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But another film in which Spacey stars, Baby Driver, attracted one nomination - Ansel Elgort is up for best actor in a musical or comedy film. |
Gary Oldman is nominated for best actor in a drama, for playing Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour - the film's only nod. |
Oldman faces competition from Timothee Chalamet (for Call Me By Your Name), Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread), Tom Hanks (The Post) and Denzel Washington (Roman J Israel, Esq). |
Angelina Jolie gets a nomination in the best foreign language film category for her Cambodia-set drama First They Killed My Father. |
Her competition includes Palme d'Or winner The Square, an art world satire from Sweden that won six prizes at Saturday's European Film Awards. |
Nicole Kidman and Robert De Niro are among the nominees in the television categories. |
Kidman and Reese Witherspoon are both nominated for best actress in a limited series for their roles in Big Little Lies. |
The show received six nominations in total - making it the most-nominated TV series this year. |
The pair are up against Jessica Biel, who is nominated for her role in The Sinner, and Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon, both of whom are nominated for Feud: Bette and Joan. |
De Niro is nominated for best actor in a limited series for The Wizard of Lies, alongside Jude Law for The Young Pope and Geoffrey Rush for Genius. |
The category is completed by Ewan McGregor, who is nominated for Fargo, and Kyle MacLachlan, for Twin Peaks. |
The 75th annual Golden Globe Awards, hosted by US comedian Seth Meyers, will take place on 7 January. |
The nominations were announced at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in California by Kristen Bell, Sharon Stone, Alfre Woodard and Garrett Hedlund. |
Oscars 2018: Who could be taking home the main awards? |
COPENHAGEN • With original boundary-breaking content, thrilling plots and charismatic actors, Danish television series have captivated audiences worldwide in recent years. |
The latest show to hit the small screen is Ride Upon The Storm, which is being distributed in almost 80 countries, with a debut in Britain late this month. The new drama was created by screenwriter Adam Price, the Bafta winner behind the acclaimed drama Borgen (2010 to 2013), which followed the political and personal t... |
Danish shows, with both exoticism and gritty realism, have soared in popularity beyond their initial local Scandinavian viewership, Dr Pia Jensen, an Aarhus University communications associate professor specialising in television series, told Agence France-Presse. |
Long known for the Nordic noir crime genre, the big international breakthrough for Danish shows came with The Killing (2007 to 2012), a hard-hitting series following a Copenhagen female cop's investigations. Then came crime thriller The Bridge in 2011. |
The Nordic noir genre has proven so popular that its aesthetic and themes are now being replicated beyond Scandinavia's borders, with shows such as Shetland and Broadchurch made in Britain, Dr Jensen said. |
For foreign audiences, Denmark as it is shown on television is "an exotic society, something to aspire to because of the welfare state and the strong women characters", she said, referring also to the 2010 hit Borgen. She added, clearly amused, that it is "as if Denmark is the fantasy land of gender equality". |
Paradoxically, in this almost utopian world, the characters are "normal" people with whom audiences can identify, according to Dr Jensen. |
But now, Danish TV series have moved beyond Nordic noir. Ride Upon The Storm is a character-led drama about faith and a family of Danish priests, dominated by Johannes Krogh, a tempestuous god-like father battling numerous demons. |
Actor Lars Mikkelsen, known from The Killing and his role as the Russian president in Netflix's House Of Cards, plays Johannes, a role for which he won an International Emmy in November. |
Mikkelsen "has set new standards for the portrayal of a main character in a TV series", the show's creator Price told Agence France-Presse. |
Johannes "is the 10th generation of priests, it's a huge burden that haunts him and he lets it haunt his sons too". His eldest son Christian is lost and at odds with the family and society, while younger son August is married and following in his father's priesthood footsteps before becoming a chaplain for troops stati... |
Elements from Borgen can be seen in his new venture: the efficient prime minister Birgitte Nyborg and Johannes Krogh, who is headed for the top as Bishop of Copenhagen, are both characters passionate about their work. |
He is working on Ragnarok for Netflix, a six-part Norwegian coming-of-age drama based on Norse mythology, but set in a modern-day high school. |
