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Thursday, February 20, 2014
Clooney, Damon attend White House movie screening Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is hosting a screening of the movie “The Monuments Men” at the White House Tuesday. Actors George Clooney, Matt Damon and Bill Murray star in the movie and attended the private showing at the White House. They were joined by Harry Ettlinger, a member of the original group the movie is based on. The movie tells the story of a World War II platoon that was tasked with rescuing art and cultural artifacts
seized by the Nazis in Germany. The White House says cultural heritage preservation is a vital foreign policy tool and helps strengthen bilateral relationships. From left, US actors, John Goodman, George Clooney, Bill Murray, France’s Jean Dujardin, and US actors Bob Balaban and Matt Damon attending the French premiere of “The Monuments Men” at the UGC Normandie in Paris Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014.
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Associated Press Writer
For a documentary subject as forceful as Elaine Stritch, filmmakers may need to turn to nature — a typhoon might do it — to find anything approximate. Even the camera must warily keep its distance in “Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me.” She warns its operator when he gets too close: “I don’t know whether this is a skin commercial, or what.” Chiemi Karasawa’s “Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me” is an irresistibly entertaining documentary that captures Stritch during what she unsentimentally calls “almost post-time.” After seven decades performing in New York — on Broadway, in countless cabaret nights at the Cafe Carlyle — Stritch’s enormous energy has been knocked by the increasing years, diabetes, and surgeries on her hip and eyes. But “Shoot Me,” made over the last few years, is a document not of Stritch’s
dwindling, but of her feisty persistence. As the film shows, she has trouble remembering lyrics and sometimes struggles to get out of bed. At home and during rehearsals, it chronicles her grand exit from New York, her home since she was 17, and her decision to retire back to Michigan. Stritch is a paragon of old-fashioned show business: A brassy and blunt survivor of New York theater life. More than a decade ago, the New York Landmarks Conservancy named her a living landmark. “I like the courage of age,” she declares. Karasawa shoots Stritch in intimate, unglamorous situations, most notably one night in a hospital bed with curlers in her hair, chastened by a health scare: “It’s time for me,” she says. “I can feel it everywhere.”
This film image released by the Sundance Selects shows Elaine Stritch in a scene from “Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me.”
Classy Barca all but end City’s dreams of European glory
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Before Korean family reunions, fears of false hope
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Indonesian volunteers prepare to continue the search of a Japanese diver who is missing, in Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014.
Husband joins search for missing Japan diver
AFP/Bali Post
SEMAWANG/SEMARAPURA - The husband of a Japanese diver missing off Bali since last week joined the search for his wife Wednesday, following the dramatic rescue of five others in the group and the death of a sixth.
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Review: Elaine Stritch undimmed in documentary Stritch captivates just walking down the street: greeting fans, chastising cabs, swaying to the music of the sidewalk. “I wish I could f---ing drive,” she says at the opening of the documentary. “Then I’d really be a menace.” The strong types usually seen in movies— caped men with powers, action heroes with six-packs — have nothing on this long-legged, 89-year-old New York broad. Stritch, who has long eschewed pants of any sort, has the kind of ferocious voice that old age can’t quiet.
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Putu Mahardena Sembah, who is Indonesian, told reporters “I wish we can find” his wife, instructor Shoko Takahashi, as he set off with rescuers in a boat -- but police cautioned chances of locating her alive five days after she went missing were slim.
Sembah and Takahashi ran the operator Yellow Scuba that took the seven female Japanese divers out on an expedition Friday from Nusa Lembongan island, east of the resort island of Bali. The women, all experienced divers, went missing -- and as days passed
hopes faded any of them would be found alive in an area known for its stunning underwater beauty but also strong, unpredictable currents. Then fishermen spotted five of the women Monday -- three days after they disappeared -- clinging to a coral reef. They were plucked to safety and taken to hospital. The body of a sixth diver, however, was found by members of the public Tuesday floating near a beach in southern Bali, the island’s search and rescue chief said. Sembah set off from Semawang
beach in south Bali Wednesday morning with a group of some 15 rescuers in three boats, while a search and rescue helicopter hovered overhead, an AFP reporter at the scene said. Japanese friends and relatives of the divers, who had travelled to Bali to help in the search, were among the rescuers setting off from the beach, which is lined with scuba diving centres. Local police chief Nyoman Suarsika said the search would focus on the areas of Sanur and Kuta, popular tourist spots in southern Bali.
But, he warned: “The chances of finding her alive are very slim now that she has been missing for five days. “Whether alive or dead, we will try our very best to find her.” Hopes had been raised early Tuesday, before the body of the sixth diver was discovered, that the final two missing women were still alive after villagers spotted two people on coral reef sending out what they thought were distress signals. Continued on page 6