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P36-40 Layout 1 THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017 lifestyle MUSIC & MOVIES Contest will pick opening acts for Bon Jovi tour ho says you can't open for Bon Jovi? The New to pay it forward. If you're ready for the arena stage, submit on entertainment value, creativity and originality. No-nos Jersey-based platinum-selling rockers are holding your audition tapes and join us in playing for the best audi- include profanity, nudity, violence, drug or alcohol use, Wa contest to choose bands or singers to open for ences in rock music." commercial endorsements of products, and disparage- their upcoming tour. Artists will upload videos of them- Formed in Sayreville, New Jersey, the fledgling Bon Jovi ment of any group of people. In addition to performing selves performing original music, and concert promoters landed opening act gigs with some of the biggest names live, the winners will be featured on the Bon Jovi and Live Live Nation will select 10 finalists. Bon Jovi management in music at the time, including ZZ Top in 1983, and the Nation Facebook pages. — AP will then pick winners from the finalists to perform 20- Scorpions, Kiss and Ted Nugent in 1984, exposing them to minute sets. "Every great band starts small and builds their millions of new fans. The band will begin its "This House Is rep one show at a time," Jon Bon Jovi said Tuesday in a Not For Sale" tour Feb. 8 in Greenville, South Carolina. The This file photo shows Jon statement on the band's website announcing the contest. last listed tour date is April 11 in Toronto, but additional Bon Jovi performing with "That's the opportunity we were given, and now we want dates are expected to be announced. Entries will be judged his band during Art Basel in Miami Beach, Fla. — AP Review Damien Chazelle: Shy musician Khan's 'Dangal' turned Hollywood darling becomes or a man whose movies burst with obsessed and practicing up to eight hours highest-grossing bravado and swagger, Damien a day. It wasn't until he started reading FChazelle is disarmingly shy, but the visual studies at Harvard that he realized Bollywood movie filmmaker is finding himself increasingly in his true calling was filmmaking. the spotlight as the awards pile up. The 31- Chazelle wrote, produced, co-shot and ndian movie star Aamir Khan's latest blockbuster year-old director's latest movie "La La directed the lion's share of his first feature, "Dangal" has become the highest-grossing Land," a sumptuous musical throwback to jazz musical "Guy and Madeline on a Park IBollywood film of all time, smashing his own the halcyon days of Old Hollywood, came Bench," while he was still an undergradu- record, trade analysts and producers said on away with seven statuettes at Sunday's ate. He continued playing the drums at Monday. The wrestling drama, which is based on Golden Globes, more than any other film in Harvard, where he was in a band with the true story of an Indian coach who trained his the show's history. Veteran film critic Anne Justin Hurwitz, who would eventually join two daughters to become champion grapplers, has Thompson, awards editor for movie blog the crew of "La La Land," winning the best made 3.45 billion rupees ($50.59 million) in just IndieWire, describes the youngest ever original song Golden Globe for penning three weeks, according to bollywoodhungama.com. recipient of the best director award as the the infectious "City of Stars." But Chazelle That is more than the previous top grosser-Khan's kind of filmmaker who is respected not just had always suffered from crippling stage science fiction film This image released by Warner Bros. Entertainment shows Ben Affeck, left, and Sienna by reviewers but also by his peers in the fright before performances and came to "PK", which amassed 3.40 billion rupees during its Miller in a scene from ‘Live By Night.’ — AP industry. accept that his nerves would continue to entire run in 2014. "This is our ninth film with Aamir "Damien Chazelle is a young version of be an obstacle to a career in music. Khan and with 'Dangal' we've broken our own record Quentin Tarantino or Martin Scorsese a gift- "I couldn't handle the particular kind of of 'PK'," Amrita Pandey, vice-president of studios at ed film nerd, super smart, who knows the terror that came from performing on a Disney India, told AFP via email. "Dangal", directed by Affleck's stylish 'Live by classics well enough to deconstruct them stage, or performing in front of people, or Nitesh Tiwari, is based on the true story of wrestling and put them back together again in