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“After 20 years, I don’t have a bank balance but I have a music balance,” he says. He has a gramophone player, with Pink Floyd and the Roti Kapda Aur Makaan soundtrack LP records.
As if to prove it, the sun shines into the room just then, through the tinted windows, and lights up a yellow wall. Mishra admires the beautiful lighting, picks up his camera and starts clicking away.
His favourite subject, as witnessed by the photographs on his walls, are sadhus! His wallpaper, on his computer, is a picture of himself posing with a sadhu in Banaras during the shooting of Masaan.
What Sanjay Mishra doesn’t care about is fitness.
“Vidhut Jamwal does a lot for his body. He takes his body very seriously. I don’t,” he smiles, pointing to the cushions lying on his treadmill.
Sanjay Mishra’s forte is comedy but there was a time when life didn’t seem funny.
The actor was critically ill at one point during the shooting of the Office Office movie. He was in Patna at the time.
“My stomach was hurting and I was hospitalised. They removed 15 litres of pus from my stomach. One tends to eat anything during shoots and my stomach was affected. My father was very worried that I couldn’t shoot because filmmaking involves a lot of money. He would take me for walks to help me recover. Once, a dean of a Patna hospital came to me and said his wife, who was also hospitalised, wanted to meet me. I was in a bad shape but I went anyway. He told her, ‘Dekho kaun aaya hai (See who’s here)’. She turned and looked at me and smiled. She was on her deathbed. I felt so blessed -- there was a lady on her death bed and she wanted to meet me. It was a better feeling than winning all the Oscars of the world,” he says.
Ironically, 15 days after he recovered, his father passed away.
“I was shattered,” Mishra says. “I could not go back to Mumbai. I wanted to be alone, so I went to Rishikesh and started working in a dhaba, making omelettes. The Sardar who owned the dhaba did not recognise me. But costumers would see me and ask, “Golmaal mein aap hi the na (Weren’t you in Golmaal)?” Then, they would want a photograph with me. Finally, the Sardar asked me who I was. Someone had told him I was an actor.
It was Rohit Shetty coaxed Mishra to return and act in All The Best. “During the shooting, I would cry in my van very often because I would miss my father,” Mishra says.
The second thing was, "Get married."
Mishra, who was scarred by a failed marriage during his NSD days, wasn’t sure. But he started feeling lonely after his father’s death, so he agreed to an arranged marriage in 2009.
He recently spent nine days in Uttarakhand, his wife’s Kiran’s hometown, with his family.
“I cleaned potty for nine days!” he exclaims. “When I’m shooting, my wife sends pictures of what the kids are doing at the moment. During the holidays, my family accompanies me to my outdoor stints. Now, Pal knows the difference between ‘shooting’ and ‘dubbing’. ‘Shooting’ means her father will be gone for a long time. ‘Dubbing’ means he’ll be back for lunch!” he laughs.
His trademark laugh transports us back to his comical scenes in his movies.
Yes, there must be a television channel playing a Sanjay Mishra movie right now.
A boil water advisory has been issued for customers in the Startex-Jackson-Wellford-Duncan Water District.
A vehicle damaged a hydrant on Highway 358 in Lyman, forcing a water main shutdown on Holly Springs Road between Pine Ridge Road and Highway 129. The emergency shutdown effects 100 customers.
SJWD has notified businesses in the area, including Spinx, Burger King and the dialysis center on Highway 359 of the emergency shutdown.
The repair has already been made to the hydrant, and the lines are currently being flushed. Samples will be collected for bacteriological analysis Friday afternoon. The test results will be available Saturday, and when it's determined water is safe to consume again, customers will be notified.
SJWD encourages customers to boil their water for one minute before drinking until they are notified the water is safe to consume.
Customers are also advised to wash dishes with boiled water or use paper products at this time. SJWD encourages customers to brush their teeth with water that has been boiled.
The final stage direction in Samuel Beckett's “Play” is “repeat.” The Acme Corporation, one of Baltimore's experimental theater companies, is taking that instruction very seriously.
Last Friday, the one-act, three-character, roughly one-hour work was performed on a kind of continual loop from noon until midnight in a high-ceilinged, balconied hall at St. Mark's Lutheran Church. But that's just a warm-up. This week, the production's length will double, running continually from one noon to the next.
An elite pack of wide-appeal international toonpics, offering entertaining and immersive entry into distinctive worlds around the globe, are now punching sizeable sales and box office.
