John Lennon manuscripts, drawings up for auction |
- John Lennon manuscripts, drawings up for auction
- Cover Media Video: The Best of Matt Damon
- The Best of Matt Damon (VIDEO)
- Liverpool close to signing Rickie Lambert
- As clock ticks, BN looks to Teluk Intan Indians for crucial votes
- Zagato lifts wraps on unique Lamborghini
| John Lennon manuscripts, drawings up for auction Posted: 29 May 2014 05:52 PM PDT
Eighty nine lots, ranging in price from US$500 (RM1,610) to US$70,000, produced for the 1964 book In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works, published in 1965, will go under the hammer. The event coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' first appearance in America on the Ed Sullivan show. "This is the most substantial collection of original artwork and manuscript and typescript material by John Lennon that has ever come up for auction," said Gabriel Heaton, a specialist in the book and manuscript department of Sotheby's in London. "It is one of the largest bodies of non-musical work he ever produced," Heaton said in a telephone interview. Lennon was 40 when he was shot in 1980 in the courtyard of his New York home. The collection, which is expected to bring a total of US$850,000 to US$1.8 million, is on view to the public at Sotheby's ahead of the sale on Wednesday. Other works featured in the auction include an introduction Paul McCartney wrote for In His Own Write and a sketch of a guitar player in front of a music stand. "These items are produced right at the height of Beatlemania," said Heaton, adding that the text for the first book was submitted before the Beatles trip to America and published on their return to England. Heaton described the manuscripts as short pieces, some in verse and some in prose, that are comic and written in a strange language of puns and word play. "No word is ever quite what it seemed," he explained. "It is heavily influenced by the nonsense tradition of English literature." Texts include Lennon giving his own brief biography and McCartney remembering the first meeting with Lennon. "You've got several pieces that are quite revealing, in an indirect way, of his state of mind at the time, which is not as quite straightforwardly happy as you might expect of a young man who has just conquered the world, pretty much," said Heaton about Lennon. The illustrations are distinctive, amusing and sometimes powerful line drawings by Lennon, who in addition to his musical talents was a trained artist. Some of the sketches accompany the verse and others are stand-alone art works. "It is a sale with a large number of wonderful pieces," said Heaton. "This is an unusual chance to acquire significant and substantial manuscript material by one of the great creative forces of the post-war period." The collection is being sold by Lennon's British publisher Tom Maschler, who persuaded him to write the books. — Reuters  |
| Cover Media Video: The Best of Matt Damon Posted: 29 May 2014 05:48 PM PDT Matt Dimon made his movie debut in 1988 by having a small part in the film 'Mystic Pizza', but he's shined in many movies since. We're talking about the amazing Matt Damon, let's take a closer look at some of his best performances. — Cover Media Related Articles |
| The Best of Matt Damon (VIDEO) Posted: 29 May 2014 05:44 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, May 30 — Matt Dimon made his movie debut in 1988 by having a small part in the film 'Mystic Pizza', but he's shined in many movies since. He made his breakthrough in the film industry with 'Good Will Hunting' back in 1997, a feel good movie written by himself and Ben Affleck, Matt played the title character Will Hunting. But it wasn't just his performance that stands out in this picture, he also won his first Oscar for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. In 2010, he appeared in the American western film 'True Grit'. The story follows the three characters, played by Hailee Steinfeld, Jeff Bridges and Matt himself, who hunt the villain, played by Josh Brolin. And finally, 'The Monuments Men'. An American-German history film, that shows a group of soldiers in the Second World War who had been tasked with saving pieces of art from Nazi thieves in order to return them to their owners. The mission seemed impossible, but the 'Monuments Men' succeeded in saving thousands of years of culture.
Even though the handsome actor has starred in a lot of movies already, he still not bored of learning lines. So luckily we're going to see a lot more from the very talented Matt Damon. — Cover Media |
| Liverpool close to signing Rickie Lambert Posted: 29 May 2014 05:28 PM PDT
Reds manager Brendan Rodgers is said to have made an offer of £4 million (RM21.5 million) plus add-ons for Lambert and the BBC says talks are continuing to seal the deal after the initial bid was rejected. The surprise move comes as Lambert prepares for England's World Cup warm-up against Peru at Wembley today. Once his England duties are completed, the Daily Mail reports Lambert could undergo a medical tomorrow with a view to sealing the transfer before he jets off with the England squad for their pre-World Cup training camp in Miami. It would be a dream move for Liverpool-born Lambert, who supported the club as a child and was a member of the Reds' youth academy for five years before being released as a 15-year-old The 32-year-old, who worked in a beetroot factory before his professional career finally got going, spent much of his career in the lower leagues of English football with the likes of Rochdale, Stockport and Bristol Rovers before finally hitting the big time with Southampton following their promotion to the Premier League. He scored 14 goals in 39 games this season and has 117 in 235 appearances since joining Southampton in 2009. Lambert's potent combination of height, strength and clinical finishing would make him an intriguing addition to Rodgers' squad, which noticeably lacked quality cover for first-choice strikers Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge this season. While Suarez and Sturridge nearly fired Liverpool to the Premier League title, the Reds often looked toothless when their star strikers were held in check and Lambert would be an ideal remedy to that problem. "I have been a big admirer of Rickie," Rodgers said earlier this season. "He's never got the recognition for what a really good footballer he is. "He is probably seen as a traditional big number nine, a typical British striker, but he's one of the most accomplished footballers I've seen. "Look at his touch and the different types of goals he scores; he is a terrific player." If Lambert's switch goes through, he could soon be joined at Anfield by Saints team-mate Adam Lallana, with Liverpool currently trying to negotiate a £30 million deal for the England midfielder. — AFP |
