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Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Sophia Loren: Retire? Never!
NEW YORK — Some things about the film business have changed for actresses in the more than five decades since Sophia Loren was first discovered, and some things have stayed exactly the same. Take pay equity, for instance, and the reality that worthy actresses sometimes make less than their male counterparts. “It never changed. It’s always the same. It’s always the same like before, but not only in the movies. Even in life sometimes, unfortunately,” Loren said on the red carpet Monday night before the nonprofit Americans for the Arts honored her at its National Arts Awards. Loren received the Carolyn Clark Powers Lifetime Achievement Award, presented to her by director and choreographer Rob
Marshall before a star-studded crowd that included Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga and artists Chuck Close and Jeff Koons. Herbie Hancock and Gaga were also among the honorees, but it was Loren who stole hearts in a black evening gown, accompanied by son Edoardo Ponti and daughter-in-law Sasha Alexander. At 81, Loren still works when the mood strikes. The word retirement is not in her vocabulary. “That’s terrible, the word retire. Never,” she said. “We start always like it was the beginning of a long
career.” With the onslaught of technology and the speed at which the world turns today, Loren said she enjoys embracing the “new” in life. “Well I think you have to get accustomed to the new things that come out and try to run after them and try to be always living in a world that belongs to you, even though you have to learn many things more,” she explained. What is Loren’s best advice for young actresses today? “To take life seriously,” she said, “to do the right things and not to take life easily, as sometimes the girls, they do because they don’t have experience.” She added: “They need good mothers, good parents.” (ap)
Daniel Craig and David Oyelowo to star in ‘Othello’ in NYC
NEW YORK — A couple of big-time movie stars will be appearing off-Broadway next fall when Daniel Craig and David Oyelowo star in a production of William Shakespeare’s “Othello” at New York Theatre Workshop. Sam Gold, a Tony-winner for “Fun Home” will direct the tragedy, with “Selma” star Oyelowo playing the title role and super spy 007 Craig as Iago. The show is slated for fall 2016 and additional casting will be announced later. Like Hamlet and Macbeth, Othello is a Shakespearean protagonist driven mad by suspicion and fear. In the play, Othello’s trusted lieutenant spins a web to make him doubt his wife’s fidelity. Craig plays James Bond in “Spectre” out next month and Oyelowo is next slated to co-star with Zoe Saldana in “Nina” about singer Nina Simone. (ap)
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Korean families torn by war six decades ago rejoice in reunions SOKCHO, South Korea - Nearly 400 South Koreans crossed the heavily armed border into North Korea on Tuesday to be reunited, in an outpouring of emotions and tears, with family members separated for more than six decades since the 195053 Korean War.
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Blake Shelton sues In Touch Weekly over rehab story
LOS ANGELES — Blake Shelton sued the tabloid magazine In Touch Weekly on Monday over a cover story claiming heavy drinking by the country music star contributed to his divorce from Miranda Lambert and that he was headed to rehab. Shelton’s defamation lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court seeks more than $1 million in damages over the story that his lawyers say is false. The lawsuit against In Touch publisher, Bauer Publishing Co., contends the tabloid has repeatedly published false information about the singer and his breakup with Lambert. “Blake Shelton has had enough,” the lawsuit begins before refuting claims made in the article and laying out the Grammy-nominated singer’s busy schedule. “Mr. Shelton is not in rehab and has no plans to go to rehab.” An email sent to publicists for In Touch was not immediately returned. The lawsuit points out that Shelton
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continues to work as a judge on NBC’s “The Voice” and on an upcoming greatest hits album. In Touch published the story in late September that alleged Shelton was drinking heavily and that his actions contributed to the end of his marriage to Lambert. It previously published a story claiming Shelton had cheated on Lambert and that contributed to their divorce. The rehab cover story also proclaimed that Shelton had hit “rock bottom.” “To be clear: Mr. Shelton has not hit rock bottom,” the lawsuit states. It accuses In Touch of publishing the story without reaching out to the singer’s lawyers or other representatives. The lawsuit states Shelton, 39, has sought a retraction of the story but received no response. In addition to monetary damages, Shelton is seeking an injunction that would prevent In Touch from repeating allegations in the disputed story. (ap)
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South Korean Min Ho-shik, 84, center, hugs his North Korean family member Min Un Sik, right, during the Separated Family Reunion Meeting at Diamond Mountain resort in North Korea, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015.
The two Koreas, which are divided and remain in a technical state of war, agreed to hold the family reunions for the first time since February last year after negotiating the end of a standoff at the military border in August. Participants, some as old as 88, were reunited at the resort of Mount Kumgang just north of the militarised border with children and spouses from whom they had been separated when the peninsula was divided at the end of the war. “Father, it’s me, your son,” Chae Hee-yang, 65, from the South told Chae Hoon-sik, 88, from the North, as they wept at their first meeting since the younger man was just a year old, according to a report by South Korea’s Yonhap news agency. Foreign news outlets were not allowed to cover the event. Families separated since the war have no means of communication and often do not know if relatives on the other side are surviving. In the first round of reunions starting Tuesday, 96 North Koreans and their families met about 390 people travelling from the South. The second round reunites about
190 North Koreans with 90 South Koreans and their families. The South Koreans, mostly elderly and some in wheelchairs, had gathered on Monday in the east coast city of Sokcho near the border for medical check-ups and a briefing on appropriate conduct while in the North. On Tuesday morning they boarded buses to cross the border. The reunions, held in a ballroom at the Mount Kumgang resort, are watched by officials and media and include only two hours of private time before they end on Thursday. South Korean participants are advised to steer clear of a long list of topics, such as the North’s political leadership or living standards, to the frustration of some of the visitors.
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Bali serves as center of energy or revives geothermal energy? THE DESIRE of the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources to make Bali a center of clean energy in Indonesia is not a new discourse. Previously, this has been
revealed in the meeting between the Deputy Governor of Bali I Ketut Sudikerta and the Acceleration Task Force of the Renewable Energy Development (P2EBT) of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources in Wiswasabha Building, June 18. At that time, the Task Force of the
P2EBT, Reza Kusumaatmadja, said that the Bali clean energy development framework is divided into three tiers. They consist of grid energy in 2015-2016 (0-18 months), off grid energy in 2016-2017 (12-36 months), and future clean energy in 2017-2018 (next 6 months). The grid energy stage includes
the development of geothermal energy at Bedugul. “One of the things that can be followed up like in terms of the improvement of communication is the Bedugul geothermal,” he said. Continue to page 2 Geothermal ...