lifestyle MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2017 MUSIC & MOVIES

This file photo shows Ozzy Kenneth Lonergan, left, director of ‘Manchester by the Sea,’ holds his nominee’s Osbourne of Black medallion as he poses with cast member Casey Affleck. Sabbath performing at Ozzfest 2016 at San List of winners Manuel Amphitheater in FILM Los Angeles, Feature Film Director California. — AFP Damien Chazelle (“La La Land”)

First-Time Feature Film Director Garth Davis (“Lion”) Black Sabbath say last rites Documentary Director Ezra Edelman (“O.J.: Made in America”) TELEVISON on touring in homecoming Drama Series Miguel Sapochnik - “Game of Thrones” (“The Battle of the Bastards”) lack Sabbath, the pioneers of heavy metal, 1970, as ticker tape and balloons blew out over guitar to a darker, lower tone to make bending Comedy Series ended their last-ever tour with a final con- the audience. Pyrotechnics went off as they took the strings easier. The resulting menacing sound Becky Martin - “Veep” (“Inauguration”) Bcert in Birmingham, their home town their final bow. The band put their arms around spawned the heavy metal genre. Band members Tv Movie/Miniseries where it all began nearly 50 years ago. The god- each other and posed for a farewell picture with came and went, though Iommi, Osbourne, Steven Zaillian - “The Night Of” (“The Beach”) fathers of the genre bowed out on Saturday with the cheering crowd behind them. “Thank you, Butler and Ward remained the classic line-up. Variety/Talk/News/Sports - Series a farewell show at the 16,000-capacity National goodnight, thank you so much,” Osbourne said Geoff Nicholls, who was the metal band’s key- Don Roy King - “Saturday Night Live” (“Host: Dave Chapelle”) Exhibition Centre Arena in the central English as they left the stage, Iommi giving a thumbs up boardist from 1979 to 2004, died last Saturday Variety/Talk/News/Sports - Specials city. Guitarist Tony Iommi, singer Ozzy Osbourne, as he waved goodbye. aged 68 following a battle with lung Glenn Weiss - “The 70th Annual Tony Awards”. bass guitarist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill cancer.Iommi said Sabbath were “not saying Ward got together in 1968 and created a sound Heavy metal thunder goodbye as such... we don’t want to do any more filled with the brooding menace of horror films. Black Sabbath was instrumental in creating world tours. Sabbath kicked off their mammoth farewell heavy metal in the early 1970s with dark and “I wouldn’t rule out doing a one-off show. Or run of 81 concerts, entitled The End Tour, in high-volume guitars coupled with a keen inter- even an album. I think the door’s open,” he told January last year in the United States. The world est in the occult. The hippy peace-and-flowers the BBC, though Osbourne, said: “As far as I am tour took them to Australasia, Europe, North vibe of the 1967 “Summer of Love” bypassed concerned, this is the end... I’m not doing it America again, South America, then back to industrial Birmingham, which instead still rang again.” US-based Osbourne, dubbed the Prince Europe to finish in Birmingham with shows on with the thunder of factories. On his final day as of Darkness, admitted his emotions were “all Thursday and Saturday. Iommi, 68, the only ever- a sheet metal worker, 17-year-old Iommi acci- over the place” since returning home for the final present member, Osbourne, 68, and Butler, 67 — dentally sliced off the tips of the middle two fin- shows. “Since I’ve got to this building, I’ve been Ward has not played with the band since 2012 gers on his fretting hand. Though his future as a happy, I’ve been tearful,” he said. “One of the — took to the stage one last time, joined by guitarist seemed over before it began, he was proudest things I have in my heart is the fact drummer Tommy Clufetos and keyboard player determined to continue playing and fashioned that Black Sabbath wasn’t a band that was creat- Adam Wakeman. Their final song was streamed fingertips out of melted plastic bottle tops. ed by some big mogul,” he said. “It was four guys live on Facebook. The band bowed out with The left-hander had to come up with new who said, ‘Let’s have a dream’, and it came true “Paranoid”, their breakthrough chart hit from ways of playing chords, and also tuned down his beyond our wildest expectations.” — AFP

In this May 31, 2016, photo, Maren Morris poses in Nashville, Tenn. — AP Kelsea Ballerini, Maren Morris lead wave of country women

