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Established 1961 22 T Thursday, September 27, 2018 L i f e s t y l e Fe a t u r e s Elderly stars give love one last go in sequel to film classic rench director Claude Lelouch has Woman’ is a hommage to life. It is a love story living legends in France, with Aimee adored for started shooting a sequel to his classic that tells us that there is always a second her iconic roles in Jacques Demy’s “Lola”, romance “A Man and a Woman” with chance,” he said earlier. “The same actors have Fellini’s masterpiece “La Dolce Vita” and the Fthe same actors, 52 years after the orig- retaken up their roles. The script is secret, it will American Robert Altman’s “Pret a Porter”. inal was a box office smash. The movie has be a surprise,” his production company Films 13 The original film also made the theme song gone down in film legend for its theme tune of said in a statement. As well as its double Oscar by Pierre Barouh and Francis Lai a global hit. the same name, with its “chabadabada, victory, the original film won two Golden Globes “We didn’t know that it would be such an opti- chabadabada” refrain. Lelouch’s production and the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival. mistic film at the start,” Lelouch recalled. “When company confirmed Wednesday that filming I wrote it first I thought to myself, ‘Bloody hell, had begun in Deauville on the northern French it’s sad.’ The optimism came from the music; we coast, the same resort where the 1966 double- Trintignant Starcame retired back from twice a 14-year retire- showed that life was stronger than death and Oscar-winning love story unfolds. Its co-stars ment in 2012 to make the Oscar- and Palme they were a match,” he added. — AFP Anouk Aimee, now 86, and 87-year-old Jean- d’Or-winning “Amour” after Austrian director Louis Trintignant have both taken up their Michael Haneke wrote the film for him. He original roles as a widow and a widower who revealed in July that he had prostrate cancer, In this ﬁle photo taken on May 12, 1986 refind love. declaring that he never wanted to make another (from right) French actor Jean-Louis Lelouch told AFP that he wanted to go back film. “I am afraid I would not be able to do it Trintignant, actress Anouk Aimee, director to the heartbreaking story one more time after physically,” he told the Nice Matin daily. But the Claude Lelouch and his wife Marie-Sophie, making a first sequel, “A Man and a Woman: 20 veteran-a thrill-seeking racing car driver in his pose during a press conference at the Years Later”, in 1986. “In this film I want to tell youth-clearly found the strength from some- 39th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, how life is stronger than death. “‘A Man and a where for one last performance. Both actors are southern France. — AFP Dancing queen: Abba-period Cher French rap video calling for ‘whites has a new army of devotees to be hanged’ her has a stately air as she receives a steady line of for the best.” With only 10 tracks to choose from, Cher causes furore journalists in a West Hollywood hotel room with the says she went for a blend of the all-time classics with Cstudied equanimity of Catherine the Great address- some of her own personal favorites, such as “Chiquitita,” little-known French rapper has caused ing her subjects at the Winter Palace. If Madonna is the “One of Us” and “Name of the Game.” “Singing is differ- outrage by calling for whites to be killed Queen of Pop then Cher is surely the Empress of ent than listening, and I think the important thing for me Ain a video depicting a white man being Entertainment, surveying the spoils of a showbiz career was to try to keep the essence of Abba and try to blend tortured, shot and hanged from a tree. The video that has reaped a best actress Oscar, three Golden Globes, myself in with them,” the singer added. by Nick Conrad-which controversial black an Emmy, a Grammy and a number one record in each of comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala , a convicted the last five decades. And with an acclaimed movie role anti-Semite, linked to on his Facebook page on this summer, a new album of Abba covers on the way and Early previews of songs‘That havewas gonefun’ down well with crit- Saturday-was viewed thousands of times on a Broadway musical about her life on the horizon, the 72- ics and fans but it has not been entirely plain sailing. AFP YouTube before being taken down yesterday. In year-old icon shows no signs of abdicating