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‘Angels in America’ Cinematographer on Working With Mike Nichols

Stephen Goldblatt, who was the cinematographer on Mike Nichols’ last three screen productions — including HBO’s “Angels in America,” which Nichols considered to be the crowning achievement of his career — spoke to Variety at the Camerimage Film Festival on Friday about his friend, who died Wednesday.

Goldblatt has worked with some of Hollywood’s leading directors, included Francis Ford Coppola, Alan Pakula and Joel Schumacher, and recently lensed Tate Taylor’s “The Help” and “Get on Up.”

Like Goldblatt, the majority of Nichols’ cinematographers were not American-born. German director of photography Michael Ballhaus, who worked on three of Nichols’ movies, said that Nichols — who was born in Germany — valued the outsider’s eye when directing films about American society.

“He liked how I brought a fresher view to these very American stories we were doing, and encouraged that,” Ballhaus told Variety in 2010.

Goldblatt, who was born in South Africa and moved to the U.K. as a boy, says Nichols and he shared an “intellectual and cultural affinity.”

During the production of “Angels,” they filmed in the building of an agency that holds all the historical records of immigrants who came into the U.S. While they were shooting in a corridor, a man came out holding the original record of Nichols at the age of 7, under his original name, Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky, with the name of the vessel that he had arrived on, and the record of his arrival in the U.S. from Nazi Germany.

“His great advantage was that he was an outsider,” Goldblatt says.

Some observers have noted that, despite Nichols’ great success, he retained a skeptical view of American society, which Goldblatt considers a fair comment.

Nichols has been lauded for his ability to draw great performances from his actors, which Goldblatt saw for himself on “Angels,” and the two feature films they worked on together, “Closer” and “Charlie Wilson’s War,” which was Nichols’ final film.

“By the time I started working with him, he was the Mike Nichols of legend, so it was less necessary, but I did see him persuade, seduce and, in every way, win over very recalcitrant actors, and actors who were convinced that they could not play a part. I was watching him doing this, and I just took a very quiet photograph – as is my habit – and he noticed and gave me a wink,” Goldblatt says.

He adds: “That was his charm and his power, and he never approached anything directly. So a rehearsal with Mike… the whole cast would be assembled, and the screenplay was read, and he always wanted me there, and I would sit there just watching and listening. But from that point on, he almost never spoke about the screenplay. He would talk, for example, about a moment from his life.”

He continues: “So on ‘Angels,’ which is full of jealousies, passion and betrayal, he begins to talk about how he f—ed up his marriage, or one of them, or it wouldn’t even be that direct, it would be some peculiar story, and an hour or two or three would pass by breathlessly, and almost nobody would speak, but everybody was refreshed and in some way included in his wider circle.”

“And then maybe a month or two would pass before we went into production. He and I spoke about it, and he said, ‘Well that’s when we…’ and I suggested ‘ferment.’ He does this process of assimilation.”

There is one point in “Angels,” Goldblatt says, where Patrick Wilson’s character is making love to his wife, played by Mary-Louise Parker. “It is a story of his feeling of shame at being a homosexual, and his wife’s misery in this marriage without love. What Mike wanted to do was not written. ‘I want to be outside in the corridor. I want the camera to come down the corridor, go through the door, go round the bed, and find them.’ This presents me, out of the blue, with a number of technical problems. So I just ask him: ‘Oh, Mike, why?,’ and he says, ‘I don’t know.’”

Goldblatt adds: “He was so interested in below the surface, the sly approach, and the undercover. As he said, when you go to a party there are people saying one thing, doing another, and wishing they were doing something else. Every encounter, as he saw it, and as we grew to see it through his eyes, becomes tremendously interesting.”

Goldblatt’s question to Nichols was paralleled by a question Nichols had himself for Meryl Streep, who plays Ethel Rosenberg in “Angels.” “She visits Roy Cohn (Al Pacino) on his deathbed and chortles with glee like a carnival clown. Never rehearsed that way. Never written that way. Amazing. Terrifying. And after we cut, after take three (he never did many takes), Mike says to Meryl: ‘Why did you do that? Like that?’ And she says, ‘I don’t know.’ ”

Goldblatt says he couldn’t sleep Thursday night, but “got some comfort” from reading an article that said Nichols considered “Angels” to be the greatest triumph of his career.

