(1) But the Hawaii-set romance Aloha , which features A-list stars Emma Stone, Bradley Cooper and Rachel McAdams, opened during a month of traditionally stronger box office returns.
(2) Cameron Crowe has apologised for casting the white actor Emma Stone as a “part-Asian” Hawaiian in controversial “whitewashed” romance Aloha.
(3) A watchdog group once calculated that the Aloha state trips cost taxpayers $3.5m a pop – in airfare, security arrangements, communications and medical staff.
(4) So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.” Aloha review – inspiration overdose at the pixie-dust buffet Read more Aloha stars Bradley Cooper as a defence contractor who falls for Stone’s US Air Force pilot after being assigned to oversee the launch of a military satellite from Hawaii.
(5) Aloha review – inspiration overdose at the pixie-dust buffet Read more US box office chart, 5-8 June Spy – $30m, new San Andreas – $26.4m, $99m Insidious: Chapter 3 – $23m, new Entourage – $10.4m, new Mad Max: Fury Road – $7.9m, $130.8m Pitch Perfect 2 – $7.7m, $161m Tomorrowland – $7m, $76m Avengers: Age of Ultron – $6.2m, $483m Aloha – $3.3m, $16.3m Poltergeist – $2.8m, $44.4m
(6) In truth, I don’t really understand it because I don’t feel if people were sitting down to interview Bradley Cooper they’d be like ‘let’s talk about [his flops] Aloha and Burnt’, or if they were sitting down with Robert De Niro, ‘let’s talk about Dirty Grandpa’ – and that feels sort of different with me.
(7) Analysts are predicting that Aloha, opening against earthquake thriller San Andreas , could bring in $12m on its opening weekend, though the negative reviews could reduce takings.
(8) Aside from the option of deep-fried cheeseburger sushi – "I won't say it's the most delicious thing ever," says Hua – Yatta offers innovations such as the barbecue and pineapple Sweet Aloha Hawaiian roll and the opportunity for budding foodies to build their own sushi by selecting coloured sticks from the counter, each colour representing a different ingredient.
(9) But Cameron Crowe’s controversial, critically panned Aloha opened in sixth place with just $10m.
(10) While some have been quick to judge a movie they haven’t seen and a script they haven’t read, the film Aloha respectfully showcases the spirit and culture of the Hawaiian people,” it said last week.
(11) The bad buzz has been building for months and finally this week US critics were allowed to judge whether Cameron Crowe’s new film Aloha was worthy of a garland.
(12) Picoplankton from Atlantic Ocean (Hydrostation S, Sargasso Sea) and Pacific Ocean (Aloha Station) sites were collected in a three-stage process: (i) collection of seawater through an intake covered with 10-microns-pore Nytex; (ii) concentration by a tangential flow filtration device equipped with 10 ft2 (0.929 m2) of 0.1-micron-pore fluorocarbon membrane; (iii) collection of cells from concentrate by centrifugation.
(13) Oscar nominations 2016: The Revenant leads field, Mad Max in second place Read more In the last few years, there has been Emma Stone’s casting as an Asian-American in Aloha , and the all-white casts of Gods of Egypt, Exodus: Gods and Kings, and Noah.
(14) We believe the film will be around for many, many weeks to come.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The tale of a defence contractor who falls for a US air force pilot while working in Hawaii, Aloha has attracted criticism from campaigners who allege Crowe “whitewashed” the state’s Asian-Pacific islander population .
(15) The star attraction is Morgan’s Vintage Dance Hall (46 High Street) offering dance lessons from swing to samba and a Saturday night party with punters clad in 1940s gear, all two-tone shoes, A-line dresses and Aloha shirts.
(16) Same-sex couples are taking advantage of Hawaii's newfound aloha for gay weddings.
(17) Sinking to the bottom of the chart was Aloha, Cameron Crowe’s critically trashed romantic comedy about a defence contractor (Bradley Cooper) falling for a pilot (Emma Stone) while working in Hawaii .
(18) Cameron Crowe's new film Aloha accused of 'whitewashing' Hawaii Read more Producers of Aloha were doing their best to play up the film’s performance, despite its low opening chart position.
(19) Aloha opened at No 6 in the US box office chart with $10m at the weekend, on par with Cameron’s previous film, We Bought a Zoo, which went on to make $120m.
Goodbye
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A bout a year ago, a few months before she left sixth-form college, my youngest daughter asked cheerily: "What will you feel when you have no one left to wave goodbye to in the morning?"
(2) After Manchester United came the long goodbye to Stamford Bridge, a home game against Leeds on 15 May 2004, Abramovich's dismissal notice in Ranieri's pocket, but a lap and guard of honour with the players.
(3) That certainly was the feeling as Gerrard said goodbye on Saturday evening to the stadium that has been his professional home for the past 17 years.
(4) While building a structure that would enable us to realise our strategic vision was crucial, saying goodbye to close colleagues – some of whom had been with our legacy organisations for over a decade – was really hard.
(5) When Philip Roth accepted the biennial International Booker prize honouring some 60 years of his fiction, from Goodbye, Columbus to Nemesis , he sat at a wooden table in the studio adjoining his airy Connecticut retreat looking as much like a retired priest, or judge, as the Grand Old Man of American letters, pushing 79.
(6) After he read the telegram, Hunt turned to his signals officer and said: "They might have added goodbye and the best of British!"
(7) When we say goodbye, Max turns in the passenger seat, and says, simply: 'Be gentle with her.'
(8) The gaffer’s not actually spoken to me and I’ll go in and say goodbye but I think it will be fine.
(9) This wasn’t about him; this first part of the event, before he headed out to the pitch where the trophies and the fans awaited him, was not much of a goodbye.
(10) Goodbye to the States, to the Caribbean, to Indonesia, possibly to India.
(11) Goodbye Cherry Street Bed and Breakfast, Punxsutawney .
(12) The two women who remain in jail, Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, smiled through light tears after hugging Samutsevich goodbye.
(13) In Herbert Ross's Goodbye Mr Chips (1969), based on the Terence Rattigan stage play, he won hearts as well as minds with a tender performance as the shy schoolmaster who falls in love with Petula Clark, and in 1972 he gave an extraordinary turn in a cult movie rarely revived now, Peter Medak's The Ruling Class, in which he played a young man who succeeds to an earldom after the ageing incumbent dies in an auto-erotic strangling incident, and reveals that he believes himself to be Jesus Christ.
(14) He's a really powerful character and supporters were hoping he would say goodbye.
(15) When I say goodbye to him every day,” she told a court recently, “I sit hoping he comes home from school.
(16) In a rare move, Cannes judges decided to split the jury prize between Mommy , a boisterous Oedipal comedy from Canada's 25-year-old Xavier Dolan, and the abstract, oblique Goodbye to Language from the 83-year-old provocateur Jean-Luc Godard.
(17) It was a heartfelt goodbye from the king of British pop to the king of British shopping, one scouser to another.
(18) She was born on the estate, and is also saying goodbye to neighbours and friends she has spent a lifetime with.
(19) 4.14pm GMT Goodbye from Glenn Greenwald Just to take a break from the debate for a second: Glenn Greenwald is leaving the Guardian today, and has written a final column looking back at his time with the paper and attacking a climate of hostility towards press freedom in the US and UK.
(20) She won’t be there to say goodbye.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev (right) with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin this month.