A small country of just 5.8 million people, Denmark is proud of its reputation as an innovator on the small and big screen. "Danish producers are mainly thinking of a Danish audience. It has to stay relevant to the Danish public and that's why DR keeps experimenting," Dr Jensen said. "Some of the shows will travel and ... |
Nicaragua Raids Costa Rica, Blames Google Maps by Matt McGee at Search Engine Land reported a some what comical but yet serious matter blamed on Google. |
In short, the commander of the Nicaraguan military used Google Maps as proof that he can move his troops to the San Juan Lake, which technically is not in his country. Reports say that the troops took down the Costa Rican flag and raising the Nicaraguan flag. |
I believe the military is still there and the Costa Rica government is not at ease. |
Yes, to me this is a bit funny but in all reality, who knows what this can lead to. |
It is incredible that thanks to Google there is a big conflict between Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Your negligence has gone beyond any expectation, at least have the decency to correct it. |
Seven people were arrested Tuesday during a protest of a trash-burning plant in South Baltimore. |
Seven protesters were arrested Tuesday evening after refusing to leave the Maryland Department of the Environment headquarters, where they demanded that officials rescind a permit for a trash-burning power plant in South Baltimore. |
The demonstration, which also included more than 100 protesters outside the building, was led by the Maryland chapter of the Sierra Club and United Workers, groups opposed to the construction of the 160-megawatt facility on the Fairfield Peninsula. |
Police did not release the identities of the seven arrested inside the building or their charges Tuesday night. |
They contend that the Fairfield Renewable Energy Power Plant's emissions would pose health risks for residents of nearby Curtis Bay, which has the highest levels of toxic pollution in the state, and that the plant's construction has been stalled for more than a year, in violation of state permits. The plant's Albany, N... |
Company officials have said the plant would create 180 "green" jobs and meet or exceed air-quality requirements while generating power from burning shredded refuse, including trash, wood and tires. They say it is an environmentally friendly source of energy and a landfill alternative. |
Baltimore's spending panel agreed Wednesday to terminate the city's contract with the developer of a trash-burning power plant in southern Baltimore. |
Energy Answers President and CEO Patrick F. Mahoney said the community has been included in planning the facility. He called suggestions it would be harmful or defy permits "misleading, irrational and not productive." |
"Their facts are not accurate," he said. "I just don't understand the objective of the protest." |
State regulators say the plant emissions would comply with emission limits. |
State Environment Secretary Benjamin H. Grumbles met with some of the protesters Tuesday before the sit-in and arrests. The environment department wrote a letter last month to the company, asking for updates on the plant's construction, and is reviewing the company's response, a department spokesman said. |
"The Department of the Environment deeply appreciates knowing the views of citizens and advocacy groups on this project," Grumbles said in a statement. "We are committed to following applicable laws and regulations and to ensuring permit conditions are respected and enforced." |
Destiny Watford, 20, a Towson University student from Curtis Bay, said she was among the nine who were allowed inside the state environment agency's building at Montgomery Park. She said the protesters demanded that the state stop "the nation's largest trash-burning incinerator." |
"The Maryland Department of the Environment has a really good opportunity and a really important choice to make right now," she said. |
The Sun incorrectly identified the name of one of the protesting groups. It was led by the Sierra Club and United Workers. The last name of a Towson student who participated in the protest was also mispelled; her name is Destiny Watford. |
Is Matthew Teague absolutely convinced that the 'Moulton' is the acme of bicycle design? |
(MetalWorks, AJ 27.6.02) Being a seasoned cyclist, I always found Moultons inherently unstable, even dangerous, especially when fitted with shopping baskets. I am no scientist, but I think it must be connected with the limited gyroscopic effect produced by the smaller wheels compared with a bike fitted with conventiona... |
It is evident from the illustration that there is some exquisite engineering going on, but 'sustainable'? Well, I suppose it could be 'molten' and 'recycled'. |
