Artist Plants Fake Bieber Cds in LA Stores

LIFESTYLE37 THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2014 MUSIC & MOVIES ‘How I Met Your Mother’ finale: Artist plants fake Bieber CDs in LA stores

Oh my god, that n artist is making it difficult to believe tained a copy of Paz’s album, not Bieber’s. Best Buy manager who requested not to be Buy, Wal-Mart and Target representatives, as there’s actually a copy of Justin Bieber’s identified for this story said he wasn’t aware of well as Bieber’s spokeswoman, weren’t imme- Alatest album for sale in Los Angeles ‘Droplifting’ the swap-out and would pursue the matter diately returned Tuesday night. Why replace totally happened! stores. Paz, a 25-year-old electronic musician When confronted with the faux Bieber, a with his supervisors. Messages left for Best Bieber? “The world won’t really miss a Justin and artist, says he planted 5,000 copies of an Bieber record,” said Paz. Paz, whose full name Ted Meets the Mother: As it turns out, she’s the bass album that appears to be Bieber’s “Believe” but is Paz Dylan, said he wanted to use so-called player in the band playing at Barnie and Robin’s wed- actually contains a copy of his own CD at retail- “big-box retailers” as his artistic canvas by ding. A girl bass player? Such a ‘90s cliche. And truth be ers such as Best Buy, Wal-Mart and Target on “droplifting” his music into the hands of con- told, it threw the whole timeline off. Unless Ted and Tuesday, April Fool’s Day. “We were meticulous,” sumers. “The general idea is that retail stores the mother actually met in the ‘90s and then - Oh, my said Paz, who fancies the stunt as more of a make it almost impossible for independent god, we’re though the performance art piece than an April Fool’s gag. musicians to get their music in there,” said Paz. looking glass here, peo- “We paid a lot of attention to detail because we “I’ve always believed that retail stores can be ple ... Barney and Robin wanted these to stay up on shelves as long as the best outlets and ambassadors for inde- Get Divorced: Yeah, that possible.” pendent music. They just choose not to be happened. But, as From the outside, the wrapped CDs resem- and sell the same recycled (expletive). We Barney puts it, “This isn’t ble “Believe” right down to the bar code and thought if they’re going to lock their doors to a failed marriage, it’s a silky Bieber portrait on the cover. However, independent musicians, we’re just going to successful marriage that Paz’s artwork is inside the back cover, and the knock them down and get our music in there.” only lasted three years.” disc itself is slathered with images of cats, piz- Paz, who enlisted fellow artists for the city- Way to look on the zas and a dog stuffed inside a taco. The CD con- wide switcheroo, declined to say how much it bright side, bro! Also, he tains the 13 tracks from Paz’s synth-heavy inde- cost to produce the mock albums or what he got another woman pendent release “From the Bottom of My Heart did with the existing Bieber records on store pregnant. Beh-behs! to the Top of Your Lungs.” The Associated Press shelves. “I think legal repercussions are always independently verified the stunt by purchasing a possibility when you do performance Robin Scherbatsky random copies of what looked like Bieber’s pieces,” said Paz. “Sometimes you have to take Is Famous, Yo: And dis- “Believe” from widely scattered LA area loca- risks for your art.” It’s not Paz’s first music tant because of it. As tions such as a Target store in Burbank and Best industry prank. Last year, he slipped photos of Photo shows Josh Radnor described in a scene fea- Buy stores in West Hollywood and Culver City. himself into the Grammy Museum in down- arrives at the 2014 Film turing a young girl and In each instance, the CDs were scanned and town Los Angeles and hung them on the wall Independent Spirit an ad on the side of a paid for as if they were Bieber CD’s. But when In this image an album that appears to be Justin Bieber’s “Believe” sits on the rack at next to the likes of Grammy winners Calle 13 Awards, in Santa Monica, bus - which, as we all they were opened outside the store, each con- the Best Buy in Culver City, Calif. — AP and Maria Rita. — AP Calif. — AP know, is the true meas- ure of fame. But she does show up for the wedding between Ted and the moth- er, despite the fact that she RSVP’d no which is just How ‘Like Crazy’ director Doremus tacky. Ted Mosby Does Not Rush Into Marriage: Ted and the mom tie the knot after seven years and two kids. Way to take your time and get it right, Ted. The Mother’s Gone. The finale made reference to a time became so insanely prolific when the mom got sick - complete with a scene with them in a hospital room - referencing a recent episode where it was theorized that the mother passed. At the e was 28 years old, had just won the biographies. Basically, once he gets an idea, he end Ted’s daughter says, “Mom’s been gone for six Grand Jury Prize for his fourth feature film runs to make a film, instead of waiting around years,” clearing a path for him to make a play for “Aunt Hand was the toast of indie film circles. But for years to develop a notion. “The first takes are Robin.” Which he does. as per usual, all Drake Doremus wanted to do very vast and long and there’s tangents of things was get back to work. “I didn’t want to dwell on that don’t really work,” the filmmaker explained. ‘HIMYM’ Spinoff: Four things we know so far ‘Like Crazy,’ I didn’t want to spend the year “The second take, we distill it more, then more in “How I Met Your Mother” fans can take heart in the enjoying it and going around the world,” the third take, and by the end, it’s usually just fact that, even as their favorite show wrapped up, Doremus told TheWrap of the afterglow of his the beats we need. It starts out real broad and series creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas are cook- victory at 2011’s Sundance. “I did a little bit of we explore so many different things, and then it ing up a spinoff in the form of the pilot “How I Met that, but I really wanted to go back to work and eventually boils down to what it needs to be.” “I Your Dad.” While Bays and Thomas have been as continue to explore and try something ... This love working in that way,” Felicity Jones, who tightlipped about the spinoff as they have been about