“Angels” could be considered to have started the Golden Age of television.

“Nichols started the whole movement whereby television became cinema. It took a leap forward, and now people are prepared to spend up to 16 hours watching in one go,” Goldblatt says. “What they are watching are great plays that are performed with the benefit of cinema – with all its tricks, cameras, make-up and design. Mike started it.”

Nichols’ background as a stage performer and theater director influenced how he approached his screen work.

“He didn’t give line readings. If an actor really wasn’t getting it, Mike would stand up and act it. End of story. ‘That’s how you do it.’ It was superb. And usually very funny with it. He was witty and funny, and deep and loving.”

Nichols often used comedy to tackle difficult subjects and open them up.

“That’s the essence of it, and that’s what he said about acting: That a serious actor who can play comedy is at the height of his profession,” Goldblatt says.

Nichols could be great fun to work with, says Goldblatt. “Not that Mike was easy, far from it, and not that he was always nice. Neither did he try to be. We had a terrible fight early on with ‘Angels’ and I quit three weeks in, and I thought ‘I can’t be treated like this.’”

As Goldblatt was about to jump in a cab to go home, Nichols’ assistant ran after him, and took his arm. “ ‘Mike must speak with you,’ he said, and dragged me backed to Mike’s office. Mike’s standing there and looks at me and said ‘I’m sorry, I can’t help it.’ What he was saying was that with someone new in his circle, he’s looking for that defiant moment, and we hugged, then and there, and that was it. I was his man but I had to do that to be there with him.”

Nichols would give everyone on his productions the time and space to reach for something fresh and outstanding, says Goldblatt. “The climactic moment of ‘Angels in America’ at the end of the first three hours is when Emma Thompson as the Angel descends on the poor, sad, hapless victim of AIDS — as an angel from heaven but fierce and beautiful, and crazy – this was not visual effects budget time, this was for real, we had money to paint out her wires with the lovely and brilliant Richard Edlund (visual effects supervisor) coping with the smoke I insisted was in the atmosphere,” Goldblatt says.

He adds: “And I swear Mike never got involved with how I was going to do it. I knew it was going to be great because I had so many lights, that had been begged, borrowed and stolen. I had some serious fire power.”

“And at that moment… voomph… the ceiling was off and Emma floated in as the angel, and said ‘Hail to the Prophet, the Messenger has arrived.’ It was something else. And we were all stunned by what we had achieved. He had achieved it, almost by doing nothing. He gave us that freedom. He didn’t second guess, he didn’t look, he didn’t question. He loved us, he trusted us. And at the end of the first take he just hugged me.”

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• Angels In America
• Camerimage
• Camerimage Daily Three
• Emma Thompson
• HBO
• Meryl Streep
• Michael Ballhaus
• Mike Nichols
• Stephen Goldblatt

CATATAN UNTUK SEORANG ISTRI

Suami dibesarkan oleh ibu yang mencintainya seumur hidup. Namun ketika dia dewasa, dia memilih mencintaimu yang bahkan kamu belum tentu mencintainya seumur hidupmu.

Justru sering kali rasa cintanya padamu lebih besar daripada cintanya kepada ibunya sendiri.
Suami dibesarkan sebagai lelaki yang ditanggung nafkahnya oleh ayah-ibunya hingga dia beranjak dewasa. Tetapi sebelum dia mampu membalasnya, dia telah bertekad untuk menanggung nafkah seorang istri, perempuan asing yang baru saja dikenalnya dan hanya terikat dengan tali pernikahan tanpa ikatan rahim seperti ayah dan ibunya.

Suami rela menghabiskan waktunya untuk mencukupi kebutuhan dan merawat anak-anakmu serta dirimu sebelum dia mampu membalas untuk merawat ayah-ibunya yang telah mengurus suamimu sejak kecil tanpa pamrih.

Padahal dia tahu, di sisi ALLAH, engkau lebih harus dihormati tiga kali lebih besar oleh anak-anakmu dibandingkan dirinya. Namun tidak pernah sekalipun dia merasa iri, disebabkan dia mencintaimu dan berharap engkau memang mendapatkan yang lebih baik daripada dirinya sendiri di sisi Alloh.

