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BEN DETRICK
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INCE moving to New York City from
Los Angeles last fall, Solange
Knowles has kept up a dual life. Her
public persona includes a DJ stint at
a party at the Ferragamo
store on Fifth Avenue and posing for V magazine. But her
schedule also includes
going to see avantgarde musicians like
Grimes in Brooklyn
warehouses
and
attending fundraising meetings at her
seven-year-old
son’s school.
“The
strollers
don’t bother me, but
the intensity of the
moms does,” she said of
her new neighbourhood,
Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.
“Everyone does so much yoga
and drinks so much tea.”
And while she is acclimating to New York,
the shadow of Beyonce Knowles, her older sister, extends like a skyscraper. During a recent
lunch at Walter Foods, a restaurant in
Brooklyn, Solange Knowles glanced around the
patio with a sense of relief. When she dined
there with her sister several months earlier, she
said, patrons ogled them and reached for camera phones.
“It did not feel like this,” she said, pausing
from her steak salad to gesture at diners minding their own business. She wore a flowing
white Tucker dress, Alexander Wang heels and
powder-blue Prada sunglasses. “I’m so proud,”
she added, “of her success, but I could not do
that. It’s given me a pretty clear blueprint on
what I don’t want to happen.”
Instead of pursuing pop stardom, Knowles
has wrapped herself in indie cred – a Pitchforkapproved chanteuse, boldfaced DJ and fashion
ambassador, as comfortable on the party pages
of Paper magazine as she is on Beyonce’s
Tumblr blog. It’s an appealingly spongy zone of
celebrity for the 25-year-old.
Knowles was born in Houston in an uppermiddle-class household; her father was a successful salesman at Xerox and her mother ran
a beauty salon. But in the late ‘90s, the rise of
Destiny’s Child turned the Knowles clan into
an entertainment juggernaut. Beyonce was the
star, their father was the manager, and their
mother was the stylist and choreographer.
Kelly Rowland, another singer in the group,
moved in with the family.
Solange never joined Destiny’s Child, but
began travelling with the group as a backup
dancer at 13, after a performer became pregnant. “It felt very orthodox in its own twisted
way,” she said of spending most of her high
school years on tour.
While her mother urged patience, Knowles
followed her sister’s path, pursuing a career as
a singer and songwriter in her teenage years.
Neither her debut album (Solo Star, in 2003)
nor her sophomore effort (Sol-Angel and the
Hadley St Dreams, 2008) was a commercial
success, but music seemed a secondary pursuit.
At 18, she gave birth to Daniel Julez J Smith
II, which put her career and education on
standby. She married his father, Daniel Smith,
S
and moved to Los Angeles, then to rural
Idaho, where he attended college. They
divorced in 2007, and Knowles split time
between Houston and Los Angeles, where she
still owns houses. But New York City beckoned, not only because her family is now on
the East Coast, but also for professional
opportunities.
“I’ve been trying to talk her
into going to Brooklyn for
six years,” Beyonce said.
“It’s so close to her
personality. She’s
such a fashionista –
she’ll get used to
it.”
I n d e e d ,
Knowles has made
an impression. In
the fall, she sat in
the front row at
runway shows for
Rodarte and Vera
Wang, was the DJ at a
Rimmel cosmetics party in
London and hit the Kenzo and
Kanye West shows in Paris. She has
earned attention for mixing designer labels
with vintage pieces and incorporates bright
colours (especially yellow and purple) that
routinely inspire “hot or not” polls on style
blogs. In January, she signed with Next
Model Management.
“Solange can wear anything she wants,”
said Humberto Leon, a co-owner of
Opening Ceremony, the influential SoHo
boutique, who has booked Knowles to DJ
at several events. “I’ve enjoyed watching
her evolution as a style icon.”
Brooklyn is also fertile soil for indie
music. Despite her R&B origins, she has
deftly infiltrated the genre, remaking a song
by the Dirty Projectors, recording with Of
Montreal and collaborating with Grizzly
Bear and Twin Shadow.
“I sort of witnessed her charm the whole
indie world in the last two years,” said
Alain Macklovitch, a DJ who performs
under the name A-Trak. When he gave
Knowles a DJ tutorial a few years back, he
was surprised by her omnivorous musical
diet. “I realised pretty quickly that she had
broad musical taste that was totally different
from what you expected. She was ahead of the
curve.”
Some sceptics say Knowles has curled leftward as a reaction to her sister’s pop prominence. Hipster Runoff, a satirical culture blog,
described her as an “alt hipster blister
songstress” and wrote in March 2011 that
“Solange Knowles is on a never-ending quest to
find her niche in the indiesphere.”
