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This Thursday, Jan 22, 2015 file photo shows portraits of actor Al Pacino as This undated production photo provided by Netflix shows actor Wagner Musician Madonna and actor attend the 5th Annual Sean Penn character Tony Montana, center, gangster Al Capone, right, and Latin Moura as Pablo Escobar, in the Netflix Original Series “Narcos.” & Friends Help Haiti Home Gala benefiting J/P Haitian Relief Organization American tango icon Carlos Gardel, left, in a display in a men’s shoe store in at Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills, . downtown Lima, Peru. — AP photos Drug lords real and fictional plentiful in pop culture

e thought his story was movie material. ‘American Gangster’ Beverly Hills at his own fundraiser in which he Anderson, Soleil Moon Frye, Lana del Rey and After all drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” starred in this 2007 took to the stage numerous times to speak, Rachel Zoe were also in attendance. Tom Petty HGuzman, the leader of Sinaloa cartel, movie as Frank Lucas, who takes over after his yet didn’t allude to the controversy that and the Heartbreakers closed the show. ABC had been captured twice and escaped, and boss dies and becomes a key heroin drug lord exploded just hours earlier pertaining to his News reported Saturday night that Penn is that, along with his ruthlessness, made him a in Harlem. published interview with Mexican drug lord now under investigation for the interview, name known in pop culture. But it was those Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. The “Sean Penn according to a Mexican official. El Chapo was Hollywood dreams that helped Mexican ‘The Wire’ & Friends: Help Haiti Home” charity gala marines track him down in Los Mochis, a sea- Russell “Stringer” Bell and Avon Barksdale, went on as scheduled at the Montage Hotel, side city, and capture him Friday. portrayed by and Wood Harris, respec- but he and other celebrities kept the focus Guzman might yet become a Hollywood tively, play kingpins in this show about different squarely on the cause for which he raised subject. The Hollywood Reporter reported last facets of crime and life in Baltimore, including more than $7 million. summer that director/producer Ridley Scott the inner workings of drug-selling street gangs. Before opening the live auction, Penn and Fox were teaming up to adapt the fiction- The series aired from 2002 to 2008. teared up at the podium recalling the death of al book, “The Cartel,” into a movie. Drug lords - a 15-year-old in Haiti, who was refused treat- both fictitious and real- have long captured ‘New Jack City’ ment at hospitals. “So whose fault was it that attention as lead characters in movies and TV. In the 1991 film, Nino Brown, portrayed by he died? It was my fault as much as your fault... In this Tuesday, Aug 23, 2011 file photo, A look at some notable drug lords in popular Wesley Snipes, becomes a powerful crime lord We can’t depend on governments... We have actor Al Pacino arrives at the “Scarface” culture: with a growing drug business. Even friends to make it better now,” Penn said. “Let’s use the Legacy Celebration Event in . and associates aren’t safe from his wrath. In cash to stop people from strapping bombs on ‘Narcos’ the end, Brown is killed after leaving a court- their bodies and killing other people.” Variety reporter, Penn said, “I can’t,” and walked The current Netflix series tells the story of room. The movie also starred Ice-T. The gala benefits the J/P Haitian Relief away. Celeb guests Madonna and Leonardo real-life Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, Organization, which was co-founded by Penn DiCaprio were active in the live auction, bid- portrayed by Wagner Moura. ‘Scarface’ in 2010 in response to the devastating 7.0 ding and donating. In this Oct 8, 2015 file photo, Sean Penn Al Pacino plays Tony Montana in this 1983 earthquake. Madonna performed a French song on the speaks during a forum with young entre- ‘Breaking Bad’ move that’s become legendary even among those Traditionally held during Golden Globes ukelele and auctioned the ukelele for preneurs during the IMF and World Bank A TV series about fictional meth cook and who haven’t seen it. He’s a Cuban immigrant who weekend, the gala was emceed by Anderson $300,000. Former president Bill Clinton, who annual meeting in Lima, Peru. would-be kingpin Walter White, portrayed by enters a life of crime and eventually, takes over a Cooper and co-hosted by Penn, CAA’s Bryan has attended the gala in previous years, also Bryan Cranston, which ran from 2008 to 2013. drug cartel and inevitably, spirals out of control. A Lourd and Sean & Alexandra Parker. sent video remarks saying of the organization, recaptured Friday after escaping a Mexican White was a high school chemistry teacher, but memorable line: “Say hello to my little friend.” Variety is a media sponsor of the event. “I’ve seen firsthand the differences they’re prison in July. “I want to say Sean, I love you, when diagnosed with cancer, he turned to pro- Sean Penn and Madonna arrive at making for Haitian people.” from the moment that I laid eyes on you,” ducing methamphetamine with a former student. Penn’s first appearance Saturday’s ‘Help Haiti Home’ gala. When asked Justin Bieber, Mark Ruffalo, Patricia Madonna said to Penn, “I just wish you’d stop The series was set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Sean Penn appeared Saturday night in to comment about El Chapo at the event by a Arquette, Jason Segel, Emile Hirsch, Pamela smoking cigarettes.” — AP Late Motorhead frontman features in Finnish milk ad

