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Cranberries singer O’Riordan admits assaulting Irish police
DUBLIN — The lead singer of the Irish rock band The Cranberries, Dolores O’Riordan, has pleaded guilty to assaulting three policemen and a flight attendant during an alleged psychotic episode last year. O’Riordan didn’t speak during Wednesday’s court hearing in western Ireland. Her lawyer said she accepted evidence of the assault and obstruction charges facing her. Judge Patrick Durcan ordered the singer to write letters of apology to those she attacked. Durcan said he would sentence her early next year. She faces possible penalties ranging from a cash fine to six months’ imprisonment. A cabin attendant testified that O’Riordan stomped on her ankle as the Aer Lingus flight from New York landed in Shannon, Ireland, in November 2014. Police said she spat in their faces, head-butted one and kicked the others. (ap)
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Garbage piles up
Responsibility lies in Sarbagita government
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Khloe Kardashian behind new makeover series
PILES of garbage at Suwung landfill always increases day after day. PT NOEI expected to be able to overcome the waste problem into electrical energy is unable to do much. The government of Denpasar, Badung, Gianyar and Tabanan (Sarbagita) does not budge. Until now there is no indication of termination against the cooperation for the default of PT NOEI for ten years. “Mr. Governor has expressly requested that the waste management at Suwung is canceled because there is no follow-up of one of the technologies that should be completed by the partner of the Sarbagita government, PT NOEI,” said Vice Governor of Bali, I Ketut Sudikerta, after opening the dissemination of the reduction on the use of non-degradable plastic waste towards the use of bio-degradable plastic in Wiswasabha, the Governor’s Office, recently.
NEW YORK — Khloe Kardashian is behind a new makeover series at the E! network, where she promises to help the brokenhearted get the “ultimate payback.” E! said Wednesday it had approved a six-episode series where one of the network’s favorite sisters will be mentor people trying to turn their life around. She calls the series “Revenge Body with Khloe Kardashian.” Looking great, she says, is always the best revenge for getting back at an ex. The network did not say when the show will be on the air. (ap)
‘Top Gun,’ ‘Shawshank’ added to National Film Registry
WASHINGTON — It’s a brocentric year for movies added to the prestigious National Film Registry. Two of the most popular male-bonding movies of all time — “Top Gun” and “The Shawshank Redemption” — are being added to the collection of films preserved by the Library of Congress, the library announced Wednesday. They’ll be joined by an all-male quartet that’s about to get an allfemale reboot — the gang from “Ghostbusters.” Each year, the library picks 25 movies to preserve for their cultural, historic or artistic importance. The list is always eclectic and, as usual, includes titles that are older, experi-
mental or otherwise obscure. And then there are the crowdpleasers. “The Shawshank Redemption” is a mainstay atop the Internet Movie Database poll of the top 250 movies of all time. Its exalted ranking — “The Godfather” places second — is somewhat curious. “Shawshank,” a deliberately paced, well-crafted prison drama about the friendship between a wrongly convicted man (Tim Robbins) and a savvy fellow inmate (Morgan Freeman), was considered a box-office disappointment upon its 1994 release. It was the first feature for director Frank Darabont, who adapted the screenplay from a novella by Stephen King. Nominated for
seven Oscars, it won zero. But its popularity increased thanks to home video and countless airings on cable television, where viewers came to appreciate the elaborate plot, poignant score by Thomas Newman and Freeman’s soothing voice-over narration. The almost comically macho “Top Gun” (1986) was an instant blockbuster and remains a cultural 1980s touchstone. Applications to naval flight schools soared post-release, and it elevated Tom Cruise to a new level of stardom. Its visual style, from action maestro Tony Scott, helped influence a generation of directors. Two years before “Top Gun,” director Ivan Reitman’s “Ghostbusters”
was also a box-office smash, setting a standard for high-concept, effectsdriven comedy that was rarely duplicated. Reitman’s gift was allowing improvisational comedians including Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Rick Moranis to riff their way through the movie’s ridiculous spectral set pieces. “Making ‘Ghostbusters’ was one of the great joys of my life,” Reitman said in a statement. “It’s an honor to know that a movie that begins with a ghost in a library now has a spot on the shelves of the Library of Congress.” A new version of “Ghostbusters,” with a female spook-hunting crew led by Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy, will be released in July.
The film registry, which began in 1989, now includes 675 titles. The library works to ensure that original 35mm negatives will be preserved, either by the library itself or another organization. The library maintains the negatives at its vast audio-visual conservation center built inside a Cold War-era bunker in Culpeper, Virginia. The oldest film added this year dates to 1894. Known as the “Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze” or simply “The Sneeze,” the frames were captured by W.K.L. Dickson, who led Thomas Edison’s inventor team. Still images were published by Harper’s magazine, but it wasn’t seen as a movie until 1953. (ap)
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The Bali Tourism Office has set the target for tourist arrivals at the world-renowned tourist island at 4.2 million for 2016.
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Bali sets tourist arrival target for 2016 at 4.2 million
DENPASAR - The Bali Tourism Office has set the target be only 200 thousand more tourfor tourist arrivals at the world-renowned tourist island at 4.2 ists, compared to the target set for tourist arrivals in 2015 at 4 million, million for 2016. “This is a provisional target. We have not made detailed calculations because we still have to coordinate with the Udayana University. Ideally, it should be 4.5 million but we cannot set a target recklessly,” Head of the Bali Tourism Office Anak Agung
Gede Yuniartha Putra said on the sidelines of a function marking the inauguration of the executive board members of the Bali chapter of the Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) on Wednesday. The provisional target would
he said. “To achieve the target of tourist arrivals next year, we will receive promotion assistance from the central government. In addition, we have also prepared a calendar of activities to be organized throughout 2016,” he said. With the calendar of activities,
tourists would be assured of cultural and tourism activities taking place in Bali, he said. The tourism office has also set the target of domestic tourists visiting the resort island for 2016 at 7.8 million, he said. The Chairman of PHRI of Bali Chapter, Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardhana Sukawati, urged that for increasing the number of tourist arrivals, the quality of tourist
destinations in Bali needs to be improved. (ant) 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.