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TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2014
LIFESTYLE G o s s i p
Jay Z addresses Drake’s art reference criticisms
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ay Z has hit out at Drake in a new track. The Roc Nation boss addressed the ‘Hypher’ hitmaker during his verse on Jay Electronica’s new song, ‘We Made It’, after the rapper called him “corny” for using art references in his music. Jay Z raps: “Sorry Mrs Drizzy for so much art talk/ Silly me, rappin’ ‘bout that I really bought/ While these rappers rap about guns that they ain’t shot/ And a bunch of other silly thing that they ain’t got.” The reference comes after Drake’s controversial interview with Rolling Stone magazine in February, during which he criticized Jay Z and slated Kanye West’s “questionable” rap lyrics on his ‘Yeezus’ album. He said: “It’s like Hov can’t drop bars these days without at least four art references. I would love to collect [art] at some point, but I think the whole Rap/art world thing is getting kind of corny.” Speaking about ‘Yeezus’, Drake added: “There were some real questionable bars on there.” Itr isn’t the first time Drake has criticized the two rappers, as he admitted he wasn’t on good terms with the stars when he slated Jay Z and Kanye West’s collaborative album ‘Watch The Throne’ on his 2011 track ‘I’m One One’. He admitted: “It was a lack of communication paired with natural competitiveness. But those two are Gods to me.”
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McBusted to support One Direction on tour
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cBusted are to support One Direction on their upcoming stadium tour. The super-group - comprised of McFly’s Harry Judd, Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones and Dougie Poynter, as well as Busted’s Matt Willis and James Bourne - will join the ‘Midnight Memories’ hitmakers this summer for their ‘Where We Are’ world tour in Paris, France. McBusted wrote on Twitter: “AWESOME NEWS! We’re @onedirection’s special guest 21 Jun Paris Stade De France. Merci beaucoup (sic) New dad Tom also wrote: “YES we’re @onedirection’s special guests on 21 June Paris Stade De France. Gonna be trés awesome! (sic)” Niall Horan is close friends with the members of McFly and has recently been writing new music with the band. Last year, the stars worked together on several tracks for One Direction’s third studio album ‘Midnight Memories’, with one of the songs - ‘Don’t Forget Where You Belong’ - featuring on the record. McBusted aren’t the only acts set to join One Direction - consisting of Niall, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson - on tour as they will also be supported by Australian boy band 5 Seconds of Summer. The ‘Where We Are’ stadium tour begins in Bogota, Colombia, on April 25 and ends in Miami, Florida, in October.
iam Gallagher is “very nervous” about former lover Lisa Moorish’s autobiography. The former Oasis singer had a fling with the singer, with who he has 15-year-old daughter Molly, just months after he married his first wife Patsy Kensit in 1997, and is reportedly worried about what will be revealed in the book. A source told The Sun newspaper: “Liam is understood to be very nervous about what will come out.” Lisa will write about the experiences of being a groupie in the 1990s, when Liam’s old band Oasis were one the most talked about acts during the Britpop era. The singer-songwriter also has an 11-year-old son, Astile, with Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty. Liam, 41, also has a 14-year-old son, Lennon, with Patsy, who he was married to from 1997 until 2000, and he split from his second wife Nicole Appleton after it emerged he had fathered a secret child with New York journalist Liza Ghorbani. The pair had been married for five years when they split in 2013 and have an 12-year-old son together, Gene. Liam is now dating his former personal assistant, Debbie Gwyther, and the pair spent the New Year together on a romantic holiday in Thailand. Meanwhile, New York writer Liza has reportedly filed a £2million lawsuit against Liam, who is yet to have a DNA test, for child support.
Williams says music works best without egos
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harrell Williams says the secret to making great music is ditching your ego. The ‘Happy‘ hitmaker insists a big ego can often make people delusional, helping them to believe they did an excellent job when they haven’t, and thinks the best tunes are a result of musicians tapping into their “feelings”. He told Red Bulletin magazine: “Is the music legible to people’s interpretation? “It might not be because your ego told you that you killed it. But if you could remove your ego and only use your feeling, that is when the best stuff comes out.” The 40-year-old singer also believes the music industry works “off emotion” but insists success isn’t his “doing” since he can’t control the records people buy. He said: “Our business works off emotion, and it is not really easy to quantify it outside of what it is. It is like saying ‘Well, are you afraid of how the ball is going to react to the ice hokey rink?’“No, because that is not what it is meant for. The puck is for that world and the ball is for another world. Emotions are just emotions. So when a song works, you should just be thankful, because that is not why you do it. “So any kind of success that I have ever had on a song is not my doing. So you don’t do it for that, because I can’t control that. I do it because I feel like it feels good and it may resonate with other people. So it is not really good to mix the idea of what success is and the purity of why you do something.”
