Update: Paul Simon performed “Graceland” at the White House State Dinner for Japan’s Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and Kishida Yuko.
Kishida also made a Star Trek reference at one moment, using the phrase, “To boldly go where no one has gone before,” then naming cast member George Takei.
Previously: Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are making a return visit to the White House as guests at tonight’s White House State Dinner for Japan’s Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and Kishida Yuko.
Paul Simon performs "Graceland" at White House State Dinner for Japan pic.twitter.com/8SCF6llOd3
— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) April 11, 2024
Star Trek State Dinner:
Japan Pm Fumio Kishida: "Let me conclude with the line from Star Trek: To boldly go where no one has gone before. By the way, @GeorgeTakei who played Hikaru Sulu, the helmsman of the USS Enterprise,...
Kishida also made a Star Trek reference at one moment, using the phrase, “To boldly go where no one has gone before,” then naming cast member George Takei.
Previously: Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are making a return visit to the White House as guests at tonight’s White House State Dinner for Japan’s Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and Kishida Yuko.
Paul Simon performs "Graceland" at White House State Dinner for Japan pic.twitter.com/8SCF6llOd3
— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) April 11, 2024
Star Trek State Dinner:
Japan Pm Fumio Kishida: "Let me conclude with the line from Star Trek: To boldly go where no one has gone before. By the way, @GeorgeTakei who played Hikaru Sulu, the helmsman of the USS Enterprise,...
- 4/11/2024
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
The Prostate Cancer Foundation (Pcf) hosted their annual Pro-Am Tennis & Golf Tournament in South Florida.
The Beach Boys perform at Prostate Cancer Foundation Pro-Am Tennis and Golf Tournament
Credit/Copyright: Bfa / Tiffany Sage
The tournaments were a part of a five-day event that combines the 2023 Milken Institute South Florida Dialogues and annual Pro-Am Tournaments. 2023 is a double-anniversary for the Pcf as it was both the 25th Anniversary of the Pcf in Palm Beach and the 30th Anniversary year of the Foundation itself.
The Milken Institute South Florida Dialogues in Palm Beach took place over three days, which included the annual Pcf Pro-Am Tennis Tournament and special golf tournament; and concluded with three days of events in Miami. The first night in Palm Beach saw a talk held at the home of Roxann Taylor before the Pcf dinner at the home of Jeff and Mei Sze Greene. The highlight of the...
The Beach Boys perform at Prostate Cancer Foundation Pro-Am Tennis and Golf Tournament
Credit/Copyright: Bfa / Tiffany Sage
The tournaments were a part of a five-day event that combines the 2023 Milken Institute South Florida Dialogues and annual Pro-Am Tournaments. 2023 is a double-anniversary for the Pcf as it was both the 25th Anniversary of the Pcf in Palm Beach and the 30th Anniversary year of the Foundation itself.
The Milken Institute South Florida Dialogues in Palm Beach took place over three days, which included the annual Pcf Pro-Am Tennis Tournament and special golf tournament; and concluded with three days of events in Miami. The first night in Palm Beach saw a talk held at the home of Roxann Taylor before the Pcf dinner at the home of Jeff and Mei Sze Greene. The highlight of the...
- 2/23/2023
- Look to the Stars
Wish to attend Barack Obama's birthday bash in Chicago? Just shell out $30,000 and you can party with the Us President. Real-estate mogul Neil Bluhm is planning to throw a private party for Obama, who turns 49 on August 4, at his home. All those attending the celebrations will be required to donate $30,000 to the Democratic National Committee, reports The New York Post. The guest list has not been made public yet but the party is expected to draw several of the Chicago elite. Meanwhile, Obama has revealed that his daughters may soon be looking for babysitting jobs to ...
- 7/25/2010
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
As monster movies go, "The Cave" is discouragingly routine with the exception of one thing: These monsters live in a cave. Not just any cave, mind you, but an ancient Romanian cave. Which means a sealed-off ecosystem that contains miles of rivers, rapids, a waterfall, huge caverns, a sulfuric thermal bath, an ice cave, archeological remains and, yes, malevolent invertebrate animals. This bad-news theme park makes you tolerate, for a while at least, a dull script by Michael Steinberg and Tegan West that runs through artificial character conflicts and contrived melodrama. Meanwhile, the monsters, when they finally appear, look like something H.R. Giger designed for "Alien" -- then rejected.
Generally speaking, however, audiences don't go to movies to look at sets. So the film's appeal, limited mostly to young males, will be fleeting. Boxoffice looks mediocre at best.
Stories that send characters -- and audiences -- into uncharted territory usually supply a vital reason for such exploration. A prologue set during the Cold War and a present-day sequence rush a group of adventurers into this cave beneath a 13th century abbey without a compelling justification for doing so. There's no pot of gold or Holy Grail or great scientific discovery lurking within. A Romanian scientist simply summons a group of top divers and cave explorers to head into a cave to see if anyone survives.
Leading the team are the mercurial Jack (Cole Hauser) and his easygoing brother Tyler (Eddie Cibrian). A woman named Charlie (Piper Perabo) adds a touch of glamour, and Top Buchanan (Morris Chestnut) makes a steady right-hand man. Biologist Dr. Kathryn Jennings (Lena Headey) joins her Romanian colleague Dr. Nicolai (Marcel Iures) to take care of the science, Alex Kim Daniel Dae Kim) is the photog, and Strode (Kieran Darcy-Smith) supplies tech support.
