İngiliz yazar Rudyard Kipling’in ölümsüz eseri ‘Orman Çocuğu’ bir kez daha beyazperdede. Jon Favreau imzalı uyarlama iyi kaleme alınmış senaryo, CGI teknolojisiyle elde edilen büyüleyici sahneler ve çok başarılı seslendirme derken birinci sınıf bir seyirlik olmuş.
#Uğur VardanChristian Ditter’ın yönettiği filmin senaryosu Abby Kohn, Marc Silverstein ve Dana Fox’a; senaryo hikayesi Kohn ve Silverstein’e ait. Filmin yapımcılığını John Rickard ve Dana Fox, yönetici yapımcılığını ise Marcus Viscidi üstleniyor. Film 15 Nisan tarihinde ülkemizde gösterime girecek.
#How To Be SingleThe French got possibly the worst news since June 18, 1815 from a Turkish minister and, ironically, on the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo and, even more tragically, at a British venue! French efforts to shape European politics have failed throughout history, the Minister for the EU, Egemen Bağış, told an audience of dignitaries at the British Embassy in Ankara, while looking a senior French diplomat in the eye (hurriyet.com.tr, June 19, 2009). Nor will they succeed today. Mr. Bağış went on to remind the French of their great misfortunes.
Last weekend, while I was watching the Gazi Koşusu, the horserace dedicated to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, at the Istanbul Hippodrome, I felt both happy and sad. I was happy because I felt that we owe a word of appreciation to the Turkish Jockey Club, which has been organizing the show for 85 years, and to all the horse-breeders and employees of the club.
ISTANBUL - Even when looking over her shoulder at the Bosphorus from the Ritz Carlton, it isn’t farfetched for Mona Tekin Diamond to talk about connecting with housewives in Anatolian villages. ’I’m not talking about upsetting husbands or women’s ways of doing things,’but we can help make more of their skills through development,’ she says.
RİZE - Turkish people are well known for their thirst for tea and now a tea company is looking to take advantage by launching a travel trend: tea tourism. The first of such tours takes off for northern Turkey this summer. Visitors will have a day of picking tea leaves and then the opportunity to observe closely as leaves are made ready for our pots
ISTANBUL - Istanbul tenth grader Sid Shekhar wraps up a global leadership week at Harvard University where he is taking a yearlong project to the next level: He hopes to contribute to a movement to abolish the caste system in India. If world citizenship is revealed through one's plans to help people who benefit the least from the globalization, then Shekhar is surely a leader among citizens.