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High five for
super sitcom
Amy Poehler does not want to think
of the time when Parks and Recreation
will have its final airing
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
For Amy Poehler, Parks
and Recreation is still new
CINDY PEARLMAN
NYT SYNDICATE
Amy Poehler
A
MY Poehler’s career lives
and dies by television rat-ings – which is particularly
scary for her as she, who
admits that she hasn’t a clue
how ratings are actually devised.
“I don’t know how a Nielsen box
works,’’ she says, speaking by telephone
from the set of her hit comedy,
Parks and Recreation. “Do you
punch a hole? Do you write
something on a piece of paper
and give it to a carrier pigeon
and then the bird ﬂies it off,
sort of like that show Game of
Thrones?”
Come now, surely a woman
who spent seven years on Sat-urday Night Live (2001-2008)
before segueing to Parks and
Recreation, which is currently in
its ﬁfth season on NBC, knows
at least a little about the ratings
process.
“You don’t give it to a carrier
pigeon,’’ she concedes. “Of course
you give your vote to a raven,
who then drops it into a glass tube
where it goes down to a man with
wire-rimmed glasses. He sits in a
dark room, opens that scrap of paper
and then puts a check next to my
name, right? That’s how it works.
“I just hope everybody does that
each time an episode airs.’’
Actually the Nielsen process
is higher-tech than that, but the
important thing is that Parks and
Recreation, the saga of the parksand-recreation staff in tiny Pawnee,
Indiana, trying their best to make
the town a little better while sorting
out their own personal chaos, has a
loyal audience. Millions of people
tune in every week to see what’s
up with Leslie Knope (Poehler), a
midlevel bureaucrat, a new bride
and – sometimes against her own
better judgment – a dedicated
public servant.
As many television stars do,
the 41-year-old Poehler credits
the show’s writers more than her
own performance.
“Hard laughs and sharp
turns,’’ says the actress, who is
also among the show’s produc-ers. “They’re so hard to do and
amazing to watch, which is what
I think the writers of this show do
so well.
“Honestly, this show in many ways
saved my life,’’ Poehler continues. “It
enriched my life in all these different
ways. It’s truly the job that I’ll never
have again, so I’m very grateful for every
minute of it.’’
After ﬁve years as Leslie Knope, she
says, she’s still ﬁnding out new things
about her character.
“Leslie can overplan and overdo
things,’’ Poehler says, “but she’s a mod-ern woman who gets the job done. Like
many of us, she likes to be in control,
and then things just sort of get thrown
up in the air, which is life.’’
It’s been a memorable season for Le-slie, who has married her true love, Ben
Wyatt (Adam Scott). They had to throw
together their wedding in less than two
hours in order to get hitched on the
night of a black-tie gala.
“This show hasn’t killed us with low
expectations,’’ Poehler says. “It isn’t that
will-they/won’t-they love dilemma. They
are a couple. They are together, which is
something I love.
“It’s about people living a satisfying,
full life,’’ she says. “They’re three-dimen-sional characters who deserve to have
everything, including work, love and
marriage.’’
The wedding is still a bit of a shocker
to longtime fans, who remember Leslie
going through a series of relationships
with different kinds of men in the show’s
ﬁrst couple of years. Then Ben came
along at the end of the second season,
and things changed.
“She learned something from Louis
CK’s character,’’ Poehler says. “She
learned something from Mark Brendan--
Amy Poehler in Parks and Recreation.
awicz. She learned from Justin Theroux.
Then came Adam Scott, and the idea
was that she would date him and learn
something about herself.
“He just got her number,’’ she says.
“It’s chemistry, baby. You just can’t ﬁght
it.’’
Fans needn’t worry that the show will
settle into a new existence as a domestic
sitcom, with Ben and Leslie sitting on a
couch and shouting at the kids.
“Being an old married couple on
TV, to me, means that they have been
together a long time and are kind of ...
you know,’’ Poehler says. “What’s so cool
about getting to work with Adam is that
I always get surprised. I’m always chal-lenged and it’s always interesting.
“It feels very alive and very young,’’
she says. “Nothing about it feels old.’’
It’s natural, Poehler adds, that a
show and its characters should evolve in
the course of ﬁve years.
“I remember when this show was
born,’’ she says. “The ﬁrst image that
comes to mind is me in my kitchen in
New York talking to (executive pro-ducer) Mike Schur on the phone and
him saying, ‘You’re going to love how we
shoot the show. You’ve never going to
want to shoot anything differently after
this experience.’’’
He was right, the actress says.
“The way we shoot the show is so
fun,’’ Poehler says. “The writing com-bined with the easy way we shoot just
equals freedom for me.’’
Asked to pinpoint her favourite epi-sode thus far, Poehler points to Hallow-een Surprise, the October 2012 episode
in which Ben popped the question to
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Amy Poehler in Weekend Update.
“I remember when
this show was born,”
she says. “The first
image that comes
to mind is me in my
kitchen in New York
talking to executive
producer Mike Schur
on the phone and him
saying, ‘You’re going
to love how we shoot
the show. You’ve
never going to want
to shoot anything
differently after this
experience’’’
Leslie.
“It was so beautifully written,’’ she
says. “That proposal just felt like a long
time coming, so that made it extra nice. I
think everybody was really happy for the
characters, plus it was very sweet and
heartfelt.
“It felt very earned, which was also
fun.’’
The show is also known for its fa-mous guest stars, including Will Arnett,
Patricia Clarkson and Parker Posey.
One long-rumoured guest shot has not
yet come to pass, however: Now that
her own long-running series, 30 Rock
(2006-2013), is off the air, will Poehler’s
old friend Tina Fey be stopping by?
“We never know who’s going to come
around,’’ Poehler says with uncharacter-istic caution, “and certainly we haven’t
even thought about what we’re going to
shoot next year.’’
Poehler grew up in Burlington, Mas-sachusetts, as the daughter of two highschool teachers. After earning a degree
in media and communications from
Boston College, she moved to Chicago to
study comedy with Second City and Im-prov Olympics, where she ﬁrst met Fey.
