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lifestyle MONDAY, MAY 22, 2017 MUSIC & MOVIES ‘Stone Age’ Trump going back to horse and cart, says Schwarzenegger rnold Schwarzenegger laid into US on a grassroots level. “We cannot wait for President yesterday, London, Moscow, Beijing, Washington, Asaying his plans to revive coal would , Delhi... Let’s do it locally,” he told AFP. bring the world back to the horse and cart. “The people have to rise up and say we got “He’s back in the Stone Age,” the Hollywood to protect what we have so we don’t have cli- star told AFP. The former California gover- mate change and seven million people dying nor said he despairs of what Trump’s ener- every year because of pollution.” Schwar- gy policy, which is heavy on fossil fuels, will zenegger produces and narrates a new doc- do to the planet. “As far as the environment umentary by the son of undersea explorer is concerned, he is misinformed,” he said. Jacques Cousteau, “Wonders of the Sea 3D”, which he claimed would make “people fall in love with the ocean”.

Environmental shaming Indian actress He said the movie’s positive message Aishwarya Rai worked much better than “the shaming, Bachchan waves as guilt and finger pointing” that Schwar- she arrives on May zenegger believes puts people off environ- 19, 2017 for the mentalism. “You can’t just tell people all the screening of the time that they shouldn’t fly, or drive a big film ‘’ at the car or have a jacuzzi,” he told the 70th edition of the Hollywood Reporter. “If you want people to Cannes Film change you got to make people feel good Festival in about it. When you see this film you will Cannes, southern inevitably fall in love with the ocean,” he France. —AFP added. Even though both Trump and Schwarzenegger are Republicans, the star has had prickly relations both politically and personally with the president. In January, Trump blamed the low ratings of earns raves at “The Apprentice” television show on Schwarzenegger, who took over from This file photo shows Arnold Schwar- Trump as presenter. zenegger attending “The New Celebrity Cannes Film Fest (yes, really) Schwarzenegger said in March that he Apprentice” Q & A and Red Carpet Event At was quitting the show because it had too Universal Studio, Universal City, California. much “baggage”. He said Trump’s name in t’s not every day you hear the name “Happy the credits as executive producer scared Gilmore” referenced at the Cannes Film But “one man” cannot destroy the Earth, he away sponsors and viewers. While in IFestival. But that was the case yesterday when argued, particularly a leader as ineffective Cannes, Schwarzenegger, 69, also congrat- ’s “ (New as the billionaire businessman. ulated French voters on electing centrist and Selected),” starring Adam Sandler, “So far nothing has got done since he Emmanuel Macron as president earlier this and , premiered at the French became president. Nothing,” he added. month. Trump had praised his opponent, Riviera festival. When the film’s cast, which also “When I hear he wants to bring coal back, far-right leader Marine Le Pen. “I love being includes , assembled for a press that’s going backwards. The next thing he’ll in France,” he told Screen International, conference, the moderator noted this was the want to bring horses and buggies (carts) adding that French people had done “a second film that Sandler and Stiller have made back,” the actor and activist told reporters at great job with the election of the presi- together after that classic 1996 comedy. the . “Trump or no Trump dent”. The “Terminator” star is also playing “I just think it’s cool to hear ‘’ we all have to move forward,” he added. the world’s greatest hitman in a forthcom- mentioned at the Cannes,” Stiller chuckled. “Only people power and embracing tech- ing film being sold at Cannes, “Why We’re Worlds often collide at the Cannes Film Festival, nology to replace fossil fuels will change Killing Gunther” by “” this,” insisted the actor, whose R20 network performer Taran Killam. Schwarzenegger works with local and regional leaders across also confirmed he would be making a the world to combat climate change. sequel to “Twins” with Danny DeVito and “All great movements-civil rights, the vote , called “Triplets” and that he for women, the anti-apartheid movement, would be returning to the “Terminator” the freedom movement in India-all started franchise. — AFP

(From left) Actress Emma Thompson, director Noah Baumbach, actors Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Adam Sandler and CEO Ted Sarandos pose for photographers during the Harvard student submits photo call for the film ‘The Meyerowitz Stories’ at the 70th international film festival, Cannes, rap album as his senior thesis southern France yesterday. — AP US actor Adam Sandler talks yesterday during a press conference for the film ‘The Meyerowitz hile other Harvard University stu- Stories (New and Selected)’. dents were writing papers for Wtheir senior theses, Obasi Shaw even between broad comedy and international was busy rapping his. Shaw is the first stu- art house pieces. But while Sandler is far from a dent in Harvard’s history to submit a rap Cannes regular, the comedian was the toast of album as a senior thesis in the English the festival yesterday, earning some of the best Department, the university said. The album, reviews of his career for his performance as a called “Liminal Minds,” has earned the recently divorced father and the unappreciated equivalent of an A-minus grade, good son of Hoffman’s aging artist, the patriarch of a enough to guarantee that Shaw will gradu- neurotic, dysfunctional New York family. ate with honors next week. “The Meyerowitz Stories” premiered in com- Count Shaw among those most sur- petition for the Palme d’Or - the festival’s covet- prised by the success. “I never thought it ed top prize. For many, Sandler’s sensitive, rum- would be accepted by Harvard,” said Shaw, bled performance recalled some of his rare dra- a 20-year-old from Stone Mountain, matic