LIFESTYLE36 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2013 Movies & Music Indonesian minister ‘shocked’at Harrison Ford climate interview

ndonesia’s forestry minister has be deported-although he was due to explain the challenges of catching accused Hollywood legend leave Indonesia later Tuesday anyway. people who break the law in IHarrison Ford of subjecting him to a Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan told Indonesia’s sprawling rainforests, rude interview on climate change that reporters that he had been angered by where illegal logging is rampant. left him “shocked”, an official said yes- Ford’s approach during the interview “I was only given the opportunity to terday. The “Indiana Jones” and “Star in the capital Jakarta. “His emotions say one or two sentences during the interview,” he said. Arief said the minis- ter thought there would have been some time to discuss the interview before it began. But in the event he was “shocked that as soon as his (Ford’s) crew came in, they started film- ing and interviewing him... and attack- ing him with questions”. “There’s no privilege for him although he is a great actor,” he said. “His crew and those who were helping him in Indonesia must be questioned to find out their motives for harassing a state institution.” “If necessary, we will deport him,” he added. Ford, who has supported numerous environmental causes in Director Jason Reitman, actors Gattlin Griffith, Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin of ‘Labor Day’ pose at the recent years, has travelled to several Guess Portrait Studio during 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. —AFP places in Indonesia to make part of a series on climate change called “Years of Living Dangerously” for US television network Showtime. He also met with In this photograph taken on September 9, 2013, US actor Harrison President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Josh Brolin makes a great Ford arrives at the forest ministry building in Jakarta to interview yesterday. As Southeast Asia’s largest Indonesia’s Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan. —AFP economy grows rapidly, swathes of biodiverse forests across the archipela- pie, says Kate Winslet Wars” actor, who is making part of an were running very high,” the minister go of 17,000 islands have been cleared environmental documentary in was quoted as saying by the state-run to make way for paper and palm oil osh Brolin, known for villainous chili or anything else, but he certainly were coming out of the pie,” said Indonesia, attacked the minister with Antara news agency. “I understand the plantations, as well as for mining and roles, makes a great pie both on is an excellent pie baker.” Reitman Reitman. “He’d give pies to everyone questions during the encounter on American man just came here to see agriculture. —AFP Jand off screen, Kate Winslet, co- concurred, and according to Brolin, and it really was exciting at first, but Monday, said presidential advisor Andi Tesso Nilo (a national park on Sumatra star of his latest film, said Saturday, the crew on the set were also very later on you’d see a pie and go run- Arief. The advisor accused Ford and his island) and wanted violators to be softening his tough guy image. The pleased with his flaky crusts. But the ning.” crew of “harassing state institutions” caught the same day.” The minister American actor-who has played loath- actor may have taken preparing for Still, the pies kept coming and said the 71-year-old could even added he was not given the chance to some characters in such films as “Milk,” the scene a tad too far, according to throughout the nine-week film shoot- “American Gangster,” “Wall Street: Winslet. “He got a little bit obsessive for Winslet, for Reitman, for the crew Money Never Sleeps” and the Coen with making pies,” she said. “He would and even the hair and makeup brothers’ Academy Award-winning get up at four in the morning and he department. “We lived on pie,” said “No Country for Old Men”-perfected would come to work with a box and Winslet. Brolin confessed that it all his baking skills for a scene in director say, ‘I’ve baked you a pie.’” started out of “abject fear” of not US judge drops bosses Jason Reitman’s “Labor Day.” The film, Brolin would also email pictures of being able to do the pie scene with based on a Joyce Maynard novel, pre- his pies to friends and others. Five Winslet, described in the script as “the miered this week at the Toronto film weeks and many, many pies later, greatest pie making scene in cinema festival. In it, Brolin plays an escaped Winslet and the rest of the cast and history.” He said he burned the top of from Jackson death lawsuit convict taken in by a reclusive single crew had had their fill. Reitman, for the pie on his first attempt while the mother, portrayed by Winslet. one, said his fridge was full. “Josh is a bottom was uncooked. The reason? he judge in Michael Jackson’s “Josh got into his character and, I picture of masculinity, but you’d show He had accidentally turned the oven family’s lawsuit against promot- can say, is an excellent cook of pies,” up at his cottage and he’d be so excit- to broil. —AFP ers AEG Live dismissed Monday Winslet told a news conference. “I ed to tell you about the crust he T don’t know about his ability to make achieved that day or the juices that claims against two two executives accused over the 2009 death, leaving their firm as sole defendant. Judge Yvette Palazuelos ruled that Jackson lawyers have not proved claims that Elton John AEG Live chief executives Randy Phillips and Paul Gongaware could be held responsible for the singer’s to Honor death. The trial, in which the late pop icon’s mother Katherine Jackson accuses AEG Live of negligently hiring the doctor convicted over his death, Liberace at started in April, and could wrap up lat- er this month. Phillips and Gongaware were Emmys named as defendants, along with AEG Live as a company. Both have faced lton John will perform at the Emmy grillings earlier in the trial at the Los Awards for the first time to honor Liberace Angeles Superior Court. Monday’s Ein recognition of the pianist’s HBO biopic, decision streamlines the case before In this March 5, 2009 file photo, US singer Michael Jackson announces “Behind the Candelabra.” John’s performance the jury, leaving the 12-strong panel that he is set to play a series of comeback concerts at the London O2 comes as the