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P38-39 Layout 1 Lenin lifestyle WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2014 MUSIC & MOVIES Elevator melee between Jay-Z, Solange Knowles goes viral hip New York hotel said Monday kicking and hitting Jay-Z at the Standard it’s investigating how surveillance hotel, site of an after-party following the Avideo of Beyonce’s sister Solange glamorous Met Gala in New York on May Knowles attacking brother-in-law Jay-Z in 5. A bodyguard is seen trying to restrain Blake Shelton an elevator wound up on an Internet gos- the clearly agitated 27-year-old singer, and Carrie sip site. The fuzzy, silent black-and-white whose 32-year-old megastar sister stood Underwood video posted on TMZ.com shows Solange largely in the corner alongside her 44- year-old husband of six years. The trio can be recognized by the outfits they wore earlier that night at the Shelton, Underwood among Metropolitan Museum fashion gala- Solange in a pink Phillip Lim dress, Beyonce in a sheer black Givenchy Haute Couture CMT Music Awards performers gown and Jay-Z in a white tuxedo jacket. In an email to AFP, the Standard hotel in lower he Voice’ coach Blake Shelton and This year’s ceremony, which CMT said Manhattan expressed outrage that the “American Idol” alum Carrie will feature a record number of performers, three and half minute video had gone viral, ‘TUnderwood will be among the will broadcast from the Bridgestone Arena and it threatened disciplinary and legal performers at this year’s CMT Music in Nashville on June 4 at 8 pm ET. action once it finds who made it public.”We Awards, CMT said Monday. Shelton and Additional performers, as well as the host are shocked and disappointed that there Underwood will be joined on the perform- of this year’s ceremony, will be announced was a clear breach of our security system ers’ roster by Eric Church, awards-show in the future. Fans have until June 1 to vote and the confidentiality that we count on mainstays Florida Georgia Line, Luke Bryan for the winners at CMT.com and CMT providing our guests,” it said. and Miranda Lambert. Mobile. Yee-haw. — Reuters “We are investigating with the utmost urgency the circumstances surrounding the situation and, as is our customary Thriller from beyond grave: practice, will discipline and prosecute the individuals involved to our fullest capaci- ty.” Neither Solange, Beyonce or Jay-Z mentioned the incident on their respec- New Jackson tive Twitter feeds Monday, and represen- tatives did not immediately return calls asking for comment. Solange, whose new songs wow critics album is due out later this year, per- formed at the Coachella music festival in elf-styled King of Pop Michael which helped bring down the self-styled California last month, where Beyonce Jackson returns from the grave King of Pop, despite being acquitted of joined her on stage, delighting fans. The Sagain this week with a second sexual molestation charges in 2005. The Met Gala after-party took place at the posthumous album of songs recorded singer’s executors have worked hard to Solange attends the ‘Charles James: Standard’s exclusive rooftop Top of the before his death in 2009. “Xscape” goes pay off the enormous debts left by the Standard lounge-better known among Jay-Z and Beyonce attend the ‘Charles James: Beyond on sale in the United States Tuesday, after fallen star, with key projects including Beyond Fashion’ Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on New York night owls as “the Boom Boom Fashion’ Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan being released in various European coun- the “This is It” film of rehearsals for the Room.” — AFP Museum of Art in New York City. — AFP photos tries at the weekend and on Monday. doomed world tour he was planning May 5, 2014 in New York City. Critics have already hailed “Xscape” a before he died in 2009. clear improvement on 2010’s “Michael,” “Michael” has sold a relatively modest the first album released after Jackson 540,000 copies, according to Billboard magazine, which noted that Jackson’s overall record sales were less than both Chilling ‘Godzilla’ reboot upholds legacy Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash last year. “Xscape” comprises eight songs chosen from the vast catalogue which Jackson This film image worked on over four decades but which released by Warner did not make it into any of his iconic Bros Pictures albums like 1982’s “Thriller” or 1987’s shows a scene from “Bad.” The songs are based on original ‘Godzilla.’ — AP vocals by Jackson, who often made mul- tiple recordings of tunes he was working on, but with music “contemporized” by producers for a modern audience. Child sex abuse song While fans will have to wait until next week to hear all the songs, the titles have been released. They include “Xscape,” first produced 15 years ago, and “Do You Know Where Your Children Are.” The song This CD cover image released by Epic is about “kids being raised in a broken shows ‘Xscape,’ a release by Michael family where the father comes home Jackson. — AP drunk and the mother is out prostituting and the kids run away from home and died of a drug overdose at age 50, as part they become the victims,” according to of a multi-record deal with label giant the liner notes. Sony. “From the first, there was the voice US rapper Timbaland, the executive .....Nearly five years after his death, that producer on “Xscape,” said they were voice remains, and is at its most powerful keenly aware of the need for the new o one can blame Gareth Edwards for wife (Elizabeth Olsen) and their son. Serving in tography, an actor stomped around a miniature on the new album,” wrote the LA Times’ Jackson record to stand up against the admittedly feeling nervous when asked to the US Navy, Ford disarms bombs, a skill that later Tokyo in a latex suit. But in the hands of visual reviewer. best that current pop music has to offer. helm a remake of the biggest monster helps him save the planet from MUTOs - “Massive effects guru Jim Rygiel (“The Lord of the Rings” “How would I hear this on the radio N movie of all time. Sure, the only other film he had Unidentified Terrestrial Organism” - that emerge franchise), the contemporary take looks incredi- ‘Dance floor defibrillators’ against Katy Perry? Would it sound old, directed happened to be 2010’s “Monsters.” But from a long dormancy and begin traveling the bly fluid and Godzilla’s movements appear far The new album “feels shockingly vital, would it sound new?” asked the producer, this time, it was Godzilla. Well, the latest iteration globe, feeding on radiation. more natural. as though the producers charged with who works closely with Justin Timberlake of the 60-year-old franchise is in capable hands. Screenwriter Max Borenstein, working from a But we’re not bombarded with excessive CGI re-imagining this work had harnessed and Beyonce. He “had to make sure that Edwards’ “Godzilla” is a pleasingly paced 3-D story by Dave Callaham, doesn’t bombard us with here. Godzilla isn’t oversold, although for some, dance floor defibrillators,” he wrote. it can compete with everything that is spectacle that pays chilling homage to the artful multiple narratives or a multitude of characters his lack of screentime won’t be satisfying enough. Ironically, the new album’s songs include going on today in the pop world,” legacy of the original 1954 film - Ishiro Honda’s (Ken Watanabe and Sally Hawkins play scientists, However, the balance between the family- one about child sex abuse, the issue Timbaland told Billboard. — AFP “Gojira” - while emerging as its own prodigious and David Strathairn plays an admiral). Instead, focused story line and intense action sequences Review monster movie. the film focuses on Ford’s family story, which is bound to please others. Created as a symbol of the nuclear threat fol- Borenstein takes his time developing. When we A threat to the planet in the ‘50s version, ‘Jurassic World’ scores lowing America’s atomic attacks on Japan in finally see Godzilla - just shy of an hour into the Godzilla isn’t out to take the world down this World War II, Godzilla’s reappearance suggests film - the anticipation has built to such a degree time. He’s here to be its hero and his massive the nuclear tests conducted by the US in the that we expect to be awe-struck. And we are. showdown - fiery radioactive breath and all - ‘The Incredibles’ composer Pacific after the war were really meant to hold the against the MUTOs is the highlight. He’s more radioactive dinosaur back. This story begins in Giant creatures than a catastrophic beast and we’re on his side Japan in 1999 as nuclear physicist Joe Brody The tallest of any Godzillas before him, this when he swims off into the sunset. While the pre- Michael Giacchino (Bryan Cranston, edgy in an unbearable wig) one stands 355 feet high - about 30 stories - with dictable sequel has not yet been confirmed, one investigates questionable seismic activity at a glistening, scaly skin and dorsal fin spikes down thing is clear: Edwards’ version of “Godzilla” scar-winning composer Michael Hollywood. He scored both “Star Trek” movies, nuclear power plant on the coast of India. When a his back. His terrifying yet textured roar shakes remains the ultimate monster movie. The legacy Giacchino has closed a deal to score the last two “Mission: Impossible” movies and team at the plant, including his scientist wife, the theater.
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