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Zoe Kravitz Felt She Had To Protect Her Father Lenny Kravitz

By Clive King in Movies / TV / Theatre on 06 September 2017

Zoe Kravitz is guarded because people ''always'' wanted things from her parents and she felt she had to protect her family, especially her musical father Lenny Kravitz.

Zoe Kravitz is guarded because people ''always'' wanted things from her parents.

The 28-year-old actress has described herself as a ''tiny gatekeeper'' and has admitted she ''built a lot of walls'' when she was growing up because she could tell people only wanted to talk to her because of her famous parents Lisa Bonnet and Lenny Kravitz.

Speaking to Vogue magazine, the 'Big Little Lies' star said: ''Seeing people always wanting something from my parents, or from us - as a small person I built a lot of walls. I was the tiny gatekeeper.''

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Lenny Kravitz at the 20th Annual Hollywood Film Awards - Los Angeles, California, United States - Monday 7th November 2016

Lenny Kravitz seen performing at the KAABOO Music Festival 2016 on the second day of the event held in Del Mar, California, United States - Saturday 17th September 2016

Missy Elliott To Join Katy Perry During Super Bowl Half Time Show As "Surprise Guest"?

By Elinor Cosgrave in Music / Festivals on 01 February 2015

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Missy Elliott may be joining Katy Perry on stage during the Super Bowl half time show as a "surprise guest", reports suggest.

Missy Elliott will be joining Katy Perry and Lenny Kravitz on stage during the Super Bowl half-time show, according to a source speaking to the Associated Press. 43-year-old Elliott will be a "surprise guest" at the big game's entertainment on Sunday (1st February). The source, someone "familiar with the plans" for the entertainment, claimed Elliott will be performing alongside Perry during one of her songs. Elliott has previously worked with Perry on a remix of 'Last Friday Night T.G.I.F.' but it is uncertain which track she will feature on at the half time show.

Missy Elliott may be performing with Katy Perry as a "surprise guest" at the Super Bowl on Sunday.

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So What Can We Expect From Katy Perry's Halftime Show At Superbowl XLIX?

By Stephanie Chase in Music / Festivals on 31 January 2015

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Will Ms Perry make us roar and set off a few fireworks on Sunday?

Katy Perry is just under 24 hours away from taking the stage at this year’s Superbowl, in front of a television audience of more than 100 million people. So far the singer hasn’t given away much about what to expect from her half time show, but this is Katy Perry we’re talking about so we at least know we’re in for a big treat come Sunday.

Katy Perry is this year's Superbowl half time performer

Speaking at a press conference on Thursday Perry teased that her performance will include "a lion and sharks.” Adding, "It's going to be wild out there.”

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So, Did Katy Perry 'Pay To Play' At This Year's Superbowl?

By Stephanie Chase in Music / Festivals on 14 January 2015

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Katy Perry has been speaking ahead of her big halftime gig on February 1st.

It’s one of the most coveted gigs a performer can land, the halftime slot at the Superbowl and this year the honour has fallen on Katy Perry. But while there had been rumours that the NFL asked the artist in consideration for the 2015 gig to ‘pay to play’, Perry has said she didn't buy her place on the show.

Katy Perry Perry is this year's halftime performer

"I put my foot down very early in the courtship," Perry told The Associated Press "I said, 'Look guys, here's where I draw a line in the sand.' I want to be invited on my own merits and not with some fine print.”

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Katy Perry Confirms Lenny Kravitz Will Perform With Her At The Super Bowl's Halftime Show

By Elinor Cosgrave in Music / Festivals on 11 January 2015

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Lenny Kravitz will join Katy Perry when she performs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

Katy Perry will be joined by Lenny Kravitz when she performs at the halftime show of the Super Bowl in February.

I have a big surprise announcement coming up at #halftime of this @Ravens-@Patriots game! Make sure you're ????! ?? ?? ??
— KATY PERRY (@katyperry) January 10, 2015

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Lenny Kravitz - Rock star Lenny Kravitz put on a party for the release of his latest album at the Park Hyatt Hotel in New York City, New York, United States - Tuesday 23rd September 2014

Ryan Adams Added To ITunes Festival Line-up After Concerts Sell Out

By Michael West in Movies / TV / Theatre on 19 August 2014

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Ryan Adams has been added to the iTunes Festival line-up for 2014.

After selling out a string of UK gigs in September, the returning Ryan Adams has been added to next month's iTunes Festival in London joining the previously announced headliners Maroon 5, Sam Smith and 5 Seconds of Summer. As well as Adams, Jessie Ware and Lenny Kravitz will play the ever-popular festival.

Ryan Adams at a Nike event in 2008 [Getty/Donald Bowers]

"I'm really excited about my new album, Strut, and playing the festival this year, as well as working with iTunes," Kravitz said in a statement. "Looking forward to seeing everybody at the show next month!"