The latest example celebrates its world premiere at France’s Annecy Intl. Animation Festival: “Khumba,” the second 3D animated feature from South Africa’s Triggerfish Animation Studios, Africa’s flagship toon studio. The pic, a coming-of-age comedy adventure about a half-striped zebra’s search for a magical watering hole, is voiced by Jake T. Austin, Laurence Fishburne, Annasophia Robb, Liam Neeson and Steve Buscemi.
Beverly Hills-based Cinema Management Group, which reps the pic in international markets, has closed pre-sales to Mexico (Gussi), Spain (Antonio Llorens’ Lauren Films), Malaysia (Suraya Films), Thailand (Mono Films), Taiwan (Creative Century) and Vietnam (IPA).
CMG’s international sales roll-out for “Khumba” covers 40 distributor deals, said exec producer and CMG prexy Edward Noeltner.
Helmed by Anthony Silverston, and written by Silverston, Raffaella Delle Donne and “The Lion King” co-scribe Jonathan Roberts, “Khumba” has already pre-sold to Millennium Ent. for North America and to heavyweight distributors in key territories, such as France’s Metropolitan, the distrib for DreamWorks and Lionsgate’s pics in Gaul, and Russia’s Luxor.
“Khumba” sales come as “Adventures in Zambezia 3D,” Triggerfish’s first animated feature, has grossed $24.9 million worldwide, with France, where Metropolitan releases Aug. 14, Spain, most of Latin America and China yet to open.
Standout results include Bazelevs/All Media’s $5.7 million in Russia, $3 million for Bloomage in South Korea, $3.3 million in Poland, where “Zambezia” was distributed by kids’ specialist Kino Swiat, eOne’s $3.3 million in Benelux and $2.7 million for Sony Pictures in Australia.
“At a ‘Khumba’ marketing reception organized by CMG and Triggerfish Animation in Cannes, Kino Swiat and eOne explained the key to their success: Treat the film like a major movie. If you treat it big, the kids will know it’s a big event movie and will want to go,” Noeltner said.
Noeltner said CMG, which also is selling Canadian Nancy Florence Savard’s Inuit adventure “The Legend of Sarila,” which screens out of competition at Annecy, is looking to announce “one or two” new animated features for international sales in Toronto.
Silverston, Delle Donne and producer Mike Buckland will talk the audience through development and production of “Khumba” on Wednesday at a Feature Films: 4 Case Studies panel.
Bindi Irwin is giving us all the relationship feels.
The 17-year-old wildlife conservationist took to Instagram on Friday, sharing a cute moment from her date to the Australia Zoo in Queensland with her boyfriend, Chandler Powell.
"Watching the sunset with lemurs jumping in the trees overhead @australiazoo," she captioned the snap. "What a perfect way to end the day ? #blessed."
Just last week, Irwin took her Dancing With the Stars partner, Derek Hough, and her mirror ball trophy to the same location while he was visiting her home country following their victory as season 21 champions.
"Thank you so much @derekhough for visiting my world in Australia and being such an inspiration," she wrote on another Instagram post. "You will always be my big brother."
She also shared a series of snaps from their fun-filled adventures, as did the zoo.
Check out #TeamCrikey’s adventures while @derekhough has been here at #AustraliaZoo! It’s been such a fantastic time showing him all of the conservation work we do both here in Australia and around the world and who better to show him the ropes than @bindisueirwin!
Irwin named one of the koala's after Hough, and the DWTS pro told ET that he was ecstatic to meet the furry friend during his trip down under.
"It's one of the coolest things that's ever happened," the 30-year-old dancer said. "To have an animal named after you is amazing."
The zoo is a very important to Irwin, as she practically grew up in the wildlife park -- the "Home of The Crocodile Hunter" was expanded and built up by her late father, Steve Irwin.
WATCH: EXCLUSIVE: Derek Hough Met the Koala Bindi Irwin Named After Him & He Could Hardly Contain Himself!
Lil Yachty turns a deserted island into a tropical paradise in the new video for “Better,” from his major label debut, Teenage Emotions.
The video opens with Yachty inexplicably washing up on the shores of a remote beach. As the rapper walks around the island in search of food and water, he begins to hallucinate. The woman he sculpted out of sand turns into an actual human and his cove becomes a luxury oasis.
Midway through the track, rapper Stefflon Don emerges out of the mirage to deliver her guest verse. By video’s end, the hallucination ends and Yachty is again left alone, Castaway-style.
Even though Teenage Emotions came out in May, Lil Yachty is already teasing his new release Lil Boat 2, the sequel to the Atlanta rapper’s breakthrough 2016 mixtape. Yachty also recently guested on Macklemore’s “Marmalade” in addition to starring in his own “Forever Young” video.
TVNewser: “The estrogen is flowing” at Good Morning America. Just so you know.