anytime soon. caught up with the pop legend on the day she was finish- one scene from ‘PLB’ (short for ‘Pendez Les “It seems I have a bunch of new fans, young ones, little ing the record - and just hours after one of her favorite Blancs’, or ‘Hang Whites’) the rapper and an ones. It’s great. I honestly didn’t expect it,” she enthuses, a tracks, “One of Us,” had briefly gone missing, prompting associate drag their white victim along the pave- playful grin fleetingly snapping the aristocratic aura. A no small amount of middle-of-the-night panic. “I was ment and kick him in the head, in an apparent post-war baby boomer of Armenian, European and upset,” she says, a study in understatement. A platinum reference to a scene from the film American Cherokee heritage, the performer was born Cherilyn blonde these days, the star has always been famous for her History X, about the abuse of blacks by American Sarkisian in southern California. To a certain generation outrageous, revealing stage attire. The feathers and fish- neo-Nazis. she will always be an icon of Sixties counterculture and nets will be getting a workout again with the singer at the The lyrics evoke the killing of adults and chil- the unique contralto voice who, along with late former start of a grueling tour that takes her from Australia and dren with the rapper singing: “I walk into crech- husband Sonny Bono, gave the world “I Got You Babe.” In this ﬁle photo singer Cher performs at the MGM Grand New Zealand in the fall to just about every corner of es, I kill white babies, catch them quick and hang But she has been shocking and delighting since ditching Garden Arena during her Dressed to Kill tour in Las Vegas, North America next year. their parents.” Government spokesman Benjamin her folksy girl-next-door Sonny and Cher-era image to Nevada. — AFP One day she’ll slow down-perhaps if “The Cher Show,” Griveaux condemned the “hateful, nauseating emerge as the siren in a hardly-there body suit and leather a musical due to hit Broadway in December-earns her a lyrics in the strongest possible terms” as did jacket in the 1989 “Turn Back Time” video-a quarter-cen- longtime friend and “Silkwood” co-star Meryl Streep to producer’s Tony Award to complete the coveted “EGOT” Interior Minister Gerard Collomb, who slammed tury before “twerking” had entered the lexicon. “Believe” sing two of the signature tunes on “Mamma Mia! Here awards grand slam alongside her Emmy, Grammy and the video’s “abject remarks and ignominious brought Cher to a new generation of fans in 1998, with its We Go Again,” the sequel to Abba-inspired 2008 juke- Oscar. For now, each success is “(Just Enough to Keep attacks”. The Paris prosecutors office opened an innovative deployment of the robotic, digitally-enhanced box musical “Mamma Mia!” She is scornful of the term Me) Hangin’ On,” in the words of one of her early singles. inquiry, with the rapper likely to face charges of “vocoder” vocal for which she is now famous. “starred” for what amounted to a relatively short stretch “Sometimes I love it and sometimes I just want to tear my incitement to hatred under France’s strict hate of screen time but the fact is she stole the show after eyes out... Of course I have those days, and what I’ve speech laws. Anti-racism organization LICRA, turning up in the final act. learned is you just go through them and they pass,” she which filed a formal police complaint, also hit out Stealing the show Cher holds the record for the longest gap between The movie inspired her 26th album, a collection of says. “And sometimes you only have a week of it, or some- at the rapper, saying his artistic freedom “is not number one songs on the US chart at nearly 25 years but Abba covers called “Dancing Queen” that is a mix of rev- times you’re like, just go, ‘Oh my God.’ You’re thinking, ‘Oh the freedom to call for whites to be hanged recently has mostly concentrated on a residency show in erent retreads and club versions that are unmistakably my God’ and then you do the show when you’re thinking, because of the color of their skin.”—AFP Las Vegas. She has been in more than a dozen movies, Cher. “‘Mamma Mia’ and ‘Waterloo,’-those are the most ‘Oh that was fun. That was good.’” — AFP Oscar-nominated for her turn as a nuclear safety activist like the original. I didn’t want to change them in any way,” in “Silkwood,” and acclaimed for roles as a tough, no- she told AFP ahead of the album’s September 28 release.

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