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‘Voice’ champ quips about Jamaica’s roads

KINGSTON, JAMAICA

Jamaican singer Tessanne Chin might motivate the government of her Caribbean homeland to fix the country’s chronically rutted roads.

Chin became the season five champ of “The Voice” TV show Tuesday, eliciting jubilation in Jamaica. Her performances on the NBC singing competition were a big topic on the island, and politicians lost no time in congratulating her.

When Chin won a car with the other finalists, she quipped to host Carson Daly that “we have the worst roads” in Jamaica.

National Works Agency Deputy CEO Earl Patterson said Wednesday that he got the message, telling reporters: “Certainly the point that Tessanne made that the roads could do with more investment, that point is noted.”

‘Mary Poppins’ among films to be preserved

WASHINGTON

Just in time for a new movie about the making of “Mary Poppins,” the 1964 Disney classic starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke has been selected for preservation at the Library of Congress so future generations of Americans can see it.

The library this week is inducting 25 films into the National Film Registry to be preserved for their cultural, historical or cinematic significance. This year’s selections include Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction,” the space race film “The Right Stuff,” and Michael Moore’s documentary confronting the auto industry, “Roger and Me.”

Curators said it was a coincidence that they selected “Mary Poppins” just ahead of its 50th anniversary and during the release of the new Disney film “Saving Mr. Banks,” which is about the making of the movie.

The films chosen this year span from 1919 to 2002 and include Hollywood classics, documentaries, silent films, independent flicks and experimental pictures. Congress created the program in 1989 to ensure that gems from American movie history are preserved for years to come.

Here are the 25 films selected in 2013 by the Library of Congress to be preserved as part of the National Film Registry:

“Bless Their Little Hearts” (1984); “Brandy in the Wilderness” (1969); “Cicero March” (1966); “Daughter of Dawn” (1920); “Decasia” (2002); “Ella Cinders” (1926); “Forbidden Planet” (1956; “Gilda” (1946); “The Hole” (1962); “Judgment at Nuremberg” (1961); “King of Jazz” (1930); “The Lunch Date” (1989); “The Magnificent Seven” (1960); “Martha Graham Early Dance Films” (1931-44); “Mary Poppins” (1964); “Men & Dust” (1940); “Midnight” (1939); “Notes on the Port of St. Francis” (1951); “Pulp Fiction” (1994); “The Quiet Man” (1952); “The Right Stuff” (1983); “Roger & Me” (1989); “A Virtuous Vamp” (1919); “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” (1966); and “Wild Boys of the Road” (1933).

Associated Press