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Sean Penn has “no apologies” for immigration joke at Oscars
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flagrant stupidity. I keep having more hope,” said Penn of the widespread outrage that followed the moment. “The fact is that I understand it. I see it all the time. When somebody sees the opportunity to frame something in the comfort that it will be common— that they can do that and they can get a group to look at them and that they will take on those positions and never really think about what it was,” he added. “I have absolutely no apologies,” Penn said with calm resolve. “In fact, I have a big (expletive) you for every ... anybody who is so stupid not to have gotten the irony when you’ve got a country that is so xenophobic,” he said. “If they had their way, you wouldn’t have great filmmakers like Alejandro working in this country. Thank God we do.” Penn also clarified that the order of his comments were intentional. “There’s a little inside humor with he and I where I know, and wanted him to know, that he would be the first person in that room to know that his film won,” he said. (ap)
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BEVERLY HILLS — Sean Penn opened up about the immigration joke heard ‘round the world on Saturday in Beverly Hills during a promotional tour for his new film “The Gunman,” saying that he has “absolutely no apologies” for his comment. The actor-director also offered up choice words for those who didn’t recognize the irony in his remarks. On Feb. 22 at the 87th Academy Awards, Penn, tasked with presenting the best picture award, made waves when he opened the envelope and first asked “Who gave this son of a bitch his green card?” before announcing the winner as “Birdman.” Directed by the Mexican-born Alejandro Iñárritu, many wondered whether the joke was distasteful. The term “green card” refers to a document that confers permanent residency on immigrants in the United States. “I found it hilarious,” Iñárritu said after the ceremony. “Sean and I have that kind of brutal (relationship) where only true friendship can survive.” Iñárritu directed Penn in the 2003 film “21 Grams,” and the two remain close to this date. “I make on him a lot of very tough jokes that I will not tell you,” Iñárritu added. While Iñárritu’s casual dismissal of any perceived offense helped to temper the public response to the comment, Penn has remained largely silent on the topic. “I’m always surprised by
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Cate Blanchett and husband adopt daughter
SYDNEY - Oscar-winning Australian actress Cate Blanchett and her husband have adopted a daughter, their fourth child, the couple’s management said Saturday. “The Upton family have adopted a baby girl,” a statement issued on behalf of the pair said. “Her name is Edith Vivian Patricia Upton.” The 45-year-old and her screenwriter husband Andrew Upton -- who recently announced they are moving to the United States -already have three sons: Ignatius, 6, Roman, 10, and Dashiell, 13. As photos emerged of Blanchett holding a baby on a Qantas flight to Sydney earlier this week, reports had circulated of a new addition to the family. The Australian Women’s Weekly magazine had said that Blanchett had been seen with a baby girl during the week at the school attended by her sons. “Cate has told friends at the local school that she and her husband, theatre producer Andrew Upton, are deliriously happy with the new addition to their family,” it reported. Blanchett started out as a theatre
actress in Sydney, where she won critical and popular acclaim and has gone on to win two Oscars for her roles in “The Aviator” and “Blue Jasmine”. The actress is set to leave her Sydney home to move to America later this year, where Upton will pursue writing opportunities and Blanchett can continue her film career. “There’s obviously a lot of things that have been happily, happily put on hold for both of us... in other countries,” she told Network Ten recently. “Australia’s always home,” she added. Discussing the move, Upton told The Sydney Morning Herald last month that the couple had previously spent nine years in England and loved it. “But now we’d like to try America,” he told paper, adding that their children were still young enough to be moved without disrupting their education too much. Blanchett was joint artistic director with Upton of the Sydney Theatre Company from 2008 to 2012. (afp)