emale artists may often be over- with their male counterparts in pop, R&B looked on country radio, but the one and country music, while other genres, like Fplace where they feel the love is at rock and rap, have been mostly male domi- the Grammy Awards. This year, two new- nated. Ballerini’s 2015 debut album, “The comers, Kelsea Ballerini and Maren Morris, First Time,” spawned a remarkable three are leading a wave of country women dom- consecutive No. 1 singles on Billboard’s inating the Grammys this year. Morris and country airplay chart. Ballerini share nods in the all-genre new Ballerini was deliberate by releasing a artist category, the first time in Grammy pair of poppy upbeat flirty songs in the history that two country women have been vein of Taylor Swift before releasing the honored in that category. “I think it’s a huge strongest song on her album, a power bal- step forward for people taking women into lad called “Peter Pan.” “We knew that ‘Peter consideration because you have to have Pan’ was like our baby and we wanted it to another perspective on the radio,” said be put out at a time where it could be Morris, a 26-year-old singer-songwriter heard and not just shut down because it from Texas. “And I think the Grammys have was a ballad by a female,” Ballerini said. done a really great solid by recognizing This image released by Universal Studios shows John Ortiz in a scene from “A Dog’s Purpose.”— AP quality art. And I think the girls really Memorable lyrics brought it this year.” Morris is up for four Grammy Awards, Women outnumber the male nominees including best country album, best country in the best country album and best country solo performance and best country song American Humane: Third-party solo performance categories. In addition to for “My Church.” Morris and Ballerini, Miranda Lambert, With her addictively memorable lyrics Brandy Clark, Carrie Underwood, Lori on songs like “My Church” and “80s McKenna, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton and Mercedes,” Morris wants to be the gateway report clears ‘A Dog’s Purpose’ Cassadee Pope are up for awards at the Feb for more people to listen to country music. 12 show, airing live on CBS from the Staples “I have sort of kicked that door in for them Center in Los Angeles. Morris and Ballerini to listen to more country artists, and then eaked video showing a frightened dog clusion was based on viewing unedited footage ceed as insinuated by the misleadingly edited broke out just as the bro-country wave hit go back and listen to classic country artists being forced into churning water during from the set and on eyewitness accounts, group video,” the group added. The dog was immedi- a critical mass and critics and fans alike because I referenced them and am vocally Lfilming of “A Dog’s Purpose” was mislead- spokesman Mark Stubis said Saturday. Who may ately taken to a warming tent, an examination were clamoring for songs with a message inspired by them,” Morris said. ingly edited and the German shepherd was have leaked the video wasn’t addressed in the found no signs of stress, and the dog later was and artists with a more diverse sound. “I Morris, who will also be performing with unharmed, according to third-party findings report, and American Humane doesn’t know returned to filming, it said. The on-set represen- definitely feel like for any female, the odds Alicia Keys during the awards show, said released by American Humane, the group who is responsible, he said. The video had an tative, who American Humane said was joined weren’t necessarily in our favor,” said she approached her first major label record, responsible for overseeing animal safety on the immediate impact on “A Dog’s Purpose,” starring by three trainers, a safety coordinator and a Ballerini, a 23-year-old from East Tennessee. 2016’s “Hero,” as if she if might not get movie set. An independent animal-cruelty Dennis Quaid and featuring Josh Gads’ voice, as water safety diver throughout the scene, was “We were really maybe underrated a bit in another. “I’ve had friends who had record expert found that preventative safety measures a planned press day and starry premiere were suspended after the video’s release. The group the beginning because we were on this deals that their label dropped them after were in place to protect the dog, Hercules, canceled. But producer Amblin Entertainment declined to address the person’s status, citing independent label.” releasing one song or they made full American Humane said. The board-certified vet- and distributor Universal Pictures stuck to plans confidentiality for personnel issues. records and they were shelved,” Morris said. erinarian, who was not identified, concluded to release the PG-rated film a week ago in more Lisa Lange, senior vice president for the animal Critical favorites “That could easily happen to me. I am a that the dog was momentarily stressed but suf- than 3,000 North American theaters. rights group PETA, called the report’s findings Bill Freimuth, senior vice president of new artist and I am a woman and I have fered no lasting ill effects. incomplete and said the video still shows “a fright- awards for The Recording Academy, said something different to say.” The group said the outside expert, whose Animal safety ened dog who did not wish to go into the water.” Grammy voters, who are musicians them- “My Church” cracked the Top 5 on name was withheld because of the public outcry Despite the controversy, the feel-good film that “The fact that the dog did not get injured or die is selves, aren’t necessarily swayed by an Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart and following the video’s release, found it to be a had been pegged to open in the mid-$20-million not at issue, but questions remain,” including why artist’s major label backing, marketing became one of the top five digitally selling misrepresentation of events. “The decisions by range still managed to earn an estimated $18.4 the dog was checked at the time, Lange said in a budget or album sales, so that gives more country singles of the year. For both the individual or individuals who captured and million and place second at the box office, behind statement. “In the making of a film, no animal opportunities to artists who are critical singers, the new artist nomination isn’t a deliberately edited the footage, and then waited “Split.” Studio representatives said that was in line should be frightened at all. It is a film.” Dr Kwane favorites, but underrepresented on radio. competition. They’ve already won the race longer than 15 months to release the manipulat- with their hopes. Amblin Entertainment and Stewart, the veterinarian in charge of American “It frees them up from thinking about chart by beating the odds against them. “It’s the ed video only days before the movie’s premiere, Universal Pictures declined comment on the Humane’s “No Animals Were Harmed” program position and radio play,” Freimuth said. people that love music, do music, judge raise serious questions about their motives and report Saturday. American Humane, which had an based on filming guidelines developed by a scien- “The only thing that is important to us is music, fight for music for a living, saying, ethics,” American Humane said Friday. animal safety representative on the set, acknowl- tific advisory committee, said in a statement that the quality of the recording and the per- ‘We’ve listened to 500 hundred new artists “The video was deliberately edited for the edged that “the handling of the dog in the first the organization is “the first to address fight cruel- formance.” The Recording Academy elimi- that are eligible this year and we think purpose of misleading the public and stoking scene in the video should have been gentler and ty and abuse” and that none occurred on the nated gender-based categories in 2011 and you’re one of the best five,’” Ballerini said. outrage. In fact, the two scenes shown in the signs of stress recognized earlier.” movie set. American Humane is the sole industry- Freimuth said since then women have “That makes me feel cooler than I have ever edited video were filmed at different times,” the “That being said, it is important to note that sanctioned animal safety group on film and TV dominated or have been recognized on par felt in my life.” — AP group said in reporting the findings. That con- this was recognized and the scene did not pro- production sets. — AP