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ting and French singer Mylene Farmer play steamy lovers in a new music video David Bowie says he’s for their duet. In person, they play like old friends who kiss on the cheek. Farmer remade Sting’s 2003 song “Stolen Car” and released the single last never touring again

p l a y S month. In a recent interview, the pair finished each other’s sentences and Farmer even gave Sting a kiss on the cheek after gushing about the new tune. avid Bowie is never touring again. Bowie’s “It’s a great song. I’m very, very happy to do this and share this,” she said. “And then booking agent, John Giddings, confirmed I’m going to kiss Sting on the cheek.” “Wow. I love my job,” Sting said with a smile on his retirement while speaking at the his face. Sting, 64, and Farmer, 54, said they decided to collaborate after years of D International Festival Forum in London, according being friends. In recent years, Farmer attended a Sting concert in London and saw his to Music Week. Bowie hasn’t performed on the musical, “The Last Ship,” on Broadway in New York City. Their new video premiered road in over 10 years-his last tour ended in 2004. yesterday. “It was hot. It was hot. And a lot of fun,” Sting said. “Was it?” Farmer asked. “David [Bowie] is one of the best artists I’ve ever

F a r m e “I mean hot in a different kind of way than what you mean,” he said as Farmer worked with. But every time I see him now, before I laughed. “It’s a very sexy video.” Sting said he originally intended to feature a female even speak to him, he goes, ‘I’m not touring’ and I

e vocalist on “Stolen Car” when it was released on the 2003 “Sacred Love,” mak- say, ‘I’m not asking,’” Giddings said. “He has decided ing it perfect for the collaboration. “(It’s) a story about man who is very wealthy - he’s

n to retire and, like Phil Collins, you can’t demand a company director, he has a beautiful wife, two lovely children, but he also has a girl-

e these people go out there again and again and friend. And it’s ... the girlfriend’s saying, ‘You have to take me dancing sometimes. I live l again.” in the quiet; I live in dark the whole time,’” he said. “And I feel alone,” Farmer added.

y Bowie is still recording music though. He They recorded the song in Paris, and it will appear on Farmer’s album “Interstellaire,” recently performed the title sequence for the out Nov 6. M British series “The Black Panther” and released the

Farmer, who has released 10 studio and sold 11 million albums world- single “Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)” last year. His , wide, rewrote the song to add her section in French. Sting compared recording Off Broadway musical “Lazarus opens in early g “Stolen Car” with Farmer to dancing with a partner. “You know when you sing togeth- French singer Mylene Farmer arrives December. The 40th anniversary picture disc of er and you sing in harmony and you have to phrase with another person, you’ll have at the Cannes festival palace, in n Cannes, southeastern France. — AP Bowie’s “Space Oddity” hit number one on the UK’s i to learn how they phrase and they have to learn how you phrase, and it becomes like official vinyl singles chart this week. — Reuters

t a dance. It’s like a dance in the ear,” he said. Outside of his duet with Farmer, Sting said David Bowie

S he’s working on his own music. “I’m almost thinking about it. I’m in the studio ... with younger musicians messing around,” he said. — AP l o v e r s i n ‘ h t ’ w m u c d Now fathers, sci-fi rockers land on Earth lyricist. I created a concept to essentially hide my feelings behind,” singer and gui- tarist told AFP as the band prepared to take the stage Sunday night at The Stone Pony in the New Jersey beach town of Asbury Park, the first stop on a tour of the United States and Mexico. In a novelty for the band, Sanchez and fellow guitarist Travis Stever were joined in the dressing room by their sons, each under two years old. “I was-and still am-a shy, reclusive, insecure individual. And for me it was easy to create a piece of fiction, because that way that fiction would get judged and I as a person wouldn’t,” Sanchez said. “At 37, I feel a little more secure. I feel like this is something I can do. I can allow the songs to speak for themselves.”

