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Thursday, February 13, 2014
Curls and dimples: Shirley Temple dies at 85 Associated Press Writer
Shirley Temple, who sang, danced, sobbed and grinned her way into the hearts of Depression-era moviegoers and remains the ultimate child star decades later, died Monday night at 85. Other pre-teens, from Macaulay Culkin to Miley Cyrus, have been as famous in their time. But none of them helped shape their time the way Temple did. Dimpled, precocious and adorable, she was America’s top box office star during Hollywood’s golden age and such an enduring symbol of innocence that kids still know the drink named for her: a sweet, nonalcoholic cocktail of ginger ale and grenadine, topped with a maraschino cherry. Her movies — which included “Bright Eyes” (1934), “Curly Top” (1935), “Dimples” (1936) and “Heidi” (1937) — featured sentimental themes and musical subplots, with stories of resilience that
a struggling American public strongly identified with. Her early life was free of the scandals that have plagued Cyrus, Lindsay Lohan and so many other child stars — parental feuds, or drug and alcohol addiction. She was a tribute to the economic and inspirational power of movies, credited with helping to save 20th Century Fox from bankruptcy and praised by President Franklin D. Roosevelt himself as a bright spirit during a gloomy time.
She was “just absolutely marvelous, greatest in the world,” director Allan Dwan told filmmaker-author Peter Bogdanovich in his book “Who the Devil Made It: Conversations With Legendary Film Directors.” “With Shirley, you’d just tell her once and she’d remember the rest of her life,” said Dwan, who directed her in “Heidi” and “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.” ‘’Whatever it was she was supposed to do — she’d do it. ... And if one of the actors got stuck, she’d tell him what his line was — she knew it better than he did.” Her achievements did not end with movies. Retired from acting at 21, she went on to hold several diplomatic posts in Republican administrations, including ambassador to Czechoslovakia during the sudden collapse of communism in 1989.
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FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2006 file photo, Shirley Temple Black accepts the Screen Actors Guild Awards life achievement award at the 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, in Los Angeles. Shirley Temple, the curly-haired child star who put smiles on the faces of Depression-era moviegoers, has died. She was 85.
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Thursday, February 13, 2014
Ronaldo double sends Real through to Cup final
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In Ukraine standoff, echoes of U.S.-Russia Cold War tensions
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Tourist arrivals to Bali each year is never quiet and tends to increase. It happens because the Island of the Gods has become one of the must-visited tourist destinations by foreign tourists. However, the tourism prospect has not been able to equally raise the welfare of society.
Review: ‘RoboCop’ remake pats down the original JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer
The original 1987 “RoboCop,” Dutch director Paul Verhoeven’s first Hollywood film, isn’t so much a movie to revere as a bit of brutalism to behold. It had a grim comic vibe, satirizing the savagery of both corporate bloodthirstiness and justice-seeking rampages. Peter Weller’s RoboCop was a techno-Frankenstein created to tame Detroit’s rampant crime: Dirty Harry for dystopia. Remaking “RoboCop” is like trying to recreate a nightmare. That’s one reason
why plans to remake the film were meant with mostly dubious derision: Hollywood, particularly nowadays, isn’t in the business of nihilism. Post-apocalyptic films may be all the rage, but a movie about a cop’s dead body shoved into a robot is a tad darker than Jennifer Lawrence running through the woods. Directed by Jose Padilha (the Brazilian filmmaker who made the excellent documentary “Bus 174” before shifting into action with “Elite Squad”), this “RoboCop” has updated the dystopia with some clever ideas and better acting, while
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This image released by Columbia Pictures shows Marianne Jean-Baptiste, left, and Joel Kinnaman in a scene from “RoboCop.”
at the same time sanitizing any satire with video-game polish and sequel baiting. The smartest addition comes early, shifting the story to Tehran, where the global company OmniCorp has drones stopping and frisking in the streets. We’re introduced to this by talk show host Pat Novak (Sam Jackson), who appears throughout the film, brazenly promoting Pentagon propaganda, trying to convince what he calls a bizarrely “robot-phobic” American public that OmniCorp drones can make the U.S. safer, too. It’s a damning starting point that already positions America as the propagator of emotion-less killing machine. When the story shifts to Detroit, it gives the whole film the frame of: Would we treat ourselves how we treat those abroad? Opening the U.S. market to its drones is judged imperative by OmniCorp. CEO Raymond Sellars (Michael Keaton) is flanked by executive Liz Kline (Jennifer Ehle) and marketing wizard (Jay Baruchel, brilliantly smarmy). To turn the political tide, they decide they need (literally) a more human face. For their RoboCop prototype, they find Detroit police detective Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman), who has been badly maimed by a car bomb meant to derail his pursuit of a drug kingpin. Gary Oldman (always good, less frequently tested) plays the scientist who preserves little more than Murphy’s brain in his new steel body, controlling his emotions and memory with lowered levels of dopamine.
Tourism failed to enhance Balinese people’s prosperity
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DENPASAR - Tourist arrivals to Bali each year is never quiet and tends to increase. It happens because the Island of the Gods has become one of the must-visited tourist destinations by foreign tourists. However, the tourism prospect has not been able to equally raise the welfare of society. It was revealed by the academician AA Gede Putra Arjawa. “The profits will come to investors or authorities. Bali has donated much, why does it get really a small portion? It is the reason why the results of tourism cannot be evenly enjoyed by the people of Bali,” he said. Moreover, the land owners in the tourism area were getting wedged because the land and property
tax continued to increase. It was one of the factors causing people to sell their land as being unable to pay taxes. “Simply check the people in Southern Kuta, not all communities are prosperous. In addition, not all people can manage their land or money after selling the land. As a result, such condition
ends in poverty,” said the lecturer of Coordinator of Private Higher Education for Region VIII in charge of Mahendradatta University. According to him, it would be useless to get great nicknames like ‘Bali as tourist destination of the world’ if there were still people in poverty line. Properly, said Arjawa, aside from evenly developing cultural tourism in Bali region, the government was also expected to prepare human resources. Local government and parliament as well as Balinese people in central government had to fight in order to get greater budget. “Lest the money from the tourism result in Bali is
too much sucked by central government. Clatter of the dollars must be equally enjoyed by the people of Bali. Let’s see, the local workforce maximally fill in the position as cleaning service, waiter, waitress or gardener at hotel. This occurs because the human resources have not been prepared by the government,” said the academician from Gianyar. He urged the government to promote the cultural tourism to the regions by involving local communities, such as cultural tourism at Penglipuran. “Do not only focus on one area. There are many attractions in Bali in need of the govern-
ment attention,” he said. Bali had been rich in culture and the tourism was filled with the clatter of dollars. Yet ironically, in the midst of rapid growth of tourism, many Balinese people were still not prosperous. They just got the dregs of tourism. It was said by Chairman of the Indonesian Economist Association (ISEI) of Bali Chapter, Prof. Dr. Ketut Rahyuda, where high investment growth was still dominated by foreign investors and those from outside Bali. Thus, the growth occurred was predominantly enjoyed by the outsiders. Continued on page 6