GalleyCat: Because for some reason the world cannot get enough Harry Potter, Warner Bros. is creating three films based on Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
AllFacebook: The Yankees dominate Facebook just like they dominate baseball.
Eric reviews some new CDs by the kind of folks defining a certain kind of blues-based, jazz-informed American music, and the mail.
My new “Think Again” column is called “Kochs: Life Is Good.” It’s about how much fun it must be for people like Charles and David Koch to give money to organizations that promote their profits and ideology rather than pay their fair share of taxes, and it’s here.
I don’t know what my Forward column is called but it uses the Jennifer Rubin kerfluffle to shine a light on what a raw deal the Palestinians get in the US media and how perhaps—far be it from me to suggest this—it might have something to do with the prominence of so many Jews in the punditocracy and so few Arabs.
Too late for my column but in plenty of time for your weekend reading, CAP has just published an incredibly detailed report called "Fear, Inc. The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America" and you can find it here.
If you’re worried about losing your edge as you age, I’d recommend a visit either to a Hot Tuna show (electric if possible) or a smaller Jorma Kaukonen gig, preferably with Barry Miterhoff on one side of him and G. E. Smith on the other, though the latter two—great as both of them are in their own respective fashions may be—are not the point here. Jorma is. I caught an insanely hot and crowded Jorma show at the Stephen Talkhouse last week and the quality of the playing given that Jorma just celebrated his 70th birthday—and Hot Tuna, somehow its 50th—is nothing short of breathtaking. It’s really simple stuff—decepitvely so, though I find Barry’s playing calls attention to itself more than Jorma’s of late, but finds the essence of multiple forms of music simultaneously. Every show is a kind of minor miracle, when you think about how long it’s been going on. No less surprising, in its own way, is the CD “Steady as She Goes,” Hot Tuna’s first cd in twenty years. It’s not great-great, just great-good—in other words, it’s so unassumingly good that it’s kinda great. Jorma’s singing, like Bob Weir’s is sometimes not really singing. But the thing just hangs together beautifully. Ps did you know Jorma’s Jewish? Unlike Jennifer Rubin, however, he does not appear to keep Shabbos. Read all about the cd here.
David Bromberg’s new album, called “Use Me,” is both great and interesting. I saw Bromberg with Jorma last year—great show as you can imagine—and he mentioned that he was going around to musicians he liked and asking them either to write him a song or produce, arrange, etc, one that they thought would work well for him. He got yesses from John Hiatt, Dr. John, Widespread Panic, Levon Helm, Vince Gill, Tim O’Brien, Linda Ronstadt, Los Lobos and Keb’ Mo’. If you like Bromberg, or merely think you might like Bromberg, it’s a sure thing you’ll like this, here.
Steve Cropper, whose name you might recall from Booker T and the MGs and a bunch of great pickup bands ever since, put together “Dedicated” as a tribute to the Five Royals. I would not have jumped at a tribute to the Five Royals but it turned out to be great stuff. The guests are Lucinda Williams, Bettye LaVette, John Popper, Sharon Jones, Dan Penn, Stevie Winwood, Buddy Miller, Delbert McClinton, BB King, etc, so unless the songs really sucked, it would have to be pretty great. And as it turns out, they’re pretty good too, so it’s close to great. Read about it here.
I also received a new CD—the first from Nathan Bell in 25 years. The album “Bell and Shore” is among the best unknown albums of all time. This one is deep and dark and you have to focus but it has its rewards and you can read about it here.
The Concert for Bangladesh is making its digital debut on Itunes, GeorgeHarrison.com and TheConcertForBangladesh.com, etc. Normally I wouldn’t mention this—great as it is—but the money goes to the "Month of Giving" campaign for the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF, "providing emergency relief for children affected by drought and famine in the horn of Africa." So I’m all for it. It’s the last time Dylan sounded really great live, and well, you know…A brief video message with information about how to help is available for streaming on georgeharrisonfundforunicef.org. In the US, supporters can text FRIEND to UNICEF (864233) to give $10 to the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF (messaging and data rates apply), or visit theconcertforbangladesh.com to donate and learn more.
Dr. A., I share all of your views about those NY Review articles, but must share a caveat about Elizabeth Drew. I have some Facebook friends whose liberalism I share, but they know as much about politics as, well, Paul Krugman. I made an offer: I would mortgage everything I own to finance a campaign for office. They would move to my hometown, Las Vegas, Nevada, and run on their platform. If they got more than 10 votes, they wouldn’t have to pay me back for what I mortgaged. I guarantee you, they would have had to pay. Thus my point about Drew: it is very easy, even for someone who so brilliantly questions Beltway conventional wisdom as she does, to develop a kind of myopia about what will play in Peoria, if I may invoke John Ehrlichmann, who worked for Richard Nixon, who probably would have to be a Democrat today. Also, I couldn’t help but think of the old State Department joke about the diplomat who says the way to solve the Middle East is to get all of the Arabs to convert to Judaism. How, they ask? Oh, he says, I’m in policy guidance. Policy planning is down the hall.
