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12 Established 1961 Lifestyle Features Monday, November 30, 2020 ollowing years of public outcry and cam- activists, Kaavan’s fate made headlines around the paigning by American pop star Cher, the globe and this contributed to the facilitation of his F“world’s loneliest elephant” embarked yester- transfer,” said Martin Bauer, a spokesman for Four day on a mammoth move from Pakistan to retire- Paws International-an animal welfare group that ment in a Cambodian sanctuary. The famed singer has spearheaded the relocation effort. Experts and Oscar-winning actress has spent recent days spent hours coaxing a slightly sedated Kaavan into at the Islamabad zoo to provide moral support to a specially constructed metal crate-at one point Kaavan-an overweight, 36-year-old bull elephant- using ropes to help pull him in-that was to be hoist- whose pitiful treatment at the dilapidated facility ed onto a lorry and taken to Islamabad airport. From there, Kaavan will be sent via a Russian transport jumbo jet for the lengthy flight to Siem Reap in northwestern Cambodia. The plane will stop for refuelling in New Delhi. Cher spent several days in the Pakistani capital to visit Kaavan before the trip to a 10,000-hectare (25,000-acre) Cambodian wildlife sanctuary, with Prime Minister Imran Khan personally thanking the 74-year-old star. Cher was due to fly to Cambodia yesterday to be in the Southeast Asian nation when the elephant arrives. Officials said Kaavan will initially be kept in a small designated section of the park where he can see other elephants. “Sending him to a place where he can be with other elephants of his kind ... is really the right choice,” climate change minister Officials of Four Paws International and wildlife rangers Malik Amin Aslam told AFP. “We will be happy to Officials of Four Paws International and wildlife rangers pose for a photograph beside a crate carrying Kavaan, move Kavaan, Pakistan’s only Asian elephant. see him happy in Cambodia and we hope he finds Pakistan’s only Asian elephant, after placing onto a trailer truck prior to transport it to a sanctuary in Cambodia, at the a partner very soon.” Marghazar Zoo in Islamabad on Sunday. — AFP photos sparked an uproar from animal rights groups and a spirited social media campaign by Cher. “My wish- ‘Loneliest’ elephant Zoo officials have in the past denied Kaavan conservationists have said that the abysmal condi- es have finally come true”, Cher said in a statement Dubbed by the press as the world’s loneliest was kept in substandard conditions or chained, tions at the Islamabad zoo resulted in part from the thanking her charity Free The Wild. “We have been elephant, Kaavan is the only Asian elephant in claiming instead the creature was pining for a new lack of legislation in Pakistan aimed at protecting counting down to this moment and dreaming of it Pakistan-the tiny number of other pachyderms at mate after his partner died in 2012. But Kaavan’s animal welfare. “There’s a lot of improvement to be for so long and to finally see Kaavan transported other zoos are African. A team of vets and experts behavior-including signs of distress such as con- made,” said Rab Nawaz with the World Wildlife out of (the Islamabad) zoo will remain with us forev- from Four Paws have spent months working with tinual head-bobbing-raised concerns of mental ill- Federation in Pakistan. “Kaavan is just one animal. er.” Kaavan’s case and the woeful conditions at the Kaavan to get him ready for the trip to Cambodia, ness. Activists also said Kaavan was not properly There’s lots of animals in Pakistan... which are in zoo resulted in a judge this year ordering all the which has included training the elephant to enter sheltered from Islamabad’s searing summer tem- miserable conditions.”— AFP animals to be moved. the massive metal transport crate that will be peratures. Kaavan’s mate Saheli, who also arrived “Thanks to Cher and also to local Pakistani placed in a cargo plane for the seven-hour flight. from Sri Lanka, died in 2012. Rights groups and ver four decades after terrorizing beachgo- ers in “Jaws,” the blockbuster movie’s 25- Ofoot shark model has been installed at Los Angeles’ long-awaited Oscars museum, it was ave Prowse, the British actor behind the announced Monday. “Bruce the Shark,” rumored to menacing black mask of Star Wars villain have earned its nickname from director Steven Darth Vader, has died, his agent Thomas D Spielberg’s razor-sharp lawyer, now lurks 30-feet Bowington said Sunday. “It’s with great sadness (nine-meters) above the third floor of the Academy that we have to announce that our client Dave Museum, which is set to