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Features Lifestyle 12 Established 1961 Lifestyle Features Sunday, August 16, 2020 pair of Michael Jordan’s game- backboard, a piece of glass, in the sole range of $650,000 and $850,000. The worn sneakers sold for $615,000, of the shoe,” said Caitlin Donovan, head record setting sales highlight the soaring AChristie’s auction house said of handbag and sneaker sales at market value of objects identified with Thursday, shattering a record set just Christie’s-which organized the auction the retired basketball superstar since the months ago by the sale of another pair with Stadium Goods. release of “The Last Dance,” an of the basketball legend’s shoes. The Jordan racked up 30 points while ESPN/Netflix documentary that chroni- sneakers were a pair of Air Jordan 1 wearing the size 13.5 shoes, which are cles the saga of Jordan and his Chicago In this file photo The Air Ship, MJ Player In this file photo The Air Jordan 1 High Highs that the NBA megastar wore dur- in the red and black colors of his Bulls. It also confirms that the lowly Exclusive, Game-Worn Sneaker Nike, 1984, “Shattered Backboard” Origin Story, Game- ing a 1985 exhibition match in Italy Chicago Bulls team. Though the sale sneaker now has a place of pride in the Left Shoe: Size 13.5, Right Shoe: Size 13, Worn Signed Sneaker Nike, 1985 Size 13.5 when he dunked the ball so hard it shat- broke the record set in May when a pair world of wealthy collectors alongside High-Top on display during a press preview High-Top on display during a press preview tered the glass backboard. “This is the of Air Jordan 1’s sold for $560,000, the more traditional collectibles.— AFP at Christie’s New York. at Christie’s New York. — AFP photos original shoe with an actual piece of the new auction landed below the estimated ederal authorities have charged R. threatening physical harm by interstate Kelly’s manager with allegedly communication. Each count carries a Fthreatening a shooting at a maximum penalty of five years in Manhattan theater, by which he aimed prison. He is expected to make an ini- to halt a docuseries screening about tial appearance before a US judge in sex crime allegations against the dis- New York later Friday. For more than a graced singer. The charges year the artist born Robert Sylvester announced Friday come just days after Kelly has been incarcerated and await- the self-described manager and friend ing trial in several states for alleged of Kelly, Donnell Russell, was among wrongdoings including sex crimes three associates charged with alleged- against minors and child pornography. ly harassing and intimidating women He has pleaded not guilty to all In this file photo singer R. Kelly leaves the making accusations against the musi- charges, which range across the states Leighton Criminal Court Building after a hear- hil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight” has a beat at the end of a song.” cian. New court filings say he threat- of Illinois, Minnesota and New York. ing on sexual abuse charges, in Chicago, made a huge comeback in the The video on the twins’ YouTube ened a shooting at the theater in The artist is set for trial first in New Illinois. — AFP Pmusic charts nearly 40 years after channel “TwinsthenewTrend” has Manhattan to prevent a December York, where the case against him its release, thanks to a viral video of racked up more than five million views. 2018 screening of the docuseries includes racketeering accusations that young American brothers reacting to his As of Friday, “In the Air Tonight” was “Surviving R. Kelly,” according to court silence the women featured in the film,” he systematically recruited girls for sex 1981 hit. Twins Tim and Fred Williams No.2 in the US iTunes charts, behind documents. said FBI Assistant Director William while touring, later coercing them into posted a video of themselves listening Darius Rucker’s “Beer and Sunshine”, His call led to an evacuation of the Sweeney in a statement. Earlier this sexual activity. Jury selection for those to the British singer’s debut solo single according to itopchart.com. The hit theater, which ultimately did not screen week prosecutors accused Russell of proceedings are currently set to begin for the first time on YouTube in July. The launched Collins’ solo career back in the series exploring accusations that threatening to release sexually explicit September 29, but restrictions prevent- brothers seem to enjoy nodding along 1981, after he left British rock group the singer known for hits like “I Believe photos of a woman in a bid to bully her ing in-person trials due to the coron- to Collins’ ambient sounds, when sud- “Genesis” as its frontman and dummer. I Can Fly” engaged in decades of abu- into withdrawing her claims against avirus pandemic will likely see that denly the two fall back in their chairs- Collins, 69, has sold more than 100 mil- sive sexual relationships with women Kelly, prosecutors said. date postponed.