lifestyle WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 2014 Music & Movies ‘12 Years a Slave’ spat: Ridley regrets not thanking McQueen ess than a week ago, TheWrap first reported again this person people think I have beef with, for the perceived slight to McQueen blowing up to the details behind the rift between “12 Years a was the first guy to hug me, I know Meryl Streep the extent it did, and said that “12 Years” had been LSlave” screenwriter John Ridley and the direc- reached out and touched my arm.” Ridley didn’t drawing extra scrutiny from the time it became the tor of the Best Picture Oscar winner Steve mention it in this interview, but he and McQueen Best Picture front-runner until it finally won the McQueen. Now, in a new interview, Ridley sought had been at odds during the development of the Oscar. “From the jump, man, from the moment to clarify the situation. He said that he regrets not slavery saga. somebody said ‘Stop the year, this is the Best thanking McQueen when accepting the Academy The director had tapped Ridley to work on a Picture’ the story became ‘It’s torture porn. Why are Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Oscars, separate slavery-themed project that eventually Brits doing this? This movie is only geared at liberal but that it was an omission rather than a diss. led to “12 Years a Slave” after McQueen’s wife dis- whites.’ “In the end, I said to somebody else ‘At the “I do regret it,” Ridley told Entertainment covered the book, which Ridley subsequently very least, we weren’t ‘Zero Dark Thirty.’ Nobody set Weekly. “But just 24 hours earlier at the Spirit agreed to adapt on spec. McQueen had a hand in up a congressional investigation. This year it’s who Awards I sincerely went on and on about Steve and shaping the script that Ridley turned in, but when hugged and kissed who and who didn’t.”— Reuters my work with him. You know, the guy changed my he asked the writer for shared credit, Ridley politely life. At the Oscars you have 30 seconds to talk and declined. The disagreement forced distributor Fox it’s like the oxygen drops out of the room.” Ridley Searchlight and Brad Pitt, who had small role in the was in Austin, Texas, for the premiere of the Jimi film and produced, to mediate. The team behind Hendrix biopic “All is By My Side,” which he wrote the film kept the dispute from going public so as and directed. He said the Oscar moment was very not to hurt the film’s awards chance, but the rela- (From right) ”12Years a much a blur to him. tionship between Ridley and McQueen was Slave” screenwriter “I know when I heard my name called, I hugged strained throughout the awards season. John Ridley and direc- my wife twice,” he said. “I know David O Russell, Ridley blamed the media’s penchant for conflict tor Steve McQueen. ‘True Detective’: What we know about season 2 he next season of “True Detective” will be about “hard women, bad men and the secret occult history of the TUnited States transportation system,” says series cre- ator Nic Pizzolatto. That intriguing preview came in an interview with HitFix’s Alan Sepinwall, one of the very few Pizzolatto has done around the Season 1 finale of the HBO series. What else do we know about the show? Not much. It hasn’t officially been renewed, no actors have been cast, and Pizzolatto hasn’t even presented his idea to HBO. Why wouldn’t Season 2 be a mystery? We didn’t even find out until Sunday’s finale exactly what kind of show we were watching. A twist on the buddy-cop genre? A philo- sophical discourse on the meaning (or meaninglessness) of File photo made available by the Miami Beach Police Dept, shows Justin Bieber at the life? A serial killer yarn? It turned out to be a twisting, gar- police station in Miami Beach, Fla. — AP ish combination of the three, completely different from anything else. That said, here’s what we know so far. Or think we know. Matthew McConaughey won’t be back. The show was always intended as an anthology with a Norwegian jailed in new story each season. The surprise survival of both Rust Cohle and Marty Hart at the end of Season 1 suggested at Bieber least one could return, someday. But McConaughey has US over scam said he never planned to stay beyond one season. “It was a Season 2, as he did in Season 1. 