Knowles bristles at the accusation. “There’s
always going to be a bit of mystery as to how
two people who grew up in the same household
have different interests,” Knowles said, referring to her sister. “I’m younger than her, and
even in five years, there’s a total gap in how
you’re exposed to musical things and fashion
and art.”
Despite her familial advantages, Knowles
still has a younger sibling’s stubborn streak.
While she has helped to write several songs for
Beyonce – Get Me Bodied and Upgrade U,
among them – she has declined any professional help from her more famous sister.
“My sister will not record with me,” Beyonce
said. “She’s her own woman.”
Solange Knowles has
a million-plus followers on
Twitter. She was interviewed by
Italian Vogue, but goes incognito to
pop-up parties in Chinatown. She
vacations on yachts in Europe, but
talks giddily of sneaking into the
Chick-fil-A in Greenwich
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A model
presents a creation
by Belarusian brand,
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in Minsk. (AP)
A model
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Argentina’s Laura
Novik at the Lima
Fashion Week in
Lima, Peru. (AP)
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Gomez, Swift enjoy girls night
Cole to try internet dating?
SELENA Gomez ate cupcakes and danced the night away with Taylor Swift during
a girls’ night out. The ladies enjoyed some quality time together on Wednesday
night. Gomez shared the fun with her fans on Facebook by posting picture of the
duo dancing with two friends, playing the guitar and eating cupcakes, reports contactmusic.com. “Because you need a best friend that sings beautifully, another best
friend to dance with you and another to listen. Oh and cupcakes,” she posted.
SINGER Cheryl Cole has apparently decided to give online dating
a go. “Cheryl’s pals are urging her to go for it. She wasn’t sure at
first, but now thinks, ‘What have I got to lose?’ after their success,” a source told thesun.co.uk. “She can get to know someone rather than have them form an opinion of her because of her
fame and who she is,” the source added.
Solange
Knowles
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35
A child in a
pillow fort.
And the walls came
tumbling down, again
MATT RICHTEL
NYT SYNDICATE
ANET W Foster, a Columbia
University architectural historian, has done a little design work
herself.
Consider Foster’s Drape-Drawstring
Roof, circa 1992. Its signature architectural feature involved tying the drawstring from her drapes to the corner of a
blanket. Then she laid the blanket over
the edges of walls made of pillows, creating the roof of a pillow fort designed
for her two young sons.
“When you pull the cord, the blanket
door rises,” Foster explained. “When it
was up, we played ‘day.’ When it was
down, we played ‘night.”’
And then her voice started to trail off.
“I’m tearing up,” she said. “You never
know when you’re going to build your
last fort.”
Given that my two children are mere
toddlers, I’m not worried yet about the
last-fort problem. I’m still working on
figuring out how to build a half-decent
one, what with my severe deficit in engineering skills. I’m expert in the field of
collapse. So I reached out to Foster and
other architectural experts for help with
constructing the perfect pillow-andblanket structure.
The Seattle architect and blogger
Andrew van Leeuwen stumbled upon
the emotional resonance of forts when
he wrote a lighthearted posting about
them several years ago. Traffic soared.
“It overwhelmed the server, and we
had to shut the post down,” he said,
laughing.
Memories of my earliest forts are hard
to conjure up. I do remember the feelings, though: Huddled in a cave made of
cushions and sheets with my younger
sister, we conspired to figure out how to
create windows and doors in our private
space. We often brought in a guest – our
cat, Frisky – but the scratch marks on
our forearms attested to her interest in
being excluded.
I’ve also talked to lots of friends and
acquaintances about forts, and heard
the same warm feelings about an almost
universal childhood activity, one often
shared with parents. Cost: Zero. Rules:
Few. Comfort of a cave: High. Cleanup:
Well, there’s that.
But the chief reason for the primal
drive to build forts? Simple, the architects said. We all like space that fits us.
“Little kids don’t have permanent
control over their spaces,” said Foster,
the associate director for urban planning and historic preservation at
Columbia. “They can make a little space.
It’s about having their space, taking control of it. Fundamentally, that’s what
architecture is all about.”
My own fond memories prompted me
to propose building a fort with my son
Milo about a year ago, when he was
approaching three. He wanted a rocket
ship. I pulled the cushion off our love
seat and propped it over the top of a
chair, creating about a two-foot cave
J
beneath the cushion and the seat.
