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<p>THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2015 </p><p>l if e s t y l e </p><p></p><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">M u s i c </li><li style="flex:1">&amp;</li><li style="flex:1">M o v i e s </li></ul><p></p><p>Madonna, AC/DCto </p><p>play Grammys ceremony </p><p></p><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">op icon Madonna and veteran hard rockers AC/DC </li><li style="flex:1">The Grammys also tapped heavy metal veterans last </li></ul><p>will join younger stars in performing at the Grammys&nbsp;year with a performance by Metallica, who played the 25- on February 8, organizers of the music industry’s pre-&nbsp;year-old song “One” with classical pianist Lang Lang. </p><p><strong>P</strong></p><p>mier awards show announced Tuesday. Other musicians&nbsp;Another musician scheduled to play this year’s Grammys is chosen to play at one of the year’s most-watched concerts&nbsp;the country star Eric Church, who is in contention for four include the English singer and songwriter Ed Sheeran,&nbsp;awards. — AFP whose “X” is up for the Grammys’ prestigious Album of the Year, and the child star turned pop singer Ariana Grande, who is nominated in two categories. <br>Madonna, who has won seven Grammys over her threedecade career, is scheduled in March to release a new album, “Rebel Heart,” in which she goes further in a hiphop direction. She abruptly released six songs from the album in December after versions leaked on the Internet. Madonna, who has a large following in the gay community, also played the Grammys last year in a surprise move, joining Macklemore and Ryan Lewis in their same-sex marriage anthem, “Same Love,” as 33 couples of diverse backgrounds got married on the Grammys floor in Los Angeles. <br>AC/DC will take the stage after tumult among the veteran Australian hard rockers as drummer Phil Rudd faced allegations of hiring a hitman in New Zealand and founding member Malcolm Young retired to a special care home as he suffers dementia. AC/DC, who released a 15th solo album, “Rock or Bust,” last year, is due to play at the Coachella music festival in southern California two months later. </p><p><strong>In this March 23, 2009 file photo, members of Australian legendary hard rock band AC/DC Brian Johnson and Angus Young perform at the Laszlo Papp Arena in Budapest. — AFP photos </strong><br><strong>In this February 5, 2012 file photo singer Madonna (top) performs with Redfoo and Sky Blu of LMFAO during the NFL Super Bowl XLVI game halftime show at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. </strong></p><p>Joel, Mumford &amp; Sons, Lamar set for Bonnaroo </p><p>he 2015 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival will feature a star-studded lineup including Billy Joel, Mumford &amp; </p><p><strong>T</strong></p><p>Sons and Kendrick Lamar. Robert Plant, Deadmau5, and Florence + the Machine will also perform during the four-day event that kicks off June 11 in Manchester, Tennessee. <br>Tickets go on sale Saturday. More than 125 bands and <br>20 comedians will perform across 12 stages. Earth, Wind &amp; Fire, My Morning Jacket, Bassnectar, Alabama Shakes, Childish Gambino, Hozier and Gary Clark Jr will also perform. Kanye West headlined the Bonnaroo festival last year. More performers for this year’s festival will be announced at a later date. — AP </p><p><strong>Garth Brooks </strong></p><p>tops Elvis on <br>US all-time list </p><p><strong>In this May 22, 2014 file photo, Mumford &amp; Sons winning the International Achievement Awards at the 59th Ivor Novello Awards at the Grosvenor House in London. </strong></p><p>ountry star Garth Brooks, who came out of retirement last year, has surpassed Elvis Presley </p><p><strong>C</strong></p><p>as the solo artist to sell the most albums in the <br>United States, industry figures showed. But Brooks remains well-below the all-time top-sellers in US history-the Beatles, who according to the Recording Industry Association of America have sold 178 million albums. Brooks and Presley, who died in 1977, have repeatedly swapped spots for number two on the list. <br>Brooks’ career soared in the 1990s as his country songs won a crossover audience. After a break in which he raised a family, Brooks released his first album in 13 years, “Man Against Machine,” in November. The industry association last week certified “Man Against Machine” as platinum-meaning it has sold at least one million copies. With the certifi- cation, Brooks has again risen to the top-with 135 million albums against 134.5 million for The King. <br>Presley’s estate has in the past disputed such rankings as the industry association focuses on sales of albums rather than singles. Presley had a long string of blockbuster hits, released on 45-RPM records, starting in the 1950s. The recording association lists Led Zeppelin in fourth place for all-time US album sales, followed by the Eagles, Billy Joel and Michael Jackson. — AFP </p><p><strong>In this Oct 2, 2014 file photo, Kendrick Lamar performs during We Day at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Canada. </strong><br><strong>In this May 9, 2014 file photo, Billy Joel performs at&nbsp;In this June 28, 2014 file photo, Robert Plant performs on </strong></p><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1"><strong>Madison Square Garden in New York. </strong></li><li style="flex:1"><strong>the Pyramid main stage at Glastonbury music festival, in </strong></li></ul><p><strong>England.