Bahkan ketika sudah mati, suami pun masih harus bertanggung jawab atas dirimu dan anak-anakmu. Apakah dia sudah memenuhi tanggung jawabnya sebagai seorang pemimpin dalam rumah tangganya?
Sangat besar pengorbanan suami, begitu banyak waktu yang diluangkan untukmu.

Oleh sebab itu, berilah dia kesempatan untuk berbakti dan membalas jasa kepada orangtuanya. Karena sesungguhnya dia sedang mengajarkan kepada anak-anakmu agar tetap berbakti dan sayang serta tetap dekat denganmu meski sudah berumah tangga.

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Tyga Reportedly Cancels Club Appearance After Kylie Jenner Is Denied Entry

The Huffington Post  | By Lauren Zupkus

Tyga reportedly pulled out of an appearance at a club in Los Angeles on Sunday after 17-year-old Kylie Jenner was denied entry because she's underage, according to TMZ. A rep for Tyga declined to comment to The Huffington Post.

Of course, this incident only fuels the ongoing dating rumors between the 25-year-old rapper and the "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" star. Buzz about the romance began in early October after the two were spotted out together, just two months afterTyga split with longtime girlfriend and friend to the Kardashians, Blac Chyna.

Kris Jenner was the first one to quash the rumors, telling Ryan Seacrest in a radio interview that her daughter Kylie "isn't dating anybody."

Tyga also denied the relationship in an interview with Vibe. When asked if he was dating Kylie, the rapper told the magazine:

Kylie? Nah. See the thing about Kylie … I’ve known Kylie and the whole family for four years. I introduced Chyna to Kim about a year ago. So everybody’s been cool, but like it’s just so hard, their world is different. If somebody wanna hang out, cool, I’m not opposed to hanging out with somebody. I hang out with [Kylie], her sister [Kendall], I hang out with Scott [Disick] sometimes, I hang out with Khloe sometimes. But people wanna take the situation [with Kylie] to the next level.

Tips Cara Tepat Atasi Bau Mulut

Bau mulut atau istilah kedokteran giginya adalah halitosis merupakan bau yang timbul akibat proses bakteri di dalam mulut. Komponen utama bakteri yang menyebabkan bau mulut adalah hidrogen sulfida dan merkaptan. Penyebab bau mulut antara lain: 

1.Adanya penyakit jaringan pendukung gigi
2.Aliran air ludahnya kurang
3.Tambalan yang tidak tepat
4.Kumpulan bakteri yang berlebihan di lidah
5.Gigi tiruan yang tidak bersih
6.Sisa makanan yang terdapat di saku gusi
7.Adanya penyakit sistemik
8.Konsumsi obat tertentu
9.Gangguan pencernaan


Hal-hal yang anda bisa lakukan untuk mencegah bau mulut adalah :

-Melakukan penyikatan gigi dengan teknik yang tepat dan optimal dengan pasta gigi ber-fluor, serta melakukan penyikatan lidah. 
    
-Menggunakan agen antibakteri untuk rongga mulut, yaitu obat kumur klorheksidin (namun tidak boleh digunakan dalam waktu yang panjang secara terus-menerus).
    
-Merangsang aliran air ludah dengan cara banyak makan buah yang berserat dan sayuran hijau, banyak mengkonsumsi air mineral, atau dapat menggunakan obat kumur baking soda.
    
-Mengurangi konsumsi makanan dan minuman yang manis diantara waktu makan utama, untuk mencegah terjadinya gigi berlubang yang dapat menimbulkan bau mulut.
    
-Rutin melakukan pemeriksaan dan pembersihan karang gigi di Dokter Gigi.
    
-Memperbaiki tambalan gigi yang tidak baik di Dokter Gigi.
    
-Melakukan penambalan gigi pada gigi yang berlubang.
    
-Mengurangi kebiasaan buruk, misalnya merokok. 
    
-Jika anda memiliki penyakit sistemik tertentu atau penyakit gangguan pencernaan, sebaiknya segera konsultasikan ke Dokter Spesialis yang berkompeten, untuk segera dilakukan perawatan.

