Shuffle Along’ Sumed with Art and Fashion Boasts a Cast Including Matt Worked Together

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Lady Gaga’s ‘American Horror Story’ role teased ady Gaga is going from that plays out of the course Viewers will also see some pop star to the hospi- of the season,” he said. Gaga big former “American Horror Ltality industry - she’ll be starts shooting today. Story” actors make appear- playing a hotel owner in They’ve built the set “from ances. “You will see people “American Horror Story: the ground up” on the Fox from various seasons check Hotel.” Ryan Murphy, the lot with a working elevator into the hotel,” Murphy said. show’s co-creator, showrun- and cast member Kathy He also teased that “AHS: ner and director, told jour- Bates calls the creation “jaw- Hotel” will be a lot like nalists Friday that her char- dropping.” Season One in tone with psy- acter’s name is Elizabeth and “Not just the hotel itself chological, primal fear being at the forefront. For Murphy, Bollywood actors who has two other shows in Akshay Kumar production (“American Crime (left) and Sidharth Story” for FX and “Scream Malhotra attend a Queens” on Fox) said making press conference “American Horror Story” is of their upcoming “one of the great joys of my movie “Brothers” life.” “It’s exhausting at the in Ahmadabad, end of a season but I’m so India, Saturday, energized by it every year Aug. 8, 2015. The because it does reboot and film is scheduled the actors and the stars are to release on so cool and I have a real pas- Aug 14. — AP sion for that,” he said. He also stays passionate by casting a troupe of actors like Bomer and Paulson, who he Matt Bomer and Chloe Sevigny participate in the regards as friends. “I’ve direct- “American Horror Story: Hotel” panel at the FX Summer ed all of these actors in differ- Big names join Broadway revival TCA Tour. — AP ent incarnations and from it “she owns the hotel and she but the rooms...how they’re comes this great shorthand is sort of a very wealthy decorated. You won’t believe and I think they know that social doyenne who is con- it,” she said. The season they are safe because we’ve of musical ‘Shuffle Along’ sumed with art and fashion boasts a cast including Matt worked together. They’ve and people.” “She has a Bomer, Chloe Sevigny, seen other things that we’ve ome of Broadway’s best will join Audra Broadway musicals to be written and directed nefarious plan that is Cheyenne Jackson, Wes done, they feel protected,” he McDonald in a revival of the 1920s musi- by African Americans. With music and lyrics by revealed in the first episode Bentley and Sarah Paulson. said. — AP Scal “Shuffle Along,” including Brian noted composers Eubie Blake and Noble Stokes Mitchell, Billy Porter, Brandon Victor Sissle, it had Broadway’s first jazz score that Dixon and Joshua Henry. Two have Tonys, the included the songs “(I’m Just) Wild About others are Tony nominated. Harry,” “Love Will Find a Way,” “Bandana Days” Dixon played Harpo in “The Color Purple” and “Shuffle Along.” The dance-heavy show Sandra Lee still and Berry Gordy in “Motown.” Porter won a centers on a three-way mayoralty race in a Tony for his performance as Lola in “Kinky small Southern town called Jimtown. Director Boots.” Mitchell won a Tony for “Kiss Me Kate” and writer George C Wolfe decided to create a fighting infection and got nods for “Man of La Mancha,” show about the show and has ended up with “Ragtime” and “King Hedley II.” Henry has “Shuffle Along, Or, The Making of the Musical ood Network star Sandra Lee plans to In this June 9, 2013 file photo, Billy Porter nominations for “The Scottsboro Boys” and Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed,” a head home this weekend following a accepts his award for best leading actor in “Violet.” The casting was announced Sunday. celebration of the era, creativity, audacity and hospitalization for complications from a musical for “Kinky Boots” at the 67th F “Shuffle Along” was one of the first Annual Tony Awards in New York. —AP the city. — AP a recent surgery for breast cancer. New York Gov Andrew Cuomo, Lee’s longtime boyfriend, said Friday that Lee would be leaving the hospital over the weekend. In a posting on her Facebook page, a representative for Lee said the “Semi-Homemade Cooking” star will remain on “heavy antibi- otics” as she continues to fight an infection. “She will be fine,” Cuomo said on NY1. “Her spirits are good. She’s a very ‘up’ personality. She’s tough and she’s a fighter.” According to the Facebook posting, Lee, 49, may face addi- tional surgery next week after doctors review her progress. Lee was rushed to the hospital Tuesday in the latest complication since she had a double mastectomy in May after receiving a breast cancer diagnosis. In this Feb 11, 2015 file photo, Food “Sandra was hoping to avoid any further Network personality Sandra Lee attends operations until her final reconstruction,” the