lifestyle THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2016

Music & Movies ‘Saq Al Bamboo’ and ‘Been Galbin’: Episode 16

By Nawara Fattahova

KUWAIT: The Kuwait Times is publishing daily recaps of two of the Kuwaiti soap operas airing on Al Rai TV and MBC Drama. Here are the recaps of the 16th episode:

‘Saq Al Bamboo’ (Bamboo Stalk) Awatef asks Ghanima to let Khawla marry her son whose name is also Eisa. Noor heard the conversation and tells Khawla and they both are surprised as she was supposed to talk about Nooriya’s son. Ghanima refused saying Khawla is still young. Noor goes to Eisa’s room to talk to him and he tells her sto- ries from the Philippines and his childhood and Luzviminda sees her going out. Awatef told Nooriya that Khawla refused the proposal as she considers her son as her brother. Khawla told Jaber that she got rid of Eisa as Ghanima refused this mar- riage to avoid family problems after she knew that both cousins wants to marry her. Ghanima calls Eisa to come to her room and lets him mas- Been Galbin (Between Two Hearts) she refuses, so he tells her he is getting married with a woman live in her husband’s house. She buys gifts for her husband sage her feet. She tells him that he has the same voice as his Yasmin misses her kids so she goes to visit them but the that he knows from the bank, and that their son Rashid will and kids and waits for them in the house. But Mihsen comes father and the same touch as his mother. Khawla covers her maid tells her that they all are travelling. She went up to her live with him. She starts to regret as she thought he will with his mother, kids, and new wife from their trip. The kids hair quickly when Eisa enters. He asked her why as she is his room and finds women’s clothes in her closet. She asked the always be waiting for her. Dana goes to her doctor for a check- refused to hug her and she leaves the house crying. On her sister. She says she needs time to get used to it. Nooriya came maid about it and by the time Bashar calls her to tell her about up and she tells her that the baby died. way she meets with an car accident. to Ghanima to ask why did she refused her son, and Ghanima Noora, so she leaves. Yasmin goes to Mihsen’s house and the maid said they will says it’s because Khawla is still young, but Nooriya knows that Marzouq asks Aryam to meet him to tell her something return by evening. So she packs her things from her apart- her mother is hiding something. important. He asks her again if she wants to return to him but ment and gives the key to the haris telling him she is going to Police report shows ‘dark side’ of Michael Jackson

