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Among them was 2002’s Mei And The Baby Cat Bus, billed as a “mini- movie” to Hayao Miyazaki’s 1989 traditional My Neighbor Totoro.

A large gloop of flour aids a little chicken in red gown in Mr Dough And The Egg Princess ‘ exit from a hungry monster in Mr Dough and the Egg Princess.

Interesting people voiceovers for everything from a pleasant valley monster to loud bicycles were featured in House Hunting and Boro The Caterpillar, the second of which featured a little grub munching on leaves.

All were welcomed with fine- kindhearted laugh.

After the screen, Goro Miyazaki said,” Now you have given the Studio Ghibli assistance for the next 40 times.”

Hayao Miyazaki has made several announcements about his pensions, but he is still working and was recently in the same theaters as The Son and the Heron.

He made an appearance on the big screen in a video and said,” Thank you very much.”

This year’s Oscar winner, The Boy and the Heron, was presented to the theater, who claimed the studio had to dry the statue in a hotel towel to avoid the United States.

He expressed his gratitude that the honourable Palme had a field.

At the show’s beginning, Meryl Streep received an honorary award, and Star Wars creator George Lucas will get the honor at the event’s closing ceremony on Saturday.

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In a 2016 security video that was broadcast by CNN, it appears Sean” Puffy” Combs actually assaults vocalist Cassie in a hotel doorway.

The video aired Friday ( May 17 ) appears to show Combs, wearing only a white towel, punching and kicking the R&amp, B singer, who was his protege and longtime girlfriend at the time. The song tycoon also appears in the video throwing a bowl in her direction and shoving and dragging Cassie.

The film, which dates back to March 5, 2016, closely resembles the description of a Combs-related incident at the now-closed InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles in a lawsuit filed in November.

The petition was settled the day after it was filed, which led to extensive research into Combs. In addition, many more lawsuits were filed in the coming months, as well as a national criminal sex-trafficking investigation that led to the attack of Combs ‘ houses in Los Angeles and Miami.

Combs ‘ members did not immediately comment on the picture, but he has previously refuted the claims in the claims and his attorneys have argued that he denies any crime.

CNN did not disclose how it obtained the video, but it did point out that it had verified the spot by comparing the footage to photos of the InterContinental Hotel that were made public.

According to Douglas Wigdor, an counsel for Cassie and the plaintiff who has filed other lawsuits against Combs,” The gut-wrenching video has only more confirmed the shocking and aggressive behavior of Mr. Combs.” Thoughts cannot adequately express the fortitude and courage that Ms. Ventura displayed in stepping up to help bring this matter to light.

Unless they come forth formally as Ventura has, The Associated Press does not typically identify those who claim to have been sexually abused.

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The movie made its Toronto International Film Festival debut in 2023, and it will be available on Hulu starting in May.

Tomoaki Hamatsu always manages to get dressed and remains dressed throughout the show. His nickname, Nasubi, which means eggplant in Japanese, refers casually to his extended chin. But he dances to enjoy the points he does obtain, particularly food, even if it’s just a container of cabbage.

In a review of Titley’s video, Canada’s National Post referred to the television program as” The Truman Show meets OldBoy,” referring to the 2003 Cannes-winning Korean film about an imprisoned man and the 1998 American movie starring Jim Carrey about a man who accidentally appears in a reality TV show about his own career.

The American director Titley claimed that because she had never heard his side of the story, she had a chance upon the fact present and reached out to Nasubi.

I thought they were a little contemptuous and even offensive to a certain degree around, you know, look at those insane Japanese. And I definitely wanted to know Nasubi’s history. In a recent Zoom interview with The Associated Press, she stated,” I definitely wanted to know what had happened to him and why he’d stayed it.”

What makes her video more than a only- for- laughs, large- in- Japan satire are the interviews Titley conducts with Hamatsu’s mother, sister and friend, who express outrage, sorrow, pride and a mix of different emotions as the show grew into a primary- time hit. They said they felt guilty for what he endured, including his nakedness.

The movie also explores Hamatsu’s experience of being bullied as a child because of how he turned to laugh to defend himself.

