Lifestyle FRIDAY, MAY 16, 2014 ‘’ throws spotlight on Indian athletes

Dolly Parton performs on NBC’s “Today” show on Tuesday, May 13, 2014 in New York. — AP Dolly talks Miley,

This photo released by Disney Enterprises, Inc. shows , as sports remaining true to yourself agent JB Bernstein in a scene from ’ ‘Million Dollar Arm’. — AP an good cricket bowlers make great televised competition in India, called s Miley Cyrus’ godmother, Dolly Parton has as sin. So I thought, ‘Well, I would have probably pitchers? That is the ques- “Million Dollar Arm,” to find the first there spent a lot of time answering reporters’ chose to look this way even if I had been a wait- tion behind new film “Million Dollar who could pitch a ball at over 80 miles questions about the Hannah Montana ress.’ I mean, this is my look. I mean, I like a lot of C A Arm,” a true story about a Major League (130 kilometers) an hour. Singh (played actress turned pop ingenue as she promotes her makeup. I like a lot of hair. I like flashy clothes. I Baseball agent who goes to India to find by ) was the winner of the new album, “Blue Smoke,” out this week. Though like to show it off. But that’s just who I am.” the next big thing. 2008 contest-with a prize of $100,000 and she says she worries about Cyrus as if she were Though she never changed her image, Parton Out today in North America, it tells the a trip to America-while Patel (played by her own child, she supports the sometimes managed to get folks to pay attention to her astonishing tale of and Madhur Mittal) also came along as run- shocking decisions her goddaughter has made as music and skills as an entertainer and business- , discovered in India by MLB ner-up. The only problem: the two 25- she moved from child star to a confident - and woman, and not so much to her wardrobe and agent JB Bernstein and hired a few year-olds had never played baseball in complicated - young woman. makeup. “Blue Smoke” is her first album in three months later as professionals for the their lives. “I’ll never say anything bad about Miley ‘cause years. She wrote many of the songs on the album, . Actor Jon Hamm, I know she’s smart,” Parton said. “And I know sings duets with Willie Nelson and Kenny Rogers famous for his role as Don Draper in the ‘Life changed a lot’ she’s talented. And I know she’s had to go to and takes a trip into unlikely territory on covers of hit TV show “Mad Men” and who plays JB, Intensive training initially didn’t help- drastic measures to try to make her point: ‘Leave Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice” and Bon Jovi’s said he had to pinch himself when he first speed is not the only attribute required me alone. I am not Hannah Montana anymore. I “Lay Your Hands on Me,” which she gives a read the screenplay. “I read the script by a baseball pitcher-but just in time, they want to grow up.’” The 68-year-old Country Music Sunday morning flavor. She recently announced and... loved it, and then looked back to came through. “My life has changed a lot Hall of Fame member compared Cyrus criticisms hundreds of millions of dollars in business invest- the title page and went like, ‘Wait a for me and my family. But I’m exactly the to those who chided her when she first came on ments and will tour the world this year. “And I am minute... this is true?’ I am a huge baseball same person, I carry the same heart as the scene - a buxom teen with a confident sense not finished yet,” Parton said. “I still have a lot of fan and somehow this flew under my when I came first to America,” Singh told of self and style that drew frowns and tsk-tsks other business things I want to do. I just think it’s radar and I didn’t know. AFP. from those who expected her to be demure and the love of it. I just really try to keep my creative “So I immediately, like two hours later, “But it wasn’t easy. Every step had a chaste. “But I never let that stop me from being hat on. I just love to write, I love to think. I love was in like a Google hell of finding out doubt. I’m pretty sure JB had that too, we the business girl that I was,” Parton said. “I knew the business end of things. I love to work. Energy everything I could about this, and I was were afraid of failing.” Indeed, the two my songs were good even if I had been ugly as begets energy. And dreams beget dreams. So I like, ‘Oh my God, this actually happened.’” men drew inspiration from the real-life sin. I felt like I could sing, even if I had been ugly just keep on keeping on.” — AP It was by watching a cricket match on TV JB’s determination and willingness to take that Bernstein-whose career had been a huge risk. “Even not knowing English, I stumped when a deal fell through- did kind of understand what kind of busi- ‘Lunar Bible’ sells at noticed that bowlers in the wildly popular ness he’s doing, that was a lot of risk what are vaguely similar to base- he did to bring in kids from nowhere to a ball pitchers. different planet,” said Singh in sometimes Dallas auction for $75,000 He decided to organize a nationally still halting English. —AFP

microfilm Bible regarded as one of the rarest “books” on earth, after flying around the moon once with Apollo 13 and later land- Aing on the moon’s surface with Apollo 14, sold at an auction of space memorabilia in Dallas for $75,000. The 1.5 inch by 1.5 inch (3.8 cms by 3.8 cms) “Lunar Bible,” which can be read with a microscope, is one of 12 complete Bibles that remain from a collection of 100 Bibles which made it to the moon’s surface with astronaut Edgar Mitchell in 1971. “This tiny microform contains the complete Bible, all 1,245 pages of the King James Bible, both Old and New Testaments,” said Michael Riley, senior historian for Heritage Auctions. The Bibles were produced by the Apollo Prayer League, a group started by NASA employees and spread globally with the idea of using man’s first trip to the moon to carry the words of God, the auction house said. Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell carried 512 of the stamp-sized Bibles on the 1970 mission that was supposed to land on the moon but did not after an oxygen tank explosion in flight severely damaged the spacecraft. Most of those bibles were cut into pieces and distributed to dignitaries over the years. Twelve of those that remained passed from John Stout of the Prayer League to astronaut Mitchell. One of the bibles is on display through June 22 at the Vatican, where it is a marquee arti- fact along with three fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, according to a news release from Vatican Radio. The other stars of the auction were a variety of items from the personal collection of Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Paul McCartney greets fans and journalists upon his arrival at the Haneda airport Bean, including the life support strap Bean wore during an eight-hour in Tokyo yesterday. McCartney is to play Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan Hall on May moonwalk in November 1969. The strap, with traces of moon dust, sold 21, marking his first return to the venue since appearing there with The Beatles for $93,750. — Reuters in 1966. — AFP