lifestyle WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2015

Music & Movies Cyrus on Jenner, pink armpits, her new charity hen Miley Cyrus wears pasties or posts photos of An entertainer since age 14, she wants to use her fame you’ve got to really make this a topic.” Funds raised by her pink armpits, it’s not to be a provocateur. The for good, calling Bruce Jenner “my hero” for shining light on Happy Hippie will create digital support groups for LGBT W22-year-old says she’s just being herself, and she transgender issues. “When you have all eyes on you, what youth and their families. The foundation is also aiding My wants all young people to have that same opportunity. are you saying? And that’s what I had to ask myself a lot,” Friend’s Place, a center for homeless youth in Hollywood. That’s why she’s launching the Happy Hippie Foundation to she said. “It’s like, I know you’re going to look at me more if To launch the Happy Hippie Foundation and raise mon- help homeless and LGBT youth, adding that not all her past my (breasts) are out, so look at me. And then I’m going to ey and awareness for its programs, she’s unveiling a collec- relationships were “straight, heterosexual” ones. Cyrus tell you about my foundation for an hour and totally hustle tion of music video collaborations with artists such as Joan didn’t elaborate. “The position I’m in, I feel like I’ve got a lot you.” Cyrus is passionate about a lot of issues, from climate Jett and Ariana Grande. The Backyard Sessions will be avail- of power,” she said in a Monday phone interview with The change to animal welfare, but said she chose to focus on able on the foundation’s Facebook page beginning today. Associated Press. “But so many kids don’t feel that way. youth homelessness because it’s specific and tangible. “It’s Cyrus is also writing songs about loving one another and They’re under their parents’ rule.” something that everyone sees,” she said. “It’s like the birds being true to one’s self. Which comes back to why she dyed Cyrus, who famously asked a homeless man to accept chirping. her armpit hair pink. “The pink pits are saying, ‘Don’t tell me her Video of the Year trophy at the 2014 Video Music what to do,’” she said. “It’s back to what I’m preaching in a Awards, said she was inspired by the attention generated Digital support way, you know, telling these kids. I’m not just saying you be by that gesture. And she was further moved by the suicide We’re consciously ignoring it at all times, but it’s always yourself and I’m going to go be Miley Cyrus. I’m saying I’m of transgender teen Leelah Alcorn in December. More than happening right in front of us.” She plans to remain focused going to be my (expletive) self, too.” — AP 1.6 million young people are homeless in the United on increasing acceptance for LBGT youth and improving States, according to the National Coalition for the homeless kids’ lives for at least five years before broaden- Miley Cyrus poses at the opening of W Magazine’s Homeless. Cyrus said 40 percent identify themselves as ing her scope. “It’s not going to be an overnight process,” ‘Shooting Stars’ exhibit at the Old May Company Building LGBT. she said. “You’ve got to get into a lot of people’s brains and in Los Angeles. — AP Lauryn Hill cancels Israel Zac Brown Band show to avoid stirring tensions eclectic on ‘Jekyll + Hyde’ ac Brown rightly names his new release after a famous, auryn Hill is canceling a planned per- Israel to protest its policies toward the fictional schizophrenic, for few artists in this genre- formance in Tel Aviv because she was- Palestinians. The BDS movement has focused era so openly embrace an eclectic muse. n’t able to also schedule a concert in included calls for a cultural boycott of the Z L Brown sets the tone immediately on “Jekyll + Hyde,” which the nearby Palestinian city of Ramallah. The Jewish state. Hill joins a list of performers opens with an aggressively rhythmic “Beautiful Drug,” the singer-songwriter said in a statement that includes Pink Floyd co-founder Roger most electronic-driven track Brown has recorded. The variety Monday that she originally intended to Waters and Elvis Costello who have refused doesn’t stop there, as he brings a Celtic melody to “Remedy,” perform in both cities in hopes of being “a to perform in Israel because of political rea- big-band swing to “Mango Tree” (a duet with Sara Bareilles) presence supporting justice and peace.” sons. and a grunge-rock guitar crunch to “Heavy Is the Head” (a She says setting up a show in the Israeli supporters