And is not the thinking behind it akin to the current fad in architecture for protuberences and bits sticking out everywhere, both internally and externally? You must know you have failed when you find yourself putting 'plastic prongs' on your exquisite external steelwork to discourage pigeons, or when the flocculent d... |
No, when I see the 'yellow jersey' hurtling around La Belle France on a Moulton is when I will be convinced that this is state of the art, or even sensible. |
WHEN we last saw Michel Fitoussi, he was holding forth in the kitchen of the Palace, the East Side restaurant always more noted for the price than the quality of its food. But in January he moved to 24 Fifth Avenue, the graceful Art Nouveau restaurant at Ninth Street, taking along his wire whisks and saucepans, his way... |
The move seems to have doubled Mr. Fitoussi's proficiency, for though his food rated only one star at the Palace in 1981, it is now well worth two. The cuisine, while still largely nouvelle in presentation, has a more classic solidity to its flavor, and there are fewer of the contrived dishes that bewildered the palate... |
Because the sauces are so intense, they are most effective with lusty foods. A velvety golden-brown Madeira sauce mellows a rare and delicious shell steak, while a lime sauce, not at all fruity, brightens moist and greaseless roast duck, a dish helped even further by fresh grapefruit sections. A fragrant blend of Prove... |
Game birds, such as quail stuffed with veal, and grilled venison have deep and rich flavors, although they are a bit tough. This flaw would be minor if it were not for the cheap, overflexible steak knives. They make it impossible to eat even the tender parts of the huge, almost raw and sinewy Muscovy duck breast. Pheas... |
Good choices as either appetizers or main courses are pasta capellini with cream, cepes and morels and plump little ravioli topped with golden sauteed sweetbreads and a touch of cream. |
Trouble comes when you order fish. Not one fish or seafood dish can be recommended, generally because each is overwhelmed by the strength and flavor of its sauce, and in one instance because it was stale. Disappointing seafood appetizers included ballotine of crayfish with saffron (one time it tasted fishy, another tim... |
A main course of swordfish one night became impossibly fishy because of the sea urchin roe in its sauce. This roe has a lovely flavor when cold, but it is chokingly rich when hot. Grilled skin gave a bitter aftertaste to red snapper, again zapped by an intense bouillabaisse sauce, and there was virtually no pungency to... |
There are excellent nonfish first courses, such as a pastry tartlette topped with escargots in @herbed cream; rustic and savory pate of Muscovy duck, and the two pastas. Hot cream of broccoli soup was good, too, much better than a $20 bowl of bland, barely hot broth in which two huge black truffles and two mushy slices... |
A lovely brunch appetizer that is enough to share or to have as a main course is a dish of six to eight grilled mushroom caps, each holding a poached quail egg, and all adrift in a tarragon-flavored Hollandaise sauce. Another huge brunch dish is an omelet Basquaise, made with six eggs and who knows how many slivered re... |
If you can resist the exceptional bread, you may have room for one of the marvelous, though huge, desserts. Two served in big oldfashioned soup plates are a wonderfully rich espresso ice cream with caramel sauce and whipped cream and the Fifth Avenue sundae, dark, bittersweet chocolate ice cream with pieces of chocolat... |
Strong coffee, a blend of Colombian and French roasted beans, is a bracing windup. The staff in this romantic glassed-in cafe and dining room is friendly and well-meaning, but embarrassingly pretentious in describing dishes and complimenting guests on their choices. It is also ill informed about ingredients in the dish... |
A March 25 review failed to list one of the restaurants in the city that uses the Cruvinet, the dispenser that keeps wine in open bottles in good condition so that many different wines are available by the glass. That restaurant is the Washington Street Cafe, 433 Washington Street (925-5119). |
Lovers of artichokes should try two outstanding preparations of them, one Italian and the other Greek. At Trattoria da Alfredo, 90 Bank Street (929-4400), the artichoke alla Romana is simmered to melting tenderness and served warm in a clear garlic-scented consomme, gold-green with olive oil and chopped parsley. At the... |
24 Fifth Avenue, corner of Ninth Street, 475-0880. Atmosphere: Stylish glassed-in cafe and rose-beige dining room with elements of Art Deco and Art Nouveau, with tables too close together and noise level high in some corners; staff friendly and efficient, but pretentious. Recommended dishes: Escargots, capellini with m... |
What the stars mean: (None) Poor to fair * Good ** Very good *** Excellent **** Extraordinary These ratings are based on the reviewer's reaction to food and price in relation to comparable restaurants. |
