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lifestyle MONDAY, MAY 12, 2014 Music and Movies More jail for Chris Brown on probation violation hris Brown was ordered to remain in October, while on probation, Brown was a Los Angeles jail Friday after the R&B accused of attacking a man outside a hotel Csinger admitted he violated his pro- in the nation’s capital in October. He was bation by getting into an altercation out- charged with misdemeanor assault. side a hotel in Washington, DC, last year. On Friday, Brown admitted he committed Superior Court Judge James R. Brandlin a crime in that case and waived his rights to sentenced the singer to serve an additional an evidentiary hearing in which prosecutors 131 days in jail, although he’s likely to get would have to prove that Brown violated his out much sooner. His mother and other probation. Brown has been in custody since supporters watched Friday’s court proceed- mid-March, when he was arrested after ings, with some in the audience gasping being expelled from a court-ordered rehab when the singer was brought into court in sentence for violating its rules. Brown handcuffs and jail attire. responded “Yes sir,” repeatedly to questions Brandlin sentenced Brown to serve a posed by Brandlin during Friday’s hearing, year in county jail but gave him credit for including a question about whether he was nearly eight months. The credits include acknowledging he committed a crime in time that the singer has spent in rehab and Washington, DC It is unclear whether that jail, as well as credits for good behavior will have any impact on Brown’s pending while behind bars. Brown’s time in jail case. Brandlin said Brown will have to com- could be cut down even more drastically plete the remainder of his 1,000 hours of once sheriff’s officials start tallying his sen- community labor once he is released from tence and determine whether he’s eligible jail. As of early February, Brown had 800 for early release. Brown’s attorney Mark hours of community labor remaining. The Geragos predicted his client would be judge said he took into account that Brown quickly released. “If he isn’t out by Monday was relatively young when he attacked then I would expect that he’s getting spe- Rihanna, and that he had a previously undi- cial treatment,” Geragos said. agnosed mental illness before the case “I think Chris has learned quite a bit began. Brandlin ordered Brown into rehab in through this experience,” he said. “And I’m November and the singer was receiving anxious to see how he does. As I think treatment for anger management, sub- everybody else is.” The Grammy-winning stance abuse and issues related to bipolar singer was on probation after he attacked disorder before he was dismissed in March. Tiesto performs on stage. pop singer Rihanna, his then-girlfriend, Brown, 25, will remain on probation until hours before the 2009 Grammy Awards. In Jan. 23, Brandlin ordered.—AP Maroon 5, Shakira rock Wango Tango ango Tango alum Adam Levine wel- Wcomed a new gen- eration of concert-goers to the annual, daylong music festival Saturday. Before per- forming his hit “Pay Phone” the Maroon 5 frontman recalled his Wango debut in 2004. “Half of you guys weren’t even alive. So wel- come,” said a platinum blond Levine. Colombian singer Shakira, British rocker Ed Sheernan and EDM produc- er-DJ Tiesto were the final acts at the StubHub Center in Carson, Calif. A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera sang their emotional ballad “Say Something.” The preg- nant pop star, who arrived Chris Brown, appears in court Friday in Los Angeles. —AP late and breathless, said she had kicked off her heels and sprinted for the stage. Other performers included Iggy Naomi Kawase: ‘Masterpiece’ Azalea, Ariana Grande, Calvin (From left) Shakira, Adam Levine of Maroon 5, Ed Sheeran, Iggy Azalea performs on stage at 102.7 Harris, One Republic and KIIS FM’s Wango Tango at the StubHub Center on Saturday, May 10, 2014, in Carson, California. worth the Palme D’Or Paramore. —AP —AP photos aomi Kawase, the first Japanese turbing “Genpin”, a documentary about director to be a member of the natural childbirth, is much admired for NCannes jury, returns to competi- its elucidation of the human condition. tion this year with a film she has Kawase’s parents were already separated dubbed her “masterpiece”. And for an by the time she was born. They divorced auteur who has already bagged the when she was around 18 months old.”I Camera D’Or and the Grand Prix, her was raised by my aunt’s family (my sights are set on the top honor-the grandparents were also divorced, so that Palme D’or. “There is no doubt that this my mother could not ask them for help). is my masterpiece,” she said of My aunt didn’t have a child, so she and ‘Futatsume no mado’ (literally, ‘The sec- her husband took care of me