lifestyle THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2015

Music & Movies Stewart opening animal sanctuary in New Jersey he former host of “The Daily Show” combat factory farming and encourage and his wife are transforming their awareness about farm animals. Jon Stewart TNew Jersey farm into a sanctuary for ended a 16-year run on Comedy Central’s neglected animals. Jon and Tracey Stewart “The Daily Show” in August. Tracey Stewart announced their plan Saturday while being is the author of the book “Do Unto honored by the animal advocacy group Animals.” — AP Farm Sanctuary. The property in Middletown, New Jersey, will be the fourth sanctuary affiliated with Farm Sanctuary. The organization’s other outposts are in Los File photo shows Jon Stewart appears Angeles; Orland, California; and Watkins onstage at Comedy Central’s ‘Night of Glen, New York. Too Many Stars: America Comes Farm Sanctuary was founded in 1986 to Together for Autism Programs’ at the Beacon Theatre in New York.—AP

Ricky Gervais to return as Golden Globes host

File photo shows Leah Remini arrives at the 2014 UNICEF icky Gervais will return to host the Golden over,” he said holding his trademark pint of beer. “You Ball in Beverly Hills, Calif. — AP photos Globes for the fourth time in six years. The HFPA could be a little Asian child with no possessions and Rmade the announcement on Twitter. Gervais’ no money. But you could see a picture of Angelina return comes less than a week after the Academy Jolie and you’d think, ‘Mummy!’” Remini talks to revealed that Chris Rock, another edgy comedian, Gervais later responded to the backlash by saying, would host the Oscars in February. “We’re excited to “I’ve told my agent to never let me be persuaded to do have Ricky Gervais back to host the most enjoyable it again though. It’s like a parachute jump.” Still, his last ‘20/20’ about awards show of the season in his own inimitable way,” hosting stint drew nearly 17 million viewers, which said NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt NBC noted in its press release. “What will he say? What in a statement. “Disarming and surprising, Ricky is will he do? We can’t wait to find out, and we are so Cruise, Scientology ready to honor-and send up-the best work of the year happy that he’s back!,” said Barry Adelman, EVP, ctress Leah Remini is talking about Scientology and in film and television. Fasten your seats belts.” Television for dick clark productions and executive Tom Cruise in a new interview with ABC’s “20/20.” She Gervais, who hosted the Globes for three consecu- producer of the 73rd Golden Globes, which will be Asays in a clip released Monday that “being critical of tive years from 2010-2012, will take over for co-hosts held Jan 10. Nominations for the 2016 Globes will be Tom Cruise is being critical of Scientology itself.” Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, who also saw a three-year announced Thursday, Dec 10. Winners in 25 categories The interview is scheduled to air Friday at 10 pm EDT. stint. Gervais had previously sworn off hosting the — 14 in film and 11 in TV-are voted on by the Remini was raised as a Scientologist but left the church two Globes again after his controversial jokes, which Hollywood Foreign Press Association. — Reuters years ago. Her memoir, “Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood File photo shows actor Ricky Gervais poses for photog- included a dig at Jodie Foster’s sexuality, raised a few and Scientology,” is set for release next month. raphers upon arrival for the premiere of the film ‘Night eye brows at the Beverly Hilton. “Actors aren’t just Representatives for Cruise and the Church of Scientology did at the Museum, Secret of the Tomb’ in London. — AP loved here in Hollywood, they are loved the world not immediately respond to requests for comment.—AP Singer Lizz Wright makes a fresh start with her new CD five-year recording hiatus didn’t stop Lizz Wright tory that she hadn’t explored - a more energetic and young bell-wood tree stopped her from plunging down a from reclaiming a spot at the top of the Billboard aggressive side that is still organic to who she is.” That fresh ravine. “When my feet got on the ice again, I was very Ajazz charts with her new release, “Freedom & territory emerges on the new album in new tunes such as determined to make this record,” she said. “Since then I Surrender.” It’s a fresh start for the 35-year-old singer-song- the soulful, funk-driven “Freedom,” written by longtime col- have really been enjoying little things and I’ve been living writer - with a new label and producer - but the CD finds laborator Toshi Reagon, and the country blues “The New for little wonders that are common, but still amazing.” Wright returning to her roots as a preacher’s daughter from Game,” co-written with Klein and David Batteau. the rural South. Wright says she had to summon the “war- Just before Thanksgiving, Wright was cast