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Award Shows Need Hosts and Alicia Keys Is Proof. P2-3 Community Community Human Al Khayarin papillomavirus Group in P4screening and P16 co-ordination vaccination must be taken with Pakistani up on a war footing to forums organised prevent 15 million cervical annual blood cancer deaths. donation campaign. Friday, February 22, 2019 Jumada II 17, 1440 AH Doha today 170 - 220 COVER Note to Oscars STORY Award shows need hosts and Alicia Keys is proof. P2-3 CUISINE SHOWBIZ Pizookie, the best Madhuri hasn’t changed dessert combination. at all: Anil Kapoor. Page 6 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Friday, February 22, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY “Have a ball, man. The world is PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.47am stressful enough” Shorooq (sunrise) 6.04am Zuhr (noon) 11.47am Asr (afternoon) 3.05pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.34pm Alicia Keys surprised herself and the world with a Isha (night) 7.04pm USEFUL NUMBERS debut host performance at the Grammys. She draws the lessons in conversation with Lorraine Ali Emergency 999 Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 Hamad International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation 44845555, 44845464 Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 44593363 Qatar Assistive Technology Centre 44594050 Qatar News Agency 44450205 44450333 Q-Post – General Postal Corporation 44464444 Humanitarian Services Offi ce (Single window facility for the repatriation of bodies) Ministry of Interior 40253371, 40253372, 40253369 Ministry of Health 40253370, 40253364 Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 Qatar Airways 40253374 ote Unquo Qu te “To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.” She put a warmth and — Confucius kind of like universal positive attitude out there in a big way, and that is something you Community Editor Kamran Rehmat dream about in a host e-mail: [email protected] for a show like this Telephone: 44466405 — Ken Ehrlich, Fax: 44350474 ‘ executive producer ’ Friday, February 22, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 COVER STORY COMMUNITY licia Keys had never Sandra Oh left a similar hosted an awards impression after co-hosting the show, big or small, Golden Globes in January. In when she stepped on between the scripted jokes, she the Staples Center addressed the room and cameras Astage last week to serve in that as if they were intimate friends. capacity for the 61st Grammy Both Keys and Oh presented Awards. The singer-songwriter shows that paid attention had, of course, been invited up to female artists, who have several times over the years to traditionally been overlooked in perform and receive awards — their respective industries. 15 Grammys, to be exact — but “Nobody knows that room running a show that’s been better than me,” Keys said of the described as a runaway train is Grammy crowd from her home another matter. in New York. “I’m an artist like Most everyone knows that Keys all the artists that are there, and can sing and play like nobody’s I’m a creative person like all the business, but did she have any creative people that are there. So business being on that stage? I understand what it takes to get To the surprise of many in the yourself in that room, to psych business, the answer was yes. yourself up, to be potentially The Girl on Fire singer dared disappointed, to bring your A to be warm and personable for game and perform in a way that her hosting debut, veering away exceeds everybody’s expectations, from the deprecating humour, even when only God knows what snack gags and political barbs that is happening in your personal often drive major awards shows. life at the moment. All of us have She won over a notoriously cool been to enough of these things crowd, and she set the tone for the to know, it can be so plastic. And most critically lauded Grammys when I say, ‘All of us,’ I literally in recent history. mean people at home. They “There is definitely a magic know better than anybody that in creating the energy,” said sometimes it’s just like ‘What am Keys, 38, explaining how she I watching?’” approached the challenge. “When What they saw was Keys joke you go to somebody’s house, with John Mayer about losing a they invite you in, and it smells song of the year Grammy to him in beautiful and they’re cooking 2005, sing with Smokey Robinson something. They ask you to sit for a transcendent second or on the couch, and while you sit two and play two pianos at once on the couch, they bring you during a segment. Keys, who said something to drink. They talk she was honouring pianist Hazel about how your day was, and the