amfAR’s Annual New York Honors Gala in representative posted. “She has had an New York. — AP incredibly difficult road of it... the first course A man bends of action is to get the infection identified and he said had sent messages of support. down to take a under control.” “This is a long road,” Cuomo said, noting picture of a giant, Cuomo was attending a Billy Joel concert that besides the cancer and recovery there’s symbolic Tuesday at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island the emotional impact of surgery and surgical sacrificial knife, and had taken the stage to introduce Joel, a reconstruction. “It’s a terrible disease. ... I part of a display of friend, shortly before he learned of Lee’s hos- have tremendous respect for the women items offered to pitalization. He left the concert early and has who have dealt with this.” Lee is a cookbook the Aztec god since stayed close to Lee and held few public author, magazine publisher and television Xochipilli, at the events. The Democratic governor thanked chef. Lee and Cuomo share a home in Templo Mayor Lee’s fans and the everyday New Yorkers who Westchester County. — AP museum in Mexico City. — AP photos Mexican museum puts on exhibit for ‘artistic’ Aztec god

n the pantheon of Mexico’s pre-Hispanic gods, most Aztec Ideities are depicted as brutal, blood-thirsty beings only appeased by human sacrifices. But Mexico’s Templo Mayor museum on Friday put on display for the first time an exhibition dedi- cated to Xochipilli, the Aztec god of singing, dancing and the morning sun. The Aztecs usually sacrificed quails to Xochipilli, rather than still-beating human hearts. And he was worshipped at vast poetry and music festivals rather than martial displays. Museum director Patricia Ledesma said the display is meant to show another side of This photo provided by Twentieth Century Fox shows, Kate Mara, left, as Sue Storm, and deities worshipped by the Mexica Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm, in a scene from the film, “Fantastic Four.” — AP people who inhabited the Aztec empire. “This is part of what we wanted to show, that the Mexicas ‘Fantastic Four’ didn’t just do warlike or bloody A man pushes a woman in a wheelchair past a wall of ancient stone skulls, excavated at Templo things, but also artistic things,” Mayor, that represent sacrificial victims. Ledesma said at the opening of bombing at Box Office the exhibit of pieces unearthed in 1978 at a small shrine on one side antastic Four’ is struggling to find its Miles Teller star in the reboot. of the sprawling Templo Mayor footing at the box office this weekend, Last weekend’s champ, “Mission: complex in Mexico City. The ‘Fsuggesting that not even superheroes Impossible-Rogue Nation,” is tracking close exhibit is unusual in that it con- are immune to poor reviews. Early estimates behind “Fantastic Four” with an estimated $27 sists of miniature stone carvings show the 20th Century Fox release struggling million weekend. The fifth installment in of musical instruments - rattles, to hit $30 million for the weekend, which is Paramount’s Tom Cruise franchise should reach drums, whistles and flutes - and well below the anticipated mid-$40 million $100 million domestically by Monday. for the red coloring doused over mark. Should the estimates keep plummeting, This weekend’s other domestic releases many of the objects. the opening could prove disastrous for the stu- include thriller, “The Gift,” which is on track for Red was a color associated dio, which spent $120 million on the movie. $8.5 million for the weekend. Joel Edgerton, with the first rays of morning sun- Thursday night previews for “Fantastic Four” Rebecca Hall and Jason Bateman star in the light. The poetry of songs praising pulled in a lukewarm $2.7 million at 2,900 loca- STX Entertainment release. Meryl Streep starrer Xochipilli, which were written tions. The last major superhero release to pre- “Ricki and the Flash” is performing similarly to down by chroniclers after the An image of miere under $35 million was Sony’s “The Green “The Gift.” The TriStar release, about an aging 1521 Spanish conquest, also the Aztec god Hornet” in 2011 ($33.5 million). In addition to rocker reconnecting with her family, looks forms part of the exhibition. “We Xochipilli, “Fantastic Four’s” not-so-fantastic 9% rating on poised for a debut between $6 million and $7 wanted to show a lesser-known center, is part Rotten Tomatoes, a damning tweet from the million. The animated “Shaun the Sheep” facet of a people categorized as of a display of film’s own director, Josh Trank, suggested that bowed Wednesday to a disappointing warriors, that they could express items used as even he was disappointed with the final cut. $852,000, suggesting a weekend total around themselves with exquisite artistic offerings Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Bell and $6 million. — Reuters style,” Ledesma said. — AP to the god.