Month: December 2022

En el verano de 2017 jugó para Croacia en un torneo del World Tour de voleyplaya, quizás su gran pasión. “Juego desde los 9 años. Me apasiona”, confiesa.Con su compatriota Niksa Dell’Orco formó equipo en Porec, no lejos de su casa.Perdieron los tres partidos, contra dos parejas norteamericanas y unabrasileña que lideraba el ránking mundial y ganó por 21-10. “Es un grandeportista y la gran diferencia ha sido su falta de experiencia en nuestrodeporte, pero ha demostrado una gran habilidad”, valoró su rival Álvaro Fliho,una de las referencias en la modalidad. Perisic, que logró el permiso delInter para competir, donó todas sus ganancias a la federación croata para quepromocionase el voley playa. No fue su único escarceo polideportivo: en lasredes sociales ya ha difundido imágenes de sesiones de trabajo en el ring conLuka Tomic, un excampeón de kickboxing.

🔙 A la izquierda, Ivan Perišić disputando el Torneo de Porec del Circuito> Mundial de beach-voley en 2017, representando a Croacia.>> 🔜 A la derecha, el mismísimo Perišić, jugando hoy su 3ª Copa del Mundo y> convirtiéndose en el máximo goleador croata en Mundiales.>> Locura. 🤯🇭🇷 pic.twitter.com/b3zrwAKn0H>> —Ataque Futbolero (@AtaqueFutbolero) December 6,> 2022

Pero su trabajo es el futbol. Así lo sintió cuando con 17 años tuvo que hacerlas maletas e irse a Francia. “No sé muy bien qué pintaba allí, pero al menosaprendí el idioma”, valoró tiempo después. Perisic crecía en el vivero delHajduk Split, se había mostrado a nivel internacional y ya alternaba con elprimer equipo, donde Zoran Vulic, técnico y exjugador del Mallorca, queríadarle carrete. Pero una lucrativa oferta del cuadro galo le llevó al exilio.La familia pasaba apuros económicos porque el negocio paterno, una granjaavícola, estaba a punto de echar el cierre. A instancias de su padre, Perisicse fue a Francia con su madre y su hermana, el padre se quedó con los pollos,la familia se fracturó tras un divorcio y donde antes había una granja ahoraluce una casa de turismo rural.

Al menos la apuesta por el fútbol salió bien. No en Sochaux, donde Perisic nologró asentarse en el primer equipo, pero sí a través de un periplo quecomenzó en la liga belga. Desde el Brujas llegó a la selección en febrero de2011 y poco después a la Bundesliga, donde litigó con Jürgen Klopp en elBorussia Dortmund. Con todo, el pasado mes de febrero antes del cruce entreLiverpool e Inter en la Liga de Campeones, el técnico alemán mostró suadmiración por él. “Perisic es su jugador más peligroso que tendremosenfrente. Le conozco bien. Eso sí, no recuerdo cuando fue la última vez quehablé con él”. Ahora el propio futbolista asume que se equivocó con Klopp:“Fue él quien me trajo al fútbol moderno. Yo no sabía que el juego erabidireccional. Al final lo único que le pedía era ser titular y buscamos unasalida”. Wolfsburgo, Inter, Bayern y ahora Tottenham avalan una carrera sólidaque se engrandece aún más cuando se pone la camiseta ajedrezada de su país.

More details about Kirstie Alley’s cancer battle have emerged as her _Cheers_co-stars and ex-husband Parker Stevenson pay tribute.

It was reported Tuesday that Alley, who died at 71, was quietly battling coloncancer, her rep told People.

In announcing Alley’s death on Monday, her children with Stevenson, True andLillie Parker, said she died from cancer, which had only recently beendiscovered. They thanked Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., for providingher end-of-life care.

Overnight, Alley’s co-stars from the show that made her most famous — Cheers— paid tribute. She played Rebecca Howe from 1987 to 1993, winning an Emmy andGolden Globe for the part.

Ted Danson, whose Sam Malone was friends, lovers and co-bar owners withAlley’s character over its long run, said in a statement to the same outlet,”I was on a plane today and did something I rarely do. I watched an oldepisode or Cheers. It was the episode where Tom Berenger proposes toKirstie, who keeps saying no, even though she desperately wants to say yes.Kirstie was truly brilliant at it. Her ability to play a woman on the verge ofa nervous breakdown was both moving and hysterically funny. She made me laugh30 years ago when she shot that scene, and she made me laugh today just ashard. As I got off the plane, I heard that Kirstie had died. I am so sad andso grateful for all the times she made me laugh. I send my love to herchildren. As they well know, their mother had a heart of gold. I will missher.”

Ted Danson as Sam Malone and Kirstie Alley as Rebecca Howe (Photo: NBCU PhotoBank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)

Kelsey Grammer, who played Frasier on the show and its spin-off and upcomingreboot, told USAToday , “I always believed grief for a public figure is aprivate matter, but I will say I loved her.”

