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lifestyle SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2016 Jordy Tshimanga, left, and Brett Sapp look at their phones during a “Pokemon Go” event at Memorial Stadium in This Wednesday, July 13, 2016, photo, shows “Pokemon Go” on a smartphone in front of a church, in San Francisco. Lincoln, Nebraska. — AP photos Hollywood reacts to ‘Pokemon Go’ craze okemon Go” has caught the public’s attention - world, providing digital incentives for players to visit land- Saul” star Bob Odenkirk, who is up for an Emmy in the leading something they’d embrace,” Neame deadpanned. “Star Wars: and Hollywood is no exception. Actors, athletes marks and capture creatures depicted on screen. “I’m killing it,” drama actor category, pointed out the similarities between The Force Awakens” filmmaker JJ Abrams called the craze “fas- “P and musicians are alongside the millions of fans said professional snowboarder Chloe Kim at the ESPYs. “I was the game and a 1997 skit on his sketch comedy series “Mr. cinating,” but he’s not addicted to tracking down Ponyta or searching for Pokemon creatures. Ellen in Oregon recently, and we stayed in a really small town, spent Show.” The bit featured a pair of dumb Americans awkwardly Charmander. “I’m not actively playing,” said Abrams, who also DeGeneres, Chrissy Teigen, Demi Lovato, Steve Aoki and the whole day walking around catching Pokemon because it completing a scavenger hunt in the Anne Frank house. The US produced the upcoming “Star Trek Beyond.” “I had to try it out Soulja Boy are among the celebrities who’ve posted about the was raining, so we couldn’t do anything. It was so fun.” While Holocaust Memorial Museum, Arlington National Cemetery because I’m a human being who has kids.” augmented reality sensation on social media. NBA player Karl- celebrating his supporting actor Emmy nomination for and many other sensitive locations have asked Niantic to Tony Robbins, the best-selling self-help speaker and sub- Anthony Towns had to resist the urge to pull out his smart- “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” Andre Braugher lamented that he hasn’t remove them from the game. ject of the Netflix documentary “Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your phone at Wednesday night’s ESPY Awards to hunt for one of been able to log into “Pokemon Go” since downloading it. “Oh, people will stop playing it in about six weeks,” predict- Guru,” believes “Pokemon Go” is just scratching the surface of the cutesy pocket monsters. “I played it coming here, and I ed Odenkirk. “I haven’t played it. I’m more of a news junkie the emerging augmented and virtual reality mediums. “It is haven’t taken my phone out to play it yet, but I’ll be very upset ‘I’m a little jealous’ than a ‘Pokemon’ junkie.” “Downton Abbey” executive produc- wild, the world that we’re entering into,” said Robbins. if I missed a Pikachu around here,” said Towns on the award “I think it’s because billions of other people around the er Gareth Neame believes the series’ stuffy Crowley family “‘Pokemon’ is a cartoon by comparison. When the real stuff ceremony’s red carpet. world are trying to do the same thing and they just don’t have would have cautiously accepted last week’s “Pokemon Go” hits, you’re going to see how popular it’s going to be.” — AP The addictive, location-aware smartphone game from the capacity,” said Braugher. “My son was able to get on and is debut, just as they did the refrigerator and radio. “I guess any Niantic Inc. blends the “Pokemon” universe with the real catching Pokemon right now. I’m a little jealous.” “Better Call adventurous and addictive entertainment would probably be Kate Bush fans re-enact Wuthering Heights housands of Kate Bush fans put on 2013 theatre group Shambush gathered nearly 300 Facebook, told AFP. He said at least 800 dresses had their best billowy red dresses and Kate Bushes to recreate her iconic frolic in the been bought for the occasion, with dance classes T danced en masse in Melbourne yester- English city of Brighton. This inspired the booked out across Melbourne as people prepared. day to one of the singer’s most iconic Melbourne event, which has taken on a life of its Organizers yesterday estimated around 2,000 peo- songs Wuthering Heights. They donned matching own with similar dances also planned yesterday in ple, young and old, took part. “It is such a unique red stockings and black wigs to mark The Most 21 cities around the world, coordinator Douglas song from a unique artist. It resonates with people Wuthering Heights Day Ever-a re-enactment of the Leitch said, including Berlin, Oslo, Montreal, Tel and that’s why it’s lasted,” added Leitch. “I don’t British star’s classic 1978 