lifestyle SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 2016

MUSIC & MOVIES Apple Music posts new Frank Ocean video album pple Music has released new and long-await- main album is yet to come.” Ocean is credited as the released in 2012. The record featured the hit song ed music from Grammy-winning singer Frank director of the video, and it features a cover of an “Thinkin bout You” and earned him two Grammy AOcean in the form of a 45-minute “visual Isley Brothers song and guest musicians James Awards, including best urban contemporary album. album.” The company tweeted a link to the music Blake, Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead and the Ocean is known for his previous association with video “Endless” by the R&B artist on Thursday night. London Contemporary Orchestra. the alternative hip-hop group Odd Future. He has The link is only available to subscribers of Apple’s Ocean has been teasing information about his also written songs for Beyonce, Justin Bieber, John music streaming service. next album on his website boysdontcry.co, but rep- Legend and Brandy. He appeared on two songs The video shows black-and-white footage of resentatives from Universal Music Group and Apple from Jay Z and Kanye West’s collaborative album, Ocean building a staircase in a warehouse over new Music didn’t immediately respond to emails seeking “Watch the Throne.” — AP music, which looks more like a visual art project comment. “He is intentionally keeping everyone compared to the more cinematic approaches by guessing,” Aswad said. artists like Beyonce and Prince. “It feels to me like Fans have been anxiously awaiting the 28-year- what a bonus disc would be,” said Jem Aswad, a old singer’s first album in four years. Ocean’s widely LOS ANGELES: In this Feb. 10, 2013 file senior editor at Billboard magazine. “I suspect the acclaimed debut album, “Channel Orange,” was photo, Frank Ocean arrives at the 55th annual Grammy Awards .— AP

San Francisco honors Tony Bennett with statue, festivities f ever there was a man to throw a grand birthday bash for in San Francisco, it had to be Tony Bennett. IAnd that is exactly what happened Friday. After the speeches, the music, and the heaping amount of praise for the legendary crooner were over, hundreds of peo- ple watched as the white smoke cleared and an 8-foot tall bronze statue of the singer was unveiled outside the Fairmont Hotel atop Nob Hill. “I can’t get over what just happened,” said Bennett, who turned 90 earlier this month. “That’s the most beau- tiful statue I have ever seen. It will live in my heart forev- er. Thank you for being so wonderful to me. I’ll never for- get this day.” Bennett looked sharp in a blue suit but said only a few words and didn’t sing, but that was OK with the crowd. They were just happy to see him. “He’s San Francisco,” said Marty Jewett, standing in the front row with her friend, also a huge Bennett fan. “I think he keeps all the generations within his repertoire. I love his voice and his longevity.” Jewett and her friend Margaret Baker arrived early Friday to get a front room position in the crowd. “I think Tony Bennett represents the best in Italian American entertainment going back for generations,” said Baker.

Sharing the magic For as long as anyone can remember, the New Yorker has been giving to the city where he first sang “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” at the Fairmont Hotel in 1961. And now, the city has paid him back. San Francisco ST. LAWRENCE, CANADA: In this March 9, 2010 photo released by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, a seal hunter aims at harp seals.— AP Mayor Ed Lee declared Aug. 19 Tony Bennett Day. “Tony Bennett, you’ve helped us share the magic of San Francisco around the world,” Lee said. The celebration will continue Friday evening at AT&T Park when the San Francisco Giants will honor Bennett in a pre-game cere- mony and throughout the game. Bennett will also per- Rated ‘S’ for slaughter? New form “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” for the fans. “Tony, you are royalty,” said Larry Baer, the chief executive offi- cer of the San Francisco Giants. “We look forward to tonight at the ball park when we’ll have a small group of film questions Canada seal hunt 41,000 people singing Happy Birthday to you.”

t’s not an easy movie to watch: Hunters clubbing seals phase out the practice, which was the Cape Cod organiza- tionally, starting with a limited theatrical run in New York to death and bloodying the otherwise pristine ice of tion’s founding campaign. City and Los Angeles and its premier on Discovery at 10 Ithe Canadian Arctic. But for the Cape Cod-based Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans won’t p.m. EDT on Sept. 22. International Fund for Animal Welfare, “Huntwatch” - a budge, spokesman Frank Stanek told The Associated “From the get-go, I wanted to make sure the film didn’t new documentary about the fight to end commercial seal Press. “The government of Canada believes in the sus- feel like a one sided propaganda piece,” Backlund said in a hunts - is a story that needs to be told. tainable use of a renewable resource such as the harp statement. “The Canadian seal hunt is a very complicated The film , which premieres next month on Discovery, seal,” Stanek said, calling the harvest “an important eco- issue with no easy answer.” very nearly was doomed to oblivion. It includes grainy nomic and cultural activity.” He said officials are “com- Another challenge: Toning down the gore. “Some of footage that had languished for nearly five decades in the mitted to maintaining existing markets for Canadian the footage in our archive is incredibly disturbing, so we basement of the group’s global headquarters in Yarmouth seal products and supporting the development of had to find a way to make the film watchable,” he said. Port, Massachusetts. “We really just want people to watch potential new markets.” “We worked very hard at finding lighter moments and the film, look at all sides of the issue, and decide if this IFAW’s Richard Moos, who co-produced the film with human drama, trying to focus in on the characters to tell hunt still should be happening,” said IFAW spokeswoman Branon, said the seal slaughter ought to have ceased for the story of their experiences around the seal hunt.” Kerry Branon, a co-producer on the film. good many decades ago for the same reason that ended “Huntwatch” was culled from more than 3,000 film Indigenous people still harvest seals for food in whaling at the turn of the 19th century: There’s no longer reels, tapes and photographs in various formats dating to Canada, but the bloody slaughters chronicled in a viable market for it. But old traditions die hard. “It’s like 1969 that documented the Canadian hunts. Branon and “Huntwatch” involve white hunters looking to cash in trying to get Americans to stop eating apple pie. It’s so Moos found much of it in the cellar around 2009 as they on the pelts of young harp seals and provide for their wrapped up in their identity of being sealers,” Moos said. were consolidating their archives on Cape Cod. “We want families. “Huntwatch” is directed by renowned animal rights to start a conversation,” Moos said. “Things are changing. Despite long-standing bans on the trade in fur and activist Brant Backlund and narrated by “Deadpool” actor People are waking up.” — AP other seal products strictly enforced by the U.S., the Ryan Reynolds, a Canadian. It was screened earlier this European Union and much of the rest of the world, year at film festivals in New York; Boulder, Colorado; Canada still subsidizes an annual hunt. Animal rights Newport Beach, California; and Middlebury, Vermont. groups are still pressuring the Canadian government to Discovery and Lionsgate plan to distribute it interna- SAN FRANCISCO: Singer Tony Bennett stands beneath his 8-foot-tall bronze statue after it was unveiled outside the Fairmont Hotel on Friday.— AP

