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12 Established 1961 Wednesday, August 11, 2021 Lifestyle Features oldplay, Billie Eilish and Ed Nigeria. More locations and artists are push for action at the G20 the following Sheeran are among the stars due to be announced in the coming month and COP26 climate meeting in Cannounced yesterday for a day of weeks. “Across six continents, artists will November. Global Citizen said it urgently concerts across multiple cities on help rally citizens in demanding that gov- wants one billion trees planted, one billion Czech film September 25 to raise awareness about ernments, major corporations, and philan- vaccines delivered to the poorest coun- climate change, poverty and vaccine dis- thropists work together to defend the tries and meals for the 41 million on the tribution. New York, Paris and Lagos are planet and defeat poverty,” NGO Global brink of famine. WHO director-general festival to honor the first cities to be announced for Global Citizen said in a statement. It said it was Tedros Ghebreyesus lent his support to Citizen Live, which will run for 24 hours focusing “on the most urgent, interrelated the campaign, saying in a statement: “We and be screened around the world via TV threats hitting those in poverty the hard- now face a two-track pandemic of haves Michael Caine stations and social media. Joining Eilish est-climate change, vaccine equity, and and have-nots. Over 75 percent of the and Coldplay in New York’s Central Park famine”. more than 4 billion doses administered to are Jennifer Lopez, Camila Cabello, A slew of other artists-including BTS, date have occurred in just 10 countries. nglish actor Michael Caine will Shawn Mendes and Burna Boy, among Lorde, Metallica and The Weeknd-are “We cannot disregard this gross inequity receive the top prize at the post- others. also lending their star power, either or become complacent.”— AFP Eponed Czech film festival in the city Sheeran headlines the French gig, with through live or filmed performances. The of Karlovy Vary starting later this month, Doja Cat, HER and Black Eyed Peas sup- event is designed to coincide with the UN organizers said yesterday. The prolific 88- Billie Eilish and Ed Sheeran porting, while Fema Kuti will top the bill in General Assembly in September, and year-old Oscar winner known for his roles in “Alfie” (1966), “Sleuth” (1972) and “The Cider House Rules” (1998) will get the Crystal Globe award for his “outstanding contribution to world cinema”. Hollywood star Johnny Depp, best known for the “Pirates of the Caribbean” series, will be among the stars attending the festival. Czech film director Jan Sverak, who won an Oscar for the best international feature film with “Kolya” in 1996, will get the festival president’s award. The 55th edition of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival will take place on August 20-28 after . Kelly, the disgraced R&B super- will be selected-and those chosen will be being postponed from July because of the star who faces a battery of sex the only members of the public to view the COVID-19 pandemic. — AFP Rabuse charges in several US trial in person, a decision the court made states, appeared in court Monday as jury due to the spread of COVID-19. Potential selection began in his federal New York jurors, all of them masked, were not ques- trial. The 54-year-old appeared stoic in a tioned about their vaccination status. navy blue suit as the questioning of jurors Lawyers on both sides along with Judge In summer began in the Brooklyn court, where he Ann Donnelly did not wear masks, though the production who brought the story “to faces charges of racketeering, sexual Kelly at one point did. life at the Broadway Theatre, even for so exploitation of a child, kidnapping, bribery In an unusual step for such a high-pro- brief a time.” Directed by Belgian Ivo van blockbuster ‘Free and forced labor, spanning from 1994 to file case, reporters and other members of Hove, who gave the 1957 musical an 2018. Deveraux Cannick, one of Kelly’s the public must watch from several “over- unprecedented makeover, with a more Guy’, life is but lawyers, was reticent when asked by AFP flow” rooms, on relatively small, grainy diverse cast and dealing with current how he was feeling, smiling and saying: screens. When evidence is presented it is themes such as police violence and rape. “Just another Monday.” unlikely to be viewable by observers from The pandemic was not the show’s only a video game The musician born Robert Sylvester those rooms. obstacle: its original producer, Scott Kelly, currently incarcerated at a Brooklyn Rudin, stepped aside for Horton to take federal prison, has denied all