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AP PHOTO GOLD of and TheOrigins Einstein, It wasafaintsignal,butit toldofonethemostviolentactsinuniverse, anditwould reveal secrets of the cosmos, including how gold was created. The crashgeneratedafaintreveal secretsofthecosmos, includinghowgoldwascreated. Movies: the mountain between us Books: Death in the Air by Kate Winkler Dawson ripple in the fabric of space and time, first theorized by Albert Einstein ripple inthefabricofspace andtime,firsttheorizedby Music: Carry Fire by Robert Plant Wine: Faulty Wines KitchenWise: Butternut Squash and Leek Soup with Gruyere Pesto Toasts Macau Daily Times |Edition291020October2017 Times Macau Daily X2 PÁTIO DA ILUSÃO illusion DRIVE IN Mark Kennedy, AP Entertainment Writer OMANCE SURVIVAL MIX IN R , AP PHOTO ‘THE MOUNTAIN BETWEEN US’ “ he Mountain Between Us” chance meeting at an Idaho alive, hundreds of miles from is about two strangers who airport of a photojournalist anything. Tsurvive a plane crash only hoping to get home in time for The film then somewhat uns- to end up in the unforgiving her wedding and a neurosur- teadily balances a cute, ge- snowy Utah mountains, with geon needing to get back East tting-to-know-you budding no cell reception and precious for an important operation. An respect between two tentative little food. So they do what incoming storm shuts down lovers and the raw ravages of comes naturally. They try to all commercial flights and for- survival, which includes cou- eat each other. ces them to seek a charter pla- gars, thin ice and deep snow No, no, no. Are you crazy? ne, and it becomes one of the (thanks again, Beau Bridges). They fall in love — kin- worst advertising for charter There’s a bit of “Cast Away” da, sorta, maybe. Actually, flights in history (Quick, sell and “The Edge” here, as if di- perhaps they should have your stocks). rected by Bear Grylls. tried something else because The pilot fails to file a flight The screenplay by Chris Weitz this romance novel-meets- plan and then crashes after and J. Mills Goodloe makes survival story doesn’t really having a heart attack (thanks, our couple opposites — she’s succeed at either, despite fine Beau Bridges). The crash se- impulsive and has a deep pool performances by Kate Winslet quence is remarkable and of caring and empathy, while and Idris Elba. we’re terrifyingly trapped in he’s methodical. He focuses Based on Charles Martin’s the fuselage watching it un- on the brain, after all, and same-named novel, the film fold. Our couple — and an considers the heart just “a is ably directed by Hany Abu- adorable lab owned by the muscle.” Assad and centers on the pilot — emerge battered but He thinks it’s wise to stay with the plane wreckage until a res- Kate Winslet (left) and Idris Elba in a scene from "The Mountain Between Us" cue team arrives; she thinks they have to venture out and rescue themselves. “Look, I rushing the romance there jacket tenderly placed over a with much of what happened don’t want to die up here be- either. sleeping companion — must on the mountain. And the bi- cause you’re too scared to But it’s hard to know what’s suffice. Elba, so cool at first, ggest question of all is left to take a risk,” she tells him. He, churning inside these hear- melts nicely, while Winslet the end — did they eat the in turn, calls her “reckless” ts during a struggle for bare (not completely convincing dog? (No, no, no). and “selfish.” (His mysterious survival. The kind of witty, in an American accent) shows romantic life and refusal to rom-com dialogue that can equal measure strength and “The Mountain Between Us,” talk about it also causes a rift). illustrate deepening love softness. a Twentieth Century Fox relea- Abu-Assad and cinematogra- over, say, a milkshake and Have they really fallen in se, is rated PG-13 by the Motion pher Mandy Walker are skill- in-line skating can’t be used love? Was it just situational? Picture Association of America ful at showing the freezing here (where they’re butche- What happens when their nor- for “a scene of sexuality, peril, dangers our heroes face and ring a cougar) so it’s up to mal lives resume? How did the injury images and brief strong do not romanticize the out- the acting — lingering eyes, experience change them? All language.” Running time: 111 doors. They pace the growing a jacket tenderly placed over that stuff is sort of dealt with minutes. affection between the man a sleeping companion — and in the final third of the film, Idris Elba and woman nicely, too, not some weird flashbacks to that but it fails to actually grapple The movie is showing in local theaters. BOOK IT tTUNES ‘DEATH IN THE AIR’ TELLS STORY ROBErt PLANT RADIANTLY RETURNS OF THE GREAT ONDON