In 1996 she joined the Upright Citizen’s
Brigade, moving to New York with the
group two years later when it got its own
show on Comedy Central.
When that show left the air, Poehler
joined Fey in the cast of Saturday Night
Live, quickly becoming known for her
snarky impersonations of Madonna,
Sharon Osbourne and Kelly Ripa. In
2004 she and Fey became co-anchors
of Weekend Update, one of the show’s
most high-proﬁle segments. She transi-tioned easily onto the big screen, being
seen in such comedies as Mean Girls
(2004), Blades of Glory (2007) and
Baby Mama (2008).
Offscreen Poehler married fellow
comedian Arnett in 2003, and they are
the parents of four-year-old Archie and
two-year-old Abel. The two are currently
separated, however, and Poehler prefers
not to talk about her personal life. She
is, however, often seen pushing her boys
around the NBC lot in a stroller.
“My kids mean everything,’’ she says.
Like Fey, Poehler has had to make
some compromises. Each woman has
had to put her big-screen aspirations on
the back burner, squeezing in an occa-sional movie around the demands of her
series. Nonetheless Poehler will be seen
in the Sundance hit ACOD – it stands for
Adult children of divorce – and also in
You Are Here, about two childhood best
friends (Zach Galiﬁanakis and Owen
Wilson) who go on a road trip back to
their hometown after one inherits a large
sum of money.
Highest on her priority list, of course,
is the sixth season of Parks and Recrea-tion.
“There’s so much stuff, rich stuff,’’
Poehler says. “Leslie is newly married,
and the Parks Department is constantly
being faced with the threat of being cut
or being exterminated or being misman-aged. The writers did an amazing job of
laying out the thoughts and dreams for
Season 6.’’
At some point, of course, Parks and
Recreation will have its ﬁnal airing.
That’s one thought that its star doesn’t
want to entertain.
“Basically, when the show is over, the
cast and all the writers are going to go
to a town and we’re going to live there,’’
Poehler says. “We’re going to pretend it’s
Pawnee until the Department of Tobacco
and Firearms tells us we have to leave.’’
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Tom Hanks shines in
messy Lucky Guy
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AP
ORA Ephron’s last play is
about the world of New York
tabloids, and it’s a lot like the
messy subject she looks at
- overindulgent, overstuffed
and raucous. That’s its charm as well as
its undoing.
Lucky Guy, starring Tom Hanks
sporting a wedge of a mustache, focuses
on Mike McAlary, the city’s one-time
dominant tabloid reporter. His rise and
fall and rise again during the 1980s and
‘90s helped deﬁne the transition from
boys-will-be-boys notepad journalism
to the buttoned-up, professional digital
recorders of today.
Ephron’s play, which opened on
Monday at the Broadhurst Theatre, has
touches of ﬁlm noir, a ton of testosterone
and profanity and moments of humour
but not too much elegance or heft.
It’s Ephron’s valentine to those
hard-charging, heavy-smoking, gruff
reporters she met in newsrooms with ink
in their veins and booze on their breath.
Ephron’s humour can be heard, but only
faintly. At times, watching it is more like
enduring a verbal assault by drunken
Irish-American frat boys.
Hanks, making his Broadway debut,
is classic Hanks - lovable, touching and
funny. “It’s New York City, who can
relax?” he says at the beginning, before
turning to someone in the audience. “Are
you relaxed?” He makes a great Broad-way debut, making McAlary a lovable
rogue we have to root for even if we
sometimes shouldn’t.
McAlary, who bounced from tabloid
to tabloid during his career, was a star
even before he got the ﬁrst interview
with Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant
who was sodomised and beaten by white
police ofﬁcers at a station house in 1997.
McAlary would win the Pulitzer Prize the
next year but would die of cancer a few
months later at age 41.
Ephron, who died of leukemia last
summer at age 71, gained fame as the
writer of ﬁlms such as You’ve Got Mail
and Sleepless in Seattle, which both also
starred Hanks.
Ephron has structured the play
chronologically, but as if it were a story
told in a bar, with the supporting actors
pulling each other into onstage roles
(“Who wants to play Eddie Hayes?” one
actor asks the ensemble. At another
point, someone says while walking off-stage: “And by the way, that is the end
Tom Hanks (centre) as tabloid columnist Mike McAlary, during a performance of Lucky Guy, playing
at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York.
Lucky Guy, starring
Tom Hanks sporting a
wedge of a mustache,
focuses on Mike
McAlary, the city’s onetime dominant tabloid
reporter. His rise and
fall and rise again
during the 1980s and
‘90s helped define the
transition from boyswill-be-boys notepad
journalism to the
buttoned-up,
professional digital
recorders of today
of me in this story.”) It’s cute at ﬁrst, but
soon grows grating.
Ephron also has broken one of the
cardinal rules of journalism - show, don’t
tell. There is far too much expository
writing and at various points, characters
will tell the audience something and then
pointlessly repeat it when they return to
the scene.
Adding to the frantic nature of the
piece is all the modern toys thrown at it
- projected images, archive footage, TV
sets, smoke machines, desks whizzing
by, even a live camera broadcasting a TV
interview. (In one, the TV cameras block
the view of the screaming newspaper
headlines projected onto the back wall).
Under George C Wolfe’s direction, no
scene can just breathe. So most don’t
connect.
With a cast of 14, only two of whom
are women, Ephron has effectively
surrendered the stage to the guys, even
admitting at one point through one of
her female characters: “This is
a story about guys, guys with
cops, cops with guys. It’s a
very guy thing.”
The dozen
male actors
swagger and
bellow and
carouse in
various news-room and cop
roles. Some stan-douts: Courtney
B Vance is superb
as one of McAlary’s
favourite editors, almost stealing
the show from Hanks, no easy
feat. Christopher McDonald
also is elegant cool as McA-lary’s lawyer, and Peter Gerety
is having entirely too much
drunken fun onstage.
The script veers from
one scene to the next,
often without building
tension or meaning. The
inside-baseball nature
of the story - ﬁlled with
freewheeling references
to the city’s tabloid
past and editors few
may know - may confuse audience-mem-bers not in the business or New Yorkers.
