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Thursday JUNE 14,2012 WWW.LOHUD.COM Puzzles inside B Japan is inspiration Rock to create Gaga shoes Designer adds platform goddess for ‘wow’ geisha footwear By Yuri Kageyama Yonkers native Mary J. Blige The Associated Press AJapanese talks about her breakout role shoe designer has become a in ‘Rock of Ages’ movie pop diva’s fa- vorite by tak- By Heather Salerno ing geisha and [email protected] making it Ga- ga. Mary J. Blige has reigned for years Noritaka as the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul. Tatehana is But she might earn another royal the man be- nickname with the big-screen adapta- hind Lady Ga- tion of the Broadway musical “Rock of ga’s towering, Ages”: the Empress of Hard Rock. clog-like shoes, Lady Gaga wears plat- Opening in theaters Friday, the film fol- which have no form shoes created by lows the romance of small-town girl Sherrie heel and are 10 Noritaka Tatehana. () and big-city boy Drew to 18 inches WONG MAYE-E/ () as they chase their Hollywood tall. Her ap- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS dreams circa 1987, as told through the fist- pearances on pumping, head-banging hits of Def Leppard, Poi- TV shows and music videos, teetering son, Tw isted Sister, Bon Jovi and more. And al- in his creations, have helped make him though Blige, who plays a nightclub owner, is best such a fashion star that some of his known for funk-flavored ballads filled with raw emo- shoes sell for more than $15,000 a pair. tion, she had nothing but a good time belting out the Tatehana, who has made more than era’s heavy metal anthems. 20 pairs for Lady Gaga in the past two “It was just like singing the songs that I sing, be- years, said he took the traditional “ge- cause they’re very passionate, energetic, meaningful ta” shoes of geishas and made a modern songs,” she says. “I had fun putting my all into it. It was form with his sculptural platforms. very nostalgic.” “My work became an icon. It worked Now 41, with nine Grammy Awards and worldwide not only as branding for me. It also be- sales of 50 million albums to her credit, the Yonkers na- came part of her branding,” Tatehana tive was influenced early on by artists like Aretha said in a recent interview at his Tokyo workshop, cluttered with art books and See BLIGE, Page 4B his sleek shoes — some glittering with Swarovski crystals, others with golden Mary J. studs. Blige arrives The 26-year-old, who evokes the pen- at the “Rock sive mood of a monk with his quiet of Ages” voice, long tied back in a bun and premiere at baggy Yohji Yamamoto pants, was still Grauman’s astudent when his career took off. In Chinese fact, Lady Gaga’s first pair of Tateha- Theatre in nas had been the subject of his gradua- Los tion thesis at the prestigious Tokyo Uni- Angeles. versity of the Arts, where he studied JORDAN traditional weaving and kimono dye- STRAUSS/ ing. INVISION He made the shoes with pink, reptil- ian-looking leather from a stingray, common in Japanese crafts such as Yonkers native Mary J. Blige makes her movie-musical decoration for swords. He started his debut as strip-club owner Justice in “Rock of Ages.” In the fashion brand by trumpeting the de- film, the Grammy-winning singer belts out 80s hits like Pat sign in an email he sent to dozens of Benatar’s “Shadows of the Night.” DAVID JAMES people in the industry. He received just three responses: one from a blogger, one from a journal- ist and one from Lady Gaga’s stylist. Lady Gaga was not available for comment. But fashion guru and beer heiress Daphne Guinness said she is a big fan. “I am so happy to have a friend who

See SHOES, Page 4B Flash Sketch Mob pops up in Nyack this weekend These artists — from amateurs to to 1p.m. Then the images will be Nyack artist Public invited to create pros — will all be taking part in a Flash scanned. Bill Batson portraits of downtown Sketch Mob planned by Nyack artist Bill At around 9 p.m., the artwork will be is seeking Batson as part of this weekend’s Art projected onto the side of a building at artists, By Latoya West Walk in Nyack, an annual festival that North Broadway and High Avenue in professional [email protected] features Nyack shops displaying the Nyack for all to see. or work of local artists from Friday to Sun- “This is for anyone who loves art and amateurs, If you’re strolling downtown in day. for anyone who loves artwork,” Batson, to take part Nyack on Saturday, don’t be surprised if To take part in the Flash Sketch Mob, who sketches local buildings himself for in a Flash you see groups of artists gathered on participants will meet up at the Nyack his online Nyack Sketch Log, told us in a Sketch Mob each block. Some might be painting on Center at 10 a.m. on Saturday, where recent interview. on Saturday canvas. Others might be drawing on pa- they will be asked to create a portrait of For more information and to register, in Nyack. per. And you might even see a young art- different sections of downtown Nyack visit Batson’s site at sketchflashmob. KRIS BURNS ist making do with an Etch-A-Sketch. during a two-hour window from 11 a.m. wordpress.com.

