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Mariah Carey: No feuding with Minaj on ‘Idol’ yet Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK — Mariah Carey says there’s no feud between her and fellow new “American Idol” judge Nicki Minaj at the moment.
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This image released by Fox shows the new judges for the singing competition series, “American Idol,” from left, Mariah Carey, Keith Urban, Nicki Minaj and Randy Jackson during a news conference in New York on Monday Sept. 17, 2012.
Judges Carey, Minaj, Keith Urban and Randy Jackson and host Ryan Seacrest attended a press conference in New York on Monday after auditioning singers for the Fox music reality TV series. Fox announced Sunday that Minaj and Urban would join Carey and Jackson as judges on “Idol” following Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler’s exits in July. Carey tried to quell rumors about her quarreling with Minaj by saying they’ve only been together two days and “a feud takes a little longer to happen.” All the judges burst into laughter. Minaj says the new “Idol” judges are “getting along wonderfully, darling.” Minaj and Carey collaborated on a remix of Carey’s song “Up Out My Face” in 2010. Carey confessed she’s “never been a fan” of singing competition shows. “I’ll be completely honest,” she said. “But I realize what this show has done for such talented artists and truly giving them careers.”
Streisand, Minnelli sing for Marvin Hamlisch in NY Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK — Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin and Liza Minnelli took turns singing songs by the late Marvin Hamlisch during a stirring memorial service for the composer on Tuesday. Minnelli sang “If You Really Knew Me” from the musical “They’re Playing My Song,” Franklin gave a soulful rendition of “Nobody Does It Better” from the James Bond film “The Spy Who Loved Me” and Streisand brought the crowd to its feet when she finished “The Way We Were” from the film of the same name. The composer’s wife of 26 years, Terre Hamlisch, welcomed the crowd. “These are Marvin’s melodies,” she said. “Marvin Hamlisch lives in them. This is who Marvin Hamlisch was.” Hamlisch composed or arranged hundreds of scores for musicals and movies, including “A Chorus Line” on Broadway and the films “The Sting,” ‘’Sophie’s Choice,” ‘’Ordinary People” and “The Way We Were.” He died on Aug. 6 in Los Angeles at age 68 after a short illness. Streisand, who wore all black and sat on a stool, said she first met Ham-
lisch in 1963 when he was her rehearsal pianist in her breakout Broadway show, “Funny Girl.” He also was tasked with getting everyone coffee. Since Streisand didn’t drink coffee, he would bring her chocolate doughnuts. “He always brought me two, and so our love affair began,” Streisand said as the crowd laughed. Their lives would intersect in personal and professional ways over the years. She sang his “The Way We Were” to a Grammy Award win in 1974, and he played at her wedding in 1998. Franklin, in a white suit, changed some of the lyrics to the sexy James Bond song “Nobody Does It Better,” to “Marvin, you were the best.” Hamlisch had co-written the No. 1 R&B hit “Break It to Me Gently” with Carole Bayer Sager for Franklin. Minnelli, in a beaded dress, said she met Hamlisch when she was 14 and he was 15 and they became friends immediately. He later arranged many of Minnelli’s albums, including her first two as well as “Judy Garland & Liza Minnelli ‘Live’ at the London Palladium.”
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When asked why TV watchers should view “Idol” versus another Fox show, “X Factor,” which boasts Britney Spears and Demi Lovato as judges, Carey simply pointed her fingers to herself. “Did I do that? I didn’t mean that as a final gesture,” she said with a smile. “I’m sorry.” Then the 42-year-old multiple Grammy Award-winner said she wants to help those who dream of careers in music even if they don’t get to move on to the next round on the show. “(What) I’m bringing to the table is years of experience, writing songs, performing,” she said.
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Economic achievement of Bali does not make good progress Denpasar (Bali Post)—
Economic growth of Bali in the second quarter of 2012 was recorded to reach 6.76 percent. Even, the national economic growth was ranked second after China. Such achievement, said an economist from Udayana University, Dr. IGW Murjana Yasa, had not made proud. It happened because the high growth rate remained to leave about 168,780 poor people and some 52,380 unemployed people. “Economic growth does not make proud because the local people of Bali have not fully en-
joyed the rapid growth. Similar condition also happens in national level where many people are still poor and unemployed,” said Murjana Yasa in Denpasar, Tuesday (Sep 18). According to him, the conditions occurred because local community had not been able to participate in the existing business opportunities.
The economic growth was dominantly driven by big businessmen who tended to vanquish small businesses. “Regional and central government have promoted the existing SME sector. By doing so, the rate of economic growth can be enjoyed by the lower class community and does not cause inequality,” he said. Meanwhile, an economist from Warmadewa University, I Wayan Arjana, agreed if the economic growth should push the growth of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Bali. Most
of the communities on the island highly depended on the sector. “It’s no use if Bali undergoes a rapid economic growth if the local community is unable to enjoy it. In my mind, it will be better if the economy does not grow but can be enjoyed evenly,” he said. He said the provincial government of Bali needed to interference with the major companies in Bali in order to protect small businesses that dominantly run by local communities. By doing so, it would result in a mutually beneficial symbiosis.
“It’s time for the government to find out a solution to the problem and set it forth through regional bylaws that enables the growth of business without vanquishing the large and small businesses,” he said. Chairman of the Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU), Tadjuddin Noer Said, earlier also said that government should not be too proud of achieving the economic growth because the local people of Bali were just spectators in the middle of the rapid growth. Continued on page 6
French weekly fuels Mohammad row with nude cartoons Reuters
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Aretha Franklin performs during A Tribute to Marvin Hamlisch, a memorial concert, at The Juilliard School’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012 in New York.
PARIS - A French magazine ridiculed the Prophet Mohammad on Wednesday by portraying him naked in cartoons, threatening to fuel the anger of Muslims around the world who are already incensed by a film depicting him as a womanizing buffoon. The French government, which had urged the magazine not to print the images, said it was temporarily shutting down premises including embassies and schools in 20 countries on Friday, when protests sometimes break out after Muslim prayers. Riot police were deployed to protect the Paris offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo after it hit the news stands with a cover showing an Orthodox Jew pushing the turbaned figure of Mohammad in a wheelchair. On the inside pages, several caricatures of the Prophet showed him naked. Reacting to the publication, Essam Erian, acting head of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, told Reuters: “We reject and conAP Photo/MIchel Euler demn the French cartoons that dishonor the Prophet A French policeman stands guard outside the headquarters of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris, Wednesday, and we condemn any action that defames the sacred Sept. 19, 2012. Police took up positions outside the Paris offices of the satirical French weekly that published crude according to people’s beliefs.” caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad on Wednesday that ridicule the film and the furor surrounding it. Continued on page 6