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Olympic opener showed music is best of British Associated Press Writer
LONDON — It’s not a concert, Danny Boyle stressed. It’s about the athletes. In a very real way, though, the director of the Olympic opening ceremony was wrong. While sports are the heart of the Olympics, music — loud, bold, worldconquering British music, amplified in the most global of settings — was the booming beat Friday night. One of Boyle’s stated aims was to showcase “the best of us” — and ever since the
Beatles and the Rolling Stones appropriated American blues, country and rock and remade
them into something new, the best of British has been music.
Music ran like a river through Boyle’s “Isles of Wonder” extravaganza, which depicted a Britain brutally wrenched from its rural past by industrialization and upheaval before being thrust into a fast, uncertain, exciting new world — all propelled by the throb of homegrown music. It began gently, with Ed-
ward Elgar, the hymn “Jerusalem” and “Danny Boy” — but soon started to rock. Olympic ceremonies often play it safe. But Boyle, who brought in the electronic duo Underworld as musical directors, gave his show a cheeky edge. The Sex Pistols, once the outrageous face of punk, were included with their song “Pretty Vacant.” Boyle even slipped in a few bars of the Pistols’ snarling “God Save the Queen” (“the fascist regime”) early on — although he respectfully did it before Queen Elizabeth II herself had entered the stadium.
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Paul McCartney, center, performs during the Opening Ceremony at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 28, 2012, in London.
Charlie Sheen sitcom poised for 90-episode pickup Associated Press Writer
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FILE - This June 26, 2012 file photo shows actor Charlie Sheen attending the FX Summer Comedies Party at Lure in Los Angeles.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Charlie Sheen says he’s not insane anymore. Instead, these are good days for the “Anger Management” star, he declares, with his FX sitcom half-way through its initial 10-episode run and poised to get an order for 90 more. Sheen told reporters Saturday that the prospect of continuing is as “exciting as hell,” and added cheerily, “I don’t think 90’s gonna be enough.” With the expected pickup, FX plans to bring aboard Sheen’s dad, Martin Sheen, as a recurring cast member. He will play the father of Charlie Goodson, the anger-management therapist played by Charlie Sheen. The veteran movie actor, who also
played President Jed Bartlet on the drama series “The West Wing,” is guest-starring on an “Anger Management” episode that airs Aug. 16. “I think that was the best episode we did,” his son said. Adding Sheen’s father to the series “will give an extra dimension and make it a multi-generational family show,” FX boss John Landgraf said in making the announcement. The production schedule would call for filming a total of 100 episodes in just two years. This kind of costsaving routine means no time for rehearsals, said executive producer Bruce Helford. “The actors get the lines, we see the scene, the writers make changes, the actors go to makeup, cameras are blocked, we come back together and shoot the scene,” he explained.
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At first, the cast members “felt like basically they were on the ledge. But by the third episode, everyone found the characters to the point that the writers were following their lead,” Helford said. “I feel like how we started, we just scratched the surface — barely,” said Sheen, who arrived for his appearance at the Television Critics Association session clad in Bermuda shorts, a long-sleeve shirt and loafers without socks. He likened his tumultuous departure from “Two and a Half Men” and the stormy aftermath last year to a dream he couldn’t wake up from. Or like “a train I couldn’t get off of, except that I was the conductor,” he added, speaking in quick bursts and fidgeting in his chair.
Fashion designer Wayne Hemingway said including the Pistols was typical of Boyle’s “wit and guts.” “Normally it would be brushed over, but the punk spirit which is in Britain was written through the ceremony,” he said. “Anyone cynical about this has no lust for life. It’s just bloody brilliant.” In parts, it was like a Union Jack jukebox — a medley of tracks from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, David Bowie and Queen, the Specials and the Jam, the Stone Roses and Eurythmics, and what seemed like dozens more.
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Thousands of people witness naga banda procession Bali Post
GIANYAR — The center of Ubud town was thronged by thousands of people who wanted to witness the cremation procession of the Ubud royal family, the late Tjokorda Puta Dharma Yuda on Saturday (Jul 28). With the use of a naga banda (symbol of royal cremation), it then looked different from the ordinary procession. For carrying it, aside from involving the local residents of Ubud, it also involved a number of military personnel. Even, at the carrying location of the naga banda, other than the Ubud royal family, it was also seen the Udayana Military Commander, Maj. Gen. Wisnu Bawa Tanaya, in camouflage uniforms giving encouragement to the bearers. The man from Mengwi, Badung, is the son-in-law of the deceased. Meanwhile, the departure procession to local cemetery began at 1:00 p.m. local time. The event coinciding with the mass cremation ceremony of the Ubud customary village was begun with the departure of ritual means brought
by local people leading to the cemetery of Ubud customary village. Then, it was followed by the departure from Ubud Palace. After Ida Pedanda Geria An completed the inauguration ritual for the naga banda, the body put into the nine-tiered bade tower was paraded by hundreds of people to the cemetery of Dalem Puri located nearly two kilometers. As reported previously, the Ubud road section was totally closed on Saturday (Jul 28). It was related to the implementation of cremation ceremony of the Ubud royal family, where
it was paraded ritual means comprising the bade tower, bull sarcophagus and naga banda. Chief of Ubud Police, I Gde Redastra, said his party had prepared 200 personnel to arrange the traffic flow and safety of the procession. Meanwhile, the bade tower designed by Tjokorda Gede Raka Sukawati weighed 4 tons and had the height of 21 meters. As for the bull sarcophagus was about 6 meters high and weighed about 1 ton. Then, the naga banda was designed by Tjokorda Ngurah Sudarsana (Cok Wah). (kmb16)
British women out to deliver first Olympic cycling gold
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Defending Olympic champion Nicole Cooke will be among the British women looking to grab the hosts’ first cycling medal of the Games in the road race Sunday. The highly-fancied British men’s team failed to live up to the expectation of delivering Mark Cavendish into a gold medal-winning position Saturday when Kazakh Alexandre Vinokourov triumphed ahead of the bunch. Welshwoman Cooke, who won gold in Beijing, starts as a big favourite
alongside teammate Lizzie Armitstead, who, like Cavendish, would be favoured to excel in a bunch sprint. But Britain’s women won’t find the going easy in the 140 km race beginning and starting on The Mall, with Dutchwoman Marianne Vos, Italian Giorgia Bronzini and Germans Judith Arndt and Ina Teutenberg also expected to shine. Also in contention is Canada’s Clara Hughes, American Kristin Armstrong and New Zealand’s Linda Villumsen. Continued on page 6
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The center of Ubud town was thronged by thousands of people who wanted to witness the cremation procession of the Ubud royal family, the late Tjokorda Puta Dharma Yuda on Saturday (Jul 28). With the use of a naga banda (symbol of royal cremation), it then looked different from the ordinary procession.