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A superb cast brings Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners to life in the third big-screen adaptation of this hilarious look at fun, games, and dubious ethics among the British upper crust. Algernon Moncrieff (Rupert Everett) is a slightly shady, but charming gentleman from a wealthy family who has a bad habit of throwing his money away. Algernon has a close friend named Jack Worthing (Colin Firth), a self-made man who acts as a ward to his cousin, a beautiful young lady named Cecily (Reese Witherspoon). Algernon has created an alter ego to help him get out of his problems, and when he learns that Jack has created a false identity of his own -- Ernest, a brother living in London -- Algernon arrives for a weekend visit in the country posing as the mysterious Ernest. Having heard of Ernest's misadventures many times over the years, Cecily had developed something of an infatuation with the lovable rogue, and Algernon's impersonation of him works no small degree of magic on Cecily. Meanwhile, Algernon's cousin, Gwendolyn (Frances O'Connor), arrives for the weekend, and is startled to discover Jack is also there -- except that she knows him as bad-boy Ernest. So just who is in love with who? Oliver Parker directed The Importance of Being Earnest which is his second film adaptation of an Oscar Wilde comedy. Text cogido y adaptado de www.rottentomatoes.com |
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The original Olympic Games took place at Olympia in Ancient Greece in 776 BC. They included arts competitions as well as athletics, boxing, wrestling and chariot racing. The first modern games took place in Athens in 1896, and continue to take place every four years in different countries of the world. The Olympic flag, with its five rings, represents the five continents of the world.
The Olympics are the traditional "world championships" of athletics, but there are many other sports competitions- swimming, rowing, gymnastics and others. At each Olympics, the Olympic committee includes new sports, making each Olympics more exciting than the last.
The winter Olympics are for sports such as skating and skiing. They take place two years after each Olympic Games.
Competitors in the events win medals: a gold medal for first place, silver for second, and bronze for third. The very best athletes from all over the world compete in the Olympics.
The Paralympics are for people who have got physical disabilities. Some of the competitors are blind or deaf and many of them compete in wheelchairs. The Paralympics take place after the Olympic Games.
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Communist Party Tourist Chiefs have told Chinese travellers that they must urgently reduce social behaviour such us limp hand-shakes, pulblic nose-picking, or spitting on the floor in a desperate bid to improve the country's overseas image. Chinese economic boom has taken Chinese tourists all over the world. The Un World Tourist Organisation says an army or 83 millions of Chinese tourists spent nearly 63 billion of pounds overseas in 2012. But the Senior Communist Party leaders fear the poor behaviour of travellers have caused a global image problem. In May, Beijing approved new legislation in order to improve the country's "national image". The new etiquette manual -which is punctuated with cartoons of naughty and apparentely non-Chinese tourists- is aimed at improving the "quality" of the tourists Beijing exports to the world. The guideline range from the commonsensical -"do not curse locals"- to the bizarre -"don't leave footprints on the toilet seat" and "(when in) Scotland don't buy stones as souvenirs". Texto adaptado de The Daily Telegraph |
