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Pierre Boulez Forthcoming Hindi Film ‘Dilwale’ in Mumbai THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2016 l i f e s t y l e Music & Movies Various cast members of ‘The Hateful Eight’ and director Quentin Tarantino (second right) attend a cere- Director Quentin Tarantino is honored with hand/foot- Director Quentin Tarantino is honored at the hand and footprint ceremony. mony honoring Tarantino with a hand/footprint ceremony at the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX, in print ceremony. Hollywood, California. — AFP photos Tarantino makes his mark-on Hollywood sidewalk scar-winning American director Quentin Tarantino made to put my hand and footprints in the Grauman Chinese Theatre Unchained” in 2013 working with Tarantino. “Quentin baffles, he comedy western “Django Unchained” in 2013 and cult favorite another mark in Hollywood Tuesday, leaving his hand- courtyard way before I ever had a career,” he said of the longtime exhilarates, he perplexes, he surprises, but most of all he enter- “Pulp Fiction” in 1995. “The Hateful Eight” is nominated for Oprints on the sidewalk outside the legendary Grauman’s Hollywood tradition at the cinema house, where thousands of tains us,” Waltz said. “We want more and more of these imprints Golden Globes for supporting actress for Jennifer Jason Leigh, Chinese Theatre. Out promoting his latest movie “The Hateful stars have cast hand- and footprints in the cement. and always in 24 frames per second.” Just two weeks ago, best screenplay and original score for composer Ennio Eight”-which has been nominated for three Golden Globes- “This is something I have wanted to do my entire life,” he Tarantino got his star on the better-known Hollywood Walk of Morricone. — AFP Tarantino, 52, said he was delighted by the honor. “Actually, it’s added. Tarantino was joined by Austrian actor Christoph Waltz, Fame. The filmmaker, who dropped out of high school insisting not that I have wanted to do this my whole career, I have wanted who won Oscars for “Inglourious Basterds” in 2010 and “Django he could learn more on his own, won Oscars himself for black Bollywood’s ‘Deadly Dutt’ set for prison release ollywood actor Sanjay Dutt will be Maharashtra Home Minister Ranjit Patil had released from prison next month after granted Dutt remission, clearing his release for Bserving a sentence for possessing February 27. Calls and text messages to the weapons supplied by gangsters behind the minister by AFP went unanswered. The 56- 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts, reports said yester- year-old actor shot to fame in the mid-1980s in day. The disgraced star will walk free from a string of action movies in which he per- Yerwada Central Jail in the western state of formed his own stunts, earning him the nick- Maharashtra on February 27, slightly ahead of name “Deadly Dutt”. schedule, the Press Trust of India (PTI) report- He is best known for playing a mobster ed. Dutt was originally sentenced to a six-year with a heart of gold in the popular term after being convicted in 2006 of possess- “Munnabhai” series. The 1993 attacks were ing guns supplied by mafia bosses who believed to have been staged by Muslim orchestrated the series of bombings in underworld figures in retaliation for religious Mumbai that killed 257 people. riots in which mainly Muslims died, following He spent 18 months in prison before being the razing of an ancient mosque at Ayodhya in released on bail in 2007, pending an appeal. In Uttar Pradesh state. Dutt was found guilty of March 2013, the Supreme Court upheld his possession of an automatic rifle and a pistol, conviction but cut his prison term from six which he insisted were only meant to protect years to five. Dutt was later granted four extra his family in the tense atmosphere in Mumbai weeks of freedom to work on unfinished following the mosque’s destruction. In 2007, movies and went back to jail in May that year he was acquitted of more serious charges of to serve the remaining three-and-a-half years conspiracy in the deadly blasts, which also Sanjay Dutt of his sentence. PTI said yesterday that wounded more than 700 people. — AFP French avant-garde In this photograph Indian Bollywood actress Kriti Sanon looks on during a promotional event for the composer Pierre Boulez forthcoming Hindi film ‘Dilwale’ in Mumbai. — AFP Bollywood star dies aged 90 shames man orld-renowned conductor-compos- er Pierre Boulez, considered one of watching pirated Wthe most influential voices in con- temporary classical music, has died aged 90, his family said yesterday. “For all those who film on flight knew him and who appreciated his creative energy, his artistic rigour, his openness and Bollywood star posted a series of angry tweets his generosity, his presence will remain alive after a passenger sitting next to her on a flight and intense,” the family said in a statement Abrazenly started