The Journal Star photography department is in the height of high school basketball coverage in the Peoria area. Myself and the other photographers always run into fun crowds at these games but tonight was a little special. |
AUSTIN HUMPHREYS/JOURNAL STAR Limestone High School students dressed up as ESPN sports anchors during a match-up against Canton High School Friday night. The boys provided commentary on plays during the basketball game. |
These Limestone students set up shortly before the game to provide some sports coverage that gave the Journal Star a run for its money. It seemed these guys were providing more commentary than support for their team, staying committed to the world of sports broadcasting. Every time I walked by they were shouting a very... |
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Restaurant claims involve more than the traditional general liability exposures. |
Remember the woman who sued McDonald’s for serving her a hot beverage? For many, that notorious case is the poster child for frivolous lawsuits. The fact that the woman was subsequently awarded nearly $3 million in damages seems extreme to most people and, no doubt, to McDonald’s product liability insurers. |
In the two years between the titles of Adele’s debut and this, her second album, she’s clearly seen the world. Where ‘19’ marked the turbulent swan song to a teenage life, ‘21’ introduces the realities of adult life, where grown-up responsibilities collide with heartache and emotional scars run deep. |
Though imbued with intimate country leanings, it’s all about that voice. While ‘Rolling In The Deep’ extols thunderous regret, ‘Don’t You Remember’ grieves in elegant acoustics. Adele is sincere, poignant and affecting throughout; the emotive ‘Someone Like You’ closes the album magnificently. |
(CNN) — They say travel broadens the mind, but when there's cake involved other body parts are also at risk of broadening. |
Sugar lurks around every street corner, particularly since the diabolical cupcake revolution began foisting its caloric concoctions on an unsuspecting public. |
French pastry chef Pierre Herme shares his recipe for success and why he rejects competition. |
London pastry lovers are joining the cronut-craze. Adam Dunnakey finds out why they're selling like hot cakes. |
French pastry chef Pierre Herme opens up about his unique take on the traditional macaron. |
While cupcakes might be a passing fad, some dessert offerings seem impervious to change. |
In a few lucky corners of the world, pastry makers have been perfecting their creations for generations, reaching the point where they're works of art. |
Here are nine of the world's oldest pastry shops -- tried and trusted by centuries of cake-hungry visitors. |
This bakery has been coming up with the goods since the 14th century and has been at its current location since 1880. |
The ornately carved, arched wooden doors and storefront crowned by the Austro-Hungarian imperial coat of arms -- a gold two-headed eagle holding a sword and a globe above the door -- attest to its age and popularity with local royalty. |
This was, after all, a "Purveyor to the Imperial and Royal Court." |
Its traditional Sissi Busserl cookies, named after Empress Elizabeth of Austria, are worth trying. |
Celiac sufferers are in luck -- the bakery might be ancient but it's keeping up with the times by offering gluten-free products. |
Continuing the theme of royalty with a fondness for fat, Paris's oldest pastry shop, La Maison Stohrer, can claim regal connections via Poland. |
In 1725, when Louis XV married Polish princess Marie Leszczynska, his new bride brought along her father's pastry chef, Nicolas Stohrer, to Versailles. |
Five years later Stohrer opened this pastry shop on Rue Montorgueil in Paris, and it's been serving royalty ever since -- Britain's Queen Elizabeth II stopped in during her 2004 state visit to France. |
Stohrer is credited with inventing "baba au rhum" -- a booze-soaked brioche named after a character in "The Thousand and One Nights" -- that's still a popular choice. |
It's worth breaking eye contact from Stohrer's crammed pastry cases to check out the frescoes created by artist Paul Baudry in 1860. |
This ancient cafe is heavy on the confectionery and famous for its candied fruit. |
The company was founded in 1780, opening the oldest of its two shops on Via Soziglia in 1814. |
Not much has changed since. |
Those visiting in May and June will witness Pietro Romanengo fu Stefano's staff engaged in annual labors to separate the petals used to produce the cafe's celebrated rose syrup and rose sugar. |
Anyone visiting the 13th-century Matthias Church in Budapest could do worse than following their tour with a sugary pick-me-up at nearby Ruszwurm Cukraszda. |
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