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Thursday, December 19, 2013
De Niro and Stallone in one for the aged
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Associated Press Writer
The last time Robert De Niro laced on the gloves for the big screen he delivered a knockout as Jake LaMotta in “Raging Bull.” More than 30 years later, he was given a chance to fight again. But he wasn’t going to do it without the undisputed champion of boxing movies, Rocky himself. Raging Bull, meet Aging Bull. It’s De Niro vs. Sylvester Stallone in a geriatric battle for the aged. “It was just common sense who did it,” De Niro said. “It could have gone either way for me if he didn’t do it.” The question might have been why do it at all. Implausible at best, the tale of two 60-something former light heavyweight champions coming out of retirement to fight each other in an HBO pay-per-view event is a stretch even by Hollywood standards. It wouldn’t work as a drama like “Raging Bull’” or any of the six “Rocky” movies. But “Grudge Match” excels as comedy, with enough laugh-
out-loud moments and good cheer to put it in the early running for the feel-good movie of the holiday season. Grudgement Day anyone? “I haven’t been very lucky in comedy,” Stallone said. “But I’m taking a character that got me here so it didn’t take a lot of persuasion.” That character, of course, is Rocky Balboa, first seen in the original “Rocky” movie in 1976 and reprised in various forms five times since. The last was “Rocky Balboa” in 2006 in which the fighter comes out of retirement to take on champion Mason Dixon for the heavyweight title. The story line for that film was similar, including the HBO pay-per-view that Rocky barely loses in a brutal fight. The difference this time is “Grudge Match”
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is more or less a parody, played mostly for laughs. Instead of a tearful scene at a cemetery there’s Stallone and De Niro butchering the national anthem at a monster truck event. Instead of an inspirational talk from the corner, there’s trainer Alan Arkin urging Stallone’s Henry “Razor” Sharp to toughen up his hands by dipping them in horse urine. This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Robert De Niro as Billy ‘The Kid’ McDonnen, left, and Sylvester Stallone as Henry “Razor” Sharp, in a scene from “Grudge Match.” One was once the Raging Bull himself.
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Thursday, December 19, 2013
Neymar scores again as Barca advances in Copa
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More snow, frigid temps take aim at Northeast
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Opened fire at Reno hospital
Gunman kills himself, 1 other AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures, Ben Rothstein
Zhang Ziyi settles libel case against US website Associated Press Writer
BEIJING — “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” actress Zhang Ziyi has reached an undisclosed settlement with a U.S.-based dissident news website that she sued for libel after it published reports that she was paid to have sex with Chinese government officials. Boxun News retracted its “negative and untrue” reports that began in May 2012 in an apology displayed on its Englishlanguage site on Wednesday. “These false reports about Zhang Ziyi should never have been published. As a result, Boxun News now renders its unreserved apology to Zhang Ziyi, has removed the entire series of articles about Zhang Ziyi from the Boxun News website, and issues this formal retraction,” said Boxun, whose reports regularly allege human rights violations and political scandals and which is blocked in China. Zhang brought the lawsuit in a Los Angeles court against China Free Press, Inc. — a North Carolina non-profit corporation devoted to promoting free speech and democracy in China — doing business as Boxun
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Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi arrives at the 50th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013.
News, and Weican Null Meng, a U.S. citizen and founder of China Free Press. Zhang claimed damage to her reputation and business interests, according to court documents. Zhang complained that Boxun News had repeatedly published untrue reports that she was a prostitute who earned more than $100 million by having sexual relations with Chinese government officials and others, according to court documents. Those articles were then republished by other media outlets around the world. Zhang also disputed Boxun’s allegation that she was working on behalf of the Chinese government to damage the website’s reputation. Boxun’s reports caused a stir in China because one of the officials they alleged she has slept with was Bo Xilai, a former prominent politician imprisoned for corruption and abuse of power, whose downfall was well under way at the time. The 34-year-old actress said Boxun had never contacted her before publication to confirm its report or obtain comment. Court documents said she had suffered approximately $250,000 in specific damages, in addition to general damages for injury to her reputation, and that she also sought punitive damages. The defendants initially argued their reports were protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution that covers free speech. Meng had said the case was “an effort by the Chinese government (albeit by proxy) to attach and retaliate against an independent journalistic critic of its brutal and repressive practices, and to use the American judicial system as an instrument to identify dissidents for persecution,” according to a defendants’ summary.
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Police escort hospital staff members and others away from a medical office building in Reno, Nev., on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013. A suicidal gunman killed one person and critically wounded two others before turning the gun on himself on the grounds of the Renown Regional Medical Center Tuesday.
Associated Press
RENO — A suicidal gunman opened fire at a Reno, Nevada, hospital campus Tuesday, killing one person, critically wounding two others and sending police on a door-to-door search within the facility amid the chaos. The wounded victims were in surgery and one of them is a doctor, the Nevada Department of Public Safety said. The gunman killed himself after the shooting, which Reno Deputy Police Chief Tom Robinson said doesn’t appear to be random.
“I wouldn’t say they were targeted, but I don’t think it was just random,” he told reporters outside the medical building on the campus of the Renown Regional Medical Center. Investigators said they were confident no one else was involved. Robinson said he didn’t know
how many shots were fired or what type of weapon was used. “I don’t even know if there were multiple weapons at this time,” he said. All three victims and the gunman suffered some kind of gunshot wound and were in the same general area on the building’s third floor, Robinson said. Police didn’t release their identities, “As far as the suspect goes, we still don’t have a solid identity yet but we are working several leads on who he is,” Robinson said. Department of Public Safety
spokeswoman Gail Powell said the wounded doctor is a woman but she had no other information about the shooting at the Center for Advanced Medicine, a modern structure connected by a second-floor walkway to the main hospital and a parking structure. Robinson said there were about 100 people in the building when the shooting was reported at 2:05 p.m. Officers entered three to five minutes later and did “a systematic search, floor to floor, room to room,” Robinson said.
“On the third floor of the building they located two people down and located two people injured and evacuated the injured parties,” he said. Renown Regional Medical Center was put on lockdown as law enforcement rushed to the scene and victims were treated by doctors on the hospital campus. More than three dozen police cars, including SWAT team vehicles, surrounded the sprawling medical complex and closed off a three-block area near downtown Reno.
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