The makeshift structure wasn’t quite
holding his interest. Was he too young
for this game? Or were my skills lacking?
“The first thing you do is test the
building materials,” instructed Michael
Lepech, 32.
He’s an assistant professor of civil and
environmental engineering at Stanford
University, an expert in bendable concrete, a winner of sand-castle-making
contests and someone who does not
build his pillow forts just any which way.
He makes them with his nephews,
William, eight, and Andrew, five, first
going around the house gathering materials, separating heavy from light. That
way, he said, they can learn about and
follow the most basic design principle:
heavy stuff on the bottom, the lightest
on the top.
I’ve also talked to lots of
friends and acquaintances
about forts, and heard the
same warm feelings about
an almost universal
childhood activity, one often
shared with parents. Cost:
Zero. Rules: Few. Comfort of
a cave: High. Cleanup: Well,
there’s that
my obvious technical deficiencies.
About my motivations. Who is this fortbuilding exercise for anyway? Our children? Or us?
“You tell secrets in forts,” he said.
“They’re private. You’re sharing something.”
Of course, she loves having her own
pint-size space, too.
She just doesn’t always have the technique down, as when she climbs onto
her parents’ bed and tries to stack their
pillows into a fort.
“The pillows are too soft – it doesn’t
work,” he will advise her in the gentlest
way.
For some architects, building forts
takes patience. Jody Brown, 43, an
architect jokes that his three sons can be
demanding.
“They are just like my clients: They’ve
got no budget, they’re not willing to wait
on design, they want to move in before
it’s done, and they only care about their
power equipment,” he said, referring to
how they insist that the fort accommo-
Architect Bob Borson and his daughter Kate, play cards in a pillow fort they built in their living room.
“We also get to talk about tension and
compression,” he said, although he
avoids technical terms. “We talk about
pushing and pulling.”
His big innovation is using blankets to
wrap two large cushions so that they
create a large wall panel that can stand
on its edge. In fact, he creates several
such panels. Then he uses another blanket or sheet to attach adjoining panels,
in effect connecting the walls of the fort.
Lepech impressed his nephews with a
tent that reached each eight feet high,
tall enough for them to stand a toy basketball hoop inside. He added that he
focuses on construction, not architecture, since he prefers to let the boys
come up with ideas.
“I never initiate,” he said. “The last
thing I want to do is push my stuff at
them.”
It was at this point in the reporting
that the misgivings kicked in. Not about
I got more structural counsel and
some armchair psychology from Bob
Borson, 44, an architect in Dallas who
frequently builds forts with his sevenyear-old daughter, Kate.
His tips: Use sheets for the roof, since
they’re lighter than blankets. Couches
are a great anchor. Pinch the edge of a
sheet between the back of the couch and
the wall, add pillow walls in front of the
couch, and then you can instantly create
a roof by pulling the sheet over them.
As a bonus, he said, his daughter, sitting on the ground in front of the couch,
puts her stuffed animals on its seat.
Who doesn’t want more shelf space?
And umbrellas are great, Borson said,
for super-fast fort construction. Just
throw a sheet or blanket over the top of
a big golf umbrella – or two, if you have
them – and you’re all set.
Borson loves huddling in the fort with
his daughter.
date their Wii video game console.
After hearing all the counsel, I was
eager to try again with my son, Milo,
who is now approaching four, and his
sister, Mirabel, almost two.
“Sheets,” I said to my wife, explaining
that they were lighter than blankets for
use in a fort roof. She smiled with genuine appreciation, as if I had shown her
how to wash the dinner dishes in half
the usual time.
I tucked the sheet into the back of the
couch. Milo climbed onto the seat, the
sheet tight above him, like a roof. Then
he climbed out again. He jumped on top
of the sheet, and he and his sister rolled
around on the rubble. I’m the IM Pei of
collapse.
My nephew Zachary, seven, is a hardcore fort builder and has specific design
ideas. There’s been a fort in his room for
the past two months or, as he says, “like
every second of my life.”
“The easiest way to do it is with a
desk,” he said in a tone that suggested
he was wondering whether his uncle
had been born in a cave. “You know the
hole where your chair goes? You make a
hallway in front of the hole and you
climb inside and, voila, you have a
party.”
By party, he means, he crawls into it
and reads by himself. And he has very
strong ideas about why he does that.
“Because Mel comes into my room
and takes my books and whacks me on
the knee with them.”
Mel is Melina, his toddler sister, who
he said constantly interrupts him.
Sometimes, he said, he’ll invite her into
the fort, “but not when she’s in that
mood.” Not the parents, though.
