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A picture showing a man blocking a line of tanks at the 1989 pro-democracy movement in Beijing is displayed at the "June 4 Memorial Museum" run by pro-democracy activists at City University in Hong Kong Monday, June 3, 2013 to commemorate the 24rd anniversary of the bloodshed. Tens of thousands of protesters expected to attend a candlelight vigil at Hong Kong's Victoria Park in the evening of June 4. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
A picture showing a man blocking a line of tanks at the 1989 pro-democracy movement in Beijing is displayed at the "June 4 Memorial Museum" run by pro-democracy activists at City University in Hong Kong Monday, June 3, 2013 to commemorate the 24rd anniversary of the bloodshed. Tens of thousands of protesters expected to attend a candlelight vigil at Hong Kong's Victoria Park in the evening of June 4. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
A woman watches a video footage of the crackdown of the June 4, 1989 pro-democracy movement in Beijing's Tiananmen Square with an enlarged photo of the protest as a backdrop at the "June 4 Memorial Museum" in Hong Kong's City University Monday, June 3, 2013. Tens of thousands of protesters expected to attend a candlelight vigil at Hong Kong's Victoria Park in the evening of June 4. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
A woman reads a book in front of portraits of victims of the crackdown of the June 4, 1989 pro-democracy movement in Beijing's Tiananmen Square at the "June 4 Memorial Museum" run by pro-democracy activists at City University in Hong Kong Monday, June 3, 2013 to commemorate the 24rd anniversary of the bloodshed. Tens of thousands of protesters expected to attend a candlelight vigil at Hong Kong's Victoria Park in the evening of June 4. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
A student reads a 1989 newspaper on the crackdown of the June 4, 1989 pro-democracy movement in Beijing's Tiananmen Square at the "June 4 Memorial Museum" at Hong Kong's City University Monday, June 3, 2013. Tens of thousands of protesters expected to attend a candlelight vigil at Hong Kong's Victoria Park in the evening of June 4. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
China's hard line Premier Li Peng at the time of the Tiananmen Square democracy crackdown in 1989 is shown in a video footage at "June 4 Memorial Museum" in Hong Kong's City University Monday, June 3, 2013 to commemorate the 24rd anniversary of the bloodshed. Tens of thousands of protesters expected to attend a candlelight vigil at Hong Kong's Victoria Park in the evening of June 4. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
HONG KONG (AP) ? Every year, Hong Kong residents gather in droves for the annual vigil to commemorate the Tiananmen democracy protests. More than marking the brutal crackdown in Beijing 24 years ago, the event here increasingly symbolizes disaffection with rule by China.
Tens of thousands of people were expected to gather Tuesday evening at a large park in the former British colony, holding candles aloft to remember those killed when their protests in central Beijing were crushed by the Chinese military on June 4, 1989. Commemorations of the crackdown are suppressed everywhere else in China.
In Beijing, there was no sign of large-scale protest, but some people answered a call by activists to wear black to work in remembrance. As in previous years, many pro-democracy activists themselves were not allowed to leave their homes to mark the anniversary. On the country's lively social media, searches for words including "commemorate" and "6_4" were banned, and the candle emoticon was removed.
In Hong Kong, the event has taken on a life of its own, with residents of the now-semiautonomous Chinese region expressing unhappiness that their administrators are still hand-picked by Beijing despite promises of more democracy.
"There are more people who want to use this vigil regarding June 4 as a way to protest against Beijing's heavy-handed intervention in Hong Kong affairs," said Willy Lam, a professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong.
When Hong Kongers poured into the streets in 1989, their sympathy with the protesters in Beijing had more to do with fears about impending Chinese rule ? then eight years away. Now it's about current problems that include corruption, a leader viewed by many as inept and tin-eared, and a yawning wealth gap that has stifled the aspirations of the city's large middle-class.
And "of course it also expresses the anger of people over the Chinese government messing with our democratic reform," said pro-democracy legislator Lee Cheuk-yan. Organizers hope to match last year's turnout, which they estimated at 180,000 though police put the number at 85,000.
When Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997, it was allowed to keep its own political system and Western-style civil liberties such as freedom of speech until 2047.
