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Tuesday, April 19, 2016 Actor Johnny Depp (R) and wife Amber Heard arrive at the Southport Magistrates Court on Australia’s Gold Coast, April 18, 2016. Hollywood actor Johnny Depp’s wife, actress Amber Heard, appeared in the Queensland court Monday charged with illegally smuggling the couple’s Yorkshire terriers, Pistol and Boo, into the country on a private jet while Depp was shooting a Pirates of the Caribbean movie last year.
Johnny Depp’s wife cops good behaviour bond as Australia ends “war on terrier” REUTERS/Dave Hunt
SYDNEY - An Australian court let off the actress wife of minister threatened to have the dogs Hollywood star Johnny Depp with a good behaviour bond on put down if Depp and Heard did not Monday after she pleaded guilty to falsifying travel documents remove them. Depp made no comments before to sneak two pet dogs into the country. Depp accompanied his wife, Amber Heard, for the hearing at a packed courthouse in the Southport magistrates court, near where he had been shooting a “Pirates of the Caribbean” sequel when the scandal erupted last year. Bringing an end to what the Australian media had gleefully dubbed the “war on terrier”, a magistrate filed no conviction for Heard but issued a formal order to stay out of trouble for a month or face a A$1,000 ($767) fine. Heard, 29, had faced charges of illegally importing animals after authorities accused the couple of flying their Yorkshire Terriers, Pistol and Boo, into the country without going through proper quarantine
procedures. But on Monday, the court learned that state prosecutors agreed to drop those charges when Heard pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of lying on an incoming passenger form when entering the country to visit Depp on set last year. For the A-list couple, the result is a reassuringly un-Hollywood ending to their brush with Australia’s notoriously tough quarantine laws. The original charges against Heard carried a prison sentence of up to 10 years and a fine of A$10,000. The ruling also drew a line under the unlikely diplomatic tangle between the celebrity pair and Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, who in his capacity as farm
entering the courthouse other than brief pleasantries to waiting media. In court, Heard’s lawyers played a video apology in which the expressionless couple praised Australia’s biosecurity rules and Depp noted that “if you disrespect Australian law, they will tell you firmly”. Heard added, in the video, that Australia was “a wonderful island” and she was “truly sorry that Pistol and Boo were not declared” because “protecting Australia is important”. Heard’s lawyer, Jeremy Kirk, told the court his client was jetlagged and worried about a hand injury Depp received on set, and believed all appropriate arrangements in relation to the dogs had been made. (rtr)
‘Jungle Book’ Opens to Smashing $103.6 Million
LOS ANGELES - “The Jungle Book” dominated the weekend box office, grossing a massive $103.6 million, and extending the Walt Disney Company’s success in making live action versions of its classic animated features. That ranks as the second biggest April opening in history, behind only “Furious 7’s” $147.2 million launch. With “Cinderella,” “Alice in Wonderland,” “Maleficent,” and now “The Jungle Book,” this strategy of revitalizing fairy tales has become a virtual brand onto itself. One that nearly rivals Disney’s Marvel, Pixar, and LucasFilm projects. The studio will continue to mine its library; “Beauty and the Beast” with Emma Watson hits theaters on March 17, 2017, and new versions of “Cruella De Ville” and “Peter Pan” are in the works. Critics loved “The Jungle Book” handing it a 95% “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Word-of-mouth for the film also looks strong. The picture received an A CinemaScore, which could set it up for a healthy run in the days and weeks ahead. Families made up 49% if the opening weekend audience. The film performed well in Imax, earning $10.4 million, and 43% of its domestic opening weekend gross came on 3D screens. Jon Favreau (“Iron Man”) directed the $175 million, which used digital wizardry to conjure up Rudyard Kipling’s jungle setting. Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, and Scarlett Johansson head up the vocal cast with Neel Sethi making his feature film debut as Mowgli, the feral child at the heart of the story. Despite the shadow cast by “The Jungle Book,” New Line and MGM scored with “Barbershop: The Next Cut.” The third film in the “Barbershop” series racked up a sterling $20.2 million from 2,661 locations. Women comprised 54% of ticket buyers, and 66% of consumers were over the age of 25. The weekend’s other new entry, Lionsgate’s action thriller “Criminal,” debuted to $5.8 million from 2,683 locations for a sixth place finish. The story of a convict who is implanted with the memories of a dead CIA agent in order to finish a mission stars Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, and Gary Oldman. It cost just north of $30 million to produce. Last weekend’s champion, the Melissa McCarthy comedy “The Boss,” dropped 57%, taking third place with $10.2 million. The story of a business icon whose career is derailed by insider trading has earned $10.2 million in two weeks of release. (rtr)
service articles to feature photography. In addition to the journalism awards, there are prizes in fiction, history, drama, music and other literary forms. All told, there are 21 prizes in play every year. Winners are selected by an independent board after judges make nominations from a total of 2,400 entries across the range of categories. The board has the option of naming no winner in
any category. The announcement takes place at 3 p.m. ET (1900 GMT) on Monday at New York’s Columbia University, which founded its School of Journalism with an endowment from Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York World and other U.S. newspapers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His will provided funding for the prizes in the early years and named Columbia to
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Actor Ben Kingsley poses for photographers as he arrives at the British premiere of the film “The Jungle Book”, in London, Britain April 13, 2016.
