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lifestyle MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2016 FEATURES Paul McCartney, left, is joined by Paul McCartney, Neil Young during right, performs his performance alongside gui- on day 2 of the tarist Rusty 2016 Desert Trip Anderson during music festival at his performance Empire Polo Field on day 2 of the in Indio, Calif. 2016 Desert Trip —AP photos music festival. Neil Young rocks for 2 hours to open day 2 of Desert Trip eil Young performed for nearly two make Mexico great again!” Paul McCartney (There actually is a dinosaur exhibit in nearby hours to open the second night of the topped Saturday’s bill. Cabazon, California.) The Stones brought liter- NDesert Trip music festival, matching the al and figurative fireworks to the stage for energy of band members half his age. Wearing ‘Beatles fanatic’ their two-hour set. Jagger was his inimitably his trademark black hat, Young started his set Despite a bill of septuagenarians (Bob energetic self, skipping and shuffling across alone behind the piano, opening with “After Dylan and the Rolling Stones played Friday), the stage and chatting warmly with the crowd. the Gold Rush,” accompanying himself on har- Desert Trip is not just for baby boomers. The The hit-packed performance included “Wild monica. He then strapped on an acoustic gui- performers’ average age is 72, and there may Horses,” “Miss You,” “Gimme Shelter,” “Midnight tar to play “Heart of Gold” and “Comes a Time” be a lot of gray hair in the audience, but mil- Rambler” and “Sympathy for the Devil.” They before his band, Promise of the Real, joined lennials are in the mix as well. Nineteen-year- even covered the Beatles’ “Come Together.” Young onstage. old McKenna Haner said she was “raised on When the band closed with “Satisfaction,” There were subtle and overt political over- the Beatles” so she came to the festival to see pyrotechnics lit up the desert sky. Bob Dylan tones to the performance. Women dressed as McCartney. “I’m a Beatles fanatic,” she said. kicked off the festival just after sundown with farmers, in plaid shirts and overalls, pretended Haner and her friend Seven Pappanastos, 17, an 80-minute performance. Wearing a black to throw seeds and tend small plants onstage said they were acutely aware they were suit with a white hat, the 75-year-old rocker before Young came out. Later, men in hazmat among the youngest in the crowd. They didn’t took the stage without fanfare and sat behind suits acted as though they were spraying the mind, but said the older concertgoers are the piano. He did not address the audience or grounds. Young wore a T-shirt that read “very aggressive.” say anything between songs. “Water is life.” The band’s nonstop set included “They act like, ‘We’re older. We deserve this,’” Backed by a five-piece band, he performed “Harvest Moon,” “Powderfinger,” and “Welfare she said. Pappanastos said attending the show selections from throughout his catalog, includ- Mothers,” which Young joked was “Donald came with a cost - beyond the $199 single-day ing “Tangled Up in Blue,” “Ballad of a Thin Man” Trump’s new campaign song.” A highlight was ticket price. “I got invited to three parties this and “Make You Feel My Love.” Dylan occasional- “Down By the River,” which became an weekend,” he said. “All their parents are out of Paul McCartney, center left, is joined at the microphone by Neil Young during McCartney’s ly crept out from behind the piano to sing at a extended 10-minute jam, with Young shred- town here.” The Desert Trip festival is being performance on day 2. microphone center stage, pulling a harmonica ding his well-worn Les Paul. “Tomorrow night held at Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, aimed at millennials, Desert Trip targets more to have a rocking, wild weekend in Palm from his pocket to play. He closed with come back,” Young told the crowd. “Roger home to the Coachella Valley Music and Arts affluent baby boomers who grew up with the Springs,” Mick Jagger said, adding coyly, “We’re “Masters of War” and silently left the stage. The (Waters) is going to build a wall and we’ll Festival each spring. But where Coachella is festival’s featured rockers. “You guys are going looking forward to seeing the dinosaur park.” festival repeats next weekend. — AP Nancy O’Dell calls Reeves stars in action-packed Trump’s crass remarks ‘John Wick: Chapter 2’ trailer sad, unwarranted eanu Reeves has no time for leisure ment in order to travel to Rome and face in the new trailer for “John Wick: off against some of the world’s deadliest KChapter 2,” released on Saturday at killers. New York Comic Con. “Welcome to Rome,” “John Wick: Chapter 2” is the sequel