30 Established 1961 Wednesday, October 11, 2017 Lifestyle Features Asterix returns in chariot race series through Italy Asterix is to ride again in the 37th book in the legendary Writers Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad, who have comic series, its publishers said Monday. “Asterix and the penned the last three Asterix stories, said this time they Chariot Race” will hit the bookshelves on October 19 wanted Obelix to take the limelight. “It’s very much Obelix recounting the adventures of the shrewd Gallic hero and his driving the chariot and the story,” said Conrad as the book’s rotund sidekick Obelix during a mad dash down the length publication date was announced in Paris. Although details of of ancient Italy. The only Asterix story to be set entirely on the story are still under wraps, it features Bretons, Picts the Italian peninsula, it takes place in 50 BC with Julius (Scots), Goths and Phoenicians as well as the two Gauls. Caesar trying to prove “that all of Italy is in thrall to Rome” Five million copies of “Asterix and the Chariot Race” even though “many regions are determined to maintain their have been printed for the first edition, with two million alone independence.” to go on sale in France. Albert Uderzo, now 90, who created To burnish Roman glory and showcase the “dazzling the characters in 1959 with Rene Goscinny, told reporters in excellence of Roman roads” Caesar invites teams from all a video message that the “story really touched me because over the known world to compete in the race. There is only as well as cartoons I love cars.” More than 370 million one catch-”the Roman competitor must absolutely cross the Asterix books have been sold since Goscinny and Uderzo French cartoonist Didier Conrad, left, and French writer and designer Jean-Yves Ferri pose with finishing first,” the publishers said. Caesar’s charioteer and first brought him to life in the Franco-Belgium comic effigies of comic book characters Asterix and Obelix during a press conference for the release of the latest Asterix baddie is a masked villain called Pilote.—AFP the comic’s new album ‘Asterix et la transitalique’ in Paris. — AFP Coronavirus, named after the SARS virus which caused a worldwide health alert in 2002. Rock loner Daniel New Star Wars trailer: Johnston closes A hint at Leia’s fate? out with friends Lucasfilm debuted its highly anticipated second trailer for appear in the as-yet untitled ninth episode, due for release effusive, with Ryan Parker, a film writer for the The “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” on Monday, hinting at dark in 2019 — leading some observers to conclude that the new Hollywood Reporter, enthusing that he was “blown away.” “I With his painfully raw lyrical delivery and battles with times ahead for the Resistance and possibly even the end trailer was showing her final moments. Elsewhere Poe don’t think I have ever been so hyped for a ‘Star Wars’ film mental illness, Daniel Johnston is one of rock’s ulti- of Leia. The footage from the eighth installment in the Dameron and Finn are shown battling the evil First Order than I am right now. It was the perfect mix of everything I mate loners. But for what may be his last concerts, he blockbuster space opera, due for release on December 15, and then there is a glimpse of Rey, apparently a prisoner of was hoping it would be,” he said. has found plenty of friends to celebrate his legacy. In dropped during ESPN’s Monday Night Football halftime Supreme Leader Snoke, asking Kylo to “show me my place “We got more Luke, but not too much, some looks at between stints in psychiatric care for severe manic show. The 154-second clip in all this” as-shock, horror-he Leia that really hurt my heart and some more insight into depression, Johnston has given a new meaning to lo-fi follows a trailer released in offers her his hand. where this all is going.” For Rolling Stone’s Sean Collins, the with decade’s worth of homemade recordings in April which teased Luke The marketing around the “hints at a heel turn from Rey with those grim fourth-wall- which he pours out stories of personal pain and unre- Skywalker (Mark Hamill) film has been controversial, breaking shots of Carrie Fisher’s warrior princess on the quited love set to classic, Beatles-inspired pop. teaching Rey the ways of the with director Rian Johnson verge of death, at the hands of her own son no less” pre- The 56-year-old, who lives with care of his family Force. (“Looper,” “Brick”) recently saged a movie strong in the dark side of the Force. “The Last in the small town of Waller in eastern Texas, has This time around more Forget warning fans via Twitter that Jedi”-filmed on the west