There’s a hysterical scene where
both McAlary and his editor pump up
their morphine drips while both at the
hospital and another funny bit about
the Atkins’ diet. But there’s also an un-necessarily noir funeral - complete with
casket and a cliched umbrella - as well
as a moving and excruciating monologue
by Louima about his attack. Add to that
various newsroom craziness and domes-tic squabbles between McAlary and his
wife. They all stubbornly refuse to add
up to much more than their parts.
After 16 scenes over two hours, McA-lary emerges as a complex ﬁgure, both
self-aggrandising and yet also someone
who genuinely seems to want to “right
wrongs.” He chased big paychecks as
well as big stories, and Ephron seems
to
be bewitched by this lovable
scamp. But the play leaves
little lasting impression,
like a day-old tabloid.
Tom
Hanks
HOLLYWOOD
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Pattinson, Stewart’s
mini vacation
Conan O’Brien
Robert Pattinson
(left) and
Kristen Stewart.
IANS
K
RISTEN Stewart enjoyed
TBS extends Conan O’Brien’s
Conan talk show into 2015
REUTERS
C
OMEDIAN Conan O’Brien’s latenight talk show has been extended
through November 2015, US cable
network TBS said on Monday.
Conan debuted in November 2010
following O’Brien’s acrimonious split
with broadcaster NBC after his brief stint
as host of the network’s ﬂagship The
Tonight Show.
O’Brien’s show gets about 900,000
viewers per episode - well below those
of rivals Jay Leno, David Letterman and
Jimmy Kimmel - but it has a younger
median audience age than the other US
late-night talk shows, TBS noted.
“We are proud to extend our relation-ship with Conan as he continues to forge
the future of late night,” Michael Wright,
TBS president and head of program-ming, said in a statement. “I just wish we
didn’t decide to tell him on April Fools’
Day.” O’Brien, 49, who is known for his
fervent fan base, broke into late-night
television with the Late Night with Co-nan O’Brien talk show on NBC in 1993.
He held that spot until 2009, when he
took over for Leno as host of The Tonight
Show.
Seven months later NBC gave the
show back to Leno after his new show
failed to gain traction in an earlier timeslot.
a short vacation with
Robert Pattinson at her
mother’s house during Easter.
“Rob and Kristen cel-ebrated Easter together at
her mom’s house in Malibu.
It was low-key and Kristen’s
brothers were there as well,”
contactmusic.com quoted a
source as saying.
“During the day, Rob
took the paddle board out.
There is a private beach where
Jules lives and that’s where Rob
always goes paddle boarding. It’s
very secluded and private,” added
the source.
While the couple went through
a rough patch after Stewart
cheated on Pattinson with director
Rupert Sanders last year, friends
insist they are now happier than
ever.
“Kristen and Robert couldn’t
be happier. They are getting along
wonderfully and really enjoying
each other’s company. Rob has
been showering Kristen with affec-tion.
Another source said: “He really
missed her and is spending all of
his time with her. I think this is the
strongest their relationship has ever
been.”
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Bieber banned from Austrian club
Heidi Klum saves son from drowning
Rimes finds snake in backyard
SINGER Justin Bieber, who partied at Passage club over
the weekend, has been banned from entering the prop-erty after his bodyguards smashed fans’ cameras.
The 19-year-old was here after his concert in the city,
when his bodyguards reportedly broke the cameras and
mobile phones of fans, who tried to take a picture of the
heartthrob, reports contactmusic.com.
Club manager Joachim Bankel told the Austrian Times
“Justin Bieber is no longer welcome here.”
GERMAN supermodel Heidi Klum
saved her son Henry and two nannies
from drowning during a vacation in
Hawaii.
Klum was holidaying with her chil-dren Leni, eight, Henry, seven, Johan,
six, Lou, three and boyfriend Martin
Kirsten when Henry and two nannies
got caught in a riptide on the island of
Oahu on Sunday.
“We got pulled into the ocean by a
big wave. Of course, as a mother, I was
very scared for my child and everyone
else in the water. Henry is a strong
swimmer and was able to swim back
to land. We were able to get everyone
out safely,” Klum told UsMagazine.
com.
The 39-year-old started dating her
40-year-old bodyguard a few months
after splitting from husband Seal last
year. Friends recently revealed she has
fallen completely in love with Kirsten.
ACTRESS LeAnn Rimes was
horrified to find a snake
in her backyard, but her
husband Eddie Cibrian and
stepsons loved it.
The Can’t Fight The
Moonlight actress dis-covered the reptile at her
Los Angeles home and
although it was harmless,
she was left shaken by the
incident while her hus-band Cibrian and stepsons
- Mason, nine, and Jake, five
- thought it was cool.
“Oh my god! I just found
LeAnn Rimes
a snake in our backyard. It
was a harmless snake, but I can’t stand them. Of course,
all the boys in the house found it cool,” femalefirst.co.uk
quoted Rimes as saying.
While she may not approve of Jake and Mason’s
love of snakes, LeAnn previously revealed she loves
having them in her life.
Justin Bieber
Heidi
Klum
BOLLYWOOD
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Shilpa designs fan
wear for ‘her’
Rajasthan Royals
Taapsee
Pannu
Shooting for
Chashme Baddoor
was like picnic,
says Taapsee
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(From left) Shashank Awasthi, Joint Executive President of Ultratech cements, Shilpa Shetty and Rahul Dravid at the Rajasthan Royals Provogue fan
wear launch at the Marriott hotel in Jaipur, recently.
IANS
“The collection is in-novative, high quality,
originally designed
and priced to suit the
taste and desires of
our fan community”
B
OLLYWOOD actress Shilpa
Shetty has used her fashion
instincts to design a new ‘ofﬁcial
fan wear collection’ for her Indian Pre-mier League (IPL) franchise Rajasthan
Royals, in association with apparel
brand Provogue.
She even walked the ramp to show-case the creations here.
The IPL sixth season opens on
Tuesday.