to a man greets Wick in the beginning of the 2014’s “John Wick.” Chad Stahelski directs trailer. “Is this a formal event, or a social the follow-up which is written by Derek affair?” Related ‘John Wick Chronicles’ Kolstad. Common, Bridget Moynahan, Ian Virtual Reality Game Unveiled “Social,” Wick McShane, Laurence Fishburne and John responds. “How many buttons?” “Two.” Leguizamo also star in the film. In addi- “And what style?” “Tactical.” tion to the film Lionsgate and Starbreeze With that, the trailer launches into a teamed up to create a VR game based on serious of action-packed sequences. In the the franchise. “John Wick: Chapter 2” is set upcoming film, Wick is forced out of retire- Keanu Reeves to hit theaters Feb 10, 2017. — Reuters Shinkai seeks global success for film that conquered Japan Busan veteran Ghosh returns akoto Shinkai’s animated hit “Your Name” has conquered Japan. Now the director hopes the Mworld will fall for its charms. “It is a unique film with ‘Mi Amor’ and ‘The India Project’ and has been a unique sensation,” said Shinkai, speaking before his film screened at the 21st Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) in South Korea, the premier event of ndian film maker Suman Ghosh is no partner in the project. its kind in Asia. “It’s hard for us to believe that it’s been stranger to the Busan Film Festival. His Ghosh is also at the festival’s Asian viewed by more than 10 million people in Japan-mostly “Nobel Thief,” “Uncle Shyamal Turns off Project Market with “The India Project,” a I the young generation-and hopefully we can see the the Lights” and “Peace Haven” received working title for a social satire about an same result around the world.” world premieres in 2011, 2012 and 2015 indigent farmer’s predicaments after he “Your Name” is a touching fantasy-romance set respectively. He is back for the 2016 edi- receives an Aadhaar Card, India’s equiva- around the lives of two high school students who tion with the debut screening of “Mi lent of a social security number. The proj- swap bodies when they dream, and who try to alter Amor,” which screens as part of the ‘A ect will begin its life at the market with history. It has topped the box office charts in Japan for Window on Asian Cinema’ strand. “I love Ghosh aiming to attach a principal pro- the past six weeks, with a total take coming into the the way it is organized and the selection ducer and secure financing. Besides mak- weekend of $126 million, according to industry figures. of films. Of course there is the best of ing films, Ghosh who holds a Ph.D in That’s moved the film past “Godzilla Resurgence” as the world cinema, but given my fondness for Economics from Cornell University, is an number one box office hit in Japan this year. Shinkai Asian cinema - Korea, Iran, Philippines, associate professor at Florida Atlantic believes the film has tapped into emotions still raw in China and of course Japan- where else can University with his main fields of research Japan following the earthquake and tsunami disasters we see such a range of Asian films? being personnel economics and develop- of 2011 that claimed an estimated 16,000 lives. Having been to Busan a few times before I ment economics. “I don’t consciously bal- “They took away the lives of so many people and have a personal connection with the festi- ance the two worlds. They have become a they changed everyone in Japan,” said Shinkai. “The val too,” says Ghosh. part of my existence and I enjoy this wish afterwards was that we could all live longer, and The film maker describes the US-set apparent duality. It gives a wider perspec- In this file photo, Nancy O’Dell arrives at so this film’s biggest motivation was to reflect these “Mi Amor” as “an examination of identity tive,” says Ghosh. — Reuters the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards at the dreams of the Japanese nation. Life means so much in relationships in the modern techno Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. — AP more to us now.” Shinkai’s film has now passed the world.” It stars Parambrata Chatterjee and $119 million made by “The Wind Rises” (2013), the last Raima Sen, who are hugely popular in ancy O’Dell of “Entertainment Director Suman Ghosh of full-length production directed by the now-retired ani- India’s Bengali-language film industry. Tonight” is calling Donald Trump’s Bangladesh walks on the red mation master Hayao Miyazaki. Miyazaki was responsi- The film is a co-production between N2005 taped lewd remarks about carpet of the opening ble for the Oscar-winning “Spirited Away” (2001), the Bongflix, Ghoshal Media and Kolkata 24*7 her sad and disappointing.

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