SMOG L WITH ROOTSY, ACHY CD ne of the weirder chapters in rock history happened in 2014. is a stellar examination of a turbulent That’s when Led Zeppelin won a Grammy for best rock album time in the city’s history. O AP PHOTO for a seven-year-old concert recording while the band’s former front- AP PHOTO Stagnant, cool air hung over London man Robert Plant somehow didn’t even scrounge up a nomination in December 1952, mixing with the for easily one of the best albums of the year. billowing smoke from cheap coal Three years later, let’s hope the future doesn’t again get oversha- used to heat area homes. The end dowed by the past. result was a horrible smog that was The 11-track “Carry Fire” finds Plant backed by his talented band, so thick that cars crashed, trains de- the Sensational Space Shifters, and thrillingly exploring the same railed and people out walking in fa- fascinating terrain of rootsy folk and achy blues. miliar neighborhoods could not find If 2014’s “lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar” seemed very personal their way home. The effects also and soaked in heartbreak, the new album has Plant in a somewhat made countless people sick with happier place and looking to the horizon, perhaps becoming more breathing issues, and many died as a political. result. Robert Plant, “Carry Fire” (Nonesuch/ “New World” is a bitter look at the way we treat immigrants, “Car- While this visible killer was covering Warner Bros.) ving Up the World Again” mocks border walls and “Bones of a London, another killer was working Saint” coolly dispatches religious fervor. He pushes deeper than ever silently, strangling women after ear- into Middle Eastern sounds with the outstanding oud-filled title track, an exhilarating multicultural triumph. ning their trust. When John Reginald Of course, no one does love like Plant — mature, earthy and world-weary. Here, he seems to have found a new Christie was finally apprehended, spark — “Lay down in sweet surrender/ Your love so warm and tender,” he sings in the opening song. On another, the standout “A Way With Words,” he sings: “Coming from the cold/ Reaching for your sweet embrace.” his story changed, depending on the As with his last album, there are coy nods to his past, like the title of the first song, the strummy anthem “May day. As police began to trace his ac- Queen,” which Zeppelin fans will instantly recognize from “Stairway to Heaven.” He sings about “dancing days” “Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial tivities, they soon realized he might Killer, The Great London Smog, and the here, which is also the title of a song on 1973’s “Houses of the Holy.” be responsible for an earlier murder, There’s an intimacy to Plant’s weathered voice throughout, so intimate in fact that it sometimes feels as if we’re Strangling of a City” (Hachette) by Kate and an innocent man might have been Winkler Dawson intruding on a very personal moment. He’s also using more modern technology to create an album that seamlessly executed. mixes cello, bendir and Moog synthesizer, backed by the accomplished musicians John Baggott, Justin Adams, Billy Dawson’s background in documenta- Fuller, Dave Smith and Liam “Skin” Tyson. n 1952, post-World War II London ries and journalism makes this jour- If anyone still needs proof of the skills on offer here, look no further than the cover of Ersel Hickey’s “Bluebirds Over was battling more than reconstruc- ney more than just a retelling of the the Mountain,” a rockabilly ditty from the ‘50s of no special importance. Plant and his band — joined by Chrissie Ition, and Kate Winkler Dawson’s facts. She tracked down people who Hynde — give it a dark synth texture and menacing guitar, making it closer to a David Bowie tune. “Death in the Air: The True Story lived it, and now readers will vividly There are few undisputed rock stars this accomplished still taking musical risks. Plant’s songwriting remains a class of a Serial Killer, The Great London experience that period as well. above, even as he nears 70. “Out here the fire’s still burning/ So long into my night,” he sings. Long may it burn. Smog, and the Strangling of a City” Jeff Ayers, AP Mark Kennedy, AP Entertainment Writer 20.10.2017 fri NEWS OF THE WORLD Seth Borenstein, AP Science Writer stronomers around the world reacted to the signal quickly, focusing Atelescopes located on every con- Scientists witness huge cosmic tinent and even in orbit to a dis- tant spot in the sky. What they witnessed in mid-Au- crash, find origins of gold gust and revealed this week was the long-ago collision of two neutron stars — a phenomenon California Institute of Technolo- AP PHOTO gy’s David H.

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