14 Thursday, August 6, 2015

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what’s really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit -Jennifer Lopez

Los Angeles ollywood actress Meryl Streep Sydney says she got tips on how to play op star Taylor Swift has leapt theH guitar from Canadian singer- to the aid of a Sydney theatre songwriter and musician Neil Young. Pcompany suffering an “artistic Revealing how the pair met after being emergency” by giving the cast introduced by the director of her latest movie of 70-somethings permission “Ricki And The Flash”, in which she plays a to dance to her chart-topper musician, the “The Iron Lady” star revealed “Shake it Off”. that she learnt to play the instrument from Sydney’s Belvoir Theatre Young in a 45-minute private lesson. took to Twitter with the hashtag Talking about her meeting with the “Heart “greygrey4taytay” to appeal to the of gold” star, she said: “He gave me some American singer for permission to advice. He said crank it up to 11. You’ve got use the song in a play due to open to turn it up, turn it up loud. Wednesday night. “I didn’t know how to play guitar, I have “I’m facing an artistic emergency been singing for a long time, but not really I hope you can help with,” theatre rock ‘n’ roll, nobody asked me to. I had my director Anne-Louise Sarks first guitar lesson when I said I would do the tweeted to the singer on Tuesday movie. morning. She was referring to “So Jonathan (Demme), the director says, the play “Seventeen” about ‘Come by, Neil would love to meet you and 17-year-olds on their last maybe I’ll get him to give you a guitar lesson.’ night of high school but So my first lesson was 45 minutes with Neil. played by actors in their He is amazing, it’s cool.” 70s.

Los Angeles n ankle injury has led to an extension of the timeframe Afor singer Justin Bieber to complete the five-day She was nominated community service and other tasks he was sentenced to in for an Academy a vandalism case. Award for her role The 21-year-old singer was sentenced to the community in Up in the Air and service as well as a hefty fine and an anger management later starred in the session in July in a vandalism case after he threw eggs action film Source at a neighbour’s property. Due to an ankle injury, he Code. Her other has got more time to complete the tasks. notable films include The “Boyfriend” hitmaker, who was not The Departed and 15 present for a court hearing here on Monday, Minutes. She has also was reportedly limited by the injury, so he earned praise for her had not yet finished his five days of roadside portrayal of Norma cleanup, graffiti removal or other manual Bates in the A&E labour although a prosecutor said he is series Bates Motel. “close”. The incident, which took place in January 2014, led to a police officer August 6, 1973 revealing that the eggs hurled by Bieber had caused “extensive damage” to the Vera Farmiga victim’s home.