WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2016 lifestyle

MUSIC & MOVIES Now you can visit the Rolling Stones’ 1962 apartment

hen Mick Jagger was coming up with ideas for an 2017. Some of the pieces are works by Andy Warhol, Alexander exhibition highlighting The Rolling Stones’ five- McQueen and John Pasche, who designed the Stones’ iconic Wdecade long career, he wanted to re-create the tongue logo. mood of the band in its early years. So, he had a team recre- “It’s like bumping into memories everywhere you look for ate the first London apartment he and his band mates shared me,” Richards said. “You turn the corner (and say), ‘Oh, that’s in 1962, complete with dirty dishes, beer bottles and blues where I left it. Whether it’s a guitar or a piece of clothing, every- records placed throughout the flat. “That was the weirdest thing sort of rings a bell somewhere.” Ronnie Wood, who thing really. ... The building is still there - it’s not a building joined the group in 1975, said he enjoyed seeing the “little that’s been knocked down or anything, it’s right around the motifs” throughout the exhibit, and added that one of his corner from where I actually live now,” Jagger said. “It’s very favorite memories was joining the band for his first public per- redolent of the space ... and it smells like it and feels like it. “I formance - on his birthday. just remembered how it really was,” he added. “There were a “I had to learn the entire Stones back catalog to get ready lot of places like that in the early ‘60s ... you wouldn’t want to to go onstage on June 1, my birthday, for my first public live there now,” Charlie Watts said. show with them,” he said, smiling. Of his highlights, Richards The Stones also re-created their recording studio, complete said, laughing: “I can pick out a few lows but we won’t bother with original instruments, for “Exhibitionism - The Rolling with them, but otherwise, it’s been pretty much a high all Stones,” the band’s exhibit that debuted at Industria in New the time.” The Stones will release a new album of blues cover York City on Saturday after launching in London earlier this songs called “Blue & Lonesome” on Dec 2. When asked what year. It includes colorful tour outfits, Jagger’s lyric book, Keith his future goals are for the band, Watts said: “Staying alive I Richards’ 1963 diary, Watts’ toy drum kit and various photo- think is the biggest thing at the moment, or getting up in Photo shows Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones poses for a graphs, from posters to magazine covers. “None of it made me the morning.”— AP portrait in New York. — AP photos cry particularly. Some of it made me laugh,” Jagger said of the One of two art installations promoting The Rolling Stones memorabilia. The exhibit run in New York through March 12, touring exhibit ‘Exhibitionism’, is displayed outside of Industria in New York. — AP Pet Shop Boys strip back to go full electric

ne of the pioneering acts in electronica, Pet Shop Boys distance love, the back-up musicians encircled Tennant to blurred the line between music and theater with elabo- accompany him as a mini-choir. On “Love Comes Quickly,” Pet Orate, quirky concerts that made crowds dance and Shop Boys updated another early hit into the contemporary chuckle at once. Thirty-five years since Neil Tennant and Chris club age, with a sultrier synthesized backdrop. The stage visuals Lowe formed the duo in London, electronic dance music with ran from bright illuminated balloons to projections of pink-and- extravagant shows has become the norm on the live scene-and psychedelic revolving cubes. Pet Shop Boys are again charting their own way. “Super,” the But the show focused on the music rather than the theatrics, 13th album by Pet Shop Boys, is their second straight release with none of the wild choreographed routines or animal cos- that is purely electronic, with none of the instrumentation from tumes that characterized Pet Shop Boys’s previous “Electric” piano to strings to Latin drums that sprinkled earlier work. The tour. In evidence of the dedication to the music, Tennant first single, “The Pop Kids,” sets the tone for the latest Pet Shop abruptly stopped one of the new tracks, “Twenty-Something,” Musician Neil Tennant of Boys period with singer Tennant and keyboardist Lowe embrac- noticing that a keyboard patch had gone awry. “There’s no Pet Shop Boys performs ing the joys of club life yet unabashedly taking the vantage point doing it wrong,” Tennant said, noting wryly a lyric he had onstage at The Theater at point of elders. just sung: “Life is much more simple when you’re young.”— AFP Madison Square Garden in “We stayed out ‘til late five nights a week / And felt so chic / New York City. — AFP They called us The Pop Kids,” Tennant sang of the London club This file photo taken on November 09, 2013 shows Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler per- life of yesteryear in his quickly recognizable voice, high-pitched forming during the 2013 Miss Universe competition in Moscow. — AFP and elegantly understated. In touring for the album released earlier this year, Pet Shop Boys are also stripping back. Performing Saturday night in New York, the duo presented the musical roots of electronica, performing not as showmen but as Aerosmith announces a full-fledged band. “At the end of this strange and significant week, what better place to be than among friends?” asked Tennant, referring to the shock presidential election victory of Republican tycoon Donald Trump. “Tonight, New York, you are Europe ‘farewell’ tour The Pop Kids.” ard rock chart-toppers Aerosmith on Both guitarist Joe Perry and singer Steven Theatrics, but music focus Monday announced a “farewell” tour for Tyler have repeatedly mused about retirement Tennant and Lowe entered The Theater at Madison Square H2017, although they stopped short of in recent years. Tyler, 68, earlier this year said Garden with typical pizzazz, with each of them strapped to an saying the shows will be their last. The nearly Aerosmith-whose albums include one named oval white screen that flipped 180 degrees to face the crowd. half-century-old band behind rock classics “Permanent Vacation”-could go on a “final” Sporting oversized metallic helmets, Pet Shop Boys opened such as “Dream On,” “Walk This Way” and tour that lasts indefinitely. Perry, 66, collapsed with “Inner Sanctum,” a steamy house club track off “Super,” “Janie’s Got a Gun” said it would start the tour on stage in July while performing with before going straight into “West End Girls,” the duo’s very first on May 17 in Tel Aviv. The Boston-bred group Hollywood Vampires-a side project with glam single. The duo quickly drew open a curtain to transform itself scheduled shows across Europe, including at a metal pioneer Alice Cooper and film star into a five-piece act, with two percussionists and another key- series of summer festivals, through July 5 in Johnny Depp joining on guitar-although he boardist joining the show. Zurich. The rockers in a statement said they returned to the tour after around two weeks. As if reinforcing the idea that electronica can be a band would “embark up on this, their ‘farewell’ tour, Aerosmith was notorious in its heyday for affair, the stage transformed for “Left to My Own Devices,” the saying ‘Aero-Vederci Baby!’” But the band, infighting between Perry and Tyler, although three back-up musicians gliding upfront even as the beat went which recently completed a series of dates in the pair has gradually found ways to work deeper into the club vibe. In contrast to much dance music, Pet Latin America, did not definitively say that the together. — AFP Shop Boys songs nearly always possessed a deeper layer of tour would be its last or announce dates for irony or melancholy. North America. For “Home and Dry,” a forlorn tale of the loneliness of long-