Terakhir, anda harus mengurangi makan-makanan yang merangsang timbulnya bau mulut seperti kebiasaan anda ini. Jika memang ingin mengonsumsinya sebaiknya setelah makan makanan yang menimbulkan bau (seperti jengkol dan bawang), anda harus berkumur, menyikat lidah dan menyikat gigi anda, atau dapat mengunyah permen karet xylitol untuk merangsang air ludah.

Pilihan lain anda dapat mengkonsumsi sayuran hijau, wortel, daun mint, roti tawar, atau minum teh hijau. Sehingga bau mulut akibat makanan tersebut dapat berkurang atau hilang.

5 Kebiasaan yang Bisa Membuat Anda Terlihat Tua

Produk perawatan wajah anti-aging memang sudah banyak dijual di pasaran. Namun, jika Anda tetap melakukan kebiasaan buruk, semahal apapun produk anti-aging Anda, itu tidak akan memberikan hasil yang signifikan.

Terlihat tua tidak hanya tentang wajah yang berkerut saja, penurunan energi juga merupakan tanda-tanda Anda mengalami penuaan. Ada beberapa kebiasaan sehari-hari yang ternyata bisa menyebabkan Anda terlihat lebih tua dari usia yang sebenarnya. Berikut lima kebiasaan buruk yang dikutip dari sheknows.

1. Makan terlalu banyak
Makan terlalu banyak tentu saja menimbulkan dampak negatif terhadap tubuh, hal ini juga berlaku saat memakan buah dan sayuran terlalu banyak. Tidak hanya menambah berat tubuh saja, Anda bisa terkena risiko awal penyakit jantung dan diabetes.
Sebaiknya perhatikan asupan kalori dan lemak dalam tubuh. Jika berolahraga bukanlah pilihan Anda, tips ini bisa menjadi pilihan agar tubuh tetap langsing.

2. Menatap layar terlalu lama
Apakah Anda termasuk orang yang suka berlama-lama menonton televisi, bermain video game atau bekerja di depan komputer? Hati-hati, beberapa hal ini memiliki dampak buruk pada penglihatan (mata Anda lebih juling saat meilihat ke layar komputer), berat badan (terlalu banyak duduk tidak membakar kalori) dan otak (perlu adanya stimulasi aktif pada otak untuk menghindari degenerasi). Oleh karena itu, batasi jumlah pemakaian komputer atau televisi sekarang juga, Anda pun akan segera melihat perbedaannya.

3. Stres
Stres memiliki dampak negatif terhadap semua aspek kesehatan tubuh. Mulai dari efisiensi detak jantung hingga bagaimana otak Anda bereaksi terhadap situasi tertentu. Cara menghindari stres adalah dengan berani berkata tidak. Sebagian besar stres yang dialami berasal dari ketidakmampuan Anda mengambil keputusan. Muka yang murung dan kusam saat stres membuat Anda tampak lebih tua dari usia yang sebenarnya.

4. Kurangnya frekuensi bercinta
Untuk Anda pasangan suami istri, kehidupan seks yang sehat dan aktif adalah kunci utama untuk mempertahankan energi muda. sebuah penelitian menemukan bahwa bercinta terbukti mengurangi stres, meningkatkan sistem kekebalan tubuh, mengurangi rasa sakit dan meningkatkan kekuatan jantung.

5. Pemutar musik portable
Kemajuan teknologi memungkikan Anda mendengarkan musik dimanapun. Namun, tahukan Anda mendengarkan musik dengan headset terlalu sering bisa mengakibatkan kerusakan pada kualitas pendengaran. Tidak ada satu hal pun yang membuat Anda merasa lebih tua daripada menyadari bahwa pendengaran Anda sudah lagi tidak maksimal. Sebaiknya batasi pemakaian headset dan jaga volume musik pada tingkat yang nyaman dan aman.

EXCLUSIVE: Janice Dickinson Details Bill Cosby Sexual Assault Accusations: He Raped Me

by Antoinette Bueno 

With rape allegations against Bill Cosby mounting, supermodel Janice Dickinson tells ET in a new interview that the comedian sexually assaulted her in 1982.