Although being without garments and very little food for a month and three times, Hamatsu claims the hardest part of the show was the quiet, which he claims was the hardest part of. The actor received a standing applause at a New York verification of the film and was moved to tears.

” I feel I was able to switch a good communication through the documentary”, he said.

The Applicant raises important questions about how far society might go with pleasure and the large audiences and cash it represents.

The producer of the show stated in the film that he only wanted to” capture the moment” and that he had no objections to producing the present.

” I think to an extent we are all responsible in these stories. That’s everything I believe you need to be informed of. It’s quite easy to stand back and look at all of this, and kind of consider,’ Oh, look at what those suppliers did.’ But, you know, as people we need to get some responsibility”, Titley said.

The movie explores the various feelings of being trapped in various ways, including in associations, difficulties or just feelings of worthlessness.

Hamatsu is from Fukushima in northern Japan, which was hit by the March 2011 quad crisis, when a big storm followed a 9.0 scale collapse and devastated the beach, setting off the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.

Hamatsu, who also resides in the area, even devotes his time to helping rebuild Fukushima and raising awareness of the area.

He said,” I want everyone to know how hard the Fukushima people work.”

” Life is gradually resuming in the rejection regions,” he said. Of course, I am aware that it is still a difficult road to decommission atomic flowers. However, I want people to be familiar with the Fukushima of today, experience hope by going there, and witness the Fukushima recover.

In a justification of types at the end of the video, Hamatsu becomes a man and overcomes Mount Everest, a achievement he dedicates to Fukushima.

Some people think the popular show 25 years ago was the great point of Hamatsu’s life, since he is not on TV little again, he said.

” But it’s just the opposite. That was my life’s worst experience. I overcame that. And I’m now free to pursue my interests.

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The Kyoto local later watched Bernstein in a video on Chinese television. Hiro said,” I was actually inspired by what he was talking about.” Eventually, I want to work on a movie about Leonard Bernstein, I thought, you know.

Then, in 2020, he received a call from Cooper, who wrote, co-wrote, and co-starred in Maestro, which examines Bernstein’s relationship with actress Felicia Montealegre ( Carey Mulligan ).

Hiro remarked,” It’s really a love project.” ” Bradley and I adore Leonard Bernstein a lot.”

Over OF RETENTION

Hiro learned how to alter a face’s outlines through trial and error in Japan at the beginning of his career. He immigrated to the United States in the 1990s, and he eventually rose to the position of being one of Hollywood’s most sought-after beauty designers.

Hiro has collaborated on dozens of A-list movies, including Eddie Murphy’s Nutty Professor II: The Klumps and How The Grinch Stole Christmas, which morphed Jim Carrey into the adored Dr. Seuss personality.

However, after receiving two Oscar nominations, including for Norbit, once starring Murphy, and Click with Adam Sandler, Hiro walked ahead, “retiring” in 2012 and vowing to devote the next phase of his career to artwork.

But, Tinseltown soon attracted him up. For Darkest Hour ( 2017 ), Gary Oldman transformed into Winston Churchill, which earned him his first Oscar.

In Bombshell, Charlize Theron transformed into broadcast journalist Megyn Kelly, he received yet another fantastic statuette two years later.

Working with Cooper was a no-brainer given his personal relation to the subject matter.

“PERFECTIONIST”

When Cooper and Hiro initially met in 2020, they discussed how to properly reflect Bernstein throughout the almost 50-year course the movie covers.

Cooper, a 49-year-old man, was forced to look younger in five different phases of the film, according to the beauty designer.

Preproduction lasted more than anticipated&nbsp, in large part as a result of the coronavirus pandemic as well as the complexity of the project.

It took two and a half hours to transform Cooper into a fresh Bernstein. The artist was in the armchair for about five days “because he had to be covered from head to toe,” according to Hiro, and the center stage required three hours.

Hiro remarked,” We are both sort of a perfectionist.” He” conjured Leonard Bernstein from the inside out .”

CRITICISM IS” DIFFICULT”

However, that creative achievement presented additional difficulties. There was a lot of criticism about Cooper’s use of a large robotic nasal when Netflix released the first trailer for the movie last year, with some saying the portrayal of the Jewish master reflected anti-Semitic tropes.