I heard that elsewhere.
No parents inside, said Benjamin
Lopez-Ikeda. He’s now 17, and forts are
largely behind him. But until a few years
ago, he and his cousins regularly built
forts. They hid their Nerf guns inside.
They ate chocolate in secret.
They also followed their own architectural muse, rather than asking for
advice from his aunt, Margaret Ikeda,
who along with her husband runs a
design and architecture firm.
“We just did it our way, and our way
was the right way, and it always turned
out right,” Benjamin said, adding of the
adults: “I guess we didn’t need them.”
“We had to be invited in,” said his
aunt, Ikeda, who would watch from a
distance, not too impressed by the outside of the structure. “It looked like one
big mess, like a homeless encampment.”
Even so, she developed an appreciation for what it stood for.
“It was their home, a home within a
home,” she said. “It had to become their
thing.”
Ikeda had studied architecture at
Berkeley, so I reached out for fort-building counsel to one of her instructors, Jill
Stoner, an author and architect. She told
me the fort had to be the children’s to
build, not mine to direct – and theirs,
too, to let go of. It’s ok if it falls down,
comes apart, changes, needs rebuilding.
“You’re setting up the notion of
impermanence,” she said. “Keep reinforcing the mantra, ‘This is not going to
stay here.”’
When I interviewed the architects, I
heard the hints of melancholy in their
voices about connecting with kids in a
mutually creative process. We remember the comfort of the fort, the thrill of
designing our own space, and we want
to design it with our children.
But maybe the experience isn’t about
togetherness. Maybe it’s about letting
go. Sure, I may have a few months,
maybe years, to collaborate. I’ll show
them things. I’ll initiate. But then I’ll
have to let them have their home inside
our home, apart from us.
The pillows and blankets, the sheets
and rope, the umbrellas, will belong to
them. And the secrets whispered inside.
I wonder if I’ll know when I’ve built my
last fort.
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Peru investigates deaths of almost 900 dolphins
Environment
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OFFICIALS in Peru have said recently that they are investigating what caused the deaths of nearly
900 dolphins washed up on its northern coast over the past four months. Authorities said they suspect a virus may be responsible, but are awaiting test results to know whether they can rule out
environmental pollution or other factors in the deaths of the marine mammals. “So far that’s the
most likely hypothesis,” Deputy Environment Minister Gabriel Quijandria told a local radio. Ninetyfive percent of the deaths affected bottlenosed dolphins, which since January have washed up along
a 170-kilometre (100-mile) stretch of coastline. “It’s not the first time this has happened. There have
been other instances in Peru, Mexico and the United States,” Quijandria added. In those cases, he
said, the deaths were attributed to outbreaks of highly infectious morbillivirus, related to ailments
such as rinderpest, measles and distemper, an easily transmittable disease affecting dogs.
EXPERTS MEASURE A DEAD DOLPHIN ON A BEACH ON THE NORTHERN COAST OF PERU.
Whole Foods says it is doing its
part to address the very real
problem of overfishing and help
badly depleted fish stocks recover
To New England fishermen,
Whole Foods is another barrier
ABBY GOODNOUGH
NYT SYNDICATE
TANDING on the deck of
his rusted steel trawler,
Naz Sanfilippo fumed
about the latest bad news
for New England fishermen: a decision by Whole Foods to
stop selling any seafood it does not
consider sustainable.
Gray sole and skate, common
catches in the region, will no longer
appear in the grocery chain’s artfully arranged fish cases. Atlantic cod,
a New England staple, will be sold
only if it is not caught by trawlers,
which drag nets across the ocean
floor, a much-used method here.
“It’s
totally
maddening,”
Sanfilippo said. “They’re just doing
it to make all the green people
happy.”
Whole Foods says that, in fact, it
is doing its part to address the very
real problem of overfishing and
help badly depleted fish stocks
recover. It is using ratings set by the
Blue Ocean Institute, a conservation group, and the Monterey Bay
Aquarium in California. They are
based on factors including how
abundant a species is, how quickly
it reproduces and whether the
catch method damages its habitat.
“Stewardship of the ocean is so
important to our customers and to
us,” said David Pilat, the global
seafood buyer for Whole Foods.
“We’re not necessarily here to tell
fishermen how to fish, but on a
species like Atlantic cod, we are out
there actively saying,
‘For Whole Foods
Market to buy your cod,
the rating has to be
favourable.”’