newly surfaced police report related to a 2003 raid on Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch shows the late pop Astar’s penchant for pornography and attraction to chil- dren. Jackson was acquitted in 2005 of child molestation fol- lowing a 14-week trial, and the report published on Tuesday by the celebrity and gossip website Radar Online was related to evidence submitted in that case. The report contains details In this file photo taken from video, members of the hip hop group Arrested Development, from left, JJ Boogie, Tasha about various books, magazines and documents seized at LaRae, Za’, background center, Speech, Fareedah and 1 Love perform at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. — AP Jackson’s secluded California home in November 2003. The police report states that though the documents were not considered illegal, “this type of material can be used as part of a ‘grooming’ process by which people (those seeking to molest children) are able to lower the inhibitions of their Rap’s Arrested Development still intended victims and facilitate the molestation of said victims.” The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department said it had not publicly released the documents, which had been submitted making music on their terms to the prosecution and the defense during the 2005 trial. “Some of the documents appear to be copies of reports he hip-hop group Arrested Development is still making we’re hip-hop. It’s just another viewpoint.” Their second album in that were authored by sheriff’s office personnel as well as evi- music on their own terms by releasing two new albums 1994 was not nearly as popular and the band disbanded for sev- dentiary photographs taken by sheriff’s office personnel, inter- Tthis year, one that is a free download and another one for eral years before reuniting in 2000. The two new albums, spersed with content that appears to be obtained off the sale. The group’s 1992 debut, “3 Years, 5 Months, and 2 Days in “Change the Narrative” and “This Was Never Home,” were Internet or through unknown sources,” it said in a statement. the Life of...,” sold over four million albums due to their hit singles released in February. Their single, “I Don’t See You At the Club,” “The sheriff’s office did not release any of the documents “Tennessee,” “Everyday People” and “Mr Wendal,” which stood out references the Black Lives Matter movement and the 50th and/or photographs to the media.” Some of the material seized in the rap genre with their spiritual and socially conscious lyrics anniversary of marches in the South for civil rights, but also mar- during the raid shows pictures of nude young adults, children’s about God, poverty and family. That message hasn’t changed for riage and the lack of commitment in hip-hop music. faces on adult bodies, as well as images of animal and child Speech, the frontman of the six-piece collective, although the “The messages are like, ‘I just want to have sex with you and torture, Radar Online said, citing an investigator in the case. music industry definitely has. leave you,’” said Speech, who lives in Atlanta with his wife and File photo shows musician Prince presets an award on “The music industry has been sick and sales have been dis- children. “I know that’s been the underlying point of rock ‘n’ roll ‘Michael remains innocent’ stage at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles mal for everybody,” said Speech, whose real name is Todd and a lot of different music. But it’s very blatant and very blunt.” “The documents collected by the Santa Barbara County February 8, 2015. — AFP Thomas, during a recent interview in Nashville, Tennessee. Speech, who sits on the board of the International Black Film Sheriff’s Department paint a dark and frightening picture of “Nothing was happening and we were collecting all this music Festival, performed with Arrested Development for dozens of Jackson,” the unidentified investigator is quoted as saying. “The that we felt really passionate about. So we decided to just grade school kids in Nashville as a part of the festival’s communi- documents exposed Jackson as a manipulative, drug-and-sex- release it, just drop it.” ty program “Imagine Me” Children’s Summer Film Series in col- crazed predator who used blood, gore, sexually explicit images Since their debut, Arrested Development has been consid- laboration with Belmont University, Metro Nashville Police of animal sacrifice and perverse adult sex acts to bend children Prince lost ered an outlier in the genre. They were critical favorites for their Department, Metro Nashville Parks and Salama Urban Ministries. to his will.” The King of Pop was acquitted in 2005 following a mix of pop, funk, rap and R&B samples and earned two Grammy The group performed a couple of hits and then encouraged the 14-week child molesting trial during which a jury heard lurid Awards for best rap performance by a duo or group and best kids to rap and dance onstage with them. “I feel like the young testimony about his life and relationships with young boys. new artist - one of the few rap acts to take home the honor. But generation has so much in their hearts and so much in their He was charged after Gavin Arvizo, a 13-year-old boy consciousness Speech said their overtly positive messages didn’t always res- minds that they need to express and need to get it out,” Speech Jackson had befriended, came forward. Jackson’s Estate lashed onate with other rappers or record labels. said. “There’s a future Prince or there’s a future Michael Jackson out at the celebrity website’s article, saying it was clearly timed “A lot of our peers felt like we weren’t really hip-hop and they that we’re all going to be talking about.” — AP to coincide with the upcoming seventh anniversary of his would say that,” Speech said. “So to be called alternative hip-hop death on June 25. “Those who continue to shamelessly exploit on flight days was sort of a slap in the face to me. Because I understand it’s an Michael via sleazy internet ‘click bait’ ignore that he was acquit- alternative in its subject matter from the gangster stuff, but ted by a jury in 2005 on every one of the 14 salacious charges brought against him in a failed witch hunt,” a statement said. “Michael remains just as innocent of these smears in death as before death he was in life, even though he isn’t here to defend himself. Enough is enough.” Jackson’s