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William Goldman, Oscar-Winning Screenwriter of Butch Cassidy and All the President's Men, Walks Into the Sunset. P4-5 Community Community Bhavan’s Bukhari Public School Foundation P6recently P16 Qatar celebrated launches Aks-e-Yusuf, Children’s written by Yusuf Day. Kamal Bukhari. Monday, November 19, 2018 Rabia I, 11 1440 AH Doha today: 230 - 320 End of an era William Goldman, Oscar-winning screenwriter of Butch Cassidy COVER STORY and All the President’s Men, walks into the sunset. P4-5 HOLLYWOOD BOLLYWOOD Newlyweds Ranveer, Deepika Sarah has a deep connection welcomed by a sea of fans. to her Ralph character. Page 14 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Monday, November 19, 2018 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT Boonie Bears 3: The Big Top Secret DIRECTION: Leon Ding CAST: Siobhan Lumsden, Joseph S. Lambert, Gene Hobbs III SYNOPSIS: Briar becomes frustrated with his friends and joins a travelling circus. The new friends he makes keep the PRAYER TIME homesickness away, but only for a while. Fajr 4.33am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.53am Zuhr (noon) 11.19am Asr (afternoon) 2.24pm Maghreb (sunset) 4.47pm Isha (night) 6.17pm THEATRE: USEFUL NUMBERS Landmark Emergency 999 Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 Hamad International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation 44845555, 44845464 Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 44593363 Qatar Assistive Technology Centre 44594050 Qatar News Agency 44450205 44450333 Q-Post – General Postal Corporation 44464444 Humanitarian Services Offi ce (Single window facility for the repatriation of bodies) Ministry of Interior 40253371, 40253372, 40253369 Ministry of Health 40253370, 40253364 Blue Night performance, Vivienne receives Bisset), her long-time manager, Ben Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 DIRECTION: Fabien Constant some life-altering news that causes (Common), and her ex-husband, Nick Qatar Airways 40253374 CAST: Renée Zellweger, Sarah Jessica her to reevaluate her priorities. As (Simon Baker), Vivienne strives to make Parker, Taylor Kinney she crisscrosses the busy streets of peace with the decisions and sacrifi ces SYNOPSIS: Vivienne (Sarah New York City, she tries to balance she’s made along the way. Jessica Parker), is an established her upcoming music tour, family, singer/songwriter with a successful and friends. With the support of her music career. On the eve of a major overbearing mother, Jeanne (Jacqueline THEATRE: Royal Plaza ote Unquo Qu te The Mall Cinema (1): Kaatrin Grinch (2D) 3:30pm; Dog Days “The most Mozhi (Tamil) 2pm; Fantastic (2D) 5:30pm; Dog Days (2D) Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald 7:30pm; Thugs Of Hindostan important thing in the (2D) 4:45pm; Galveston (2D) (Hindi) 10pm. world is family and love.” 7:15pm; Fantastic Beasts: The (Hindi) 9:30pm; Kaatrin Mozhi Royal Plaza Cinema Palace — John Wooden Crimes Of Grindelwald (2D) 9pm; (Tamil) 11:15pm. (1): Cinderella And The Secret Mangalayam Thanthunnanena Landmark Cinema (1): Prince (2D) 2:30pm; Cinderella And (Malayalam) 11:30pm. Mangalayam Thanthunnanena The Secret Prince (2D) 4:30pm; The Mall Cinema (2): The Grinch (Malayalam) 2:30pm; Kaatrin Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes (2D) 2:30pm; Cinderella And Mozhi (Tamil) 5pm; Kaatrin Mozhi Of Grindelwald (3D) 6:15pm; The Secret Prince (2D) 4:15pm; (Tamil) 7:45pm; Amar Akbar Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Cinderella And The Secret Prince Anthony (Telugu) 10:30pm. Of Grindelwald (2D) 8:45pm; (2D) 6:15pm; Thugs Of Hindostan Landmark Cinema (2): Bonnie Kaatrin Mozhi (Tamil) 11:15pm. Community Editor (Hindi) 8pm; Sarkar (Tamil) 11pm. Bear Iii: Big Top Secret (2D) 3pm; Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (2): Kamran Rehmat The Mall Cinema (3): Amar Cinderella And The Secret Prince Amar Akbar Anthony (Telugu) e-mail: [email protected] Akbar Anthony (Telugu) (2D) 5pm; Fantastic Beasts: The 2:30pm; Dog Days (2D) 5:15pm; 2:30pm; Pihu (Hindi) 5:15pm; A Private War (2D) 7:15pm; Blue Telephone: 44466405 Crimes Of Grindelwald (2D) 7pm; Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Sarkar (Tamil) 10:30pm. Night (2D) 9:15pm; Mangalayam Fax: 44350474 Of Grindelwald (2D) 7pm; Pihu Landmark Cinema (3): The Thanthunnanena 11pm. Monday, November 19, 2018 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY After School Activities WHERE: Atelier WHEN: Ongoing Music and arts Activities for students taking place after they fi nish their day in school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and 10 years old after school hours. EVENTS Cycling: Losail Circuit Sports Club WHERE: Losail Circuit Acting Classes WHEN: Ongoing WHERE: Retaj Al Rayyan, West Bay TIME: 5pm WHEN: November 21 till December 19 Losail Circuit Sports Club, in association TIME: 3pm – 7:30pm with Qatar Sports For All Federation, invites Hobby Classes The Talent Factory is having an acting all cyclists, runners and walkers to train WHERE: Mystic Arts Centre behind Al monthly course for kids and adults. Gentë under the fl