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Tuesday, April 22, 2014
‘Capt. America’ tops box office for third week Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES — Captain America continues to vanquish box office foes, triumphing in ticket sales for the third consecutive week and dominating over megastar Johnny Depp’s new movie. “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” added another $26 million to its coffers, according to studio estimates Sunday, while Depp’s science-fiction thriller, “Transcendence,” opened in fourth place with $11 million. Directed by longtime Christopher Nolan cinematographer Wally Pfister, the Warner Bros. film is Depp’s third consecutive box office disappointment. He played Tonto in last summer’s “The Lone Ranger” — one of the biggest flops of 2013 — and starred in 2012’s comedy-horror dud, “Dark Shadows.” “As we approach the summer movie season, box-office drawing power becomes more about the concept of the movie rather than its star,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for box-office tracker Rentrak. “It may not have been so much (about) Johnny Depp, but audiences right now like brands that they know.” That doesn’t bode well for original ideas, such as “Transcendence,” penned by first-time screen-
writer Jack Paglen. Dergarabedian notes that 12 sequels are expected this summer alone. Another new movie, the religious-themed “Heaven Is for Real,” debuted in third place over Easter weekend, while another sequel, the animated “Rio 2,” held on to the second spot. Faith-based films are performing well, Dergarabedian said, with four releases in the domestic top 20. “The Winter Soldier” set a box-office record as the biggest April release ever when it opened with more than $96 million domestically. Starring Chris Evans as comic book hero Capt. America and Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, the Disney release has earned more than $200 million to date in North America — the 12th Marvel film to do so.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014 Troubled history fuels Japan-China tension
This image released by Marvel shows Scarlett Johansson in a scene from the film, “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.”
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Ukraine peace deal falters as rebels show no sign of surrender
Messi helps Barcelona end skid, beat Bilbao 2-1
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Tyre bursts
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Malaysia Airlines jet in emergency landing
Dark humor wins in ‘Cripple of Inishmaan’
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK — Contradictions of human nature are the fodder that playwright Martin McDonagh often mines in his masterfully satirical dark comedies about quirky rural Irish characters. Now director Michael Grandage has brought the original, mostly Irish cast of his recent sold-out London production of McDonagh’s “The Cripple of Inishmaan” to Broadway, with a very talented ensemble featuring Daniel Radcliffe as Billy. Grandage’s lively production, both raucous and tender, opened Sunday night at the Cort Theatre. It’s the first Broadway appearance of McDonagh’s
1996 tale about the insular denizens of a remote Irish island in the 1930s. Previous New York productions were off-Broadway, in 2008 at the Atlantic Theater and in 1998 at the Public Theater. So boring is life for the residents of this small seaside village that a new feud between once-good friends is huge news, and they while away the time playing minor unkind tricks upon one another. A Hollywood movie being scouted on a nearby island soon sends them dreaming. Radcliffe, who made his Broadway debut in a 2008 production of “Equus” and returned in 2011 to star in the Frank Loesser musical “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” works
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This image released by Boneau/Bryan-Brown shows Daniel Radcliffe, left, and Sarah Green performing in “The Cripple of Inishmaan,” opening April 20 at the Cort Theatre in New York.
as an integral part of the cast. To his generally callous neighbors, teenage Billy is just a target of ridicule, and how he became handicapped is one of the secrets that twist and turn throughout the play. Without showboating his twisted arm and leg, Radcliffe gives Billy a physical frailty and inner toughness combined with yearning that makes him a very sympathetic figure. Billy’s desire to escape from the stifling loneliness and tedium of his narrow-minded country village is at the core of the story. McDonagh ricochets between crass humor, careless cruelty and tender sorrow, all the while poking fun at Irish folklore, toying with stereotypes, and setting his characters up to have their dreams crushed. He suddenly reverses their backstories or presents unseen sides to their personalities that upend what the audience thinks it knows. Pat Shortt is blustery fun as the town’s gossip-monger, who fancies himself the town crier while bartering his news tidbits for food. Far from being the loving son who lives at home with his sainted mother, he’s been plying his foul-mouthed, ancient Mammy (a marvelously dour, rubbery-faced June Watson) with liquor for years, in hopes of killing her. Billy’s secret crush is Helen (played with gleeful meanness and a perfect touch of insecurity by Sarah Greene). She’s a beautiful young redhead who seems unnecessarily cruel. Her sharptongued, egg-tossing ways too easily escalate to possible animal brutality. She also provides brittle, anti-Catholic comedy with her casual references to the clergy whose groping she’s violently fending off since childhood, at one point boasting, “I ruptured a curate at age 6.”
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Malaysia Airlines flight MH192 bound for Bangalore turned back towards and parked at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Monday, April 21, 2014, after its right landing gear malfunctioned upon takeoff. The airline says Flight 192 carrying 166 people landed safely at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport early Monday, four hours after it departed.
Agence France-Presse
KUALA LUMPUR - A Malaysia Airlines plane with 166 people aboard was forced to make an emergency landing in Kuala Lumpur early Monday in another blow to the flagcarrier’s safety image after the loss of flight MH370. Flight MH192, bound for Bangalore in India, turned back to Kuala Lumpur shortly after it was discovered that a tyre had burst on take-off, the airline said. “As safety is of utmost priority to Malaysia Airlines, the aircraft was required to turn back to KLIA (Kuala Lumpur International Airport),” the airline said in a statement. The episode caused deep anxiety among passengers, with some crying or reciting prayers as the
plane circled for hours off the coast, Malaysian media reported. The plane circled in order to burn up fuel -- a common practice in such landings, designed to make the plane lighter and minimise fire risks. “The passengers were very scared when we learnt that the flight was having trouble,” the New Straits Times quoted a Dutch traveller as saying. “Some were crying, while most of us had already started reciting
prayers.” The plane landed safely at 1:56 am (1756 GMT), nearly four hours after take-off, and all 159 passengers and seven crew members disembarked, the airline said. The airline said tyre debris discovered on the runway had led to the decision to bring the Boeing 737-800 aircraft back. “They have landed safely -thank God,” tweeted Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein. The passengers would be accommodated in local hotels until the flight’s re-scheduled take-off at 3:30 pm local time on Monday, the airline said. Malaysia Airlines is still reeling from the loss and presumed crash of MH370, which disappeared on
March 8 while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The plane is now believed to have crashed into the remote Indian Ocean with 239 people aboard after inexplicably diverting from its route. Malaysia Airlines had previously enjoyed a good safety record, as did the Boeing 777 aircraft used for MH370. An Australian-led multi-nation search effort is now scouring a remote area of the Indian Ocean in a bid to find the jet’s wreckage and recover its flight data recorders to determine what happened. No surface debris has been found despite a month of searching, but search crews earlier detected now-silent signals believed to
have been from the beacons of the plane’s data recorders. A US Navy submersible sonar scanning device is now scouring the seabed for wreckage at depths of around 4,500 metres (15,000 feet). Nothing has yet been found and authorities have indicated they may reassess within days how to approach the extremely challenging search -- expected to be the costliest in aviation history with estimates of more than $100 million. Malaysia’s government and the airline have come under harsh criticism from Chinese relatives of MH370 passengers -- two thirds of its 227 passengers were from China -- who have alleged a bungling response and a cover-up.