Residents can vote for some of their legislators, while others are chosen by business and other special interest groups. They've never been able to choose their leader, who during British colonial rule was dispatched from London. Since China retook control, the leader, now known as chief executive, has been chosen by a committee of mostly pro-Beijing elites.
Beijing has pledged to allow Hong Kongers to elect their leader by 2017 and elect all legislators in 2020 but no roadmap has been laid out.
The lack of progress has led Hong Kong University professor Benny Tai to propose a protest movement in which supporters would occupy the city's financial district in 2014 in a last-ditch attempt to press their demands for a genuine chief executive election.
Hong Kongers' yearning for democracy is illustrated by their frustrations with current Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, who has been hit by a series of controversies since taking office less than a year ago.
Leung's already poor approval rating plummeted further over the past few months, according to opinion polls by Hong Kong University researchers. Last week, a senior mainland official took the unusual step of denying there was a plan to replace him.
"One huge problem with C.Y. Leung is that he's a yes-man; he's regarded as a stooge of Beijing," Lam said.
Last year, protests forced Leung to back down from plans to require Chinese patriotism classes in schools, which some parents feared was a form of brainwashing. In January, he survived an impeachment attempt.
Leung took office with promises to provide more affordable housing but residents haven't had much relief from high rents and home prices in Hong Kong, where tens of thousands live in cubicles, metal cages or other substandard housing even though it's one of Asia's richest cities.
His latest troubles revolve around a scandal involving a member of his Cabinet, Barry Cheung, who was also a key supporter of his bid for Hong Kong's top job. Cheung was forced to resign from all his public positions after police launched an investigation into him and his fledgling Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange, which had to return its trading license last month, two years after it opened. Six people have also been arrested in connection with the investigation.
A spate of corruption scandals has raised worries about the integrity of public officials in Hong Kong, an Asian financial center that likes to boast of clean government and strong rule of law. In May, the city's corruption watchdog launched a criminal investigation of its former chief over complaints of excessive spending on gifts and meals on visits with mainland Chinese officials.
Last year, the Independent Commission Against Corruption also investigated Leung's predecessor over allegations he received favors like luxury travel and an upscale apartment from wealthy friends. Separately, a former chief secretary, the second highest ranking official, has been charged in a corruption case along with a pair of billionaire developers.
Tensions have also been growing over the unwelcome side-effects of increasing numbers of mainland visitors. Last year about 35 million visited Hong Kong, a cramped city of 7.1 million. Locals have taken to deriding their mainland cousins as "locusts" for their reputation for buying up luxury goods, apartments and even baby formula.
To calm rising anger over shortages of formula ? coveted by mainland parents after China's tainted milk scandal ? the government in March prohibited visitors from leaving the city with more than two cans.
Following Tuesday's vigil, some plan to march to the Chinese central government's liaison office where, radical lawmaker Leung Kwok-hung said, they will demand the Communist Party end one-party rule, pay homage to the Tiananmen victims and release all political prisoners.
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Many people have asked what makes my relationship with Paul so amazing and I tell them it's because we never fight.
That's not entirely true, we rarely fight. I can count on one hand the number of arguments we have had, if that hand was deformed and it had forty six fingers. But, nobody is counting here. Our arguments are few and far between. Actually, we fought today. Although I can't really say that we fought today, because today we simply were not speaking to each other. We fought last night when I told him he should be wearing a T-shirt with a picture of a crab on it to match his attitude instead of that stupid lobster T-shirt. It was a cheap shot, I'll admit, but sometimes a little humor can diffuse a tense situation.
And sometimes, it does not.
I'm not saying that we are the perfect couple, but we are darn near close! Sometimes I forget all of the painstaking, meticulous and laboriously detailed plans that Paul recounts ad nauseum and occasionally I can be callous when, oh let's say, I laugh at his coming out song which happens to be Reflection by Christina Aguilera. Remember Disney's Mulan?
And sometimes Paul can be less than enthusiastic about my writing projects and offer helpful criticisms such as "I didn't get it," or "Does this one pay anything?" But all in all we are so compatible it is almost scary.