The company had originally planned to stop selling
“red-rated” fish next year but
moved up its deadline. The other
fish it will no longer carry are
Atlantic halibut, octopus, sturgeon,
tautog, turbot, imported wild
shrimp, some species of rockfish,
and tuna and swordfish caught in
certain areas or by certain methods.
(Whole Foods has already stopped
selling orange roughy, shark,
bluefin tuna and most marlin.)
Although the new policy will
affect fishermen nationwide, the
S
The Rocky Neck section of Gloucester.
reaction from Gloucester and other
New England ports may be the
unhappiest. New England has
more overfished stocks than any
other region, according to federal
monitors, and its fishing industry
has bridled – and struggled to survive – under strict regulations.
“We’ve been murdered,” said
Russell Sherman, who sold his
entire catch to Whole Foods for the
past six years and is seeking new
buyers. “It’s not fair at all.”
Jim Ford, who said he sold
700,000 pounds of fish to Whole
Foods over the past year,
declared, “It’s a
marketing ploy, that’s all.”
Ford said he would now sell to the
Legal Sea Foods restaurant chain
instead.
Whole Foods has had a fish processing plant here since 1996, the
oldest of four around the country,
and has processed about 10,000
pounds of fish a day in recent years.
A number of local boats have
worked with Whole Foods, including a handful that sold exclusively
to the company.
Still, Whole Foods is only one
buyer, and there will be “plenty of
other market demand,” said Vito
Giacalone, policy director for the
Northeast Seafood Coalition, a
trade group here.
“It’s the precedent and the message it sends out that’s really unfortunate,” said Giacalone, whose
family runs a fish auction that sells
to Whole Foods. “Whole
Foods is a
r e p -
utable,
credible food
source for a big
community of people, and so when
their
headquarters
makes this kind of statement, it’s not good for the industry.”
Some question the need for grocery stores to reject certain UScaught fish when the government
has imposed its own conservation
measures. Many of the nation’s
fishermen now operate under
federally created systems that
allocate a yearly quota of fish.
Vito Giacalone, policy director for the Northeast Seafood Coalition, holds an Atlantic cod.
making similar moves.
But in Gloucester, anyway, some
fishermen are taking the Whole
Foods decision more personally.
Whole Foods will continue to sell
New England catches like haddock,
pollock, scallops and hake. And it
will still sell Atlantic cod that is
caught by gillnets or, preferably,
hook and line, Pilat said. While
Whole Foods will still sell Pacific
cod, he said, it will not appear
much in the company’s New
England stores for cultural reasons.
“The number of local fish that we
will
have to discontinue is miniarea fisherman. mal,” he said, “and we will be
an
s,
tin
ar
M
is
Den
replacing those species with other
very similar species, such as buying
And for some stocks, the quotas more flounder instead of the gray
are being reduced; fishermen are sole.”
facing a 22 percent cut in the
The company is developing relaamount of Gulf of Maine cod they tionships with more hook boats, he
can catch. In New England, some said. But there are few such boats in
areas are closed to fishing for part the cod fishery, according to the
or all of the year; in others, only cer- fishery council.
tain kinds of gear can be used.
Some fishermen questioned
“We have the strictest manage- why Whole Foods would approve
ment regime in the world,” said net-caught fish, as marine mamDavid Goethel, a fisherman from mals are known to get entangled
Hampton, and a member of the in gillnets, and hook-caught fish,
New England Fishery Management as hooks often end up catching
Council. “So using the word ‘sus- undersize fish. Last week, federal
tainable,’ maybe it looks good in regulators announced that they
your advertising. But, without would ban gillnet fishing for part
being too harsh, it means absolute- of the fall in coastal waters from
Maine to Cape Ann because too
ly nothing.”
But Ellen Pikitch, director of many porpoises had been dying in
the Institute for Ocean the nets.
“There’s no immaculate fishing
Conservation Science at Stony
Brook University, said Whole gear,” said Goethel, the fishery
council member.
Foods was doing the right thing.
Sherman said that Whole
“Whole Foods is setting a good
example by offering fish from Foods told him it would still buy
relatively well-managed fish- pollock and hake from him, but
eries,” she said. “It’s too bad that he could not even offload cod
that more New England fish and gray sole at its docks unless it
don’t qualify, but over time, was quickly removed. “They’re
such market forces should help talking about my fish like it’s
bring these fish back – both in the atomic,” he said. “Believe me,
ocean and to the Whole Foods they are a great outfit to work for,
but they are corporate, and this is
seafood counter.”
Whole Foods is not the first a corporate move.”
