SATURDAY, MAY 7, 2016

Hollywood cashes in on golden age cinema revival inema from Hollywood’s golden age is enjoying a revival with the emergence of retro video streaming Cand a burgeoning festival scene belying the old joke that nostalgia ain’t what it used to be. More than 25,000 fans from as far afield as Australia and Japan hit Hollywood over the weekend for the TCM Classic Film Festival, run by cable network Turner Classic Movies for a seventh year. The smaller but more established Cinecon, which has drawn afi- cionados to Tinseltown for more than 1,500 screenings over half a century, returns in September with a schedule of “rare, unusual and unjustly forgotten movies.” Meanwhile LA-based American Cinematheque hosts a three-day festival over the weekend of Laurel and Hardy’s work, photochemically and digitally restored from the orig- inal 35mm film. The opening night program includes a screening of Kate Beckinsale, center, a cast member in “Love & Friendship,” is escorted inside after signing autographs outside “The Battle of The Century” (1927), the premiere of the film at the Directors Guild of America on Tuesday. — AP featuring the largest pie fight ever filmed, footage of which went miss- This file photo ing for 60 years. Further afield, shows Gina showcases like the Denver Silent Lollobrigida attend- Beckinsale dishes on ing the Opening Film Festival and the Plaza Classic Film Festival in El Paso, Texas, have Night Gala of the been popping up all over the 2016 TCM Classic her Silverman girl crush United States in the last decade. Film Festival cele- “In our current political land- brating The 40th riendly exes are nothing new among period comedy, “Love & Friendship.” The shot in Ireland and is set in the 18th centu- scape of uncertainty, older films Anniversary Hollywood’s consciously uncoupled, celebrity trio was all hugs and smiles as ry. Beckinsale’s favorite part was the local provide a safe refuge, where prob- Screening of “All Fbut Kate Beckinsale says her feelings they greeted each other and posed for lore surrounding U2’s Bono. “We shot in lems could be solved in 90 minutes the President’s run deep for ex-boyfriend, Michael Sheen, photos on the red carpet. Beckinsale Dublin, which is a gorgeous and beautiful with a glamorous wardrobe to Men” in Hollywood, and his girlfriend, Sarah Silverman. “Michael wiped tears from Silverman’s beaming city and full of the most incredible people. boot,” classic film analyst Kristen California. — AFP and I have obviously not been together for face before the group headed into the And everybody’s got a story about Bono, Lopez says. The TCM event draws a very long time, what 16 years or 15 years, screening. “We just like each other. I which I found fascinating. So you’re going 80 percent of its audience from outside California, with the something like that? And we’ve always got always get really excited when I see Sarah. to a pub and someone will say ‘let me tell top $1,649 all-access four-day passes selling out this year on really well. So I’m always surprised when I forgot there was that many cameras you my story about’ and then the driver within 14 minutes of going online, organizers said. The festi- people find that surprising because it’s there. But yeah, we had just been to see would tell it and the man who cleaned out val featured more than 80 screenings, with highlights includ- quite well-established. It’s just that I’m my daughter’s school play about three the trailers had a Bono story. Bono gets ing “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” “All The President’s quite deeply in love with his girlfriend. So days before so there’s really no excuse for around apparently in Dublin! And every- Men” and “It’s a Wonderful Life.” — AFP that’s new,” she joked in an interview everyone getting over-excited like that,” one’s got one, which I loved,” she said. Thursday in Los Angeles. Beckinsale explained. Beckinsale stars as a recently widowed Beckinsale, Sheen and Silverman Beckinsale and Sheen have a 17-year- social climber with a delightfully devious shared an emotional reunion at Tuesday’s old daughter, Lily. “Love & Friendship,” partner in crime, played by ChloÎ Sevigny. JWoww of ‘Jersey Shore’ announces Los Angeles premiere of Beckinsale’s new from writer-director Whit Stillman, was It opens May 13. — AP birth of 2nd child, a boy

Timberlake released a video for “Can’t Stop the Feeling” ormer “Jersey Shore” star Jenni “JWoww” Farley has wel- Justin Timberlake in which the singer dances across his studio with appear- comed her second child, a boy. In an Instagram post, ances by other voice actors from the movie including FJWoww says Greyson Valor Mathews was born Thursday returns with cheery pop actress Anna Kendrick and fellow pop star Gwen Stefani. night, weighing in at just over 7 pounds. She says the “most “Trolls,” a three-dimensional animation to be released by beautiful part” was that husband Roger Mathews was able to op superstar Justin Timberlake returned yesterday with studio DreamWorks on November 4, is based on troll help with the delivery. his first new song in three years, a cheery pop number dolls, the frazzled-hair toys that have enjoyed periodic JWoww’s publicist confirmed the announcement. This is the Pthat will appear on his upcoming movie “Trolls.” popularity in the West since the 1950s and are based on second child for JWoww and Mathews, who was a regular on the mischievous small hermits of Norse mythology. “Jersey Shore” and its spinoff “Snooki & JWoww.” The couple also But “Can’t Stop the Feeling” has little obvious connec- has a daughter named Meilani, who was born in July 2014. — AP tion to trolls and instead takes on a summery party vibe, with an electronic backdrop to the chorus in which Timberlake sings, “Nothing I can see but you when you dance, dance, dance.” The sound is stylistically consistent for Timberlake, who has recently appeared with country stars Little Big Town and Chris Stapleton, raising speculation he would make a musical turn back to the genre rooted in his native state of Tennessee. Timberlake became a superstar in the late 1990s as a member of NSYNC, one of the most successful boy bands. He managed not only to stay successful but to win critical respect as a solo artist, often adopting an R&B sound. The song is his first release since his double-album “The 20/20 Experience” in 2013 and since he and his wife, actress Jessica Biel, had a child a year ago. Timberlake, 35, has also been an active actor, playing roles in films such as This file photo shows US singer and actor Justin the Facebook drama “The Social Network” and “Inside File photo shows Jenni “JWoww” Farley and Roger Timberlake arrives to the 2016 Vanity Fair Oscar Llewyn Davis,” the Coen Brothers’ dark take on a strug- Party in Beverly Hills, California. — AFP gling folk singer. — AFP Mathews attend WE tv’s “Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars” party in New York. — AP