“We are excited about this new ven-ture with Provogue. Designing clothes
has been a wonderful experience and
I am delighted to have had a chance
to do it for our fans. The collection is
innovative, high quality, originally de-signed and priced to suit the taste and
desires of our fan community,” Shilpa
said in a statement. The idea behind
the line is to embody suave and sophis-ticated, yet youthful and fun dressing at
the same time.
The exclusive yet-to-be-launched
line features a range of linen shirts and
polo t-shirts in colour palettes compris-ing shades of blue, green and pastels.
Taking a break from their on-ﬁeld
performance, the entire Rajasthan
Royals brigade including Rahul Dravid,
Ajinkya Rahane, Shaun Tait, Brad
Hogg and Kevon Cooper, walked the
ramp displaying Provogue’s special
merchandise at an event on Monday
night.
The high point of the evening for
Provogue’s grand collection was the
dazzling Shilpa, who sashayed down
the ramp with panache in the fan wear
designed by her.
AAPSEE Pannu, who makes her
Bollywood debut with Chashme
Buddoor remake, says shooting
for David Dhawan directed ﬁlm was so
much fun that she and her co-star felt
they were on a picnic.
“It was en entertainment zone. We
shot in Goa and it was like a picnic, a
paid holiday for us. We have worked
with one of the most successful commer-cial directors and that’s why we are in a
safe zone,” the 25-year-old said on Mon-day on the sets of reality show India’s
Best Dramebaaz.
A remake of the 1981-classic
Chashme Buddoor, which had Farooque
Sheikh, Deepti Naval, Rakesh Bedi and
Ravi Baswani, the new version also stars
Ali Zafar, Divyendu Sharma and Sid-dharth. It is set for a Friday release.
Taapsee, who has stepped into Deepti
Naval’s shoes, hopes to get appreciation
from the audience.
“It is my ﬁrst ﬁlm and be ready to see
a new girl in Bollywood,” she said and
added that she hopes “to get more op-portunities and appreciation”.
“I am nervous because it’s my ﬁrst
Bollywood ﬁlm but I am conﬁdent as
well because we have put in a lot of hard
work,” added the actress who featured in
southern movies like Tamil movie Aadu-kalam and Telugu ﬁlm Veera.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
I don’t work out for six
pack abs: Sunny Deol
PTI
H
IS name might
not feature in
the six pack
ab list of Bollywood
but Bollywood actor
Sunny Deol says just
because he never
ﬂaunts his muscles
does not mean he is
not a ﬁtness freak.
The 56-year-old,
who can arguably be
tagged as the original
Sunny Deol
action star of the 90s
with ﬁlms like Ghay-al and Ghatak, says he does not work out for
showing off.
“I have always been a ﬁtness freak but I
am not here to work for six pack and gloat
about muscles around, that is not who I am.
When I joined this industry, that time action
was really action. There were no safeties for
stunts, no cables.
“But I loved doing it. I remember when I
had started off with Betaab my dad (Dhar-mendra) had said that you will not do any
stunts but when my duplicates couldn’t per-form it, I had to do it,” Sunny said.
The actor will soon be seen doing some ac-tion sequences in his upcoming movie Yamla
Pagla Deewana 2, a sequel to his 2011 release
of the same name.
I only endorse product and
brands that I trust, says Kajol
Kajol
PTI
A
CTRESS Kajol, who played
lead roles in some of the big-gest Bollywood blockbusters
in 1990s and early 2000s, may
not be seen in too many ﬁlms now
a days but she is happy that her
personal life has taken precedence
over professional matters.
The versatile screen performer,
who has two kids, says she is a
strict mother and her husband,
Bollywood star Ajay Devgn, does
not like when she scolds her chil-dren.
“I am the stricter one between
two of us. Ajay doesn’t like when
I scold our children in his pres-ence. I have to be strict because I’m
more of an ‘at home’ parent. When
Ajay is around it is playtime. Our
children are used to me in his ab-sence,” Kajol said in an interview.
Post-marriage, the 38-yearold actress cut down on her work
though she continued to feature
with big stars and collect accolades
for her performance.
Her major releases after mar-riage were Fanaa, U Me Aur Hum
(2008), My Name is Khan (2010),
We Are Family (2010).
But Kajol has done special
appearances in several ﬁlms like
Kal Ho Na Ho, Kabhi Alvida Naa
Kehna, Om Shanti Om, Rab Ne
Bana Di Jodi and Student of the
Year.
“Once I got married and had
babies, I had to take time out for
my children. Hence I took a break.
My personal life took precedence
over my professional life and I was
very happy about it,” she said.
Apart from her ﬁlm commit-ments, Kajol has been in demand
for brand endorsements as well.
Asked what are the things she looks
for before associating herself with
a brand, she says, “I only endorse
products and brands that I trust
and can relate to personally.”
The shooting for an ad ﬁlm took
Kajol to her early days of mother-hood.
“It (the shooting for advertise-ment) reminded me of the days
when I used to change diapers for
Nysa and Yug. Motherhood is an
amazing feeling and if you get to
relive those special moments while
working, it works as an icing on the
cake. Kids have always been close
to my heart and working with them
is a pleasure for me,” she said.
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Aamir Khan learns Bhojpuri for Peekay
ACTOR Aamir Khan
is said to be learn-ing Bhojpuri for his
upcoming Rajkumar
Hirani directed movie
Peekay.
The 48-year-old
has been taking
lessons over the last
four months as his
character in the movie
demands fluency in
the language.
“Aamir has been
Aamir Khan
trying to master
Bhojpuri for the last four months. Everyone is wondering
why he has been learning a language that is traditionally
spoken in east Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, when the film has
largely been shot in Rajasthan. This is a new twist to the
tale. There is a lot of curiosity as to what the film is about,” a
source said.
This is not the first time the 3 Idiots star has taken lan-guage lessons for a role. He learnt Awadhi while preparing
for Ashutosh Gowariker’s blockbuster Lagaan.
Peekay, which also stars Anushka Sharma in the lead, is
expected to release next year.
Vidya was Agnihotri’s first choice for
women empowerment film
Sidharth, Yami’s ice
cream moments
FILMMAKER Vivek Agnihotri, who is all set to make a film on
women’s empowerment for T Series, was keen to sign Vidya
Balan for the lead role.