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Continued from Page 1B Franklin and Chaka Khan. WHAT DID MARY THINK Her cover of Anita Bak- OF TOM CRUISE? er’s “Caught Up in the Rapture” — taped at a re- Mary J. Blige is relatively new to the acting game, but cording booth at the Gal- after 20 years in the music industry, the singer is more leria mall in White Plains than qualified to critique her “Rock of Ages” co-star —led to her being signed Tom Cruise. by Uptown Records at 18. So we asked her to review Cruise’s transformation into But Blige also recalls rock icon Stacee Jaxx, whom the actor portrays as a spending lots of time as a leering, boozy combination of Axl Rose and Jim Morri- girl watching pop stars son. He’s shirtless for the entire film, sports a jewel- and rock ’n’ rollers on studded codpiece and has a raunchy love scene on an air MTV after the channel hockey table while crooning Foreigner’s “I Want to launched in 1981. Know What Love Is.” Plus, he’s got a monkey sidekick “It was all about Pat named Hey Man. Benatar during that time. “You watch different rock ‘n’ roll singers — he must It was all about Journey at have been studying them, because his every move was that time,” she remem- them,” says Blige. “The way they speak, really low, like bers. “It was all about Ma- they’re the coolest thing on the planet.” donna and Cyndi Lauper. “He really delivered,” she adds. “He made me believe he We caught all that stuff on was a rock star.” the videos.” —Heather Salerno So Blige had a blast re- visiting the decade known for , spandex, DON’T FORGET TO LOOK FOR … leather and ripped denim. Yonkers native Mary J. Blige, right, with Julianne Hough, makes her movie-musical debut BEDFORD’S CATHERINE ZETA-JONES In the film, she’s Justice, as strip-club owner Justice in “Rock of Ages.” DAVID JAMES who runs a “gentleman’s With “Rock of Ages,” the Welsh-born actress – who club” and gives a down- moved to Bedford with husband Michael Douglas and and-out Sherrie a job; in their two children two years ago — tackles her first one scene, a jumpsuit- movie-musical since winning the Oscar for best support- wearing Blige turns Jour- ing actress as murderer Velma Kelly in 2002’s “Chicago.” ney’s “Any Way You Want (Who can forget how glowing and gorgeous the nearly It” into a study guide for nine-months-pregnant star looked as she accepted her strippers. award?) Being chosen to por- She takes on another villainous role with this film, as tray Justice was an unex- Patricia Whitmore, the mayor’s wife who declares, “Rock pected thrill for Blige, ‘n’ roll is a disease,” and vows to clean up Hollywood’s whose most prominent sleazy Sunset Strip. Her character wasn’t in the original prior movie role was as a Broadway show: Director says the part bartender in Tyler Perry’s was created so the movie could look at cultural censor- “I Can Do Bad All By My- ship in the mid-1980s. self.” (She’s also guest And get this: Zeta-Jones was so gung-ho about the starred as herself on TV’s project, she signed on without even seeing a script. The “Entourage” and “30 end result? She spikes Patricia’s holier-than-thou atti- Rock.”) Tw o years ago, tude with a calculating, malicious — and totally she met “Rock of Ages” nails rock anthems by Pat Benatar and Twister Sister. Not director Adam Shankman to mention, she’s doing it all in the kind of ensembles —who helmed 2007’s fea- Bedford’s Catherine Zeta-Jones co-stars in “Rock of Ages,” her first movie musical since favored by ‘80s political wives, complete with sensible ture-film version of winning an Oscar for her performance in 2002’s “Chicago.” She signed on to play the heels, big-shouldered blazers and triple-strand pearl “Hairspray” — at a house- mayor’s wife — who declares war on rock ’n’ roll — before reading a script. DAVID JAMES necklaces. warming party for a mu- This is a big-screen comeback for the actress, who hasn’t tual friend and the two of her hit “No More Dra- coach to even have the “(It’s) whatever it made a film in three years and whose last