adrift after Human experience rior person in her soul” to overcome doubts about her releasing four albums on Verve, starting with her critically Wright says her challenge as a songwriter is to strike a In this Sept 30, 2015 photo provided by Enrique Iglesias, musical career and obstacles to making the record. acclaimed 2003 debut, “Salt.” Wright kept working with balance between being autobiographical and expressing Iglesias wears his new ‘heart’ T-shirt in Miami. — AP “There’s a lot of fight in the mind and the soul to surface Klein during trips to Los Angeles. Soon after, the independ- universal feelings that resonate with her audience. “I think again and try to figure out why you want to keep working ent Concord label agreed to release the album. Then last as singers and performers we are ambassadors of the and why you want to keep doing your art,” Wright said in a February, just before she was to go into the studio, Wright’s human experience,” she said. “I don’t want to get bored just After hand surgery, recent interview. “I just felt a part of me that was fighting car slid across an icy mountain curve near her home. A talking about myself.” Wright says the opening track, for light and fighting to surface again and I gave voice to it.” “Freedom,” is about independence, individuality and find- Since her last recording, the 2010 gospel-themed ing one’s path, while the closing track, “Surrender,” co-writ- Enrique Iglesias “Fellowship” with mostly covers, Wright had gone through ten with Reagon, is about acceptance, reality and aligning a divorce. She moved from New York and eventually settled yourself with whatever is real for you. The folk-based in a mountainside community outside Asheville, North “Somewhere Down the Mystic” offers “impressions of my helping kids in crises Carolina, within a few hours’ drive of her hometown of Appalachian life,” she says, conjuring the mystical feeling nrique Iglesias is giving a helping hand to children deal- Hahira, Georgia. that she gets walking a mountain trail near her home. ing with emergencies after an accident with a drone led Wright balked at the suggestion of her then-record She traveled to Nashville, Tennessee, to work with coun- Eto him having reconstructive hand surgery. label, Verve, that she do another album of covers. “If I try rock songwriter J.D. Souther (The Eagles) on the tender Save the Children said Monday that Iglesias is working looked at my relationship with the music and with the peo- waltzlike ballad “Right Where You Are,” which she performs with the organization to sell white T-shirts with a red heart at ple - neither called for me to be exploring anyone else’s as a duet with Grammy-winning jazz singer Gregory Porter. its center - mirroring how Iglesias’ shirt looked after he cut his statement,” Wright said. “I had experienced enough to The album has two covers. Her darkly brooding version of fingers at a concert and wiped the blood on his shirt. Iglesias, where I wanted people to know and at least feel some- Nick Drake’s “River Man” draws on her impressionistic jazz 40, sliced his fingers in May when grabbing a drone at a show thing about where I had been.” Wright found a supportive side, while she turns the Bee Gees’ “To Love Somebody” in Tijuana, Mexico, and video and photos posted online high- partner in Grammy-winning producer Larry Klein, known into a slow ballad, inspired by the gospel music of her lighted his bandaged hand and blooded T-shirt. He under- for working with strong-willed female singer-songwriters youth. Wright says she conceived the album as a “wide can- went reconstructive hand surgery because he suffered a frac- including Tracy Chapman, Madeleine Peyroux and ex-wife vas” - on which she uses different musical styles as colors to ture that needed to be corrected. “I’m extremely excited to Joni Mitchell. create a cohesive multilayered work of art. “I call myself a partner with Save the Children to help kids who need it the singer-songwriter influenced by the gospel and jazz tradi- most. My heart goes out to the kids around the world who Natural talent tion,” Wright said. “Naturally because of my lifestyle and have lived through a humanitarian crisis and have to rebuild Klein had been thinking about doing a record with love for nature there’s a lot of folk and Americana there their lives from scratch,” Iglesias said in a statement. The T- Wright since he first heard her rich alto voice, drawn by the because that’s just my life.” — AP shirts, which go on sale Tuesday on the singer’s website, cost combination of her delicate jazz sensibility and her raw $27.50. At least $12 from each sale will benefit Save the natural talent reflecting her roots in the church music she Lizz Wright poses for a Children’s emergency fund, which focuses on responding grew up with as the daughter of a Pentecostal minister. “I portrait in promotion of quickly to crises such as floods and disease outbreaks as well found that her previous records had beautiful subtleties her new album ‘Freedom as providing supplies before an emergency hits. “We have to and were very kind of smoky and muted sounding, which I & Surrender’ in New take care of those who need us most - children, especially loved,” said Klein. “But I thought there was some other terri- York. — AP those facing crises around the world,” Iglesias said. — AP