say the BDS move- duet with Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell). Palestinian territories “proved to be a chal- ment is counterproductive and in some That said, there’s plenty of Brown’s breezy, island-influ- lenge.” Not wanting to alienate fans, Hill cases thinly veiled anti-Semitism. They note enced rhythms and his acoustic, folk-derived style, both of canceled her concert in Israel that was to that a prominent list of entertainers, includ- which emphasize his voice and his lyrical smarts. This time, take place later this week. ing Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Justin he includes a rare cover on a powerful interpretation of Hill says she’s seeking a different Timberlake, Madonna and Lady Gaga have Jason Isbell’s “Dress Blues.” Brown and his large band approach to bring her music to fans in the all performed in Israel in recent years. Last changed record distributors and producers for “Jekyll + region. She says she’s hoping for healing in weekend, English singer Robbie Williams Hyde,” but the album sounds like a logical next step by a tal- the area and “the openness necessary for performed in Tel Aviv. — AP ented band. As always, they make it all sound coherent. lasting resolution and reconciliation.” In They’re music lovers with a broad range of influences, and recent years, pro-Palestinian activists have they don’t let pre-determined musical genres limit their launched a global campaign calling for Lauryn Hill performs at the Voodoo Music Experience in New Orleans. — AP scope. — AP boycott, divestment and sanctions against Gallagher goes for eclectic feel on ‘Chasing Tomorrow’

inger/songwriter Noel Gallagher new album but a few held a special place. “In believes his second solo album, “Chasing the Heat of the Moment” was the first single STomorrow,” includes some of his best released from the album, followed by “Ballad ever work with a range of instrumental of the Mighty I,” which features English musi- melodies and an eclectic feel to it. The former cian Johnny Marr. “The Dying of the Light” was lead guitarist and songwriter with the British a tune he wrote in one sitting. “I love ‘The rock group Oasis wrote and produced the Dying of the Light,’ because it fell out of the album that features 10 tracks and rose to the sky. I wrote it one afternoon, in one evening,” top of album charts in England when it was he added. released in March. “As a body of work, it’s way up there with the best things I’ve ever done. It sits on a par with “Definitely Maybe” for me,” said Gallagher, referring to the debut studio album by Oasis. “Chasing Yesterday” is a follow-up to 2011’s “Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.” It is the second studio album since he split with Oasis, one of Britain’s biggest bands in the 1990s, fol- lowing a blowup with its lead singer, his Mariah Carey to perform on brother Liam. “The style of this record is differ- ent from the style of the previous record solo because I’m producing it this time and I’ve got Stapleton’s Noel Gallagher Billboard stage after 17 years a more eclectic feel, I suppose,” he said. Gallagher also dismissed rumors that Oasis CD takes road ariah Carey is set to perform on the Previously announced performers include would reform after their acrimonious parting As for the future, Gallagher said he plans Billboard Music Awards for the first Kelly Clarkson, Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran, Van in Paris in 2009. “In the case of the Oasis to continue to try to write the best songs he less travelled Mtime in 17 years, but the pop super- Halen, Britney Spears and Iggy Azalea. rumors, they’re all started by people who are can. “I love the satisfaction of living in a world star is keeping mum on what song she she’ll Presenters include Rita Ora, Ne-Yo, Laverne around Liam,” he said. “Anybody who knows on a Wednesday where a song didn’t exist hris Stapleton owns a great, growling bluesman’s sing. Billboard and Dick Clark productions Cox and the cast of “Entourage” - Kevin anything about that band knows that it is not that you’re going to create on a Thursday voice and a sensitive singer-songwriter’s heart. He’s announced yesterday that Carey will appear Connolly, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara and going to happen.” His self-titled band, Noel that’s going to change somebody’s life, possi- written hits for Luke Bryan (“Drink a Beer”), Kenny on the May 17 show in Las Vegas. Billboard Adrian Grenier. — AP C Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, will