“My first choice for the film was Vidya Balan. Had Vi-dya not done Kahaani before, then she
would have done this film. But I would
certainly come with a script in future
which would justify her,” Agnihotri, who
directed films like Dhan Dhana Dhan
Goal, said.
“Now we have approached some
other actresses...Let’s see how
things fall in place,” he added.
Talking about his film, Ag-nihotri said: “The film is about
women in today’s society and
the system that doesn’t sup-port them. It’s a suspense
thriller.”
Will he cast his wife Pallavi
Joshi in the film?
“Pallavi is doing a film with
me Buddha In A Traffic Jam. But
she will not be in this film,” he
clarified.
STUDENT Of The Year actor
Sidharth Malhotra shares
screen space with Yami Gau-tam of Vicky Donor fame in his
maiden TV commercial for a
popular ice cream brand.
In the ad, they are seen
spending fun-loving times on
a beach.
The model-turned-actor
shot for the ad for a new offer-ing by Kwality Wall’s and, if a
source close to Sidharth is to
be believed, he is much in
Siddharth Malhotra
demand in the ad world.
“He has recently signed his first solo ad for an
ice cream brand that he will endorse. This is huge
deal as it’s a well-established brand,” said the
source.
Sidharth is said to have been chosen thanks
to his chocolate boy looks and popularity amongst
girls.
Meanwhile, he has already signed two big films
- Hassi Toh Phasi alongside Parineeti Chopra and
Ekta Kapoor’s The Villan.
Vidya Balan
Thursday, April 4, 2013
SCIENCE
Is shrinking sea ice
behind chilly spring?
Recent imaging from the US National
Snow and Ice Data Centre showed a historic
minimum in Arctic ice cover last fall, and
current data reveals that sea ice cover –
which recently reached its maximum for
the year – is at its sixth lowest extent in
the satellite record
NYT SYNDICATE
F
IRST it was the fault of Punx-sutawney Phil, the groundhog
who mistakenly forecasted
a quick end to winter. Now
climate scientists are saying
that Arctic sea ice – or the lack of it – is a
driving force behind the Northern Hemi-sphere’s unseasonably cold spring.
As Northern Hemisphere tempera-tures remain below normal more than
a week into the ofﬁcial start of spring, a
team of meteorologists and climate scien-tists are pointing to recent research that
suggests sea ice cover is a likely culprit.
Recent imaging from the US National
Snow and Ice Data Centre showed a his-toric minimum in Arctic ice cover last fall,
and current data reveals that sea ice cover
– which recently reached its maximum for
the year – is at its sixth lowest extent in
the satellite record.
Less Arctic sea ice – which is caused
by global warming – alters atmospheric
circulation in a way that leads to more
snow and ice, said climate scientist Jip-ing Liu, who led a 2012 study on the topic
published by the Proceedings of National
Academy of Sciences.
It’s a tough thing to understand. Less
ice at the top of the world, often consid-ered the planet’s thermostat, might nor-mally signal warmer global temperatures,
not colder ones.
But the way weather works isn’t so
simple. Without a substantial ice cover,
Arctic wind is less constrained. The jet
stream – the belt of cool air that regulates
weather around most of the Northern
Hemisphere – then dips farther and
farther south, bringing cold air from the
Arctic closer to the Equator.
The result is much colder weather
dipping into the spring much longer, and
more forcefully, than normal.
The Culprit
In trying to explain recent cold tem-peratures throughout the world, Liu and
colleagues arrived at the melting Arctic ice
by way of deduction.
“For the past few winters, large parts
of Asia, North America, and Europe
experienced these cold conditions above
normal snowfall,’’ said Liu, of the Univer-sity of Albany.
“When we started to explore the rea-son why, our study suggested it was the
decline of Arctic sea ice.’’
The problem is compounded by mois--
ture. Arctic ice normally locks up water
molecules that, in a liquid state, would
evaporate and become rain.
Less ice means more open ocean,
allowing more moisture into the atmos-phere to freeze and, eventually, fall. Arctic
ice that melts, in effect, turns into snow
in other parts of the world, like in Indiana
or Missouri, which this week saw record
levels of snow for this time of year.
Wild Weather
Other researchers have had similar
ﬁndings about how changes in some parts
of the world will drive unexpected weather
around the globe.
A study released by the US National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra-tion in 2012 signalled that low sea ice and
increasing quantities of greenhouse gases
in the atmosphere could lead to warmer
summers as well.
“Simulations suggest that these sum-mertime highs will intensify in the twentyﬁrst century as a result of an increase in
atmospheric greenhouse gas concentra-tions,’’ the researchers soberly declared.
Left unanswered are year-to-year
anomalies, such as how last year’s winter
was unseasonably warm while Arctic ice
continued to shrink.
The warm 2012 winter was widely
credited to unexpected oscillations of the
North Atlantic and Arctic weather pat-terns.
Those freak seasons might continue to
happen. But Liu and others believe that
we’re likely to see more longer and colder
winters as the Arctic – and the planet in
general – continues to warm.
RHYTHM
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds perform at the Beacon Theatre in New York, recently.
Nick Cave
Raging against fate, pausing
for introspection
NYT SYNDICATE
V
ISIONS of murder, catastrophe, transﬁgu-ration and desperate love issued from the
Beacon Theatre stage on Friday night, set to
dirges, stomps and inexorable crescendos.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – along with
a string ensemble, the backup singers Sharon Van Etten
(who opened the concert) and Shilpa Ray, and a youth
choir, the Harlem Voices – were midway through a soldout three-night stand. Songs from their new album, Push
the Sky Away (Bad Seed Ltd), started and ended the set.
In between they revisited material recorded over the last
three decades.
Cave has forged a clear identity from the start. The Bad
Seeds, formed in 1983, were the more measured succes-sors to the wild-eyed post-punk of his ﬁrst major band,
the Birthday Party. With the Bad Seeds Cave decided to
take his time, intoning bleak, extended reveries steeped
in the blues, the Bible and images of humanity pushed to
extremes of violence and passion. The Bad Seeds, through
various lineups – most members of the current band have
been with Cave since the 1990s – joined him in treating
songs as incantations, usually circling through just a few
chords as the tension and drama build.