Portman praises Jackie Kennedy’s generosity with public Samuel L Jackson

he is famous for jealously guarding her privacy, favoring ing her big-screen career. She got her break at age 11 in “The “The easier things were... the more superficial details like a small wedding to a lavish celebrity ceremony and tak- Professional,” the tale of a hitman-for-hire (Jean Reno) who the way she talked and the way she moved and looked,” joins Brie Larson’s Sing her grandmother’s maiden name to shield her family becomes the mentor to a young girl. But she turned down Portman said on the red carpet at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese from the limelight. But Natalie Portman said Monday portray- 1996’s “Romeo + Juliet” because of the age difference Theatre. “Those are things you spend a lot of time on but it’s ing grief-stricken Jacqueline Kennedy had taught her the between her and Leonardo DiCaprio, and rejected the 1997 really the way she felt that takes the imagination and the real directorial debut virtue of celebrities giving more of themselves to the public. remake of “Lolita,” which she deemed “sleazy.” She also signed searching. The other stuff is like learning a skill as opposed to “Jackie,” Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain’s first English-lan- on to “Anywhere But Here” (1999) with Susan Sarandon only exploring your own depths.” “Jackie” peaks with the first lady’s guage feature, is a searing and intimate portrait of the first after a nude scene was dropped. real-life strategy of painting a fairy-tale picture of JFK by using lady in the week after John F Kennedy’s assassination in 1963. “Camelot” as a sobriquet for the Kennedy administration, an Portman told journalists at the American Film Institute’s AFI ‘More than sex symbol’ epitaph which stuck. Fest in Los Angeles, where “Jackie” was getting its US premiere, “I value my private life and security way more than getting “I loved that she defined herself as a wife primarily, but how she admired the stoic and dignified face Jackie put on for parts by flashing my boobs on some magazine or being a sex then lived a life that was very counter to that where she was the public. “It’s understanding that even when she was going symbol in films,” she said in a 2000 interview. Portman won a her own woman,” said Portman. “It was like she didn’t know through something incredibly private, it meant something to best actress Oscar for 2010’s psychological ballet thriller “Black how to be any other way, except exactly herself-very strong, other people how she presented herself publicly,” Portman, Swan”. It was on the set of that film she met her future hus- very able to author her own story. And (she) really became the 35, said. “It’s like other people share in whatever you’re going band, French dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied, author of her own story and his story.” through and that’s really impressive that she was able to do with whom she is expecting a second child. She has been Fox Searchlight Pictures is scheduled to release “Jackie” in that,” she added. tipped for a second Oscar for her performance in “Jackie,” with the United States on December 2.— AFP Born Neta-Lee Hershlag in Jerusalem to a doctor father and critics raving about how accurately she managed to capture an artist mother, Portman has taken on tough roles since start- Kennedy’s voice and personality.

Samuel L Jackson

ulp Fiction” star Samuel L Jackson is to join the cast of Oscar-winning actress Brie Larson’s “Pdirectorial debut “Unicorn Store,” producer Rhea Films announced on Monday. Jackson, nominated for an Academy Award and four Golden Globes over a 44-year acting career, will play opposite Joan Cusack (“Working Girl,” “School of Rock”) and Bradley Whitford, star of Amazon’s “Transparent.” Based on an original script by Samantha McIntyre, “Unicorn Store” centers on a woman who moves back in with her parents and receives an invitation to a store that will test her ideas of what it really means to grow up. The comedy just began principal photography in Los Angeles. Larson-who won her best actress Oscar in February for Lenny Abrahamson’s “Room”-recently worked with Jackson on “Kong: Skull Island,” which Warner Bros is due to release in March next year. Cusack, who was Oscar-nominated for “Working Girl” (1988) and won an Emmy in 2015 for Showtime’s “Shameless,”, will next be seen in Netflix’s upcoming series “A Series of Unfortunate Events” with Neil Patrick Harris. Whitford-who rose to fame White House Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman on NBC drama “The West Actress Natalie Portman attends the premiere of “Jackie” during the American Film Director Pablo Larrain (left), actresses Natalie Portman (center) and Greta Gerwig attend Wing”-most recently starred alongside Bryan Cranston Institute (AFI) Festival in Hollywood, California. the premiere of ‘Jackie’ during the American Film Institute (AFI) Festival in Hollywood, in HBO’s “All The Way.”— AFP California, on Monday. — AFP photos