Giacalone, while disappointed,
supermarket chain to limit the kind
of seafood it sells in the name of did not waste an opportunity to
sustainability. Last month, BJ’s talk about some of the New
Wholesale Club announced a plan England-caught fish that will still
to sell seafood only from suppliers be available at Whole Foods,
“identified as sustainable or on starting with pollock. “It’s a great
track to meet sustainability stan- eating fish,” he said. “Almost like
dards by 2014.” Other chains are the dark meat on a turkey.”
Monday, April 30, 2012
HOLLYWOOD
Scene
unscene
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Olivia Wilde prefers natural look
Saldana finds ballet difficult
OLIVIA Wilde refuses to pluck her eyebrows and says she
prefers the natural look. “I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I have
been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me,” she said. “I have been going
for a slightly lighter shade of brown, lately. I just fill in under the
arch and soften them up a bit. My natural brows are quite
pointy. I soften them so I look less like some evil Disney queen,”
she added. The actress got a blonde look, but says the colouring process has taken toll on her hair. “I am really enjoying
being a blonde. And I’ve also been letting my bangs grow out.
But since the colour, my hair has been dry,” she said.
ZOE Saldana says doing ballet in her teens made her feel like
dying from inside. The actress, who lived in her father’s native
Dominican Republic, as a youngster enrolled in a specialised
dance school - but she quickly discovered that she loathed ballet
because she hated performing in silence. “I had to quit ballet
because it felt like a part of me was dying inside. It takes a lot of
courage to face up to things you can’t do because we feed ourselves so much denial,” Saldana said. Saldana believes that she
discovered acting through dancing. “In dance, you use every part
of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I
wanted to use my voice,” she added.
OLIVIA WILDE
Ted centres on a boy whose
Christmas wish comes true
after his teddy bear comes
to life. But that dream turns
into a nightmare when the
pair grows up
REUTERS
NIVERSAL brought Snow
White, Bourne and a
Battleship to CinemaCon
recently in the hopes of
astonishing theatre owners,
but all it really needed to pack was a
teddy bear.
With a reported budget of $65 million,
Seth MacFarlane’s Ted was made for a
fraction of what it cost to blow up half the
Navy in Battleship, but the resounding
laughter that greeted the extended
footage indicates the studio might have a
huge R-rated hit on its
hands.
The film centres
on a boy whose
Christmas wish
comes true after
his teddy bear
comes to life.
But that dream
turns into a
nightmare
when the pair
grows up.
Universal
highlighted the
U
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ZOE SALDANA
Ted blows up Battleship
at CinemaCon
stuffed bear, played by McFarlane in a
motion-capture suit, hanging out with
women and portraying all activities that
would be pretty foreign to, say, Winnie
the Pooh.
Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis star
along with MacFarlane. The reaction was
so enthusiastic that Adam Fogelson,
Universal Pictures chairman who was
emceeing the event, probably did not
mind when he found himself the target of
MacFarlane’s raunchy zingers.
“You have the boyish charm of Rick
Santorum,” MacFarlane told Fogelson.
Later, MacFarlane dared the studio
chief to expose himself. Fogelson opted
to keep his appendage in trou.
Universal also screened footage of
Snow White and the Huntsman, bringing out stars Kristen Stewart and
Charlize Theron to preview an extended
trailer that has the title character leading
a band of knights and dwarves to battle
against the wicked queen.
The film is a spectacular epic, directed
by a first-time talent, Rupert Sanders,
who spun a world of mythical creatures,
an imperiously evil Theron and a dark
look that is miles removed from the rococo Snow White picture from Relativity,
Mirror, Mirror.
The studio also gave exhibitors a look
at Battleship which has already
debuted in many foreign territories. It has grossed north of $150
million, so something must
work, but it just seemed to pummel convention-goers into submission with its pyrotechnics and
jingoism.
More interesting were The
Savages, a dark thriller that
Fogelson said would return director
Oliver Stone to the ultraviolent territory he
covered in his script
for Scarface and
Natural Born Killers.
The movie, which centres on two dealers
whose mutual girlfriend
(Blake Lively) is kidnapped by a Mexican drug
cartel, looks to ride the
knife’s edge. Salma Hayek plays a
drug lord, while John Travolta plays a
crooked DEA agent.
Travolta came on stage and said he had
never worked with “...such decent people
doing such awful things.” As for the
Bourne franchise,
Fogelson said
A still from the
film Ted.
that after Matt Damon passed on a fourth
installment, the studio wanted to open
up the paranoid world of the thrillers
without recasting the lead.