Rhea Perlman, whose tough waitress Carla Tortelli would give Alley’s Rebecca(and everyone else) the business, called her “a unique and wonderful personand friend. Her joy of being was boundless. We became friends almost instantlywhen she joined the cast of Cheers. She loved kids and my kids loved hertoo. We had sleepovers at her house, with treasure hunts that she created. Shehad massive Halloween and Easter parties, and invited the entire crew of theshow, and their families. She wanted everyone to feel included. She loved herchildren deeply. I’ve never met anyone remotely like her. I feel so thankfulto have known her. I’m going to miss her very, very much.”

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John Ratzenberger, who played barfly and mailman Cliff Clavin, tweeted, “It’sso sad. So very sad. God Bless you and keep you Kirstie Alley.”

Cheers guest stars, including Harry Connick Jr., have also posted tributes.

The Cheers cast reconnected many times through the years, including a mini_Cheers_ reunion (sans Danson, Grammer and Harrelson) on The Goldbergs in2019.

Also posting a tribute is Alley’s second husband, Baywatch alum Stevenson.The pair married in 1983, and she famously thanked him in her 1991 Emmysspeech for being “the man who has given me the big one for the last eightyears.” After experiencing a pregnancy loss, they adopted William “True” in1992 and Lillie in 1995, but divorced in 1997 and had a bitter split. The exeswere grandparents.

Alongside an old photo of them together, he wrote, “Dear Kirstie, I am sograteful for our years together, and for the two incredibly beautiful childrenand now grandchildren that we have. You will be missed. With love, Parker.”

It was announced on Monday that the actress, who also starred in the Look Who’s Talking _movies as well as _Veronica ‘s Closet, Fat Actress _and _ScreamQueens had died.

Among those posting early reactions was John Travolta, her _Look Who ‘sTalking _co star. Through the years Alley has said she was in love withTravolta, but they never acted on because she was married and then he met andmarried the late wife Kelly Preston.

“Kirstie was one of the most special relationships I’ve ever had,” Travoltawrote to his friend. “I love you Kirstie. I know we will see each other

**FIFA World Cup: Morocco-Spain ** NPO 1 – 3.50 pm There was already celebration all over the Netherlands when Morocco becamegroup winner. Will there be another party or will Morocco have to surrender tothe 2010 World Cup winner? Spain is fifteen places higher in the FIFA worldranking, but during this World Cup that means nothing at all. After the lossof Japan, Spain will have to pick itself up and show its best side. Who willadvance to the quarterfinals? Read more about the World Cup in Qatar here.

Ansu Fati and Takehiro Tomiyasu during the Spain vs Japan match. © ANP/EPA

Ice airport Alaska – first episode RTL Z – 8.30 p.m At Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport in Alaska, ground staff onstrike, lost suitcases and clashes with a flock of seagulls are the lastthings staff are concerned about. At the airport the wind always blows at ahurricane level, the temperature can drop to a terrifying -38 degrees andpeople are no longer surprised by a visit from a stampede moose or bear.

Rock the block – start season 3 TLC – 8:30 p.m Four well-known handyman couples take it in Rock the block against eachother in the ultimate renovation battle. With a generous DIY budget of$225,000, the teams must complete a certain space each week – from kitchen andbathroom to garage and bedroom. Whoever has added the most value to the housedelivered as a shell at the end of the ride wins. Ty Pennington, whom we stillknow from the doyen of renovation programs, Extreme home makeover ( movethat bus! ), presents.

Egypt Sherrod and Mike Jackson, Leslie Davis and Lyndsay Lamb, Keith Bynum andEvan Thomas and Dave and Jenny Marrs in ‘Rock the block’. ©TLC

**basic instinct ** SBS 9 a.m. – 8:30 p.m _Veronica Superguide Score: ★★★★★ _ When San Francisco is rocked by a sadistic lust murder, Detective NickCurran (Michael Douglas) suspects super sexy writer Catherine Tramell (SharonStone). But the more Nick meets his dazzling suspect, the more he becomescaught in the mysterious web of this seductive spider. Jan de Bont providedthe excellent camera work. Paul Verhoeven scored a world hit with thisblistering and super exciting, erotic thriller, a kind of Hitchcock for the90s. Read here what mixed feelings Sharon Stone has about the film. _ _

Chicago fire – start season 7 Just 5-10:20pm Ask any 5-year-old boy what he wants to be when he grows up, and chances areit’s a firefighter. Just like Fireman Sam. That the life of a sprayer is not asuccession of heroic deeds is evident in Chicagofire , which follows anumber of firefighters and their paramedic colleagues. In Season 7, afterGabby Dawson’s departure to Puerto Rico, Firehouse 51 welcomes a new face: EMTEmily. But not everyone is happy with her arrival.

**2Doc: Luc ** NPO 2 – 11.12 pm 15-year-old Lucas has quite a bit of trouble finding his place in society. Heescapes from a closed juvenile detention center and – together with directorTim Bary – goes in search of his freedom one last time before reporting backto the institution in Amsterdam. A portrait of a boy caught between twoworlds. Where is there room for Lucas?

