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Except for Mr. Reynolds, who seemed to be preoccupied between takes with text-messaging Scarlett Johansson — they became engaged during the filming — the actors all went out of their way to reach out. |
The crew emptied the refrigerator in the main house, Mrs. Kaneb said, to make room for Ms. Bullock’s spartan stash — tofu and vegetables. For everyone else they set up catering tents, providing three meals and snacks. |
The producers took over only the first floor of the main house for filming, moving everything into storage except the family’s antique Steinway piano. They bubble-wrapped the Kanebs’ walls and constructed movie walls and, beneath the Kanebs’ ceiling, a separate beamed ceiling from which the cinematographer could attach... |
As careful as the crew was, Mrs. Kaneb said, there was some damage, from broken light fixtures to a nick in the piano. The movie people either paid to repair every bit of damage or, when necessary, replaced things, Mrs. Kaneb said. |
She seemed relaxed about her things. “If you loved your stuff, if you had a lot of antiques, it’s not something you’d want to do,” she said. The second and third floors of the house, where the Kanebs’ bedrooms are, were off limits for filming. So although the family slept in their guesthouse, they were able to keep the... |
Every morning, Mr. Kaneb said, he would wake up in the guesthouse and walk across the lawn to the main house and work out on the Stairmaster downstairs. Then he would go upstairs to shower and put on his suit. He would walk downstairs, exchange greetings with the movie people and leave for work — he is the chief financ... |
One day Mr. Kaneb came home, in his usual suit, and carrying a suitcase, to find Ted Danson hanging out on the set. The actor from the television show “Cheers” was visiting his wife, Ms. Steenburgen. The cameras were rolling. |
“The producer waved me over to sit down,” Mr. Kaneb said. “Next to me was Ted Danson. At first he was really reserved. Finally, he said, ‘How long are you around for?’ I said to him, ‘I live here.’ ” “Then he was really friendly,” Mr. Kaneb said. |
The actual filming lasted three weeks, which translated to about 20 minutes in the movie. |
“I expected my kids to have a blast,” Mrs. Kaneb said. What she didn’t expect, she said, was that she would have so much fun, too. |
Miss Lena Driver, teacher of the Three Buttes School, six miles south of Lingle, has been secured by the board of directors of school district No. 2 to act as local club leader for all of the clubs in that district. Miss Driver majored in home economics in her college work, and the district is fortunate to have her to ... |
They are off. The Farm Bureau of Goshen County has left the wire and is making for the quarter post. The work of the County Agent and the County Club Leader will from now on be in a very definite line. There will be no more of the hit or miss kind of effort as heretofore. With the adopting of the county-wide program of... |
Expressing pleasure with the work carried on by Victory Gardeners last year and urging a continued effort in this direction again in 1944, the Victory Garden committee this week inaugurated a vigorous garden program in Goshen County. The campaign was launched at a meeting at the courthouse on Wednesday of this week. |
The committee recommended all persons having space available which they do not intend to use themselves but would be willing to let someone else have a Victory Garden notify County Agent John Hamon. All persons desiring to plant a garden, but not having sufficient space, should also contact the County Agent. |
Robert M. Johnson, 25, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond K. Johnson of this city, has completed his primary training and arrived last week at the Garden City (Kansas) Army Air Field to receive the second phase of flight training. |
Cadet Johnson attended the University of Wyoming for four years upon graduation from Torrington High School with the class of 1936. He completed his primary pilot training in Tulsa, Okla. He has a brother serving with the Navy. |
An outstanding sugar beet crop, along with excellent yields of corn, beans and alfalfa, provided the farmers of western Nebraska and eastern Wyoming with the third-highest crop production record in history. |
Despite cooler than normal temperatures in early spring and a severe hail storm in mid-June, the North Platte Valley produced crops surpassing the previous year’s total value, reported R. M. Sensintaffar, project manager for the Bureau of Reclamation in Casper. |