In Cave’s proliﬁc songwriting through the decades
the underlying intent has remained while the idioms
have varied: jazz-tinged psychedelia via the Doors, ga-rage-rock, ﬁlm-noir torch songs, 1960s pop, 12-bar blues,
country waltzes, gospel-tinged rock. The Bad Seeds are
more consonant now than they were in their early years,
and on Push the Sky Away they are decidedly subdued;
Cave has lately diverted his rockier, raunchier side into
another band, Grinderman. While he can be just as chill-ing in quiet moments as in clamorous ones, Push the Sky
Away is disappointing; many of his newer lyrics shade
into arbitrary non sequiturs, falling short of the dreamlogic storytelling and cryptic emotional revelations of his
catalog. But onstage Cave and the Bad Seeds are no less
overwhelming when the songs spiral toward madness.
Friday’s concert seesawed between strategic restraint
and equally strategic furor. The opening of the concert,
with elegiac songs from the new album – We No Who
U R, Mermaids and the beginning of Jubilee Street
– dampened rock expectations, forcing attention to
texture. In Mermaids, as Cave sang, “They wave
and slip back into the sea,” the backup of slowly
strummed guitar suddenly dissolved into wavelets
of reverberation.
But Jubilee Street initiated the concert’s more
primal dynamics: speeding up, getting louder,
pitting the decorum of strings and voices against
the bruising impact of the band. Cave, a lanky
ﬁgure in a black suit, restlessly stalked the
stage: a preacher, a barrister, a huckster, a
dancer, with his baritone moving from grim
declamations to ﬂat-out screams. He’d ease
off with doleful ballads like Love Letter
and People Ain’t No Good, sitting down
to play a bit on an upright piano,
then escalate again.
Old songs, like From Her to
Eternity, The Mercy Seat and
Tupelo, were elemental struggles
with love, death, God and fate;
Cave’s foulmouthed rewrite of Stag-ger
Lee has added a verse in which Stagger Lee takes
on Lucifer himself. By the time Cave returned to his
new album, with the tolling bass line and call for
perseverance of Push the Sky Away as the ﬁnal en-core, the song had become a refuge from the night’s
devastation.
Cave has lately
diverted his rockier,
raunchier side into
another band,
Grinderman. While
he can be just as
chilling in quiet
moments as in
clamorous ones
Nick Cave
Thursday, April 4, 2013
BOOKWORM
Text mining uncovers
British reserve and American emotion
NYT SYNDICATE
I
F you associate modern British
ﬁction with the cool, detached
tones of Martin Amis and Ju-lian Barnes, and US ﬁction with
Jonathan Franzen’s emotional
inner worlds or John Irving’s sentimen-tality, it seems you have good reason. An
analysis of the digitised texts of Englishlanguage books over the past century
concludes that, since the 1980s, words
that carry emotional content have be-come signiﬁcantly more common in US
books than in British ones.
The study, by anthropologist Alberto
Acerbi of the University of Bristol, UK,
and his colleagues, takes advantage of
Google’s database of more than 5 mil-lion digitally scanned books from the
past several centuries. This resource has
previously been used to examine the
evolution of literary styles and trends in
literary expressions of individualism.
Such mining of the cultural informa-tion made available by new technolo-gies has been called ‘culturomics’. Its
advocates think that these approaches
can unearth trends in social opinions
and norms that are otherwise concealed
within vast swathes of data.
“Language use in books reﬂects what
people are talking about and thinking
about during a particular time, so Google
Books provides a fascinating window
into the past,” says psychologist Jean
Twenge of San Diego State University in
California.
The latest results certainly seem
to show that familiar narratives about
social mood are reﬂected in the literature
(both ﬁction and non-ﬁction) of the 20th
century. Acerbi and his colleagues ﬁnd
that, whereas words connoting happy
emotions show peaks of usage in the
Roaring twenties and the Swinging six-ties, sad words come to the fore during
the years of the Second World War.
But there are surprises too: The First
World War doesn’t seem to register on
this happy-sad index, for example. By
the same measure, happiness seems to
be rising since the 1990s, although it is
too early to see whether the global reces-sion will reverse that because the data-base extends only to 2008 .
“The relationship between historical
events and collective mood is compli-cated,” Acerbi admits, “but just by doing
a somewhat crude analysis of emotion
words it is possible to ﬁnd trends that
resonate with what we know about histo-ry.” He hopes that further analysis might
Such changes were
not seen for general
words selected at
random. “Our results
support the popular
notion that American
authors express
more emotion than
the British”
reveal, for example, whether literature is
ahead of its time or only slowly reﬂects
other changes.
“This is a fascinating look at how two
cultures have changed over time, espe-cially how world events inﬂuence the
expression of emotion in media,” says
Twenge.
Overall, the use of emotion-related
words in English-language books de-clined over the 20th century. But distin-guishing between books written using
American or British English (about 1
million and 230,000, respectively) told
another story.
The authors found that, despite the
overall decline, emotion words have
become relatively more frequent in US
texts than in British books since about
1980. Conversely, before then, any dif-ferences between books from the two
sides of the Atlantic had been minor.
Such changes were not seen for general
words selected at random. “Our results
support the popular notion that Ameri-can authors express more emotion than
the British,” they write.
A similar change is seen in the usage
of “content-free” words, such as pro-nouns and prepositions (such as you, us,
about, within). Acerbi and his colleagues
interpret this as indicating that the shift
in emotionality is coupled to a general
shift in literary style. US texts, they say,
are becoming increasingly prolix.
“The correlation with mood terms
is not altogether surprising, as these
longer constructions provide increased
opportunity for expressing sentiments,”
explains biologist David Krakauer of the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, who
with his colleagues has mined Google
Books for changes in literary style.
“Authors tend to read their contem-poraries and their competitors largely
within their respective cultures,” he
adds, “and so we might expect British
English and American English to diverge
somewhat.”