450-page film, is what it was,” McConaughey said of the “We don’t have any plans to work with one director again,” Pizzolatto told Buzzfeed. “It would be impossible to Norwegian man who admitted trick- million to secure concert venues for the show’s first season during a January Television Critics ing an investor out of $1 million in a Justin Bieber Tour, using fake documents Association panel. “It was also finite. It didn’t mean we had do this yearly as we need to be able to do post while we’re Afake deal to promote Justin Bieber in and websites he had bought with domain to come back this year, next year if we were under con- still filming, like any other show. There’s some great guys Scandinavia was sentenced to 11 years in names suggesting they were part of the tract. It was finite. So in that way it was exactly a 450-page I’ve consulted, and we’re all confident we can achieve the jail, US prosecutors said Monday. Wahleed scheme. film script.” It could take place in Southern California. same consistency.” The format of the show is wide open. “I Ahmed was also ordered to repay the $1 He was charged with conspiracy to com- Pizzolatto said in an interview with BuzzFeed’s Kate tried to make the format as broad for my tastes as possible million, said the US Attorney’s office in Los mit wire fraud and pleaded guilty in March Authur that he’s “been reading about the last 40 years of in the sense that, yes, this is almost the ‘True Detective’ ver- Angeles and the FBI. 2013, admitting he had “taken the victim Southern California government.” He also signaled that the sion of a buddy cop movie hunting for a serial killer,” Ahmed presented himself as a success- investor’s money knowing that there was show is leaving his home state of Louisiana: He said he Pizzolatto said at TCA. “And in that way, it even touches on ful entrepreneur from Norway who had no contract for Justin Bieber tours and that hopes the new season “presents new characters in a new a lot of those tropes while, I hope, subverting and making invented solar-powered phone covers, and the victim would lose his money.” As well as place with authenticity and resonance and an authorial them entirely new through the character work. And, you he promised the victim would make $9 mil- serving 132 months in jail, he was ordered voice consistent with this season. Dominant colors will know, there could be a season that’s much more of a wide- lion in profit in three months. The 22-year- to make an immediate restitution payment change. South Louisiana was green and burnished gold.” spread conspiracy thriller, a season that’s a small town old used photos of famous dignitaries of $1,001,505.50. Judge Philip S Gutierrez Wherever the show goes, it will be places you don’t usu- murder mystery, a season where nobody is murdered and including the Crown Prince of Norway, ordered the prison term to be followed by ally see on TV: “We’re generally concerned with the places it’s a master criminal versus a rogue detective or some- Queen Rania of Jordan and others, and three years of supervised release. — AFP thing. —Reuters claimed to have multimillion dollar con- that don’t get much press and where you wouldn’t normal- tracts with large telecoms firms, to lend ly set a television show,” Pizzolatto said at TCA. There will credibility to his scheme. In August 2012, be more than one director this time. Season 1 owes much Ahmed convinced the victim to invest $1 of its gorgeous, moody aesthetics to Cary Fukunaga, but logistics will prevent him from shooting every episode in Dench and Law among Olivier Award nominees Lindsay Lohan is a ‘Prisoner’ on udi Dench and Jude Law are among the 2014 Olivier Award nomi- OWN series: ‘It’s my last shot’ nees. The British stars have earned Best Actress and Best Actor nomi- Best New Comedy Jnations, respectively, at the annual awards ceremony which recog- ‘The Duck House’ at the Vaudeville Theatre he much-anticipated OWN series star- press will really only want to ask her about nizes outstanding theatre productions and performances, ranging from ‘The Full Monty’ at the NoÎl Coward Theatre ring Lindsay Lohan, titled simply her recent stint in rehab. plays, musicals and dance. Judi - who was recently nominated for an ‘Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense’ at the Duke of York’s Theatre “Lindsay,” already sets the season’s sto- In turn, director Paul Schrader told Oscar for ‘Philomena’ - leads the Best Actress race for ‘Peter and Alice’, com- ‘The Same Deep Water As Me’ at the Donmar Warehouse T peting against Hayley Atwell (‘The Pride’), Anna Chancellor (‘Private Lives’) ryline on Sunday’s premiere episode: Who’s reporters that he felt like he “was held and Lesley Manville (‘Ghost’).