A third contract has been awarded by the Wyoming Highway Commission for road improvement in Goshen County. Gus Fleischle Jr., chairman of the Commission and representing Platte, Goshen and Laramie counties, announced an $858,824 contract to Gilpatrick Construction Co. of Riverton was awarded for work on U.S. 85 between... |
This contract calls for the grading, draining, surfacing on the highway and construction of two reinforced concrete box culverts, one reinforced concrete stock-pass extension and one continuous-welded plate girder span bridge. |
Two Torrington Police Officers involved in a prank on a 7-Eleven convenience store clerk were fired Friday. |
City attorney Jim Eddington said Police Chief Billy Janes fired the two officers after receiving a Division of Criminal Investigations report on the incident. Eddington declined to release the names of the fired officers pending appeal to a higher board. |
Three officers and one dispatcher took part in a hoax robbery of the 7-Eleven store in Torrington on Feb. 18. About 3 a.m., in individual walked into the store, carrying an M16 rifle loaded with blanks. The man allegedly told the clerk to drop to the ground. When he hesitated, the man allegedly pointed the M16 and disc... |
In response to the incident, clerk Douglas M. Haines of Torrington filed a claim against the town requesting $250,000 for damages, stating he was traumatized and victimized by the incident. TPD Sgt. Tony Fisher, Officer Mike Reeve and dispatcher Kraig Murphy were named in the claim. |
It’s hard to believe, but this yo-yo weather pattern of 70 degrees one day and snow the next is normal for this time of year. |
According to Mike Weiland of the National Weather Service in Cheyenne, it’s spring. |
HOA Homefront: Who prepares delinquency policy, and who votes on special assessment? |
A. The Davis-Stirling Act contains two different annual disclosures which must be made to all HOA members. Civil Code 5310(a)(6), which is part of the list of items in the Annual Policy Statement, requires that members annually receive a specific statutory disclosure statement. The exact text of this is found at Civil ... |
The second disclosure is under Civil Code 5310(a)(7), which requires the association’s policies in pursuing delinquent assessments to be disclosed to all members annually as part of the Annual Policy Statement. This policy could be written by someone who is not a common interest development attorney, but the likelihood... |
Association boards – Check the list of Annual Budget Report (Civil Code 5300) and Annual Policy Statement (Civil Code 5310) items – is your HOA providing all of these annually? If your year ends December 31, you have until end of November to get all of these items to your members. |
Q. Under Civil Section 5605(b), your association board can pass a special assessment of up to 5% of the association’s annual budgeted gross expenses. You have indicated that the assessment actually will be equal to about 15% of the HOA’s annual budget. Your HOA governing documents may speak to this, and most likely wil... |
YANGON, Myanmar — A Buddhist monk has been arrested in Myanmar after authorities found more than 4 million methamphetamine pills in his car and in his monastery, police said Tuesday. |
The monk was stopped Sunday as he drove in northern Rakhine state, which borders Bangladesh. Authorities had been tipped off that the monk was carrying an illegal haul, said Officer Maung Maung Yin. |
Maung Maung Yin said an anti-drug task force found 400,000 pills in the monk's car. A subsequent search of his monastery turned up 4.2 million pills — worth upwards of $4 million in street value — along with a grenade and ammunition. A statement from the office of Myanmar's leader, State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, sai... |
Myanmar is a major producer of methamphetamine, usually smuggled from the northeast to neighboring countries. It is also the world's second biggest producer of opium, from which heroin is derived. |
"This is not a normal case, and when we were informed that the monk was arrested, we were all shocked," said Kyaw Mya Win, a township police officer. |
Asked about the case, the director general of the Religious Affairs Ministry, Soe Min Tun, acknowledged some surprise. |
"It is not a very common case, but not impossible to happen. What will happen to the monk is that he will have to give up his monkhood right away and face trial as an ordinary person," he said. |
Police said they were still questioning the monk Tuesday. |
Last year, Myanmar officials seized 21 million methamphetamine pills with a street value around $35.5 million near the border with China in the biggest such seizure in recent memory. |
City College Paper Takes Financial Hit -- Was It Payback? |
