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PEOPLE & ARTS Wednesday 16 May 2018
Insane as ever, 'Deadpool 2' doesn't disappoint

By MARK KENNEDY origin story, "Deadpool 2" is
At a recent screening of a quest tale and our hero
"Deadpool 2," the audi- this time encounters the
ence didn't get up when time traveling soldier Cable
the end credits came up, (Josh Brolin), a motley crew
patiently sitting through the of mutants he calls X-Force
scrolling names of visual ef- — "Isn't that a little deriva-
fects supervisors and light- tive?" someone asks snark-
ing specialists. Real "Dead- ily — and various superhe-
pool" fans know to stick roes and mutants, all set to
around until the ushers toss a lively soundtrack that in-
them out. cludes Air Supply, Peter Ga-
That's because the film- briel, "Annie" and an origi-
makers aren't content with nal song with filthy lyrics. If
containing their sprawling, something can be oddly
anarchic and subversive sweet while heads are be-
hero in any conventional ing decapitated, it's this
box. No, in the world of film. Some favorites from
Deadpool, even the boring the first film are back —
end credits are studded some only briefly — such as
with jokes and teases. housemate Leslie Uggams,
So hold onto your seats as girlfriend Morena Baccarin
Ryan Reynolds once more Actors Blake Lively, left, and Ryan Reynolds attend a special screening of "Deadpool 2" at AMC and cab driver Karan Soni.
dons the red suit and ka- Loews Lincoln Square on Monday, May 14, 2018, in New York. The new characters don't
tana swords for this saucy, Associated Press have time to make much
overstuffed and very enter- of an impression, except for
taining sequel to the 2016 things that get derided this Green Lantern. pooning D.C. Comics. "So Zazie Beetz from "Atlanta"
massive hit "Deadpool," time are "Yentl," ''Frozen," "Deadpool 2" is as grue- dark," Deadpool says to an- who has a great turn as
which became the second- ''Stranger Things," Wolver- some and violent as the first, other superhero. "Are you Domino, a strong, sardonic
highest grossing R-rated ine, Jared Kushner, cultural but perhaps the biggest sure you're not from the DC superhero who relies on
film domestically after "The appropriation, Brad Pitt, victim is the very concept Universe?" In this film, which luck. "Deadpool 2," 20th
Passion of the Christ." How the Norwegian band A-ha, of superhero movies. Our reunites the original writing Century Fox release, is rat-
do we know that? Dead- "Basic Instinct," ''Robocop," anti-hero adores mocking team of Rhett Reese and ed R by the Motion Picture
pool happily brags about it fanny packs, "Say Any- the moral clarity, earnest- Paul Warnick, we begin by Association of America for
in the new film, continuing thing," dubstep, "Sharkna- ness and predictable stunts finding our unkillable mer- "strong violence and lan-
his breaking-the-fourth-wall do" and Reynolds himself, of his distant cousins. And, cenary in the same domes- guage throughout, sexual
humor. who mocks his disastrous as a Marvel property, he tic bliss where we left him. references and brief drug
Just some of the other earlier decision to play especially delights in lam- But if "Deadpool" was an material."q

'I heard angels': Henson details how she fell for her fiancé

By ALICIA RANCILIO 'You're not gonna meet and we were hanging out
Associated Press him at home. You need to every day since."
NEW YORK (AP) — Taraji P. go out.'" Hayden played for the At-
Henson says it was literally The makeup artist arranged lanta Falcons, Chicago
love at first sight when she a party full of eligible bach- Bears and Indianapolis
met her new fiance. elors for Henson to mingle Colts. He won a Super Bowl
The "Empire" star became with, but the star demand- for that team in 2007.
engaged to her boyfriend, ed to see photos first, and Henson says her "Empire"
former Super Bowl star Kel- became enamored with co-stars are thrilled with the
vin Hayden, on Mother's Hayden. news.
Day. "I was like, 'Wow, some- "Jussie (Smollett) came
"I knew he was gonna pop thing about his eyes are so down to my room and
the question because he gentle.' And you know how screamed and did back-
all but told me himself. I they say you can fall in love flips," she said.
just didn't know when. That at first sight from a picture? Terence Howard says
surprised me. He just did it," That's exactly what hap- Hayden must be special
Henson said Monday as she pened," she recalled. "So for Henson to choose to be
attended an annual event when we got to the actual with him.
where Fox promotes its new event, I met everybody, "I've never known any per-
TV lineup to advertisers. I shook all the other guys' son that she's worked with
The actress said she was in- hands and I literally was that's ever been able to
troduced to Hayden by her looking for him and when go on a date with her, you
makeup artist three years he walked up to where know," Howard said. "She's
ago. I was it was like people that secure about main-
"She was like, 'You need to parted like the Red Sea, a taining her integrity, so for
go out. You need to meet light came on, I heard an- her to let Kelvin in, I'm like, Taraji P. Henson attends the Fox Networks Group 2018 program-
somebody. You're too fly. gels and he reached out 'Wow. That's a big move. ming presentation afterparty at Wollman Rink in Central Park on
You're too amazing.' I was to shake my hand and we That's a big move right Monday, May 14, 2018, in New York. Associated Press
like, 'I don't know.' She's like, danced and we talked there for her.'"q