oodlights of Losail International Hilal Focus Medical Centre Retkoceri Rrahmani, Teaching artist and Circuit every Wednesdays. WHEN:Wednesday – Monday actor, will take care to create an amazingly Mystic Art Centre, is a holistic performing entertaining and socialising class for kids artsinstitution and a one stop solution for and adults. Both programmes are specifi cally adults as well as children looking to explore designed to fi t diff erent ages with the their talents in various art forms. We off er main purpose to develop the participant’s classes in Carnatic Music, Hindustani Music, self-esteem, especially when in front of Meditation Retreat Karate, Yoga, Zumba, Classical Dance, Salsa, audiences. Kids course fee is QR600 and WHERE: Banana Island Resort Hip Hop, contemporary and Bollywood adult course fee is QR800. For further details, WHEN: December 14 – 15 dance forms. For details, call 33897609. e-mail at [email protected] Imagine waking up with the peaceful silence of a paradise beach as your senses are lured by the smell of essential oils, vegan food and fresh herbal tea. With each breath, your whole being feels relaxed and recharged. You can fi nally release all the tension you’ve been carrying for years. The bright sunlight ISC Inter-School Skipping Rope warms your face as you walk on the beach Championship - 2018 to join morning yoga, sound healing and Where: Olive International School (Al mindfulness meditation. Thumama) When: November 24 Time: 2:30pm – 6:30pm Indian Sports Centre (ISC), under the patronage of Embassy of India, is bringing the second edition of ISC Inter-School Katara Beach - School Students Skipping Rope Championship-2018 WHERE: Katara for Speed Hop and Speed Endurance WHEN: Ongoing competitions. The competition includes Dance and instrument classes TIME: 9am – 12pm categories of Under–12, Under–18 and WHERE: TCA Campus, Behind Gulf By participating in the programme of ‘Our Adults. Entry is free and championship Times Building culture is a school’, Katara Beach emphasises is open to all Indians and students of any WHEN: Wednesday – Monday the Qatari marine tradition and introduces nationality studying in Indian schools. Learn the movements of dance styles in to students the meaning of Dasha, Al Qafal For further details, contact at 55646693, Bollywood, Hip Hop and also the musical and various type of pearls. The students 55824194 or e-mail at yoga.iscdoha@gmail. instruments such as Piano, Guitar, Keyboard will discover all details of the Fath El-Kheir com for adults as well kids and move in the world journey. of music. For details, contact 66523871/ 31326749. Heritage Library’s Permanent Exhibition WHERE: Qatar National Library WHEN: Ongoing till December 31 TIME: 9am – 8pm The exhibition displays around 400 items from the QNL Heritage Library collection that illustrate the spread and evolution of ideas throughout the Arab and Islamic world, Youth Empowerment Workshop Series as well as document interactions between WHERE: The Pearl, Doha Arabs and the West over the past several WHEN: Ongoing till December 1 centuries. The exhibition features books, Ballet Lessons TIME: 8am – 8pm manuscripts, historical photographs maps, WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier The youth will discover how to: boost globes and travellers’ instruments that tell WHEN: Ongoing confi dence, overcome bullying, improve goal the story of Qatar, along with the history TIME: 4pm – 8pm setting, be assertive, leadership skills, career of science, literature, writing, travel in the For more info e-mail at registration@ guidance, be productive and many more for region, and much more. atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. reservations email at [email protected]. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change Illustration of a woman danc 4 GULF TIMES Monday, November 19, 2018 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Goldman was gold He became a sought-after “script doctor,” a hired gun who burnishes a struggling screenplay, because he understood cinematic storytelling as well as the importance of a character’s perspective, writes Nardine Saad What writer killers do is they work with you on a project, and they ‘ ask for apples and you try to give them apples, then they say no, pomegranates. … Then they bring in a friend — who conceivably they ‘ wanted to bring all along — and the friend does the screenplay —William Goldman ETCHED IN MEMORY: One of William Goldman›s famed works. Monday, November 19, 2018 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY Oscar-winning screenwriter best directors in Hollywood are “Nobody has the least idea, in 1952 and served in the army for was later adapted by another William Goldman, who died in New writer killers,” he wrote. “What I believe, what will work and two years. screenwriter, John Gay, in 1968 and York on Friday due to complications writer killers do is they work what won’t work for audiences,” In 1956, Goldman received a became a fi lm starring Rod Steiger, from colon cancer and pneumonia, with you on a project, and they Goldman told The Times in 2000.
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