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Lost in Showbiz

Democrat celebrities come out to celebrate Obama’s victory, but there was little joy over in the Romney camp

By Sam Wolfson

ost in Showbiz is not a fanan of election weeks. Whenn ththee L boss of the world is beingng chosen, US news networksrks take a brief respite fromm 24-hour coverage of Twilight Breakingkiinng Dawn to return, miserably, to breakingkinng news. The closest we got to seeing a celebrity was downing too many shotshotots of “blue state” punch in our electionon drinking game and briefl y mistakingng Ann Romney for Monster-era Charlizelizee Theron. But within minutes of Ohioo being declared, attention turned backack to vaguely famous people and howw they felt about Obama’s re-election.n. Regular viewers of Fox News willll bee unsurprised to hear that Hollywoodd liberals were all over the lamestreamam media crowing about Obama’s victory.ory. Beyoncé drew a “Take that Mitches” s” placard. Girls star Lena Dunham, whwhoo had spent the fi nal days of the campaignpaign helping to get out the elusive hipsterter vote, Instagrammed the little blackk dress she went to the polls in. “Sendnd us yours!” responded Huff Po. The results weren’t pretty. But it was Naya Rivera, the cheer-er- leader from Glee, who most poignantlyantly summed up this historic second termrm best, tweeting: “OBAMA!!!! A BOSS always wins. #ShittedOn’Em.” Shittedtted On ’Em – this year’s Yes We Can. Of course, at Lost in Showbiz, there’shere’s nothing we like more than a sore loser. Beyoncé and of [Romney’s] plan to lower taxes”. California came to terms with the Especially delicious was Donald Trump, Lena Dunham Dash’s confusing diatribe suggested passing of Measure B, which will force calling for a march on the White had cause to she voted for Romney to subvert them to wear condoms on set. James House and a revolution in the US, and celebrate; porn expectations that just because she’s an Deen , an adult movie star and the most conservative rocker Ted Nugent, who star James Deen African American single mother who vocal opponent of the law, had already called voters “soulless fools” and (below) was left believes in progressive social politics got the news media into a fl uster before “pimps whores & welfare brats”. feeling blue and thinks Obama is a great leader, the election. American network ABC But we most delighted in Stacey she would automatically vote for him was hot under the collar, describing his Dash, best “known” as Cher’s friend as president. “curly brown hair” and “soft blue eyes” Dionne in 90s teen movie Clueless, In an attempt to heal the wounds while GQ called him “the well-hung whose three-page pdf to US gossip of divisive party politics, Dash at least boy next door”. Good to see there’s website TMZ made the case not only ended with a sentiment that will surely still thorough research being done for Mitt Romney, but for rich people in unite both sides of the aisle: “Ultimately, in journalism. a tight spot everywhere. She began: I know that what Stacey Dash thinks Deen was in a philosophical mood “President Obama will always be re- about who will be the next president of after the vote, but he did raise one of membered as one of the greatest lead- the United States isn’t that important the consequences of the law, perhaps ers this United States of America has in the scheme of things.” It sure unforeseen by voters. “I am not the

ever known.” However, she was ham- ain’t, Mitches. correct person to ask exactly what the TIMES/REDUX/EYEVINE HEISLER/NEW YORK TODD strung by her own “considerable in- It was a night not just for blue states law says. But the only way that it can

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does watch porn. Somebody needs to The party ran over two nights, with of hand when history repeated itself sit there and either review all the con- the themes apparently decided by a and Cocozza got cokey. He was kicked tent that’s being shot, or they need to Bristol uni student just back from their off the show and has since spent his sit on set and verify that people are year abroad. On the fi rst, guests evenings sleeping with an array of actually adhering to this measure ... dressed in full Indian regalia – bindis Z-list reality stars too unfamous That is, as far as I understand, included. On the second, they donned to mention . a $52,000-a-year job.” tailcoats for a Great Gatsby- inspired Finally, though, a reformed There you go, Romney, you could black-tie aff air. Celebrations included Cocozza has made a return to his true get a new position in government a mammoth fi reworks display and a calling, rock’n’roll. This week saw the after all. performance by Diana Ross (for which release of his fi rst single, She’s Got a she was reportedly paid £500,000). If Motorcycle. This, readers who got guests got sleepy, a vintage Rolls-Royce more than level 4 in Key Stage 3 would ferry them to another giant English will understand, isn’t a real Naomi Campbell palace, the fi ve-star Umaid Palace motorcycle, it’s a metaphor, although certainly knows how Hotel, where Campbell forked out for what, Cocozza isn’t sure. At various more than a grand a room. points in the song it’s used to represent to do extravagance The only thing that marred the his penis (“I’ve got a motorcycle, it decadence was the company Campbell feels so delightful”), her lady parts Party people: keeps. In her 90s heyday, she would (“She’s got a motorcycle, why won’t Naomi Cambell have stayed up for the full 48 with she let me ride it?) and, in the song’s and fi ance Robert De Niro and Spike Lee. These thrilling conclusion, an anthro- As you can imagine, Lost in Showbiz Vladimir Doronin days, the most high-profi le guests in- pomorphised Harley-on-Harley tryst gets invited to a lot ooff supposedly cluded Bob Geldof and Sarah Ferguson. (“I knew one day I’d fi ll you up, on my glitzy dos. But for alll thethe prom-prom- Pictures haven’t emerged yet of Fergie motorcycle”). WHAT? ises of glamour and A-listers,A-listers, in her Indian garb, but the laywers who Lost in Showbiz had hoped that somehow we alwayss end up in deal with Prince Harry’s wardrobe the video, which features Cocozza the function room off a BeBestst malfunctions are on standby. stumbling around with his knees bent Western drinking past-st- like a tramp singing Wonderwall, was its-sell-by-date Red going to be a daydream, with him Stripe and listening waking up at a Shoe Zone checkout. to Kelly Osbourne Frankie Cocozza But it just keeps going, his vocals whingeing. masters the art of the whispier than his facial hair, his face So this week crumpling with every strained note. we praise Naomi sexual metaphor At the end, he rides an IRL motorcycle Campbell for through a wall of fi re. Our hopes throwing a horrify- are raised! But he’s fi ne readers. ingly extravagant Absolutely fi ne. bash: a 50th- birthday party Next, to poetry news. Lost in Showbiz for her fi ance, has spent the week tangled in the vivid Vladimir Doronin, prose of Britain’s most prominent that genuinely lookss as genital wart, Frankie Cocozza. if it cost more than thehe Cocozza, you’ll remember, rose to Olympics. Campbell prominence on last year’s X Factor fl ew guests out on when he pulled down his pants to chartered planes to reveal the tattooed names of eight Jodhpur, where she hhadad girls he had shagged on a holiday rented the Mehrangarharh in Magaluf. Fort, a 15th-century He became Gary Barlow’s favourite palace that sits 400mm contestant – a mini Robbie he could above the city. scold and control. But things got out

09.11.12 The Guardian 3 Hello Richard! I like your new fi lm (1). helpful to him. And then he went and Ooh yes, it’s very good, isn’t it? (2) 30 minutes with... did his season in Stratford and he did Henry V. And my daughter just adored It’s better than I thought it’d be. Richard Briers him. She said: “Come and have a chat That’s exactly what I thought! I with him. He must remember you from thought I wasn’t going to like it at all, The veteran actor may be The Good Life .” We both went round to but I went with the grandchildren and the stage door, had a very nice chat and we had a really good time. killing zombies in his new from that came Malvolio in Twelfth Night in Hammersmith. What attracted you to Cockneys Vs Zombies? fi lm – but don’t, whatever Were you disappointed that he didn’t Well, I don’t often get the chance to fi nd a part for you in Thor ? play someone of my age. I’ll be 80 in you do, call him cool I don’t think there was anything there January, so I was playing this silly old for me, really. fool in an old people’s home. I was having a very nice time because thee I don’tdon’t know. You’d look quite good in sun came out, and I was in a deckchairhair a bigbig helmeth and a Nordic waistcoat. doing bugger all. And then people DresDressedse up as some old ninny. Some started shouting “There’s a zombie!! extraordinary extrao creature. But, no, he The zombie’s after you!” It was lovelyely By Stuart HeritaHeritagege didn’t ask. I’m rather hurt, actually. for me because zombies are very, veryery slow, so that suits me perfectly. LookLookingin back, what have been your bbestest aandn worst moments as an actor? By my calculations, you killed sevenen It’s tterrible.er I can’t really remember zombies during the fi lm. Is that yourur ththem.em. The best was when I was at highest onscreen kill-count? Rada aand I did a play as an old man, Yes! I’d only killed fi ve people beforere a MolièreMoli play. It was a very funny, in ... oh dear, what was that? I’m justst eccentric eccent character, and it was the fi rst going to check with my wife ... oh yyes,es, bbigig laughlau I remember getting. That was Midsomer Murders! I think I got aboutout 50 yyearsea ago. That’s the most exciting four or fi ve of them in that. I was a tthinghing ini the world, to get your fi rst big mad vicar (3). Suddenly in the past two laulaugh.gh. So that was very good. But the or three years I’ve popped up to playay oothers?thers Nothing really. I’ve just sort of these terrible killers. It’s great. sstumbledtumb along.