charges. All Sex crime ring he re-imagined version of the popu- the job following allegations of workplace n the face of relentless headlines about prospective jurors will remain anonymous The New York indictment details lurid lar musical “West Side Story” will not harassment. war, disease and apocalyptic climate and be partially sequestered throughout claims that Kelly operated a crime ring reopen on Broadway, its producer And one of the main actors, Amar Ichange, “Stranger Things” maestro the process. Those selected for the trial that systematically recruited and groomed T Ramasar, was embroiled in allegations of said Monday, an indirect victim of the Shawn Levy is offering an “antidote” to the will be escorted to and from court by US young girls to have sex with him, locking COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on New inappropriate behavior dating back to his misery with a story about hope, kindness marshals, which is not abnormal in such them in their rooms at hotels when he York’s theater industry. The revived pro- years in the New York Ballet Troupe. and the very human tendency to tran- high-profile trials. Following jury selection, was on tour, instructing them to wear bag- duction opened in February last year but Theaters on Broadway, which are set to scend the sometimes grim realities of opening statements and testimony are gy clothing when not with him, “to keep was forced to shutter just one month later reopen in September, have announced everyday life. Due for release on Friday, due to begin August 18. It is expected the their heads down” and to call the singer as the coronavirus pandemic took hold in that they will require the audience and all sci-fi action comedy “Free Guy”-about a trial will last at least four weeks. New York “daddy.” Many of the “recruits” were under the city. “It is with great regret that we are production members to be vaccinated. man who realizes he is a character in a is the first state to see Kelly stand trial in 18 years old, say prosecutors, who announcing today that the 2020 The public will still have a chance to see a video game-eschews some of the heavier connection with a raft of state and federal among other disturbing allegations say Broadway revival of West Side Story will new version of “West Side Story” in the philosophical themes around free will seen indictments in four different jurisdictions. Kelly’s “enterprise” facilitated sex without not reopen,” producer Kate Horton said in cinema in December, directed by Steven in the likes of “The Matrix” and “Blade disclosing a sexually transmitted infection a statement. Spielberg. — AFP Runner” in favor of a simple message: you the singer had contracted. “For a variety of reasons, reopening is are in control of your own destiny. The indictment also says part of the not a practical proposition,” she added, ring’s job was to isolate girls and women, thanking the “brilliant, creative artists” in and make them “dependent on Kelly for their financial well-being.” Among the alleged victims listed in the indictment is “Jane Doe #1,” widely believed to be the R&B singer Aaliyah, who died in a plane crash at age 22 in 2001. The prosecution alleges that Kelly paid an Illinois govern- ment employee in 1994 to obtain a fake In this file photo R&B singer R. Kelly leaves the ID to marry an underage girl. Kelly notori- e’s had hits with the likes of sound.” He hopes for some more fran- Leighton Criminal Courts Building following a ously married Aaliyah when she was 15 Madonna, Beyonce and MIA, and cophone collaborations in the future, hearing in Chicago, Illinois. and he was 27, a union that was later spent 20 years relentlessly touring having already worked with Parisian DJ annulled. H the world, but American DJ Diplo says Snake and looking to produce some- ‘Women don’t lie’ Federal judges in New York and the pandemic-enforced break was a thing with Belgian rapper Stromae. On the opening day of jury selection Chicago, where Kelly also faces charges, blessing. “It was probably the best year “C’est cuit” is the latest hit from this the court questioned dozens prospective have denied him bail, citing a flight risk, I’ve had in a long time. I did a lot of surf- year’s album “Music Is The Weapon jurors, dismissing 18. One woman was danger to the community and the ing, spent time with my kids, bought a (Reloaded)”, that also sees Sia, J Balvin, excused because in her pre-selection prospect of witness tampering. Kelly has house-I never had time before,” the 42- Nicki Minaj and Khalid contribute to the questionnaire she said “women don’t lie” faced accusations involving child pornog- year-old DJ told AFP from his home in group’s Trinidadian vibes.