It’s that time again: lists, lists, lists! 60 Dutch pop journalists, radio DJsand prominent music followers submitted their top 10 and the best album of2022 is… Big Thief’s kaleidoscopic masterpiece: Dragon New Warm Mountain IBelieve In You . Read all about it in our special Christmas edition (orderhere) and watch EAR’s Final List 2022 below.

20. Spoon – Lucifer On The Sofa

Album number ten from the indestructible indie rockers from Austin, but theystill don’t give up. On the organic rocking Lucifer On The Sofa theysmoothly capture the live feeling on record, while frontman Britt Danielsounds endlessly inspired. Spoon simply seems unable to disappoint.

19. The Weeknd–Dawn FM

on Dawn FM plays Abel ‘The Weeknd’ Tesfaye radio station. On the playlist,of course, only songs by The Weeknd himself: romantic R&B and polished dancepop, but also panoramic beats and edgy electronics (from co-producerOneohtrix Point Never). A concept album that is as ambitious as it issuccessful.

18. Bill Callahan – YTI⅃AƎЯ

Darkness has crept back into singer-songwriter Bill Callahan’s work: the dreamimages he created on YTI ⅃ AƎЯ are feverish, brooding and clammy. Theresult is his most psychedelic and perhaps best record. Anyway, a more thanvaluable addition to Callahan’s gloomy oeuvre.

17. Taylor Swift – Midnights

on midnight we hear what Taylor Swift has left over from her ‘indie folkperiod’: a refined sense of musical detail and nuance. Curiously enough, thesound is therefore suddenly reminiscent of ‘our own’ maker of majesticmasterpieces: Eefje de Visser. Taylor Swift reinvents herself all over again.

16. Danger Mouse & Black Thought – Cheat Codes

After classic The Mouse And The Mask (with MF DOOM) producer Brian ‘DangerMouse’ Burton thought it was time for a new hip-hop alliance. With The Roots’Black Thought this time (plus a group of guests). The result is a gloriousrichness, full of powerful melodies, clever samples and surefire raps.Colorful and soulful.

15. Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul – Topical Dancer

The artsy kids on Soulwax’s DEEWEE label. A duo packed with musical ideas,worldly interest and biting irony. In concrete terms: electropop withcrossovers to R&B and new wave, full of self-mockery, bizarre twists and_inside jokes_. And with international potential. An album to cherish and stepinto the future with.

14. Harry Styles – Harry’s House

The year 2022 couldn’t get around him: Harry Styles. Heartthrob with boyband past, gender fluid role model, ruler of the charts, fashion icon, moviestar ( Don ‘t Worry Darling, My Policeman ), peace activist, feminist andoh yes, he also made an album full of pop songs that nobody can go wrong with.

13. Beyonce – Renaissance

In sixteen seamlessly transitioning tracks, Beyoncé Knowles – singer, worldstar, figurehead, political commentator – jumps from R&B to house, from neo-soul to gangster rap and from sun-drenched funk to synthpop with reggaevocals. Unlimited genre hopping as a revenue model for an all-rounder.Logically? Logically.

12. Paolo Nutini – Last Night In The Bittersweet

Wash breakthrough plate Caustic Love (2014) a first step towards realmusical craftsmanship, with the craft Last Night In The Bittersweet PaoloNutini provides proof of his versatile talent. There is passion, there issoul, there are flirtations with indie and kraut rock and he makes noconcessions. Man after our own heart.

11. Nilüfer Yanya – Painless

She works with the autonomy of a PJ Harvey and integrates indie rock, dance,new wave and trip hop into her organic pop songs just as easily. In short,this 27-year-old Londoner shows herself on Painless indeed the ‘great newBritish talent’ we know at the time of her debut album __ (2019) alreadyobserved.

10. Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers

No repeat moves on this fifth album by the Californian rapper. on mr. Morale& The Big Steppers you hear no hero, savior or spokesman. The faithful Lamar(now 35) is now rather searching and unsure. But all these layers, which heprovides with a lot of depth, led to his umpteenth beautiful album.

9. Stromae–Multititude

On his long-awaited new album, Stromae again came up with cheerful soundingsongs – fresh, creative and challenging – about big and sometimes verypersonal subjects. It is a pleasure for the ear how, with his timbre andphrasing, he makes the French language sparkle on the rhythm of the music.

8. Personal Trainer – Big Love Blanket

How do you capture the sound of an erratic, hyper-energetic Amsterdam indieband with constantly changing line-ups on a representative debut album?Simple: by writing ten extremely good songs. Foreman Willem Smit did it. Therewas no indie pop record this year that splashed more joy and brilliance.

7. Black Country, New Road – Ants From Up There

On the debut album of this British septet ( For The First Time , 2021) post-rock, post-punk, folk, klezmer, jazz, minimal and avant-garde rubbed againsteach other nicely. This successor is more accessible, without the bandsurrendering to idiosyncrasy. That first record was a good one, this is also avery good one.

