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Wednesday, December 31, 2014
A year in pop culture
Ice buckets, breaking the Internet It’s always a challenge to capture a year in pop culture. Herewith, AP annual, highly selective trip down memory lane JANUARY:
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In this Sept. 26, 2014 file photo, George Clooney, left, and Amal Alamuddin arrive in Venice, Italy.
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In this May 17, 2014 file photo, Jennifer Lawrence appears at the “Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1” party at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France.
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This March 2, 2014 file photo shows Idina Menzel performing during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
Pharrell Williams has lots of reason to be happy this month. After a huge 2013, the producer-rappersinger gets an Oscar nomination for “Happy” on the “Despicable Me 2” soundtrack. A week later, he wins four Grammys, including album and record of the year for producing the funk-electronic anthem “Get Lucky.” Happy, Lucky ... the guy certainly picks apt song titles.
FEBRUARY:
The ground shifts in the late-night TV landscape: Jimmy Fallon takes over for Jay Leno and immediately establishes himself as the new king, with a younger, fresher vibe perfect for next-day YouTube viewing of bits like celebrity lip-syncing duels. Kicking off an eventful year in the tech world, Facebook pays a massive $19 billion for WhatsApp, the popular mobile messaging service favored by teenagers and young adults — who see Facebook as something better suited to their parents. At New York Fashion Week, emerging star Lupita N’Yongo makes a front-row splash at Calvin Klein.
MARCH:
It’s OSCAR time, and this year’s show — the most-watched in a decade — gives us a slew of pop culture moments. Introducing Idina Menzel, John Travolta mangles her name in epic fashion, creating a new star: “the one and only Adele Dazeem.” Ever the Broadway trouper, Menzel doesn’t miss a beat as she sings the girl-power anthem “Let It Go.” N’Yongo completes her rapid ascent to superstardom with a supporting-actress trophy for “12 Years a Slave,” also the year’s best picture. And speaking of superstars, Ellen Degeneres takes that famous selfie with a gaggle of ‘em, causing Twitter to crash for 20 minutes and
beating the previous champion for retweets, a photo of Barack and Michelle Obama. Time for a new phrase in Hollywood-speak: “Conscious Uncoupling,” the term used by Gwyneth Paltrow to describe her enlightened split from Chris Martin.
upon his first birthday. Turns out his fashion choices — lots of blues, and bib overalls — prove as influential as his mom’s. Cox, meanwhile, is nominated for an Emmy — the first nomination for an openly transgender person. It’s also time for the campy “Sharknado 2.” A shark in the New York subway? No big deal. Manhattanites have seen rats that big.
APRIL:
AUGUST:
Yet more epic shifts in late-night: David Letterman announces he’ll retire in 2015. His replacement is Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert, adored by the younger demographic. Kim Kardashian and soon-to-be hubby Kanye West make the prestigious cover of Vogue, sparking existential angst among some fashionistas. Kardashian tweets that it’s “a dream come true!!!” MAY:
But the real dream comes when Kimye ties the knot at a Renaissance fortress in Florence, Italy, following lavish pre-wedding festivities in France. Angelina Jolie makes a splash as “Maleficent,” giving us a new take on the Disney character that’s now more superheroine than villainess. Also making a splash: Laverne Cox, the openly transgender actress on “Orange is the New Black,” featured on the cover of Time magazine.
Whoever would have thought a lowly bucket of ice would become a pop culture phenom? Celebs and regular folks alike take on the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, generating many millions of dollars to fight the disease. Epic screams are heard, but the most entertainingly bloodcurdling comes from Oprah Winfrey. And what would August be without a wedding? Brangelina finally ties the knot, at a small ceremony on their French estate. A very sad note to the month: The death of Robin Williams, whose manic energy graced screens big and small, leaves a gaping hole in the cultural landscape. SEPTEMBER:
Let’s turn to sports: It’s World Cup time, and who says America doesn’t love soccer? People are glued to their TVs, iPads, phones and other devices for the U.S. games, and a hero is born: Tim Howard, the U.S. goalie, who even in a 2-1 defeat to Belgium makes a record-setting 16 saves.
Back to weddings — and in this year of celebrity knot-tying, nothing is bigger than the lavish Venice festivities surrounding the nuptials of the bachelor who said he’d never marry again, George Clooney, and British human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin. Think traffic jams of paparazzi on gondolas. This isn’t even the only Hollywood celebrity wedding in Italy this month — Neil Patrick Harris, next year’s Oscar host, marries partner David Burtka. Sadly, the world loses deliciously tart-tongued Joan Rivers, a trailblazer for women in comedy.
JULY:
OCTOBER:
JUNE:
A collective “Awwwwww” ricochets ‘round the world as Britain’s mediagenic royal couple, William and Kate, release photos of the equally mediagenic Prince George,
More life cycle events: Kate Middleton appears in public for the first time since announcing that she’s expecting her second royal heir. As for Hollywood royalty, Jennifer Law-
rence, about to make a splash with the latest “Hunger Games” installment, speaks out on the hacking scandal that led to nude photos of her — intended for her boyfriend — being published on websites. “It is not a scandal. It is a sex crime,” she says.
