l i f e s t y l e TUESDAY, MAY 16, 2017 MUSIC & MOVIES After break, Katy Perry announces new album and tour This file photo shows Katy Perry arriving at the Costume Institute Benefit at the This file photo shows Katy Perry as she attends 102.7 KIIS FM’s 2017 Wango Tango at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. — AFP photos StubHub Center in Carson, California. op superstar Katy Perry yesterday The singer announced the album news singing about reaching orgasm. Perry, a Perry and I love her so much but, at the This file photo shows Australian actress Nicole announced a new album and tour, on Twitter where she has more followers favorite among young girls, rose to fame core, I’m Katheryn Hudson and I think that’s Kidman posing during a photocall for the film Ppromising a more mature and reflec- than anyone else at more than 98 million. with songs of first-time experiences such as being revealed as I embrace who I really “Grace of Monaco” at the 67th edition of the tive side after taking time off. The 32-year-old Perry has already released two tracks from “Teenage Dream” and “I Kissed a Girl.” am,” she said. Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. singer said that “Witness,” her first album “Witness.” The first, “Chained to the In an interview published last week, Perry also told the magazine that one since 2013’s mega-hit “Prism,” would come Rhythm,” has echoes of the disco era along Perry-born as Katheryn Hudson to a con- song on the album would explore her feel- out on June 9. She also announced an exten- with a reggae off-beat and an appearance servative Christian family in California-said ings after Hillary Clinton’s ill-fated presiden- Daring Kidman is the sive tour, for now just of North America, to by Bob Marley’s grandson Skip Marley. the album reflected her life in her 30s after tial campaign, of which she was one of the begin on September 7 in Columbus, Ohio. Perry’s follow-up track, “Bon Appetit,” also closing out her 20s. “I’ve embraced. I’ve sur- most prominent celebrity backers. The Perry, who will close the North American has a dance feel but heads in a trap direc- rendered. I’ve healed some of my issues Clinton campaign was one of the few pub- tour on February 5 in Vancouver, separately tion with a collaboration by Atlanta hip- with my family, with my relationships,” she lic appearances in 2016 for Perry, who said queen of Cannes will perform next month at the Glastonbury hop trio Migos. “Bon Appetit” was also star- told Entertainment Weekly. “I built up Katy she needed time off after her 151-date tour icole Kidman is the undisputed queen of the festival in England. tling for its open sexuality, Perry and Migos Perry and she was so fun. And I still am Katy for “Prism.” — AFP Cannes film festival which opens tomorrow in Nthe French Riviera resort, starring in three of its most eagerly awaited films. The Australian actress is in two in the running for its top prize, the Palme d’Or, and plays a fashion and music maven in “How to Talk Ukraine prankster to Girls at Parties” in the official selection. The film, adapted from a Neil Gaiman short story, has Kidman adopting Elle Fanning’s alien as her protege. ‘doesn’t regret’ mooning Kidman also shows her trademark mix of hauteur and vulnerability as a pent-up governess of a Eurovision final Mississippi girls school in Sofia Coppola’s highly touted remake of “The Beguiled”. The film, set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, has Colin Farrell as an injured Union soldier who seduces Kidman’s charges and drives her wild with desire. She teams up with the Irish actor again in Greek maestro Yorgos Lanthimos’s “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”, this Vitaliy Sediuk Vitaliy time as his wife in the In this file photo, story of a surgeon who Beyonce performs gets disastrously drawn at the 59th annual Ukrainian prankster told a court yesterday that into the life of a dys- Grammy Awards in he didn’t regret mooning the audience during functional family. While Los Angeles. Athe live broadcast of the Eurovision Song Contest the 49-year-old has nev- final in Kiev. Vitaliy Sediuk, 28, jumped onto the stage er won a prize at with an Australian flag wrapped around his shoulders, Cannes, she has long dropped his trousers and wiggled his bare bottom at been a festival favorite, the audience during Saturday night’s performance by This file photo taken in taking a string of art- Beyonce, Bruno Mars lead last year’s winner of the contest, Ukrainian singer Hollywood shows actress house roles even after Jamala. “I