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Lifestyle FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 2015

Cast members from the musical ‘Bjorn Again’ pose alongside a “Bolin Grand Piano,” made by Swedish designer Georg Bolin, during a photocall to Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer promote the piano’s forthcoming sale, at Sotheby’s Lawrence, Schumer writing auction house in London comedy screenplay yesterday. —AFP ennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer are working together on a screenplay for a comedy. “We play sisters,” Lawrence Jtold The New York Times about the film’s storyline. “We’re Mamma Mia! Piano played on almost done writing. It just flowed out of us. We’ve got about 100 pages right now.” Lawrence casually broke the news on Wednesday while discussing “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay ABBA’s hits up for auction - Part 2.” “Amy and I were creatively made for each other,” she told grand piano that featured between 600,000 pounds and NYT. “We have different flavors. It’s been the most fun experi- Aon many of ABBA’s 800,000 pounds ($928,000 to ence of my life. We start the day off on the phone, laughing. biggest hits is going up for $1.2 million) on Sept 29. And then we send each other pages. And we crack up. I’m fly- auction in London. Sotheby’s But Sotheby’s specialist ing out tomorrow to see her in Chicago. We’ll write a little bit is offering the instrument, Philip Errington said predict- with her sister, Kim, who worked with Amy when she was writ- owned by the Stockholm ing the price was tricky, ing ‘Trainwreck.’” She then picked up her phone to text recording studio where the because little ABBA memora- Schumer, who she met just a few months ago, that she spilled Swedish pop group often bilia has ever come to market. the beans about their joint venture. recorded. The auction house He said the piano might “Let me just text Amy and tell her that I told you,” she said said yesterday the piano by appeal “to an ABBA fan, or to in the middle of the interview. “I wrote, ‘I just spilled the Swedish designer Georg Bolin somebody who wants to beans to The New York Times. Is that OK?’” she said. “And - played on hits including have an interesting conversa- Amy wrote back, ‘That you’re gay? Totally! It’s exciting!’” “Waterloo,” “Dancing Queen” tion piece. It is incredibly dif- Schumer wrote the screenplay for her comedy “Trainwreck.” and “Money, Money, Money” - ficult to judge what it might The keys of a “Bolin Grand Piano,” made by Swedish designer Georg Bolin, are pictured. The final installment of Lawrence’s “The Hunger Games” hits was expected to sell for make.” — AP theaters on Nov 20.— Reuters Time for or gay Blanchett to receive British 007, says Brosnan Film Institute Fellowship he next James Bond could be black or gay, argues 007 Tveteran . “Sure. Why not?” the Irish star was quoted as telling men’s magazine Details when asked if ate Blanchett is to receive the he could picture a gay Bond. Brosnan said he doubted Bond British Film Institute’s highest producer Barbara Broccoli would allow a gay Bond to hap- Chonor, the BFI Fellowship, at the pen in her lifetime. BFI London Film Festival’s awards cere- “But it would certainly mony on Oct 17 at London’s make for interesting view- Banqueting House. “Truth,” starring ing,” he added. “Let’s start Blanchett and , will have with a great black actor its UK premiere on the same night. being James Bond. Idris Based on the book “Truth and Duty” by Elba certainly has the Mary Mapes, the film tells the story of physicality, the charisma, Mapes, a CBS News journalist and Dan the presence.” Rather’s “60 Minutes” producer, and the Elba, 42, is seen as a risks she took to expose a story about frontrunner to succeed President George W Bush , Daniel Craig, who has chairman of the BFI, said: “Cate played the suave British Blanchett is a compelling and brave Pierce Brosnan agent for the last 10 years. actress whose mesmerizing screen Brosnan played Bond in presence has captivated audiences movies Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not since her earliest roles. Enough and Die Another Day in the 1990s. We are absolutely delighted to hon- His remarks were published five months after another or her extraordinary talents with a BFI emotion to stunning effect.” Haynes’ “I’m Not There,” in which she previous 007 actor, Roger Moore, was blasted on social Fellowship at this year’s LFF awards.” Blanchett also appears at the festival plays an incarnation of Bob Dylan. media for suggesting race should be a factor when casting The Fellowship is awarded to individu- in Todd Haynes’ “Carol,” which is the Previous BFI Fellowships at the same the next Bond. als in recognition of their “outstanding American Express Gala screening on LFF ceremony have been presented to French magazine Paris Match quoted him as saying: contribution to film or television.” The Oct 14. She plays an alluring woman in 2014, the late “Though James has been played by a Scot, a Welshman, an BFI described her as a “fearless and sub- trapped in a loveless marriage who falls in 2013, Tim Burton Irishman, I think he should be English-English. It’s nonethe- tle actress,” adding “she has the rare for a young woman, played by Rooney and in 2012, and less an interesting idea, but unrealistic. The 87-year-old star, gift of seeming utterly to inhabit the Mara, working as a department store in 2011. In the past year, who played 007 in seven films from 1973 to 1985, said his characters she plays and has an amaz- clerk in 50s Manhattan. Blanchett won a and were also remarks were lost in translation. —AFP ing ability to convey complex layers of Golden Globe for her performance in awarded BFI Fellowships. — Reuters