Jamie, Alexander, and Nina Bernstein’s children joined the film’s protection, saying they were “perfectly good” with the choice and adding:” It turns out that Leonard Bernstein had a great, big head.

Hiro acknowledges that it was a “difficult” second. The actor said,” I was definitely confused about it. It took me a thus to [digest it], I thought. We admired Leonard Bernstein a lot. And he also had that head.

Beyond the social internet outcry, Bernstein’s confidants in Hiro claimed that Cooper’s endless hours of research and analysis had paid off:” Exactly like Lenny.”

He said,” That kind of proves that our target was reached,” which appears to be confirmed by Hiro’s second Oscar nomination.

The performer and his team are the favorites to defeat teams from Poor Points, Oppenheimer, The Society of the Snow, and Golda to take home the award for outstanding beauty and hairdressing at the Oscars dinner on March 10.

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K-pop star G-Dragon has been cleared of allegations of illegal drug use by South Korean police, according to media reports.

Police had been investigating the singer and rapper, whose given name is Kwon Ji-yong, amid an ongoing crackdown on illegal drugs by the government of conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol.

On Tuesday (Dec 19), the Incheon Metropolitan Police decided not to charge the former leader of the K-pop band BIGBANG for alleged drug use after they had not obtained testimonies to support the charges against him, Yonhap News Agency reported.

Reuters could not immediately reach the police or G-Dragon for comment on Wednesday.

G-Dragon, a fashion muse and a writer of many hit songs, had strongly denied the allegations, showing up at a police station last month for questioning to prove his innocence.

In a sit-down interview with Yonhap News TV last month, the 35-year-old star again denied any illegal drug use. “I have never used drugs, received or given drugs from or to anyone,” he said, referring to negative drug test results.

A series of drug charge arrests, including of chaebol heirs and celebrities, has prompted authorities to vigorously pursue a crackdown on narcotics and increase customs inspections.

South Korea has tough drug laws, and crimes are typically punishable by at least six months in prison or up to 14 years for repeat offenders and dealers.

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George “Funky” Brown, the co-founder and longtime drummer of Kool & The Gang who helped write such hits as Too Hot, Ladies Night, Joanna and the party favourite Celebration, died Thursday (Nov 16) in Los Angeles at age 74.

Brown died after a battle with cancer, according to a statement released by Universal Music. He had retired earlier in the year, nearly 60 years after the band began, and revealed that he was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer.

Kool & The Gang has sold millions of records with its catchy blend of jazz, funk and soul, what Brown liked to call “the sound of happiness”. In 1964, Brown helped launch the Grammy-winning group, originally called the Jazziacs, along with such friends as bassist Robert “Kool” Bell, brother Ronald Bell on keyboards and guitarist Charles Smith.

After years of relative obscurity, name changes and personnel changes, Kool & The Gang broke through in the mid-1970s with Jungle Boogie and Hollywood Swinging among others songs and peaked in the late 70s-mid 1980s, with hits ranging from the ballads Cherish and Joanna to the up-tempo, chart-topping Celebration, now a standard at weddings and other festive gatherings.

In 2023, Brown produced the band’s latest album, People Just Wanna Have Fun, and released his memoir Too Hot: Kool & The Gang & Me.

He is survived by his wife, Hanh Brown, and his five children. In lieu of flowers, his family has asked for donations to be made in his honour to the Lung Cancer Society of America.

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After a protracted discussion about whether BTS deserved an freedom, Jin, the oldest member of the group, enlisted last month. All able-bodied people in South Korea are required to serve at least 18 weeks in the military.

J-Hope, a bandmate of his, began his required assistance in April.

Suga, a second member, may start his support on Friday.

On Wednesday, Hybe stock closed over 0.82 percent in Seoul.

Stocks of Blackpink’s company YG Entertainment fell last week after local media reports claimed that part Lisa had turned down a regeneration offer. K-pop contract renewals can be difficult.

They then recovered, though the agency hasn’t yet disclosed specifics of new contracts for Blackpink & nbsp, one of K-pop’s most popular girl groups.

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