Sudden ‘exposure’ The concept-or lack thereof-for “” came as Sanchez and his wife, fellow comic writer Chondra Echert, decided to leave their home in upstate New York and briefly tried Paris, Los Angeles and Florida before moving to New York Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran City. Settled in Brooklyn’s Park Slope, a tony neighborhood with omnipresent strollers, Sanchez felt a sudden, disconcerting “exposure” as he realized that he could no longer follow his long routine of writing, far out of neighbors’ earshot, in the early morning. Sanchez decided to go fully for a real-world album after learning that he would become a father. Swift, Sheeran lead American The song “Ghost” is driven almost entirely by an anxious acoustic as Sanchez wonders what type of father he will be to his son Atlas, singing in an unchar- acteristically gentle voice, “How am I to keep from blemishing this masterpiece?” Music Award Nominations Elsewhere on the album, “Here to Mars” is not a return to science fiction but instead a love song by Sanchez to his wife, with the building to make a classic alterna- aylor Swift, Ed Sheeran and the Weeknd lead the list of nominees for this tive rock chorus rather than one of Coheed and Cambria’s sci-fi sagas. “Normally, I year’s American Music Awards. Swift, the reigning queen of the pop Claudio Sanchez(right), frontman for the band Coheed and Cambria, would flip it and create a concept that would basically act as a curtain to the real Tworld, grabbed a total of six nominations, including a bid for artist of the and guitarist Travis Stever (left) perform on October 11, 2015 at The things that inspired the album,” Sanchez said. year. Sheeran and Canadian singer-songwriter the Weekend tied with five Stone Pony Summer Stage in Asbury Park, New Jersey. — AFP “This time around, I just thought, you know, this is such a new phase in my life- apiece. Both are also nommed for artist of the year. Other contenders for artist becoming a father-so why not share that artistically?” As Sanchez adapted to of the year are Luke Bryan, Ariana Grande, Maroon 5, Nicki Minaj, One Direction, oheed and Cambria built an avid fan base by creating an epic new galaxy both Brooklyn, his life came full circle as his house in upstate New York-where Coheed and Sam Smith and Meghan Trainor. The field will be narrowed to five nominees through hard-charging guitar rock and a parallel series of comic books. But Cambria wrote four albums-was partially destroyed after renters apparently turned it based on fan voting tallied through Nov 11. Cafter selling more than 1.5 million albums, events here on Earth-most notably, into a marijuana grow house. Song of the year nominees are: Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth “See You fatherhood — have led the band for the first time to take up real-life matters directly. The band mourned the house with a song, “Young Love.” Adding to the direct feel Again,” Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars “Uptown !,” Ed Sheeran “The Color Before the Sun,” the band’s eighth album which comes out on Friday, is of the album, “The Color Before the Sun” marks the first time that Coheed and “Thinking Out Loud,” Taylor Swift “Blank Space,” and The Weeknd “Can’t Feel My the first by Coheed and Cambria to break out of the fantasy concept and offers a Cambria has recorded live in a studio, working with producer Jay Joyce whose past Face.” Jennifer Lopez hosts this year’s ceremony, to air live Nov. 22 on ABC, origi- more rugged, stripped-down feel compared with the band’s trademark tightly credits includes alternative rockers Cage The Elephant. — AFP nating from Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater. — Reuters woven, yet blaring, productions. “When I started this idea in ‘98, I started it because I wasn’t a secure frontman or