Scott, was also emulating former next guest comes, and they bring hosts she admired. everybody together. The person “When I’d watch some of the cares about who’s in their house, greats like Sammy Davis or Carol so that everyone feels welcome Burnett or Dean Martin,” she said, there. And that really matters. “it was inspirational that they In essence, it’s the same thing. “I really wanted to bring the energy of those really were just able to do everything. I wanted everybody to come classic, legendary performers, their flow of moving They could be funny, could sing, into the house, sit on the couch, could play an instrument, could take off their shoes and have a between many styles and many things. That’s what play the piano. It was allowed to ball, man. The world is stressful be a full experience. … I really enough.” they mean by a master of ceremonies” wanted to bring the energy of Escapism aside, the performer those really classic, legendary also called attention to how — Alicia Keys performers, their flow of moving critical a host can be to the between many styles and many success of an awards ceremony things. That’s what they mean by — two weeks before the Oscars a master of ceremonies.” arrives without one at the helm. And it translated in numbers. The Academy Awards is going Ratings were up slightly on commando for the first time terrestrial TV, but on social in 30 years after its scheduled media, the Grammys were the host, Kevin Hart, stepped most social television event in the down last month after a flap last two years, according to social over old homophobic remarks media analytics platform Netbase. he’d made on Twitter surfaced. “In person, she really is special, It’s no secret that it’s a tough and she’s always had that,” said if not thankless gig — just ask Ehrlich. “But in all honesty, I Whoopi, Hugh, Jimmy or Seth. didn’t expect it to translate to And after a fruitless effort to such a huge group of people. find a replacement, the new film That’s really unusual. She put a academy motto seems to be: Who warmth and kind of like universal needs a host anyway? positive attitude out there in a big Well, the Oscars, for starters way, and that is something you … and they need look no further dream about in a host for a show than the Grammys to see why. like this.” Keys was an unexpected It’s worth noting that Ellen choice, said the show’s executive DeGeneres hosted the Grammys producer, Ken Ehrlich, who before she landed the Oscars. was contacted by members of So did Billy Crystal. So it’s only Key’s camp last year about the natural to ask, because film’s big prospect. But it was intriguing night has a job vacancy… . given that she brought an insider “Are they going to need me to do “credibility” to the role. It wasn’t the Oscars?” she asks rhetorically. until he saw her at rehearsals that “Yes, they’ve been calling. I said it was clear she’d elevated the I’m not going be able to do it,” she game by being an emotionally said with a laugh. invested part of the show. SURPRISE PACKAGE: Host Alicia Keys performs during the 61st Grammy Awards at Staples Center in Los Angeles. —Los Angeles Times/TNS 4 GULF TIMES Friday, February 22, 2019 COMMUNITY BODY & MIND Boosting HPV screening to end cervical cancer uman papillomavirus Cancer Council New South Wales in (HPV) screening and Australia. However, large disparities vaccination must be exist in cervical screening and taken up on a war HPV vaccination coverage among footing to prevent 15 countries. Hmillion cervical cancer deaths among “Awareness about cervical cancer women by 2050, a Lancet research is extremely poor among common said. people; that makes containing the Causing the second-highest disease a challenge,” said Anjila number of deaths among women, Aneja, Director at Fortis La Femme cervical cancer, in a majority of cases, “While societal barriers prevent is caused by HPV, a group of more women from seeking medical help in than 150 viruses. advance, women are forced to come The eff orts might even result in out at a later stage when the disease cervical cancer being eliminated as has reached an advanced stage,” she a public health hazard by 2070-79, said. according to the study, published in However, Canfell says that The Lancet Oncology journal. despite the enormity of the problem, Combining high uptake of the their fi ndings suggest that “global HPV vaccine and cervical screening elimination is within reach with tools could eliminate cervical cancer as that are already available, provided a public health hazard in 149 out of that both high coverage of HPV 181 countries by 2100 and up to 13 vaccination and cervical screening million cases of cervical cancer by can be achieved.
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