The theme of the day was how Bennett has always been there for the city by the Bay. “When the cable cars From gymnastics to jam sessions, broke down and were closed down for two years and we brought them back, he came. When we had the earthquake and we put the Bay Bridge back together, he came. He’s always here for us so we thought, ‘What can we do for him?’ And we thought of the statue,” said Jordan Fisher aims high Charlotte Mailliard Shultz, the chief of protocol for San Francisco and the State of California. ctor-singer Jordan Fisher remembers Live” and starred in the Disney Channel movie others,” he said. “But I definitely had way more In addition to the fanfare Friday and a gala dinner on the days he spent training as a gymnast, franchise “Teen Beach.” He’s also had recurring fun, exciting, seamless sessions.” Saturday night, Bennett is getting his own ice cream fla- Ahoping to one day reach the Olympics. roles in the TV series “The Secret Life of the A full-length album is expected early next vor. Created by the city’s Humphry Slocombe ice cream Those days are over, but as the 22-year-old American Teenager” and “Liv and Maddie.” year, and Fisher said music is his sole focus at shop, the flavor “Duet” will feature vanilla ice cream watches the 2016 Summer Olympics, it moti- He fell in love with the arts at age 10 by the moment. He said he wants to “tour and see swirled with limoncello sorbet and fennel biscotti to vates him to continue tackling another life luck.B”There was a girl in the fifth grade that I the world and play music for a living.” Fisher honor Bennett’s Italian heritage. goal: Releasing his first album. had a crush on ... (and) my only way to spend has been influenced by a range of artists, from But the centerpiece of the celebration was the stat- “It’s absolutely inspiring because I under- time with this girl ... was to join the drama Justin Timberlake and Usher to Frank Sinatra to ue, which San Francisco Bay Area sculptor Bruce Leslie stand the amount of work and hours that goes club,” he said, laughing. “Thank god that hap- My Chemical Romance. His first single, “All Wolfe began creating a few months ago after Bennett into that moment,” Fisher said of the gymnasts pened because I had no clue I could sing, I had About Us,” is a thumping pop tune that high- sat for him for three days. During that time, Wolfe said competing at the Olympics. “It really makes me no clue I could act, I had no clue I could dance.” lights his soulful falsetto. Other songs on his they laughed, played music and Bennett sketched his miss the sport. It makes me miss having chalk Fisher plays piano, guitar, harmonica, new project showcase different genres and likeness, giving him a new appreciation for the crooner. on my hands.” French horn and drums. He said creating his styles. “Tony Bennett is probably the best vocal singer that Fisher gets one step closer to his latest four-song EP, which is mix of pop and R&B Though he remembers going to Los I’ve ever heard. He can do anything with words,” Wolfe dream on Friday when he releases his self- sounds, was like blind dating. “You’re in a Angeles at 12, meeting agents, recording in said. “He’s just like a poet, he’s just good.” titled EP. He says the gymnastic and entertain- chronic state of introduction with these (pro- studios and going on auditions, Fisher said he’s Paul Tormey, the regional vice president and general ment industries are similar. “No one really sees ducers), constantly meeting brand-new peo- happy to be finally releasing music at 22. “The manager of the Fairmont San Francisco agrees. “He’s the the hours of work you put into that moment ple that have never worked with you before,” more no’s I got in my life and career only fur- godfather of the city. He has always been there in times that finally happens on television or in the the- said Fisher, who worked with hit makers like thered that necessity for me,” he said. “I was of need and always been there as a good friend. He’s INGLEWOOD: In this July 31, 2016 file pho- ater, they just kind of see the result,” he said. Oak Felder (Nicki Minaj, Miguel) and Jarrad like, ‘Well, no just means not right now.’” — AP been absolutely wonderful to the city.”— AP to, Jordan Fisher arrives at the Teen Choice Fisher is best known for his acting roles. He Rogers (Charli XCX). “You know, there were Awards. — AP appeared, and sang, in the Fox special “Grease: some sessions that were a little harder than