Do these shifts imply that the US
population in general expresses more
emotion than the British? Although
that doesn’t necessarily follow – literary
norms may sometimes invert rather than
mirror tendencies in everyday life –
Acerbi feels that the ﬁndings “may reﬂect
a genuine cultural change, because of the
size of the sample, and because Google
Books is not explicitly biased toward suc-cessful or inﬂuential books.”
But Krakauer cautions that differenc-es in literary expression don’t necessarily
represent differences in the emotional
mindscapes behind them. “It is a rather
intriguing and open question why dif-ferent cultures express the same level of
feeling with different numbers of words,”
he says.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
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11:15 Danger Beach, 1
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06:00 Barnyard
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11:30 Olentzero And The Magic Log
13:00 Little Einsteins: Rocket’s Firebird Rescue
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22:00 Little Einsteins: Rocket’s Firebird Rescue
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April 4, 1968
Dr. Martin Luther King, U.S.
clergyman and prominent leader in
the African-American Civil Rights
Movement, was assassinated on
the balcony of a motel in Memphis
1932: Vitamin C was first isolated from
lemon juice. This led to the prevention
of scurvy
1963: The Beatles occupied all top
five places on the U. S. charts with
Can't Buy Me Love, Twist And Shout,
She Loves You, I Want To Hold Your
Hand and Please Please Me
1973: The World Trade Centre was
officially opened in New York
2008: American singer Beyonce
Knowles married rapper Jay-Z
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
SUDOKU
Yesterday’s Answer
Star Talk
By King Features Syndicate, Inc.
ARIES [mar 21 – apr 19]
TAURUS [apr 20 – may 20]
GEMINI [may 21 – jun 20]
CANCER [jun 21 - jul 22]
LEO [jul 23 – aug 22]
VIRGO [aug 23 – 22]
You might meet a real character
today, especially an unusual
female acquaintance. Or possibly,
someone you already know will
do something that amazes you.
Bosses and people in authority
will surprise you by doing or
saying something unexpected.
Whatever happens might lead
to greater freedom for you.
Unexpected opportunities to travel
might fall in your lap today. This
same surprise inﬂuence could
highlight something unusual
with publishing, the media,
medicine and the law.
Make friends with your bank
account today. Something
unexpected regarding shared
property, taxes, debt and the
resources of others could
catch you off guard.
Partnerships are unpredictable
today. Someone might demand
more freedom in the relationship
(possibly you). Hold your ﬁnger
up to see which way the wind is
blowing.
Your job might be interrupted
by computer crashes, staff
shortages, power outages or ﬁre
drills today. Your daily routine
deﬁnitely will not ﬂow as expected.
(Stay light on your feet.)
LIBRA [sept 23 – oct 22]
SCORPIO [oct 23 – nov 21]
SAGITTARIUS [nov 22 – dec 21]
CAPRICORN [dec 22 – jan 19]
AQUARIUS [jan 20 – feb 18]
Pisces [feb 19 – mar 20]
Parents should be extra vigilant
about their children today, because
this is an accident-prone day for
your kids. However, it’s also a
very creative day. Anything could
happen.
Minor accidents at home are
likely today. Small appliances
might break down, or breakages
could occur. Surprise company
might knock at your door.
This is an accident-prone day
for you, so be extra careful.
Pay attention to everything you
say and do. (You might meet
someone who is unusual.)
Guard your possessions and
cash against loss and theft today,
because anything might happen.
Keep your wits about you so
that you have no regrets later.
You might ﬁnd that your mood
changes suddenly today and
that you’re given to impulsive,
unexpected behavior. Perhaps
you’re seeking more freedom or
you want a little adventure.
This is a restless day for you. Keep
your head down and your powder
dry. Surprising situations might
occur around you, which is why
you should remain calm and
collected.
MOVIES IN QATAR
Thursday, April 4, 2013
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
(Comedy)
When a street magician’s stunts begins to make their
show look stale, superstar magicians Burt Wonderstone
and Anton Marvelton look to salvage on their act - and
their friendship - by staging their own daring stunt.
Jurassic Park - 3D (Adventure)
A wealthy man has created an island amusement park ﬁlled
with dinosaurs cloned from fossilised DNA. When he invites
experts to endorse it, nature takes over. Not a remake or
reboot. This is the release of 1993’s Jurassic Park as a remas-tered and IMAX 3D ﬁlm. With his remastering of the epic into
a state-of-the-art 3D format, Steven Spielberg introduces
the three-time Academy Award-winning blockbuster to
a new generation of moviegoers and allows longtime
fans to experience the world he envisioned in a way
was unimaginable during the ﬁlm’s original release.