nephew Taj Jackson also denounced the report. “Not only is there absolutely no truth to rince was having dinner on a flight home from his final this story whatsoever, but I’m truly sick of this crap. #getalife public concert when he suddenly lost consciousness, Led Zeppelin singer recounts and stop living off ours,” he said in a tweet. — AFP Paccording to the first published account Tuesday of the pop icon’s health crisis six days before his death. The April 15 episode prompted an unscheduled landing of his private plane and an emergency room visit, raising a sudden alarm how he composed ‘Stairway’ over the state of Prince’s health. Judith Hill, an artist and pro- tege of Prince who worked closely with him during the past ed Zeppelin singer Robert Plant denied on Tuesday hav- judge that the defense had no more witnesses. Closing argu- two years, said in a New York Times interview that the two ing stolen the opening of the rock group’s iconic song ments were set for Wednesday before the jury of four women were chatting over pasta and vegetables as they flew from L“Stairway to Heaven,” telling a jury he had written the and four men begin deliberations. The five-day trial, which is Atlanta to his home near Minneapolis. anthem decades ago in the English countryside. The 67-year- being watched closely as it could potentially set an impor- Hill, 32, noticed that “his eyes fixed” just before he seemed old musician told a Los Angeles federal court that the song at tant precedent, has included testimony by musicologists to nod off shortly after 1 am (0500 GMT). “Thankfully, I hap- the center of a copyright case was clearly his work as well as who said there were substantial similarities between pened to be looking into his face,” and realized he was uncon- that of Zeppelin guitarist-songwriter Jimmy Page. “Stairway” and “Taurus.” scious and not asleep, Hill was quoted as saying. Hill and the The song was played to jurors as arguments wrapped up Spirit guitarist Randy California, who penned “Taurus,” only other passenger on the jet, Prince’s friend and aide Kirk on Tuesday. Plant testified that he wrote the lyrics more than long maintained he deserved a songwriting credit for Johnson, tried unsuccessfully to wake up the 57-year-old. 45 years ago while sitting by a fire at a recording and rehears- “Stairway” but never took legal action and drowned in They alerted the pilot, who radioed air traffic controllers in al venue in Britain. He said he was inspired to write the lines Hawaii in 1997. A lawsuit filed by his trustee and friend Chicago to report an unresponsive man on board. after he heard Page play the opening notes of what would Michael Skidmore two years ago seeks damages and claims “We knew it was only a matter of time; we had to get him become one of the most famous rock songs of all time. “That California deserves a songwriting credit so that he can “take down,” Hill was quoted as saying. “We didn’t have anything on particular evening, I sat with Jimmy by the fire, and I had this his place as an author of rock’s greatest song.” the plane to help him.” The plane landed in Moline, Illinois, first couplet that fit with what he was playing,” he testified. However, experts who testified on behalf of the defense met by an ambulance on the tarmac. Prince was revived with “I was really trying to bring the remote, pastoral Britain... in the trial said the chord pattern used in the intro to stairway an injection of Narcan, a drug used to treat opioid overdoses, the old, almost unspoken Celtic references into the piece,” he was so “commonplace” that it couldn’t be copyrighted. Page the report said. He was taken to a hospital for several hours added. Asked by his attorney to remember what the couplet testified last week that his chord progression had more in before being released and traveling home. Publicly, Prince was, he sighed before reciting the famous lines. “There’s a common with “Chim Chim Cher-ee”, from the 1964 musical blamed the emergency landing on a bout of flu. Although ini- lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold and she’s buying a “Mary Poppins” than anything else. At stake in the case are tially reluctant to seek help following the scare, Prince under- stairway to heaven,” Plant said. “When she gets there she potentially millions of dollars in royalties collected in the took tests with a local doctor and connected with an addic- knows, if the stores are all closed with a word she can get three years prior to the filing of the suit through this month. tion specialist in California, The New York Times said. what she came for.” The genesis of the song is a key element Zeppelin opened for Spirit when the hard rockers-Plant, “He did it because he was concerned, and he wanted to do in the case as Page and Plant fight off accusations they stole Page, John Paul Jones and the late John Bonham-made the right thing for his own body,” Hill said. “And that’s the part the anthem’s melancholy opening guitar arpeggio from their US debut on December 26, 1968 in Denver. But the that breaks my heart, because he was trying. He was trying.” “Taurus,” the first album of long-defunct LA psychedelic rock surviving members have submitted testimony that they Prince was found dead at his Paisley Park estate on April 21. band Spirit. Page, 72, who testified when the trial opened last never had substantive interaction with Spirit or listened to His death was ruled an accident caused by an overdose of fen- week, took the stand again on Tuesday, listening to 46-year- 1967’s “Taurus” before recording “Stairway” in December tanyl, a powerful opioid used to treat severe pain. He had old recordings made at Headley Grange, the retreat used by 1970 and January 1971. The lawsuit lists disputes over 16 appeared healthy and was legendary for his marathon per- the band in Britain, and explaining in detail to the jury the other Led Zeppelin songs, many of which were settled by formances. But the artist underwent hip surgery in 2010. Hill song’s creation. giving the complainant a songwriting credit and royalties, said that despite her close relationship with Prince, she had no including classics “Whole Lotta Love” and “Babe I’m Gonna idea he was in pain, calling the circumstances of his death Substantial similarities Leave You.” — AFP “very shocking.”— AFP His attorney then played the entire near eight-minute fin- ished version of the song to the jury before advising the