movie was kind of an experiment in a way ... we starred in “Like Crazy” and now “Breathe In,” the remainder of “Mother,” some details have emerged just kept going, was the idea. Just keep moving.” added. “I love the challenge of having to find the as the project takes shape. TheWrap runs down what’s Now 31, Doremus has just released “Breathe words for the characters, writing on the spot is known so far. In,” his fifth feature film. It is a significant and something I quite enjoy.” enviable accomplishment; for the most part, 1. The two shows might have people his age are dreaming about getting even An enormous amount of time similar names, but ‘Dad’ one movie made, much less several major After playing a college student in “Like releases. So, how’d he do it? First, he got started Crazy,” this time Jones turns back the clock as a Will be a whole new ballgame “If this new show early, releasing his first feature,”Moonpie,” when British exchange student spending a semester goes next year, it will be a brand-new show. It will be a he was just 23 years old. of high school in the Hudson Valley and staying brand-new story,” Bays told reporters last year at an in the home of a couple played by Guy Pearce Ellie Goulding event celebrating the 200th episode of “How I Met Digital Cameras and Amy Ryan. Pearce, as a musician whose Your Mother.” “We kind of didn’t want it to have any “Make something really small with no mon- aspirations were interrupted by his wife’s early would feel something or say something, based shoot so much footage and don’t know what’s feeling of trying to resuscitate something that has ey, because that’s where you’re going to learn pregnancy, is drawn to the piano-prodigy Jones, on all the work prior.” going to make it into the final edit,” Jones added, already ended.” the most,” Doremus said, outlining his personal who does little to discourage his advances. “I laughing. filmmaking ethos. “I made a bunch of small think it’s just really, fully understanding the char- Surprise factor In this case, at least, there was a more solid 2. OK ... So maybe it will be a little bit like ‘HIMYM’ movies that weren’t necessarily great films, but I acter and spending an enormous amount of It does, however, lead to some surprises. idea of the film’s story by the second time they Despite the creators’ assertion that “How I Met Your learned a lot.” Now, the boost that Doremus gets time in the rehearsal process, creating backstory “Because it’s shot on digital, you can roll for a went to production; after seven months of Dad” will be “a brand-new show,” Gerwig has said that from technology allows the filmmaker to and creating a fully fledged character,” Doremus long, long time and it’s not too expensive,” Jones editing, Doremus and the gang actually script- it will share some qualities with its predecessor - even employ a similar philosophy while making each said. “In the rehearsal process, we’ll just spend a explained. “So in many ways it’s like making a ed out six scenes that, as the director said, aside from the very familiar-sounding title. “It’s funny,” feature. Because he uses digital cameras, there’s lot of time doing exercises for the characters to documentary in that there will be bits that he “really helped tie it together.” Now, Doremus is Gerwig told E! Online earlier this month. “It shares the no limit to the amount he can film. So he keeps build the characters, and very little time on the can use from different takes, and you’ll know moving on to his sixth film, a more scripted heart and soul with the original show, so it has the recording for seemingly endless takes, allowing scenes that we’re actually going to shoot in the when something hits, and you just hope that movie called “Equals,” which will star Kristen sweetness and the funniness.” his actors space to find the right lines and tone, movie. when you come to the edit, that they use it.” Stewart and Nicolas Hoult. Still, he assures which they improvise after putting in extensive So by the time we get to those scenes, they Seriously, she’s not sure what is going to end up TheWrap, “there will definitely be some 3. Cristin Milioti won’t be involved pre-production work devising their characters’ have a full understanding of how the character in the movie: “It is always a surprise because you improve in there.” — Reuters Cristin Milioti - who joined the “HIMYM” cast as the titular maternal unit in the finale of the show’s eighth season - would seem to be a natural bridge between the two projects. But that won’t be happening, because Bays and Thomas are burning those bridges. “I almost wish we could use her. She’s good enough to do it, she’s good enough to carry a series,” Thomas told reporters last year. “But the thing that’s most important to us is that ‘How I Met Your Mother’ has its own end- ing, and then that’s it. It’s contained, it’s done. And then in the fall, if we succeed with the spinoff, we will have to make our case to the audience in a whole new way, with a whole new world, with whole new charac- ters. And that feels right; we want to honor ‘How I Met Your Mother’ with the cleanest ending possible. And then, should [the spinoff] go forward, that will have to earn the love again in a new way and just be its own charming, different thing.”

4. But you know who is involved? Greta Gerwig Ripples of surprise, if not outright dismay, spread through the television-loving community when it was (Above) Members of South Korean K-Pop announced that “Frances Ha” star Greta Gerwig had group 4Minute pose during a press con- been cast in the lead role of “Dad” as Sally, a female ference prior to attending the K-Pop Peter Pan who’s never grown up and is on the verge of chart show “M Countdown”. (Left) a breakup with her husband of less than a year. Members of South Korean K-Pop group Gerwig, known for her work in indie films, doing a net- GOT7 pose during a press conference work sitcom? But Gerwig will also serve as a producer prior to attending the K-Pop chart show and plans to write for the show, a commitment that “M Countdown” at the Yokohama Arena suggests her decision to join the show isn’t a quick in Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture yes- grab for mainstream cash. — Agencies terday. — AFP photos Review: ‘Captain America’ zippy but hollow

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