hit was 2004’s clicked. ma” — one wouldn’t think confidence to do that,” needs to be for now,” she “Ocean’s Twelve.” She’s navigated a rough road recent- “We were just hanging Blige ever gets jittery. Yet says Blige. says, “until I can really ly, with Douglas fighting throat cancer and her own out, having a good time, she hired an acting coach Still, she clearly isn’t learn the craft.” struggle with depression. (Last year, she revealed that and he kept saying, ‘I’m after signing on for “Rock afraid of a challenge: Af- she’s being treated for bipolar II disorder, a mental going to put you in a film.’ of Ages,” somewhat in- ter this, Blige is preparing illness characterized by swings between prolonged periods of depression and shorter episodes of mania.) You don’t ever believe timidated by the film’s en- to play Malcolm X’s wife, SNEAK PREVIEW Now, she’s got three other movies in the works, in- those things when people semble cast, which in- Betty Shabazz, in a TV Go to LoHud.com to cluding “The Bitter Pill,” due out next year. The psycho- tell you that,” she says, cludes three Academy- movie, and she’s also at- see a clip of Catherine logical thriller reunites Zeta-Jones with director Steven laughing. “But six months Award nominees (Alec tached to star as legend- Zeta-Jones doing “Hit Soderbergh, who collaborated with her on “Twelve” later, he called and had the Baldwin, Tom Cruise and ary crooner Nina Simone Me With Your Best and the Academy Award-winning “Traffic.” It also teams script.” ) and Oscar- in an upcoming biopic. Shot” and Tom Cruise’s her with one of her neighbors: Bedford native Rooney Given her history of winner Catherine Zeta- But she’s happy to performance in “Five Mara, in one of her first films since being nominated for fierce, gut-wrenching live Jones. move slow and study hard Minutes and Go,” an Oscar herself for “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” performances — she “Just to even stand in to establish a successful from the film “Rock of —Heather Salerno brought down the house at the midst of all those Hollywood career, wheth- Ages.” the 2002 Grammy Awards great actors and ac- er that means a supporting with an intense rendition tresses, I had to get a or headlining role.

Complete listings in Sunday’s guide and online at www.LoHud.com/tvlistings MOVIE Thursday, June 14 EVENING 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 The Big Bang Theory (:31) 2Broke Girls Rich Person of Interest Blue Code. Reese infiltrates a The Mentalist The Redshirt. NFL star quarter- 2WCBS Friendship. Friendsno People. Caroline's old smuggling ring in hopes of getting close to the back presumed dead after his car suddenly more. (HD) life. (HD) latest POI. (HD) blows up. (HD) The Office Test the Parks and Recreation Saving Hope Contact. Joel tries to help areli- Rock Center with Brian Williams Harry Smith in- 4WNBC Store. Dwight tries to Comeback Kid. Leslie's gious patient who refuses medical treatment. terviews Candice Bergen about her childhood impress Nellie. (HD) big event. (HD) (N) (HD) and her breakout role. (N) (HD) Take Me Out Episode 2. (N) (:58) The Choice Episode 2. (N) FOX 5News at 10 News events of the day, late 5WNYW breaking news and NYCarea weather forecasts. (N) Live (:31) NBA Countdown 2012 NBA Finals Game 2. Miami Heat at Oklahoma City Thunder from Chesapeake Energy Arena 7WABC Game Night. Joel (HD) (Live) (HD) McHale. (N) (HD) 9WWOR Without aTrace Malone. Jack endurescustody Without aTrace 4.0. All-American student van- The 10 O’Clock News (:35) The Office Chump. deposition. (HD) ishes. (HD) (N) Reaction. (HD) Noritaka Tatehana works in his Tokyo office. He designs Breaking Pointe First Place. Adam announces the The Vampire Diaries Disturbing. Klaus searches PIXNews at Ten The WPIX Nightly NewsTeam 11 WPIX lead roles, leading to tears for some. (N) (HD) for missing information. (HD) provides an up-to-the minute local newscast. (N) Lady Gaga’s towering shoes. