Lifestyle FRIDAY, JULY 4, 2014 Shakira to headline at World Cup final

op star Shakira will perform before the obvious reasons, and I truly understand World Cup final in Rio de Janeiro on July 13, what the World Cup means to so many Pheadlining a closing ceremony that includes people, myself included.” While FIFA guitar virtuoso Carlos Santana and rapper Wyclef announced the musical lineup, eight Jean. Shakira, who is making her third straight teams are left battling for two spots at the World Cup appearance, will sing “La la la (Brazil Maracana, but defending champions Spain 2014)” with Brazilian star Carlinhos Brown, FIFA were already eliminated in the group said in a statement on Wednesday. Santana, phase. Shakira’s native Colombia will play Wyclef and Brazilian singer Alexandre Pires will Brazil in the quarter-final on Friday follow- perform the tournament’s official anthem, “Dar Um ing France-Germany. On Saturday, Jeito” at the legendary Maracana Stadium. Argentina play Belgium followed by Pires will also perform a medley of local music Netherlands-Costa Rica. —AFP with Brazilian star Ivete Sangalo. “I’m thrilled to be performing my song ‘La la la (Brazil 2014)’ at the 2014 FIFA World Cup closing ceremony,” said Shakira, who had a son last year with Spain defender Gerard Pique. “I have an intricate relationship with football for Old Crow Medicine Show teams with Dylan again

or years, Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show has ly recorded for Dylan’s 1973 soundtrack for “Pat Garrett & been thanking Bob Dylan from afar for “Wagon Wheel,” Billy The Kid.” Fthe multiplatinum hit based on an unfinished Dylan “I was working with about 26 seconds in which there’s a lot song. The Americana band made it a fan favorite through of giggling in the background and it just sounds like a pretty their live shows over the past decade, and then Darius high time down in Monterey, or Durango, or wherever they Rucker turned a cover into a No. 1 country song. The reclu- are making this Western movie,” Secor said. From that came sive master songwriter finally responded - in a way Secor “Sweet Amarillo,” a waltz about a cowboy’s search for his never expected. The lead singer of Old Crow, whose new lover. After sending Dylan’s management a demo, they album “Remedy” came out Tuesday, likens his relationship received a short suggestion to move the chorus up and switch with Dylan to a kid dropping letters in a bottle and tossing out the harmonica for a fiddle. them in the ocean seeking a pen pal on another continent. “The reason it sounds so catchy is because Bob said play Gosling McAdams “The bottle washed ashore on the beach in Malibu and the fiddle and get a good hook in your music,” Secor said. Bob scrawled something into the bottle and he tossed it “That’s what a good catchy song does. I think Bob is rooting hated each other back into the Pacific and it made its way to Music City,” Secor for it, too.”Dylan has remained silent on this new song, but on ‘The Notebook’ said. That response was another scrap of a song and a ques- Secor said he doesn’t need “Sweet Amarillo” to have the same tion: Would Secor want to take a crack at it? The snippet success as “Wagon Wheel.” “To me, the success is the fruition reat news, fans of “The Notebook” who are still depressed that comes from the same Mexico writing sessions as the “Wagon of Bob hearing the song and sending another one,” Secor said. they just can’t seem to replicate that burning love between Wheel” song fragment Secor would later embellish, original- “It’s already done everything. It made a circle.” —AP Gstars Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams: They hated each oth- er at first. Celebrities, they’re just like us! In an interview with VH1 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the film, director Nick Cassavetes explains that the two stars got very heated early in production, and not in the way that had been intended. “They were really not getting along one day on set. Really not. And Ryan came to me, and there’s 150 people standing in this big scene, and he says, ‘Nick come here,’” Cassavetes revealed. “And he’s doing a scene with Rachel and he says, ‘Would you take her out of here and bring in another actress to read off camera with me?’ I said, ‘What?’ He says, ‘I can’t. I can’t do it with her. I’m just not getting any- thing from this.’” Ryan Gosling, an Oscar-nominated actor, could not even fake heat with his co-star, because they had that little chemistry. Of course, this problem didn’t last forever, because anyone who has seen that movie has love ruined for them because they realize they will never find a relationship that magical. So how did Cassavetes pull that off? “We went into a room with a producer; they started screaming and yelling at each other,” the director explained. “I walked out. At that point I was smoking cigarettes. I smoked a cigarette and every- body came out like, ‘All right let’s do this.’ And it got better after that, you know? They had it out... I think Ryan respected her for standing up for her character and Rachel was happy to get that out in the open. “The rest of the film wasn’t smooth sailing, but it was smoother sailing,” he added. Indeed, Gosling and McAdams went on File photo shows, from left, Chance McCoy, Ketch Secor, Morgan Jahnig, Critter Fuqua, Cory Younts and to date for years, so perhaps that was the ultimate impromptu cou- Gill Landry from Old Crow Medicine Show performing during the Americana Music Honors and Awards ples therapy session. —Reuters Show in Nashville, Tenn. —AP