Ps. It is not wise for an amateur who likes old movies to disagree with Pauline Kael, especially when she so brilliantly captures Cary Grant. Further, I am reminded of The New Yorker researcher who asked him which leading man he would most like to have been and he said, "Cary Grant"—a marvelously self-aware answer. But in "Arsenic and Old Lace," I think she gets it wrong. Watch it and think of Cary Grant as having what was then considered a nervous breakdown. Consider the undertow of having to confront his fear that he will go as insane as Teddy and, it turns out, his aunts, and his relief at his discovery that he was in fact adopted. It is a brilliant performance.
I suppose we must acknowledge an event which happened in MLB today for the first time in its history. A beastball franchise in the Bronx hit three Grand Slams. As a "first" it is obviously a rarity. And worth a nod. But further, in one day this club hit more grand slams than Jim Palmer gave up in his entire career. So pardon me for suspecting that Jim Palmer was not on the mound today facing this club whose name is greeted by horses with as much approval as "Frau Blucher."
So now a brief political discussion, tinged with parenthood. Last weekend we brought our only child to her first year at college. We are fortunate to be able to afford college; not just a state university, but a private college in upstate New York. So many Americans can’t, and so many are also putting themselves into debt to do so. (Sidebar here for a hat tip to a book which Elizabeth Warren and her daughter wrote, called "The Two Income Trap." I confess I have not read it all, but all I’ve read says Continue! Continue! They talk about the deleterious effects which have happened in the inflation of housing prices and college tuition as a result of more people working in families and seeking better education for their children. At all costs. End sidebar.) A colleague had tried to warn me off this school as being ultra-conservative; but my internet searches didn’t reveal anything to confirm it… if anything, there was an instance of a conservative professor who’d felt suppressed.
So end of day parents and freshmen hit a fork in the road and say their goodbyes. We parents were shepherded off to a session led by a school psychologist (very well run, I must say), focusing on development, independence, etc., but that also included a slide show of life in and out of the classroom. And in this slide show, we see the following three non-faculty speakers/lecturers (and no more): Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jon Stewart.
Disabled diving instructor tells of how scuba diving can give a person a new lease of life, and says that the sport saved him after a horrific accident.
DUBAI // When a disabled person asks Mark Slingo for help to try scuba diving, he offers a first-hand account of what it is like to sit at the edge of a boat and plunge into open water with a severe impairment.
After falling from a third-floor balcony in 2005, when he was 22, Mr Slingo suffered such severe spinal injuries he is now nine tenths paraplegic.
“Diving saved me after my accident,” he said. “Diving is one of the most liberating experiences for anybody, able bodied or disabled.
Mr Slingo was already passionate about the water sport before his life turned upside down 11 years ago.
“I was lucky enough to have been involved in scuba diving before my accident,” said the 33-year-old, who is now the director of training and marketing at Malta-based Disabled Divers International (DDI), a non-profit organisation designed to promote, develop and conduct scuba diving training programmes for the disabled.
“I then received the invitation from my former dive centre in Thailand to see if I could continue teaching.
“So just a month and a half after my discharge from Stoke Mandeville Spinal Injuries unit in the UK, I was back teaching diving.
The Briton travels the world teaching disabled people to dive and recently hosted a training programme at Dive Atlantis in Dubai.
Mr Slingo also wanted to visit the emirate to spread the message that most people can – and should – attempt diving.
“The great thing about scuba diving is that it offers someone like myself a chance to throw off the constraints I have on land and dive into an environment where I am the same as everyone else,” he said.
“The only difference is that I swim with my arms rather than my legs.
“I want to be able to share that feeling with other people who maybe feel they could not do something that is still considered an extreme sport.
That, said Mr Slingo, is because people with a disability tend to have an adventurous side.
“Even if the person has a more limiting condition, provided that they pass the medical, they can be taken diving and see and do things that 95 per cent of people will never see,” he said.
The most common disabilities the instructors at DDI have worked with are amputations, spinal injuries, cerebral palsy, sight impairment, hearing Impairment, diabetes, muscular dystrophy, Down syndrome, Joubert syndrome (a rare brain malformation which affects balance and coordination), multiple sclerosis and autism.
Mr Slingo said the most rewarding aspect of his job was in changing people’s perceptions of what they can do for themselves.
