lifestyle TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2015 Music & Movies Trainor and Styles write a duet about heartbreak eghan Trainor and Harry Styles have put their heartbreak into a Mduet. The American singer known for the megahit “All About That Bass” and the One Direction star got together to write a song called “Someday Maybe.” Trainor, 21, told the Associated Press she was impressed with Styles’ ability to tap into his emotions, but it’s not certain that we’ll ever hear the two perform the duet together. “His lyric game for a 20-year-old boy was incredible,” Trainor said. “I was just like... ‘who hurt you Harry? You’re so good at this. So good.’” She said she is looking for the right people to sing the duet and doesn’t know if she would record it with Styles. She said the song is about “being in a relationship with someone and then you break up and see them with someone else and you think, maybe when we’re 50 and older we can probably get back together.” “It’s beautiful,” she added. Styles has previ- ously been romantically linked with singer Taylor Swift, and reality TV stars Kendall Jenner and Kimberly Stewart. He has also co-written a ballad for Ariana Grande’s lat- Meghan Trainor attends the 2014 est album called “Just A Little Bit Of Your Billboard Women in Music luncheon at Heart.” Trainor releases her debut album Cipriani Wall Street in New York.—AP “Title” in Britain yesterday.—AP US actor Johnny Depp and his fiancee Amber Heard arrive at Haneda international airport in Tokyo yesterday for his latest film “Mortdecai” pro- motion.—AP Larger-than-life Greek singer Demis Roussos dies at 68 reek singer Demis Roussos, best known ers that provided the most enduring image of for operatic pop ballads in the 1970s and the singer: a theatrical figure with a flowing dark G1980s, died in Athens at the weekend beard, intense dark eyes and long hair thinning aged 68. The entertainer had been admitted to on top. the Igia clinic some time ago with an undis- He carried this larger-than-life persona on closed illness and the medical facility issued only stage during concerts with colorful clothing, and a brief statement yesterday announcing his sustained it with a voice that belted out power- death. Roussos sold about 60 million records ful operatic flourishes. “Back in ‘75 I had five worldwide with a high-pitched voice and a style albums in the top 10. Simultaneously. And that brought together melodies inspired by among them the number one album and the Greek folklore, romance, relationships and break number one single. And my name was men- Amr Waked ups. tioned twice or three times in the Guinness Book He was also briefly held hostage by Lebanese of Records,” he said in an interview with The militants when he was aboard a hijacked plane Guardian in 1999. in Greece. Roussos was born in Egypt on June Egyptian star Amr 15, 1945 to a Greek father who took the family ‘Polite’ hijackers back to Greece in 1961. He found fame in the Though he had been singing since childhood, Waked joins ‘Geostorm’ cast 1970s after teaming up with fellow Greek musi- Roussos began his musical career at 17 playing A file picture taken on December 15, 2006 in cian Vangelis in the band Aphrodite’s Child. guitar and bass in a band called “The Idols.” Paris, shows Greek singer Demis Roussos gyptian multihyphenate Amr Waked security expert with little patience for error He soon went solo and built a long career During one of the group’s performances, performing on the stage of the Zenith music (“Lucy”) has joined the cast of Gerard and stupidity who works hard to keep every- over which he sold millions of albums with such Roussos briefly replaced the lead singer and hall.—AFP Butler sci-fi blockbuster “Geostorm,” in one safe, according to pic’s publicity notes. hits as “Forever and Ever”, “Mr Reason”, “Goodbye belted out his rendition of the American folk bal- E hostages, Hezbollah demanded the release of 17 which he will play the French head of security Waked, who is Egypt’s biggest international My Love, Goodbye” and “Je t’aime.” Roussos had lad “House of the Rising Sun”. The audience, of its militants and Iraqi Islamic Daawa Party at an international space station when the star, played the bemused French narcotics long struggled with his weight, and in later years according to Roussos’ website, was instantly cap- members who were arrested in Kuwait in con- earth’s climate control satellites fail to func- cop in “Lucy” and more recently appeared as suffered ill-health that kept him chair-bound. He tivated by his voice. Within years of that early nection with attacks that killed six people in tion. “Geostorm,” which is currently shooting an advisor to Mongol King Kublai Khan in recorded and toured until 2009, when his last success he was singing more and more, increas- 1983. Roussos, who spent his 39th birthday as a in New Orleans, will mark the feature directo- TWC/Netflix TV series “Marco Polo.” His previ- album came out. One of his ingly as a soloist. hostage, was released four days into the ordeal, rial debut of Dean Devlin, who teamed with ous roles include star turns in “Syriana,” last public appearances was in the Athens in Years later Roussos was aboard TWA flight with most of the roughly 150 passengers held Roland Emmerich to produce 1996’s “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen,” and the BBC’s 2013, when he received a French Legion of 847 when it was hijacked by men with the for nearly two more weeks.