He said that Universal had decided to
let Bourne swim off into the Hudson, his
memory restored, “for now,” holding
out the possibility that Damon could
be in for a big payday down the road.
The Bourne Legacy sees Jeremy
Renner taking over as another superassassin on the run from the government. Based on the early footage, he is
equally adept at turning from prey to
predator and single-handedly tearing
through an intelligence agency.
Looking
farther
ahead,
Universal also previewed
glimpses of its winter and
spring slate, including
footage from the This is 40,
which centres on the
Knocked Up characters
played by Leslie Mann
and Paul Rudd; Les
Misérables with Russell
Crowe
and
Hugh
Jackman flexing their
singing voices; and the
3D martial arts adventure 47 Ronin.
(From left) Stills from the films Battleship, Snow White and the Huntsman and The Bourne Legacy.
Avengers star Hemsworth is
omnipresent on screen
AP
C
HRIS Hemsworth’s real
superpower seems to be
that he’s everywhere at
once.
The star of last summer’s
superhero hit Thor reprises his
role as the Norse God of thunder
in The Avengers, which will hit
cinemas on May 4, just weeks
after his horror tale The Cabin in
the Woods.
On June 1, Hemsworth will be
back opposite Twilight star
Kristen Stewart in the fairy-tale
makeover Snow White and the
Huntsman, and late this year, he
co-stars in a remake of the action
flick Red Dawn.
Meantime, he’s preparing to
shoot Thor 2, due out next year,
after he wraps production on Ron
Howard’s race-car drama Rush.
It sounds like a superhuman
workload worthy of Thor’s godly
lineage, but Cabin in the Woods
and Red Dawn are leftovers from
before Hemsworth shot to star-
dom when he was cast as the
Marvel Comics hero. The two
releases were delayed for years
because of MGM’s bankruptcy,
leaving the 28-year-old Australian
actor a little edgy about how those
older performances of his will
play with audiences.
“Selfishly, I look back each week
and think, I knew nothing last
week and now I get it. So to go
back three years, I sort of cringe at
the thought of what I did then as
opposed to now,” Hemsworth
said. “So that’s sort of nerve-racking to think that I’ve learned more
than what’s going to be shown on
the screen.
“But you have no control over
that. That’s the nature of the business. I’m proud of all of those
films and had a great time making
them, and they all kind of are
pieces of the puzzle that got me to
where I am now.”
Where he’s at is an enviable
place among young actors. The
middle brother of actors Luke and
Liam Hemsworth, he’s at the centre of the big-screen mania for
comic-book superheroes and has
quickly branched into a nice range
of other roles.
In Rush, Hemsworth plays a
British Formula One driver James
Hunt. In Snow White, he’s the
huntsman of the title, a rough
wreck of a man who starts out as
the fairy-tale princess’ would-be
assassin but ends up her ally,
training her to take on a wicked
queen (Charlize Theron).
Hemsworth hesitated about the
huntsman role at first, thinking
the fantasy trappings might be too
similar to Thor.
“Then I looked at the character
and read the script and thought,
OK, I haven’t seen this version of
it before. He’s a drunk and a mess.
He’s an open wound, and I
thought, OK, this is a different
entry point,” Hemsworth said.
“It’s kind of Lord of the Rings on
steroids. When I saw a cut of it
recently, I was just blown away.”
In The Avengers, Thor’s evil
brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston)
schemes to turn alien invaders
loose on Earth. So Thor teams
with Robert Downey Jr’s Iron
Man, Mark Ruffalo’s Incredible
Hulk, Chris Evans’ Captain
America, Scarlett Johansson’s
Black Widow and Jeremy
Renner’s Hawkeye to bring Loki
down.
That’s a lot of superhero ego in
one room, most of the characters
used to having things their way
rather than working as a unit.
“They all come into the film
with a great amount of strength,
but then soon realise that none of
their strength is as powerful as it
can be unless they work together,”
Hemsworth said. “It’s a bit of a
message that working together is
far more powerful than any individual cause anyone could have.”
To hear the cast and Avengers
director Joss Whedon tell it, the
same thing happened with the
actors.
“I’d like to tell you some great
story about someone being a diva
or something, but everyone was
pretty well-behaved,” Hemsworth
said. “We kept each other in
check.”
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Bhatt praises Randeep’s work in Jannat 2
Bhandarkar is privileged to have Helen in Heroine
EMRAAN Hashmi and Esha Gupta may be the lead pair of Jannat
2, but Randeep Hooda’s performance has left the Bhatts - Mahesh
and Pooja - very impressed. “Watched Jannat 2. Gripping. Assured.