— AFP jaws dropped-as the drum beats drop in lion albums during his solo career and and minor girls. “The violence Mr. The new filing sees Russell, 45, the middle of the song. “This is unique,” 150 million with Genesis. — AFP Russell allegedly threatened succeed- charged with one count of conspiracy says one of the twins on the video after ed in shutting down one airing of the to threaten physical harm by interstate being blown away by the drumming on documentary, but he was unable to communication and one count of the track. “I’ve never seen anyone drop ust like the heroine of her acclaimed has proved her mother and a lot of others debut film, “Cuties”, Maimouna wrong since. And she has a sense of her- JDoucoure knows what it feels like not self opening the way for others, helping to uja has lived through multiple to be taken seriously. Her remarkable por- “knock down the mental barriers” that bombing campaigns and several trait of an 11-year-old French girl and her have held black women back. Mcountries-all while never leaving a friends coming of age caught between tra- tiny pool in Belgrade’s zoo for 83 years, ditionalist immigrant families and hyper- ‘Things are moving’ making him the world’s oldest captive sexualised pop culture, won a best direc- Indeed, in her rousing Sundance alligator. While zookeepers don’t know tor award at the Sundance film festival ear- acceptance speech she quoted Oprah his exact hatch day, the reptile arrived in lier this year. Yet even after her short Winfrey’s maxim that “You become what Belgrade this week in August of 1937 “Maman(s)”-Mother(s) — a semi-autobio- you believe”. “Believe ladies!” Doucoure from a German zoo. “He’s an older gen- graphical tale of growing up in a polyga- declared. With both the #MeToo and tleman and we respect his age,” Jozef mous Senegalese family in Paris-was gar- Black Lives Matters movements causing Edvedj, the zoo’s veterinarian, told AFP landed with awards, some in the French earthquakes within the entertainment with a smile after handlers helped guide For the last 83 years, Muja, world’s oldest captive alligator, swims in a tiny pool in Belgrade’s film establishment were jaw-droppingly industry, she believes the times are a dead rat to the jaws of the slow-mov- zoo, due to his advanced age, Muja doesn’t move much but becomes snappy during feeding condescending about the unapologetical- changing. Doucoure proudly recounts ing reptile. He officially became the time, which comes only once or twice a month.—AFP photos ly glamorous 35-year-old. “You made it for marching alongside French actress Adele world’s oldest captive alligator when her, didn’t you?” her producer was asked Haenel and “Girlhood” and “Portrait of a Moscow zoo’s famous Saturn, born in the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia which which zookeepers place right in front of by one mover and shaker, before being Lady on Fire” director Celine Sciamma at 1936, died in May. ended in yet another bombing cam- his jaws. His diet consists of skinned told very firmly that it was all her own work. a protest in the Paris suburbs over the According to news reports from 1937, paign, carried out by NATO in 1999. rats, rabbits, birds, horse meat and beef, “I can’t believe this girl made this film, she death in police custody of Adama Traore, Muja was two years old when arrived in Muja is still in “good health for his age”, Edvedj told AFP. “We call it a ‘buffet’”, he is so feminine,” the sexist sceptic repeat- the black young man who is seen by Belgrade, a year after the zoo opened. and the only time the veterinarians were said, adding that the old-timer is also ed. When Doucoure won at Sundance many as the French George Floyd. But in photos from the reports he seriously concerned was in 2012, when receiving mineral and vitamin supple- with “Cuties”-which has since been “Things are moving, I have the feeling that appears older, leading zookeepers to he had to have a right claw amputated ments. Being cold-blooded works in snapped up by Netflix-she called out the I am coming through at the right moment,” believe is over 90 now. While Muja has due to gangrene. Muja’s favour, giving him a slow metabo- doubters publicly. said Doucoure. Nor does she feel like she not seen much outside his shallow and “The surgery was very difficult, but lism that impedes cell deterioration and is on her own.
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