Bollywood’s Chopra hopes Surprised by award, Woo says US TV triumph will set precedent ollywood star Priyanka Chopra Bollywood actors Anil Kapoor (“24”), hopes her leading role in hit United Rahul Khanna (“The Americans”) and he’s just hard-working director BStates television show “Quantico” Nimrat Kaur (“Homeland”) have all fea- will help pave the way for other Indian tured in American shows, Chopra is the ohn Woo was surprised to receive an award honoring in his memory that pays tribute to him. I also wanted to find actors to make it big in America. The for- first actor from India to headline an origi- trailblazers who have made outstanding contributions an actor that has his aura and has a similar performing style. mer Miss World is blazing a trail as the first nal series. Her face is plastered across bill- Jto the art of filmmaking. “I have made a lot of films, but It is very hard to find someone like this.” — AP Indian lead in a US TV series, playing FBI boards in major US cities and Chopra, it hardly qualifies as making a special contribution. I’m just agent turned suspected terrorist Alex who was crowned Miss World in 2000, a hard-working filmmaker,” the Hong Kong director said in Parrish in the ABC thriller. “I can only said she felt the pressure. “I was nerv- Tokyo before the award presentation. “I’m very thankful to hope that it opens the right doors,” the 33- ous... period! Firstly I am trying something receive this award and also very surprised.” Past recipients year-old told AFP in an email interview new, I was attempting it in a whole new of the Tokyo International Film Festival’s Samurai Award between filming in India for her geography, I was doing it in a different include fellow directors Takashi Kitano and Tim Burton. Bollywood movies and in Canada for language from what the audience is used Woo said when he began his career in the 1960s, he “Quantico”. to for my on-screen persona,” she watched films from other countries, especially Japan, and is “I truly believe that we have a huge explained. still inspired today by Japanese cinema. “Japan has had so pool of talent in India, which spans actors, The star of Bollywood hits such as “Dil many great filmmakers, actors and writers,” he said at directors, technicians and the like, and Dhadakne Do” (Let The Heart Beat) and Monday’s ceremony. The 1986 action drama “A Better there is a huge window of opportunity for biopic Mary Kom added that she felt it Tomorrow” cemented Woo’s place in Hong Kong cinema, them to explore outside India,” she added. was important that her Indian-American breaking box-office records at the time. “The Killers” and Chopra has received glowing reviews for character was ethnically ambiguous. “Hard Boiled” followed. The director’s signature style of bul- her turn as Parrish, who is accused in the “There is a lot of diversity in the characters let-flying action scenes or slow-motion gunfight sequences drama of masterminding the biggest ter- on Quantico but it’s not a cliched repre- defined Hong Kong cinema in the ‘90s and led to ror attack on American soil since sentation,” she said. “It is, however, more a Hollywood projects like “Face/Off” and “Mission: Impossible September 11, 2001. The series jumps mirror to society in the USA-a multi-cul- II.” between present day, when she is on the tural mix of people from all over the The box office results of his first love story, last year’s run from the law and trying to prove her world, connected to their ethnicity in “The Crossing,” were disappointing, but Woo was unde- Indian Bollywood actress Priyanka innocence, and her time as a trainee some way but who primarily consider terred. “Life has its ups and downs. If the people who col- Hong Kong director John Woo, right, and Japanese Chopra poses as she arrives to attend agent at the FBI’s academy at Quantico in themselves citizens of the United States laborated with me are defeated, then I feel bad, and a bit director Yoji Yamada pose for photographers during the a special brunch and promotion for Virginia. of America.” — AFP sad.” His next film, a remake of the Japanese action classic awarding ceremony of Samurai Award at the 28th Tokyo the forthcoming Hindi film ‘Dil The plot leaves viewers trying to guess “Manhunt,” is in pre-production with the cast still to be set. International Film Festival in Tokyo Monday. — AP Dhadakne Do’ directed by Zoya who plotted the attack-Parrish or one of “I idolize Ken Takakura very much. I wanted to make a film Akhtar in Mumbai. — AFP her former colleagues at Quantico. While