administer them. Over the years, the New York Times has taken more awards than any other news organization, receiving 117 Pulitzer Prizes and citations, according to the newspaper’s website. Last year the paper won three Pulitzers, including an international reporting prize for its coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Last year’s Pulitzer for Public
Service went to Charleston, South Carolina’s Post and Courier for its series on domestic violence. In the inaugural awards in 1917, Herbert Bayard Swope of the New York World was the prize winner in reporting for a series of articles entitled “Inside the German Empire,” while the New York Tribune won the award for editorial writing on its piece on the first anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania. (rtr)
Australia parliament rejects bill, likely triggers July election Page 13
In quake-devastated Ecuador, loss piles up amid the rubble
PORTOVIEJO — It was supposed to be a family reunion to celebrate a young relative’s start of college. But the gathering ended in tragedy when a collapsing building crushed 17-yearold Sayira Quinde, her mother, father and toddler brother in their rusting Chevy Blazer.
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Pulitzer Prizes mark 100th year with Monday’s awards NEW YORK - The Pulitzer Prizes, established in 1917 with a bequest from trail-blazing publisher Joseph Pulitzer, are marking their 100th year on Monday with the announcement of the winners of what are regarded as the most prestigious awards in American journalism. The Pulitzers recognize excellence in categories that range from breaking news reporting to public
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A woman carries a table through the street after an earthquake in Pedernales, Ecuador, Sunday, April 17, 2016. Rescuers pulled survivors from the rubble Sunday after the strongest earthquake to hit Ecuador in decades flattened buildings and buckled highways along its Pacific coast on Saturday. The magnitude-7.8 quake killed hundreds of people.
A grief-stricken aunt, Johana Estupinan, now is making the longest journey of her life in a funeral hearse to the town of Esmeraldas, where she will bury her loved ones and break the news of the loss to her sister’s three now-orphaned children. As Ecuador digs out from its strongest earthquake in decades, tales of devastating loss are everywhere amid the rubble. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake left a trail of ruin along Ecuador’s normally placid Pacific Ocean coast, buckling highways, knocking down an air traffic control tower and flattening homes and buildings. At least 272 people died, including two Canadians, and thousands are homeless. President Rafael Correa said early Monday that the death toll would “surely rise, and in a considerable way.” “The Ecuadorean spirit knows how to move forward, and will know how to overcome these very difficult moments,” Correa said. Portoviejo, a provincial capital of nearly 300,000, was among the hardest hit, with the town’s mayor reporting at least 100 deaths. The Quinde family drove there from
their home hours north up the coast to drop off Sayira at Estupinan’s house a week before she was to start classes at a public university on a scholarship to study medicine. “She was my favorite niece,” Estupinan said, emotionally torn apart after waiting at the city’s morgue for hours. “I thought I was getting a daughter for the six years it was going to take her to earn a degree.” “I never thought my life would be destroyed in a minute,” she added. Estupinan watched as her loved ones were loaded onto a truck-sized hearse for the nighttime drive, the three older ones in dark mahogany coffins and 8-month-old Matias in a casket painted white. “It was supposed to be a short moment of family happiness but it converted into a tragedy,” she said. 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.
BAF 2016 to feature the theme ‘Karang Awak’
D E N PASAR -This year’s Bali Arts Festival (BAF) will be between June 11 and July 9. The theme of the 38th Bali Art Festival is Karang Awak meaning “love of the homeland”. The overarching
theme for the next five years While the overarching theme for the BAF, over tthe next five years Wetuning Bhuana meaning ‘maintaining the synergy and balance of the universe’. “This year’s BAF will include 275 events consisting of perfor-
mances, competitions and workshops presented by all nine of Bali’s districts and the municipality of Denpasar and will feature and about five art studios” said Head of the Bali Culture Agency, Dewa Putu Beratha, during a preparatory meeting for festival
that was held in the gubernatorial meeting room. Beratha said that the upcoming BAF will be enlivened by participants from home and overseas. Just like previous BAFs, the opening will be jazzed up by ISI Denpasar’s oratory show and while the closing
of the festival will feature a ballet performed by SMKN 3 Sukawati Vocational School. This years’ festival BAF will be focused on both classical and reconstructive arts. Festival... Continued on page 2