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Friday, November 28, 2014
Witherspoon goes on a soul-baring ride in ‘Wild’
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Once she’d decided to take on her gritty new role in “Wild,” there were a few things Reese Witherspoon knew she didn’t want to hear from movie studio executives: “We want her to be more likable.” “We don’t want her to use drugs.” “We don’t want her to be profane.” And so, Witherspoon says, she didn’t give them the chance. She developed the film, which follows a hardliving woman’s path to solace and redemption via a long trek in the wilderness, outside the studio system under the auspices of her own production company, with private financing. “And then I took it to the studios and said, ‘I’m not changing a word,’” Witherspoon recounts in an interview. “And I had three bids on it that day.” “And I think it’s important, you know?” the actress adds. “You grow up, you change — I’m a 38-year old woman now, I have three kids, and I’ve lived a lot of life experience. It’s really important to me that the things I put out into the world are meaningful and thoughtprovoking. Otherwise, what am I doing?” “Wild,” based on the best-selling memoir by Cheryl Strayed, is a story of personal catharsis, and listening to Witherspoon, one gets the sense she was seeking a sort of professional catharsis by choosing it. The role, which has garnered significant Oscar buzz, includes difficult scenes depicting rough sex and heroin use. Witherspoon wore no makeup and spent days lugging a heavy backpack up and
down hills. “By far, it’s the hardest thing I’ve done in my life,” she says. “The physical aspects were really challenging — the elements, the heat, the cold, the water, the rain, 55 locations in 35 days, and carrying that backpack. And there was nothing else to cut to — just me.” Emotionally, it was even harder, she says: “One day I’d be getting divorced. Another, my mother would be dying. The next day I’d be using heroin. It was just nonstop — not even a roller coaster, just a continual descent downward! There are always scenes that I dread, that I say, ‘That day’s going to be miserable.’ And here, it was three weeks of that.” Witherspoon’s director, Jean-Marc Vallee, calls the actress “a trouper.” As well he should: He noticed that the backpack looked too light and forced her to carry a much heavier one. “And then he just walked away, and I was like, OK ...” Witherspoon laughs. “You can see it digging into my skin. Because it really WAS digging into my skin!” Vallee says Witherspoon “went out there with no makeup, looking like nothing, on the trail for 65 percent of the film, looking like a hiker, with a heavy backpack on her back. I removed the mirrors in the makeup trailer and she didn’t look at herself. “ Witherspoon, who already has one Oscar on the mantelpiece for 2005’s “Walk the Line,” says it was no accident that she chose such a film at this point in her career, a time that finds her veering away from trademark s u n n y, b r i g h t roles and romantic comedies. (Her 2012 supporting role in the Mississippi River coming-ofage tale “Mud” is another example of her new direction. “Wild,” which opens in select theaters Dec. 3, was an easy choice.
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Friday, November 28, 2014
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Blueprint of Bali tourism development needed
Bali Post
AP Photo/Rick Rycroft
Boy band One Direction, from left to right, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, and Harry Styles arrive for the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) awards in Sydney, Australia Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014.
One Direction dethrones Swift to top US music charts
Agence France-Presse
NEW YORK - One Direction has dethroned Taylor Swift to top US album sales charts, but the British boy band’s debut was far less spectacular, figures showed Wednesday. One Direction’s fourth album -- called, simply, “Four” -- sold 387,000 copies in the United States in the week through Sunday, ending a three-week run by Taylor Swift’s “1989” at the head of the Billboard 200 chart, Nielsen SoundScan said. But the debut week for One Direction was far more modest than that for “1989” which sold nearly 1.3 million albums
DENPASAR - Bali is indeed relying on the tourism sector. Even, the tourism development in Bali increasingly grows rapidly. Unfortunately, the tourism development in Bali is quite massive so that it gives impression if the development has unclear pattern and direction. Even, it violates many guidelines contained in the Bali Regional Bylaw on the Spatial Plan (RTRWP). According to Deputy Chairman of Commission II of the Bali House, Cok Gede Asmara Putra Sukawati, the tourism development in Bali
had gone too far and it was also closely linked to the absence of a blueprint or grand design of Bali tourism.
To that end, the Commission II encouraged the Bali government to immediately prepare a blueprint for the tourism development in Bali in
the form of Regional Bylaw on the Bali Tourism Development Master Plan. “Bali must have a blueprint for the future tourism development in Bali. Without the blueprint, Bali tourism will flourish uncontrollably and sporadically,” said Cok Asmara. This poltician added that all the sectors including the economic,
social, cultural and other sectors in Bali relied on the tourism sector. If the tourism sector declined, all the sectors would decrease. If the tourism sector increased, the economy of community would also increase. However, the tourism sector might not be lethal to other sectors, such as the agricultural sector such as in the matter of rampant land conversion.
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in the week after its October 27 release. Swift’s album smashed expectations with its sales, which were higher than any other album in a single week since Eminem’s “The Eminem Show” in 2002, when the music industry’s overall sales were far higher. Swift created a stir by removing her work from the streaming service Spotify, accusing the company of insufficient compensation, but One Direction’s music remains available on the site. Starting next week, the Billboard 200 will begin to consider streaming when determining the chart.
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Bali Island pictured from above. Bali is indeed relying on the tourism sector. Even, the tourism development in Bali increasingly grows rapidly. Unfortunately, the tourism development in Bali is quite massive so that it gives impression if the development has unclear pattern and direction.