Authentic. Emraan’s best performance to date. But the film would
not be the same without Randeep Hooda,” tweeted Pooja. The
movie, which will release on May 4, had its first screening in
Mumbai on Thursday. “Jannat 2: Thank you Randeep! Our film
would not have soared to this emotional peak without your incredible performance,” posted Mahesh Bhatt, the producer of the film,
directed by Kunal Deshmukh.
YESTERYEAR dance icon has joined the cast of Madhur
Bhandarkar’s ambitious project Heroine and the National
Award-winning filmmaker says he couldn’t have asked
for more. “The adorable Helen joins the team of Heroine.
I am privileged and honoured,” tweeted Bhandarkar. The
director, who has cast Kareena Kapoor as the lead in the
movie, has also posted a picture with Helen. The 72year-old, who was known for her impeccable moves during her peak, sports a traditional sari, bindi and spectacles for her look in the movie.
RANDEEP HOODA
Bipasha to play
seductress in
Shaukeen remake
TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK
ASHING in on the new trend of powerful women
characters in films, two leading ladies from two different genres and vastly different bodies of work,
have been signed on to play two special roles in two
different projects.
While Madhuri Dixit will be seen as the leader of a gang - a
Godmother prototype in Gulab Gang, Bipasha Basu will
be seen as the charming seductress in Rohit Roy’s
remake of Basu Chatterjee’s 1982 blockbuster
Shaukeen.
Gulab Gang, conceptualised by Soumik Sen and
Anubhav Sinha had been in the offing for a while
now. The story about a gang of women fighting
social injustice in the heartland of India, will
mark the directorial debut of Sen. Inspired by
real life, this film will be released on March 8,
International Women’s Day, next year.
When contacted, producer Anubhav Sinha
confirmed, “Yes, we have signed Madhuri for
the film. She will play the protagonist
Gulab. We want to start shooting by the
end of the year. After the release of RA
One, I was visiting Benaras to finalise
the script for my next film, when
Soumik came up with this idea. And I
immediately gave it a go ahead.”
Director Sen is now looking at actors
like Mahie Gill and Shilpa Shukla to
complete his gang of women in the
film. The film will be made under the
banner Benaras Media Works. On
the Shaukeen remake front, director
Rohit had already finalised Rishi
Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah and
Boman Irani to play the aging
Lotharios portrayed by Ashok
Kumar, Utpal Dutt and AK Hangal
in the original. And now, to reprise
the role of their object of affection,
he has chosen Bipasha Basu.
Rohit explained that his film is
not exactly a replica of the 1982
blockbuster. “It has been thirty years
since the release of Shaukeen. We
had to change tweak the story
accordingly. The three sixty-yearold men in my film won’t be lusting
for a girl as it was in the original
film,” revealed the filmmaker.
“My film is more like a Zindagi Na
Milegi Dobara meets 1982
Shaukeen. These three men have
always gone out for trips, once every five
years. This is their last,” he added.
C
HELEN
Zoa Morani to romance
Imran Zahid in Marksheet
Zoa, who made her Bollywood
debut with Always Kabhi Kabhi,
will play a fashion student in
the film to be directed by
Rakesh Ranjan Kumar
Imran
Zahid
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Zoa
Morani
EWBIE Bollywood actress
Zoa Morani is all set to star
opposite actor Imran
Zahid in upcoming film
Marksheet, based on the
education racket and scams in the country.
Zoa, who made her Bollywood
debut with Shah Rukh Khan’s production Always Kabhi Kabhi,
will play a fashion student in
the film to be directed by
Rakesh Ranjan Kumar of
Gandhi to Hitler fame.
The makers of the film had
earlier decided to cast a
fresh face opposite Zahid for
Marksheet, which is not
just an issue based film but
would also be a love story.
However, under the creative guidance of filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt,
who is also a mentor to
Zahid, the makers zeroed
in on 23-year-old Zoa who
had earlier portrayed a school
student in Always Kabhi Kabhi
and would fit in the character of a college student, said a source close to the
film.
Marksheet, inspired by the story of
Ranjit Don who ran a racket of leaking
question papers for nation-wide
exams, will mostly be shot around the
Delhi University while parts of it would
be filmed in Bangalore, Mumbai and
Kolkata.
Zoa, daughter of producer Karim
Morani, started out as an assistant
director to Farah Khan for Om Shanti
Om (2007) and Rajkumar Santoshi for
Halla Bol (2008).
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