrorist. “If you’re not religious, you can look at it as one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist,” he said. “You look at empire and Andy Kropa/Invision/AP the attitudes of empire, and perhaps the necessity that for empires to exist... they (must) have actually a hierarchy among people, whether that’s spoken or unspoken. It’s fascinating. And it’s for our times because it’s very human, and Moses was a far more human and fallible character than I had imagined before.”
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Within the past two years there have been dozens of budget hotels established to receive guests ranging from backpackers to business travelers. Along the Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, for example, was formerly sterile from tourist accommodation.
Two years, dozens budget hotels established
Bali Post
DENPASAR - Budget hotel starts filling up the Island of the Gods. Even, within the past two years there have been dozens of budget hotels established to receive guests ranging from backpackers to business travelers. Along the Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, for example, was formerly sterile from tourist accommodation. Now, it has been filled up by accommodations offering room facilities at low room rates. According to Chairman of the Indonesian Tourism Intellectuals Association (ICPI) of Bali Chapter, Putu Anom, the Law No.10/2009 on tourism did not recognize the
term of budget hotel or low-cost hotels, but only star hotel and non-star hotels. However, the fact was that many new hotels offered room rates below the standard, such as IDR
200,000 to IDR 300,000. Looking at the facts and phenomena, many hoteliers screamed in order the permit of cheap hotel should be stopped. “Nowadays, a number of budget hotels are even established side by side with star hotels that can trigger unfair competition,” said Putu Anom. According to him, the travelers staying at budget hotel were mostly domestic travelers, such as group, students, domestic groups, families, individual with low purchasing
power or the employees of company such as sales staff and company driver having low budget. “Such accommodation actually belongs to the category of budget hotel with relatively cheap room rates. Its market share is lowermiddle class travelers. However, the services offered are similar to that of star hotels,” he said. It was said that a large number of budget hotels in Bali had disrupted the market that finally kindled tariff war and made the image of Bali tourism cheap in the eyes of foreign
travelers. “When hotels with cheap room rates are established in an elite or resort area, they will surely grab the market share of star hotels. Star hotels offer more expensive room rates because they have complete facilities intended for upper-middle travelers,” he said. This former Dean of the Faculty of Tourism, Udayana University, mentioned that many accommodations whose permit belonged to budget hotel, but had the quality of star hotels.
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