CITY CENTRE CINEMA
G.I.JOE: RETALIATION (ACTION): 11 AM, 1.30 M, 4 PM, 6.30
PM, 9 PM, 11.30 PM. 1 AM [VIP GOLD] 12.30 PM, 3 PM, 5.30
PM, 8 PM, 10.30 PM
DEAD MAN DWON (CRIME): 11.15 AM, 1.45 PM, 4.15 PM,
6.45 PM, 9.115 PM, 11.45 PM
EVIL DEAD (HORROR): 11.45 AM, 1.45 PM, 3.45 PM, 5.45
PM, 7.45 PM, 9.45 PM, 11.45 PM, 1.15 AM
JURASSIC PARK (3D) (ADVENTURE): 10.30 AM, 1 PM, 3.30
PM, 6 PM, 8.30 PM, 11 PM
THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE (COMEDY): 10.30
AM, 12.45 PM, 3 PM, 5.15 PM, 7.30 PM, 9.45 PM, 12 MN,
1 AM
ZAMBEZIA (3D) (ANIMATION): 11.30 AM, 1.30 PM, 3.30 PM,
5.30 PM, 7.30 PM, 9.30 PM, 11.30 PM
LOVE WEDDING, MARRIAGE (COMEDY): 12.45 PM, 5 PM,
9.15 PM
OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (ACTION): 11.15 AM, 1.45 PM, 4.15
PM, 6.45 PM, 9.15 PM, 11.45 PM
THE CROODS (3D) (ANIMATION): 11.15 AM, 1.15 PM, 3.15
PM, 5.15 PM, 7.15 PM, 9.15 PM, 11.15 PM
THE LAST EXORCISM-2 (HORROR): 12 PM, 2 PM, 4 PM, 6
PM, 8 PM, 10 PM, 12 MN
OZ THE GREAT & POWERFUL (ADVENTURE): 11.45 AM, 4.30
PM, 9.15 PM
IDENTITY THIEF (COMEDY): 10.30 AM, 2.45 PM, 7 PM, 11.15 PM
JACK THE GIANT SLAYER (FANTASY): 2.15 PM, 7 PM, 11.45 PM
SETTAI (TAMIL): 12 PM, 5.45 PM,11.30 PM
HIMMATWALA (HINDI): 3 PM, 8.45 PM
CHASME BADOOR (HINDI): 12.15 PM, 3 PM, 5.45 PM, 8.30
PM, 11.15 PM
VILLAGGIO CINEMA
LANDMARK CINEMA
MALL CINEMA
G.I.JOE: RETALIATION (ACTION): 10.30 AM, 11.45 AM,
12.45 PM, 2 PM, 3 PM, 4.15 PM, 5.15 PM, 6.30 PM, 7.30
PM, 8.45 PM, 9.45 PM, 11 PM, 12 MN, 1 AM
DEAD MAN DWON (CRIME): 2 PM, 4.30 PM, 7 PM, 9 PM,
12 MN
EVIL DEAD (HORROR): 12 PM, 2 PM, 4 PM, 6 PM, 8 PM, 10
PM, 12 MN, 1,15 AM
JURASSIC PARK (3D) (ADVENTURE): 6.15 PM, 8.45 PM,
11.15 PM
THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE (COMEDY): 12.30
PM, 2.45 PM, 5 PM, 7.15 PM, 9.30 PM, 11.45 PM, 1.15 AM,
ZAMBEZIA (3D) (ANIMATION): 10.45 AM, 12.45 PM, 2.45
PM, 4.45 PM
THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES (DRAMA): 11.30 PM, 2.30
PM, 5.30 PM, 8.30 PM, 11.30 PM
LOVE WEDDING, MARRIAGE (COMEDY): 11.30 AM, 3.30
PM, 7.30 PM, 11.30 PM
THE CROODS (ANIMATION): 1.30 PM, 5.30 PM, 9.30 PM
(3D) 12.15 PM, 2.15 PM, 4.15 PM
OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (ACTION): 11 AM, 1.30 PM, 4 PM,
6.30 PM, 9 PM, 11.30 PM
PARKER (ACTION): 6.45 PM, 9.15 PM, 11.45 PM
THE LAST EXORCISM-2 (HORROR): 11.45 AM, 1.45 PM,
3.45 PM, 5.45 PM, 7.45 PM, 9.45 PM, 11.45 PM
OZ THE GREAT & POWERFUL (ADVENTURE): 12 PM, 2.45
PM, 5.30 PM, 8.15 PM, 11 PM
IDENTITY THIEF (COMEDY): 12.15 PM, 2.30 PM, 4.45 PM,
7 PM, 9.15 PM, 11.30 PM
ZAMBEZIA (3D) (ANIMATION): 2.30 PM, 4.30 PM
DEAD MAN DOWN (ACTION): 6.30 PM
EVIL DEAD (HORROR): 9 PM
THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES (DRAMA): 11 PM
SNOW QUEEN (3D) (ANIMATION): 3 PM
CROODS (3D) (ANIMATION): 5 PM, 7 PM
THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE (COMEDY): 9 PM
JURASSIC PARK 4 (3D) (ADEVENTURE): 11 PM
THE BAY II (THRILLER): 2.30 PM
OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (ACTION): 4.15 PM
G.I. JOE RETALIATION (3D) (ACTION): 6.30 PM
CHASHME BADDOOR (HINDI): 8.30 PM
SETTAI (TAMIL): 11 PM
LOVE WEDDING MARRIAGE (COMEDY): 2.45 PM, 5 PM,
7.15 PM, 9.30 PM, 11.30 PM
SNOW QUEEN (3D) (ANIMATION): 3 PM
ZAMBEZIA (3D) (ANIMATION): 5 PM
CROODS (3D) (ANIMATION): 7 PM
G.I. JOE RETALIATION (3D) (ACTION): 9 PM
JURASSIC PARK 4 (3D) (ACTION): 11 PM
THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE (COMEDY): 2.30 PM
DEAD MAN DOWN (ACTION): 4.30 PM
EVIL DEAD (HORROR): 6.45 PM
SETTAI (TAMIL): 8.30 PM
CHASHME BADDOOR (HINDI): 11.15 PM
ROYAL PLAZA
ZAMBEZIA (3D) (ANIMATION): 3 PM
G.I. JOE RETALIATION (3D) (ACTION): 5 PM
CROODS (3D) (ANIMATION): 7 PM
THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE (COMEDY): 9 PM
EVIL DEAD (HORROR): 11 PM
LOVE WEDDING MARRIAGE (COMEDY): 2.45 PM, 5 PM,
7.15 PM, 9.30 PM, 11.30 PM
MELANCHOLIA (DRAMA): 2.30 PM, 9 PM
RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (ANIMATION): 4.30 PM
TAKE THIS WALTZ (COMEDY): 6.30 PM
JACK REACHER (ACTION): 11 PM
Movie review
NOTICE: Timings are subject to change without prior notice.
Zambezia
KAI is a young falcon who decides to leave the nest against his father’s wishes and fly to the big bird city of
Zambezia. Once there, he applies to join the Hurricanes, an elite troupe of raptors who look after Zambezia’s secu-rity. His resourcefulness and speed will come in handy, because the carrion eating Marabus have joined forces with
a giant lizard to disturb the peace of this avian paradise. But it will take more than just the Hurricanes to ward off this
danger the whole bird community will have to stick together.
THE quality of a computer animated film isn’t always guaranteed if it’s not from Pixar or another US studio, but the
South African production Zambezia makes a great impression despite its low budget. And its 3D effects do better
than hold their own against more expensive competitors!
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