lifestyle WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 Awards Rihanna excited to celebrate 10 years in music industry ihanna says she’s thrilled to have had a decade-long Awards. This year she’s dropped three singles, including loud and I like that. They’re going to turn up in here career in music and she plans on celebrating the the Top 5 hit “FourFiveSeconds,” and says she’s busy work- today.” Rfeat at some point this year. “Definitely a very big ing on her eighth album. “New album is going really, really The singer said Ri Ri is the first of a new trilogy of fra- deal for me. You know, I can’t believe it’s 10 years already, great. We have recorded a lot of songs and I can’t wait to grances. She’s had more than a half dozen other fragrances but we definitely have to celebrate this year,” the singer finish and put it out. That’s my next step,” she said. in the past. “I intentionally wanted to do something fun, said during an interview Monday. “There are a few things I Rihanna made the comments at Macy’s in downtown something that made you feel young, flirty, you know, have in mind, so you’ll have wait on that, but don’t think Brooklyn at the launch of her new fragrance called Ri Ri. cute,” she said with a smile. “It’s like a brand new pair of I’m forgetting because this means a lot to me that I made Feverish fans screamed inside the packed store, singing shoes.”— AP it to 10 years.” her lyrics to past hits and dancing wildly as one of her Rihanna released her debut album, “Music of the Sun,” songs blasted from speakers. “I know I made a great deci- in 2005. The 27-year-old has released seven albums, sion coming to Brooklyn because Brooklyn fans are on launched multiple Top 10 hits and won eight Grammy another level,” she said. “They are full of energy and they’re From ‘Everest’ to Depp, highlights of the Venice Film fest t’s a sure sign that summer’s over and the awards season Global giants is around the corner - the feast of fall film festivals. The Venice is offering up meaty fare from heavyweight I72nd Venice Film Festival opens today, followed later in global auteurs among the 21 films that Mexican director September by movie extravaganzas in Toronto, Telluride Alfonso Cuaron and his jury will consider for the festival’s and New York. As well as celebrating the best of global cin- top prize, the Golden Lion. Israel’s Amos Gitai depicts the ema, the festivals battle one another to snag the biggest traumatic 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak stars and hottest awards prospects. Venice, the oldest and Rabin in “Rabin, The Last Day,” while Russia’s Aleksandr stateliest of the bunch, brings 11 days of red carpets, flash- Sokurov - a previous Golden Lion winner - tells the story of bulbs, parties and premieres to the canal-crossed Italian the Louvre museum - and of Europe - in “Francofonia” and city. Here are five highlights, trends and themes to look out Italy’s Marco Bellocchio bites into the vampire-themed for: “Blood of My Blood.” Among the quirkier-sounding offer- ings are Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson’s animated High-altitude opener feature “Anomalisa” and musician Laurie Anderson’s Venice’s opening slot has developed a formidable hit- canine-themed feature debut “Heart of a Dog.” making reputation. In 2013, it sent the space saga “Gravity” into orbit, and on to seven Academy Awards. Last year’s Real-life drama opener, the midlife crisis comedy “Birdman,” scooped up Tragic and transformative real-life events loom large in four Oscars, including best picture, and revived Michael the festival’s strong slate of documentaries. Zhao Liang’s Keaton’s career. This year’s festival opens with Baltasar Golden Lion contender “Behemoth” shows giant mines Kormakur’s thriller “Everest,” which stars Jake Gyllenhaal, gouging the Chinese steppe, while Evgeny Afineevsky’s Robin Wright, Emily Watson and Jason Clarke in the fact- “Winter On Fire” charts the mass demonstrations that top- based story of peril on the world’s highest peak. Producers’ pled Ukraine’s government in 2014. Amy Berg’s “Janis” Host Miley Cyrus speaks in the press room while smoking Video Music Award is seen in the press room at the 2015 hopes are as high as a Himalayan summit. traces the short, sensational life of singer Janis Joplin, while at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMA). — AFP photos MTV Video Music Awards at Microsoft Theater in Los Festival director Alberta Barbera said Tuesday that the aerial-photography master Yann Arthus-Bertrand cele- Angeles, California. opening film had to strike a balance between artistry and brates humanity