There have been a lot of versus fi lmsms I’veI’ve beenbe reading a lot of interviews recently. Have you seen any of them?m? with you,y and you always seem to bring Have you seen Monsters Vs Aliens? uupp youryo dislike of the word “cool” . No I haven’t. OhOh,, yyes, cool! Well, I don’t like it at all. I tthinkhin it’s so stupid. I mean, hardly Alien vs Predator ? anybody’sanyb cool now (6). Everyone’s in No. I’ve got to get hold of that. a shockingsh state, I think. And every- one’sone walking about saying: “Cool Strippers vs Werewolves ? (4) man,man cool.” That’s bollocks, I think. Bloody hell. What’sWh next on the horizon for you? You’ve been acting for 50 years NotNot much. A couple of voice- now. Do you have any unfulfi lled overs.ove Not much about. In the old ambitions? daysday at this time of year you did Not really. I’ve always been one of pantomime, pan which was hell. the few lucky ones. I’ve always hadd an enormous amount of work. And WWasas it? Why? of course, as you probably know, I I mmeanea it’s awful. The place is full of suddenly stumbled into Kenneth kkids,ids, shouting and screaming. But you Branagh and started doing all the could make a living from it. I don’t any Shakespeare stuff . The posh stuff . momore.re. There are thousands of actors That was rather nice. It changed myy nnow.ow. AAnd nobody puts the money up entire life. ververyy wwell, so most people seem to be quite bbadly out of work. How did you meet Branagh? You’vee worked with him an awful lot (5). WWhathat a sad note to end the interview Well, my daughter, Lucy Briers, adoredored oon.n. ThThanks for talking to me. him when she was a student, and usedsed TThat’shat’s very kind of you. Have a bloody to follow him around and be very ggoodood CChristmas! (7) All the best! GEOFFREY SWAINE/REX FEATURES SWAINE/REX GEOFFREY

Footnotes 1 Cockneys Vs Zombies, co-starring Honor Blackman. 2 The fi lm has a 69% fresh rating on Rottentomatoes, one better than Dirty Dancing. 3 Death’s Shadow: series two, episode one. He killed a property developer with a sword. 4 The worst ever versus movie, even including Megashark v Giant Octopus. 5 In Henry V, Swan Song, Peter’s Friends, Much

Ado About Nothing, Frankenstein, In the Bleak Midwinter, Hamlet, Love’s Labour’s Lost and As You Like It. 6 Take that, Kanye West! 7 This interview took place on 17 October. PHOTOGRAPH

4 The Guardian 09.11.12 BROTHERS IN ARMS Jake Gyllenhaal tells Catherine Shoard how spending time on the police frontline for his new movie helped him and his co-star Michael Peña forge an unbreakable friendship

Michael Peña and Jake Gyllenhaal in End of Watch

09.11.12 The Guardian 5 t was Jake Gyllenhaal’s fi rst day service.” (In fact, it’s in aid of a play .) “it’d take me a couple of hours to get of work on End of Watch when Later, I meet him and co-star to sleep. You’re not really involved. I the murder happened. He was Michael Peña, holed up in a hotel Which makes you feel weirdly even incognito in the back of an basement. Gyllenhaal politely asks if more alone. Which is where Michael LAPD patrol car, observing I’d mind them jogging round the room and I could connect. We would see protocol on the midnight shift. An to try to stay sparky. Then he’s things happen and say: well, our job emergency call came through. A drugs concerned I might be cold. Would I like is to observe it and then, absurdly, to bust had gone wrong. Theirs was the his blazer? I put it on and explain most fake it. Mike and I will always be close second squad to arrive. Gyllenhaal of my clothes are being fumigated for because of that.” opened his door, and a man was shot bedbugs. He blanches only briefl y. “Oh, Peña pipes up. “It changes you a dead in front of him. He had fi ve more awesome! Well, it was a nice jacket little bit when you see a woman who months of ride-alongs still to go. while I had it. And my skin was really has been smashed in the face and “I have a whole slew of feelings nice.” Peña cackles. “Yeah, dude, you’ll bleeding, and she doesn’t want to press about that,” he says one autumn be doing that play like this.” He mimes charges against her husband. And morning in Toronto, the day after itchy nipples. Gyllenhaal giggles. They there was this one incident – the crowd the movie’s premiere , “but it was stop jogging and laugh harder. were around us and I just didn’t know defi nitely an awakening. Domestic Seeing these two together – in sync, what was going to go off . That’s the one violence, chasing stolen cars, family if not quite joined at the hip – is curi- time that we got along. I knew: OK, this disputes … growing up where I did in ous. For End of Watch’s blue uniforms movie can work. I knew Jake would Los Angeles, I didn’t see anything of are a bit of a red herring: this is a cop stick up for me.” this kind of violence.” His Bambi eyes fl ick miles more excited by homies What’s strangest here is that it must balloon with feeling. “Nor this sort of than homicide. Those pre-production have been at least partly intentional. culture. South-east LA is 95% amazing ride-alongs weren’t just to see the After all, Ayer went through an exhaus- culture, fantastic food, and it was great grisly side of police work, but its cama- tive casting process, and Gyllenhaal to be immersed in that world.” raderie, too – the 12-hour shifts with was already on board – an executive Gyllenhaal has long been big with your best bud, the moonlit heart-to- producer, as well as the lead. Such the outreach. On his 13th birthday, in hearts, all that happy yakking. initial stickiness was forseeable. Both lieu of a party, he performed a Problem was, when Gyllenhaal and actors may be self-confessed “drama “barmitzvah-like act, without the Peña met, they didn’t click. “It’s so geeks”, but while Gyllenhaal got his typical trappings” volunteering at a weird hanging out with this guy know- fi rst driving lesson from Paul Newman, local homeless shelter. His parents – ing he’s going to be like your brother on a racetrack, Peña literally wrestled director Stephen Gyllenhaal and from another mother,” says Peña. “It his way out of the Chicago ghetto (he screenwriter Naomi Foner – encour- puts a lot of pressure on you. David was a semi-professional who tried out aged him to take regular summer jobs [Ayer, the director] didn’t want us to for WWE). to grit up his minted beginnings. When be actors. He’s like: ‘You guys will die And it’s these divisions that lend he adopted a rescue puppy, he named for each other.’ I’m like: ‘Oh, shit. the fi lm an interesting friction. “A lot it Atticus, after Finch. How am I gonna do this?’ We spent of rehearsal was knowing each others Such determined humility could so much time together. We were back-story,” says Peña. “I know his sis- seem icky; up close, that doff ed cap is always sparring. And when somebody ter well and I met his mom – beautiful easy to swallow. At a press conference, punches you in the face you realise, woman. So, in the car, I was talking to he bats off queries about his beardy like, I’m gonna fi ght! It wasn’t like any him.” And while End of Watch has its appearance with: “I totally respect the Hollywood shit; it was really getting own genre spin (the police are the good question but it’s very hard for me to down and dirty.” guys, not the dirty DIs of Harsh Times talk about hair when I feel like the In the end, it took fi ve months of and Training Day ), it is these scenes police offi cers I worked with have roughhouse research for them to bond. behind the wheel, before the fi lm spins much more importantpg things to talk When Gyllenhaaly would head home off into its plot proper, that mean End about. I feel I’d be doingdoing them a dis-dis- afterafter the 4am ride-alonride-alongg shift fi nished, of Watch stands out so brightly in a lineup of cop movies. It tackles ethnic diff erence head on, and with humour – the key promo- ‘THE DIRECTORTOR tional clip has the pair sat in the car, Gyllenhaal taking the piss out of the DIDN’T WANTT USUS endless quinceañeras his partner must attend, Peña doing the same for a cau- TO BE ACTORSRS casian love of elaborate coff ee. There are two trailers, one foregrounding HE’S LIKE: Peña , partly in Spanish, the other playing it as a straight Gyllenhaal YOU GUYS vehicle that progresses along well-trod tyre tracks (“They were the city’s top WILL DIE guns …”). Their relationship, then, is a careful construct, deftly peddled – FOR EACH not just with punters, but the LAPD themselves. OTHER’ “It moves them,” says Gyllenhaal, “because it shows so much of why they love the job – and that’s the stuff in the car. My best friends in the world, we express our love for each other through

6 The Guardian 09.11.12 a whole lot of shit-taking. Romance is we discover along the way is really wouldn’t mind branching out to make a ‘We were trying important, but to have a friend you can important. I think what we were romcom, he says. There are all sorts of to stay true to the use as a mirror, who can give you an trying to stay true to was the authen- limits to the LAPD. “Without them, so- authenticity of objective response, that’s what’s really ticity of what we saw, not the roman- ciety would be a fucking disaster. With what we saw’ … important.” Agrees Ayer: “Cops really tic version.” them they can sorta hold the line clean Peña and love taking the piss out of each other. Ayer, too, slightly sidesteps the of the mess. But it’s just triage.” Yes, he Gyllenhaal; I’ve shown the fi lm to offi cers all over question, though he’s quick to assure says, policing is inherently ballsy; and (top left) director the county and they all say the same that the LAPD had no editorial veto. So it’s true that the women in the force as David Ayers thing: fi nally somebody got it right.” why is the force so well-represented well as the fi lm must mold themselves on fi lm? “It’s such a unique depart- to be more macho. “It’s aggressive. Are uch close ties between fi lm- ment. When they get involved in you willing to kill somebody? If you an- makers and their subjects scandal it’s in a big way. I think it’s the swer ‘no’ then don’t be a cop.” S are rare. Ayer, an ex-Navy visually coolest agency. They have The actors, though, aren’t so sure. offi cer with a voice like a that classic look – they look like the They stand up tall in that hotel base- submarine and a build to police. Their demeanour and style; the ment, and they ponder earnestly, match, has constructed a career with famous command presence of their eager not to let their colleagues on the the police, even if it has been in fi c- offi cers. Everyone’s always struck by squad down. “It’s about putting on an tionalising them rather than serving it. Those guys are intense! They’re act,” says Gyllenhaal. “Whatever your with them. Peña, meanwhile, is in awe so confi dent. They’re like military.” sex. Cops go into a black neighbour- of his real-life sibling, who works in He sighs with appreciation and swigs hood and respond diff erently than if a correctional facility in Chicago. For a Coke. “We Americans greet our they’re in a Hispanic neighbourhood. Gyllenhaal: “the fi lm changed my life. I servicemen as they come back from They adapt in a way I’ve rarely seen in have three really close friends from the overseas and we shake their hands and any other profession besides acting. production process. The movie to me thank them. Not the case with cops That’s maybe the only similarity be- almost feels like an afterthought.” who go into harm’s way.” tween our jobs – the ability to Such fraternity is also potentially Why? He pauses. “I think people observe human behaviour and imi- concerning. End of Watch is a terrifi c are intimated by the police. At the end tate it. Theirs is for survival and ours fi lm, and, to be fair, our heroes do of the day, it’s a secret society. It’s not is absurd in comparison. But maybe happen upon some remarkably grisly a place where regular citizens get to ‘brotherhood’ is misleading. It’s a big fi nds on even the most innocuous see behind the facade.” He doesn’t family. I know that does sound cliched housecall, but it will also function as a think there’s any other reason people but when you get to its authenticity, persuasive recruitment video. Did feel wary? “Absolutely I do believe it’s anything but.” Gyllenhaal ever worry being embed- there is a bit of psychological protec- Time’s up. I hand back Gyllenhaal’s ded with the LAPD might just mean tion. They can read my mind; they blazer and he slips it on, faint fear SCOTT GARFIELD; PA SCOTT they were in bed with them? can see my sins. I have pot in my car. creasing the grin. A week or so later I THE DETAILS “Yes and no. I don’t think you can I took a Zanax. All our petty faults are read the fi rst reviews of his play, just approach any piece of art with bound- writ large.” opened on Broadway. None seem to aries or rules. I think respect is a very Once you speak longer with Ayer, mention any unexplained scratching. End of Watch is out on 23 November PHOTOGRAPHS PHOTOGRAPHS important thing but I also think what seeds of scepticism seem to sprout. He They all talk about the beard, though.