—AFP “Independence Day.” “House of Saddam” mini-series. Honour medal for his life’s work. But it was his Lebanese group Hezbollah on June 14, 1985. In Devlin’s Electric Entertainment is produc- Waked is a political activist and producer melancholy face on 1970s and 1980s album cov- exchange for the Roussos and the other ing with Skydance Productions. Key American via his ZAD production shingle which shep- cast besides Butler includes Katheryn erded fellow Egyptian director Ibrahim El Winnick, Ed Harris, Andy Garcia and child Batout’s Cairo-set organ trafficking thriller “El actor Sterling Jerins. Warner Bros has slated Ott,” in which he stars as a gangster searching the sci-fi action thriller, centered on cata- for his kidnapped daughter. “El Ott” recently strophic climate change that endangers the bowed at number two at the Egyptian box world’s survival, for release on Oct 21, 2016. office via Falcon and is seeking distribution in Waked’s character in “Geostorm,” is named Europe.—Reuters Ray Dussette, an intimidating and rugged Panahi issues statement on irrepressible need to direct despite being banned ranian auteur Jafar Panahi has issued a The other two are “This is Not a Film” and statement explaining his defiance of the “Closed Curtain,” which competed in Berlin in IIranian government’s official ban against 2013, where it won the screenplay prize, him making movies which he has repeatedly prompting official protests from the Iranian broken, most recently with his latest feature, government that year. Since 2014, when cur- “Taxi,” slated for competition at the upcoming rent Iranian president Hassan Rouhani took Berlin Film Festival. “Nothing can prevent me office, Iranian filmmakers are feeling a differ- from making films since when being pushed ent climate, though the ban on Panahi offi- to the ultimate corners I connect with my cially remains in place. A six-year jail sentence inner-self and in such private spaces, despite against him has not been enforced. While all limitations, the necessity to create Panahi is no longer under house arrest he is becomes even more an urge,”said Panahi in not allowed to leave the country. the statement. Prior to the 2010 ban Pahani won the “Cinema as an Art becomes my main pre- Venice Golden Lion in 2000 for “The Circle,” occupation. That is the reason why I have to and the Un Certain Regard Jury prize in continue making films under any circum- Cannes for “Crimson Gold in 2003, among stances to pay my respect and feel alive,” the other prestigious nods. Sales of “Taxi” will be prolific filmmaker added. “Taxi,” pictured, in handled at the upcming Berlin fest European From left to right, Author/producer Lawrence Wright, former Scientology church member Spanky Taylor, director Alex Gibney, Sara Bernstein, which Panahi plays the driver of a Tehran yel- Film Market by French sales company Senior Vice President of Programming for HBO Documentaries and former Scientology church member Mike Rinder attend the premiere of low cab taking a variety of confiding passen- Celluloid Dreams, with which Panahi has a “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief” during the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on Sunday in Park City, Utah.—AP gers around town, is Panahi’s third film smug- longstanding rapport. News of Panahi’s state- gled abroad since 2010, when he was arrest- ment and Celluloid Dreams handling sales of ed and banned by Iranian authorities from this latest pic was first reported by Screen moviemaking. International.—Reuters Sundance doc pulls back curtain on Scientology oing Clear: Scientology and the Scientology, he finally learned Hubbard’s ulti- The film traces Cruise’s relationship with the Prison of Belief” premiered Sunday at mate theory: That a tyrannical galactic overlord church, and claims it intentionally broke up his “G the Sundance Film Festival to a named Xenu dropped frozen bodies from mil- marriage with Nicole Kidman because she was packed house - not with a star-studded red car- lions of years ago into volcanoes, and those spir- not a believer.