like their ond window’, but titled in English ‘Still real daughter.” That family has remained central to her throughout her adult life- (From left) Danny Wilkin, Lewi Morgan and Jake Roche, of the B.o.B. performs on Ian Axel of A Great Big World and Christina surviving the death of her adoptive father at the age of 14, she remains liv- musical group Rixton, stop by the Wango Tango gifting suite to stage. Aguilera, right, perform on stage. ing with her adoptive mother to this taste the new Randoms candy by Wonka at StubHub Center. day. In her 1992 work “Ni tsutsumarete”, she explores the meaning of her family and her own identity, looking at her search for the father she never knew. Cannes to open with glitz, Clearest idea of human bonds The 1994 “Katatsumori” documents her life with her adoptive mother, high- glamour and dash of scandal lighting the warmth of ordinary life. Kawase has never achieved a great deal overs and shakers of the film world American director Bennett Miller’s after crashing her car in 1982 in hills above of commercial success, having spent her are boarding yachts or jets to head “Foxcatcher” is based on the murder of a the principality, not far to the east of Cannes. entire career in independent film and Mfor the once sleepy Mediterranean championship wrestler by an heir to the For months, the trade press has been report- documentary circles that have nonethe- seaside town of Cannes for a 12-day party that DuPont chemical fortune. “The Search” by ing that the film’s French director, Olivier less brought great critical acclaim.It is, in also serves as a film festival, with this year’s French director Michel Hazanavicius (“The Dahan, and producer Harvey Weinstein, who Kawase’s words, the job of cinema to lineup heavy on drama and light on humor. Artist”) is set in war-torn Chechnya. American owns the American distribution rights, have “concentrate on love or passion”, charac- The 67th Cannes Film Festival gets under way actor-director Tommy Lee Jones’s “The been sparring over the final cut. teristics that saw her thrust into the on Wednesday with 18 films showing in the Homesman” is a frontier drama starring him- This month the Monaco royal family Cannes spotlight on last year’s judging main competition for the Palme d’Or prize self and Meryl Streep while other Cannes vet- weighed in, calling the film a “farce”. Prince panel. “Being on the jury was a rare awarded by a majority female jury headed by erans in competition include France’s Jean- Albert and his sisters - Kelly’s children experience,” she told reporters in Tokyo New Zealand director Jane Campion, the only Luc Godard with “Adieu au Langage” and Caroline and Stephanie - said a trailer “con- in April. “I could really feel then, as a woman ever to receive the top Cannes award Canada’s Atom Egoyan with “The Captive”. firms the totally fictional nature of this film”. writer and as a human being, that cine- for her 1993 film “The Piano”. Add in 25-year-old Xavier Dolan’s Asked about the dispute last month, Thierry ma cannot exist without love.” Another 20 films are in the “Un Certain “Mommy”, and Canada has three films in com- Fremaux, the festival’s director, alluded to “Still the water” is an ode to nature, Regard” strand, plus dozens more in the petition to two for the United States, which French law which stipulates that a film’s direc- which explores relations and family “Directors’ Fortnight”, the “Critics’ Week” and Cronenberg said is a bit like a victory in the tor decides on the final cut. “We’re in France, through the lives of two teenagers other festival showcases. And, providing the two neighbours’ eternal hockey rivalry. and at Cannes, the only version is the version growing up on Amami Oshima, an isolat- customary dash of controversy, the opening of the director,” Fremaux said. ed and very rural island off the southern film - “Grace of Monaco” - has been Mostly ‘Old Europe’, American entries A whiff of scandal is good for business and coast of Japan. Two weeks before the denounced as a “farce” by the late princess’s “The interesting thing for me is how much Cannes has reliably produced its share ever festival opened, Kawase was still putting three children. this lineup relies really on ‘Old Europe’ and since the 18-year-old bikinied Brigitte Bardot the finishing touches to her work, which Cannes is “insane, very intense and fun”, America - there are a few Asian films, no allowed Hollywood leading man Kirk Douglas Japanese director and member of she has linked inextricably with Cannes, said Canadian director David Cronenberg, a German films, very few from Scandinavia and to play with her hair in a famous 1953 photo the Feature Film Jury Naomi Kawase with posters and websites always refer- Cannes regular whose “Maps to the Stars” not much from Eastern Europe or Russia,” said shoot on the beach.