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Review

By Rich Cline

Extraordinary

After 2012's The Hunger Games caught us off-guard with its subtle themes, this sequel more than lives up to the hype, dramatically expanding the scale of the action while letting the actors deepen their characters. It's a full-on action epic that cleverly retains author Suzanne Collins' narrative trick of telling the story through a flawed perspective. And it provides the needed push to give the whole saga real momentum.

We join our heroes not long after the last film ended: Katniss and Peeta (Lawrence and Hutcherson) are in trouble for challenging the authority of President Snow (Sutherland) and sowing the seeds of rebellion in the districts. Now they have to travel around the nation with their team - drunken mentor Haymitch (Harrelson), preening manager Effie (Banks), quietly subversive designer Cinna (Kravitz) - soothing ruffled feathers. But of course they only make things worse. So new Gamesmaker Plutarch (Hoffman) plots a way to force them back into the games with all of the past victors, so they can be wiped out for good. And Katniss is so busy worrying about protecting Peeta that she fails to remember who the true enemy is.

Screenwriters Beaufoy and deBruyn (aka Oscar-winner Michael Arndt) inventively maintain Katniss' narrow, inaccurate point-of-view right through the film, which keeps the audience wrong-footed all the way to the end. It's an exhilarating trick that makes the tour of the districts painfully dull and the return to the games utterly horrifying. It also gives Lawrence the chance to flex her own Oscar-winning chops, further tormenting us with her inability to choose between two good men: Peeta and Gale (Hemsworth), her pal back home. She certainly doesn't trust newcomers like the mouthy Johanna (Malone) or the too-hunky Finnick (Claflin).

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Lenny Kravitz and Zoë Kravitz - "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" - Los Angeles Premiere At Nokia Theatre L.A. Live - Los Angeles, California, United States - Tuesday 19th November 2013

The Butler Review

By Rich Cline

Good

This is an strangely slushy movie from Lee Daniels, whose last two films (Precious and The Paperboy) bristled with unexpected life. By contrast, this star-packed drama uses a true story to trace the Civil Rights struggle from the 1950s to the present day. But it's been so fictionalised that it feels kind of like a variation on Forrest Gump.

Cecil Gaines (Whitaker) grew up on a Georgia cotton plantation, where the cruel master's kindly mother (Redgrave) taught him to be a house servant. Years later, he marries Gloria (Winfrey) and moves to Washington DC, where he gets a job in the White House as a butler to presidents from Eisenhower (Williams) to Reagan (Rickman). His job description is simple: "You hear nothing, you see nothing, you only serve." And yet as the nation grapples with its racist culture, he has a quiet influence on each leader who moves through the house.

Whitaker narrates the film in drawling flashbacks, while the story flickers between Cecil and his eldest son Louis (Oyelowo), an activist who is involved in every key moment in the Civil Rights movement. And their younger son (Kelley) is sent to Vietnam. So it's like a condensed version of late 20th century American history, made notable by the lively cast of cameo players including Marsden (as JFK), Schreiber (LBJ), Ellis (MLK) and Cusack (Nixon), plus Fonda as a lively Nancy Reagan.

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Video - Lenny Kravitz Brings Cicely Tyson To 'The Butler' NY Premiere - Part 2

Members of the cast including singer Lenny Kravitz and 'Jack Reacher' actor David Oyelowo arrive at the premiere of 'The Butler' in New York. Lenny plays the role of James Holloway in the film while David stars as Louis Gaines.

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Oprah And Forest Hit 'The Butler' NY Premiere, While Mariah Carey Makes A Fashion Statement Out Of An Arm Injury [Photos]

By Holly Williams in Movies / TV / Theatre on 06 August 2013

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Mariah Carey appeared alongside Oprah Winfrey and Forest Whitaker on the red carpet sporting an adorned arm injury.

'The Butler' looks set to be one of the most memorable movies of the year with an all-star cast that glittered on the red carpet at the New York premiere last night (August 5th 2013).

Sparkling the brightest was Oprah Winfrey in a pretty pink sequined gown with her hair in full afro form, alongside her onscreen husband Forest Whitaker who plays the title role, and her real partner Stedman Graham. Nursing a dislocated shoulder in a funky studded sling was Mariah Carey, who has not been letting her injury get in the way of anything she does at the moment as this wasn't the first time she has stepped out in a quirky bling sling. Some of the presidents from the movie also showed up, including Liev Schreiber who played Lyndon B. Johnson and James Marsden who was John F. Kennedy, as well as First Ladies Minka Kelly as Jackie Kennedy and Jane Fonda as Nancy Reagan.

Forest Whitaker plays the title character in 'The Butler'