NOVEMBER:
Remember when Ellen’s selfie sorta broke the Internet? Well, Kim Kardashian (yes, her again), aiming to do the same, poses nude for Paper magazine, and the focus on her posterior leads to all sorts of talk about “the year of the booty.” Kudos to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which tweets a photo of a strikingly similar figure from one of its 4000 B.C. statues, noting that they can “BreaktheInternet” too. Taylor Swift, meanwhile, takes a stand, asking Spotify to stop streaming her music, and setting up an intriguing standoff between the industry’s most popular artist and its top music streaming service. On a much more serious note, Bill Cosby, once America’s most beloved TV dad, faces a cascade of allegations that he drugged and sexually assaulted women decades ago. The comedian’s planned return to television is shelved, and his career suffers perhaps irreparable damage. DECEMBER:
Suddenly it’s the only thing anyone in Hollywood is talking about: The devastating Sony hacking scandal. After several weeks of embarrassing disclosures in hacked emails, the focus turns sharply in mid-December to genuine fear, as hackers threaten violence and mayhem at theaters showing “The Interview,” the Seth Rogen-James Franco film depicting the fictional assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Theater chains pull out, and Sony finally shelves the movie. The fallout is still developing, but it’s clearly a sober ending to a dramatic year for the entertainment industry.
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Missing Airplane’s debris spotted
Evacuation begins, 40 bodies retrieved
JAKARTA - Chief of National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) F.H. Bambang Soelistyo including six crew members, are Inconfirmed on Tuesday that bodies and debris suspected of the missing AirAsia QZ8501 aircraft donesian nationals. have been spotted at the Karimata Straits, west of Kalimantan Island. “Today, at 10:05 am local time, CN-235 aircraft of the Indonesian Air Force spotted debris floating on the waters,” Bambang Soelistyo said here on a press conference, Tuesday. Three out of the six bodies spotted in the Karimata Strait waters, west of Kalimantan Island, were evacuated by a team of the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) on Tuesday. Of the six spotted bodies of the victims, three were reportedly evacuated by an Indonesian warship, KRI Bung Tomo. The evacuated bodies were taken to Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan Province. At 11:07 a.m. local time, a C-130 aircraft of the Indonesian Air Force spotted another metal object floating in the water. The Hercules aircraft also spotted a shadow, presumably resembling the shape of an aircraft submerged in water. Soelistyo stated that at 1:50 p.m.
local time, KRI Bung Tomo spotted an object, probably an emergency exit door of an aircraft. The ship, with the assistance of a helicopter, then conducted a search operation and recovered the emergency exit door. “I confirm 95 percent that this is the location of the suspected debris of the aircraft,” Soelistyo added. There are more than 40 bodies retrieved from the sea Tuesday in the search for the AirAsia jet, a navy spokesman told AFP. “Based on the navy radio, it has been reported that the warship Bung Tomo has retrieved 40 bodies and the number is growing. They are very busy now,” Manahan Simorangkir said. President Joko Widodo was expected in Pangkalan Bun shortly and then head to Surabaya to meet the relatives, officials said. The Singapore-bound plane, an
Airbus A320-200, lost contact a few minutes after taking off from Juanda International Airport, Surabaya, East Java, on Sunday morning, and was believed to have gone missing in the waters between Sumatra and Kalimantan islands. The AirAsia flight QZ8501 was carrying 155 passengers and seven crew members on board. Captain Iriyanto and First Officer (FO) Remi Emmanuel Plesel were the two pilots aboard the jet along with four cabin crew members: Wanti Setiawati, Khairunnisa Haidar Fauzi, Oscar Desano, and Wismoyo Ari Prambudi, and technician Saiful Rakhmad. According to AirAsia Indonesia, seven foreigners are among the passengers of the missing plane. The foreign nationals comprise three Koreans, a Singaporean, a British, a Malaysian, and a First Officer (FO) from France. The 155 others,
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Members of the Indonesian air force show items retrieved from the Java sea during search and rescue operations for the missing AirAsia flight QZ8501, in Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan on December 30, 2014.
Crying
Relatives of passengers on AirAsia flight QZ8501 began crying hysterically and fainting Tuesday as Indonesian television footage showed a body floating in the sea during aerial searches for the plane. At least two distraught family members were carried out on stretchers from the room where they had been waiting for news in Surabaya, Indonesia’s second largest city -- the take-off point for the aircraft that disappeared during a storm on Sunday. “My heart will be totally crushed if it’s true. I will lose a son,” 60-year-old Dwijanto, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, told AFP. More than 48 hours after the Airbus A320-200 lost contact carrying 162 people to Singapore, aerial searchers spotted items in the Java Sea which officials said were from the plane. Soon after they began recovering dozens of bodies. As the first body was shown floating in the water on rolling television news, relatives burst into tears and hugged one another amid cries for more ambulances, said an AFP reporter at the scene. One man covered his face and had to be held up by two other men before he fainted and was taken out by stretcher. Another woman was
screaming and crying as she was supported by the mayor of Surabaya. A female AirAsia officer shouted at the television media for showing footage of a floating body, while about 200 journalists were barred from the room holding the families, the windows of which were boarded up. “Is it possible for you not to show a picture of the dead? Please do not show a picture of a dead body,” said the officer. “That’s crazy.” Munif, a 50-year-old whose younger brother Siti Rahmah was on the plane, said he had been trying hard to keep the other families calm. “But the atmosphere was very different after the footage of a dead body was shown. Families became hysterical,” he said. “Because everyone was wailing and yelling, I couldn’t deal with it so I decided to leave the room.” In Malaysia, families of those on the MH370 flight that went missing without a trace in March hoped those lost in the latest tragedy could at least have a proper burial. “The families can now have a closure and have a peace of mind which I am dying for,” said Selamat Omar, whose 29-yearold son was on the Malaysia Airlines plane. (ant/afp) This news can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 at 9.30 until 10.00 am