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Thursday, April 10, 2014
Pineda plans solo album, but not leaving Journey Associated Press Writer
MANILA, Philippines — Arnel Pineda says he’s been putting together an album of his own compositions in his own voice to release this year, but he quashed rumors that he’s gearing up to leave the American rock band Journey. The Filipino singer and Journey lead vocalist said he will stay as long as the band needs him. Pineda also dismissed talk of a possible band reunion with former lead singer Steve Perry.
The singer spoke in an interview Tuesday during the launch of his version of the song “Charity” in the animated children’s music video “Cha-Ching” on Cartoon Network. The song about donating money or time to those in need can be purchased from iTunes to benefit Typhoon Haiyan victims in the Philippines. The singer has been involved in charity projects in the Philippines. Having risen from poverty, he said it was his obligation to help those who struggle with difficulties he experienced. Pineda, now 46, was once a homeless teenager in Manila who at 15 started singing professionally with small bands.
He found success after Journey guitarist Neal Schon discovered him in 2007 on YouTube singing hits of Perry and sounding strikingly like him. “Even though I am still with (Journey) and we are touring, I am also working on my original materials and I am also recording them,” Pineda said, adding he aims to launch the album this year. This year, Journey is touring the United States and Canada, and next year will tour South America. On rumors of a Journey reunion with Perry, he said he has not heard any talk of that.
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A member of An-Nadzir Muslim shows his inked finger after casting his ballot at a polling station during the parliamentary election in Gowa, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Wednesday, April 9, 2014.
FILE - In this March 2, 2009 file photo, Filipino singer-songwriter Arnel Pineda, center, the lead vocalist of American rock band “Journey” smiles beside bandmates Neal Schon, left, and Deen Castronovo, right, during a press conference at a mall in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines. AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File
Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin to star on Broadway Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK — Michael Cera and Kieran Culkin are slated to star together on Broadway in Kenneth Lonergan’s play “This Is Our Youth,” a comedy about the high times and aimless lives of two disaffected young men. Lonergan said Tuesday that Cera, whose credits include “Arrested Development,” ‘’Juno” and “Superbad,” and Culkin, of “Igby Goes Down” and “Cider House Rules,” will bring the play to Broadway in the fall after a stop this summer at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company. All three will be making their Broadway debuts. The woman in the middle of the pair will be played by Tavi Gevinson, who founded a web magazine for teenage girls and acted in the film “Enough Said.” The production will be directed by Anna D. Shapiro and will have original music by Rostam Batmanglij of the band Vampire Weekend. “This is very exciting,” the playwright said by phone. “I’ve had many chances to do the play over the years in New York, and one reason I avoided it was because it’s very hard to cast. I’m very excited about this particular group of people.”
The play will be in Chicago from June 10 to July 27 and begin previews Aug. 18 on Broadway, with an opening night at the Corte Theatre set for Sept. 11. The play will be produced on Broadway by Scott Rudin. Set in 1982 at the beginning of the Reagan Era, the entire play takes place over two days at the Upper West Side apartment of Dennis, a narcissistic kid with wealthy parents. He gets an unexpected visit from his weird friend Warren, who fled home after having a disagreement with his dad and taking $15,000. They come up with a dangerous plan to return the money and avoid punishment: First use it to buy cocaine and then resell the coke at a profit so they can also party and attract the attention of Warren’s affections: 19-year-old Jessica Goldman. The play debuted offBroadway in 1996 and has over the years
featured such high-profile actors as Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hamilton, Matt Damon, Colin Hanks, Chris Klein, Jake Gyllenhaal and Anna Paquin. It was Lonergan’s first hit, and it changed his career. “It was a big turning point in my life,” he said, laughing. “This one gets done a lot because it’s got three big good parts for very young people so acting students tend to gravitate toward it. I think casting directors are sick of it.”
PDIP took early lead on parliamentary election
Agence France-Presse
JAKARTA - Indonesia’s main opposition party took an early lead Wednesday in parliamentary elections expected to bolster the presidential ambitions of its popular candidate, Jakarta governor Joko Widodo. The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) was in first place with 19-20 percent of the national vote, according to two unofficial tallies, putting it in first place but lower than recent surveys had predicted. Golkar, the former party of
dictator Suharto, was in second place with about 15 percent, while the Gerindra party of ex-general Prabowo Subianto -- also a presidential contender -- was third with about 12 percent. Millions had earlier streamed to polling stations across the huge
archipelago, which stretches across three time zones from remote and mountainous Papua in the east to the crowded main island of Java and to Sumatra in the west. “We hope for representatives who care about our interests rather than their own. I’ve picked the most honest and fair candidates,” Ilyas Hasan, 43, told AFP in Jayapura, the capital of deeply poor Papua province. Some 186 million people were eligible to vote for around 230,000 candidates competing for about 20,000 seats in national and re-
gional legislatures, although the most important vote is for the lower house of the national parliament. Wednesday’s polls also determine who can run in presidential elections in July and all eyes are on frontrunner Widodo and the PDI-P, which has long been tipped to win the biggest share of the vote. “I’m very confident my party will do very well,” said the 52-yearold governor, smiling broadly after voting near his official residence in Jakarta, as he was mobbed by a scrum of about 200 journalists.
Early lead An unofficial tally, known as a “quick count”, by pollster Indonesia Political Indicator put the PDI-P on 19.68 percent of the national vote, with around 20 percent of a sample of votes from some 2,000 polling stations counted. A tally from pollster Indonesian Survey Circle gave the party around 19 percent, with about 30 percent of votes counted at some 2,000 polling stations. Continued on page 6