fresh performing period," he said at a recent coach Mahavir Singh Phogat who raised his daugh- new ways," Thompson told AFP. "He's not roundtable discussion for directors the ters Geeta and Babita Phogat to become champion Night' is by the numbers pretentious. He's had to struggle to get Hollywood Reporter. Chazelle said he still wrestlers. where he is." It is likely to be a memorable gets nervous directing, or even watching Geeta won a gold medal for India at the 2010 en Affleck is no doubt an ambitious cinematographer Robert Richardson, in year for Chazelle, as every Golden Globes screenings, and is "in awe of actors" who Commonwealth Games while her sister topped the and tasteful filmmaker, but he's gotten Florida at least the plot gets somewhat inter- best director over the last decade-with the are "better at handling it than I am." podium at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Bhimself in a bit of hot water with the esting as Joe pairs up with a nearly unrecog- lone exception of Ben Affleck in 2013 -- has "Dangal" is a Hindi word used to describe a wrestling bloated period gangster epic "Live by Night ." nizable Chris Messina as Dion Bartolo to get gone on to win the Oscar. "It took six years Nostalgia competition. Khan, 51, gained a lot of weight to play It looks and sounds right and all the elements in the Prohibition-era rum business while to get the movie going. All of this is just so Nevertheless, his experiences as an the role of Mahavir before quickly losing 25 kilo- are there: A conflicted anti-hero with a gran- butting heads with the local KKK thugs, a surreal. The dream come true was literally aspiring drummer were the inspiration for grams to appear as a younger version of the coach ite jaw, a fast-talkin', two-timin' moll, crooked complicated cop (Chris Cooper) and his trou- the first day of shooting. All of this is even his darkly comic second feature "Whiplash" elsewhere in the film. The movie was released on cops, and a sweaty loyal partner. There's the blesome evangelist daughter Loretta (Elle more surreal," he told journalists backstage (2014) -- the intense story of the stormy December 23 and was India's second hit wrestling one-last-job-gone-awry, some rum-running, a Fanning). Oh, and Joe also falls in love with a at the Globes. relationship between a bullying teacher film of 2016. "Sultan", starring Salman Khan, came few epic shootouts and the big questions Cuban expat Graciela (Zoe Saldana). and his jazz drumming student. The movie out in July, made 3.15 billion rupees and sits third on about whether or not our man has become Stage fright swept up trophies on the film festival cir- the all-time grossing list. — AFP everything he swore he wouldn't. It seems Good and moral A native of Rhode Island, Chazelle was cuit and won three Oscars, including for like enough to hold audience interest for a By the time Loretta becomes the main born to Celia Martin, a writer, and French- best supporting actor for J.K. Simmons, and few hours, but somehow even with all that focus, and foe, of Joe and Dion the film has American Bernard Chazelle, a pioneering nominations for best picture and for going for it (not to mention a parade of rec- already lost most of its steam. "Live by Night" computer scientist and a huge jazz and Chazelle's screenplay. All the while ognizable faces), "Live by Night" is dull as sin. wants to be about everything - capitalism, blues fan. Inspired at a very young age by Chazelle, who has writing credits for "The The story is adapted by Affleck from a racism, the American dream, the hypocrisy of Edward Zwick's epic civil war film "Glory" Last Exorcism Part II," "Grand Piano" (both Dennis Lehane novel of the same name. the good and moral - while also providing (1989), Chazelle had always planned to 2013) and last year's hit sci-fi thriller "10 Lehane is the author of the source material shoot 'em up thrills. It's hard to do that when become a filmmaker but took up jazz Cloverfield Lane," harbored the ambition to for some good to great films like "Mystic you don't even care for or about any of the drumming in high school, becoming make a musical. River," "Shutter Island" and Affleck's first stab characters, though. In fact, there are so many He told AFP in an interview in 2014 of at directing, "Gone Baby Gone." It was a characters and so much story (not to mention his nostalgia for the golden age of cinema decent gamble that "Live by Night" would be at least four false endings) that it wouldn't be and musical comedies, performed by the pretty good, too.
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