Stephen Soderbergh film is nomi- to decide only if they thought AEG Arena in July, which he announced at a press conference at the nated for 15 Emmys. It will accompany the pre- Live had negligently hired Conrad viously announced appearances by presenters Murray and failed to supervise him London O2 Arena. —AP Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, who are properly. Murray was jailed for four while rehearsing for the doomed “This health. AEG Live insists that Jackson both nominated in Outstanding Lead Actor in a years in 2011 after being found guilty is It” series of concerts in London, himself hired Murray as his personal Miniseries or Movie category. John’s upcoming of involuntary manslaughter for which was set to be followed by a physician, and was therefore responsi- album, “The Diving Board,” his first studio album administering the surgical anesthetic world tour. Lawyers for Katherine ble for his own medical care. —AFP in seven years, will be released on Sept 24, two propofol to help Jackson, 50, cope Jackson, who brought the lawsuit in days after the Emmys. Executive produced by with chronic insomnia. her name and those of her son’s three Ken Ehrlich, the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards The self-styled King of Pop died on children, have argued that AEG Live will be hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, who is also June 25, 2009 at his rented Holmby ignored a series of warning signs a producer of the telecast. —Reuters Elton John Hills mansion, where he was living about the singer’s alarmingly failing Firth tackles story of torture, forgiveness in ‘Railway Man’

ctor said on Saturday he felt a special sense of obligation portraying Athe true story of a British soldier who was tortured and then suffered for decades before finding the strength to forgive his cap- tors. In “The Railway Man,” which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Leah Remini says Scientology Festival on Friday, Firth portrays World War Two veteran Eric Lomax, who was captured by the Japanese and spent years as a prisoner of war. split was family decision “You just want to be absolutely sure that ctress Leah Remini, one of the most July, representatives for Remini confirmed you don’t drop the baton that you don’t com- prominent celebrities to leave the that she had left the church founded by sci- promise how well this story has been told up to Church of Scientology, said on ence fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard in 1954. now, despite your limitations. Such care has A been taken to get the truth out there,” Firth, Monday that her family felt they could no The church counts actors like John Travolta longer belong to the church and had lost and Tom Cruise among its members. who won an Oscar in 2011 for his performance many friends because of the decision. “Over Followers of Scientology believe in “The King’s Speech,” told reporters in Toronto. time my eyes opened and I just could no humans are immortal beings whose experi- The film begins in the later decades of Lomax’s longer be affiliated with the organization, ence extends beyond one lifetime. Critics life, when he meets and falls in love with his and my family felt the same, so we left,” of the church describe it as a cult that future wife Patti, played by . Remini told daytime talk show host Ellen harasses people who try and quit, a criti- Their marriage was tested by his nightmares Actors Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth speak at “The Railway Man” Premiere during DeGeneres on “Ellen,” offering a view into cism the movement rejects. The New York and breakdowns, a legacy of the beatings and the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival at Roy Thomson Hall. —AFP her rationale for leaving. Post said in July that Remini left the church other torture he suffered. The 43-year-old actress best known for after coming under special scrutiny when Lomax is forced to confront his past when told reporters. Hollywood Reporter both commended the her role in the CBS television sitcom “The she asked about the whereabouts of he learns that Takashi Nagase, the young “These are very alive issues. It’s not just about performances of Firth and Kidman, but were King of Queens” did not elaborate on why church leader David Miscavige’s wife in English-speaking officer who participated in a forgotten moment in history. But the filmmak- critical of the structure and direction. Still, the she broke from the church after some four 2006. his brutal interrogations, is still alive. ers drew inspiration from the outcome of production team won praise from the real Patti decades. “It was hard and we’ve lost friends The actress had also filed a missing per- Screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce said that sad- Lomax’s story. After confronting Nagase, he was Lomax, who acted as an adviser. “There’s anoth- that can no longer talk to us who are still in son report with Los Angeles police for Shelly ly, while the film is historical, topics like the able to forgive his former captor, and the two er point to this film, and that’s no matter how the organization,” added Remini, who will Miscavige, but authorities closed their trauma of torture victims and returning sol- became friends. Lomax eventually recounted bleak life might be, there’s always a way for- take part in the upcoming season of ABC’s inquiry in August, saying it had been diers are as relevant as ever. “The way that Eric the events in a memoir, also called “The Railway ward if you’re open to see it,” she told reporters celebrity reality competition “Dancing with “unfounded.” The church has called allega- was tortured was water-boarding. When we Man.” in Toronto. “You have to let these things go one the Stars.” tions that Shelly Miscavige is missing “harass- first started working on this film, that seemed The film drew a standing ovation following way or another. And I think really, that is the Remini is also planning to write a mem- ment” and a “publicity stunt cooked up by a like a kind of antique, remote thing. And now its premiere in Toronto on Friday, though legacy that my husband has left more than oir about her life in which she was brought small band of unemployed fanatics who live it’s part of how we do business in the West,” he reviews were mixed. Variety and The anything else.” —Reuters into the church as a child by her family. In on the fringe of the Internet.” —Reuters