09.11.12 The Guardian 7 e thought: ‘Let’s this for a notion: ZZ Top are in fact an Gibbons being asked to record a part for have a stage the absurdist modern art project whose a solo record by Sam Moore, and leaving ‘ W shape of Texas.’” chosen medium is the 12-bar blues. his card on the mixing desk in case he In dark glasses, “I like that,” says Billy F Gibbons, singer, was required to return – not knowing 10-gallon hat, guitarist, and other beard. “Jim Dick- Clapton was due in the studio the next cowboy boots and – of course – long inson, our favourite crazed record pro- day. “Fast-forward to Eric’s seven nights beard, ZZ Top’s bassist Dusty Hill ducer out of the Memphis area, called at the Royal Albert Hall. His minder is remembering the time the band me aside and he said: ‘Yeah, ZZ Top. tracked me down and said: ‘Eric would decided to take their home state to the You’re like the Dalí of the Delta.’ I’ll take like to see you.’ I saw the show. On the world – or as much of it as they could that. A high compliment in my esteem.” exit, he said: ‘We’re going to see Eric.’ reach. “There was a screen in the back The absurdism is there in ZZ Top’s Fine. Go down to the bowels of the that looked like the desert. Then , let’s obsession with the ephemera of US pop Royal Albert Hall, there was a small get some animals. We had a longhorn culture: the Cheap Sunglasses and TV door, and one small sofa, and Eric buff alo that came up on hydraulic lifts Dinners of their songs. It’s there in the was sitting there. He said: ‘I have two before and at the closing of the show matching stage uniforms. It’s there in requests. I understand the Gibson guitar – you don’t want it up there during the music, too, in the way they started company is making a tribute to your the show. Bad idea. Javelina [skunk assimilating new-wave infl uences from famous Sunburst . Can you get me in the pigs], which are mean little guys. And 1979’s Degüello album, in the way their queue to get one?’ ‘I’m pretty sure. And a coupla rattlesnakes in a Plexiglass comeback single earlier this year was what’s the second request?’ ‘Can I have dome. You could put your foot on top a cover of a Houston hip-hop song. one of your business cards?’ Busted!” of that glass.” It’s there in their surrealist approach He laughs delightedly. This was 1976, and the Worldwide to the world (when Gibbons was once Gibbons is steeped in the blues but Texas Tour, one of the greatest follies asked why their 1983 smash-hit a lbum also in art. When ZZ Top were on hiatus in rock history. “There were six or eight Eliminator was their fi rst record without in the late 1970s, before Degüello, he semi-tractor trailers to carry the gear a Spanish title, he explained it was in went to Paris to pursue it. “I had some and they were painted in a desert scene, fact called El Iminator). buddies from Houston that had started and they were done in order,” Hill con- Most of all, the absurdism is there this consortium of new-day surrealism tinues. “They had to travel down the in Gibbons – whose every word – more than just a tip of the hat to the highway in a certain order so the scene appears to be the setup to an elaborate Dada guys. We were doing Xerox art went from one to another.” practical joke. Even his dressing-room He refl ects for a moment, table backstage at Merriweather Post inscrutable behind his shades, before Pavilion in suburban Maryland – where observing, gently: “If we ever have a ZZ Top are playing a festival date at problem, it’s not comin’ up with ideas. the personal request of headliner Jack It’s stoppin’ us.” White – has its concession to oddness: There may well be plenty of people a personalised memo pad headed: for whom the notion that ZZ Top are a “BFG. Friend of Eric Clapton.” band of ideas is as ridiculous as calling “It was kind of a prank,” Gibbons Skrillex one of our more sensitive says. “I went in to get a business card singer-songwriters. Are the Texan trio printed up at the local Kinko’s. And not just the American answer to Status when I came to collect it they Quo? The band with two members with showed me the sample, beards and – get this – one without, and said: ‘Shall we run but it doesn’t matter because his name with it? Do you approve?’ is Beard? I said: ‘I’ll take it.’ OK. Well, maybe. But there’s a whole lot That’s Joke No 1.” more to ZZ Top. Actually, how’s about Joke No 2 begins with DALIS OF THE DELTA alo on hydraulic lifts, made Michael Hann They have put buff crack-rap cover versions and taken part in Dada-inspired art projects. meets ZZ Top, veteran absurdists of 12-bar blues

8 The Guardian 09.11.12 and it was not so great, but the eff ect … launching for $99, he resolved to take do this guitar stuff ?’ But we wanted ‘If we ever If you took an image and then printed it his English father and Irish mother to to know: ‘Well, how do you program out and then re-imaged that, the more the British Isles. “So we go and we drop this drum? We like the backbeats!’ T he have a generations you did the degradations down when this punk explosion was two energies came together. Simple, to problem, started to set in. It was real vivid. happening,” he says. “One thing I can the point. No, we’re not going to be a From a technical standpoint it was assure you: I remain open to the eff ects rap or hip-hop group by any stretch of it’s not just degradation, but from an artistic of the energy events. That really got the imagination. What we do is, we’re coming up standpoint it was an enrichment of a my attention. ” gonna make it ZZ Top. Bluesy, yeah. But visual experience.” Earlier this year, ZZ Top released it’s all Houston ghetto.” with Ideas’ He set himself the challenge of their fi rst album for nine years. La Next week , ZZ Top’s 43-year stint as bringing that same combination of Futura is the rarest of things from a one of the world’s most recognisable degradation and enrichment to the veteran band – a record that stands rock’n’roll bands will be honoured in blues. Then punk came along and among the best they’ve done. Its London, when they pick up the Living off ered him the means to do so, though guitars roar and growl, Gibbons’s voice Legends gong at the Classic Rock not without help from Sir Freddie a toxic gargle in counter to Hill’s higher, Magazine awards. Watching them on Laker. In September 1977, Laker truer yell. And it begins with the year’s stage in Maryland, you see the aff ec- launched his Skytrain – a budget-priced most unlikely cover version: I Gotsta tion in which they are held by very fl ight between New York and Gatwick. Get Paid, a version of DJ DMD’s crack- diff erent groups of people of very dif- When Gibbons saw the fl ights were dealing hip-hop anthem 25 Lighters. As ferent ages. “If there are people who with so many things in ZZ Top’s career, admire us and what we do, that’s a it owes as much to chance as to design. huge compliment,” Hill says. “As long They were short one song as the as it doesn’t get too crazy. People are sessions for La Futura came to an end. all the time telling me stories: they Gibbons cast his mind back to 1996, named their son after me, or more than when the band’s studio was being likely their dog. Or they got a tattoo. Or refurbished and instead they were had their fi rst sexual encounter when recording in a place used by the local a song of ours was playing. Thank you hip-hop crews. “The hip-hop guys for the compliment, I really wish I had wanted to know: ‘Hey, how do you been there.”

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09.11.12 The Guardian 9 Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva (below and bottom) in Amour. Far lm right, Riva in the 1959 fi Hiroshima Mon Amour

he last time we see breakthrough role in Alain Resnais’ Emmanuelle Riva in Hiroshima Mon Amour way back in T Amour , she’s lying pale IN THE 1959, though she has also made fi lms and lifeless on a double for Georges Franju and Jean-Pierre bed, petals strewn about Melville. Trintignant rose to fame as her head, the lights turned down low the gauche young pup who pursued and the shutters closed. The last time NAME OF Brigitte Bardot in 1956’s And God we see Jean-Louis Trintignant, he’s Created Woman . He went on to star in the walking wounded, racked by grief the freewheeling A Man and a Woman , and barely there. Michael Haneke’s then shot the gorgeous My Night With acclaimed new picture off ers such AMOUR Maud for Eric Rohmer and The Con- an unfl inching portrait of the grubby formist for Bernardo Bertolucci. In business of dying – focusing on the fi nal the early 1990s the pair cropped up in days of an elderly French couple – that it French actors Emmanuelle Riva Krzysztof Kieslowski’s acclaimed Three precludes all talk of second acts or mira- Colours trilogy. Riva played Juliette cle cures. To paraphrase Dorothy Parker, and Jean-Louis Trintignant talk to Binoche’s mum in Blue and Trintignant there’s no such thing as a happy ending . Xan Brooksook about their roles in starred as the judge in Red . All of which makes it curious to “That’s right, we did,” says Trintig- fi nd the fi lm’s stars abruptly reunited the acclaimedlaimed new MichaelMichael HanekeHane nant, still twirling his stick. “And ac- in the airy limbo of a Paris hotel, just fi lm, thee problem with Cannes – and tuallytually therethere aare a lot of similarities south of the Arc de Triomphe. There’s bebetweentween KieslowsKieslowskik and Haneke. Riva, waxing lyrical about poetry as their lifetimesfetimes in cinemacinema In ffact,act, I’d pputut themthe in the same she pours out the tea. Here’s Trintig- familyfamily as BerBergmangman and Tarko- nant, twirling his walking stick in vsky.vvsky. They all hahavev the same one hand and gesticulating with the generous, magnimagnififi ccent vision of other; taking issue with this and that. tthehe worlworld.”d.” The two look so hale it’s disconcert- “Yes, but I tthink Haneke ing. Meeting them is like attending a is more hahappy,p more smi- private screening of an unlikely sequel. ley,” adaddsds Riva. “Kies-

Amour 2: Life Goes On. lowski ddidi not strike me BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE Riva is 85 and Trintignant is 81 and as a ververyy happy man.” they both trail long, illustrious pedi- I confesscon that grees. The former is indelibly stitched HaHanekeneke does not es-