— AP photos </strong></p><p>Woody Allen returns to </p><p><strong>Sienna Miller </strong>on acting, <strong>‘American Sniper’ </strong></p><p>ith long dark hair and an American accent, British actress Sienna Miller disappears into her role as the </p><p><strong>Q: How intimidating was it playing Taya? </strong></p><p>TV roots with Amazon series </p><p><strong>A: </strong>In playing a real person you want to do your best to cap- </p><p><strong>W</strong></p><p>wife of a US Navy SEAL sharpshooter in the film&nbsp;ture as much as possible of their energy and spirit ... You just try scar-winning filmmaker Woody Allen is going back to his&nbsp;Tonight Show”-a venerable late-night program that he also wrote TV roots in a deal with online giant Amazon to write and&nbsp;for in his youth. <br>“American Sniper.” Blond, blue-eyed Miller has ramped up her&nbsp;to capture the essence of someone and then lean on Clint career since the birth of her daughter in 2012. Next month, she&nbsp;Eastwood. — Reuters takes over as singer Sally Bowles for the final weeks of “Cabaret” on Broadway. The musical set in pre-World War Two Berlin is a world away from her role in “American Sniper” as Taya Kyle, whose husband Chris, played by Bradley Cooper, was the deadliest marksman in Navy history. </p><p><strong>O</strong></p><p></p><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">direct his own series that will premiere next year. The news </li><li style="flex:1">More recently, in 2001, Allen wrote and directed a three- </li></ul><p>comes as the world’s biggest online retailer celebrates its first&nbsp;minute television comedy short called “Sounds from a Town I Golden Globes for its transgender-themed sitcom “Transparent”-a&nbsp;Love” about his beloved hometown New York in the wake of the breakthrough in its efforts to catch up with streaming pioneer&nbsp;9/11 attacks. Amazon said Allen would deliver “a full season” of Netflix. Amazon said the “Untitled Woody Allen Project” will run&nbsp;half-hour episodes that subscribers to its Prime Instant Video servsometime next year on its growing Amazon Prime Instant Video&nbsp;ice will be able to see in the United States, Britain and Germany. <br>The Clint Eastwood film opens in US theaters tomorrow and </p><p></p><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">service. </li><li style="flex:1">“Additional details, including casting information, will be made </li></ul><p>“I don’t know how I got into this. I have no ideas and I’m not&nbsp;available in the future,”it said. depicts the impact of war on a soldier and his family. Kyle survived four tours in Iraq but was killed by a disgruntled US veteran at a gun range near his Texas home in 2013. Miller, 33, spoke about film choices, motherhood and playing real people. sure where to begin,” the 79-year-old Allen said in a statement from Amazon Studios, the company’s TV content arm. “My guess is that (Amazon Studios chief) Roy Price will regret this,” he added </p><p><strong>‘Visionary creator’ </strong></p><p>A season of original TV programming for the Internet typically in his trademark wry humor. The project is a coup for Amazon’s&nbsp;runs about a dozen episodes, released simultaneously. “Woody on-demand Internet video streaming service, which alongside&nbsp;Allen is a visionary creator who has made some of the greatest Netflix is upending the traditional broadcast television business&nbsp;films of all-time, and it’s an honor to be working with him on his </p><p><strong>Q: What attracted you to playing Taya? </strong></p><p><strong>A: </strong>The story was so interesting to me. It is so culturally far removed from where I’ve grown up and the world I have lived in. It is undeniably compelling and the idea, as a new mother, of being in that position of having children and not knowing every day whether your husband would survive, and what that would be like. </p><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">model. </li><li style="flex:1">first television series,”Price said. </li></ul><p>“From ‘Annie Hall’ to ‘Blue Jasmine,’Woody has been at the creative forefront of American cinema, and we couldn’t be more </p><p><strong>Allen’s TV background </strong></p><p>Amazon said the show would be the first TV series to be writ-&nbsp;excited to premiere his first TV series exclusively on Prime Instant ten and directed by Allen-but it’s by no means his first experience&nbsp;Video next year.” Allen has won four Oscars-three for best screenwith the small screen. In the mid-1950s, as television took center&nbsp;play for “Annie Hall,”“Hannah and her Sisters,” and “Midnight in stage in America’s living rooms, Allen found lucrative work as a&nbsp;Paris,” and a best director statuette for “Annie Hall.” News of his gag writer for comedian Sid Caesar and variety show host Garry&nbsp;Amazon deal comes nearly a year after his adopted daughter Moore. He wrote and appeared in some episodes of “Candid&nbsp;Dylan Farrow alleged he molested her when she was seven years Camera,” turned up as a guest panelist on “What’s My Line?” and&nbsp;ago in the early 1990s-a claim that he strongly denied. </p><p><strong>Q: Has motherhood changed your career choices? </strong></p><p><strong>A: </strong>I felt for awhile that I had done work that I was proud of in films before and then been maybe disappointed with the ultimate result. I knew what I was capable of and I knew what I was exploring, but I never had the experience of working with the best directors. And somehow having a baby changed things. recorded a one-off stand-up comedy special for British television in 1965,“The Woody Allen Show.” <br>Irish technology and pop culture writer Mic Wright, on the <br>TNW.com tech news website, said Amazon, by signing up Allen, <br>For American public television, Allen in 1971 directed and&nbsp;was delivering “a smack in the face” to child abuse survivors. In starred in a mock documentary, “Men of Crisis: The Harvey&nbsp;November, Netflix postponed a comedy special with another US Wallinger Story,”lampooning then-president Richard Nixon. Its bit-&nbsp;entertainment icon, Bill Cosby, as several women came forward ing satire proved too much for television executives who nixed&nbsp;with allegations of sexual assault, which he denies. — AFP the flick at the last minute, fearing Nixon might retaliate with a </p><p><strong>Q: You’ve recently played American characters. Why did you go after those roles? </strong></p><p><strong>A: </strong>It’s more interesting to me to explore something that is far away from what I am. Bradley and I went on to do another film after “American Sniper” and I play someone English and I sound like myself and I just felt so self conscious through the whole process. funding cut. “Men of Crisis” endures on video websites. The same year, Allen also did a turn as guest host of NBC television’s “The </p>

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