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Malaysia logged 6,075 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, the biggest daily increase since the pandemic began The nation’s richest state Selangor accounted for more than a third of caseload at 2,251 infections ....
Pulitzer-winning journalist Frankel ( High Noon) delivers a vivid chronicle about the classic 1969 movie Midnight Cowboy, the only X-rated movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Frankel covers the film’s main contributors: James Leo Hurlihy, whose 1965 novel was the basis for the movie; director John Schlesinger, who took a chance on a novel “so bleak, troubling and sexually raw no ordinary film studio would go near it”; formerly blacklisted screenwriter Waldo Salt; actors Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman (whom Frankel interviewed); and casting director Marion Dougherty, who convinced Schlesinger to take a chance on then-unknown Voight. Frankel offers behind-the-scenes anecdotes, notably about the challenges of filming in New York City during a garbage strike, and in Texas, where the film crew needed protection from a den of rattlesnakes. Frankel also renders the social upheaval of the era the Stonewall riots, antiwar protests, racial unrest and the window be ....
It was the nation’s worst housing tragedy, one that shocked Malaysia to its core. At about 1.30pm on that fateful Saturday. Rtesidents in Block 1 of Highland Towers in Ulu Klang, Selangor, were going about their weekend. What happened next was nothing short of catastrophic and sheer devastation. The tower, one of three 12-storey blocks occupied since 1979, collapsed like a deck of cards as a result of a landslide, killing 48 people and resulting in the evacuation of residents in Block 2 and 3. It was reported that the earth gave way after 10 days of rainfall that caused the landslide. Among those killed were former deputy prime minister Tun Musa Hitam’s son Carlos Rashid and daughter in-law Rosina Abu Bakar. ....
Lasting memory: The Housing and Local Government Ministry plans to beautify the Highland Towers site after the demolition of the abandoned buildings but many are calling for a memorial to be built there to commemorate the catastrophe and remember the victims. Filepics/The Star Memorials and monuments: what events or figures should we preserve and honour? THERE are many instances in Malaysia’s history of great sacrifice or national pride that we honour through memorials or monuments. Oft-times, memorials also serve as symbols of the devastating loss that we bear as a community. But how do we decide what occasions or people to commemorate? ....
The Highland Towers site has been abandoned for 27 years. Filepic The Housing and Local Government Ministry’s plan to beautify the Highland Towers site will help change public perception of the area. Taman Sri Ukay/Hill View Residents Association president Datuk Siti Hendon Chek said the association welcomed the plan as the land with derelict buildings, which had been abandoned for 27 years, were popular with drug addicts and invited other social problems. “If before we lived in a state of discomfort, at least with this news (plan) we can breathe a sigh of relief if the buildings are demolished and the site is turned into a beautiful area. ....