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10 The Guardian 09.11.12 way either. This, after all, is the direc- ‘You can’t “I remember when says, because you tor who put Isabelle Huppert through My Night With Maud don’t say no to the wringer in The Piano Teacher, compare was shown at Cannes in a fi lm like Amour. foreshadowed the rise of nazism in The works of art. 1969,” he says ruefully. “It But he suspects that’s White Ribbon and douses the lights went down very badly. Before the it; he’s fi nished with mov- altogether with Amour. There was I Do it with screening they played a short fi lm that ies. Riva, for her part, remains more thinking he might be a little austere. cyclists, not had a scene in a church and showed a game. “If by chance people would still “No, no, not austere,” insists cat that came in and wandered about. off er me roles, I’d still like to do them. Trintignant. “Strict, yes, but never with fi lm- And the audience liked that. They But if not, that’s OK. I love life,” she austere. I mean, the subject matter is went, ‘Ah, how nice, a cat.’ Then we says. “I love life to death. If I don’t act obviously intense. But we had a lot of makers’ presented My Night With Maud. We in another fi lm, who cares? I’m 85, it fun along the way.” also had a scene in a church but this doesn’t matter. I’m still alive and that Riva rushes to chip in. “So much time everybody in the audience burst feels great.” laughter, so many funny things. out laughing because they remem- “There was an advert I saw once,” I remember once, when I was playing bered the cat from the earlier fi lm. Trintignant says. “It was an advert for dead, I had to stay quite still. But ‘Where’s the cat?’ they shouted. ‘We cinema and it said, ‘If you love life, you when the crew went to look at the want the cat!’ And they didn’t pay any love cinema’.” monitor, they came back laughing. attention to our fi lm because they were “Ah,” sighs Riva. “Yes.” I said, ‘What’s so funny?’ and they still thinking about the cat.” He twirls “Well, I don’t think that’s true,” told me that my toes were wiggling. his stick in exasperation. “I know that he says. “If you love life, you’re not My toes! I didn’t even know they could THE DETAILS today My Night With Maude is seen as going to go and sit in the dark in see them. So I had to do the whole a great triumph. But back then it was a some cinema, are you? Why would scene again and concentrate very Amour is released disaster.” you want to do that? Go and live your carefully. I think my feet have a will in the UK on 16 Trintignant basically sees himself life instead.” Interview complete, of their own.” November and in the as having retired from screen acting. he drains his tea, seizes his stick and Rest assured that Riva’s waggling US on 19 December. He made an exception for Haneke, he prepares to do precisely that. feet do not feature in the fi nal cut of Amour – a fi lm that sticks largely to the same book-lined apartment, keep- ing pace with its characters as they move inexorably towards the exit door. Haneke’s picture is gruelling, moving and fi nally transcendent. It scooped the crowning Palme d’Or award when it premiered at this year’s Cannes. In so doing, it thrust its actors back under the fl oodlights, though it turns out they were not won over. “What I don’t like about Cannes is the competition, the competing with each other, having to defend yourself,” says Trintignant. “I don’t like that. It’s not the directors’ fault, it’s how the festival is arranged. One fi lm wins, one fi lm loses. But you can’t compare works of art in that way. Do it with cyclists, not with fi lm-makers.” “I don’t particularly like it either,” says Riva. “The crowds, the photogra- phers shouting at you. So many fl ashes going off . It’s crazy, it blinds you. ‘Turn one way! Turn the other way!’ What’s that about? We’re not performing monkeys. I know that some actors love it – they live for it. But I don’t like it. Haneke doesn’t like it either.” “Oh, Haneke doesn’t mind it,” says Trintignant. “He likes getting the pat on the head.” Riva points out that she fi rst went to Cannes with Hiroshima Mon Amour and Trintignant with And God Created Woman. Her feeling is that Cannes was a little simpler, a lit- tle sleepier, back then in the 1950s, although Trintignant cautions against turning too nostalgic. Even the great years, he says, only tend to look great with the benefi t of hindsight.

09.11.12 The Guardian 11 bel Tesfaye, a 22-year-old Abel Tesfaye, AKA the Weeknd. Toronto-born singer of Below, left to right: Drake, Miguel A Ethiopian descent, and Frank Ocean doesn’t show his face on the cover of House of Rolling Stone, released last month. Balloons , the fi rst of three mixtapes Looking hungover or drugged or he has released under the name the emotionally spent , he wearily meets Weeknd. The image, nonetheless, the camera’s gaze as though it is a lover serves as a self-portrait. Described who has failed him too often. simply, it sounds like simple fun: a Fittingly, it was Drake – the seigneur bathroom full of balloons, with a naked of self-loathing, lotharioed confession- woman in the bathtub. But, shot in alism (“I’ve had sex four times this week, a strangely dingy black and white, I’ll explain/Having a hard time adjusting blurred, and with just one dehumanised to fame”) – who eff ectively broke breast and a pair of arms sticking out Tesfaye, tweeting endorsement for his awkwardly from behind those fellow Canadian in March last year by balloons, the eff ect is creepy. Listen to quoting lyrics from the Chris Isaak- Tesfaye’s narcotised slow-jams and the indebted Wicked Games (“Bring your photograph’s message is clear: partying love baby I could bring my shame/ Bring is an existential experience, sex is the drugs baby I could bring my pain”). fraught with alienation, and everything Interest reached such a pitch that registers as unreal and unsettling. when Tesfaye released his third mix- It might all sound like a massive SOUNDS AND tape, Echoes of Silence , last December, downer – and would be were Tesfaye’s his website crashed under the weight voice not one of the most compelling of traffi c. Since then, he has been asked of those driving a new strain of R & B. SENSIBILITY to remix Lady Gaga and Florence & the This is a mode of address based not on Machine and has just fi nished touring sleek confi dence, but rather a lack of it. with the latter, who joked she didn’t If Tesfaye and his cohort are going to The Weeknd, with his narcotised slow- want to: “ burst that mysterious bubble seduce you, they’ll do it by telling you jams and plaintive lyrics, has been an of his so ... I’ll just say I’ve never how much they are hurting and how actually seen him – he’s a hologram!” many feelings they are feeling: on enigma. But now a major label deal is Two weeks ago, on stage at Manhat- Twitter and elsewhere the Weeknd Hermione Hoby tan’s Terminal 5, Tesfaye sold out the suffi xes his name with “xo” – as in, a changing that, says 3,000-capacity venue, playing to a kiss and a hug. crowd of mainly teenage couples in an There are sex and drugs, lots of atmosphere of sweat, hormones and both, but scant pleasure to be found in marijuana smoke. As he launched into either. Whether over booze – as on his swooning High For This and sang Kendrick Lamar’s Swimming Pools “trust me girl/you wanna be high for (Drank) – or assorted pharmaceuticals, this”, everyone unavoidably was. as on Frank Ocean’s Nov acane (“fuck His demeanour was at odds with his me numb /love me none”), the Tesfaye debut, chart at No 2 in US and British narcotised online aesthetic: irrepressible ambivalence runs deep and pervasive. markets – a huge commercial success to the point of puppyish, he looked Even famously Adderall-happy rapper first showed that resonates with the re-election of a wholesome in a puff y black ski jacket Danny Brown confesses on xxx : “I try his face in gay-marriage-supporting, African and performed with the showmanship to escape it, hoping drugs numb a soul.” American president. and stage-ease of an X Factor shoo-in, This new mode is also about a a video for Like Ocean, Tesfaye has earned a and greeted the encore-demanding blurring, or extension of the genre’s Rolling Stone fanbase by releasing music online for screams with a clowning, exaggerated sounds, as well as its sensibility. The free – songs built around a fogged, victory march of a re-entrance. names might be a bit silly (for instance, crepuscularc r production to set off the MTV has proclaimed him “the best “ PBR&B ”, PB as in Pabst Beer – beverageverage kekeening perfection of his voice. These musical talent since Michael Jackson ” – of choice for the American hipster),r), but shshadowy sounds were, until recently, hyperbole given some credence by D.D, the music is quietly radical,ical, with wwoworkrk mamatched with shadowy presentation: an uncanny cover of the King of Pop’s by Miguel (who just foforr momonthsnths TTesfayees withheld his Dirty Diana . And, under one YouTube released the rightly identity. BuBut,t like Ocean, his clip of Valerie, a new track that will acclaimed Kaleidoscope output has lel d to a major feature on Trilogy, the top comment Dream) evidence of an label deal.deal. NNext week, reads: “Michael Jackson never died ...” ongoing, mutually Universal w ill release Trilogy, On Thursday, it was announced that enriching dialogue an albumalbum of remixed, the Weeknd will be appearing on Later between indie and r eemasteredma material ... With Jools Holland at the end of this electronic musicians fromfrom his existing month, but Tesfaye still isn’t speaking and R&B artists. work,wo plus three to the press. Perhaps, like Jackson, he Frank Ocean, who newn songs . Tesfaye is genuinely shy, truly the troubled last summer on Tumblr willw no longer be an soul he paints in his lyrics. Or perhaps posted a deeply enigma.e his press-aversion is a calculated eff ort moving testimony of He fi rst showed to sustain his mystique. Whichever, falling in love with a his face in the hopefully he will enjoy his fame well man , saw Channel typicallyt y mono- enough, but not well enough to soften O range, his major label chromech video for any of that creatively profi table angst.

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NO MOOD FOR A PARTY

Alice Glass says Crystal Castles’ third album is about oppression

Uncle Obama yafw (part iii) Comic Inhaler If You Love Me The F&M Sister Deborah Beats & Pieces Ratking Foals BenZel and Playlist Showing the love The 14-piece The sound of young It’s a chunkier Jessie Ware from around the jazz band from New York? Rappers sounding Yannis A 90s R&B number PAMELA LITTKY/NME/IPC PAMELA world, Deborah (from Manchester descend Wiki and Hak sound Philippakis and co on (by Brownstone) Ghana) announces: on the London jazz pretty bothered this single from their reworked by a pair of “Uncle Obama, I like festival (which starts about something and mooted third album – Japanese teenagers the shape of your today) sounding whatever it is adds up chunky yet still with a and a gorgeous

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09.11.12 The Guardian 13 Reviews Film