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 13 WNET NYC Arts Pledge Programming Masterpiece Downton Abbey. Christmas in Downton; Mary's decision. (HD) 21 WLIW Nature Impact: Jungle. Animal functions. (HD) NOVA Flight 447. Doomed plane. (HD) Secrets of the Dead Headhunters. (HD) 25 WNYE (7:30) Globe Trekker Food. Curated. Food Tech Science of food. (HD) Scandinavian Brindiamo! SHOES: Designer 31 WPXN Cold Case Lover Lane. DNA freesman. (HD) Cold Case Badlands. Triple homicide. (HD) Criminal Minds Crossing. (HD) 41 WXTV (7:00) Un refugio para el amor (HD) Abismo de pasión Triángulo amoroso. (N) (HD) La que no podía amar (TVPG) (HD) 47 WNJU Una maid en Manhattan (N) (HD) Corazón valiente Reencuentro. (N) Relaciones peligrosas (N) (HD) 48 RNN Paid Program Paid Program Changing World Joyce Meyer (N) Paid Program Paid Program is a ‘unique talent’ 55 WLNY Law &Order: Criminal Intent Con-Text. (HD) Law &Order: Criminal Intent Offense. (HD) Judge Judy (N) Judge Judy 63 WMBC Sweet Heaven (:40) MBN News WMBC News-Korean Sister Noona Paid Program Paid Program Continued from Page 1B Tatehana grew up on CABLE 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 the seaside resort of Ka- A&E The First 48 Brutal Business. (HD) The First 48 Less Than Zero. (N) (HD) Cajun Justice (N) (HD) Cajun Justice (N) (HD) speaks the same language makura. His father used ThePatriot aac ('00, Drama) Mel Gibson. Against his father's wishes, the son of awar veteran joins the Continental Army to fight the British, and when AMC he returns home, the British take him prisoner and kill his younger brother, prompting his father to goonabloody quest forvengeance. (R) (HD) as me — not English or to run a downtown Tokyo BET (7:30) Steve Harvey: Don’t Trip -HeAin’t Through with Me Yet Poetic Justice aa ('93, Drama) . Poet in love. (R) Japanese, but the lan- public bathhouse that has BRAV Don’t Be Tardy Don’t Be Tardy Don’t Be Tardy for the Wedding (N) Kathy Kathy hosts an original experience. (N) guage of art, which tran- since become prime of- CNBC Walt Disney: The Man Behind the Myth aaa ('00) The life and career of Walt Disney.(PG) American Greed: Scams The Steal. scends linguistics,” Guin- fice real estate, and his CNN 360° Breaking news. (N) (HD) Piers Morgan Tonight (N) (HD) Anderson Cooper 360° Breaking news. (HD) ness said. “He is truly a mother teaches doll-mak- COM Futurama (TV14) (HD) South Park (TV14) (:56) South Park (:27) The Roast of William Shatner Captain irked. unique talent.” ing. He said he would like DIS Phineas and Ferb Jessie (HD) A.N.T. Farm (HD) Disney’s Shake It Up! Austin &Ally (HD) A.N.T. Farm (HD) Valerie Steele, director someday to expand into DSC Auction Kings (HD) Auction Kings (HD) Auction Kings (N) Auction Kings (N) Final Offer Blondes &Bugs. (N) (HD) and chief curator of the clothing, maybe bags, or ESPN 2012 U.S. Open Championship First Round. from Olympic Club in San Francisco (Live) (HD) SportsCenter from Bristol, Conn. (HD) Museum at the Fashion to work in costume design ESPN2 NFL Live (HD) College Football Live (HD) Baseball Tonight (HD) Institute of Technology in for films. He also wants to aaa FAM Titans ('00) (PG) (HD) Remember the Titans ('00, Drama) Denzel Washington. Coach unites his divided football team. (PG) (HD) New York, which has ex- help raise the profile of FOXN The O’Reilly Factor News talk. (N) (HD) Hannity Conservative news. (N) (HD) On the Record with Greta Van Susteren (N) hibited Tatehana’s work, his heritage around the FX Iron Man aaac ('08, Science Fiction) Robert Downey Jr. Tony Stark builds apowered suit of armor and becomes the superhero Iron Man. (PG-13) (HD) Unstoppable ('10) Run- Faceoff with Max 41 The 41st president provides arare &personal glimpse into his life and (:45) Making the News- said she hopes Tatehana world. HBO away train. (PG-13) (HD) Kellerman Pacquiao. (HD) career. (N) room (N) (HD) eventually makes a more “I want Japanese cul- affordable line. ture to stay alive today HIST Swamp People Never Say Die. Tired; rookie, ter- Swamp People Cold-blooded. Wind faced; re- Mountain Men Lost. (N) (HD) ritorial