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How Mexico City influenced the icy Alaska mystery of ‘True

Detective: Night Country’

By BERENICE BAUTISTA the United States.
Associated Press “It’s an absolutely terrify-
MEXICO CITY (AP) — For ing situation among the
filmmaker Issa López, the Indigenous population, al-
first question was where? most as what’s happening
“The moment I understood in Mexico,” she said. “The
it was the Arctic, everything color of your skin is tied to
started falling into place,” your financial possibilities,
the director of “True Detec- your education, and your
tive: Night Country” told expectations in life and
reporters in Mexico City your expectations in death,
ahead of Sunday’s pre- apparently.”
miere on HBO and HBO Navarro is a woman of Do-
Max. All six episodes were minican and Inuit descent;
written and directed by Danvers has an Inuit step-
López. daughter: “Maybe the big-
The Mexican director was gest difference between
looking for a region of the our ‘True Detective,’ Sea-
United States that had a son 4, and ‘True Detective’
totally different physical 1, 2 and 3 is that the two
feel from the previous three main detectives can relate
“True Detective” install- to the victims,” Foster said.
ments, which were set in For Reis, developing Navar-
Louisiana, Los Angeles and This image released by HBO shows Kali Reis, right, and Jodie Foster in a scene from “True ro’s character was a com-
Arkansas, respectively. And Detective: Night Country.” plex process that required
that’s how Ennis, a fictional Associated Press her to step into the shoes of
and remote town in Alaska, a police officer and reck-
came to be. of her son and husband. of eight scientists from an of Tlatelolco “without mon- on with police brutality.
López conceived the sea- Kali Reis stars as Evangeline isolated research station, ey and in a crazy situation “I being a woman and of
son “in the darkest time of Navarro, a detective who and also face the unsolved and barely surviving,” had color, and I also faced po-
the pandemic,” infusing the lost her mother to mental murder of an Inuit woman a special interest in portray- lice brutality myself, I have
story with a sense of loneli- illness and worries about who was an environmental ing violence against wom- been on the other end of
ness and loss. Jodie Foster the same fate befalling activist and midwife. en and the disappearanc- playing Evangeline Navar-
plays Liz Danvers, a detec- her sister. Both seek to shed López, who grew up in the es of Indigenous people ro. q
tive who suffered the death light on the disappearance Mexico City neighborhood that are not investigated in

Elton John achieves rare EGOT status with Emmy win for Dodger

Stadium farewell concert special

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. variety special (live) for “El- ners who have won Emmy, dle in the Wind” in 1997. U.K. He’s had his left knee
AP Entertainment Writer ton John Live: Farewell from Grammy, Oscar and Tony John became the 19th per- replaced which isn’t sur-
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elton Dodger Stadium,” a three- awards. “The journey to son to reach EGOT status prising when you think of
John has achieved EGOT hour concert documentary this moment has been filled after Viola Davis achieved the number of pianos he’s
status. that streamed on Disney+. with passion, dedication, the feat when she won a jumped off.” On Tuesday,
The famed British singer-pi- John said he was “incredi- and the unwavering sup- Grammy last year. Oth- U.S. President Joe Biden
anist won an Emmy Award bly humbled” for joining the port of my fans all around ers performers who have congratulated John on
on Monday night for best elite group of EGOT win- the world,” John, 76, said in EGOTs include Whoopi X, the platform formerly
a statement after winning Goldberg, Jennifer Hudson known as Twitter.
his trophy. and John Legend. “Sir Elton John has been a
The superstar performer has David Furnish, John’s hus- tidal wave throughout his
five competitive Grammys, band and a producer on career to help people rise
most recently for “Elton the concert special, said up and make hope and
John & Tim Rice’s Aida” in John was overjoyed Mon- history rhyme,” he posted.
2001; two Oscars for “Can day night about winning John’s concert was the last
You Feel the Love Tonight” his first-ever Emmy, and of a three-night stand at
from “The Lion King” in 1994 he “screamed out loud.” the stadium in Los Angeles
and “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Furnish said an “incredibly as part of the North Ameri-
Again” from “Rocketman”; honored” John was unable can leg of his Farewell Yel-
along with a Tony for his to attend the awards cere- low Brick Road tour, which
original score on “Aida.” mony since he’s recovering began in September 2018
He is one of the top-selling from recent surgery. with the first of the 300-plus
solo artists of all time, and “We FaceTimed him. We scheduled dates.
he holds the record for big- woke him up in the middle It was suspended in 2020
gest-selling physical single of the night,” Furnish said because of the coronavirus
Elton John performs on the South Lawn of the White House in
Washington on Sept. 23, 2022. of all time thanks to the 33 while holding John’s award pandemic and resumed in
Associated Press million copies sold for “Can- backstage. e’s back in the 2021.q