begin the US bly,” he said. “You’re creating that from noth- Chesney (“Never Wanted Nothing More”), Darius Rucker says the singer has more No. 1 songs on its leg of their North American tour in New York ing.” — Reuters (“Come Back Song”) and others, and he received several Hot 100 chart than any other solo artist in the City on May 7 to promote the album. Grammy nominations as lead vocalist for the Steeldrivers, chart’s 56-year history. Gallagher said he loves all the songs on the an acclaimed bluegrass band. On his first solo album, Stapleton wrote or co-wrote 12 of the 14 songs, ranging from the hard charging “Parachute” to the slow-cooked stone soul of “Sometimes I Cry,” and from the southern rock of “When The Stars Come Out,” to the achingly beautiful Brown suspected of country ballad, “Whiskey and You.” Stapleton ignores current radio and Music Row trends on “Traveler,” striving for something more personal. He misdemeanor battery in Las Vegas heightens his individuality by choosing to work with a rammy-winning R&B singer Chris attorney were to charge him. Either way, a small studio band and playing most of the lead string Brown was named by Las Vegas police conviction carries a maximum penalty of a instruments himself. He also co-produces the collection on Monday as a misdemeanor battery $1,000 fine, according to police spokesman with Dave Cobb, known for bringing out the best in out- G side-the-mainstream artists such as Jason Isbell and suspect, accusing him of punching a man Larry Hadfield. with whom he was playing basketball during Neither Brown’s attorney nor his publicist Sturgill Simpson. Stapleton joins like-minded singer-song- a pre-dawn altercation at the Palms Casino were immediately available for comment. writers such as Miranda Lambert and Kasey Musgrave in Resort. Brown, who turned 26 yesterday, has Brown’s latest legal quandary comes about showing country music a future that leaves the door open been given the option of signing a misde- six weeks after a judge in Los Angeles ended for singular stylists. Stapleton has a long future - and coun- meanor citation or having the case submitted his probation stemming from the performer’s try music would benefit from embracing him as one of its to the Clark County District Attorney’s Office 2009 guilty plea to charges of assaulting his own. — AP for possible prosecution. then-girlfriend, singer Rihanna, on the eve of Police said the beating victim reported the the Grammy Awards. Brown’s probation was incident from the hospital, where he was revoked in 2013 after he was accused of treated for his injuries and released, and that punching a man who was trying to get a pic- Brown had left the scene at the hotel by the ture of the singer in Washington, DC. time detectives arrived. Signing the citation is The following year, he was kicked out of a a promise to appear in court, not an admis- court-ordered rehab program in California for sion of guilt, police said. Likewise, Brown breaking the rules and was jailed on that would be summoned to court if the district breach of probation for nearly three months. Brown, whose hits include “Turn Up the French actress Juliette Binoche during a photocall for the film ‘L’epreuve’ in Paris. — AFP Music,” first made his mark on the recording scene as a teenager and has managed to bounce back professionally despite several Juliette Binoche brushes with the law, winning a Grammy as best male R&B artist three years after beating up Rihanna. Over the weekend, he headlined to play Pearl Buck a late-night concert following a high-profile boxing match between Floyd Mayweather rench actress Juliette Binoche will Buck won the Pulitzer prize in 1931 for and Manny Pacquiao, launching the vocalist’s play the role of Nobel literature laure- her novel “The Good Earth” about the hard live-performance residency at a Las Vegas ate Pearl S. Buck in a film about her life of Chinese peasants, and garnered the nightclub. — Reuters F life, showbiz magazine Variety reported Nobel in 1938. Buck spent much of her life Monday. The film, called “Pearl”, will be in China, first as a missionary and then as a financed by China Film Group and directed writer. She returned to the United States in by Roxanne Messina Captor. Filming is 1934. Binoche won an Oscar for her role as scheduled to begin next year in the a nurse in the 1996 film “The English Chris Brown appears in Los Angeles Chinese province of Zhejiang, in the city of Patient”. — AFP Superior Court in Los Angeles. — AP Shanghai and in Prague, Variety said.