When administrators at Los Angeles City College slashed the budget of the campus' 80-year-old newspaper, the Collegian, they had no idea of the bad publicity the move would get the school. KPCC FM's Adolfo Guzman-Lopez reports today that State Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) has "urged L.A. City College President ... |
Collegian editor in chief Frank Elaridi was elated. |
"I think," he told Guzman-Lopez, "[it's] really important to not only have a politician stand behind what you're saying, especially when laws are involved and legal issues, but more importantly a senator who wrote some of the laws that [Moore]'s breaking." Yee is a champion of protecting the rights of college newspaper... |
Hello Laurie! Your movie about your terrier, Lolabelle – her piano-playing and painting, her blindness and her death (1) – is moving audiences to tears at Telluride (2). Is it hard showing it? |
Yes. It’s really personal and I don’t have the defences. These are stories I would do in a live show. But then I wouldn’t have to sit in the audience. I went on a long tour a few years ago and the repeated use of the word “I” made me almost lose my mind. I ended up truly hating myself. |
You’re asking people to come up and tell you what they think of it. |
There’s a lot in the film about the Tibetan Book of the Dead and how it advocates not crying while you grieve. |
I didn’t realise really until this festival that there’s more death in this film than any car-crash movie. Everyone dies! What I love about the Tibetans is their focus on the main event: this person’s death. And trying to understand it without self-pity. The Buddhist point of view is also a journalistic one: to see thi... |
Why is it people never quite seem prepared for it? |
It’s scary, is why. Depending on your belief system you’re either erased or you’re wearing some sort of strange crown. |
In the movie you show Lolabelle’s realisation she can be preyed on from above by eagles. Have people in the western world lost sight of that kind of threat? Do we think we’re invincible? |
I never thought of it like that. Most of the people I know are not like that. Their invisibility is such a thing crushed. It’s usually just masking a whole lot of fear. |
Isn’t it one of the problems about climate change? On some level people just won’t believe it? |
Isn’t that ignorance not invincibility? It’s irritating, the TED-talk mentality of: “I’m going to fix the world with tech.” Their little microphones and chinos and powerpoint presentations and “Don’t worry, we’ll all be robots by then! It’ll be fantastic!” No, we won’t. We won’t be robots. And then you realise it’s str... |
I just saw Danny Boyle discuss his Steve Jobs movie (4). He wanted to talk about the psychological influence of Jobs on the world. But everyone just wanted to hear about the casting or the products. |
I’ve seen that a lot. The central problem is never mentioned. Ever. It’s taboo. It’s about the disappearance of American liberals. There really aren’t that many. |
I have a theory – something Susan Sontag whispered in my ear once. But I can’t tell you because it’s too weird. It’s not something you can say in this culture. It made a lot of sense to me. It’s an extremely conservative political climate. People are not very curious. I’m not really sure who the last person was who did... |
Maybe social media gives the impression of being constructive without actually being so. |
It’s hard to create a positive energy. I watched the Occupy movement really get crushed. There was a serious effort to get rid of it. People are too busy and distracted to recognise that. |
Perhaps the digital world helps you avoid categorisation? |
Yes, and that’s a relief. I make stories, whether films or paintings or pieces of music. |
But if your brand is just you, is that uncomfortable? |
Extremely. It’s even worse to market your style. It’s truly sad. And everyone on Facebook has the same sort of marketing ploy selling their image. |
What does that do to people? |
It’s extremely brutalising that you’re going to be for sale. It’s one of the worst things you can possibly imagine. Go to any party and you see that: I just don’t think you’re worth talking to. Someone else has a bigger plus sign over their heads. Capitalism is an absolute disaster for human relations. |
Surely in non-capitalist societies, people still scan the room at parties? |
Yes, every pack animal has that. If you’re a dog you want the leader to be the strongest and smartest and know where the food is. Dolphins and humans are the same – but our system is more volatile so it makes for more anxiety. I’m thinking about the difference between New York (5) and LA. LA has a voodoo economy. If yo... |
