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Thursday, November 20, 2014
From Arnie to Zsa Zsa: the immigrant road to Hollywood
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Chris Hemsworth attends the Marvel press line at Comic-Con International in San Diego.
Chris Hemsworth named world’s sexiest man
WASHINGTON - Australian actor and “Thor” avenger Chris Hemsworth is the world’s sexiest man, the US magazine People said Thursday. The honor was announced on the late night US TV show hosted by Jimmy Kimmel on ABC and in the magazine itself. With his face at first masked and his voice digitally modified, Hemsworth, 31, speaking from Australia, toyed with playful yes-or-no questions from the American TV audience. Kimmel’s instructions and teasers to his crowd: “If you guess correctly, the sexiest man alive will make love to you, so this is big. I will give you three clues. He is sexy, he is a man, he is alive.” Is he in a band? No. Over age 35? Wrong, again. “Are you hairy?” a bearded, balding man in the audience asked, smiling. “Just up here,” the still un-
known masked person asked, gesturing to his head. Fast forward: the audience zeroed in on the guy as a nonAmerican, buffed dude who is an actor that has played a superhero in the movies, wielding a hammer: Thor in the Marvel Studios superhero movies? Bingo! Hemsworth’s award was a small facial mirror. “Anything you would like to say to the men who lost, specifically Matt Damon?” Kimmel asked, referring to the popular American actor. “I like everything there is about being sexy, to pursing the lips the right way to squinting at the essential time. Thank you, Matt, and all the other previous intelligent men. This is based on
an IQ test, not just the physical appearance,” the actor said. Asked if there was anyone he wanted to thank, Hemsworth said, “my parents, I guess, for putting this together.” In this week’s People cover story, Hemsworth told People he thought it was “pretty funny” when he first heard word of his new status. He is married to Spanish actress Elsa Pataky and they have three children. “I think you’ve bought me a couple of weeks of bragging rights around the house,” he told the magazine. “I can just say to her, ‘Now, remember, this is what people think, so I don’t need to do the dishes anymore, I don’t need to change nappies. I’m above that. I’ve made it now.”
LOSANGELES -Arnold Schwarzenegger famously made it big in Hollywood from humble -- and foreign -- beginnings. But he was hardly the first newcomer to strike gold in Tinseltown. From Charlie Chaplin’s 1917 film “The Immigrant” to 1990’s hit “Green Card” and 2011’s “A Better Life,” the story of Tinseltown has long been a tale of immigrants, whose lives are reflected back on screen. Be it Jews arriving from -- or often fleeing -- eastern Europe, the Italians and Irish bringing their distinctive styles, or British actors landing plum roles in the latest blockbusters, the path is well trodden. “Beyond the Jewish emigres, (the entertainment business) has benefited from all of America’s great immigrant tribes,” Tom Nunan, a film producer who teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles told AFP. These included “the black Irish humor, the Italian operas, the dance traditions of South America and Spain .. All influenced first Broadway, then our film and TV traditions,” he told AFP. The list of foreign actors drawn by Hollywood’s bright lights is like a Who’s Who of Golden Age showbiz: Audrey Hepburn (British/Dutch), Cary Grant (English), Sophia Loren (Italian) or Zsa Zsa Gabor (Hungarian). The link between immigrants and Hollywood goes all the way back to Tinseltown’s founding in the early years of the 20th century. As waves of newcomers arrived, the early silent movies were the perfect entertainment for masses who didn’t speak the language, and had just enough spare change for the cheap seats. The original Hollywood moguls were all Jews from central or eastern Europe. Universal was founded by Germany’s Carl Laemmle; Hungarians Adolph Zukor and William Fox started Paramount and Fox Film Corporation; Russian Louis B Mayer launched Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, while the Warner Brothers hailed from Poland. Their arrival and achievements in their adopted land are detailed in “An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood” by Neal Gubler, a standard
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textbook on the subject. “As immigrants themselves, they had a peculiar sensitivity to the dreams and aspirations of other immigrants and working class families ... groups that made up a significant portion of the early moviegoing audience,” Gubler writes. Later the steady trickle of Jewish writers, producers and others turned into a flood as Hitler’s Nazi regime took hold, forcing an exodus of actors and filmmakers including Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder and Marlene Dietrich. Two areas of the world which have been under-represented in Hollywood are Africa and Asia, along with the story of African Americans within the United States. Eddie Murphy famously made a speech about the lack of black Oscar winners at the 1988 Academy Awards, pointing out that there had only been three in the past six decades. There have been breakthroughs: in 2002 Denzel Washington and Halle Berry won best actor and actress, in 2012 “The Help” secured a win for Octavia Spencer, while this year black British director Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave” won Best Picture and an Oscar for Kenyan-born star Lupita Nyong’o. On the Asian front, Thompson said: “In the more modern era, over the past half century or so we’ve had various immigration waves from Asian countries.
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Slums on the banks of the river is an evidence of poverty still haunts Bali. The price hike of diesel fuel and gasoline is surely followed by some new problems. Provincial government asked to anticipate poverty increase.
Impact of fuel price hike
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Provincial govt asked to anticipate poverty increase
Bali Post
DENPASAR - The price hike of diesel fuel and gasoline is surely followed by some new problems. They include the rising price of basic necessities and declining purchasing power of the lower middle class. Even, it ultimately affected the increase in the poverty rate. To that end, the Deputy Chairman of the Bali House, Nyoman Sugawa Korry, asked the Bali government to jointly anticipate the impacts and never only depended on the compensation program of central government. “The executive and the legislative must sit together to formulate synergic policies between the policies of central, provincial and county/municipal government related to the program for
anticipating the increase in poverty as a result of the subsidized fuel price hike,” said Sugawa Korry. According to him, the subsidized fuel price hike would result
in multiplier effect. It would have a great impact on inflation, decline in people’s purchasing power and the increase in the poverty rate. Industrial sector would also be hit
by the increase in operating, transportation and labor cost. As a result, such condition was a dilemma for the industrial and business sector. “We do hope there are negotiations between the employers and the labor so that such condition will not result in a layoff,” said the Golkar politician from Buleleng. When contacted separately, a member of Commission I of the Bali House, Gusti Putu Widjera, asked PT Pertamina to anticipate the fuel
stock on the Island of the Gods. This democrat also expected the PT Pertamina to oversee the distribution of Premium fuel after the price hike. “I hope that PT Pertamina and relevant agencies to supervise the rise in the fuel price. Moreover, Bali is an international tourist destination so that the fuel stock must be guaranteed to remain adequate so that the transportation services can run smoothly,” said Widjera. Continued on page 6