Community Community Embassy of Qatar South Africa University P7 organises P16 College of Ubuntu Bash, Pharmacy recognises Heritage Bazaar, 75 of its top students for at Doha Sports the Fall 2018 and Spring Park. 2019 term. Thursday, November 21, 2019 Rabia I 24, 1441 AH Doha today: 180 - 240 10 on 10 Hollywood actress Bo Derek talks about the evolution of cinema, filmmaking and her four-decade long journey in an exclusive interview with Community. P4-6 COVER STORY REVIEW SHOWBIZ A gripping family odyssey of Kevin Hart happy to go back tragedy and redemption. to work after car crash. Page 14 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Thursday, November 21, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.34am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.56am Zuhr (noon) 11.21am Asr (afternoon) 2.25pm Maghreb (sunset) 4.45pm Isha (night) 6.15pm USEFUL NUMBERS Frozen 2 a strange sound from the north calling her. Together with DIRECTION: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee her sister Anna, Kristoff , Olaf, and Sven, they embark on a CAST: Kristen Bell, Jonathan Groff , Idina Menzel new journey beyond their homeland of Arendelle in order to SYNOPSIS: Anna, Elsa, Kristoff , Olaf and Sven leave discover the origin of Elsa’s magical powers and save their Arendelle to travel to an ancient, autumn-bound forest of kingdom. an enchanted land. They set out to fi nd the origin of Elsa’s Emergency 999 powers in order to save their kingdom. 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CAST: Riteish Deshmukh, Sidharth Malhotra, Tara Sutaria SYNOPSIS: Marjaavaan is a story of love birds Raghu and THEATRES: Royal Plaza, The Mall te Unqu uo ot Q “Death is not e the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” — Norman Cousins Community Editor For movie timings and Kamran Rehmat further details please scan e-mail: [email protected] the QR code above with your Telephone: 44466405 mobile phone camera or visit qatarcinemas.com Fax: 44350474 Thursday, November 21, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY TIME: 4pm — 9pm A one stop place for school leavers. All prospective students who are planning to study in Malaysia are welcome to the exhibition. Come and be a part of the truly Asian culture in Doha. 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. Hobby Classes WHERE: Mamangam Performing Art Centre WHEN: Saturday – Friday Mamangam is an art and performance centre started with a vision of spreading our knowledge, interests and experience in various disciplines in arts across diff erent Gems and Jewels Exhibition hierarchies and health systems of the local countries for children and adults. WHERE: Museum of Islamic Art Tanzanian communities. Mamangam has become the favourite WHEN: Ongoing till January 18 A collection of photographs of the wildlife, Artistic Gymnastic Classes centre for learning. We off er regular classes TIME: 9am onwards landscapes and people of Tanzania taken by WHERE: Qatar Academy Msheireb in the following disciplines like traditional The exhibition comes in celebration of WCM-Q professor Dr Dietrich Büsselberg WHEN: Ongoing classical and folk dance forms, art and the 2019 Year of Culture Qatar-India and will be exhibited. TIME: 3:15pm – 4:15pm craft, drawing and painting, personality presents a look at magnifi cent gems and The olympic sport using horizontal bar, development and public speaking, Bollywood jewellery from India. Set in Stone: Gems and rings and fl oor exercises on mats for the dance, contemporary, hip hop styles, music Jewels from Royal Indian Courts showcases children from age 4 till 16. both vocals and instrumentals. To develop more than 100 pieces from across Qatar health consciousness, we train them karate, Museums’ (QM) collections, including many yoga with special sessions for kids and adults. masterpieces that have never been displayed Mamangam has also come up with chess and before. robotics in regular batches in an attempt to give a better learning experience, as they sharpen their minds and brains too. For those who wish to register for more details, visit www.mamangamqatar.in Ballet Lessons WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 4pm – 8pm For more info e-mail at registration@ atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. Career Guidance HEC SBUM Info Session Photo Exhibition: ‘Experience WHERE: Right Track Consultants, Al WHERE: 14th fl oor, Tornado Tower, West Tanzania’ Sadd Bay WHERE: Multaqa (Student Center) Art WHEN: Sunday – Thursday WHEN: November 26 Gallery at Education City TIME: 6pm – 8pm TIME: 5pm – 6:15pm WHEN: Ongoing until December 1 Career guidance for course, country, HEC Paris invites you to the next TIME: 4pm college and entrance for students of Grade Information Session for Specialised Master’s ‘Experience Tanzania’ is a yearly project IX-XII, of all curriculum. Career assessments Degree in Strategic Business Unit Management supported by Student Aff airs Division of administered for stream preference, career (SBUM).This part-time degree programme is Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar that allows test, branch preference, personality, designed as a practical foundation for managing students and faculty to explore and immerse multiple intelligence and learning styles a business. It will give you the opportunity themselves in Tanzanian urban and rural and productivity. For more information, to learn international best practice from cultures. During their trip, WCM-Q’s 55448835. world-class faculty. Find out how it will help aspiring physicians off er basic healthcare you take your career forward! The program services to the locals as a way of giving Education Fair off ers a choice of 3 specialist tracks in General back to the community and learn about WHERE: City Centre Doha Management, Entrepreneurship and Business the lifestyles, traditions, socioeconomic WHEN: Tomorrow Development and Marketing and Sales. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Thursday, November 21, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY “Good movie is a good movie, I don’t care where you see it” — Bo Derek, Hollywood actress It was so expensive to make a movie back in the 80s, so expensive to release it, and you had to make a film to please the masses. For the most part, the ‘films were not that specific. Now, whatever you like, whatever documentary, whatever you want to learn about or however you want to be entertained — it’s just a click away and it’s fantastic ’ Thursday, November 21, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY “When I produced my first film, I had a very strong position in the industry. The biggest you can get — for a moment. So many people started pulling me and telling me what to do — I wasn’t prepared. So, I decided to be my own boss. When I look back, I think, I might would’ve made better career choices but I wouldn’t have traded the experience or anything” POPULAR: Following Bo Derek’s appearance in 10, everybody started wearing cornrows, trying to look just like her, accrediting Bo more than anyone else for popularising cornrows. A 1980 People article even cited Derek as the catalyst for making cornrows a ‘cross-cultural craze’ and a ‘beauty store bonanza.’ Although Bo’s subsequent film films, but Bo has always been decades, what keeps her busy now it’s a very exciting time. I like it,” By Muhammad Asad Ullah Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981) did interested in behind the scene and her take on #Metoo. says Derek. well on the box office, but it was aspects of the films and hence “Absolutely everything has Drawing a parallel between raved with negative reviews due went into production soon after. changed. There were just a few the old age cinema and the o Derek made her to the objectification of Bo rather Bo Derek recently spoke to motion pictures made a year back current scenario of online movie acting breakthrough than keeping the focus on Tarzan. Community as she is visiting then, now as a consumer or an streaming services and how it has in the 1979 romantic Post Tarzan, Bo did Bolero (1984), Doha to celebrate her birthday, actor there’s so much content changed the media landscape, Bo comedy 10, and Ghosts Can’t Do It (1990), Tommy about how she thinks cinema has and so much work because of Derek said, “It was so expensive to her performance Boy (1995) and a couple of other evolved over the period of four streaming and Internet, cable and make a movie back in the 80s, so —B including an iconic scene of expensive to release a movie, and Derek running down the beach you had to make a film to please in a skin-coloured swimsuit and the masses. For the most part, cornrows — quickly propelled her the films were not that specific.