coast of Ireland and at Pinewood embarked on a tour that Dick Johnston, his brother plot was unveiled, with Luke those wanting to go into the Studios near London-sees the return of the characters intro- and manager, describes as Daniel’s last. The song- telling Rey (Daisy Ridley) everything I said theater “clean” should duced in 2015’s seventh installment. writer, who composes on piano and has traditionally he’d only seen power like “absolutely avoid” watching Introducing the cast at a fan event earlier this year performed on guitar, has put aside instruments for the hers once before-and while it and watch it the new clip. He appeared to Johnson unveiled a new star, Kelly Marie Tran, who plays tour and sings with bands that have taken inspiration didn’t scare him enough then, have softened his stance by the Rose, a maintenance worker who is part of the Resistance. from him and picked out setlists from Johnston’s 121- it does now. Fans speculated time the footage dropped, The actress revealed that she had told her family she was song repertoire. on social media that he could however, tweeting: “FORGET doing “an indie movie in Canada”-such has been the secrecy Johnston closes the tour next month in Seattle and be talking about his nephew and Rey’s nemesis Kylo Ren, EVERYTHING I SAID AND WATCH IT WATCH IT surrounding the film. Hamill tweeted on Monday that he was Vancouver with members of Built to Spill, the guitar- who is seen in a TIE fighter with his mother General Leia WATCH IT.” racing home to watch the trailer but told fans he was “not swirling alternative rockers, and earlier in Washington Organa in his sights, his eyes welling up as he prepares to sure if I’ll make the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs!!!”-a reference performed with artists from Fugazi, who helped open fire. Carrie Fisher-who has played the character since Blown away to a famous line from the original “Star Wars.”—AFP define the late hardcore US punk scene. In New York she was known simply as Princess Leia in the original It had almost half a million views and more than 21,000 on Saturday night, Johnston was backed up by mem- 1977-83 trilogy-died in December, having already comments on YouTube within two hours of being posted, bers of two art pop bands, Beirut and Cibo Matto, wrapped her scenes for “The Last Jedi.” with #TheLastJedi quickly becoming the top trending hash- who brought a new texture to his songs with string Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy has said Fisher will not tag worldwide on Twitter. The reaction among critics was interludes and thunderous drums. Johnston-a world away from Waller, Texas at a theater in bustling Times Square-took the stage to a standing ovation after a screening of “The Devil and Daniel Johnston,” the award-winning 2005 documen- Decoret-who has performed in classical tary on his troubled but prodigiously creative life. orchestras, produced house music and Joon Moon, played string bass in globe-trotting French bossa nova cover band Nouvelle Vague-said UK actress felt Joon Moon became a laboratory for studio finding a experimentation. “It isn’t just a detail, it was like a dogma ‘violated’ after we had-steering our influences and merging them together in a way that felt personal,” vintage Decoret told AFP before a recent show in New York to launch “Moonshine Corner.” Weinstein encounter “People all have automatic reflexes. But for this, we just tried to respond to whatever soul in rock pleased us,” he said. British actress Romola Garai said she felt would be “shocked I even thought it was an Joon Moon-the name, which could be “violated” following a meeting with Harvey issue.” Weinstein was fired on Sunday from mistaken for Korean, comes from a typo- Composing songs initially just for voice and Weinstein in his London hotel room when his own film studio, three days after a bomb- graphical error in original moniker “June piano, the veteran musicians behind Joon she was 18 in which he was in a bathrobe, shell New York Times report alleged that the Moon” which the band decided to keep- Moon quickly knew they could create a rich- the Guardian newspaper reported yester- Oscar-winning executive producer behind brings Decoret together with his sometime er sound-something more vintage from the day. Garai, best known for her role in such hits as “The King’s Speech” and “The collaborator Raphael Chassin, best known as earlier days of rock and soul. The French- “Atonement”, said she had already been Artist” had preyed on young women hoping the drummer for French pop star Vanessa American trio, whose members hail from dif- hired for a part but was told to audition pri- to break into the industry.