Noted Indian character actor Om Puri has died in the western city of Mumbai. He was 66.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a host of leading movie stars tweeted condolence messages shortly after Puri’s death Friday morning.
In a career spanning more than three decades, Puri had won a slew of national awards and international fame for his work in several critically acclaimed films.
His breakthrough film was the 1983 gritty drama «Ardh Satya,» or «Half Truth,» about a young policeman’s crisis of conscience as he deals with the nexus of crime and politics in India.
He also acted in the British comedy «East is East,» about the life of a Pakistani immigrant in England, and had a small role in Richard Attenborough’s film «Gandhi,» based on the life of the Indian freedom leader Mohandas Gandhi. He also acted in several Hollywood films, including «City of Joy,» «Wolf» and «Charlie Wilson’s War. »
In 2014, Puri starred with British actress Helen Mirren in the comedy «The Hundred-Foot Journey. »
Puri was made an honorary officer of the Order of the British Empire for his contribution to British cinema in 2004.
His body will be cremated later Friday.

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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6 (UPI) — Viola Davis , who is earning rave reviews for her work in the film adaptation of August Wilson’s play Fences , was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Thursday.
Davis’ Doubt co-star Meryl Streep attended the tribute, as did Davis’ husband Julius Tennon and their daughter Genesis.
This is a big week for Davis. The Tony Award-winner’s career was spotlighted on Thursday’s edition of Inside the Actor’s Studio and she is a nominee at Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards ceremony.
Davis, 51, is also known for her work in the ABC series How to Get Away with Murder and in the film The Help .

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Music is in Brian Thomas’ blood. This is the 35th year that the production manager for Brooklyn Bowl at The Linq Promenade has been in the music industry in some capacity. “This is what I’ve been born and bred to do,” said the Alberta, Canada, native.
His love affair began in grade school, where he ran audio/video components and projectors. In the early ’90s he left Canada and moved to Nashville, Tenn., eventually landing a gig with Faith Hill. But where Thomas really got his feet wet working with music production was his first tour with B. King.
“B. B. taught me things that stuck with me throughout my life,” Thomas said. “He was my first big influence.” Other musicians that left their mark on him and his career include The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Reba McEntire. “But I have to say, the one person, the most talented person I ever met … is Ryan Adams,” he said. “Undoubtedly the most talented I’ve ever worked with. He’s incredibly prolific at writing.”
Thomas brought his decades of experience in all things musical production to Brooklyn Bowl in 2014. He oversees all technical aspects inside the building—sound, light and video—as well as managing the stagehands and working with each artist and crew that comes in to play a concert.
“Finding the perfect working situation that you could lock into and love—doesn’t get to be a better situation than that.”
Stone Go To IPA
Beer is never far from reach when catching a concert inside Brooklyn Bowl. There are six full-service bars, each with a rotating selection of a dozen drafts and canned beers. The Stone Go To IPA is a fan favorite. It features ten different hops with a melon-flavor profile and a pleasant bitter finish. Other drafts include Brooklyn Lager, Magic Hat No. 9 and West Coast favorites like Ballast Point Sculpin IPA, Green Flash Imperial IPA and Rogue Dead Guy Ale.