For example, he loves cars and I love to ride in them. He loves to cook and I like to eat. He loves to clean and I'm a mess. I could go on and on, but you get the drift. I'm the yang to his yin, which I suppose means we're more opposite than alike, but if you think about it the whole yin/yang thing really ties us back nicely to Mulan, doesn't it?
Maybe our success as a couple has more to do with our eerily identical sense of humor. Just the other day, I pulled a pair of Paul's shorts out of the dryer, put them on and held the waist band out
like I had just lost one hundred pounds and let them drop to the floor. Then I encouraged him to try and squeeze into a pair of my jeans. The waist wouldn't make it past one of his thighs. We laughed and laughed! You know, now that I think about it I may have been laughing more than Paul, but he always tells me he's really laughing on the inside when he reads one of my hilarious blog posts.
We are extremely secure. That's what it is when you get right down to it. I'll go out with my friends for a "girl's night out" as Paul calls it and he's not the least bit jealous. He knows that I need some time with my best friends Sam and Cary and the occasional validation from some drunken guy at a bar who totally unprovoked, mind you, will cop a feel. I'll come home and tell him how terribly attractive everyone thought I was, how they wished I was single and he doesn't bat an eye! That is security right there and we both have it in spades.
In the end we're not afraid to admit when one of us is wrong. I know that when Paul picks me up from work tonight and drives me home he'll be thinking about how lucky he is to have found me. I'll go to the gym while he cooks dinner, and he'll add a little bit of extra love to that meal as the final ingredient. And when I step out of the shower and sit down to a warm home cooked meal?
He'll apologize.
A slightly modified version of this post originally appeared in William Dameron's personal blog The Authentic Life
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PARIS (Reuters) - Nearly three-quarters of French want President Francois Hollande to push further ahead with economic reforms and are ready to make personal sacrifices as long the pain is fairly distributed, a survey by pollster BVA found on Wednesday.
No fewer than 67 percent of respondents agreed with the statement "if we carry on like this, we are headed for catastrophe" according to results of the telephone and Internet survey of nearly 1,000 people conducted between May 29-30.
The findings cast doubt on a common international perception that the French are unreceptive to change and highlighted what BVA concluded was a "real calling into question" of decades of French political leadership.
A full 80 percent of respondents concurred with the statement that "our leaders have never had the courage to undertake the difficult reforms which our country needs".
The poll found 74 percent were in favor of deeper reforms in the labor market, pensions and unemployment benefits.
The survey was conducted last week just as the European Commission urged France to rein in public spending, cut labor costs and reform its pension system in return for winning two extra years to bring its budget deficit within EU targets.
Hollande, who was elected in May last year, has already implemented some moves to reduce high labor costs and has promised laws setting out a major overhaul of the pension system by the end of this year.
He has argued that his reform record can be judged only over the full course of his five-year term, while critics - notably in Brussels and Germany - want him to step up the pace.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) ? It used to be that if a summer flick starred Will Smith, it was a guaranteed moneymaker: First place at the box office, maybe a franchise in the making.
But the 44-year-old actor's latest film opened with a thud.
"After Earth," a futuristic action-adventure co-starring Smith's 14-year-old son, Jaden, debuted in third place, collecting a disappointing $27.5 million over the weekend.
"It's tough because we're very proud of the film," said Sony's president of worldwide distribution, Rory Bruer.
Box-office analysts had predicted the sci-fi tale that cost an estimated $130 million to make would open just behind the international street-racing romp "Fast & Furious 6," which held onto the top spot with $35.2 million after its huge debut last week. Instead, second place went to Lionsgate and Summit Entertainment's "Now You See Me," which exceeded expectations with $29.25 million. The magic-heist thriller's ensemble cast includes Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Woody Harrelson and Mark Ruffalo.
"When you're a Tom Cruise or Will Smith, there are huge expectations placed on a movie that are not placed on an ensemble," said Paul Dergarabedian of box-office tracker Hollywood.com. "It just shows you how competitive the summer marketplace is and star power isn't necessarily what gets you there."