in the kaleidoscopic “Human,” which has audience-pleasing. “We need to find a film which is at the premieres in Venice and at the United Nations in New York same time spectacular, with a lot of emotion (and) good on Sept 12. characters the audience can relate to,” he said. “So it’s not MTV’s Video Music Awards easy. “I think ‘Everest’ is more or less in the same vein as the Cinema controversy previous two.” No festival would be complete without a soul-searching debate over the future of cinema. This year’s comes cour- Hollywood heavyweights tesy of streaming service Netflix, which is moving into fic- set Nielsen Twitter record Some of Hollywood’s biggest names will be walking the tion films with “Beasts of No Nation.” Netflix plans to release red carpet on Venice’s Lido island - and hoping it’s a the African child-soldier drama simultaneously on-demand atings for MTV’s Video Music Awards won’t be released The most tweeted minute occurred at 10:49 pm ET with rehearsal for Oscar night. Among potential prize con- and in cinemas in October, a development that has until later today or tomorrow, but last night’s event has 247,525 tweets following Kanye West’s announcement that he tenders are Johnny Depp, all but unrecognizable as a alarmed distributors and movie theater owners. Barbera is already set a Twitter record. According to Nielsen, the would be running for President of the United States in 2020. Boston mobster in Scott Cooper’s “Black Mass;” Eddie philosophical. “We cannot avoid that the Internet and the R “2015 MTV Video Music Awards” is the most-tweeted non- Sunday’s show, which was dominated by Swift, Miley Cyrus’ Redmayne transformed into a transgender woman in Tom new digital platforms are there, and they are competitors sports program since Nielsen Social began tracking Twitter TV antics and Justin Bieber’s comeback, also generated 39 million Hooper’s “The Danish Girl;” and Idris Elba as an African war- with the traditional theatrical circuit,” he said. “It doesn’t activity in October 2011. In the US, 2.2 million people sent Facebook interactions (posts, comments and likes) from an lord in Cary Fukunaga’s “Beasts of No Nation.” make any sense trying just to fight this trend. We have to 21.4 million tweets about the event and almost 11.8 million estimated 16 million users. — Reuters The combination of Tilda Swinton, Dakota Johnson and find a way to collaborate.”— AP people saw those tweets a total of 676 million times. This is an Ralph Fiennes could make waves in Luca Guadagnino’s dra- increase of 64% from 2014, when there were 12.6 million ma “A Bigger Splash,” while Kristen Stewart and Nicholas tweets. Hoult find love in a dangerous time in Drake Doremus’ futuristic feature “Equals.” And last year’s Venice hero, Keaten, returns alongside Mark Ruffalo and Stanley Tucci in Tom McCarthy’s “Spotlight,” about Boston Globe journalists investigating sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. Film based on real-life horror breaks records in Argentina rquimides Puccio seemed to neighbors like a pious, sentenced to prison, as were a former colonel, a bodyguard conservative and obsessively tidy man. Several times a and another accomplice. Alejandro tried to kill himself four Aday, he’d sweep the sidewalk in front of his home in an times while imprisoned and died of pneumonia shortly after upper-class Buenos Aires neighborhood. Cleanliness was not being released from prison in 2007. Daniel escaped in 1988 his only aim. Puccio was making sure that the screams of kid- and never served prison time. Officials never determined what nap victims imprisoned in the basement of his home could happened to the estimated $1 million in ransoms the family not be heard in the street. That mundane mask over horror is a received. The patriarch of the clan was imprisoned, freed on a key theme of “The Clan,” a movie based on a true story that technicality and then put behind bars again. He was released rattled Argentine society in the 1980s. on probation in 2007, moved to a provincial town and died in The well-reviewed film, directed by Argentine Pablo 2013 at the age of 82, without ever acknowledging the crimes. Trapero, has had the most successful launch of any Argentine Neighbors said that almost to the end, Puccio swept the side- film. It’s headed for film festivals in Venice, Toronto and San walk in front of his home. The film is part of a wave of renewed Sebastian, followed by release later in Europe and possibly the attention to the Puccio case on the 30th anniversary of the United States. Over the course of about three years, members police raid that captured the family.