But she is so full of life and so fierce in that court she still has this zest about her
Posted in General on 30. Aug, 2010
But she is so full of life and so fierce in that court, she still has this zest about her. You can see death in her because she is so alive.”From 16th-century England to post-September 11 America: Cornish is now in Austin, Texas, completing Kimberly Pierce’s as yet untitled drama about a group of US soldiers who return from Iraq and attempt to readjust to civilian life. Sounding like The Deer Hunter for the Gulf War generation, it’s another evocative choice from Cornish, who plays the patriotic fianc?to one of the men. Initially at least, her character is in agreement with America going to war – and Cornish says the film forced her to think about what it “would’ve been like for an American citizen who witnessed 9/11, and then had a very emotional and abrupt reaction to that.”With this succession of high-calibre projects on her CV, does Cornish feel that she’s been born under a lucky star? “Hmm .. maybe,” she says, giggling again.
Either way, it’s not hard to see where the “new Nicole Kidman” tag has come from “It doesn’t really bother me in any way,” says Cornish. “I just think it’s a nice thing to say.” That said, fame – or “the other stuff that comes with the job,” as she puts it – is not something she invites, though she seems at ease with the prospect of it “I don’t block it out, but I don’t concentrate on it at all A lot of it, you can’t have any control over. But it’s not exactly what you wanted to do when you started acting.”She chuckles at the thought of spending hours getting ready for premieres “I just go and grab a dress … it’s not a big thing.” When I ask about her ambitions, it’s evidently not about walking up more red carpets.”I’ve got heaps of dreams,” she says “I’d like to keep travelling. I’d love to make more music and make good movies.” That doesn’t really include Hollywood blockbusters, she says. “I don’t think they really appeal to me.”Life is still simple for Abbie Cornish, then She pauses for a minute. “The thing is, I’m still that person from the farm.”‘A Good Year’ opens on 27 October ‘Candy’ is released on 3 November.
Europe’s satellite navigation system might be opened up for military use, the European Commission has suggested, in a policy shift that sets it on a collision course with Britain and the United States. Billed as a civilian project, a rocket blasted the first of a constellation of 30 navigation satellites into space last December from a launch pad in Kazakhstan.
Now the European commissioner for transport, Jacques Barrot, has crossed a new threshold, suggesting that the Galileo project, which aims to rival America’s Global Positioning System (GPS), might have defence applications. The idea could help recoup some of the financial outlay on the project, the development costs of which have grown by €500m (£340m) in the past few months.It would also help to boost the EU’s ambition to develop a larger military capability to back up its foreign policy, and would be welcomed by France.Speaking in Luxembourg, M. Barrot said that “Galileo was supposed to be a civilian system only but I wonder whether we shouldn’t question that.”He added: “I myself believe that the idea of only using Galileo for civilian purposes will not persist into the future because I think that our military cannot do without some sort of [navigation] system.”The transport commissioner’s comments have revived differences about a project which took shape against the background of deep misgivings in Washington. The US was originally opposed to the European scheme on the very basis that it might have military applications. Britain initially stalled over Galileo, demanding a report by management consultants before it subsequently threw its weight behind it.A €230m investment from China increased US worries that Beijing was trying to gain access to cutting-edge technology.Britain gave M Barrot’s comments a dusty response. A spokesman for the British Government’s Department for Transport said: “The UK position is well known: Galileo is a civil programme under civil control.
This view was agreed by the EU Transport Council in the Council conclusions of December 2004.” There was no reaction from US diplomats contacted yesterday.The European Commission insisted that there was no question of Galileo becoming a predominantly military project and that control would remain in civilian hands. Both men know that at the last election, only 37 per cent of 18-24 year-olds bothered to vote, that the figure is falling each election and that the place to reach that generation is not on the doorstep, or via the TV, but online.The entertainment industry has realised it too. In recent weeks there has been an astounding about-turn from music industry giants like NBC, CBS, Warner, Universal and Sony who had been threatening YouTube with lawsuits for the violation of copyright as YouTubers posted their music as soundtracks to videos.Most recently, the big firms have entered into strategic partnerships with YouTube under which they will share revenues and showcase promotional material. Which is why David Cameron resorted to a videoblog this week – and his Labour nemesis Sion Simon chose YouTube as the place on which to launch his controversial counterblast. YouTubers are creating a new global culture in which American indie rock bands, Japanese cartoons, European football, Eastern and Western religions and international politics merge in this icon of online culture.The older generation is coming to recognise that. The generation gap returns.Yet if technology changes culture, YouTube and its interactions undermine the notion that there is something insular or solipsistic about cyberspace. This is a decade where concentration spans are short and life is interactive, where kids go to concerts and spend their entire time texting people in other parts of the hall or back home.If it is all bewildering or faintly ridiculous to their baby-boomer parents and grandparents, the Walkman generation, that is all to the good.