don’t regret it,” said Sediuk, who has been Nicole Kidman attending becoming one of known to ambush celebrities. “I don’t have anything the 89th Annual Academy Hollywood’s most bank- BET Awards nominations against Eurovision. This time I just wanted to do some- Awards. — AFP photos able stars after her split thing that would be remembered.” from her first husband eyonce dominated last year’s including film and sports awards, will scored four nominations and won The Kiev court yesterday ordered the confiscation of Tom Cruise. It was one of many reinventions that have BET Awards with “Lemonade,” be selected by BET’s Voting Academy, three Grammys this year, will battle Sediuk’s travel documents and imposed restrictions on taken the high-school dropout from Australian teen Bbut there’s more juice in her cup. comprised of entertainment profes- Lamar, Drake, J. Cole, Future and Big his movements as an investigation into the incident movies like “BMX Bandits” to the top of her profession. The pop star is nominated for seven sionals and fans. Mars, whose latest Sean for best male hip-hop artist. continues. A security guard tackled Sediuk off the stage Kidman has never lacked daring, risking working with awards at the 2017 BET Awards, the album was inspired by ‘90s R&B, is also Nicki Minaj will compete with rival in Saturday night’s incident, and the prankster later the notorious Danish auteur Lars Von Trier, who was network told The Associated Press yes- nominated for best male R&B/pop Remy Ma for best female hip-hop resisted arrest by police and was placed in detention for later banned from Cannes after saying he was a Nazi. terday. The show will take place June artist, album of the year, the viewer’s artist, an award Minaj has won since 72 hours, interior minister Arsen Avakov said Sunday. “One day it would be a fairy tale, the next it a night- 25 at the Microsoft Theater in Los choice award and video director of 2010. Hip-hop trio Migos also scored Avakov said Sediuk’s offence fell under legislation mare,” she said of working with him on “Dogville”. Angeles. Bruno Mars follows Beyonce the year. Chance the Rapper, who four nominations. — AP against hooliganism, which in Ukraine can carry up to Others told how she had to grin and bear humiliations with five nominations. Beyonce, who five years in prison. and mind games on the set. won video of the year with “Formation” “The country’s embarrassment can practice his ‘hob- last year, is nominated for the top prize by’ in a prison cell at a temporary detention center,” Whip-smart again with “Sorry.” Her competition Avakov wrote Sunday on his Facebook page. The con- Even when she was headlining big-budget block- includes her sister Solange (“Cranes In test’s organizing committee in Ukraine slammed busters like “Batman Forever” in 1995, Kidman made the Sky”); Mars’ playful “24K Magic”; Sediuk’s behavior as “inadmissable” and assured that time for whip-smart roles in indie films like Gus Van Migos’ No. 1 hit “Bad and Boujee”; and the “highest level of security” had been observed dur- Sant’s satire on fame, “To Die For”, which confirmed Big Sean’s anthemic “Bounce Back.” ing the final. “We are outraged and in no way support her as a major talent. But she had to wait until 2003 Beyonce and Solange - who has such provocations”, Pavlo Grytsak, the executive pro- for a best actress Oscar for her depiction of tortured four nominations - will go head-to- ducer of this year’s contest, said in a statement. “The novelist Virginia Woolf in Stephen Daldry’s “The head for best female R&B/pop artist, offender should be held responsible for what he did.” Hours”. Two more nominations have followed, the lat- along with Rihanna, Mary J. Blige and In September, Sediuk tried to kiss the bottom of US est for “Lion” last year. Its storyline, of a young man Kehlani. Beyonce’s other nominations reality TV star Kim Kardashian as she was walking into a from India adopted by an Australian family who include album of the year for Paris restaurant. Her bodyguard pinned him to the searches for his long-lost relatives on Google Earth, “Lemonade,” the viewer’s choice award ground before he managed to do so. Portuguese croon- resonated with Kidman. and video director of the year. She’s er Salvador Sobral, who suffers from a serious heart con- She adopted two children-Isabella and Connor- nominated twice for best collabora- dition, triumphed in this year’s edition of Eurovision with with Tom Cruise, and has had two others since with tion with the songs “Freedom” (with the melancholy ballad “Amar Pelos Dois”.