lifestyle THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 2014

Gossip Stone to write, direct Edward Snowden film liver Stone will write and direct a film about Edward Stone has advocated for the former NSA contract systems Snowden, one of two high-profile films in the works analyst, who is living in Russia on a temporary grant of asy- Oabout the National Security Agency leaker. Stone lum after leaking massive amounts of NSA documents to announced Monday that he plans to adapt “The Snowden the media. “To me, Snowden is a hero because he revealed Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man,” a secrets that we should all know, that the United States has book by Guardian journalist Luke Harding. The project repeatedly violated the Fourth Amendment,” Stone said in pairs one of cinema’s most controversial directors with one a press conference at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the of the most explosive news events in recent years - one Czech Republic. that is ongoing. “This is one of the greatest stories of our time,” Stone said in a statement. He added that making such a film is “a real challenge.” He will have some deep- pocketed competition. Sony Pictures last month pur- chased the big screen rights to Glenn Greenwald’s “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the US Surveillance State.” The film is being produced by James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson.

Lohan’s mom loses license for a year after drunken driving

ina Lohan, the mother of actress Lindsay Lohan, was sentenced to 100 hours of community service Don Tuesday and will lose her driver’s license for a year after police caught her speeding on New York’s Long Island while drunk. Lohan, 51, was sentenced in Nassau County District Court after pleading guilty to the charges in April. She had initially pleaded not guilty after state police pulled her over last September and said she was driving more than 20 miles per hour over the speed limit. She had about twice the legal limit of alcohol in her blood- stream, police said. Lohan lives in the town of Merrick on Long Island’s south shore, about 20 miles (32 km) east of Manhattan. Judge Andrew Engel also ordered Lohan to pay more than $3,000 in fines and fees and to take part in a onah Hill has apologized for using a drinking driver program. “I just want to put this behind gay slur with a paparazzo in an me,” she told reporters outside the courthouse. Mark Jencounter caught on video. A video Heller, her lawyer, said the relatively lenient sentence posted Tuesday by TMZ shows a photog- reflected that Lohan’s drunken speeding was a “one-time, rapher pestering Hill, who eventually isolated event that took place on the occasion of her birth- responded with muttered expletives and day celebration.” Lohan’s daughter Lindsay has been an anti-gay expression. On “The Howard caught driving while drunk on several occasions and has Stern Show” on Tuesday, the 30-year-old been in rehab, sometimes at the order of a court, at least actor acknowledged that he said “a dis- six times in the last few years, hampering a once-successful gusting word.” Hill said the word “does acting career she began as a child. not at all reflect how I feel about any group of people.” He said that he’s been a gay-rights activist “from the day I was born.” Earlier this year, Hill promoted a

apologizes for Human Rights Campaign effort oppos- Shelton plans break for ing anti-gay laws in Russia ahead of the Winter Olympics. Hill said he had been harassed by the photographer, claiming Lambert after tough week he said “hurtful things” about Hill and his iranda Lambert’s really going to Festival and then traveling Saturday to family. need a break after an already hectic Dallas to help George Strait with his final

Hill week that turned a little scary concert. Shelton, speaking with reporters at

gay slur to paparazzo M Tuesday, and Blake Shelton is prepared to a news conference Tuesday afternoon to provide her with one. Lambert was already promote his outdoor-stage CMT appearance neck deep in the busiest week of the year and upcoming summer tour, said he’s when the private jet ferrying the country already planned out a relaxing break for music star and her team from New York to Lambert when she finally gets to return to Nashville was forced to make an emergency Oklahoma sometime next week. “The Voice” landing in Clarksburg, West Virginia. The star said the pair owns a boat on Lake plane lost pressure and spent about three Texoma and he spent a chunk of his Sunday hours on the ground before resuming its making sure it works before coming to southward trek, said Wes Vause, Lambert’s Nashville. “I’m not a mechanic, but I man- publicist. Killing time, Lambert and friends aged to get this thing running because I hung out with firefighters while trying on know when she gets back she’s going to their appropriately shiny hazmat suits - want to do something like that,” Shelton Lambert’s new album is named “Platinum” - said. “She’s going to want to just go float and posting pictures to Instagram. They also around and drink or be pulled on a tube, listened to a lot of country music. “All in all, it something like that. So I figured I’d get me Rihanna’s was a pretty good day,” Vause said with a some points here and get the boat running. laugh. Lambert will only get busier now that I’m actually proud of myself.” she’s back in Nashville. She’s in the midst of launching her fifth album and started the week with a series of appearances in New York. She’ll be performing at the CMT Music provocative perfume Awards with Carrie Underwood, teaming up with Shelton tomorrow at the CMA Music ad restricted in Britain raunchy British poster promoting Barbadian pop superstar Rihanna’s perfume can only be displayed in areas where Former Hendrix girlfriend Achildren are unlikely to see it, the country’s advertising regu- lator ruled yesterday. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) found that the image of the “Umbrella” singer sitting on the floor with legs raised against a large bottle of “Rogue” perfume was “sex- says new movie ‘made up’ ually suggestive”. The agency received one complaint about the advertisement being overly sexual and demeaning to women. The ASA accepted that the singer was suitably clothed and that her n ex-girlfriend of guitar legend has lashed facial expression was one “of defiance rather than vulnerability”. It out at a new biopic about his life, claiming some of it was concluded that poster was “unlikely to be demeaning to A“completely made up”. Kathy Etchingham, Hendrix’s girl- women or to cause serious or widespread offence”, friend from 1966-69, said she was not consulted about the but that restrictions were needed. “While we movie directed by John Ridley, who won an Oscar in March for did not consider the image to be overtly writing the “12 Years a Slave” screenplay. Although yet to see the sexual, we considered that Rihanna’s film, she is particularly incensed about a scene that depicts their pose, with her legs raised in the air, relationship as so turbulent that he beats her up. “It’s just com- was provocative. “Because of this, pletely made up,” Etchingham, who lives in Melbourne, told and the fact that Rihanna Fairfax Media in a story published yesterday. “Jimi: All Is By My appeared to be naked except Side” had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival last for high heels, we concluded year and is due to screen at the Sydney Film Festival on that the ad was sexually sug- Thursday. Etchingham, who is widely credited as being the gestive and should have been inspiration for many of Hendrix’s songs including “The Wind given a placement restriction Cries Mary” and “”, will be in the Sydney audience for to reduce the possibility of it her first look at the film. But based on reviews she has read and being seen by children,” it reports from friends who went to the Toronto screening, she said. claimed it was a “wildly inaccurate” portrait of his rise to fame. If that proves to be the case, Fairfax said she would consider legal action to block its release in Australia. “If it’s that bad, I’ve got no choice,” she said. “If I don’t, it’ll just get repeated and repeated and it’ll become the truth.” Etchingham met a penniless Hendrix in before he hit the big time and said their relationship was “a completely fun time”. “He was a gentle person-funny, entertaining, articulate, and knew exactly which direction he was going in,” she said. The film features Andre Benjamin-Andre 3000 of hip-hop duo Outkast-as Hendrix. — Agencies