Steal the Show in SXSW Performance

Lifestyle FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 2014 Kanye, Jay Z steal the show in ‘Honky Tonk Women’ SXSW performance amsung got its money’s worth from Jay Z too dirty for and Kanye West. Two of rap’s top stars com- Sbined for a powerful, hit-filled two-hour show Wednesday night and yesterday morning China as song ‘vetoed’ during South By Southwest, allowing Samsung to steal some of iTunes’ luster at the annual music he sexual lyrics of “Honky Tonk Women” the reaction from the Shanghai audience was conference and festival. Samsung announced the were apparently too much for China’s muted. “He didn’t play it for shock,” said Austin Music Hall show early this week and Communist fathers as the Rolling Stones Andrew Chin, a local arts writer who attended. scheduled the pair at the same time as the iTunes T Festival’s hip-hop night that featured Kendrick said the chart-topping song was “vetoed” for “People were just excited to see the Stones.” Lamar and ScHoolboy Q at the very nearby ACL their second ever show in the country on China censors content it deems to be politi- Moody Theater. The performance came a few Wednesday. “About now we’d usually play cally sensitive or obscene. Authorities have weeks after West called out Apple CEO Tim Cook something like ‘Honky Tonk Women’... but it’s been especially sensitive about live concerts been vetoed,” front man Mick Jagger said at since Bjork chanted “Tibet” during her song Wednesday’s show, according to a posting on “Declare Independence” in 2008. China con- the band’s official Twitter feed. He did not give siders Tibet its sovereign territory. Pop-rock a reason. balladeer Elton John dedicated a Beijing show The enduring rock band played in commer- to Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei in cial capital Shanghai once previously, eight November 2012, provoking condemnation by years ago, when several songs fell victim to state-controlled media.But other classic the censor, including “Brown Sugar”. Concert- Stones numbers passed muster, including goers confirmed Jagger’s comments at the “Street Fighting Man” and “You Can’t Always File photo shows singer Kanye West packed show on Wednesday night but said Get What You Want”. — AFP attends the Y-3 men’s Fall-Winter 2014- 2015 fashion collection, in Paris. — AP A good show They emerged individually atop two large Bollywood’s Saif boxes stationed on the stage and in the crowd - West wearing his trademark leather kilt and Jay Z in a black American flag t-shirt - and began the Ali Khan pleads not In this Oct 10, 2013 file photo, US singer show near the rafters. They played selections guilty to assault Jay Z performs on stage at the o2 arena from their “Watch the Throne” collaboration in east London, as part of his Magna throughout, including “No Church in the Wild,” Carta World Tour. — AP “... in Paris,” “Who Gon Stop Me” and “Otis” as images of Doberman pinschers, lions and tigers, great white sharks and gazelle-killing cheetahs at a New Jersey concert, telling him to “stop try- flashed across a screen that wrapped around the ing to get performers to play your festival for free, stagebound box. you are rich as (expletive).” The pair, who recently announced a partner- Chances are West and Jay Z didn’t play the ship between West’s Donda Music and Jay Z’s show for free, but the return on investment was- Roc Nation, each also played hits from their own n’t marginal. The show was one of the most lengthy catalogs. West, engaged and smiling anticipated surrounding the annual buzz-build- and even occasionally trading high fives with ing gathering and fans with Samsung devices the crowd, performed “Black Skinhead” and with the company’s new streaming music serv- “New Slaves” from his latest album “Yeezus” ice, Milk Music, were granted free entry. Fans along with older hits like “Jesus Walks” and lined up several hundred yards around the block “Runaway.” Jay Z offered favorites recent hit before the show with most having little hope of ollywood star Saif Ali Khan appeared in “Tom Ford” from “Magna Carta ... Holy Grail,” getting in. Those who did - including Odd and standards “99 Problems,” “Empire State of court yesterday and denied breaking the Future’s Tyler, The Creator, who forced his way Mind,” “Dirt Off Your Shoulder” and “Big Bnose of a South African businessman at a to the front row to the delight of selfie-snapping Pimpin’.” What they didn’t offer was any clues luxury hotel two years ago, a report said. The fans and spent some of the show crowd surfing - about a sequel to their collaborative album alleged incident happened in Mumbai’s Taj Mahal were treated to an energetic performance from “Watch the Throne,” which is anticipated later Palace hotel in February 2012, where the busi- two of hip-hop’s biggest stars. this year. — AP nessmen accused Khan of pushing him and punching him in the face in the Japanese restau- rant Wasabi. “The court today framed charges against Khan and his two friends-Shakeel Ladak and Bilal Amrohi-under section 325 (assault) and Sony overhauls ‘Smurfs’ 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code,” public prosecutor Wajeed Sheikh said, according to the Press Trust of India news agency. franchise, plans ‘Popeye’ movie The trio pleaded not guilty after the charges were read out against them in the Mumbai court, ony Pictures Animation is overhauling its deemed a disappointment. This new version will PTI said. The businessman, Iqbal Sharma, said he “Smurfs” franchise and pushing forward on a be entirely animated and Sony is swapping Raja sequel to 2012 hit “Hotel Transylvania,” the Gosnell, the director of the first two movies, for had only asked the staff to get Khan’s table to qui- S studio division said Wedneday. It also announced Kelly Asbury, whose work on “Shrek 2 and eten down, which sparked a heated argument plans for computer animated version of “Popeye” “Gnomeo & Juliet” gives him a deeper understand- and the alleged assault. Khan however claimed and an original animated film “Genndy ing of animation. It hits theaters in August 2015 that Sharma had started the row. The actor sur- Tartakovsky’s Can You Imagine?” Plot details on and there are hints it will be an origins story. rendered to police after the brawl and was the latter project were kept under wraps. “I’m really excited about taking the Smurfs in a released on bail. Khan, married to top Indian The studio had great success with 2011’s completely new fresh direction,” Asbury said in a actress Kareena Kapoor, is one of Bollywood’s “Smurfs,” with the live action and computer graph- statement. “We’re not making a Smurfs 3 film. Our Actress Kristen Bell poses on arrival for the biggest actors and the Nawab (Muslim prince) of ic hybrid racking up more than $560 million at the character designs and environments will be stylisti- film premiere of ‘Veronica Mars’ in the former princely state of Pataudi. His father box office. Last year’s sequel still made $347.5 mil- cally closer to the original artwork created by Peyo. Hollywood, California. The film opens on was famous cricketer Mansur Ali Khan, better lion globally, but that was less than some box Our story will explore the beginnings of the March 14. — AFP known as “Tiger Pataudi”. — AFP office prognosticators had expected and was beloved little blue creatures.” —Reuters.

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