6. Arctic Monkeys – The Car

Into the holiday Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino (2018) liked the ArcticMonkeys so much that Alex Turner aimed for the same moody atmosphere for TheCar. And so the British – a crooning Turner in front – usually keep it_tranquillo_. Strings, jazzy drums, visual lyrics and strong songs do therest.

5. Wet Leg – Wet Leg

One single ( chaise longue ) it took this British duo to grow from insecureteenage girls to darlings of the club and festival circuit. This debut albumfurther fills in the picture. ‘Party music for gloomy people’, they call itthemselves. We mainly hear the perfect, humorous soundtrack of the summer of2022.

4. Rosalia – Motomami

The biggest Latin pop star in the world came out with her best work this year.Rosalia finds out Motomami one perfect balance after another: between oldschool and hypermodern, between drama and production techniques, between pop,reggaeton, hip-hop and dancehall. She doesn’t even shy away from a Burialsample. Completely unique.

3. Fontaines DC – Skinty Fia

The Irish Fontaines DC moved from Dublin to London, as did the perspective andthe musical approach: compared to their two previous albums, we now hear moreinfluences from British electronica and American noise, but otherwise theirnice and dramatic post-punk – with singer Grian Chat in rehearsal mode –remained intact, looking for renewal and refreshment just enough times.

2. The Smile – A Light For Attracting Attention

The creative nucleus of Radiohead (Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood) plus ajazz-trained top drummer (Tom Skinner). What could possibly go wrong? Well,nothing. The layered and sometimes downright majestic A Light For AttractingAttention became one of the best records Radiohead never made. A record onwhich so much happens – melodic, rhythmic, production-technical – that youwill not soon get tired of listening to it.

1. Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You

‘While The Beatles are perhaps the best band of all time, Big Thief is withouta doubt the best band of today’, we wrote at the beginning of this year whenthe Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You. And now look: record of theyear. The intention of the New York band around Adrianne Lenker was to explorethe outer limits and possibilities of the band with the twenty songs on thisdouble album. They succeeded with verve: it became a kaleidoscopicmasterpiece, full of controlled sound magic on the cutting edge of indie popand Americana.

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Of course takes EAR out this festive month with many more lists, Big Thiefand Fontaine DC respond to their high rating, while Piper Bloom andWilliam Smith (met Personal Trainer the highest Dutchman) take a closerlook at the Final List. Also in this edition: Gold band , Harry Styles,Bono , Son Mieux an ode to Mimi Parker from Low , Terrie & LenaHessels, Jools Holland cartoonist Jip van den Toorn a tribute to thedeceased with Anthony Corbin and much more.

“Bach is my God,” conductor Raphael Pichon said recently. And indeed, if youare St. Matthew Passion __you would almost believe that Bach is a prophet ofsalvation from above.

But that is not only due to Bach, Pichon and Pygmalion proved on Saturday. Inthe three-part series ‘De Wegen van Bach’, which Pichon will present in theAmsterdam Muziekgebouw in the coming months, he will put the spotlight onBach’s musical genealogy. To do this, he delved into the musical archives thatBach inherited from his father, and which he himself expanded further. Thecentral idea: Bach did not appear out of the blue, but was the result ofvarious musical influences. The musical family tree now started at the roots;Bach’s spiritual and literal ancestors.

Dedication

It is tempting to portray all those composers as mere preludes to Bach’sgreatness. So many musicians have studied Bach’s music that countlessbrilliant interpretations of his music are also available. Bach’s less famousrelatives do not have that privilege; confronted with a Johann Ludwig Bach, asa musician you almost have to start all over again. It sometimes leads to somebloodless performances.

You couldn’t blame Pichon for that. In his hands, all music seems to have beentouched by the genius of JS Bach. Devotion again characterized both hisdramaturgical programming — a kind of vespers service with rapid succession ofchoral parts, arias and recitatives — and the excellence of the EnsemblePygmalion.

Powder coating

The choral sound of Pygmalion alone is unique: mix the muscle power of JohnEliot Gardiner’s Monteverdi Choir with the crystal tone of The Sixteen, add adash of Graindelavoix and you get a substance that is coarse and smooth at thesame time – like powder coating. In Pichon’s quiet tempi it was as if you wereallowed to touch every note.

Consistently strong was the music of Johann Christoph Bach (1642-1703), great-uncle of Johann Sebastian. An early highlight was his Herr, wende dich undsei mir gnädig. “My God, don’t take me away from half my life,” the ensemblegasped, as if it were his very last hope. “Hear me.”

The solo contributions were also exceptional. Countertenor William Sheltondrew tears with his rounded, emotional delivery, particularly in JohannChristoph Bach’s aria Ah, that ‘s Wassers gnug hatte. “If only I had enoughwater in my head to weep day and night,” reads the baroque text. Shelton bentwhat may sound exaggerated and crude into an alienating, lucid sadness.