Dickinson, now 59, says Cosby, now 77, reached out to her during a trip to Bali, following her stint in rehab. Dickinson claims Cosby had her travel to Lake Tahoe, because he was performing there and wanted to meet with her about the possibility of a job offer, as well as help her with a singing career.

Dickinson says they had dinner in Lake Tahoe, and claims that he gave her a glass of red wine and a pill, which she asked for because she was menstruating and had stomach pains.

VIDEO: Alleged Bill Cosby Rape Victim Joan Tarshis Speaks to ET

And that's when she tells ET that things took a disturbing turn.

"The next morning I woke up, and I wasn't wearing my pajamas, and I remember before I passed out that I had been sexually assaulted by this man," she tells ET. "... Before I woke up in the morning, the last thing I remember was Bill Cosby in a patchwork robe, dropping his robe and getting on top of me. And I remember a lot of pain. The next morning I remember waking up with my pajamas off and there was semen in between my legs."

Dickinson also says she tried to write about the assault in her 2002 autobiography No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel, but claims that when she submitted a draft with her full story to HarperCollins, Cosby and his lawyers pressured her and the publisher to remove the details.

"I'm doing this because it's the right thing to do, and it happened to me, and this is the true story," she says about coming out with her story now. "I believe all the other women."

Dickinson says that keeping the alleged sexual assault a secret for 32 years drove her to a life of hurting herself.

"Stuffing feelings of rape and my unresolved issues with this incident has drove me into a life of trying to hurt myself because I didn't have counsel and I was afraid," she says. "I was afraid of the consequences. I was afraid of being labeled a whore or a slut and trying to sleep my way to the top of a career that never took place."

But now Dickinson, who says she never confronted Cosby after the alleged incident, doesn't mince words when it comes to what she would say to him now.

"How dare you," she says. "Go f*ck yourself. How dare you take advantage of me. And I hope you rot."

Dickinson is the third woman to come forward with a sexual assault accusation against Cosby, after a renewed interest in the allegations began when comedian Hannibal Buress called Cosby a "rapist" during an October comedy show in Philadelphia.

On Monday, ET spoke to former publicist Joan Tarshis who says that the legendary comedian assaulted her on two occasions in 1969. She also echoed Dickinson's statements about why she stayed silent for so long.

"I want to talk about this now and I want to really support the other women who have gone through this," she told ET. "Now with people coming out..., it's being handled differently."

Tarshis is referring to another of Cosby's accusers, Barbara Bowman, whowrote an op-ed piece in the Washington Post earlier this month detailing the alleged assault she says she fell victim to in 1985 when she was a 17-year-old aspiring actress.

"In one case, I blacked out after having dinner and one glass of wine at his New York City brownstone, where he had offered to mentor me and discuss the entertainment industry," she wrote. "When I came to, I was in my panties and a man's t-shirt, and Cosby was looming over me. I’m certain now that he drugged and raped me. But as a teenager, I tried to convince myself I had imagined it."

Bowman said that she was one of the alleged victims asked to testify when a woman named Andrea Constand filed a suit against Cosby in 2004. The case was eventually settled out of court.

VIDEO: Bill Cosby's Joke About Drugging Women in 1969 Resurfaces 

Cosby's lawyer, Marty Singer, issued this statement on Tuesday following Janice's accusations:

"Janice Dickinson's story accusing Bill Cosby of rape is a lie.  There is a glaring contradiction between what she is claiming now for the first time and what she wrote in her own book and what she told the media back in 2002.  Ms. Dickinson did an interview with the New York Observer in September 2002 entitled "Interview With a Vamp" completely contradicting her new story about Mr. Cosby.  That interview a dozen years ago said "she didn’t want to go to bed with him and he blew her off."  Her publisher Harper Collins can confirm that no attorney representing Mr. Cosby tried to kill the alleged rape story (since there was no such story) or tried to prevent her from saying whatever she wanted about Bill Cosby in her book.  The only story she gave 12 years ago to the media and in her autobiography was that she refused to sleep with Mr. Cosby and he blew her off.  Documentary proof and Ms. Dickinson's own words show that her new story about something she now claims happened back in 1982 is a fabricated lie."