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Colin Firth, Emma Stone riff on working with Woody
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Colin Firth had been hoping for decades to get a call from Woody Allen. Emma Stone, at only 25, hadn’t been waiting nearly as long — but she notes her family dog IS named Alvy, after a classic Allen character, and she can keep up with Firth in a spontaneous recounting of the bank robbery scene in “Take the Money and Run.” The two stars of “Magic in the Moonlight,” opening Friday, were both working for the first time with Allen, and they sat down recently to recount what it was like. “I was incredibly nervous,” said Stone. “You don’t get to know him first, there’s no rehearsal, you don’t see him before shooting.” As for Firth, he had a quick and somewhat strange phone call with the 78-year-old director.
“I thought he’d asked for the call, and it turns out he thought I’d asked for it,” said Firth. “Cate (Blanchett) told me the same happened to her with ‘Blue Jasmine.’” The call, needless to say, was quick. “It wasn’t of the ‘Welcome to the film!’ variety,” says Firth. “It was just sort of, ‘Cut to the chase.’” Firth plays Stanley, a cynical stage magician who seeks to unmask Sophie, a young American medium, as a fraud. But Firth points out that magic tricks
aren’t his strong suit. “I was called upon to perform a simple card trick. That was the only time I saw a hint of impatience from Woody,” the actor laughs. “He was just sighing.” The scene was eventually cut. Firth had been waiting for years to work with Allen. “This person’s work had such a specific role to play in my whole relation with movies,” he said. “To suddenly be invited to join the narrative a bit is thrilling.” Both actors said a number of stories they’d heard about Allen turned out to be myths. “There are a lot of stories,” said Firth. “He doesn’t really direct, don’t expect him to make jokes on the set, that sort of thing. No. He directs, and he was funny.”
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Maggie Gyllenhaal glows as ‘The Honorable Woman’ Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — “The Honorable Woman” is a meditative thriller that investigates a woman’s inner life and a global hot spot. Poised between dream-state and tough reality, it exposes timeless truths while remaining as current as the next Israeli-Palestinian clash. An eight-hour miniseries premiering Thursday at 10 p.m. EDT on SundanceTV, “The Honorable Woman” is a virtuoso effort by Hugo Blick, who wrote and directed it. And in the lead role of Baroness Nessa Stein, an Anglo-Israeli businesswoman who wants to span a raging divide with communication cables laid between Israel and the West Bank, Maggie Gyllenhaal delivers the most nuanced yet full-bodied performance you could hope to see. The film was shot during five months in London and Morocco, with Andrew Buchan co-starring as Nessa’s brother and business partner; Janet McTeer (“Damages”) as head of the British spy agency MI6, pressing its own geopolitical agenda for the region; and Stephen Rea (“The Crying Game”), who’s especially splendid as the outgoing head of MI6’s Middle East desk. Politically charged, laden with foreign intrigue and family secrets, the series is, in short, magnificent. “I was really intrigued with exploring the psychology of a woman
Students of Pelita Bangsa elementary school of Denpasar, Bali, look at the photos of their school teacher Arnoud Huizen of the Netherlands and his Indonesian wife Yodricunda Theistiasih, with their baby, who were passengers of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, during a mourning ceremonty at the school. Education sector becomes the largest absorber of foreign workers in the city of Denpasar. IBP/Yudi Karnaedi
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within the chassis of a thriller,” said Blick, a 49-year-old filmmaker who claims such British series as “The Shadow Line” and “Sensitive Skin” among his credits. “The issue of intractable polarity, but with the chance of reconciliation, is what the story is engaged in.” But what happens when the conflict exists not only in the outside world, but also, for Nessa, lodged deep within her soul and her indelible past? “It’s often the case that when people stand on the world stage it’s a diversionary technique from dealing with the very vacuum that’s inside them-
selves that they feel their role in public life can help them fill,” said Blick with a wry grin and a blistering laugh. Seated beside him for this recent interview at a Los Angeles hotel, Gyllenhaal was training her saucer-size blue eyes on him, listening and nodding thoughtfully as if none of what he voiced she’d ever heard before. The 36-year-old actress, whose films include “Sherrybaby,” ‘’Crazy Heart,” ‘’World Trade Center” and “The Dark Knight,” explained that on “The Honorable Woman,” she and Blick related on a level beyond words.
Expatriates dominantly get career in education
Bali Post
DENPASAR - Education sector becomes the largest absorber of foreign workers in the city of Denpasar. Most of those foreign workers have profession as teacher at international schools that are increasingly prevalent lately. In accordance with the data of the Denpasar Social Welfare and Labor Agency, foreign labor is dominated by Australian origin.
The Head of Denpasar Social Welfare and Labor Agency, I Made Erwin Suryadharma Sena, said that education was currently absorbing the most foreign labor. “Numerous international schools in Denpasar make the needs of foreign workers in the field of education high,” he said. According to him, the number of foreign workers in the city of Denpasar was very volatile. Nevertheless, the number of foreign workers tended to decrease each year. “Trade, goods, services and fishery sector show a decrease in the use of foreign workers,” he said. In 2013, the number of foreign workers reached 215
people, while in 2012 reached 394 people and in 2011 even reached 518 people. In order to control the presence of foreign labor, his party had established the foreign worker use permit (IMTA) monitoring team, police, prosecutors, civil registry, immigration, social agency and municipal police. The team had the task to check whether foreign workers already had a working permit and paid levies. If the obligation to pay the levy was violated, the Social and Labor Agency would impose sanction on the company hiring them. Continued on page 6