LIFESTYLE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2013 Music39 & Movies Spider-Man Broadway musical to close in January, move to Vegas Bieber corrects himself, didn’t meet Mexico leader File photo shows people line up to enter the Foxwoods Theatre for a matinee showing of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” in New York.—AP pider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” will end its The show was also embroiled in legal disputes Broadway run in January, a spokesman said after Tony-winning director Julie Taymor, of “The “Son Monday, and the popular musical is set Lion King,” was fired from the production in March to move to Las Vegas. The show, the most expensive 2011. Taymor reached an agreement with the show’s staged on Broadway, had a rocky start in 2010 with producers this year. The musical, based on one of cast injuries during high-wire stunts and opening Marvel Comic’s most famous heroes, cost more than night delays. $70 million to bring to the stage and includes music “We are excited to report that the next destination by Bono and The Edge. It routinely brings in more for SPIDER-MAN will be the entertainment capital of than $1 million a week at the box office. However, the world: Las Vegas,” Rick Miramontez, a spokesman the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that the for the show, said in an email to Reuters. The show has been running below its breakeven point Broadway show will close in January, he said, and for weeks, even though it is among the top shows in further details will be announced in the coming attendance figures.—Reuters weeks. File photo shows Canadian pop star Justin Bieber per- Fergie, forms in concert during his Believe world tour in Asun- cion, Paraguay. Duhamel make beautiful baby music together ergie and her husband, Josh Duhamel, are writing songs together, but they’re for an audience of one: their son, Axl. “We Fhave own little home-written songs,” Fergie said in an interview Monday, noting their 3-month-old loves their “little ditties.” “We harmonize and we sing together,” the Black Eyed Peas songstress Fans of Canadian pop star Justin Bieber scream as they gather outside said before singing part of one tune that began with “Baby you’re my the hotel in which Bieber is staying in Mexico City, Tuesday.—AP photos baby” and adding: “We can be quite corny.” She usually sings “Silent Night” to put Axl to sleep because it “sounds like a lullaby.” Fergie also orry Justin Bieber, Mexico’s president is appar- not confirm whether his family had been at the show, said she and Duhamel play Rockabye Baby! CDs with music from art- ently not a belieber. The pop star was forced to but Pena Nieto was busy working with his cabinet at ists like Bob Marley and Led Zeppelin and “mommy’s rap music” from correct himself on Tuesday after claiming on his official residence late Monday. artists like Kendrick Lamar. As for curse words in rap, she said: “I have S to figure out how I’m going to deal with that ‘cause mommy loves her Twitter that he had met President Enrique Pena Nieto Bieber, who will perform again on Tuesday in Mexico before a show in Mexico City, prompting the govern- City, attracted throngs of adoring and screeching rap.” Axl is the couple’s first child. ment to deny such a meeting had taken place. It was fans outside his hotel in the ritzy district of Polanco She and Duhamel say they want a second child and Fergie says she the latest twist in the 19-year-old Canadian singer’s early Monday. Bieber’s tour of Latin America has been wants to stop at two. The 38-year-old singer said being in “mommy mode” is what prompted her to partner with Unilever’s Project Sunlight controversy-filled “Believe Tour” in Latin America. Late plagued by scandals. In Rio de Janeiro, the singer campaign that launches Wednesday in conjunction with Universal File photo shows Fergie at the Monday, Bieber, who calls his fans “beliebers,” wrote to was charged with tagging the wall of an abandoned premiere of “Scenic Route” at hotel, photographed leaving a notorious brothel and Children’s Day. She said the initiative is about making the planet a his 47 million followers on Twitter that he had “just met the Chinese 6 Theater in Los thrown out of another hotel. Before heading to Mexico, better place for children. “I have an urge to help children everywhere,” some amazing mexican beliebers and the presidente she said. Project Sunlight encourages individuals to take steps “to live Angeles.