turns, like in “Punch Drunk Love” or Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. “I didn’t think “Spanglish.” Sandler first came to Cannes in 2002 they would respect rap as an art form with “Punch Drunk Love,” directed by Paul enough for me to do it.” Shaw describes the Thomas Anderson, and he was clearly excited to Obasi Shaw poses outside the gates of US actor Adam Sandler (right) talks yesterday as he attends a press conference for the film ‘The 10-track album as a dark and moody take be back. “It’s different for a comedian to get an Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Mass, Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)’ with US actor Ben Stiller (second left), US actor Dustin on what it means to be black in America. offer like this,” said Sandler. “My first thought is I Thursday, May 18, 2017. — AP Hoffman (third left), US director Noah Baumbach (third right) and British actress Emma Thompson Each song is told from a different charac- don’t want to let anyone down.” (2ndR) at the 70th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. — AFP ter’s perspective, an idea inspired by nights on campus. His mother connected Sandler described his joy at reading Geoffrey Chaucer’s 14th-century classic the dots and suggested he record an Baumbach’s script. “I was misty-eyed, laughing,” fisticuffs and tender connections. For the two connect with him like this. Where we’re at in our “The Canterbury Tales.” Shaw, who’s black, album for his thesis. It took Shaw more said Sandler. “I just couldn’t believe we were going actors, since their early 20s, it was a lives personally, it was a chance for us to really get also draws on the works of writer James than a year to write the songs and record to do this movie.” Stiller and Sandler play half- poignant experience. “Adam and I have known closer than we’ve been before. Playing brothers, it Baldwin while tackling topics ranging from them at a studio on Harvard’s campus. His brothers of very different temperaments in the each other for years and years,” said Stiller. “This was really like one of the best experiences I’ve police violence to slavery. friends supplied many of the beats, while film, a relationship that culminates in both was a really special experience, having a chance to had.” “Me too, buddy,” chimed Sandler. — AP Shaw’s thesis adviser, Harvard English he taught himself how to mix the tracks lecturer Josh Bell, said Shaw is a “serious into a polished product. “I’m still not satis- artist and he’s an amazing guy.” “He was fied with the quality of the production just able to turn around an album that people yet, but I’m constantly learning and grow- in the English Department would like very ing,” Shaw said. much but also that people who like rap Rap and hip-hop have drawn growing music might like,” Bell said. Harvard under- interest from academia in recent years. graduates aren’t obligated to submit senior Harvard established a fellowship for schol- theses, but most departments require it to ars of hip-hop in 2013, and other schools graduate with honors. Often it takes the including the University of Arizona have form of a research paper, but students can started to offer minors in hip-hop studies. apply to turn in an artistic work as a cre- Clemson University announced in ative thesis. Some submit screenplays, nov- February that a doctoral student submit- els or poetry collections. ted a 34-track rap album as his disserta- Shaw was at home for winter break in tion, a first for the South Carolina universi- 2015, struggling to find a topic for a written ty. Shaw plans to circulate the album thesis, when he told his mother, Michelle online for free and hopes it opens doors to Shaw, about the creative thesis option. He the music industry. In the meantime, he’s had recently started writing his own raps headed to Seattle to work as a software and performing them at open-microphone engineer at Google. — AP Willem Dafoe to play painter Van Gogh in new biopic ollywood star Willem Dafoe is to play the An all-robot rock band makes music during the Street Music day in on May 20, 2017. — AFP photos painter Vincent Van Gogh in a new film Habout the tortured genius by artist Julian Schnabel, its producers said yesterday. “At Robot rockers lead Eternity’s Gate” takes its title from one of Van Gogh’s last canvasses which shows a man holding his head in his hands. ’s street music day “This is a film about painting and a painter and rom folk singers to an all-robot rock cians, and proved particularly popular with their relationship to infinity,” said Schnabel, who band, hundreds of Lithuanian music children. “Robots are still quite rarely used won best director at the Cannes film festival in Flovers flocked streets and squares in art,” said Povilas Zmejauskas, 24, explain- 2007 for “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”. “It Saturday to celebrate Street Music Day in ing the idea behind the band, which is told by a painter. It contains what I felt were dozens of cities and towns nationwide. played rock and pop music. essential moments in his life. This is not the official The Baltic state of three million people has There was also classical music, alterna- history-it’s my version,” he added. Schnabel wrote hosted the festival since 2007, also attract- tive rock, electronic dance music and jazz. An all-robot the script with acclaimed French screenwriter ing followers in other European countries. , a Lithuanian musi- rock band Jean-Claude Carriere. The film-which will be shot On the hottest day of the year, the cian and actor involved in organizing the makes music in France-centers on Van Gogh’s time in the robot band played at a square in Vilnius, event said some cities in Ukraine, Georgia, during the southern French city of Arles and the village of one of more than 100 spots hosting con- Latvia and Russia had also joined the street Street Willem Dafoe Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris. — AFP certs by professional and amateur musi- music initiative. — AFP Music day.