Argo – Hollywood makeup technician ★★★★★ John Chambers (John Goodman) and veteran mogul Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin) – and they stage a real reading Dir: Ben Affl eck. With: Ben Affl eck, Alan Arkin, John of a complete, preposterous script Goodman, Bryan Cranston. 120min. Cert: 15 in an LA hotel, duly reported on Ben Affl eck’s new movie as a director by Variety. In short, they’re doing is an amazing real-life caper straight everything that real producers would out of Ripley’s Believe It or Not! It tells do, making a real movie. The movie is the true story of some imaginative never going to get made – but so what? derring-do on the part of a brilliant That happens all the time, as well. and unorthodox CIA agent called Tony What can go wrong? Mendez. This is a watchable, enjoyable Argo is partly based on a Wired fi lm, with some hilarious and nail-biting magazine article called The Great moments, but it sets its face discon- Escape , and that fi lm is a potent certingly against satire and mischief infl uence. Audiences will be waiting with a fi nal lurch into schmaltzy, for an equivalent of that awful moment liberal-patriot piety. It is as if Aaron when the cunning German says: “Good Sorkin, in his most solemn mood, had luck!” in English to Gordon Jackson, suddenly taken over screenwriting and without thinking he says “Thank duties for the fi nal 10 minutes. you!” It also feels like a postmodern The movie is, in eff ect, based on spin on pictures like The Producers Mendez’s own testimony; as with all and Wag the Dog, with practitioners of spies’ tales, we’re entitled to our pinch the showbiz black arts creating tinselly of salt, but his story is just so incredible illusions. Playing the wisecracking it compels belief: a startling piece mogul, Arkin surely drew on Dustin of declassifi ed secret history about a Hoff man’s legendary impersonation of CIA-sponsored bogus fi lm. The moral Robert Evans, and the scene showing might be that there’s no business like his pile of possible screenplays surely showbusiness, no showbusiness like the alludes to the script ordeal of Leo movie business – and you can pretty Bloom and Max Bialystock. much rely on everyone uncritically Part of what makes this headspinning kowtowing to its glamour and prestige. story believable is the fact that it pans In 1979, six American offi cials out in an oddly uncomplicated way. If managed to scramble out of the US it were fi ction, there would be more embassy in Tehran, just as it was tense encounters with English-speaking overrun by a pro-Ayatollah mob who Iranian offi cials, and they would be brutally held the remaining personnel more suspicious and knowledgeable. hostage: an ordeal for them and for And of course, if it were fi ction, the Jimmy Carter, whose presidency bled movie Argo would actually get made to death in the ensuing media furore. and be a massive hit in Iran. The six escapers holed up in secret at This fi lm is an entertaining, belated the Canadian ambassador’s residence, footnote to a larger story about a more and back at CIA headquarters, the crisis pervasive and far-reaching “Argo” was handled by Mendez, the agency’s eff ect. If Encounter magazine ever top “exfi l” guy – an expert in exfi ltration, carried fi lm news, it might well have or getting Americans out of enemy Showbiz taken a supportive interest in this sci-fi territory. He is played by Affl eck adventure: this journal was famously himself (pictured), a stolid, unfl ashy found to be backed and, in eff ect, performance: a single shirtless moment created by the CIA, and the historian is his only self-indulgence. exit Frances Stonor Saunders, in her book Mendez is shown persuading his Who Paid the Piper?, showed how the superiors to bankroll a crazy, but inspired With its bogus fi lm shoot cooked agency was fi ghting the good fi ght scheme: he will fl y into Iran with seven against communism through the fake Canadian passports – one for him up by the CIA to rescue Americans arts generally. The movie begins by and one each for his six compatriots – trapped in Tehran, Ben Affl eck’s outlining the CIA’s involvement in claiming to be a Canadian movie deposing the leftist Iranian prime producer, scouting locations for a new comedy is smart – but it takes an minister Mohammed Mosaddegh and sci-fi thriller called Argo. The plan is unfortunate last turn installing the shah. An “Argo” leader? that these terrifi ed prisoners will then Well, the emphasis turns out to be wander brazenly around with him and rather diff erent, leading to what I felt some Iranian culture ministry offi cials, was a tonal oddity: a gobsmackingly posing as producers and cinematogra- bizarre adventure that fi nally has to be phers, pretending to size up the scenery rescued from irony and subversion through letterboxed fi ngers etc, and and treated with uplifting solemnity, as then they all go home together on a if to repudiate any sense that what we Swissair fl ight. Mendez makes it look By Peter Bradshaw have been watching is a comedy. But a realer than real by getting all the right comedy is basically what it is, and a documentation and hiring real backers good one.

14 The Guardian 09.11.12 THIS WEEK PETER ENJOYED …

intriguingly, nothing is made entirely … a period of movie, based on real life: all about a clear; a formal explanation from Twitter silence on winsome foursome with a lot of soul. Point Viorel’s own lips is off ered only very Wednesday morning Our heroines are a singing group of late on, and that is incomplete. A from Ann Coulter Aboriginal women in 1960s Australia, partial view is all we’re ever off ered. who begin their musical lives belting blank Well, that is partly the point. The out country’n’western in tatty bars to drama of theatre, cinema and the the disdain of nose-wrinkling white folk. A Romanian cinema law court tends to imply that human Their fi nal lineup is Gail (Deborah linchpin returns with a actions and motivations are clear and Mailman), Julie (Jessica Mauboy), Kay daunting existential drama, legible, whereas in real life they are (Shari Sebbens) and Cynthia (Miranda not. But for someone who has never Tapsell). They are on the road to writes Peter Bradshaw shot anyone before (we assume) Viorel nowhere until they meet a boozy, certainly takes to it like a duck to water. chaotic Irishman called Dave, nicely Of course, he could be a stone-cold played by Chris O’Dowd, a former killer. Or he could be a rather quaintly cruise-ship entertainments director imagined intellectualised vision of a turned promoter who sees his chance killer. Like Corneliu Porumboiu’s 2009 Great value … with these talented women, persuades Aurora Police, Adjective , this has a key scene Deborah them to try classic American soul and ★★★★★ in a police station, with similar ambient, Mailman and gets them a gig touring US military bases banal conversations. This does not Chris O’Dowd in in Vietnam. It’s an amiable fi lm with have the humanity and accessibilityessibility The Sapphires some great mmusical moments and the Dir: Cristi Puiu. Starring: Cristi Puiu, Clara Voda, of The Death of Mr Lazarescu,cu, but it classicclassic “growing“grow success” montage Catrinel Dumitrescu. 184min. Cert: 12A certainly has a dark, loweringng presence showingshowing themthem on the road in south-east Six years ago, Cristi Puiu made a fi lm on the screen. Asia. On music,mus identity and race, the that came to be regarded as a jewel fi lm hashas a bigbig beating heart in the right of the Romanian new wave: The Death place.plp ace. However,How the supposed of Mr Lazarescu, a tragicomedy The Sapphires chemistrychemis between O’Dowd and showing an old man’s fi nal hours in ★★★★★ one particularp Sapphire doesn’t hospital. Now Puiu has returned with quitequite fi zz convincingly, and a substantial new feature fi lm – fi rst somesom of his big emotional shown at Cannes two years ago – Dir: Wayne Blair. With: Chris O’Dowd, speechesspe are a little uncertain. entitled Aurora, and by substantial Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy. ButBu the fi lm shows O’Dowd is 103min. Cert: PG I mean dauntingly long: a little over a realr big-screen player, and three hours. This is a formidable, Wayne Blair’s The Sapphiress is theth Sapphires themselves enigmatic piece of work in many ways; a likable, uneven feelgood areare great value. PB with control and technique deployed with absolute confi dence. It is an opaque existential drama, and Puiu himself stars as Viorel, a ☜ middle-aged guy who is apparently at the end of his tether, having endured The art humiliations at work and at home. of film: And now he has got a gun. Viorel’s accumulating Weltschmerz fi nds Watch expression in this slo-mo 180-minute Love Is explosion: I found myself thinking of the Devil Douglas Gordon’s art installation 24 (below) and Hour Psycho. He remains impassive, Caravaggio unemotional – actually, his only emotion is repeatedly and disturbingly on demand to take peevish off ence at people “taking a tone” with him. Disconcertingly, guardian.co.uk //film

Peevish … Cristi Puiu in Aurora

09.11.12 The Guardian 15 Reviews Film

Alps two outstanding. The narrative-short ★★★★★ food groups are amply covered: twist-in-the-tale jobs (Douglas Hart’s Long Distance Information Dir: Yorgos Lanthimos. With: Aggeliki Papoulia, Aris has splenetic Peter Mullan forming Servetalis, Johnny Vekris. 93min. Cert: 15 a surprising telephonic bond one Yorgos Lanthimos made a brilliant Christmas), pun-fi lms (Dan Sully’s breakthrough with his disturbing short, sweet urban legend The movie Dogtooth in 2009, a fi lm that Ellington Kid; Romola Garai’s spearheaded a Greek new wave, straining Scrubber, about a woman including Athena Rachel Tsangari’s juggling dogging with OCD), equally bizarre Attenberg , in which zeitgeisty star vehicles (Chris Lanthimos appeared in an acting role. Foggin’s agreeably cosy Friend Yet his new work Alps is for me a Request Pending, with Judi Dench disappointment, descending into as a lovelorn silver surfer). The posture and mannerism: the bizarre picks are William Jewell’s teasing, behaviour, dysfunctional relationships stylish feature-in-waiting Man in and alienated sex now look like tired Fear, which conjures a fatalistic ingredients. The “Alps” of the title is universe around paranoiac Luke the name of a weird group of people, Treadaway and no-nonsense copper whose self-imposed mission is to Tim Healy; and Matthew Holness’s impersonate dead people for a month A Gun for George, a tremendously or so after their death to help grieving assured, funny-sad portrait of a pulp families get over their loss. Prominent writer in decline, which envelops among them is a young woman played great lines in retro detail worthy of by Aggeliki Papoulia (who was the the city’s sole black representative. Misfi re … Alps Holness’s beloved Garth Marenghi. elder daughter in Dogtooth); it seems Stephen Gyllenhaal crafts a couple of (above); My A most encouraging selection. MM she has a very specifi c psychological rousing election-night sequences, but Brother the reason for wanting to do this, and a very can’t quite make the ending resonate – Devil (below) specifi c deceased person in her own unless we see Cogswell’s story as the Mother’s Milk life whose place she is trying to fi ll. It is fi rst, faint stirrings of the Occupy ★★★★★ a world of strange people whose strange movement. Mike McCahill behaviour is somehow rendered less visible and interesting because the Dir: Gerald Fox. With: Jack Davenport, Annabel Mullion. 98min. Cert: 15 whole world is strange as well. The Here Comes the Boom surreal eff ect is contrived, and any ★★★★★ Edward St Aubyn has co-written supposed satirical comment on modern this movie adaptation of his Booker- Greece is not especially compelling. shortlisted autobiographical novel Lanthimos is such a distinctive fi lm- Dir: Frank Coraci. With: Kevin James, Salma Hayek, Mother’s Milk, directed by Gerry Fox. Charice, Henry Winkler. 105min. Cert: 12A maker and nothing he does is without The result looks a bit like television, interest – but this is a misfi re. PB The latest Sandler-enabled vehicle though it isn’t bad: sparky, boisterous, for Kevin James is a knockabout cynical, a little self-conscious but knock-off of last year’s Warrior: more grownup and literate than most Grassroots James’s unlikely biology teacher new British movies. Jack Davenport ★★★★★ turns MMA fi ghter to save his makes the most of a juicy lead role as school’s cutback-threatened music Patrick Melrose, a cynical, upper- program. The Wedding Singer’s middle-class Englishman deeply Dir: Stephen Gyllenhaal. With: Jason Biggs, Joel Frank Coraci retains an endearing angry with his ageing mother, played David Moore. 98min. Cert: 15 fondness for funny-faced bit-parts, by the now late Margaret Tyzack, in It sank without trace in the States, yet but it’s fundamentally formulaic in her fi nal role. She has, in her dotage, this true-life ballot-box saga proves construction and mediocrediocre iinn agreeagreedd to ggiftift tthehe family’s beautiful very likable, if a little Sorkin-lite. At execution. Basically it’st’s a pretextpretext forfor Provençal househouse to a dodgy guy its heart are two young men trying to James to take further hits to the plums, ccalledalled Seamus DorkeDo (Adrian Dunbar) reclaim Seattle politics from the pros: coupled to some half-meant-meant children-children- as thethe HQ forfor hhisis new age therapies. Grant Cogswell (Joel David Moore), a are-our-future sentiment.ment. MM Patrick is takingtaking hish family for one self-righteous, somewhat bratty lefty fi nal holiday in thisth idyllic place, for gradually transformed into a sincere- a last painfulpainful interviewi with his sounding alternative, and Phil Campbell The Joy of Six mmother,other, wwhoho is in a nursing (a thoughtful Jason Biggs), the former ★★★★★ hhomeome nearby,nearb and to come to journalist who raised a small volunteer ttermserms witwithh the fact that since army to help staff the campaign. thethe birthbirth ofo his two children, Dirs: Chris Foggin, Romola Garai,arai, Adapted from Campbell’s memoir Douglas Hart, Will Jewell, the spark of love has left his Zioncheck for President, it’s alert to Matthew Holness, Dan Sully. marriage.marriage The humour is both the romance of the stump (like- With: Judi Dench, Peter Mullan,an, brittle, British and throwaway, Luke Treadaway. 73 min. Cert: 15 minded, passionate souls on late-night bbutut withwi a tang of real fl yposting missions) and the political A half-dozen shorts ppoison.oiso There is a sharp nitty-gritty: crucially, Cogswell’s genial care of distributor Soda’sda’s cacameom from Diana Quick, opponent (Cedric the Entertainer, New British Cinema PaPatrick’st malicious unusually subtle and eff ective) was programme, all diverting,ting, momother-in-law. PB

