LIFESTYLE TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2013 Gossip36 Chris Noth appears with cellos in NYC show ctor Chris Noth is appearing with a different kind of cast in New York City: eight cellos. The star of “Law & AOrder” and “Sex and the City” will be at Carnegie Hall on Monday for a show called “Angel Heart.” He’s narrating the family concert based on a new CD storybook. It’s about a girl whose heart is broken then healed on a journey with some fantastical creatures. The story by best-selling children’s writer Cornelia Funke comes with songs created for voices, cellos and mandolins by Luna Pearl Woolf. “Things are spinning so fast these days, how do we slow it down, how do we get back to words and sounds?” Noth wondered during rehears- als. He says children like his 5-year-old son should slow down and awaken their imaginations with just words and sounds. The CD package, which was released last month, is narrated by actor Jeremy Irons. The idea for “Angel Heart” was born several years ago when Woolf, the Montreal-based mother of two young daughters, wanted to tell a story using just Taylor Swift music. She teamed with cellist Matt Haimovitz, her husband, who brought in his all-cello ensemble - Uccello. The CD cast includes other leading musicians: soprano Lisa Delan, mezzo- sopranos Frederica von Stade and Zheng Cao (who died in February); the countertenor Daniel Taylor; and the baritone Sanford Sylvan. The Brooklyn Youth Chorus joins Monday’s performance at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall. A sort of bedtime story Swift for the digital age, “Angel Heart” comes with an iPad app. invites special Chris Noth guests to CMA Awards aylor Swift has gathered an all-star band for her appearance on next month’s Coun- West Calls try Music Association Awards. Swift will be joined by Alison Krauss, Vince Gill, Sam TBush, bassist Edgar Meyer and percussionist Eric Darken for a special version of her hit song “Red.” The 23-year-old singer is one of two top nominees with six nominations in Jesus for the Nov. 6 awards. Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley will co-host the ABC broadcast live from Nashville, Tenn. No word on what Swift has planned for her group. In recent to Kick Off Yeezus Tour award show performances, she’s played the Mad Hatter and led the viewer on a back- stage tour. All five nominees for top honor entertainer of the year - Swift, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Blake Shelton and George Strait - will perform on the show this year. anye West opened his Yeezus tour Saturday night in Seattle, clos- ing the evening with a guestappearance by Jesus - or at least a Kreasonable facsimile. The rapper performed mainly selections from the new album on a spectacular Key Arena stage that featured a 60-foot tall white mountain as a centerpiece with a gigantic circular projection screen hanging above. West wore a series of masks while performing “On Sight,” “New Slave” and “Send It Up,” along with some of his older material. Toward the end of the show the stage mountain split apart and spewed clouds of white smoke - along with the Virgin Mary and a large crucifix as West sang “I Wonder.” Then came the capper, according to Rolling Stone: a guest appearance by none other than Jesus Christ. West removed his mask and told the Savior figure that that he had been looking for him, to which Jesus responded that he had been there all along. Then, as the Christ figure would ascend to the top of the mountain, West bowed and the refrain from “On Sight” played: “You give us what we need, it may not be what we want.” Kendrick Lamar opened the show. Kanye West TLC’s ‘Chilli’ will ‘always love’ Bruce Jenner Usher ozonda ‘Chilli’ Thomas will “always love” Usher. The TLC singer calls the ‘Scream’ hitmaker her first “real love” but insists their doesn’t Rsplit was not the inspiration for his 2004 album ‘Confessions’ Bruce Jenner in which the central character in the music had cheated on a past girlfriend and even having a child with another woman. Chilli says want a new girlfriend the record - which included hits such as ‘Let It Burn’ and ‘Confes- sions’ - was actually based on the personal life of Jermaine Dupri, who produced it. She explained to US Weekly magazine: “We were he 63-year-old former Olympian isn’t interested in finding love again following together when he recorded that album. All of those songs on Con- his split from Kris Jenner as he is still adjusting to the single life after 22 years of fessions, that was about Jermaine Dupri’s situation. Usher was just Tmarriage. A friend of the star told People magazine: “We talked about it. And He singing it. But people kind of bought into it, it was just the timing said, ‘I’m not even going to think about another relationship at this point. After being of our breakup when the album came out. So people assumed that with [Kris] for so long, I can’t imagine getting involved with someone else.’ “ Bruce has album was about us, but it was not.” Chilli - who was part of nineties been focusing on spending quality time with his family instead, and was “all smiles” R&B girl group TLC with Tionne ‘T-Boz’ Watkins and the late Lisa ‘Left on Saturday evening at the Troubadour nightclub in West Hollywood. The proud Eye’ Lopes - insists her relationship with Usher ended amicably and father-of-six was accompanied by his youngest daughters; Kendall, 17, and Kylie, 16, she will always love him. She continued: “Usher and I weren’t oil and as he watched his son Brandon and his wife perform as part of pop duo Brandon and water. We broke up because I guess it was that time or whatever ... Leah. An onlooker commented: “He was in great spirits. It was definitely all about his But I’ll always love him, forever, because he was my first adult love, family.” Meanwhile, Bruce has remained in close contact with ‘Keeping Up with the a real love. but we’re cool, we’re really cool. There’s no hard feelings, Kardashians’ matriarch Kris since their separation was announced. The pair are said nothing like that. It’s all good.” Usher,35, went onto marry his stylist to have no plans to divorce and are happy to keep living apart, while Kris - who also Tameka Foster in 2007, before filing for divorce in 2009. The pair had manages her children’s careers - is thought to still be collecting a commission for been involved in a bitter custody battle over their two sons, five- every deal she inks for her husband. year old Usher V and Naviyd, four. Rozanda Chilli Green to be charged with ecstasy possession Cher not heart- ee-Lo Green is allegedly set to be charged with ecstasy possession. Charges against the ‘The broken by split CVoice’ judge for sexually assaulting a woman are set to be dropped, but the singer looks set to be booked for possession of the illegal substance, which her isn’t heartbroken about splitting from Tim he is said to have slipped into her drink, instead. The Los Medvetz. The ‘Believe’ singer started dating Angeles County District Attourney (DA) is set to reject Cformer Hell’s Angel - who is 24 years her junior the sexual assault case this morning due to insufficient - in 2008 but “isn’t grieving “ since dumping him. The evidence but Cee-Lo will instead be charged for one 67-year-old star told Attitude Magazine: “The one who count of ecstasy possession, according to website TMZ. does the breaking doesn’t do the grieving.” Cher claims The woman at the centre of the case claims Cee-Lo one man she truly loved was Robert Camilletti, whom slipped the class-A drug into her drink during a date she dated in the 80s. The press dubbed Robert “bagel at a sushi restaurant over a year ago and subsequently boy” because he worked in a bagel store but Cher found herself naked in his bed with no knowledge of claimed the “sex was great” and he was perfect. She how she got there. However, the authorities have found added: “There was drama in the end but it had nothing inconsistencies in the woman’s story, namely that the to do with him and me. It was just that the paparazzi couple were dating at the time and had been intimate ruined our lives completely. “There were two of them before. Cee-Lo - whose punishment is expected to sim- that were following us and we got a restraining order ply be probation - was caught on tape by the woman in against them.” The iconic singer hasn’t ruled out falling question and can reportedly be heard referencing the in love again and wants a man who is kind but not too drug. The criminal complaint will claim the ‘Forget You’ smart, because they can end up being “too into them- singer never intended to harm the woman when he Cher selves.” Cher’s first album of original material in more shared the substance with her. than a decade, ‘Closer to the Truth’, is out now. .