“That and also being able to highlight the possibilities of what is available for disabled people,” he said.
BENSALEM, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Law Offices of Howard G. Smith reminds investors of the May 8, 2018 deadline to file a lead plaintiff motion in the class action filed on behalf of investors that purchased WageWorks Inc. (“WageWorks” or the “Company”) (NYSE: WAGE) securities between May 6, 2016 and March 1, 2018, inclusive (the “Class Period”). WageWorks investors have until May 8, 2018 to file a lead plaintiff motion.
Investors suffering losses on their WageWorks investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com.
On March 1, 2018, the Company announced a delay in the filing of its annual report for the year ended December 31, 2017. The Company further disclosed that it found a “material weakness in its internal control over financial reporting” related to “managing change and assessing risk in the areas of non-routine and complex transactions.” WageWorks further stated that its Audit Committee was investigating accounting matters, and that the investigation may ultimately result in the identification of other accounting issues. On this news the Company’s share price fell $9.75 per share, or nearly 20%, to close at $42.70 on March 1, 2018.
The complaint filed in this class action alleges that, defendants during the Class Period made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) there were material weaknesses in WageWorks’ systems of internal controls and that its practices and controls were ineffective; (2) WageWorks failed to adequately manage and assess risk relating to certain complex transactions, including certain government contracts; (3) WageWorks improperly recognized revenue thereby inflating its earnings and related financial metrics; and (4) as a result, WageWorks’ financial statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
If you purchased shares of WageWorks during the Class Period you may move the Court no later than May 8, 2018 to ask the Court to appoint you as lead plaintiff. To be a member of the Class you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the Class. If you wish to learn more about this action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to these matters, please contact Howard G. Smith, Esquire, of Law Offices of Howard G. Smith, 3070 Bristol Pike, Suite 112, Bensalem, Pennsylvania 19020 by telephone at (215) 638-4847, toll-free at (888) 638-4847, or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com, or visit our website at www.howardsmithlaw.com.
May 8th Deadline Alert: The Law Offices of Howard G. Smith Reminds Investors of Looming Deadline in the Class Action Lawsuit Against WageWorks Inc.
All the Philippine UN peacekeepers trapped by Islamist militants on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights have been moved to a secure place, the United Nations and the Philippines said on Sunday.
In Manila, General Gregorio Pio Catapang, the Philippines' armed forces chief, told a news conference that Israel and Syria helped in what was the "greatest escape" of Filipino troops after engaging about 100 Islamist militants surrounding them in a seven-hour firefight. The troops escaped in the middle of the night while the rebels were sleeping, he said.
"This attack prompted UNDOF to reposition our troops to a more secure position within the mission area," Catapang said, referring to the UN peacekeeping force that has monitored the disengagement zone between Israel and Syria since 1974, following the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.
"Currently, Filipino peacekeepers from both Position 68 and 69 have been successfully repositioned to Camp Ziuoani."
On Saturday, 32 peacekeepers were rescued from Islamists who fired at their post and trapped them for two days, the United Nations said. General Catapang said Irish UNDOF troops helped in the rescue. It was not known if any rebels were killed or wounded in the operation.
The clashes came after Syrian rebel groups, including the Nusra Front, overran the Quneitra crossing on the frontier between Syrian and Israeli controlled parts of the Golan on Wednesday, seizing 44 Fijian peacekeepers.
The Hatch Gallery is filled with artist Jon Hatch’s quirky driftwood creatures and colorful signs.
PLACIDA, Fla. — Don’t blink or you’ll miss the turnoff for this tucked-away slice of old Florida east of Port Charlotte. The once-thriving fishing village, situated along Placida Harbor and on the way to Boca Grande, contains a cluster of cottages housing gift shops, galleries, a fish market, and the longtime landmark The Fishery Restaurant (13000 Fishery Road, 941-697-2451, www.fisheryrestaurantplacida.com) overlooking a mangrove-lined inlet. For floor-to-ceiling tropical art, visit Margaret Albritton Gallery (13020 Fishery Road, 941-698-0603, www.thealbrittongallery.com), which carries colorful paintings by Albritton and her husband, Gary, along with every beach-themed tchotchke one can imagine. Albritton also organizes twice-monthly outdoor art markets featuring regional artists and artisans from fall to spring. Across the dirt road you’ll find The Hatch Gallery (pictured above, at 3060 Fishery Road, 941-697-9531, www.jon-hatch-originals.com) filled with artist Jon Hatch’s quirky driftwood creatures, rustic colorful signs, and nautical designs.
Read: Three days in Orlando, Fla.

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