Himmel, du weißt meine Plagen by Philipp Heinrich Erlebach was intended byPichon for tenor Zachary Wilder, who was unable to attend due to illness. Butreplacement Laurence Kilsby, accompanied on baroque harp, turned out to be anunexpected showstopper. Erlebach’s score is full of embellishments and melodicexcursions, but for Kilsby they always came as a surprise, as if he had torecite a poem, but was always too moved to continue reading.

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The book Light , the acclaimed modern youth classic by writer Annet Schaap,can be seen from Tuesday as a four-part TV series. How did the makers manageto translate the idiosyncratic, dark, fairytale-like world from the book tothe canvas?

Jette PellemansDecember 5, 20222:35 pm

It was a dear friend who tipped producer Iris Otten about the book in 2018_Light_ by Annet Schaap. You have to film this, she said. Otten read the bookand immediately thought it was a wonderful story. But film? Impossible.

What was impossible about it? “Everything! Really everything. Well, veryconcretely: the story takes place about a hundred years ago, so you can’t useanything from contemporary society as a set. Point two: is there a boy oftwelve, thirteen who is capable of playing the role of a mermaid boy, walkingaround with a latex fish tail for the entire series? Which child wants and cando that?”

Iris Otten starts talking faster. “There is a scene, an important scene, inwhich the main characters jump out of a tower room and end up in a deep seawhere a storm is raging. There are boats, pirates, a lighthouse in the sea, anaquarium in which a mermaid woman is murdered. In a normal series you have onesuch element, but in this book everything was like that. So I said to thatfriend: it’s a fantastic story, unique and universal. But about all thoseelements around it, I thought: yes, really, how?”

Budget of 4.5 million euros

Five years later, the impossible has turned out to be possible. From December6 Light can be seen on NPO Plus. The series is made by the new productionlabel Juliet, founded by Iris Otten and Nathalie van der Burg and part of thelarger Pupkin.

The cast of ‘Lampje’.Image VPRO

What has changed, as a result of which Otten was now convinced? “First of all,there was a new policy from the NPO to focus more on high-quality dramaseries. That’s why we could Light finance with a total budget of 4.5 millioneuros, considerably more than similar youth series that we have previouslymade for around 2 million euros.”

With the gathering of the crew, confidence started to grow more and more, saysIris Otten. “The director Margien Rogaar, script writer Mieke de Jong, Robbievan Brussel as cameraman: they all had so much energy and optimism to solveall those puzzles from the story piece by piece. And I myself thought more andmore: if we succeed in getting this story to the screen, it will beunparalleled.”

Grand, adventurous and dark story

The story of Light is about an eleven-year-old girl, Emilia – but everyonecalls her Lampje. She is the daughter of the lighthouse keeper and lights thelamp high in the lighthouse every evening with a match. On a stormy night, thematches get wet and everything goes wrong. Lampie is sent away and has to livein the Black House as punishment, where she finds a monstrous creature with afish tail in the attic: Fish. That all happens in episode 1. It is thebeginning of a grand, adventurous and dark story in which Lampje and Viseventually go in search of Vis’s mother.

The lighthouse was immediately a first puzzle where the Light crew wasallowed to grit his teeth. The lighthouse is an important element in the book;it is not for nothing that it is on the front of the book, drawn by AnnetSchaap herself. But where can you find such a tall, tall pillar on a peninsulaby the sea, with high cliffs in the background?

“At a certain point I knew all the lighthouses in the Netherlands by heart,but there wasn’t the perfect one,” says Robbie van Brussel. He is thecameraman of the series, although he always finds that a somewhat unfortunateterm in Dutch. Correct in English director of photography better; he is thedirector of how the story comes into the picture. “In the end, we assembledthe lighthouse ourselves in the visual post-processing from the substructureof the IJmuiden lighthouse and the top of the lighthouse in Vlaardingen.”

Van Brussel had to look a little further for the cliffs. “We considered makingthe cliffs entirely in the computer with visual effects. Or to recreate thecliffs in miniature for the overview shots. But we had to shoot too manyscenes where the camera had to be able to look in all directions. As a vieweryou feel it when it is not real.”

So Van Brussel and production designer Barbara Westra went through GoogleMaps, increasingly south along the coastline. Finally, they found a clifftoplocation in Normandy that suited them; the visual effects department taped ina 3D model of the lighthouse for the shots from afar. The scenes on the beachwere shot in Belgium, the scenes at the front door of the lighthouse inIJmuiden. Van Brussel: “I think it’s one of the most complex, but coolproductions I’ve ever filmed. But the funny thing is: in the final edit itlooks so good that I can hardly imagine that the lighthouse was not reallythere.”

Waves of wood with hands

Finding or putting together the locations is one thing; translating thatfairytale, poetic yet dark atmosphere from the book – for which Annet Schaapwon the Gouden Griffel for good reason – is a second.

