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Bollywood hunks and heroes among the world’s top paid actors NEW DELHI — Bollywood films, with their colorful sets and hyper-coordinated song-anddance numbers, have catapulted five Indians into the ranks of the world’s highest paid male actors. Three of those actors— Salman Khan, Amitabh Bachchan and Akshay Kumar — were in the top 10, outranking Hollywood A-listers such as Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Leonardo DiCaprio. The rankings, compiled by Forbes, were released last week and included actors working outside Hollywood, allowing an international comparison of star earnings for the first time. That change also meant Hong Kong martial arts darling Jackie Chan was 2nd placed, with most of his $50 million in earnings last year made from films produced in China. American actor Robert Downey Jr. topped the list for the third year in a row, earning $80 million in 2014. The two highest-paid Indian actors, Khan and Bachchan, tied for 7th, each earning $33.5 million last year. “I am surprised it has taken so long” to get global rankings, said Bollywood publicist Raju Kariya, who has worked in the industry for more than 30 years. India’s male actors, easily recognizable by their aviator sunglasses and tight designer clothes, are so popular that “everyone from 5-year-olds to elderly aunties are completely gaga over them.” Khan’s place also demonstrated that Bollywood stars can get through scandal relatively unscathed. The action hero is the subject of nonstop media attention amid an ongoing court case for a 2002 hit-and-run that killed a homeless man and injured four others. His popularity also hasn’t suffered from his 2006 conviction for poaching an endangered blackbuck deer, which he has appealed. Even though the top Bollywood hunks are raking in cash, the earnings of Hindilanguage films are languishing. Bollywood is the world’s most prolific producer of
films, churning out some 1,000 year, double that of Hollywood. Yet so far this year, only half a dozen or so Bollywood films have turned a profit, while most of the hundreds that come out of Mumbai’s film industry are money losers. As India’s economy grows and the middle class expands, more people are buying theater tickets and the number of movie theaters has increased. But Bollywood is facing increased pressure from imported films. The competition, particularly from Hollywood, is making India moviegoers more demanding and discerning, said film trade analyst Vinod Mirani. “Movies are actually getting worse” as money-making vehicles in India, he said. Up until the 1990s, film in India was usually financed by politicians and criminals. The industry has since modernized with financing coming from major companies. Foreign production houses Sony Pictures, The Walt Disney Co. and Universal Studios have also opened office in India. Reliance MediaWorks Ltd., owned by one of India’s richest tycoons, Anil Ambani, sold off its entire multiplex business, Big Cinemas, to UK’s Carnival Films Pvt. Ltd. last year for more than $100 million. Altogether, the five Bollywood stars made Indians the second-highest paid as a group, with combined earnings of $140.5 million. Salman Khan, for example, grossed more than $20 million just from his ‘Being Human’ clothing line last year, while Bachchan endorses more than a dozen products ranging from soft drinks to household paint. Bachchan, 72, who is so popular there is even a temple dedicated to him in the eastern city of Kolkata, was the oldest actor on the list, beating out his 63-year-old Irish colleague Liam Neeson, who made $19.5 million last year to land in 22nd place on the list. The third-highest ranked Bollywood actor was another action hero, Kumar, with earnings of $32.5 million last year putting him in the 9th spot. Lower on the list of 34 actors was Shah Rukh Khan, in 18th place, and Ranbir Kapoor, at No. 30. (ap)
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NEW YORK — Howard Stern has revealed details about the secret wedding between Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux, including that Jimmy Kimmel officiated. Stern was a guest at the Los Angeles ceremony last Wednesday that Aniston and Theroux disguised as a birthday bash for Theroux. Stern said on his radio show Monday that he knew beforehand that it was a wedding because the couple asked him to give a speech.
But Stern said the affair was extremely secretive and that guests had to hand over their phones. He said Kimmel did “a beautiful job” officiating, and that Sia performed. Other guests, he said, included Ellen DeGeneres, Whitney Cummings and Orlando Bloom. The marriage is the second for 46-year-old Aniston, who got divorced from Brad Pitt in 2005, and the first for 44-year-old Theroux. (ap)
Scorsese, DiCaprio to adapt ‘Devil in the White City’
NEW YORK — Erik Larson’s “The Devil in the White City” is finally headed to the big screen, with Martin Scorsese directing and Leonardo DiCaprio starring in it. Paramount Pictures confirmed Monday that it has optioned Larson’s best-seller. The screenplay will be adapted by Billy Ray, who scripted “Captain Phillips” and “The Hunger Games.”
The film marks the sixth feature together for Scorsese and DiCaprio, who last joined for “The Wolf of Wall Street.” Published in 2003, Larson’s nonfiction book is about the architect of Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair and a serial killer who used the fair as a setting for his murders. The book has long been a hot property in Hollywood, particularly pursued by DiCaprio. (ap)
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Rafting activity conducted in Ayung River, Gianyar Regency. Within the past ten years, the use of water in Bali is even reported to increase by 100 times as a result of high use of water in tourism sector and uncontrolled number of population and investment.
Water crisis haunts Bali
Drastic decline in groundwater levels
B ali ’ s natural environment is being severely exploited through the rapid growth of investment in the tourism sector, high rates of urbanization and the uncontrolled conversion of land use from agricultural to settlement.
The balance of the ecosystem is apparently never considered by those who manage the natural resources of this island. The carrying capacity of Bali is left unmonitored and poorly managed thus leading to a number of critical situations, including a clean water crisis. Given that there
is a clean water deficit of some 26.7 billion cubic meters, Bali is being urged to implement regulations immediately to address this issue. Expert observers consider Bali to be a particularly water crisis-prone zone and have stated that that the importance of water management
should not be underestimated. According to a number of academic studies, some of the factors that need to be addressed in terms of water management in Bali include; the tourism industry, population growth and the rampant exploitation of groundwater. The intrusion
of seawater into the water table, the declining quality of available water and the destruction of vegetative forests in upstream regions are some of the immediate impacts of these factors. Continued in page 2 Decline...