16 The Guardian 09.11.12 Glib tosh … er Michelle Pfeiff in People Like Us

My Brother the Devil the creature-feature alive for more than with which he is held is evident in the ★★★★★ three decades – from 1953’s The Beast queue of premier-league directors who from 20,000 Fathoms to 1981’s Clash line up to pay homage: James Cameron, of the Titans –with his facility for stop- Tim Burton and Peter Jackson among Dir: Sally El Hosaini. With: James Floyd, Fady Elsayed.yed. motion beasties of all kinds: giant octopi, them. Harryhausen emerges as a 111min. Cert: 15 revivifi ed skeletons and alien reptiles, charming, likable pioneer, a mood First-time feature director Sally El along with the more conventional T- helped along by the adoring nature Hosaini makes a bold and terrifi cally rexes, gorgons and the like. The esteem of this profi le. Andrew Pulver confi dent debut, hitting her stride withith this urban drama set in east London. It’s well made, well acted by a largely non-professional cast and seductively photographed by cinematographer David Raedeker – a muscular and heartfelt fi lm with Stephen Frears’s My Beautiful Laundrette somewhere in its DNA. James Floyd plays Rashid, whose hard-working parents came to the UK from Egypt. He has got involved in drug- dealing and gang culture, a world in which supposed tough guys neuroti- cally stay in their “ends”. His brother, Mo (Fady Elsayed), hero-worships his older sibling, and to Rashid’s unease is on the point of neglecting his school- work to join him in the drug trade. Rashid entrusts Mo with a courier mission that goes wrong, resulting in a spiralling gang confrontation, but at the same time, Rashid himself is developing new ideas and new alliances. It’s an athletic, loose-limbed piece of movie- making, not perfect, but bursting with energy and adrenaline. PB

People Like Us ★★★★★

Dir: Alex Kurtzman. With: Chris Pine, Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde, Michelle Pfeiff er. 115min. Cert: 12A This glib tosh must be Transformers scribes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci’s idea of heartfelt grownup work: a baggage-freighted, “dramedy” about a corporate fraudster (Chris Pine, smirking) learning about responsibility via the single mom (Elizabeth Banks, miscast) his late record producer father abandoned. Banks’s discreet tattoos convince as much as Pine’s encomiums to the Clash, and Kurtzman and Orci have a funny idea of what we might identify with: the fi lm’s irrelevant to anyone who doesn’t have severe daddy issues pertaining to the man who discovered Kajagoogoo. Nothing Like Us would have been more accurate. MM

Ray Harryhausen: Special Eff ects Titan ★★★★★

Dir: Gilles Penso. 90min. Cert: PG Ray Harryhausen is the genial 92-year- old who, virtually singlehandedly, kept

09.11.12 The Guardian 17 Reviews Pop

By Alexis Petridis The secret is safe The scale of their success may still be baffl ing, but on One Direction’s new album it at least sounds as if they made an eff ort

One Direction Take Me Home SYCO ★★★★★

It’s not often you encounter a new The biggest to wait for a bwah-ha-ha moment. Live Elsewhere, the material is of variable album that you can genuinely describe group in the While We’re Young rips off the intro of quality. The chorus of Kiss You is hard as phenomenal, but the adjective fi ts world … the Clash’s Should I Stay or Should I to dislodge from your brain, but Rock One Direction’s Take Me Home. If it One Direction Go? so brazenly it even includes the Me is pretty excruciating, as is perhaps maintains the quintet’s current upward sound of a plectrum stroking a guitar’s inevitable from a song in which teenage trajectory, they have every right to call muted strings three times between boyband members attempt to strike a themselves the biggest group in the blasts of the riff . In an act of nose- note of sepia-tinted nostalgia. “Do you world. Given that, in the US, its lead thumbing contempt, it changes remember the summer of 09?” they single, Live While We’re Young , had literally one note, presumably to avoid inquire, begging the response: Yeah, do the biggest opening-week sales fi gures having to pay the Clash any royalties. you? You must have been about eight. for any non-US act in history, it seems It’s hard to know what’s more galling: Ed Sheeran contributes two songs, almost inconceivable that it won’t. the degree of brass-balls cynicism on in a pretty canny move on the part of This is remarkable stuff , not just display, or the fact that the result is One Direction’s management: aligning for a runner-up on The X Factor – who actually quite good. It introduces Take them with an artist whose fans believe can usually expect about 10 minutes in Me Home’s signature style: a peppy, him to be the diametric opposite of a the spotlight before the siren song of synth-bolstered take on early-80s new- manufactured boyband. Certainly, the Pontins becomes deafening – but for a wave pop, heavy on clipped rhythms forthcoming single Little Things is UK boyband. The last time anyone and chugging guitars, which is at least noticeably more sophisticated lyrically broke an artist similar to One Direction a n improvement on the ersatz R&B that and emotionally than anything else over there, their mentor, Simon Cowell, was once the grim lot of the boyband. here. That may sound like damning was still prosecuting his business out of It also introduces a recurring lyrical with faint praise, but there’s something a converted lavatory in an NCP car park. motif. If a lot of Take Me Home is quite touching about its insistence that And yet, from the outside, their concerned with pitching harmless fl aws are what make a person unique. success looks a little confusing: why, romance at its pubescent audience in a Alas, his other contribution, Over Again, out of the serried ranks of manufac- style that’s time-honoured to the point sounds as if he might have fi shed it out tured British hunks, has the US chosen of being hackneyed , other parts of it of the bottom of the bin when he heard to clasp cheeky-faced Harry Styles to comprise more of an all-out, crotch- One Direction had the chequebook out. its bosom? If you’re not an 11-year-old level blitzkrieg than you might expect. It isn’t bad as albums by boybands girl or the long-suff ering parent of one, Live While We’re Young’s protagonist is go , and doesn’t have the awful aura their oeuvre will remain a mystery. You tireless in his determination to “get of contemptuous this’ll-do common might know their breakthrough hit, some”, as the song romantically puts to so much product overseen by One What Makes You Beautiful , but could it, while Last First Kiss deals with Direction’s dark lord and master. Nor, THIS WEEK ALEXIS you hum the title track of their debut LISTENED TO divesting a recalcitrant girl of her though, is there anything to transcend album, Up All Night? Can you off er any maidenhood: “I want to be the fi rst to its target market – a hit so undeniable intelligence regarding the Australian take it all the way.” You do wonder what its appeal will extend far beyond the Souvenir Edition bonus track Na Na Na? Ty Segall – You’re parents might make of it. Still, as girls so nutty with lust that they took it the Doctor Close examination of Take Me Home Because sometimes anyone who’s read some of the more as a compliment when Niall Horan might unlock One Direction’s secret. only two minutes frenzied One Direction-related Twitter called them “a shower of cunts” . To Certainly, anyone who views their of noisy, righteous, feeds will tell you, it’s tame stuff com- anyone else, the mystery of One Direc- mentor and his Syco organisation as screw-you garage pared with what some weenyboppers tion’s success – or at least the sheer pantomime villains doesn’t have long rock will do. are dreaming up of their own accord. scale of it – remains as opaque as ever.

18 The Guardian 09.11.12 On the web Maddy Costa reviews the Lumineers and John Fordham on Norwegian jazz stars Moskus guardian.co.uk/music