watching a pirated copy of one from the Philharmonie de Paris, which Boulez of her films. Actress Kriti Sanon was travelling to Delhi Picture taken on October 17, 2008 shows French conductor and composer Pierre Boulez spearheaded. As well as being an expert last week when the man seated beside her and her conducting the SWR Symphony Orchestra during the opening concert of the interpreter of the works of Stravinsky, mother started using an iPhone projector to watch Donaueschinger Musiktage music festival in Donaueschingen, southern Germany. Schoenberg and Scriabin, the Frenchman Hindi blockbuster “Dilwale”. The $15 million movie, found himself, with KarlHeinz Stockhausen, a which sees Sanon star alongside Bollywood icon Shah seminal figure in the mid-20th century exper- imental avant-garde. Rukh Khan, had only been released in cinemas 10 days This file photo taken on December 20, previously. Later in the 20th century, he would push back the frontiers of music still further with 2011 shows French composer and conduc- “Someone watchin pirated version of Dilwale in tor Pierre Boulez directing the Paris front of me on phone in the flight! Annoyed!! computer-generated music at his Paris studio. Born in 1925 in the small provincial town of Orchestra under the Louvre Pyramid dur- #SayNoToPiracy,” the 25-year-old posted on Twitter. The ing a free concert in Paris. tweet, which has been liked almost 3,000 times, was Montbrison, in central France, Boulez studied accompanied by a photo showing the passenger under Olivier Messiaen at the Paris home in the southwestern German city of watching the movie. It also included an angry emoji Conservatoire during the war years, where he Baden-Baden in the early 1960s, where he face. Shortly afterwards she tweeted again. “Sad to c was influenced by his teacher’s own abstract, eventually died. Boulez’s compositions were the hardwork of so many ppl bein watched in such atonal style with irregular rhythm. A frequent noted for their difficulty, with one of his pathetic quality! Please enjoy films in cinemas guest conductor for great orchestras on both defining works, “Le Marteau Sans Maitre” #SayNoToPiracy,” Sanon wrote. sides of the Atlantic, Boulez famously (“The Hammer Without a Master”), drawing It was accompanied by another picture of the pas- shunned the baton, always conducting with inspiration from surrealist poetry and lacking senger, who appeared to be enjoying the movie. A third his hands. any bass line. French President Francois tweet followed, in response to a user who said that He led the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Hollande offered his condolences to Boulez’s watching pirated movies was a criminal offence. from 1971-77 was music director of the New family and hailed someone who “made “Yup..told him politely that he would enjoy the film York Philharmonic, where he favored con- French music shine throughout the world.” more in a theatre. but he was busy showin off his pro- This file photo taken on January 9, 1984 shows French conductor and composer Pierre temporary works over the classics beloved by “As a composer and conductor, he always jector!,” she wrote, this time including two angry emoji Boulez (right) talking with US composer and guitarist Frank Zappa (center) and French his acclaimed predecessor Leonard reflected his era,” said Hollande. — AFP faces. — AFP Ministre of Culture Jack Lang (left), at the Theatre de la Ville in Paris, where he directed Bernstein. It was his exasperation with the three works of Zappa. — AFP photos relative conservatism of the French musical world that prompted Boulez to make his Italian screen siren Madonna’s Singapore Pampanini dead at 90 concert is for adults only he Singapore leg of pop superstar classified by the Media Development ilvana Pampanini, an Italian actress and became a symbol of Italian beauty around the Madonna’s global Rebel Heart Tour Authority, which also regulates the film beauty who was one of the country’s world. The brunette was seen as having paved has been restricted to fans aged 18 and broadcast industries. leading post-war cinema stars, has died at the way for fellow screen sirens Sophia Loren T S and above, the concert’s local coordinator The Straits Times newspaper noted the age of 90, local media reported yesterday. and Gina Lollobrigida. Pampanini never mar- said yesterday. The one-night-only event that Madonna’s concert tour setlist Pampanini, who had been hospitalized since ried but was reported to have sparked the on February 28, Madonna’s first-ever con- includes a segment involving dancers October according to Corriere della Sera, romantic ardour of a string of famous men, cert in the city-state, will be held at the dressed as scantily-clad nuns pole-danc- starred in over 50 films during her 1950s hey- from Cuban leader Fidel Castro and Egypt’s 55,000-seat National Stadium, entertain- ing on cross-shaped stripper poles.
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