gator. (HD) union aids; new bait. (N) (HD) “Noritaka Tatehana is and win respect interna- IFC Frank Miller’s Sin City aaac ('05, Crime) Jessica Alba. Tough outlaws battle in acorrupt city. (R) (HD) Sin City ('05) (R) (HD) one of the most important tionally,” Tatehana said. LIFE Wife Swap Flynn; Orris. Drill sergeant swaps Wife Swap Two families trade mothers for two 7Days of Sex Mish; Davis. Reigniting intimacy. shoe designers of our “It’s creativity that de- with prankster. (TVPG) weeks and all parties involved must adjust. (TVPG) (N) (HD) time,” she said. “His fines a nation’s strength.” (:15) Cocktail aac ('88, Drama) Tom Cruise. Ayoung hotshotbartender finds success as part of a Knight and Day ('10, Action) Tom Cruise. Awoman MAX wild bartending act. (R) (HD) and arogue agent flee the CIA. (PG-13) (HD) amazing, vertiginous MSG Knicks Greatest Rivalries (HD) Knicks in 60 New Jersey vs New York (HD) heel-less high-heeled MSGPL World Poker Tour (Replay) (HD) The Dan Patrick Show (HD) shoes have transformed MSNBC The Ed Show Hot political news. (N) (HD) The Rachel Maddow Show (N) (HD) The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell (N) the look of extreme foot- MTV Ridiculousness (HD) Ridiculousness (HD) Ridiculousness (HD) Ridiculousness (HD) Ridiculousness (N) The Pauly DProject wear.” NICK Fake Party. Friends Free Porn. Hollywood Heights Meeting Rocksta. Yes, Dear Yes, Dear The custom-made a aac SHO (6:55) The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ('10, Fantasy) The Other FWord ('11, Comedy) Tony Adolescent. Ageneration of the ultimate anti-author- shoes look like the fur- Robert Pattinson. Feelings surface. (PG-13) (HD) itarians get together to become fathers. (R) (HD) thest thing from sensible; SNY (7:30) MLB Baseball New York Mets at Tampa Bay Rays from Tropicana Field (Replay) (HD) SportsNITE (HD) even Lady Gaga has occa- SPIKE Impact Wrestling (N) (HD) UFC Unleashed (HD) sionally lost her balance (7:10) Takers aac ('10, Action) . Five 13 Going on 30 aac ('04, Romance) Jennifer Garner. Ageeky teenage (:45) The Ides of March STARZ bank robbers do one last job. (PG-13) (HD) girl wakes up as a30-year-old magazine executive. (PG-13) aac ('11) (R) (HD) in some of the taller de- SYFY Close Encounters of the Third Kind (PG) (HD) (:08) Signs aaa ('02, Drama) Mel Gibson. Alien symbols plague troubled clergyman. (PG-13) (HD) signs. TBS Family Guy PTV. Family Guy The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Men at Work (N) (HD) The Big Bang Theory But Tatehana said aac aaa they’re actually more TCM The Young Don’t Cry ('57, Drama) Sal Mineo. Ateen from aGeorgia (:45) ASummer Place ('59, Romance) Richard Egan. The wealthy orphanage meets an escaped convict. (NR) gather at aresort off the coast of Maine for asummer of love. (NR) comfortable than regular TLC Undercover Boss Subway. (HD) On the Fly (N) (HD) On the Fly (N) (HD) Tattoo School (N) (HD) Tattoo School (N) (HD) high heels because they aac aa TMC An Innocent Man ('89, Drama) Tom Selleck. When two vice cops frame aman he meets an- The Glass Shield ('95, Drama) Richard An- put the wearer’s weight on other of their victims in prison. (R) (HD) derson. Police corruption. (PG-13) (HD) the toe rather than the TNT The Mentalist His Red Hand. (HD) The Mentalist Above Rubies. (HD) CSI: NY Commuted. Criminals killed. (HD) heel. TVL Home Improvement Home Improvement Loves Raymond (HD) Loves Raymond (HD) The King of Queens The King of Queens Tatehana said he can Burn Notice Fail Safe. Anson is watched. (HD) Burn Notice Scorched Earth. (N) (HD) Suits She Knows. Exposed secret. (N) USA even run in his creations, VH1 (6:30) Baby Boy ('01, Drama) Tyrese Gibson. (R) Single Ladies Slave to Love. (HD) Single Ladies IDidn't Mean. IRS; first love. (HD) YES (7:00) Arsenal Classics (Taped) Arsenal Season Review 2011/12 Part 3. CenterStag though he prefers to wear Key: Movies shaded. Ratings: no stars, unrated; a poor; aa fair; aaa good; aaaa excellent. (N) New show. FYI Television, Inc. sneakers and loafers.