Review: ‘Bridge of Spies’ is an Legend, Teigen announce pregnancy ohn Legend and Chrissy absorbing slow burn Teigen are expecting their first child. The 36-year-old teven Spielberg’s “Bridge of Spies,” much like its misunderstood J musician and 29-year-old litigator, is a film that plays the long game. This complex Cold model announced the preg- SWar drama soaked in shadows, blues, greys and furrowed nancy Monday on Instagram. brows, is a slow burn that challenges the audience to trust where it’s A spokeswoman for Teigen going. In this fictional rendering of how a Brooklyn insurance lawyer confirmed the social media ended up negotiating a high-stakes prisoner exchange at the height post. of the Cold War, Spielberg and writers Matt Charman and Joel and Legend and Teigen Ethan Coen toss details at you, shake them all around and piece them revealed the news by posting a back together in the third act, when the form of the puzzle starts to black-and-white photo of take shape. Only then can you begin to fully appreciate just how lean themselves with the caption: and purposeful every moment is. “We’re pregnant!” Teigen wrote Suddenly that seemingly random conversation about clients and that conceiving a child hasn’t incidents from the first act isn’t an outlier after all - it means every- been easy for the pair and that thing. As a first time viewing experience, it’s like not realizing you’ve they are looking forward to been playing a game of chess until you’ve already lost. That’s all to say growing their family. The “All of that “Bridge of Spies,” which waxes poetic - and occasionally cynically Me” singer-songwriter and the wishes of the US, to try to tack on the release of another impris- Chrissy Teigen, left, and John Legend arrive at the MTV Video Music - on patriotism, honor, and duty, echoes in your mind long after the “FABlife” co-host have been oned American as well. This all makes Donovan sound like a martyr. Awards in Los Angeles. —AP credits roll and begs for a second viewing. On the page, “Bridge of married since 2013. — AP Spies” is the story of everyman James B. Donovan (Tom Hanks), a The film fights against that cozy idea, though. Donovan is not senti- lawyer and family man who takes on the thankless task of represent- mentalized or propped up in an unbelievable way. In Hanks’ hands, ing Soviet Agent Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) in a trial, only to then be Donovan is a real person, runny nose, doubts and all. Reality, tedium called on to negotiate his exchange for a detained US soldier on and wit supersede the hyperbole of the great man myth. In this way, behalf of the CIA. 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Keeping it classy this season, the ern interpretation of fashion sports Women’s collection starts off with the Mono with the Urban Skater trend. Metro Love trend which is all about the basics; think map printed jacket, baseball jacket, Thailand bans ‘Arbat’ movie leggings, floral tops and lace tee blouses in denim jacket, pattern shirt is perfect hues like white black with red accents. While to ace this look that is a rage this fall. that moves on to the Outdoor Charm trend, Off white, heather grey, black, navy on religious grounds infuse that bright, warm Orange color into are some of the key hues for this col- key pieces like floral sweatshirts, parka jack- lection. Drawing inspiration from the ets and lightweight twill shirts. Beige, creamy biker culture, the Frontier trend incul- he Thai government has banned the release of “Arbat,” a ing alcohol; monks in sexual relations; portraying images that white and grey are the champion colors for a cates elements like the motorbike, locally-made horror film that was set to have released lat- are disrespectful to Buddha. Three of these contravene the five sophisticated look this season while you take eagle on printed tees, motif print chambray Khaki, navy, olive and orange are some of the Ter this week. The Ministry of Culture said Monday that its central precepts of Buddhism. The ministry said that the ban long walks and soak in the changing weath- shirt ideal to get the cool biker vibe going. colors you can dabble with. Film and Media Screening Committee banned the film because could be reversed if cuts were made to the movie. it was disrespectful to monks and novices. The film, directed by Thai officialdom has previously intervened to defend the Girly look Kanittha Kwunyoo, tells the story of a young man who is forced public image of the Buddhist religion as portrayed by the movie The little angels can prance around in by his father to become a monk. The young man later develops industry. In 2006 Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Syndromes and two fun trends this season starting off with an intimate relationship with a village girl. a Century” was banned for showing monks kissing, drinking Sporty Chic which will see the girls dressed Producer and distributor, Sahamongkol film quickly can- and playing guitar. Weerasethakul, who went on to win the in active cuts and shapes with simple pat- celled a press screening scheduled for yesterday and halted the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2010 with “Uncle Boonmee Who Can terns, tartan to graphics like numbers/let- commercial release planned for Thursday. It is allowed to appeal Recall His Past Lives,” refused to make cuts and “Syndromes” ters. It’s not the perfect outfit unless you the ban. Following the release of the film’s trailer last month, remains unreleased in Thailand. However, Thai news media reg- have a good share of glitter thrown in on a protest groups wrote to the ministry calling for a ban on the ularly carries reports of monks who have made vast personal minimal palette of navy, white and red. For grounds that the film’s depictions may cause people to lose fortunes from their religious services, become celebrities and the ultimate girly look you can’t go wrong their Buddhist faith. The ministry gave four reasons for its ban: live decadent, materialistic lives. —Reuters with the English fairy tales inspired trend depiction of monks engaged in violent conduct; monks drink- with graphic sweats, sweater dresses and corduroy dresses.