The lighthouse was finally found in Normandy.Image VPRO

“That was a difficult translation, yes,” says cameraman Van Brussel. “Forexample, at the beginning of the book there is the sentence: ‘The wavesgrabbed her legs’. How do you translate something like that? Do we make ittheatrical in which we make waves of wood with hands that grab her legs? Arewe doing something with special effects? Or should we mainly show how someoneis caught by the water and can no longer escape it? In the end, we went forthe latter and let the poetic, fairytale-like come back in other moments.”

Producer Iris Otten explains which elements you can use for this. “You can doa lot with light; so we’ve been thinking about that for a long time. We wantedthat larger than life grab feeling; grand, dreamy and spherical. Forexample, in the scenes when Lampje looks longingly at the rotating light ofthe lighthouse from the attic window of the Black House.”

Cameraman Robbie van Brussel adds: “Realistically, that should be a completelyblack image, because it is dark. But here we filmed it during the day andturned it into a dark blue night in post-processing, so you can look very farand deep and see everything in detail. That evokes a dreamy and fairytalefeeling.”

“Why did we want this again?”

Coming up with solutions to all these puzzles caused Iris Otten to regularlyhave sleepless nights during the first year of production. “I felt enormouslyresponsible. To Annet (Schaap, ed.) And to the readers. People who _Light_have read and talk about the book, often sigh: oh yes, Lampje – and then stareinto space half in love. It is such a precious, special story to them. Andthen we have to turn that into something just as brilliant. I often thought:why did we want to do this again?”

But the end result is now on the table and Iris Otten is “super proud”. Shewas relieved that the test audiences who recently saw the series respondedunanimously enthusiastically. “So we managed to translate a story that onlyexisted in someone’s imagination into a world of images in which peoplebelieve 100 percent that Fish is a mermaid boy! I am very happy with that,yes.”

The VPRO series Light can be seen from Tuesday 6 December on NPO Plus andfrom Monday 2 to Thursday 5 January in four parts on NPO Zapp at 19.20.

Read also: ** ‘ Lampje’ is a great book**

Annet Schaap debuts with a fantastic imaginative story about the daughter ofthe lighthouse keeper.

Exuberant trips, sky-high bills and a mountain of debt. That seems to beBertrand Flamang’s legacy. The former organizer of Gent Jazz and JazzMiddelheim currently shuns the media, but former employees do want to open upabout their boss.

Gunter Van Assche and Dimitri ThijskensDecember 6, 202203:00

“A power-hungry megalomaniac.” It is not uncommon for Bertrand Flamang (54) tobe portrayed in this way by his ex-employees and insiders. Years of “extrememismanagement” under his reign of terror wreaked havoc at Gent Jazz and JazzMiddelheim.

“Be careful with Bertrand Flamang. A dangerous individual.” We were remindedof this repeatedly, long before the bankruptcy of the non-profit organizationJazz en Muziek was pronounced. “It’s an open secret that his business stinks.That someone like him has been able to go about his business unhindered for solong is partly due to the smoke screens he managed to pull up. But probablyalso because of the culture of fear he created in the workplace.”

Robbery by daylight

Nevertheless, most of them wanted to testify last week about the mismanagementthat led Gent Jazz and Jazz Middelheim to bankruptcy. “Without personalinterest, but from a concern for the artists, employees, visitors of bothfestivals and the cultural sector.” For years, Flamang plundered the non-profit organization behind both festivals. Unobstructed, but not unseen. Itsshameless robbery by daylight caused great internal frustration. Someemployees kept to themselves and resigned of their own accord.

The carousel of employees at both festivals is therefore long. “He sat on thethrone of that non-profit organization like a flabby king.” The monarch alsomaintained a reign of terror: “Flamang is someone for whom you had to be readyday and night, even at the most unusual moments. It goes without saying thatthe pressure is high before and during such a festival. But that pressure wasabnormally, inhumanly high. Flamang showed little respect for other people’sboundaries. No respect at all, actually. He seemed eager to break people.”

One disillusioned employee who could not hold back her tears in his presence,he publicly called “hysterical bitch”. She says she had to go to therapyafterwards. Another employee, in turn, claims that Flamang’s behavior andcheating almost drove him to an act of desperation. Resigning seemed the onlyway out in both cases. “Since I left, I could no longer physically or mentallymove myself to go to Gent Jazz. While it has always been one of my favoritefestivals. It may not sound great, but I’ve actually been waiting for thismoment for a few years now. The moment when the masks would fall.” Is Flamanga wolf in sheep’s clothing? Another employee wouldn’t even call him that.“It’s a pig. Horny for power, sexist and false.”

Schoffie and anarchist

Flamang previously claimed about himself that he never minces words and daresto take the initiative. That attitude led him from self-proclaimed “rascal andanarchist” in the 1980s to café owner in the 1990s and then to the status ofthe largest jazz festival organizer in this country. Little of that patinaremains today.

