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Monday, August 25, 2014
Hollywood stars light up TV, reverse is lacking Agence France-Presse
LOS ANGELES - Television is increasingly opening its doors to Hollywood stars, as Monday’s Emmy Awards will attest, but TV royalty still struggle to make the transition to the silver screen.
Frank Micelotta
Emmy nominees onstage at the Television Academy’s 66th Emmy Awards Performance Nominee Reception at the Pacific Design Center on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014, in West Hollywood, California.
Seasoned actors Matthew McConaughey, Kevin Spacey, Jon Voight, Jeff Daniels and Woody Harrelson are all nominated this year for Emmys after having built much of their careers in film. McConaughey, a favorite to win a lead actor Emmy for his role in HBO crime drama “True Detective,” is riding high after winning an Academy Award for last year’s “Dallas Buyers Club.” “House of Cards” hero/villain Spacey already has two Oscar statuettes. Voight, nominated for Showtime’s “Ray Donovan,” won a best actor Oscar a generation ago, while Harrelson (“True Detective”) is a two-time Oscar nominee. For them, having a go in a successful broadcast or cable series adds gritty prestige to their glittering careers. But cross-pollination in the other direction has proven more difficult. Heart-throb George Clooney, who shot from the show “ER” into the Hollywood mega-star firmament, “was the last one who really did it,” said Glenn Williamson, a professor at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television. In contrast, though Jennifer Aniston parlayed her “girl next door” appeal from hit show “Friends” into several big-screen roles, the 1990s comedy’s other stars have had stunted success in the transition. The same holds true for stars of more recent TV mega-hits like “Desperate Housewives” and “Lost.” Some stars have thrived on television with-
out ever becoming bankable in Hollywood: Julianna Margulies, David Duchovny and Robin Wright are among those who earned numerous film roles but never won the accolades there that came with TV. Kerry Washington, praised as much for her role in Quentin Tarantino’s movie “Django Unchained” as for TV’s “Scandal,” is in that small clique of actors comfortably navigating between the two worlds. Another is Claire Danes, who hit it big as teen Angela Chase in 1990s series “My So-Called Life.” She followed up with a number of roles in Hollywood films like “Romeo + Juliet” and “Shopgirl” before returning to television with a bang as the troubled star of Showtime thriller “Homeland.”
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BI forbids travelers transacting with dollars
Bali Post
DENPASAR - Bank Indonesia (BI) now prohibits any transactions conducted by businessmen and travelers in Indonesia, including in Bali, by using dollar currencies. It is in accordance with the Law No. 7/2011 on currency laws.
Elizabeth Hurley takes the reigns in ‘The Royals’ Associated Press
LONDON — Move over Helen Mirren, there’s a new queen in town — Elizabeth Hurley. The English actress is on the British throne for new E! drama series “The Royals,” playing the fictional Queen Helena, a sharply dressed mother of three grooming her son to be king and dealing with public opinion. It’s the E! Channel’s first foray out of reality TV into scripted drama. Hurley reckons that fans of “Gossip Girl and “Dynasty” will enjoy the decadent lifestyles of these tabloid-friendly royals. Talking recently with The Associated Press on the set in east London, Hurley was in glittering jewels and a cream ball gown on the royal private jet — a hint of how the show will focus on lavish parties, international summits and secret romances. “There’s no correlation at all between Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and my Queen Helena,” Hurley explained. “If Princess Diana, for example, had become queen of England, that would be a more similar age group.” Hurley, in fact, claimed that real royalty have it easier than celebrities. “The royal family have a lot more
privacy behind their closed doors than other actors or politicians have because we don’t have the resources that they have to keep us private,” she noted. William Moseley, best known for playing Peter in “The Chronicles of Narnia” films, takes on the role of Prince Liam — the second son thrown into the spotlight after the death of his brother.
Australian actress Alexandra Park stars as the wild Princess Eleanor and Merritt Patterson as Liam’s American love interest. “It’s like (if) Prince Harry was thrown into being the next King of England,” Mosley explained. The show is still filming and is set to be broadcast in early 2015.
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A customer exit a money changer after exchanging money. Bank Indonesia (BI) now prohibits any transactions conducted by businessmen and travelers in Indonesia, including in Bali, by using dollar currencies. It is in accordance with the Law No. 7/2011 on currency laws.
“All transactions in the country must use the rupiah currency. It must be changed because it belongs to domestic transaction, including the buyers and the sellers. Indeed Bali is a tourist area, but nonetheless all the transactions should be made in rupiah,” said Senior Deputy Governor of BI, Mirza Adityaswara. According to him, there were still quite a lot of transactions conducted in the country using non-rupiah currency. Pursuant to the Law, all the transactions in Indonesia should be made in rupiah currency. To that end, the government was expected to participate in supervising the transactions using foreign exchanges. “Travelers must exchange first their money into rupiah. Businesses have also to put the prices in rupiah. At this time, the rupiah exchange rate against the U.S. dollar can be categorized to be fairly stable. Moreover, Balinese people whose livelihood much gets in touch with tourism, I think the current rate is good enough for Bali,” he said. If there were problems about exchange rate, he said, it could be adjusted. Up to these days, the rupiah exchange rate against dollar was fairly stable. After the election, it was still relatively competitive. Exports and imports were also competitive. It meant that the transaction did not have to use dollar, especially for payment to domestic products. Using foreign exchange currency would result in an increase in the demand for foreign currencies that should not be necessary. Policies using rupiah in domestic transactions had been set forth in the Currency Law and it had been equipped with criminal sanctions. “Transactions in the country do not need to use dollar, even the employers should ask for payment in rupiah. This policy has criminal sanction as set forth in the Currency Law, if it is not mistaken the sanction is one-year penalty,” he said. Previously, Bank Indonesia had released a new banknote with the denomination of IDR 100,000 with emission year of 2014 and used of phrase the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia that could make people love rupiah currency more. The Representative Office Head of Bank Indonesia for Region III Bali-Nusra, Benny Siswanto, said that on the rupiah banknote was affirmed the philosophical significance of the rupiah as a symbol of state sovereignty that should be respected and made all the Indonesian citizens proud. “Thus, it is obligatory to all Indonesian citizens to use rupiah in every transaction at home, including in remote areas and outer regions of Indonesia, so that in turn the rupiah is expected to be parallel to the major currencies of the world,” he said. (kmb27)