1 Also that of her mother, her partner, Lou Reed, and a friend. Also about the aftermath of 9/11, the impact of the NSA, Anderson’s childhood and almost everything else you can imagine. |
2 On Monday night there was also a bring-your-own-dog outdoor screening for locals. |
3 The movie begins with a dream in which Anderson gives birth to Lolabelle after asking that she – as a full-grown dog – be stitched up inside her stomach. The dog’s-eye-point-of-view camera is likened to surveillance footage and drones. |
4 Stars Michael Fassbender, another Telluride hit. |
MINNEAPOLIS - Two Twitter users have admitted they started a false rumor that the Minnesota Vikings were opening their new stadium to the homeless during this weekend’s extreme cold. |
Marketer Jake Nyberg and fitness coach David Dellanave said their tweets were a hoax meant to push the idea that taxpayer-funded U.S. Bank Stadium could be used to keep the homeless warm. Dellanave told The Associated Press it was a stupid way to do it and he’s sorry. Nyberg has since deactivated his account and didn’t... |
Minnesota Public Radio reports Yahoo Sports and CBS Sports posted stories that assumed the tweets were true. |
But it appears no homeless people fell for the hoax. The Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority says nobody sought shelter at the stadium. |
HARRY Redknapp claims Tottenham’s “crazy” fixture list has forced him into an impossible juggling act ahead of tonight’s UEFA Cup last-32 first-leg tie against Shakhtar Donetsk. |
Spurs play six games over the next 17 days, starting in the Ukraine, that will make or break their season. |
Other than taking on Shakhtar, Redknapp’s men face Hull, Middlesbrough and Sunderland in the Premier League and clash with Manchester United in the Carling Cup final. |
With that run in mind and the fact his side are still fighting against the threat of relegation, Redknapp decided to leave a number of key players behind in England and put eight kids on the plane to Donetsk. |
Wilson Palacios, Aaron Lennon, Luka Modric, Carlo Cudicini, Ledley King and Jonathan Woodgate have not been risked, while Gareth Bale has a virus. |
Midfield player Dean Parrett, 17, is set to be handed his Tottenham debut and Giovani dos Santos is in line for a rare start on the left wing. |
“We have six games in such a short space of time and it makes it very difficult,” said Redknapp. |
“When you have to play a cup final at Wembley, we should be preparing for three or four days and do something different to get the players ready. But we’re playing on the Thursday night. |
“It’s not an ideal week. Here now, get back at 5am on Friday morning, Hull Monday night, Shakhtar on Thursday then the final. Then Wednesday and Saturday. |
“It’s crazy the way they have piled on the fixtures. After that you’ve got three weeks between every game. The Sunderland game? The Premier League could have arranged that differently. |
You want to get through the tie, but getting some league results is all-important for us. We go to Wembley next week and we want to make a great game of it with Manchester United so it’s a bit of a juggling act for me. |
“I have brought a few of the kids with me and I’m thinking about giving one a start. Parrett has been playing well in the youth team. It’s a good experience for them. |
Despite claiming he wants to play more, Darren Bent may be saved for the Wembley date against United and left on the substitutes’ bench tonight. |
Redknapp insists Bent still has an important role to play, but told the striker to do his talking on the pitch when he gets a chance to impress. |
“You want people who are not happy if they are not in the team,” said Redknapp. |
“If they are happy not playing they are no good to you if they are just going to take their money. Keep doing it on the pitch and Darren will play. |
Redknapp claimed the Shakhtar pitch could worsen his selection headache and called on the UEFA Cup to be made a straight knock-out competition again. |
“I’m not blaming the pitch already, but it’s poor,” he said. |
You wouldn’t play on a non-league pitch like that. |
“The whole knock-out stage is too much. Three teams going through the league system is crazy. |
“I would just like to see a home and away knock-out. Take your chance with the draw and if you are good enough you get through. Pick them out the hat and go for it. |
Shakhtar Donetsk boss Mircea Lucescu has warned Tottenham that his Brazilian players are raring to go after the winter break. |
The Ukrainian champions have not played for two months and Lucescu has Fernandinho, Jadson, Ilsinho, Willian and Luiz Adriano in his squad to face Spurs. |
“We will see good Brazilian flair against English physical strength,” said Lucescu. |
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