Soundgarden gallery in Turin, and, aptly, is the kind A very personal than its parts. This time , they appear King Animal of contemplative sound-cloud that kind of misery … to be making music for montage MERCURY could be titled Music for Galleries. In Crystal Castles sequences. The pace is overwhelmingly ★★★★★ fact, Lux owes something to his Music sombre, the lyrics dwelling on ageing for Airports ; it similarly glides along, and death and loss – it mentions winter rarely demanding your attention, until so much that you might wonder if When Soundgarden singer Chris a splash of trumpet, three seconds Michael Fish has been drafted in as Cornell unveiled his Timbaland- of mandolin or a sudden guitar chord lyricist. The Carpenter isn’t a total dud, produced R&B solo album three years interrupts the tranquillity. Of the four because the Avetts are so skilled with ago, he insisted that reuniting the 90s sections, the last is most striking: the a melody , but the plain-speaking has grunge kings would risk “tarnishing pace slows a bit and a glockenspiel turned to clunkiness – you’ll search their legacy”. However, with baffl ed chimes in, creating a stately procession hard before fi nding a more horrible fans mostly of the opinion that the akin to classical music. But it’s only couplet this year than this one from grunge icon’s crunk opus did just that, “striking” compared with the rest Paul Newman Vs the Demons : “Truth Soundgarden are indeed back. Still, of the album, on which piano fi gures beyond truth and by our design/ It is their fi rst new album since 1996 makes endlessly loop and divide and there’s very fi ne, like Newman’s wine.” But a surprisingly good fi st of plugging nothing below the surface. Eno now how are his salad dressings, fellas? back into the sound that made them makes iPad apps, allowing anyone to Michael Hann the moodiest and heaviest of the construct Enoesque soundscapes; Seattle grunge bands : anvil-heavy riff s, chances are, a dedicated amateur crunching collisions of punk and hard could come up with an ambient Crystal Castles rock, and psychedelic explorations. piece that has more heart than Lux. III With storming opener Been Away Caroline Sullivan FICTION Too Long sounding like a manifesto, ★★★★★ 52-year-old guitarist Kim Thayil reels off blistering solos with a juvenile’s The Avett Brothers glee. Grunge-era nostalgia mixes with The Carpenter Listening to Alice Glass describe classic rock and, on the eerie Rowing, UNIVERSAL/ISLAND Crystal Castles’ third album doesn’t experimental mantras. Cornell’s ★★★★★ exactly get you in the mood for party reference to being “born again” on jams. “Oppression is a theme, in Black Saturday may raise more than general general … ” sheshe begins,begi before adding: an eyebrow, but the rocker-father has What a frustratingrating band ““ItIt feels like the woworldr is a dystopia powerfully traded twentysomething the Avett Brothersothers are. wherewhere victivictimsm don’t get justice darkness for middle-aged uncertainty Not for renouncinguncing tthehe and corruptioncorrupt prevails.” and fear. His confession on beautiful hoedowns off their earlearlyy AchievingAcA hieving such a laid-back, slowie Bones of Birds that “Time is my independentt releasesreleases – cheerychc eery vivibeb involved the friend … well it ain’t, it runs out” really you can’t hollerller yyourour band tradingtradi in the tools is quite touching. Dave Simpson love for ever,r, naturally – (keyboards,(keyboard FX pedals) used but for beingg cacapablepable ooff onon I andand III in order to start touching brilliance lliance afreshafresh wwith a new palette Brian Eno without everr of sounds.sou And yet the Lux sustaining it.. mostmo aff ecting songs WARP Their last onon III don’t sound ★★★★★ album, I andd likelik a band raging Love and You,u, ata the outside world, contained a butb rather experi- Brian Eno ’s fi rst solo album since 2005 heartstoppingng encinge a very is a 75-minute wash of keyboards and gem in its titletle personalp kind of strings nominally divided into four track , whosee misery.m Sad Eyes parts, though it’s so seamlessly soothing plain languagege and is a case in point, that it’s a struggle to distinguish one unembellishedhed reappropriatingre EDM segment from the next. It grew out of music addedd upup to stadium-trancesta a sound installation he made for a something greatergreater into a mournful →

09.11.12 The Guardian 19 Reviews Pop, jazz, classical and world

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lament: “My sad eyes, you can’t glorious extended lift-off into the Rhodes entwine with growing intensity ← Miguel disguise.” Witch House is an clouds of Va-fl e-r with a plate of Kaleidoscope on Ouidah; Freedom Dance sounds like obvious infl uence, and you could waffl es, Smalhans is a veritable feast Dream a Scofi eld band playing hi-life; Farafi na question whether the former chip-tune of grin-inducing dancefl oor treats. The latest new R&B has a stabbing hip-hop feel; and terrorists are still as ahead of the curve Alex Macpherson action fi gure to check Glasper’s long, evolving Fender break as they once were. It hardly matters on the hooky Bayyinah confi rms what when they can come up with stuff like Iris DeMent a central presence he occupies in this Sing the Delta Child I Will Hurt You, a dream-state Lionel Loueke music. John Fordham A fi rst album of new lullaby that is both beautiful and Heritage material in 16 years, unbearably sorrowful. Tim Jonze BLUE NOTE and worth the wait ★★★★★ Sonny Rollins Trio Godspeed You! Live in Europe 1959 Lindstrøm Black Emperor SOLAR Smalhans There’s more to this world-jazz Allelujah! Don’t ★★★★★ Bend! Ascend! SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND encounter between African and Also back, nearly ★★★★★ American sounds than its mellifl ously a decade after an ethereal, borderline-smooth vocals indefi nite hiatus On this this set of live trio recordings fi rst suggest. Beninese guitarist/vocalist from March 1959, the perfectionist Earlier this year, cosmic disco Louekeke (p(pictured)ictured) hhasas establisestablishedhed a virtuoso Sonny Rollins is at a cross- fi gurehead Hans-Peter Lindstrøm uniqueue identity (one that endeared him roads, established as a star after his made the fi rst real misstep of an to Herbie rbie HancockHancock)) ffromrom overdubbedoverdubbed 50s albums, such as Saxophone otherwise fl awless career with Six creationsions ooff evocative AAfrican-choralfrican-choral Colossus, but just about to make his Cups of Rebel, an overstuff ed, wacky texturesres spliced with a gguitaruitar sound famous three-year withdrawal to a mess of an album. Either he’s got the that joinsoins tthehe jazz ststylesyles ooff Pat MetMethenyheny solitary life of practice on the experimentation out of his system or Johnhn ScoScofifi eld to tthehe fl owinowingg Williamsburg Bridge. On bass is the or he’s clearly keen to put it behind phrasing ing of a kora. This set features excellent Henry Grimes, while Pete him: just nine months later comes plentyy ooff all tthat,hat, but tthehe ppersonnelersonnel La Roca, Joe Harris and Kenny Clarke Smalhans, a concise return to core here aadddd a llotot mmore.ore. RRobertobert share the drumming. The same Lindstrøm dancefl oor values: chunky Glasperer producesproduces and pplays,lays, tunes inevitably recur, but Rollins ’ disco basslines, wave upon wave of Gretchenhen PParlatoarlato a addsdds improvisations are so wilfully intuitive blissed-out, arpeggiated melodies. vocals,s, and in bassist that they’re always diff erent. St Thomas Not that it’s merely a retreat to his Derrickck HodHodgege anandd gets the full treatment of sweet-and- comfort zone: Smalhans contains drummermer MarkMark sour, mid-range ponderings and some of Lindstrøm’s most playful Guiliana,ana, thunderous swinging, while he sounds work, plausibly a result of roping in Louekeke has as tremulous as a clarinet on Stay As noted disco-prankster-genius Todd a rhythmthm Sweet As You Are and surprisingly Terje for mixing duties. Vos-sako-rv team tthathat Ornette Colmanesque on Oleo. The pitch-shifts wildly and ludicrously can soundound long-unavailable material from a fi nal, until the fi nal emergence of its riff like a drum pre-sabbatical Aix-en-Provence gig, feels like a lap of honour; Eg-ged-osis and bassass with Clarke on drums, is an explosively darts here and loop-de-loops there, band at one swaggering, time-bending shoulder- an exercise in perpetual motion. Each momentent aandnd aann charge through Woody’n’You, But track is named after a traditional ambientent outfioutfi t at Not for Me and a lyrical then roaring Norwegian dish; while there’s nothing another.her. Louke’s g guitaruitar Lady Bird. The sound quality that would directly connect, say, the and GlGlasper’sasper’s Fender throughout is pretty good. JF

20 The Guardian 09.11.12 More reviews online Andrew Clements on Kristian Bezuidenhout and Robin Denselow on Jamie Smith’s Mabon www.guardian.co.uk/music

Beethoven: Piano Debussy: Pelléas Sonatas Op 2 no 3 et Mélisande and Op 106, etc Maurane/Danco/ Sviatoslav Richter Etcheverry/ ICA CLASSICS Philharmonia/ ★★★★★ Inghelbrecht TESTAMENT, THREE CDS ★★★★★ An invaluable document of an exceptional recital Sviatoslav Richter gave at the Royal Festival Hall in London For many admirers of Debussy ’s only in 1975. I doubt that any of us lucky completed opera, the recording Roger enough to have been there will forget Désormière conducted in Nazi- the experience, and this CD taken from occupied Paris in 1941 has never been the BBC’s recording of the concert surpassed. Yet between the wars it conveys the special electricity of the was Désiré-Emile Inghelbrecht, a close occasion and the power of Richter’s friend of Debussy, who was regarded playing more vividly after 37 years as the pre-eminent Pelléas conductor. than anyone might have dared hope. Inghelbrecht never made a commercial The two great sonatas that frame this recording of the work, but in 1951 he all-Beethoven programme may date conducted a studio performance with from opposite ends of his composing rated among the younger generation of Greatest pianist the Philharmonia in London that was life, yet Richter’s account of the C major British composers. The earliest piece is of the second half broadcast by the BBC. His cast includes Op 2 No 3 seems to contain the germ of the bewilderingly discursive Man Shoots of the 20th a fascinatingly complex Golaud from what developed 24 years later into the Strangers from Skyscraper, inspired by century … Bertrand Etcheverry, and Camille unparalleled scope of the Hammer- a Buñuel fi lm; the most recent his Sviatoslav Maurane and Suzanne Danco as Pelléas klavier Sonata, Op 106. But the titanic double concerto, Wonderful Two- Richter; Katy and Mélisande. All three performances scale of the playing is always balanced Headed Nightingale, in which the solo Carr (below) are wonderfully detailed, but it’s against moments of svelte beauty and violin and viola are bound into a Inghelbrecht’s conducting that’s breathtaking technical crispness. symbiosis, from which they try to remarkable, worlds away in its almost After three Bagatelles from Op 126, extricate themselves. There’s also 19th-century grand manner from the Richter launches into the Hammer- Or Voit Tout en Aventure, settings of cool objectivity of Désormière. The klavier, and the tension of the fi rst medieval French and Italian lyrics ; mono sound is perfectly acceptable movement is remorselessly ratcheted in them, as in the other works here, and every word is crystal clear. AC up. The scherzo is then an almost Bedford’s ability to place telling, throwaway relaxation, the slow simple ideas in arrestingly imaginative movement a gorgeously expansive contexts is brilliantly displayed. AC Katy Carr hymn, and the fi nale when it arrives, Paszport fugue and all, is immense in its grasp of DELUCE RECORDINGS the musical complexity – every voice in Coloratura ★★★★★ the fugue brilliantly characterised, the Komsi/Lahti SO/Oramo shape of the whole thrillingly conveyed. BIS If any single disc is going convince ★★★★★ Katy Carr has a mission: to publicise sceptics of why so many of us regard stories of the Polish forces during the Richter as the greatest pianist of the second world war . In doing so she has second half of the 20th century, then Anyone who has heard the soprano created one of the most passionate and it’s this extraordinary 80 minutes of Anu Komsi sing Sibelius’s Luonnotar in intriguing concept albums of the year. music-making. Andrew Clements concert, often as here with her husband Born in Nottingham to a Polish mother Sakari Oramo conducting, will recognise and Anglo-Scottish father, she became the epic intensity and theatricality fascinated by the era after meeting Bedford: Or Voit Tout she brings to this miraculously Kazik Piechowski, who escaped from en Aventure, etc concentrated Kalevala setting. That Auschwitz in 1942. The album opens Morton/Power/Scottish mythic power contrasts sharply with wwith her talking to him about his Ensemble/Ensemble what precedes it in this collection, all esescape, and with the exuberant and Modern/Edwards/Ollu/ pieces that more accurately justify thee ededgy Kommander’s Car . There are Booth/London disc’s title, Coloratura. These include otother stories about partisans, a bear Sinfonietta/Knussen Reinhold Glière’s Concerto for wwho became a Polish forces mascot, COL LEGNO Coloratura Soprano, the Bell Song andan there’s a powerful lament for ★★★★★ from Delibes’ Lakmé and a very brisk thoseth sent by the Soviets to camps in account of the Queen of the Night’s Siberia.Si Carr’s emotional songs are second-act aria from Zauberfl öte. babacked by bravely original arrange- Luke Bedford was one of the winners Komsi negotiates the shamelessly fl oridid mments featuring her own piano and of th is year’s Ernst von Siemens vocal writing with matter-of-fact ukukulele work, plus strings and brass, Foundation Composers awards , which brilliance, musical good taste and not anand deserve to be heard far beyond the included the funding of this disc . a hint of self-indulgence. There’s also PoPolish community. Robin Denselow Compiled from concert recordings, it John Zorn ’s La Machine de l’Etre, his makes a valuable introduction to his 2000 monodrama based on a drawing To download or buy any reviewed CD, go to luminous soundworld, and goes a long by Artaud , whose vocal challenges she e guardian.co.uk/music/reviews or call 0330 way to explaining why he is so highly takes on with aplomb. AC 333 6840.