In tempore non suspecto, Bertrand Flamang was introduced in Knack as “awayward self-made man”. But that’s a description that didn’t exactly age asfine wine. A stubborn Machiavellian leans closer to the truth, it sounds fromwithin today. Everything seemed allowed for the preservation of power andself-interest. “Since his ‘departure’ in March, for example, he still invoicedthe non-profit organization a monthly amount of 13,000 euros. And in Septemberthis year he actually had all the strings in his hands again. Around that timeit was announced that an application had been submitted to move from the siteof the Oude Bijloke to the much larger Sint-Pietersplein. Such a megalomaniac,that could only come from Bertrand.”

The Turk

Before he would manage Gent Jazz and Jazz Middelheim, Flamang was the caféowner of Den Turk for four years. Strategically located opposite Ghent’s townhall, where politicians sometimes came to relax or have conversations duringand after work. It is believed that in this way he was able to establish closeties with the city authorities. That herring didn’t keep frying.

Flamang always started to live life to the fullest, even though things havebeen less prosperous at the non-profit organization in recent years. He didnot pay suppliers on time, and used his own pecking order. Suppliers of tentsand the interim office for the employees would now also be creditors in thebankruptcy. At one point, Flamang held five different bank cards in the nameof the non-profit organization Jazz en Muziek. One monthly statement fromAmerican Express even amounted to 36,000 euros, it now appears. Exuberant sumswere spent on travel, meals and wines.

For the time being, Bertrand Flamang is also still involved in theorganization of Mardi Gras on Braunplein during the Gentse Feesten, and in therestaurant SGOL under the Stadshal. However, these matters are separate fromthe bankrupt non-profit organization Jazz en Muziek.

From Monday 19 December, De Warmste Week will settle in Hasselt’s Stadspark.It is the first time that the largest solidarity action from Flanders is goingto Limburg. This year, De Warmste Week is tackling the fight againstdeprivation.

Who presents?

The choice fell on StuBru voices Fien Germijns (27) and Eva De Roo (34) andtheir MNM colleagues Sander Gillis (30) and Kawtar Ehlalouch (25). Togetherthey make non-stop radio for six days on Studio Brussels, MNM and VRT MAX fromHet Warmste Huis in Hasselt. They live, work and sleep there during the entireaction and they send reporters Robin Keyaert and Joris Brys across Flanders tocollect stories.

Which acts will perform?

No De Warmste Week without live music. Goldband, Regi, Niels Destadsbader,Bart Peeters, Ilsen & Verhulst, Bazart, Metejoor and Black Box Revelation,among others, will play live this year. Oscar and the Wolf, which will alsoheadline Rock Werchter next year, will also be there. You can attend everyconcert for free.

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Cargo bike from Ostend to Hasselt

Ketnetwrapper Héritier blazes along with Tournée Héritier. He converted acargo bike into a mobile DJ booth and uses it to paddle to Ketnetters who haveset up an action. To thank them, he plays pictures. Héritier starts his touron the beach of Ostend and hopes to arrive in Hasselt on the final day of DeWarmste Week with a cargo bike full of stories.

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The Warmest Week on TV

During De Warmste Week there will be a TV broadcast with Siska Schoeters onOne and VRT MAX every evening around 10.15 pm. Together with a central guest,she looks back at the best moments of the day. Every day the show gets thename of the day, starting with De Warmste Monday.

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Other One programs are also devoted to De Warmste Week. Kristel Verbeke entersFlames against poverty looking at the impact of poverty on someone’s life. Intwo episodes on One, on Mondays and Thursdays, she talks to about a hundredpeople. Both with people who are in the middle of it, but also withneighbours, colleagues, friends and social workers.

There will be an episode of it on Wednesday 21 December Dare to ask aboutpeople who are homeless or homeless. In the quiz Switch well-known Flemishpeople Aster Nzeyimana, Katrien De Ruysscher, Jonas Geirnaert, Annabet Ampofoand Thibault Christiaensen give the best of themselves to raise as much moneyas possible.

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Five Warmathons

In the final week there are five Warmathons (running in circles or walking toraise money) on the program. On Monday 19 December, Stephanie Planckaert willfire the starting shot in Bruges. Sint-Niklaas is next with Sarah Mouhamou onTuesday, Brussels with Mathias Vergels on Wednesday and Mechelen with DieterCoppens on Thursday. On Friday, Maksim Stojanac closes the Warmathons inLeuven.

Support The Warmest Week yourself

Of course you can also support the charity yourself by requesting images. Inaddition, it is still possible to set up campaigns to collect money, buyflames and register for one of the five Warmathons. The closing show takesplace on Christmas Eve between 5 and 6 pm. Last year, De Warmste Week raisedan amount of 3,203,455 euros.

Es el segundo Mundial de Mbappé, que cumplirá 24 años este mes, señal de suprecocidad, otro aspecto común en los grandes fenómenos del fútbol, ​​que noentiden de edades. Llegan y dominan. Era dominant aquel Mbappé que surgió enel Mónaco y destrozó al Manchester City and la Copa de Europa. Y fue eljugador que le cambió el paso a Francia en el Mundial de Rusia. Cuando lascosas se ponían feas, y eso ocurrió en varios partidos, el equipo encontrabarefugio en las portentosas cualidades de su jugador más joven. No lo pareciaen el campo. Jugaba con la sabiduría y propiedad de los que nacen ensenados.

