Lifestyle FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Director Robert Zemeckis, from left, and actors Marion Cotillard and Brad Pitt arrive at the Los In this file photo, actor Brad Pitt and actress Angelina Jolie arrive for the 64th Annual Golden Angeles premiere of ‘Allied’ at the Regency Village Theatre. — AP photos Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. Brad Pitt cleared over plane behavior rad Pitt has been cleared after an investigation into website TMZ reported. Social workers interviewed the couple, citing irreconcilable differences. She is seeking sole custody of whether he behaved abusively toward one of his children, their children and witnesses who were on the plane, TMZ said. their six children. Pitt is seeking joint legal and physical custody. BUS media has reported. The claims centered on an alleged The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family The A-listers-given the celebrity moniker “Brangelina”-wed in incident with his 15 year old son Maddox in September on a flight Services concluded Wednesday that Pitt, 52, did not behave abu- France two years ago, but had been a couple since 2004. — AFP from France. Pitt’s wife Angelina Jolie had said that Pitt intention- sively, USA Today and CNN reported, quoting a source that had ally hit his son, without justification, on the plane, the celebrity seen the agency’s report. Jolie, 41, filed for divorce in September, The show goes on: Bataclan bosses put tragedy behind them he directors of the Bataclan concert hall restaurants and the national stadium. thought long and hard about ever open- Frutos and Poubelle were part of a consor- Ting its doors again after jihadist gunmen tium that bought the theatre only a month massacred 90 people there during last year’s before the attack. Once the decision was made Paris attacks. With the British star Sting set to to reopen the theatre, Frutos said they were reopen the refurbished venue Saturday, co- determined it stay true to its history as the director Jules Frutos told AFP that they had had French capital’s top indie-rock venue. their doubts and “for some time it was diffi- “Reopening the Bataclan with a ceremony and cult”.” But then, after a few weeks it was clear. then some music didn’t cut the mustard for me,” We had to go on after such horror and not leave said Frutos, who was determined to put on a a mausoleum, a tomb,” said Frutos. “One night show before the November 13 anniversary. of tragedy” should not be allowed to wipe out Getting a high profile artist such as Sting-who File photo shows Lady Gaga gives her autographs to fans upon her arrival at Narita interna- decades of great musical memories, he insisted. first played there in 1979 with The Police-fitted tional airport in Narita, east of Tokyo. — AP “We owed it to ourselves to rebuild every- perfectly with the Bataclan’s unique identity, thing. It was obvious that it had to be rebuilt said Frutos. “When he came to Paris (in identically,” added Frutos, who has managed September) he was interviewed by a journalist the venue with his business partner Olivier and said he wanted to come and sing at the Lady Gaga- Cooper’s ‘A Star Poubelle since 2004. “It’s important we didn’t Bataclan. I called him and things moved very change it as a venue, its past-that’s why people quickly,” said Frutos. loved it. One night of tragedy mustn’t overshad- Is Born’ gets 2018 release date ow decades of parties and music,” he said. Sting ‘really keen’ arner Bros has set Sept 28, 2018, as the Gaga came on to the project in June. It’s the “He’s really keen-that’s an essential ingredi- release date for “A Star Is Born,” with first title to land on the Sept 28, 2018, release Everything replaced ent,” added Frutos. “His coming here is the cher- Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper star- date. Warner’s New Line also announced The venue was ravaged by three suicide ry on the cake that we needed, it gives it mean- W ring. Cooper will also helm the film, which will Wednesday that it’s dated Dwayne Johnson’s blasts as well as the bullets unleashed by the ing. More so than a concert with several acts... mark his directing debut. He will produce actioner “Rampage,” based on the Midway attackers, firing systematically into the crowd as that’s something I never considered. “That’s not through his 22 Green banner along with Jon video game, for April, 20, 2018. The studio an ordinary Friday night descended into car- the Bataclan, it’s not about that. It’s a concert Peters, Bill Gerber, and Basil Iwanyk. The project, unveiled the project in 2015 with “San Andreas” nage. The interior of the former 19th-century hall that’s had several lives, where the program based on William Wellman’s 1937 film starring producer Beau Flynn re-teaming with Johnson. music hall has now been gutted during eight has never been based on such cliches.” While Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, centers on a Ryan Engle is writing the script for “Rampage,” months of refurbishment works. Everything some survivors and families of victims have fading movie star who helps an aspiring actress with plot details under wraps. The project is in from the seats to the floorboards were replaced been keen to have their say on how the building while his own career spirals downward. James pre-production. In the video game, players were with identical fittings to purge the horror of that should reopen, convincing French musicians to Mason and Judy Garland starred in a 1954 ver- tasked with stopping a havoc-wreaking giant fateful night, which saw a total of 130 people take to the stage has been harder. Only one fifth sion and Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson gorilla, a lizard and a wolf. killed across Paris as the jihadists targeted bars, of acts so far booked for the Bataclan are home- toplined in the 1976 version. Additionally, Warner Bros. announced that grown. But Frutos said he understands their Cooper came on as director following his it’s releasing MGM’s “Everything, Everything” on reluctance. “I think it’s more difficult for them. work with Clint Eastwood on “American Sniper.” Aug 18, 2017. The teen romance stars Amandla We’re in Paris, this happened in a Parisian con- Eastwood attempt to get the film made for years Stenberg, Nick Robinson and Ana de la Reguera cert hall, I can understand all that,” said Frutos. with Cooper for the role of the fading movie star with Stella Meghie is directing from J Mills “I also understand what (folk singer) Francis but eventually left the project, but not before Goodloe’s script, adapted from Nicola Yoon’s Cabrel said (‘Singing at the Bataclan is more suggesting to Cooper that he try directing the young adult novel of the same name. Stenberg than I could manage’). I understand, but others film since the actor was actively seeking his first will portray a teen with severe combined will come. “An artist such as (young French directing job. Gaga has already made a name for immunodeficiency, also known as “bubble baby singer-songwriter) Vianney was meant to play herself as one of the world’s biggest pop stars, disease,” which causes her to be allergic to prac- several gigs at the Cigale and he cancelled one but has been focusing more in recent years on tically everything. — Reuters to come to the Bataclan. For Damien Saez it was her acting career. She is coming off an obvious (to come and play), and he prepared acclaimed performance in “American Horror This file photo shows Jules Frutos, co-man- specifically for this. “For the international artists Story: Hotel,” which earned her a Golden Globe ager of Paris’s music hall Le Bataclan, during it’s not exactly the same thing-there’s the (emo- for best actress in a miniseries. a press conference. — AFP tional) distance,” he said. — AFP