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Genco Shipping & Trading Limited Announces First Quarter Financial Results

Edit Stockhouse 09 May 2016
NEW YORK, May 09, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Genco Shipping & Trading Limited (NYSE.GNK) (“Genco” or the “Company”) today reported its financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2016. The following financial review discusses the results for the three months ended March 31, 2016 and March 31, 2015 ... Financial Review. 2016 First Quarter ... John C ... Liquidity and Capital Resources. Cash Flow ... Jun ... Genco Commodus 2009 Swissmarine Asia Pte....

'A certain sort of maleness': Helen Garner on a week spent watching Russell Crowe films

Edit The Guardian 01 Apr 2016
Everyone has an opinion about Russell Crowe ... I’m terribly vexed.” Coming to Gladiator as I did five years too late, I felt like Joaquin Phoenix’s Commodus, all perfumed and fresh and maquillé, galloping up to his father Marcus Aurelius moments after the great greasy blackened brutes of Germania’s army have been routed by the Romans at untellable expense of life and limb. ‘Have I missed it?’ lisps Commodus, springing out of his chariot....

Monday’s best TV: Guy Martin’s Wall of Death; Eddie Izzard: 27 Marathons in 27 Days; Maigret; Fresh Meat

Edit The Guardian 28 Mar 2016
Guy Martin’s Wall Of Death. Live. 7.15pm, Channel 4. Motorcyclist and professional northerner Guy Martin isn’t afraid of a challenge ... “It’s like the Colosseum,” says Ken ... 9pm, ITV ... Julia Raeside The Island With Bear Grylls ... This Technicolor precursor of Gladiator stars Christopher Plummer as corrupt emperor Commodus, who rules a Rome beset by barbarians – the light is growing dim, and Mann creates a tangible sense of spreading darkness ... ....

A Guide for Presidential Candidates

Edit Huffington Post 02 Mar 2016
Super Tuesday is a time for reflection on the successes and failures of each of the presidential campaigns. In a week that saw Hillary Clinton exceed all expectations in South Carolina and Donald J ... In vaguely chronological order... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... Turning to Rome, the emperor Commodus (177-192 CE) staged public hunts in the amphitheater, standing in a protected, elevated box and knocking off ostriches, bears, and lions with spears and arrows ... ....

Best Oscar-Winning Movies Based on True Stories

Edit The Wrap 23 Feb 2016
It’s no small coincidence that studios plaster “Based on a true story” whenever a film adapts true events, especially when Oscar season comes around. There’s something about a true story that grabs our attention ... Also Read. Oscars. The Winningest Winners This Awards Season (So Far) ... Marcus Aurelius was not killed by his Commodus, who in turn was not killed in the Coliseum (he was, however, assassinated by a slave)....

Veteran Critic on Ben Affleck’s Secret Greeting, Russell Crowe’s Short Fuse

Edit The Wrap 12 Feb 2016
There’s always a chance to meet celebrities at festivals, but the question is ... His name was Ben Affleck ... Also Read. 'Batman v ... I adopted it as well ... He was the ultimate thinking man’s badass, channeling lightning bolts of clenched fury into how Maximus would stare at Joaquin Phoenix‘s Commodus and say, without so much as raising his voice, “The time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end.” (Translation....

Could You Stomach the Horrors of 'Halftime' in Ancient Rome?

Edit Yahoo Daily News 06 Feb 2016
The 'Gladiator' Commodus. The Roman Games and the work of the bestiarii may have reached their apex during the reign of Emperor Commodus, which began in 180 AD ... But even in this heightened environment, Commodus served as an extreme. Having little interest in running the empire, he left most of the day-to-day decisions to a prefect, while Commodus himself indulged in living a very public life of debauchery....

The Praetorian Guard: A Double-Edged Sword

Edit World History Online 25 Jan 2016
by Ludwig Heinrich Dyck ... Numbering 4,500 to 6,000 men under Augustus, the Guard grew to 15,000 under Commodus (r ... 306-312) ... To curry their favor, Claudius rewarded the Guard with five years’ salary! The Praetorians also played their part in the plot to murder the megalomaniac Commodus (d ... The Guard was happy to accept a Donativium, a huge monetary bonus, from Commodus’ successor, Pertinax, but then found Pertinax too independent minded ... ....

Mid-Season 6 Finale is High Caliber!

Edit Huffington Post 05 Dec 2015
Season 6 episode 8 titled, "Start to Finish," delivers on all facets and then some. Solid acting supported by a superb story with impressive visuals. All creating those memorable moments ... "They don't need me, Rick ... Then Ms ... This causes the emperor's son, Commodus, the expected heir who's not characteristically fit to lead Rome, to experience anger. To which the emperor says, "Commodus, your faults as a son, is my failure as a father." ... ....

A Brash Brit’s Subversive Siege of Ancient Rome

Edit The Daily Beast 22 Nov 2015
“Get it?” ... On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up ... It seems that one day in the Colosseum, Dio was seated among a group of senators watching the reigning emperor, Commodus—memorably played by Joaquin Phoenix in the film “Gladiator”—put on displays of his gladiatorial prowess. At one point, Commodus beheaded an ostrich, then menacingly displayed its severed head, and his own bloody sword, to the senators seated before him ... ....

Art review: Hall of Emperors found on Norman’s Boyd Street

Edit The Oklahoman 27 Sep 2015
NORMAN — A balance of idealization and realism makes it easier to see Roman busts as people, not just power symbols, in “Immortales.  The Hall of Emperors of the Capitoline Museums, Rome,” a show at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma ... Beards and tightly curled locks give gravity and a classical feel to busts of emperors Hadrian, Anotonius Pius and Commodus, as well as Lucius Verus, who ruled jointly....

Interviews & video: 'Immortales' brings imperial busts from Rome to Norman, exhibit's family day planned today

Edit The Oklahoman 21 Sep 2015
Roman rule ... Augustus. Nero ... In addition to stone portraits of Augustus and his wife Livia, the exhibit features depictions of such well-known -- for better or worse -- Roman rulers as Tiberius, Nero, Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius and his wife Faustina and Commodus ... “What is surprising about the fact that we have Nero or Commodus … is that the Senate would often pass actual decrees that would condemn the portraiture of those emperors ... ....

'Immortales' brings imperial busts from Rome to Norman, exhibit's family day planned today

Edit The Oklahoman 20 Sep 2015
Roman rule ... Augustus. Nero ... In addition to stone portraits of Augustus and his wife Livia, the exhibit features depictions of such well-known -- for better or worse -- Roman rulers as Tiberius, Nero, Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius and his wife Faustina and Commodus ... “What is surprising about the fact that we have Nero or Commodus … is that the Senate would often pass actual decrees that would condemn the portraiture of those emperors ... ....
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