Friday 21 Lifestyle Friday, January 5, 2018

Golden Globes: Men in black Turkey fines TV channel over mocked for flimsy #MeToo support girls in shorts in talent show

ormally ahead of the Golden Globes, urkey’s broadcasting watchdog has fined a TV the women of Hollywood would be station nearly one million lira ($266,000) over Nclamoring to find the perfect head- Tfootage of young girls dancing in shorts in a tal- line-grabbing dress for the red carpet. In- ent competition after viewers complained of “child stead, many are planning to sport basic black abuse”, a board member said yesterday. Citing moral to Sunday’s gala-a sartorial protest over sex- dangers for the children, it penalised TV8 channel for ual harassment. Jessica Chastain, Meryl footage in the “Yetenek Sizsiniz” (“You Got Talent”) Streep and Emma Stone are leading the ac- programme which showed a group of girls, aged from tresses taking a stand against the avalanche 7 to 11, who peformed in shorts and tank tops, the board of misconduct allegations that have felled member who did not want to be named told Reuters. Harvey Weinstein and numerous other Tinsel- The move by the Turkish Radio and Television town A-listers. But backing for the campaign Supreme Council (RTUK) is likely to further anger gov- by male stars including Dwayne “The Rock” ernment critics, who accuse President Tayyip Erdogan Johnson-who say they, too, will turn out in and his Islamist-rooted ruling AK Party of trying to roll black in a gesture of solidarity has raised eye- back secularism and civil rights for minorities, gay peo- brows and prompted ridicule. ple and women. Last year, hundreds of Turkish women “Don’t most men who attend the Globes marched in Istanbul to protest against violence and come cloaked in either all-black or mostly threats from men demanding they dress more conserv- black, with a black suit and black shoes and The #MeToo hashtag campaign encourages women to denounce experiences of sexual atively. RTUK ruled that the footage had violated its a black tie, anyway?” asked New York-based abuse. — AFP ethical broadcast regulations and fined the channel 2 millennial-focused news site Mic. “Haven’t percent of its advertising revenues, amounting almost men who have already stood at odds with to 1 million lira. The regulations state that “programs women in Hollywood speaking out, like Matt ulation tuxedos. the men will be standing in solidarity with which contain content that could harm the physical, Damon for instance, shown up to the Globes The stylists who say their male clients will women on this wearing-all-black movement mental and moral development of children and youth in black?” It is true that while outliers like tone it down in support of the so-called to protest against gender inequality at this cannot be broadcast”. RTUK said in a report that it had Johnson himself, Donald Glover and Alan “blacklash” include Ilaria Urbinati, who is year’s Golden Globes,” she posted on Insta- received complaints that the channel had exploited the Cumming are sometimes partial to burgundy dressing Johnson, along with Armie Hammer, gram. “At least all my guys will be. Safe to say children in an “immoral” show. — Reuters velvet, a glittery jacket or even a skin-tone Liev Schreiber, Tom Hiddleston and others. this may not be the right time to choose to be suit, the vast majority of men turn up in reg- “Because everyone keeps asking me... Yes, the odd man out here... just sayin.” — AFP Rick Hall, unlikely producer is engaged of soul sound, dead at 85 aris Hilton has confirmed she is en- gaged to Chris Zylka. The 36-year- Pold heiress “immediately said yes” ick Hall, the white fiddler who became an when her boyfriend popped the question on unlikely force in soul music and made the the ski slopes during their holiday in Aspen, Rsmall town of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, an Colorado, over the weekend, and couldn’t international destination, has died at age 85, his stop shaking when she put the ring on. She family said Wednesday. Hall, who had been suf- told PEOPLE magazine: “I am so excited to fering from cancer, died Tuesday at his home be engaged to the love of my life and my near the legendary Fame Recording Studios he best friend. “I have never felt so happy, safe built in the riverside town of 14,000. and loved. He is perfect for me in every way “We hope the band in Heaven is ready. If not, and showed me that fairytales really do there’s going to be a problem,” his family said in exist. “I was so excited and surprised. I im- a statement. Hall turned his studio in a go-to hub mediately said yes. “The ring was so gor- for soul music, with distinctive horns and a geous and sparkling. I was shaking as I put steady rhythm section complementing the vocal it on. It is the most beautiful ring that I have powers of visiting singers. The studio had its ever seen.” The 32-year-old actor cannot breakthrough when Hall licensed Percy Sledge’s wait to spend the rest of his life with the so- “When a Man Loves a Woman,” recorded cialite, who he described as his “dream girl”. nearby, and labels soon were sending star talent He said: “Paris is the most beautiful and in- to Fame to make their albums. The studio File photo shows Rick Hall, the producer who recorded Etta James, Otis Redding, Little forged the Southern soul style known as the credible woman both inside and out. Richard, Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin, who Muscle Shoals sound. — AFP “I feel like the luckiest man in the world recorded her early hits “I Never Loved a Man to be marrying my dream girl. I can’t wait to (the Way I Love You”) and “Do Right Woman, Wallace had vowed to preserve segregation spend the rest of our lives together.” Paris Do Right Man” at Fame. forever. “I’m one of them. I feel black,” Hall later and ‘The Leftovers’ star first met at an But the sessions with Franklin ended in dis- told television host Larry King. “I can tell you Academy Awards party eight years ago but aster when Hall got into a fistfight with the diva’s that immediately when black people are around were reunited two years ago, and she con- then husband, Ted White, who demanded that me they feel very good about me,” he said. Hall firmed their relationship on her the studio owner fire musicians for allegedly ha- had grown up in grinding poverty, with his fa- page in February 2017. In November, the rassing his wife. Atlantic Records pulled Franklin ther working in a sawmill and his mother leav- businesswoman said Chris was “everything out and she recorded her classic “Respect” in ing to help run a brothel. Hall, after quitting a [she’s] ever wished for” and was glad he New York, although she brought in musicians factory job, became a fiddler and found his pas- saved her from “all these weirdos”. She from Muscle Shoals. Hall often marveled at how sion for country music, gradually earning a liv- said: “We are so perfect together. He’s my Muscle Shoals became internationally known. ing as a songwriter and taking over the local everything. I’m so happy and excited to Musicians under Hall in 1969 founded the sepa- studio. He said that he found a natural connec- have someone who is my best friend, who I rate Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, where The tion between country and soul music, even trust. Everything I’ve ever wished for came Rolling Stones recorded parts of their acclaimed though the genres were dominated by different true. “I always thought I would end up alone “Sticky Fingers” album. races. “Both country and soul songs often dealt just because I never thought I would fall in Hall’s prominence in African American music with growing up dirt poor, trying to make life love and trust somebody. With him, it’s like was unexpected in Alabama, one of the most better, hopeless love,” he told the country mag- God literally made him for me to save me conservative US states whose governor George azine No Depression. —AFP from all these weirdos.”— Bang Showbiz Paris Hilton and Chris Zylka