open in April. The fiber- Prowse... passed away yesterday morning at the In this file photo (from left) US actresses Amelia Heinle, glass predator is the only remaining version creat- age of 85,” Bowington wrote on Facebook. “May Sharon Case and Camryn Grimes pose during a photocall ed for the classic 1975 movie, but with Jaws meas- the force be with him, always!” the agent told the for the TV soap opera “The Young and the Restless” during uring nearly five feet wide, was too large for the BBC. Bowington added that Prowse’s death was the 59nd Monte-Carlo Television Festival in Monaco. — AFP building’s elevators-and had to be levered in by “a truly and deeply heart-wrenching loss for us and millions of fans all over the world”. Mark crane through the window. “It’s been a long jour- Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the epic ney for Bruce since he was acquired in 2016, and This undated handout photo shows the sole surviving saga, tweeted that he was “so sad to hear David we couldn’t be happier to welcome him to his new full-scale model of the 1975 Jaws shark, donated by Prowse has passed.” “He was a kind man & home,” said museum president Bill Kramer. Nathan Adlen. — AFP photos Weighing more than 1,200 pounds (540 kilos), it much more than Darth Vader,” he wrote. beset with delays. Billed as “the world’s premier “Actor-Husband-Father-Member of the Order is the largest object so far in the collection of the upcoming Academy Museum of Motion Pictures-a institution dedicated to the art and science of of the British Empire-3 time British Weightlifting movies,” the museum will showcase some 13 mil- Champion. He loved his fans as much as they project by the body organizing Hollywood’s Oscars, first dreamt up nearly a century ago but lion photographs, scripts, costumes and props loved him.” A former body-builder turned actor, he Young and the Restless,” one of the including Judy Garland’s ruby slippers from Prowse’s towering stature at almost two meters longest-running TV soap operas ever “Wizard of Oz” and Bela Lugosi’s cape from 1931’s (6.5 feet) clinched him the role of the instantly- “Tfilmed, marks another milestone next “Dracula.” The museum is due to open April 30, recognizable antagonist in the original Star Wars week with its 12,000th episode in the US. “Since 2021, although all indoor Los Angeles museums trilogy. But while he donned the glossy black 1973, ‘The Young and the Restless’ has been part are currently closed due to Covid restrictions. armor and cape, the Bristol native’s strong west- of daily life for millions of Americans,” CBS, which The futuristic museum contains a 1,000-seat ern English accent meant the filmmakers turned airs the series, said in a release about the big day theater inside a seemingly-suspended glass, steel to James Earl Jones for the chilling voice that next Tuesday. and concrete orb designed by Renzo Piano, con- would emerge from behind the mask. Prowse The show has tens of millions of fans in dozens nected by sky bridges to a converted department nevertheless remained attached to the charac- of countries. It centers on families living in an imag- store housing the main galleries-and the shark. ter, telling AFP in 2013 that he was “the greatest inary Wisconsin town called Genoa City, and fol- “We look forward to our opening when museum big-screen villain of all time”. lows their personal dramas of love, marriage, sepa- visitors can engage with our exhibitions, experi- ration and people vanishing before mysteriously ence our beautiful Renzo Piano-designed building, reappearing. Some of the actors have played the and come face to face with one of the most iconic same characters for decades. To celebrate characters in film history,” added Kramer. — AFP episode 12,000, a special week for the show is In this file photo workers clean the roof of the new planned, featuring flashbacks and the return of Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, in Los Angeles, what CBS called beloved characters. — AFP California. eslie Chihuly, the wife and business driver Q. It’s a particularly bleak time for creative profes- our projects involve working all over the world and in This file photo shows David Prowse, the British behind glass artist Dale Chihuly, believes these sionals such as artists and musicians. Do you different parts of the country. We had three different actor behind the menacing black mask of Star Lare fighting times, especially for artists. “If we have any advice for creative types? gallery shows - in London, Toronto and Seattle. Not Wars villain Darth Vader. — AFP don’t have our paintings and art and music and cul- A.

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