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(From left) Honorees Stevie Nicks, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac seen onstage.

Former US President Bill Clinton (left) and Recording Academy and MusiCares President/CEO Neil Portnow (right) present the MusiCares Person of the Year award to honorees (second left) Fleetwood Mac performs at the Person Of The Year gala at Radio City Music Hall in New York. — AFP photos Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie, Mick Fleetwood, and John McVie onstage during MusiCares Person of the Year honoring Fleetwood Mac at Radio City Music Hall. Clinton repays a favor to Mac at MusiCares ceremony heir 1977 song “Don’t Stop” helped power Bill At the concert and ceremony on Friday, Miley Cyrus, behind them and reunited in 2014 for the first time since Clinton into the White House in 1992, and on Lorde, Keith Urban, Harry Styles and Juanes were among 1998, and embarked on a sell-out world tour. TFriday it was the former US president doing the musicians across genres to perform their own interpreta- “Fleetwood Mac is well known for being a dysfunc- honors for Fleetwood Mac. Clinton presented tions of Fleetwood Mac’s biggest hits over a 50-year tional family... and it was certainly much of the fuel for Fleetwood Mac with statuettes as the 2018 MusicCares career. Band members Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, our material,” said Buckingham. “But what we are feel- honorees, making them the first band to win the annual Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie and Lindsey Buckingham ing really more now than ever in our career is love,” he award given to a musician for creative achievements ended the three-hour celebration by taking to the stage added. Proceeds from the annual MusiCares gala sup- and charitable work. Clinton chose the British- to perform “Go Your Own Way” and “Little Lies.” port members of the music industry in times of financial American band’s single “Don’t Stop” as the theme song Fleetwood Mac formed in London in 1967 and went on to and medical need. Friday’s event, held two days before for his 1992 presidential campaign, helping to revive become one of the best-selling bands in the world, with the Grammy Awards, raised some $7 million for their popularity and encouraging the fractious soft rock more than 100 million records sold, including Grammy- MusiCares, Recording Academy chairman Neil Portnow band to reunite for his inaugural ball in 1993. “They let winning 1977 album “Rumours” and hit singles said. Previous recipients include Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, me use it as a theme song and I have been trying to live “Songbird,” “Rhiannon” and “Dreams.” After romantic Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen and Paul by it ever since,” Clinton told the audience at Radio and creative tensions, some members going solo and sev- McCartney. — Reuters City Music Hall in New York. “I owe a great deal to all eral changes of line-up, Fleetwood, McVie, Nicks, of them,” he added. Buckingham and Christine McVie put their differences

Actor/singer Jared Leto performs onstage.

Juanes performs at the 2018 MusiCares Keith Urban performs at the 2018 MusiCares Recording artist Lorde performs onstage. Musician/actor Harry Styles performs at the Person Of The Year gala. Person Of The Year gala. 2018 MusiCares Person Of The Year gala.

Miley Cyrus performs at the 2018 MusiCares Person Of The (From left) Musicians Jimi Westbrook, Kimberly Schlapman, Karen Fairchild and Phillip Sweet Honoree Mick Fleetwood of music group Fleetwood Mac performs onstage. Year gala. of Little Big Town performs onstage.

Post-Sundance, female filmmakers find Hollywood dream elusive

undance, the premiere US independent but that a lot of those filmmakers have struggled makers are looking for stories that move beyond film gathering, this week saw a record to find success elsewhere. “I don’t think women female typecasts. Reed Morano first came to Snumber of female filmmakers showcased have been given those opportunities after their Sundance in 2008 as the cinematographer for and it has championed women for four decades, experience with us from all these other compa- “Frozen River.” This year, she returned to but the Hollywood success that so often comes nies, and I think it’s right to stand up and say Sundance with her film directorial debut “I for male directors has proven elusive. A study they deserve more attention than they were giv- Think We’re Alone Now,” centered on a man published this month by University of Southern en,” Barker said. (Peter Dinklage) and a teenage girl (Elle California’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative ana- Male directors, such as Quentin Tarantino, Fanning) in a post-apocalyptic world. lyzed 1,100 Hollywood films from 2007 to 2017 David O. Russell, Darren Aronofsky and Damien “Out of 10 projects I get sent, seven or eight and found that out of 1,223 directors, women Chazelle, who all got their starts at Sundance, are female protagonists and that’s not the only accounted for only 4 percent of honorees. have gone on to enjoy studio success. This thing I’m interested in,” Morano said. “I do In contrast, women made up 37 percent of year’s Sundance festival comes amid the rise of think it’s unfair for women who get pegged with directors represented across the 122 films the Time’s Up movement in Hollywood, launched creating fare for other women,” she added. After debuting at Sundance this week. “The biggest by more than 300 industry figures to fight writing and directing two films with strong problem is that it is so much harder to convince against sexual misconduct and discrimination in female leads, Fidell said she purposely chose to studios ... that we can also make the bigger the workplace. center her latest film “The Long Dumb Road” on movies,” said Hannah Fidell, who wrote and Several panels at the festival focused on the the story of two boys. “I was getting boxed into directed “The Long Dumb Road,” debuting at gender gap in Hollywood with actresses such as only making stories about women going crazy Sundance. Octavia Spencer speaking out about pay parity. or young adult love stories,” Fidell said. “I made Michael Barker and Tom Bernard, who co- Spencer said she and Jessica Chastain had this hoping that ... it would really open up new founded Sony Pictures Classics and often usher teamed up to negotiate five times her asking doors for projects.”— Reuters Director/screenwriter Hannah Fidell, actors , and Sundance Sundance movies to Oscar success, said they salary for an upcoming film the two are working Film Festival Director, Trevor Groth attend the premiere of “The Long Dumb Road” during the have produced films by 59 female filmmakers, on together. Along with pay issues, many film- at The Eccles Center Theatre in Park City, Utah. — AFP