—AP of mexico and his familia.”Minutes later, the president’s he caused outrage in Argentina by stepping on an Argentine flag thrown onto the stage during a concert. more sustainably.” As part of the initiative, UNICEF, the World Food office tweeted to its more than 845,000 followers: “@ Then Argentine authorities seized his concert gear Program and Save the Children are providing school meals, safe drinking and hygiene PresidenciaMX denies a meeting between the holder following a lawsuit filed by a photographer who sued education to 2 million children worldwide yesterday. of the executive @EPN and the singer @justinbieber.” for damages, alleging that Bieber’s bodyguards hit him Fergie said she and Duhamel are taking steps to “create a brighter future for our Bieber changed his tune on Tuesday, writing: “*correc- and damaged his equipment as the singer was leaving children” by driving a hybrid vehicle, recycling and planting an organic garden at their tion. I met the presidente’s family and all their friends in a nightclub.—AFP home. She said she’s thinking about returning to work on a solo album at some point in the the private meet and greet with all their security. They future. “I’ve got my notebooks, I’ve got my iPhone and I’ve got ideas.” Will any of the songs were very nice.” The president’s press office said it could she and Duhamel co-wrote be included? “You never know,” she said with a laugh. “Maybe we’ll put them on as interludes.”—AP The 5 craziest quotes from the Bret Easton Ellis Q&A with West ret Easton Ellis is known for saying reasons: Sometimes it takes too long 10. I almost reached 10 years old when out-there things on Twitter. But he to write that and sometimes I spell the I did ‘Dark Fantasy.’ I had to grow up for Bcan’t get a crazy word in edgewise word ‘genius’ wrong. The irony.” a second. ... And then I’m having a little in his new interview with Kanye West. bit of fun. Ellis kicked off his new podcast Monday 3. “For me, I felt like the main And then when I went to ‘Yeezus’ I by interviewing the creative genius character [in ‘12 Years a Slave’] in what kind of got back to under 5, like four- (West’s preferred title, as he explains). I’m dealing with even as a like mega and-a-half. And now I’m mentally, We know it’s going to be a battle of egos popular rich celebrity, f—you-who-do- completely 3 years old. So if I talk to when Ellis pontificates for three minutes you-think-you-are-to-complain-about- paparazzi, I’m 3 years old. If I get into before letting West, his occasional col- anything situation that I’m in when an argument with Bob Iger, I’m 3 years I deal with ... attempting to create in old. If I get into an argument with Oprah laborator, answer a question But once other fields. Or attempting to create Winfrey for two hours, I’m 3 years old. West gets going, it’s gold. He uses an in clothing. I’ve kind of been on this But don’t let me get proper money, anecdote about Paris to explain why he campaign that started with, ironically, support backing and to put my work feels like the protagonist in “12 Years a my song, ‘New Slaves,’ where, I was out and let the earth speak back to it. Slave.” And he says his current mental sitting in Paris ... .” I’m gonna be two-and-a-half years old. age is three. Basically, we have a new By the time I’m like 50 I’m gonna be one. favorite podcast. Here are West’s wildest 4. “The skill set to dress nice is And by the time I’m dead I’m gonna be comments in his Q&A with Ellis. We’re too high. You know what I mean? If zero.”—Reuters pretty sure some of them are jokes. someone looks at you and says ‘Oh you dress nice’ you have to like focus on it so 1. “Just explaining to people out there much you have to almost be a scholar that are listening that maybe have some of clothing to be a well-dressed person perceptions or have heard some brash and stuff.” comments that I’ve made like doing like Disney or Steve Jobs comparisons, 5. “The better and better I get at what I have the right to do that and I have I do, the younger and younger I am. Like, the right to say that. It’s fun for me, every day I’m getting younger. ... When because to set your goals that high. You I made ‘Graduation’ I was 6 years old. know? Steve Jobs was never the best When I made ‘808s’ I jumped to 5 years computer programmer but he had an old.