 | War Horse - an ode to
human-beast bonding THERE is no combat in the early scenes of War
Horse, Steven Spielberg´s sweeping adaptation
of the popular stage spectacle, but the film
opens with a cinematic assault as audacious
and unsparing as the Normandy landing in
Saving Private Ryan.
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| | Elsworth Kelly: An explorer
of shape, line and colour |  ELLSWORTH Kelly´s
studio is a sprawling
labyrinth of whitewalled
rooms, some
with skylights, some
with large windows looking out
onto the rolling landscape.
Everything is simple, spare and
modern with one exception: At the
entrance is a small mustard-yellow
ladder-back chair with a multicolored
woven straw seat inspired by
van Gogh´s paintings of his bedroom
in Arles.
"I did this in shop class in sixth
grade," Kelly said. "It was my first
colour spectrum." "The negative,"
he went on, pointing to the spaces
between the slats in the back, "is
just as important as the positive."
A classic observation coming from
this 88-year-old artist, whose sevendecade
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| | Michael Jackson´s legacy
cemented by his children |  LATE pop star
Michael Jackson
was immortalised
in cement on Thursday when his
three children stamped the Thriller
singer´s glove and shoe prints in the hallowed concrete
courtyard of Grauman´s Chinese Theater in
Hollywood.
Well over a hundred fans of the King of Pop and
celebrities including Justin Bieber and Jackson family
members watched the song and dance spectacle
and listened to the three children talk about the
legacy of their father.
"My dad won the lifetime achievement award. It
was an award he strived and worked the hardest to
get but for me, and I think for him as well, this right
here is his lifetime achievement award. |
| | Love yourself for right
body: Yana Gupta |  IF you want to look right,
you have to learn to love
your body, says modelturned-
Bollywood item
girl Yana Gupta who is
also a budding non-fiction
writer.
"Love yourself unconditionally.
If you look in the mirror
and don´t like what you see,
you don´t start it... It all starts
with the love, energy and the
relaxation that comes into your
life with loving yourself," Yana
told IANS recently at the
Jaipur Literature Festival.
Glowing after her battle
to get the right body
and inner calm, she
lent a touch of glamour
to the literature
gala where she
dropped in to promote
her book,
How to Love
Your Body and
Have the Body
You Love - a
fitness guide
book published. |
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