A cave-in blocks the party from their entry route, and for some reason, despite this being a well-funded exposition, they won't be "missed for 12 days." As they move into the cave seeking a way out, something attacks and kills a team member. Dr. Kathryn peers at cave specimens through her microscope and detects weird organism and parasites. Then something takes a bite out of Jack, and the infection seems to trigger paranoid hallucinations.
Jack insists that everyone take a ride down the rapids, which dumps them into a huge underground pond. It is at this point someone screams, "There's something in the water!" Actually, these creatures swim in water, fly through air and gallop along the ground and ceiling. There are silly, all-purpose monsters that pick off the cast one by one, leaving you to place bets on who will survive.
Characters are poorly established, so when conflicts arise they do so out of thin air. Attacks are preceded by a weird clicking noise, but most of the tension derives from Reinhold Heil and Johnny Klimek's musical score, which huff and puffs and thunders and whines.
Australian commercial director Bruce Hunt, making his feature debut, keeps the camera close and the action furious so you can't always be certain where characters are or what is happening. The film requires athleticism rather than acting from performers. Underwater photography and production design, much taking place at the Media Pro studios complex in Bucharest, is thoroughly professional though wasted on such a lame effort.
THE CAVE
Screen Gems
Lakeshore Entertainment
Credits:
Director: Bruce Hunt
Screenwriters: Michael Steinberg & Tegan West
Producers: Tom Rosenberg
Gary Lucchesi, Andrew Mason, Richard Wright, Michael Ohoven
Executive producers: Marco Mehlitz, Neil Bluhm, Judd Malkin
Director of photography: Ross Emery
Production designer: Pier Luigi Basile
Music: Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek
Co-producer: Robert Bernacchi, James McQuaide
Costumes: Wendy Partridge
Editor: Brian Berdan
Cast:
Jack: Cole Hauser
Top Buchanan: Morris Chestnut
Tyler: Eddie Cibrian
Briggs: Rick Ravanello
Dr. Nicolai: Marcel Iures: Strode: Kieran Darcy-Smith
Kim: Daniel Dae Kim
Katherine: Lena Headey
Charlie: Piper Perabo
MPAA rating PG-13
Running time -- 96 minutes...
Generally speaking, however, audiences don't go to movies to look at sets. So the film's appeal, limited mostly to young males, will be fleeting. Boxoffice looks mediocre at best.
Stories that send characters -- and audiences -- into uncharted territory usually supply a vital reason for such exploration. A prologue set during the Cold War and a present-day sequence rush a group of adventurers into this cave beneath a 13th century abbey without a compelling justification for doing so. There's no pot of gold or Holy Grail or great scientific discovery lurking within. A Romanian scientist simply summons a group of top divers and cave explorers to head into a cave to see if anyone survives.
Leading the team are the mercurial Jack (Cole Hauser) and his easygoing brother Tyler (Eddie Cibrian). A woman named Charlie (Piper Perabo) adds a touch of glamour, and Top Buchanan (Morris Chestnut) makes a steady right-hand man. Biologist Dr. Kathryn Jennings (Lena Headey) joins her Romanian colleague Dr. Nicolai (Marcel Iures) to take care of the science, Alex Kim Daniel Dae Kim) is the photog, and Strode (Kieran Darcy-Smith) supplies tech support.
A cave-in blocks the party from their entry route, and for some reason, despite this being a well-funded exposition, they won't be "missed for 12 days." As they move into the cave seeking a way out, something attacks and kills a team member. Dr. Kathryn peers at cave specimens through her microscope and detects weird organism and parasites. Then something takes a bite out of Jack, and the infection seems to trigger paranoid hallucinations.
Jack insists that everyone take a ride down the rapids, which dumps them into a huge underground pond. It is at this point someone screams, "There's something in the water!" Actually, these creatures swim in water, fly through air and gallop along the ground and ceiling. There are silly, all-purpose monsters that pick off the cast one by one, leaving you to place bets on who will survive.
Characters are poorly established, so when conflicts arise they do so out of thin air. Attacks are preceded by a weird clicking noise, but most of the tension derives from Reinhold Heil and Johnny Klimek's musical score, which huff and puffs and thunders and whines.
Australian commercial director Bruce Hunt, making his feature debut, keeps the camera close and the action furious so you can't always be certain where characters are or what is happening. The film requires athleticism rather than acting from performers. Underwater photography and production design, much taking place at the Media Pro studios complex in Bucharest, is thoroughly professional though wasted on such a lame effort.
THE CAVE
Screen Gems
Lakeshore Entertainment
Credits:
Director: Bruce Hunt
Screenwriters: Michael Steinberg & Tegan West
Producers: Tom Rosenberg
Gary Lucchesi, Andrew Mason, Richard Wright, Michael Ohoven
Executive producers: Marco Mehlitz, Neil Bluhm, Judd Malkin
Director of photography: Ross Emery
Production designer: Pier Luigi Basile
Music: Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek
Co-producer: Robert Bernacchi, James McQuaide
Costumes: Wendy Partridge
Editor: Brian Berdan
Cast:
Jack: Cole Hauser
Top Buchanan: Morris Chestnut
Tyler: Eddie Cibrian
Briggs: Rick Ravanello
Dr. Nicolai: Marcel Iures: Strode: Kieran Darcy-Smith
Kim: Daniel Dae Kim
Katherine: Lena Headey
Charlie: Piper Perabo
MPAA rating PG-13
Running time -- 96 minutes...
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