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What a great idea to let the star do the talking in Petula Clark: In My Own Words (Radio 2). Clark has one of those clear, engaging voices and a knack for storytelling that’s a world away from having someone else reading a script, however well. There were minimal pessimistic Marcus, as they count the contributions from others, pointing Your next box set spoils from an against-the-odds victory. out how successful she has been: Paul Luck “ Well,” he replies. “I suspect in the long Gambaccini noted that Clark is the run, the story is we all go broke.” most successful British vocalist in US Luck, driven by Milch’s passion for chart history, with 15 top-40 singles in his subject matter, is more complicated a four-year period. “No one has even than that. Plotlines are fragmented, approached that,” he added. When Luck launched on HBO in 2011, with Bernstein’s story often seeming But mostly it was just Clark herself expectations were high. After all, this peripheral to the racetrack action. telling her remarkable story. She horse-racing drama was written by Yet it grows in confi dence, marrying explained where her unusual fi rst name David “Deadwood” Milch, directed Mann’s muscular direction with Milch’s comes from. “Auntie Mabel and Auntie by Michael Mann and starred Dustin staccato rhythms to create a richly Alice wanted me to be named after Hoff man and Nick Nolte. Nine episodes detailed, entirely convincing world. them,” she said. When this became a later, it was abruptly cancelled with The trainer Escalante, inscrutable family squabble, her father stepped in only one episode of the second season in the fi rst episode, is one of the most Above left: Dennis and invented the name Petula. fi lmed. The reason? A third horse had relatable characters by the last; you Farina and Dustin She recalled the oddness of being a died on set. With animal rights activists start to care, desperately, whether the Hoff man in Luck. child star, and working right through incandescent, HBO had little choice. gambling crew will manage one more Below: Petula her adolescence, when everyone else Milch, who owns, runs, rides and big win; and Bernstein is revealedd not Clark wanted ttoo keep her as young as pos- bets on horses, was devastated. He as a vengeance-driven gangster butut as ssibleible whilewhil she wanted to grow up fast; talked of how impossible it would have a complicated man who fi nds himselfmself bboysoys werewere strictly off -limits. On holiday been to fi lm without using real horses, aging and increasingly adrift in wworldorld iinn Port TTalbota one year, though, she and of how that fi nal death was a freak where he once knew the rules. renamed herself Christina and found accident unrelated to fi lming or racing . Most of all, for all its interest in herself a bboyfriend: “He bought me Most of all, he talked about his love racing’s chancers and charmers, Luck’suck’s an engagengagemente ring in Woolworth’s. of both horses and horse-racing, and heroes are the ones with four legs.. I never ssaw him again, but he was his sorrow that people would think Asked by his doctor: “Do you havee cute.” EEverything was vividly told he cared little for the animals. “No someone you can talk to?” Marcuss and sparkling,sp both the anecdotes racetrack has stricter protocols than replies: “A horse.” When Ace meetsts wwithith starrys names (“I found myself [the ones] we imposed in our care of Claire, who works on a programmeme uundernder a piano with Sean Connery”) the horses,” he told New York maga- allowing prison inmates to care foror aandnd recollectionsre of her childhood. zine. “If you spend your life caring for retired thoroughbreds, she tells him:im: QQuiteuite why Clark isn’t a Dame really horses, it’s not because you don’t like “I’ve seen people profoundly changednged iiss a mystery my after hearing this excel- horses. It’s because you love horses.” simply by being in proximity to horses.”orses.” llent,ent, well-producedw documentary. On the surface, Luck is the story And in the fi rst episode, we see thehe usu- WoWomen,m success and rewards of mobster Chester “Ace” Bernstein, ally contained Ace tentatively reachch out was a ttheme on Group Therapy played by Hoff man. He’s just out of jail to touch the racehorse he has bought.ght. RadiRadioo (Resonance FM), where a and working a complicated long con on The fi nal episode centres on thehe ppanelanel of guests ponder listener the men who put him there. From the Western Derby and all those humanman “confessions”. conf This week start, audiences are thrust into a claus- hopes, dreams and desires that restest on waswas about a woman with trophobic world with little concern for its outcome. But we care more aboutbout “impostor i m syndrome”, feeling whether they understand what a claim- the two rival horses, Pint of Plainn and likelike a fakefa despite career success. ing race is (when the horses running Gettin’ Up Morning. Fittingly, whenhen A psychologist,psychol comedian and are for sale) or how a multiple forecast that episode ends, it is with a shotot executive executive coach spoke with presenter FIONA MURRAY/C4 REX FEATURES, HBO, bet work s (sorry, still can’t help). not of the main characters but of tthehe JenJen Kerrison,Kerris noting how common “What’s the story with us?” a eventual Derby winner magnifi centent in thethe woman’swoma feelings are. It’s a likable member of a trackside gambling victory, relaxing in his stable. format : a bit more fun than Radio 4

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24 The Guardian 09.11.12 irstie Allsopp says she’s All in the detail … helping people turn their Kirstie’s Vintage Home K houses into homes, with a bit of vintage inspiration, help. Maybe we’ll just buy one, not the their own bare hands, right spirit I know ... and that little bit of homemade magic. Right, so Kirsty needs to get properly Kirstie’s Vintage Home (Channel 4) involved herself. She shows us round it’s called, and she’s starting off with some 60s houses, which is interesting. Amber and Colin, a young couple from And she takes Amber and Colin to an Edinburgh, who live, like anyone with antiques fair in Newbury, where she a baby, in chaos. helps them fi nd a yellow German vase Cut to the end of the show, and their and some blue glass balls. She’s got living room has indeed been trans- some handy tips – “take a shopping list formed – into a beautiful oasis of 1960s Last night's TV but go with an open mind” and “don’t chic. The fi replace has been torn out, be afraid to touch things”. Plus the the carpets ripped up, they’ve got rid of The homes look brilliant, results of a survey they’ve had done some of their less successful furniture, fl ash up on the screen. Like “80% want got some nice new stuff in, new curtains but I’m still not sure what to shop smart for vintage and antiques”. too. And cool Scandinavian string What does that even mean? Are the shelving. The whole place has been remaining 20% not interest ed in vintage tidied up, decluttered. It looks brilliant. Kirstie Allsopp does or antiques, or are they just happy to Most of it seems to have been shop stupid? Perhaps with a closed decided on, and chosen, and done, by mind, or too scared to touch? A baffl ing Amber and Colin though. Maybe she survey to be honest. gave them some advice, but as far as I Finally Kirsty’s going to pass on can tell, Kirstie’s input has been more one of her own craft skills to Colin. about some of the smaller details rather She’s bought a couple of cardboard than the stuff that’s actually made a big letters, available from all good craft diff erence to their fl at. By Sam Wollaston stores, C for Colin, A for Amber. Plus an So what does she do? Well Amber ampersand, to join them, romantically. and Colin come down to London to her or Zoe ). I’m not sure the yellow pattern And now they’re spray painting them, vintage workshop. Kirsty gets a man improves it. red, and yellow, and a bit of both for the called Junior in to show them how to And another woman called Lisa ampersand. And that’s it, they are now make their own cool concrete table helps them make a quilt. No com- “brightly coloured works of pop art”, lights. Well, they don’t really make plaints about the quilt. Colin designs she says, “graffi ti-inspired sculptures their own cool concrete lights, they the fabric himself. Lisa shows him and that will look supercool in their sitting help Junior to make his. They mix the Amber how to cut out the squares, iron room”. Really? Like a DIY Banksy? concrete a bit, which is poured into the the seams, pin and sew the sections Forget the bloody quilt, I’m doing that. mould that Junior brought along. When together. They cut out birds, applique They’re there, on the top shelf, in it’s set, Junior does all the complicated them on. Even Kirstie gets involved, Amber and Colin’s living room, for the light fi tting bits. I don’t think Amber does a few stitches of her own. They AND ANOTHER fi nal reveal – A&C obviously, rather than THING and Colin can really claim those lights add wadding, then weave it all together C&A which would look too much like as theirs. They are cool, but I can’t on the family heirloom ... oh sorry, no, David Attenborough the logo of old clothes retailer. Well, see myself doing them. I don’t have a it is now a family heirloom, my mistake. is alive. Given all Amber and Colin are nice people, they special vibrating table for one thing. Little Betty will one day inherit it. the celebrations of couldn’t really not have them there, A woman called Zoe then helps them Perhaps we’ll do a quilt in our house, his life’s work, you with Kirsty coming round to tea. The could be forgiven for customise a 60s sideboard by stencilling which looks quite a lot like Amber’s moment she’s gone though I reckon thinking otherwise. a yellow pattern at one end. This is and Colin’s inside, before rather than He was in the offi ce they’ll be following Amber’s new “upcycling” apparently, through screen after. It does seem like a lot of work the other day though mantra (“if you don’t love it, get rid of printing. I like the sideboard (Amber though; Amber and Colin take weeks to – I saw him, looking it”), and A&C will be going where they got it online, nothing to do with Kirstie complete theirs, and they’ve got expert very well. belong, in the B.I.N.

09.11.12 The Guardian 25 Film of the day TV and radio The Godfather: Part III (9pm, More 4) The fi nal part of Francis Ford Coppola’s trilogy followed 16 years after its predecessor, and fails to match the fi rst two fi lms, but boasts searing performances from its superb cast

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