Watson says Harry Potter was tough for directors
Dakota Johnson in talks for Black Mass
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mma Watson says ‘Harry Potter’ was a “huge burden” for its directors. The actress played Hermione Granger in the wizard saga, and she admitted the filmmakers across the series - Chris Columbus, Alfonso Cuaron, Mike Newell and David Yates - all faced a huge amount of pressure. She told the Mail on Sunday newspaper’s Event magazine: “I do know what it takes. “Each of the ‘Harry Potter’ directors looked as if they had aged about 10 years by the time they’d finished. It’s a huge burden to carry.” Her experiences working on the eight movies - adapted from J.K. Rowling’s seven-part book series - means she sympathized with the task facing ‘Noah’ director Darren Aronofsky on the biblical blockbuster. She said: “Darren doesn’t shave during films, so there was this kind of dilapidation that happened throughout, where by the end of it he looked like this mad caveman.” Watson - who stars in the film as Ila - admitted she wasn’t sure about taking on the role until Aronofsky laid out his vision for her. She explained: “To be honest, the idea of making a film of Noah seemed really cheesy to me - the dove and the rainbow the two-by-two ... Darren is the lord of darkness and grittiness. “And then he explained it to me as this really interesting post-apocalyptic world - not set in the past, but not set in the future, and not a sandal in sight.”
Lawrence’s character struggle
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ennifer Lawrence “struggled” with Mystique’s darker side. The 23-year-old actress plays the villainous, blue-hued mutant shapeshifter in ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ and she often contemplated going off-script for the darker scenes. She said: “I was struggling back and forth with wanting to get darker ... There was one scene where I couldn’t get past thinking she’d shoot someone where she doesn’t in the script. We filmed it both ways, but I don’t know which one they’ll use.” The actress also gushed about her time working with director Bryan Singer and was delighted when she found out he was going to helm the project. Quizzed on working with Singer, she told Total Film magazine: “It was amazing! There was a tiny fan boy inside of me jumping up and down and screaming when he decided to direct.” Talking about Singer sharing the experience with fans on Twitter, Lawrence added: “He took pictures of everything. He always had his phone out. He was like a 13-year-old girl at a premiere.”
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akota Johnson is in talks to play Johnny Depp’s love interest in ‘Black Mass’. The ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ star will play Lindsey Cyr, the girlfriend of Depp’s character Boston crime kingpin-turned-fugitive, Whitey Bulger, and mother to his six-year-old son Douglas who dies tragically, in the film directed by Scott Cooper, according to deadline.com. Bulger, who was the leader of the notorious Winter Hill Gang, topped the FBI’s list of most wanted criminals before disappearing for a decade. ‘The Great Gatsby’ actor Joel Edgerton had been slated to star opposite Depp as a crooked FBI agent, John Connolly, who was tasked with bringing down Bulger but aided him in his disappearance. Guy Pearce has been cast as Bill Bulger, brother of the mobster who was president of the Massachusetts Senate. Bulger was arrested in California in 2011 and is currently serving time in a Massachusetts state prison for second-degree murder. The film was titled after Dick Lehr and Gerald O’Neill’s 2001 New York Times best-seller ‘Black Mass: The True Story of An Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob’.
David James Kelly to pen Wolverine 3
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avid James Kelly will pen the next installment of ‘The Wolverine’. Hugh Jackman will reprise his signature role as the titular character and James Mangold will helm the film, according to deadline.com. Lauren Shuler Donner is being lined up to return and produce again, after her work on 2009’s ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’ and 2013’s ‘The Wolverine’. The storyline for the upcoming project is being kept under wraps, but some believe the plot could follow on from the character’s antics in the hotly anticipated ‘XMen: Days of Future Past’. Jackman recently said Wolverine is going to have “fun” with Michael Fassbender’s character, Magneto, in the forthcoming American superhero film when his alter-ego travels back in time to save the mutant race. He said: “It’s fair to say we don’t get on that well. I get sent back to the past and he has no idea who I am, but you can imagine Wolverine has a bit of fun with that.” ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’, released in 2009, was the fourth installment in the X-Men film series, and grossed over $373 million worldwide, while last year’s ‘The Wolverine’made $414.8 million. ‘The Wolverine 3’ is set for a March 3, 2017, release. —Bang Showbiz