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Overkill feels like an understatement when it comes to “ See You Tomorrow ,” a star-spangled, chintz-tinseled dramedy co-written and produced by Wong Kar-wai , featuring Tony Leung Chiu-wai as a barman who moonlights as a love doctor. Though China’s Zhang Jiajia takes billing as writer-director, it’s impossible to miss Wong’s pet themes of nostalgia, unrequited love, and numerology scribbled all over the frame. And yet without the Hong Kong auteur’s usual sense of subtlety, this boozy mix of screechy characters, splashy visuals, and trite tales will likely leave audiences feeling the cinematic equivalent of a hangover.
Despite dramatically overtaking Matt Damon starrer “The Great Wall” when it first opened, the film has since leveled off at the local box office. In fact, together with Zhang Yimou’s monster blockbuster, it has provoked such a virulent backlash from bloggers and disappointed audiences in China that the state newspaper the People’s Daily published an editorial reprimanding popular online movie review sites for “undermining domestic film industry.”
The film’s flaws begin at the script level: Previously known as the screenwriter on “The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman,” Zhang reportedly went through 118 drafts attempting to adapt his own short story. And while Zhang strains mightily to emulate Wong’s sense of intellectual introspection, his dialogue is full of platitudes and phony feelings. At the same time, obvious references to a number of Wong’s films, along with blatant imitations of comedies co-written by Wong and director Jeff Lau (such as “The Eagle Shooting Heroes” and “Chinese Odyssey 2002”), pale by comparison.
In the film, Chen Mo (Leung) runs a bar in Shanghai nightlife hotspot with buddy Guan Chun (Takeshi Kaneshiro). He’s a self-appointed “ferryman” (also the Chinese name of his bar) who helps people move on after a painful breakup — though he could use the service himself. A flashback to 10 years earlier shows him falling hard for Muzi (Du Juan, “Lost in Hong Kong”), a bartender whose house cocktail “See You Tomorrow” is so lethal even a hooch hound like Chen gets knocked out. In one of the film’s funnier routines, he drinks, falls down the stairs, but keeps hobbling back for more. Just as Muzi warms to him, the narrative stops short, leaving audiences frustrated.
Like many of Wong’s protagonists, everyone in Zhang’s film seems trapped in the past. Guan, formerly an arcade-game champ, once had a crush on Maomao (Sandrine Pinna, “Touch of the Light”), the daughter of a Taiwanese master pancake-chef. Now, after a decade-long absence, she has returned to revive her father’s joint, but has no memory of Guan.
DJ Xiaoyu (Angelababy) has a crush on wasted rocker Ma Li (Cantopop star Eason Chan) which dates back to her tween years, when Ma was still a budding band boy (former K-pop idol Lu Han). In a scenario that defies logic, Ma proposes to longtime girlfriend Jiang Jie (Lynn Hung), who says she’s been waiting for this moment forever, then proceeds to break up with him. To help him get back on his feet, Xiaoyu asks Chen to show her the ropes of being a “ferryman.”
Finally, one gets to see Chen in action using unconventional methods to help clients get over their failed relationships. These exploits should have been played at the start, as lighthearted lead-ins to the main protagonists’ weightier personal backstories. Now that it’s already halfway through the film, they feel more like distractions. By the time more flashbacks reveal what happened to Maomao and Muzi a decade earlier, audiences no longer feel invested in these characters.
As he did with “The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman,” Zhang employs an episodic structure, which in this case feels as if several unfinished films have been lumped together. Consistent with current mainland film trends, the director seems to have confused comedy with making a very loud racket. Each of the individual love stories parodies a genre, from culinary film to ’90s Cantopop MV to Japanese “Yankii” (a type of high school hillbilly) subculture.
Leung provides an inordinate amount of voiceover narration, while bringing a laid-back yet playful air to his performance, generating easy chemistry with such diverse personas as the aloof Du Juan and bubbly Angelababy. The other cast members bust their guts to look animated but can’t hide how little they’re invested in the drama.
Though location shooting took place in Nanjing and Qinghai, the Shanghai that appears onscreen is so brightly lit and saturated with color that it feels like an imaginary place created via visual effects. Despite its similarity to the cafe in “My Blueberry Nights,” the bar never comes alive as a character in its own right. Peter Pao and Cao Yu, usually masterful DPs, seem to overdose on stylized camera tricks, to unsightly effect, while Alfred Yau’s production design and William Chang’s costumes create an eclectic clutter. Nathaniel Mechaly’s score is a repetitive playlist of retro-Cantopop songs, mostly by Hong Kong band Beyond and Eason Chan.

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One type of support that is on offer for people with mental health issues is internet-based therapy, which involves chatting to someone and getting advice online.
Graham Satchell has been to meet Nick Martin, who has benefited from this way of treating depression.

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