| As clock ticks, BN looks to Teluk Intan Indians for crucial votes Posted: 29 May 2014 05:25 PM PDT
In the past one-and-a-half weeks since campaigning formally started, the 13-party coalition has been sending out senior leaders, even stationing top MIC leaders like Datuk Seri S.K. Devamany and Datuk R. Ganesan in Teluk Intan, to oversee the burst of welfare activities for the Indian community who make up a sizeable 19 per cent of the vote. The 12 Tamil schools in the federal constituency ― usually left alone ― are getting between RM25,000 and RM100,000 each for renovation works and new computers, Teluk Intan MIC chairman M. Sivamani said. "We'd like to decide that Datuk Mah comes here," he told The Malay Mail Online in a recent interview, referring to BN's local-born Teluk Intan candidate Datuk Mah Siew Keong. "If the Malays can maintain their support of 75 to 80 per cent last year, and if the Chinese can give us another 5 per cent extra, because last year we got 20 to 25 per cent, then surely with Indian support, we are winning," Sivamani added. The Indians comprise 19 per cent of the Teluk Intan electorate, which amounts to 11,468 voters. The Chinese and Malays form 42 per cent and 38 per cent respectively of the 60,349-strong electorate. Gerakan president Mah, 53, has maintained that he is the underdog in the election, pointing out that he had lost Teluk Intan in the May 5 general election last year to DAP's Seah Leong Peng by over 7,000 votes. This time around though, Sivamani believed support from the community towards BN was on the rise and voiced confidence that the number may even have jumped to 62 per cent from 40 per cent last year. In Election 2008, Indian support for BN in Teluk Intan stood at only 30 per cent. The MIC division chief claimed the Indians were frustrated at the lack of opportunities to improve their economic status over the last two terms as when Teluk Intan was represented at the federal level by its DAP lawmaker. "Forty-five per cent of Indian voters are youths. And 40 per cent of the youths are jobless," Sivamani said. The majority of Indians in Teluk Intan are low-income earners who labour in the nearby palm oil plantations and factories, while some are teachers in the 12 Tamil schools in the constituency, according to Sivamani. In Taman Cicely, a residential area in the Perak town that has the second largest group of Indian voters at 1,255 people who are mostly educated, Sivamani said BN has been pleading with them to vote to help the impoverished. "We tell them 'don't vote for yourself. Vote for the poor'. Only Barisan can help the poor," said Sivamani. After a BN ceramah last Tuesday, hampers containing basic food items like flour, sugar, and milk powder were handed out to the predominantly Indian crowd. Chandra Subramaniam, a 43-year-old housewife living in Taman Cicely, said Mah was a helpful man, pointing out that BN had given her a cash aid of RM100 after her husband died recently. "He gives all sorts of aid," Chandra told The Malay Mail Online. The DAP, however, expressed confidence that it could retain the 60 to 65 per cent Indian support that was won in the 13th general election last year. "There shouldn't be any reason for us to drop in the percentage of support. If at all there's a decrease in Indian votes, it's because some of them are outstation," V. Sivakumar, DAP Perak campaign deputy director, told The Malay Mail Online. He noted that the crowd size at DAP ceramah in predominantly Indian residential areas has been "overwhelming". "When we did one at Desa Aman, it was nothing less than 1,500 people. We did another in Desa Bakti, about 1,000 people. We also did a 'ceramah kelompok' (group ceramah) in Salaba Lot, where we expected 100 people, but we got minimum 400 people," said the Batu Gajah MP. Sivakumar said that besides the unexpectedly large crowds at the nightly ceramah, house visits also showed that the pro-DAP sentiment among the Indians has not changed, and has even improved among the women. "I was surprised to know that the Indian women were very receptive of Dyana," he said, referring to DAP's candidate Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud. Letchumy Munusamy, a 52-year-old factory worker, approved of Dyana Sofya, calling the 26-year-old lawyer a young and active candidate who could improve Teluk Intan. "Just give her a chance," Letchumy told The Malay Mail Online. Dyana Sofya will take on Mah in a straight fight for the Teluk Intan federal seat in Perak tomorrow. |
| Zagato lifts wraps on unique Lamborghini Posted: 29 May 2014 05:25 PM PDT
And during that time, the Milanese company has been called on by a veritable who's who of already exotic car makers to create something even more special. Zagato has worked its magic on everything from Ferraris and fast Fiats to Alfa Romeos, Lancias, Aston Martins, Maseratis and, of course, Lamborghinis, creating some of the most sought-after and collectable cars in each company's history in the process. Even if, in many cases, the changes are only skin deep. That's the case with the 5-95 Zagato. Lift up the bespoke body and underneath is the now defunct Lamborghini Gallardo, which officially ceased production last year. Still, even if it is no longer a "new" supercar, it's still capable of hitting 322km/h (200mph) and going from 0-100km/h (62mph) in 3.5 seconds. The exterior design, which could as easily be described as challenging as stunning, attempts to reference iconic touches from Zagato commissions of the past. So it's angular, yet has a double-bubble roof, a wraparound windshield and an elongated nose with curved, two-step opening. But of course the 5-95 Zagato doesn't have to be to everyone's tastes, only to those of a Mr Albert Spiess. He is a Swiss supercar collector who already owns a number of Zagatos, including a 1985 Aston Martin V8 Zagato, a 1990 Alfa Romeo S.Z. and a 2012 Aston Martin V12 Zagato, and the person for whom the car was built. — AFP-Relaxnews |
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