Finnish dairy company has released a commercial featuring Motorhead frontman Ian “Lemmy” AKilmister that was filmed just weeks before his death in December. The 40-second spot published Friday on YouTube by Valio is a remake of a milk ad that is well known in Finland. The new version shows Kilmister exiting a gas station, turning to the camera and saying, “I don’t drink milk, and never will,” followed by an expletive. It was filmed in Helsinki in early December just hours ahead of a Motorhead concert in the Finnish capital. A memorial left by Kilmister died of cancer on Dec 28 in Los Angeles. Valio fans of the late changed the spot to make it a tribute to Kilmister, calling Motorhead the heavy metal singer and bassist “a lovely, exceptional singer/bassist man.” Valio said Kilmister’s managers approved it. — AP Lemmy Kilmister.

One Direction to guest star on ‘Family Guy’ he lads of One Direction will pay a visit mastermind Simon Cowell is also a charac- to the Griffin family. That’s right. The ter in the episode, but, like Harry Styles and Tworld’s biggest pop group will guest Niall Horan, it’s unclear who voiced his ‘toon. star on Fox’s “Family Guy” for a May episode, The episode, called “Run, Chris, Run,” will Variety has confirmed. Liam Payne and Louis air after the boys begin their hiatus in Tomlinson lent their voices to an episode March. Their latest album, “Made in the about Chris running for homecoming king. A.M.,” dropped in November, selling 460,000 The fearsome foursome appear in a camp- copies in its first week. One Direction was fire scene, during which Stewie tells them a the most-discussed musical artist on Twitter horror story about non-skinny jeans, accord- in 2015. “Family Guy,” now in its 13th season, A portrait of the late Motorhead singer/bassist Lemmy Kilmister Fans of the late Motorhead singer/bassist Lemmy Kilmister wait to ing to . One Direction airs Sundays at 9 pm on Fox. — Reuters during a memorial for the musician at the Rainbow Bar on the enter during a memorial for the musician. Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California. — AP/AFP photos Eyeing global domination, ‘Star Wars’ opens big in China

tar Wars: The Force Awakens’ has pling records ever since hitting the big Sith” took in $380 million in the US box Justin Bieber, to sing about how he was new Star War film in China might become billion in 2012, is planning two more achieved the third best opening- screen. Disney said it surpassed James office in 2005, but made only $9.1 million “feeling the force” in a promotional music a big event and thus bring in audiences,” films in the series as well as a stand-alone ‘Sday performance in China’s cine- Cameron’s Oscar-winning “Avatar”, which that year in China. Disney tried to gener- video overlaid with scenes from the film. especially since an annual quota restricts spinoff. Hong Kong star ma history by raking in over $30 million, held a record of $760.5 million, to ate a buzz for the new movie with an Saturday’s box office figures fell slight- the number of foreign films in the domes- Donnie Yen and Chinese Jiang Wen were according to Chinese box office tracking become the top-grossing film of all time aggressive mainland marketing cam- ly short of Disney’s early estimates of $33 tic market, said -based China cast in the spinoff “Rogue One: A Star services yesterday. Opening three weeks in North America on Wednesday. paign. It placed 500 Stormtrooper figures million-which would have made the media expert Ying Zhu. Wars Story”, the next to come out from after it took the United States by storm, But the prize Disney is really chasing on the Great Wall and enlisted heart- debut the highest Disney opening day in Disney, which bought Lucasfilm from the franchise, in an attempt to appeal to the seventh installment of the franchise is biggest global film. That crown is cur- throb pop star Lu Han, known as China’s China. Nevertheless, “the opening of the “Star Wars” creator George Lucas for $4 mainland audiences. — AFP took in around 208.89 million yuan rently held by “Avatar” with $2.79 billion ($31.8 million) in opening-day sales in ticket sales. Experts say the space Saturday, according to Chinese film data saga’s global aspirations depend in part company EntGroup accounting for over on its release in the huge Chinese mar- 70 percent of all tickets sold that day. ket-the world’s second largest-which The film ranked third behind the Chinese could help give it a further push to light comedy “Lost in Hong Kong” and “Fast speed. But the franchise faces a unique and Furious 7”, which earned $390 mil- challenge in China, where most people lion at the box office in China. “Star Wars” have no nostalgic connection to the orig- must top that to become the highest- inal series. When “Star Episode IV: A New grossing Hollywood film in the country. Hope” hit screens in 1977, the country In this picture “The Force Awakens” had the coun- was just emerging from its turbulent fans pose for pic- People line up try’s fourth highest turnout for opening- Cultural Revolution, with Western movies tures ahead of the ahead of the day midnight screenings, with sales of banned. The first trilogy passed largely premiere of “Star premiere of “Star $2.4 million placing it behind “Furious 7,” unseen. The later prequels received Wars: The Force Wars: The Force “Avengers: Age of Ultron” and screenings but at a time when there Awakens” in Awakens” in “Transformers: Age of Extinction”. were fewer cinemas. Beijing. Beijing. Directed by JJ Abrams, it has been top- “Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the — AFP photos