Antes de la rescisión en agosto del contrato de Halilhodzic, el anteriorseleccionador, apenas se disimulaba el clamor popular contra el técnico,enfrentado a un auténtico ídolo nacional. “No puedo convocar a Ziyech niaunque fuera Messi. No fue disciplinado en los últimos partidos y se abstuvode entrenar. No tolerare ese comportamiento. Ya le perdone dos veces. No hayuna tercera”, dijo en febrero. Hay mucha bruma sobre el origen del conflicto.Ziyech ya había tenido roces que se resolvieron con otro seleccionador, HervéRenard.

Ziyech había hecho pública su renuncia a la selección, en la que no jugabadesde la Copa de África 2021. Pero la Federación marroquí acabó cediendo a lapresión de los aficionados, que reclamaban el regreso del mago y de otrosjugadores vetados como Mazraoui. Ziyech reapareció en los amistosos deseptiembre, ya tres días del comienzo del Mundial afinaba su zurda con ungolazo ante Georgia desde su campo.

Nacido en Dronden, a 80 kilómetros de Ámsterdam, Ziyech es hijo de una parejade bereberes inmigrantes procedentes del Rif. Su padre falleció de esclerosiscuando Ziyech tenía 10 años, y su madre se deslomaba limpiando pisos paramantener a nueve hijos. Ziyech era el menor, y en su juego habita ese singularaire callejero que forjó en los suburbios de Dronden. “Hay cosas que sucedíancuando era pequeño, jugando en la calle, que te hacen más duro como persona.Me enfrentaba con chicos mayores que jamás retrocedían. Incluso cuando lesdemostrabas que tú jugabas mejor, ellos te seguían golpeando. Eso te ayuda acrecer”, afirma.

Reclutado por la academia del Herenveen, debutó con el primer equipo a los 19años, en 2012. Su técnico era nada menos que Marco Van Basten, que le dirigiódos temporadas. En la primera de ellas, casi sin minutos, Ziyech ya se quejabade que su evolución habría sido más rápida si Van Basten lo hubiera manejadode otra forma. El exinternacional englandés calificaría de “acto estúpido” ladecisión de Ziyech en 2015 de enrolarse en la selección marroquí cuando podíahaberlo hecho en Países Bajos. “Yo solo quiero jugar. No hablo el idioma, perosé de donde vengo”, dijo. Había vestido la camiseta naranja en categoríasinferiores e incluso había sido convocado una vez con la absoluta con GuusHiddink al mando, pero no debutó por lesión, y después Danny Blind no volvió allamarle. Aceptó la propuesta del seleccionador marroquí, el exportero delMallorca Ezaki Badou cuando ya se había convertido en uno de los mejoresjóvenes de la Eredivisie, tras ser traspasado al Twente y luego al Ajax. Andcuatro cursos en Ámsterdam firmó 49 goles y 62 asistencias.

En la campaña 2018/2019, con su querido Schreuder como ayudante de Erik TenHag, un festivo Ajax lleno de talento joven llegó a las semifinales de laChampions antes de que el equipo comenzara a desmembrarse por las ventas. ElAjax era líder en marzo de 2020, cuando la Eredivisie se suspendiódefinitivamente por la pandemia de covid. Ziyech estaba contagiado y confinadoen casa mientras se fraguaba su traspaso al Chelsea por 40 millones. Ten Hagadvertía a Frank Lampard del jugador que habían comprado los londinenses: “Aveces puede convertirse en una pesadilla para un entrenador, pero hay quedarle espacio. Con Hakim es así. Lo que ves es lo que hay y sabes como sesiente cada día. Puede ser terco, pero eso le hace brillante”.

Con Lampard siempre fue titular. Pero el técnico duró poco y la llegada albanquillo de Thomas Tuchel relegó a Ziyech en la jerarquía de una amplia ycarísima nómina de atacantes. Ahora, en su tercer curso en Stamford Bridgeapenas juega con Graham Potter. Su regreso con Marruecos ha liberado de nuevoese nervio creativo forrado por un físico diseñado para la aceleración y elengaño, y que desemboca en el refinamiento de su zurda, un pincel que trazapor igual disparos venenosos o asistencias minimalistas. Un catálogo de lujosque han desatado la nostalgia en su país de nacimiento: “Lo más atractivo desu fútbol es su atrevimiento. No le importa perder un balón, porque un minutodespués se juega otro más complicado. Eso habla de su fortaleza mental. Es unapena que no juegue con la Orange. No tenemos un jugador así”, declared byRafael Van der Vaart. Y un Van Basten sin rencor lamenta su ostracismo en elChelsea: “Vemos la televisión y vamos a estadios para ver jugadores como este.Debería estar en otro equipo, entreteniendo a la gente”.