Based on a story by Smith, "After Earth" follows a father and son stranded on an abandoned Earth after a crash landing. Dad is injured, so the son must overcome his fear and brave the planet's dangerous creatures and conditions to get help.
The film was deemed "rotten" by review aggregator RottenTomatoes.com, with only 12 percent of critics offering praise.
"Quite simply, this is one of the worst films of 2013," Richard Roeper wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times.
The poor reception by critics and fans also hurts director M. Night Shyamalan, whose last several films flopped. Sony spokesman Jeff Blake called the director "a world-class filmmaker" in a recent statement, but Shyamalan was notably absent from "After Earth" marketing and promotions.
"Shyamalan is clearly a director-for-hire here," Scott Foundas wrote in Variety, "his disinterest palpable from first frame to last."
Sony's president of distribution said the studio still has high hopes for the film internationally as it expands to 60 more countries Friday. Said Bruer: "We're still feeling confident that as the film plays out throughout the world, we're going to be absolutely fine."
Meanwhile, "Fast & Furious 6" continues to speed past its competitors. With settings around the globe and an international cast led by Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson, along with the international language of fast cars, the film has broad appeal for viewers young and old.
"It's playing like what we call a four-quadrant movie, even though on paper it looks like a PG-13, testosterone-driven racing movie," Dergarabedian said. "It's just a wild and fun ride at the movie theater, and that's what people want when they go to the movies in the summer."
"Fast" could enjoy a third week on top as the newest action offering among Friday's openers "The Internship" and "The Purge."
The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com, are:
1. "Fast & Furious 6," Universal, $35,164,440, 3,686 locations, $9,540 average, $171,003,965, two weeks.
2. "Now You See Me," Lionsgate/Summit Entertainment, $29,254,674, 2,925 locations, $10,002 average, $29,254,674, one week.
3. "After Earth," Sony/Columbia, $27,520,040, 3,401 locations, $8,092 average, $27,520,040, one week.
4. "Star Trek: Into Darkness," Paramount, $16,780,895, 3,585 locations, $4,681 average, $181,537,381, three weeks.
5. "Epic," Fox, $16,616,310, 3,894 locations, $4,267 average, $65,377,491, two weeks.
6. "The Hangover Part III," Warner Bros., $16,385,254, 3,565 locations, $4,596 average, $88,540,908, two weeks.
7. "Iron Man 3," Disney, $8,442,451, 2,895 locations, $2,916 average, $385,187,736, five weeks.
8. "The Great Gatsby," Warner Bros., $6,517,317, 2,635 locations, $2,473 average, $128,508,209, four weeks.
9. "Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani," Eros Int'l, $1,568,677, 161 locations, $9,743 average, $1,568,677, one week.
10. "Mud," Roadside Attractions, $1,209,355, 581 locations, $2,082 average, $16,849,451, six weeks.
11. "The Croods," Fox, $665,624, 506 locations, $1,315 average, $180,588,685, 11 weeks.
12. "Frances Ha," IFC, $530,493, 132 locations, $4,019 average, $1,556,325, three weeks.
13. "42," Warner Bros., $512,231, 501 locations, $1,022 average, $92,331,685, eight weeks.
14. "Oz the Great and Powerful," Disney, $419,116, 330 locations, $1,270 average, $233,032,311, 13 weeks.
15. "Before Midnight," Sony Pictures Classics, $404,311, 31 locations, $13,042 average, $774,083, two weeks.
16. "Oblivion," Universal, $394,705, 357 locations, $1,106 average, $88,067,670, seven weeks.
17. "G.I. Joe: Retaliation," Paramount, $276,841, 286 locations, $968 average, $121,588,603, 10 weeks.
18. "Escape From Planet Earth," Weinstein Co., $195,323, 268 locations, $729 average, $56,322,427, 16 weeks.
19. "What Maisie Knew," Millennium Entertainment, $191,169, 101 locations, $1,893 average, $528,635, five weeks.
20. "Love Is All You Need," Sony Pictures Classics, $167,820, 71 locations, $2,364 average, $706,332, five weeks.
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AP Entertainment Writer Sandy Cohen is on Twitter: www.twitter.com/APSandy .
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Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.
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