debut music video in Aviv, Amsterdam and Copenhagen. know if Kate knows it’s happening, because she’s a which she pirouettes and cartwheels in a misty “The whole idea really is just to get together bit of a recluse, but I’m sure she might.” — AFP field. and have fun and do our unique interpretation of Bush’s distinctive voice and performance-art- the dance,” the 44-year-old, who had an over- style videos gained a global cult following and in whelming response after advertising the day on Singer Pitbull poses as he is honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, July 15, 2016, in Hollywood, California. — AFP Pitbull gets star on Hollywood Walk of Fame apper Pitbull was awarded a star lion YouTube views of his videos. He released his on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on first album, “M.I.A.M.I.” in 2004. It was followed by R Friday and said the honor was several other albums including “El Mariel” in proof that hard work pays off. “To 2006 and “The Boatlift” in 2007. be up here, it just goes to show what happens His 2011 album “Armando” was released in when you focus, when you work hard, when you Spanish as a tribute to his late father. The rapper believe in yourself, when you go against all was chosen by FIFA, soccer’s international gov- odds,” the 35-year-old said as he received the erning body, and Sony Records to write and 2,584th star at a ceremony. He said his drive to record the official song of the 2014 World Cup, succeed was never about money but “about “We Are One (Ole Ola)” with Jennifer Lopez and coming from nothing to something.” Claudia Leitte. Earlier this year he won the “It’s about being the prime example of what Grammy for best Latin rock, urban or alternative the American dream is and what it embodies,” album for “Dale,” and in 2013 shared a Latin he said. Pitbull, whose real name is Armando Grammy with Papayo for best urban perform- Christian Perez, turned to rapping after graduat- ance for “Echa Pa’lla (Manos Pa’rriba).” — AFP ing from high school and has since had a mete- Kate Bush fans perform a dance during a celebration to mark ‘The Most Wuthering Heights Day oric rise, selling more than 70 million singles and Ever’ in Melbourne. — AFP photos six million albums. He also has more than 9 bil- Letting camera rolls, film gives rare view of North Korea he conditions placed on director release, may be a small window into North Korea, door with furniture and kept the backpacks con- responsible like an adult and expected to serve “the it partly over concerns that a screening it might Vitaly Mansky for shooting a film in but it’s enough to see an expansive tragedy. In the taining the footage near their beds. In their Respected Leader.” She begins to cry. Handlers urge provoke North Korea the way the 2014 comedy T North Korea were severe. For what North Korea of the film, not just supposedly real Pyongyang hotel room, they spoke in code. her to stop and “think of something good” but she “The Interview” did. The museum later apolo- was ostensibly to be a “documentary,” scenes are orchestrated, all of life is stage-man- can’t imagine anything. Instead, she recites a poem gized and said the film was “wrongly disinvited.” North Korea would supply the script. The state aged. It’s centered on a family intended to be repre- Devastating scene about North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. “It took “Under the Sun” did draw North Korea’s attention, would choose the subjects, too, as well as the loca- sentative. A couple’s 8-year-old girl, Zin-mi, is Before the project was completed, the North me a few hours to get back to normal,” says Mansky. Mansky said. “When the film started getting tion of all scenes. He would be accompanied at all preparing to join the Children’s Union, a militaristic Koreans denied Mansky a planned final trip to the “She was saying goodbye to her natural self.” notices at film festivals, they were very critical and times by several state officials who would control youth group that all North Korean children pass country, and so he edited what they had. The The film has won good reviews on the festival they demanded the Russian side destroy the film,” the production. And North Korea would have final through. resulting film culminates in a devastating scene circuit and spawned some controversy. The says Mansky. “The Russian government agreed say on any footage that was used. The film, for example, shows the actors playing where Zin-mi is asked what joining the Children’s Museum of Modern Art scheduled it as part of its with the North Koreans on this issue but they Yet even in these impossible circumstances, a family being coached for a dinner scene.

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