Shouting slogans including “Fight KUALA LUMPUR - Emotional families marked the first anniversary of the disappearance of flight MH370 Sunday as a new report said the battery on its black box locator beacon had to the End” and “Malaysian Government -- apologise to us!”, they mountexpired, but shed no new light on the cause of the disaster. Prime Minister Najib Razak said his nation remained committed to the so-far fruitless hunt for the Malaysia Airlines flight, which is believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, and was hopeful it would be found. Next of kin, many of whom have criticised Malaysia’s handling of the disaster, held ceremonies in Kuala Lumpur and Beijing to remember the missing and urge authorities to never abandon the expensive and arduous search. “The only answer I want is where is the plane, then only will we know,” said Jacquita Gonzales, wife of the flight’s cabin crew supervisor Patrick Gomes. “The whole world has heard what he (Najib) has said, so they can’t go back on their word.” A report by an international investigative team released Sunday raised no red flags relating to the crew or the aircraft’s condition to indicate any cause for the disappearance. But it said the battery powering the underwater locator beacon on the plane’s flight data recorder was due to expire in December 2012. Although the battery on the plane’s cockpit voice recorder was up-to-date, this could have potentially contributed to the failure to find the plane so far, said Gerry Soejatman, a Jakarta-based aviation consultant. “My major worry is that (search vessels) may have gone over the aircraft but not heard the pings because of this,” said Soejatman, who added that the report otherwise largely restated what is already known about MH370. A year-long hunt in the deep ocean at least 1,600 kilometres (1,000 miles) off Australia’s west coast, where satellite data indicate the Boeing 777 crashed, has so far yielded no sign of the plane. “Together with our international
partners, we have followed the little evidence that exists,” Najib said in a statement. “Malaysia remains committed to the search, and hopeful that MH370 will be found.” The plane inexplicably veered from its Kuala Lumpur-Beijing route on March 8 of last year with 239 passengers and crew aboard. Relatives and friends of the missing held an emotional public remembrance in Kuala Lumpur that included prayers and live video links with other next of kin around the world. A temporarily wall erected for the occasion contained scrawled mes-
sages such as “Never give up hope” and “I miss you so much brother and sister, please come back.” “My mother was on MH370. It has been a year so far. It has been a most painful year for many of us, a never-ending battle,” said Grace Subathirai. “My mother was my world, everything to me,” she added, her voice breaking. In Beijing, relatives who have bitterly criticised Malaysia’s national carrier and government for their handling of the crisis, gathered under a heavy police presence to mark the anniversary.
ed a small protest near the Malaysian embassy which was blocked off by dozens of uniformed security. Earlier Sunday, the relatives visited the Lama Temple, a popular Tibetan Buddhist place of worship and tourist site, with around 10 entering the site in groups of two or three to pay their personal respects, as if attempting to keep a low profile. China’s ruling Communist Party commonly clamps down on organised gatherings or collective expressions of anger as it seeks to enforce stability. Some families still hope their loved ones could be alive, clinging
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Kelly Wen, wife of Chinese passenger aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 prays during an event to mark one year anniversary of the plane disappearance, during a candlelight vigil for passengers onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Friday, March 6, 2015.
to conspiracy theories of hijack and kidnapping. Sunday’s report said investigators had probed a range of issues including the jet’s captain and co-pilot’s personal, psychological, and financial profiles, and the backgrounds of the 10 cabin crew. But although suspicion had fallen on the cockpit crew of pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah and his co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid, the report found no evidence suggesting their involvement. “There were no behavioural signs of social isolation, change in habits or interest, self-neglect, drug or alcohol abuse of the Captain, First Officer and the Cabin Crew,” it said. The report ticked through a number of the plane’s major mechanical systems and noted in each case that according to available data and maintenance records, nothing alarming was seen. It noted that as investigators still lack any trace of the jet, including the “black box” data recorders considered most likely to yield clues, the probe remains a work in progress. More than 40 percent of a designated 60,000-square-kilometre (23,000-square-mile) zone believed to be the most likely location of the crash site has been scanned for wreckage using sophisticated sonar, but nothing related to MH370 has been found. Earlier on Sunday, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that while the current search area is expected to be completed in May, the operation could be extended further “as long as there are reasonable leads”. (afp) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.