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PEOPLE & ARTSFriday 4 December 2015
Lenny Kravitz turns camera on paparazzi in exhibit Cynthia Robinson
In this image taken from video, Musician Lenny Kravitz stands in front of one of his photos from
his exhibit “Flash”, which is running in conjunction with Art Basel in Miami Beach, Wednesday,
Dec. 2, 2015. Kravitz set out shooting photos on his days off while touring, hoping to capture
soulful photographs and people in their environments.
KELLI KENNEDY
Associated Press
MIAMI (AP) — Legendary
rocker Lenny Kravitz’s pho-
to exhibit was never meant
to turn out the way it did.
While shooting photos
on his days off from tour-
ing, Kravitz set out hoping
to capture soulful photo-
graphs and people in their
everyday environments.
But each time he stepped
Alex Brightman is ready to rock out on Broadway of The Family Stone, which
MARK KENNEDY
AP Drama Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — How do
you land a plum Broadway
role? If you’re Alex Bright-
man, you follow your own
advice.
The actor-writer-comedi-
an — who between gigs
teaches young actors how
to nail their next stage au-
dition — plays the lead in
the “School of Rock” musi-
cal at the Winter Garden
Theatre, handpicked by
Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Brightman got the job
largely by being himself,
and that’s what he imparts
to others in “Alex Bright-
man Teaches You to Kick
Auditions in the Ass.”
“If you leave the room
without the job, you have
gained or lost nothing,”
he says. “I go, ‘Sometimes,
out with his camera, fans
followed and paparazzi
flocked.
“It started out being a real getting basic manners and
nuisance because I want-
ed to shoot. I wanted time
to do my thing and be
anonymous,” Kravitz told
The Associated Press during
a personal tour of his ex-
hibit Wednesday. The black
and white collection titled
“Flash” runs through Dec.
Alex Brightman appears during a performance of “School of
Rock,” in New York. The actor, writer and comedian was hand-
picked for the role by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
they’re just looking for a
redhead. So just have a
good time.’”
He’s doing exactly that as
he plays Dewey Finn — the
Jack Black role — in a stage performed the part of one
adaptation of the 2003 film
most a joke at first. But then
something changed.
“Life and art is about ac-
cepting and taking what
you’re organically given ...
this is what life is bringing
me at this moment, don’t
be pissed off about it.”
As he developed the pho-
tos, he found himself no
longer categorizing the
people, but sensing their in-
dividual stories in their eyes, and brassy style made her
expressions and moods.
“I just began to really look
into the people” and found
“curiosity, happiness, pain,
intrigue ... frustration, love,
everything, just people, hu-
man emotions.”
Kravitz is among dozens
of celebs, including Hilary
Swank, Sylvester Stallone,
Eva Longoria and Katie Hol-
mes, who are in town for the
prestigious art fair, which is
an extension of the annual
contemporary art fair in Ba-
sel, Switzerland. The fair of-
ficially opens Thursday, but
many independent fairs
and star-studded parties
are already underway.
Kravitz, who has lived in Mi-
ami on and off for decades,
said the exhibit also speaks
to the culture’s obsession
with documenting every-
thing from food to nail art,
yet often don’t realize the
human connections they’re
giving up in return.q
(AP Photo/Joshua Replogle)
6 as part of Art Basel Miami
Beach.He blames the social
media craze for people for-
respect for one another.
“It’s really weird that peo-
ple feel they have a right to
invade your space in any
kind of way.”
After several frustrating en-
counters, the rocker turned
the camera on the crowds
and started clicking — al-
ble character. He made
an impression on director
Laurence Connor.
“While we were reading
around the table, I was al-
ways drawn to him,” Con-
nor says. “He was such a
child himself. There was
this wonderful energy from
him.”
The 28-year-old from Sara-
toga, California, was raised
on Aerosmith and Queen.
He did community theater
after being inspired by a
stage-door meeting with
Tony winner Michael Cer-
veris on Broadway.
That was when he was 8
and Brightman had just
seen “The Who’s Tommy.”
Cerveris came out to greet
fans, knelt down and shook
the boy’s hand, saying,
“Thanks for coming to my
show.”q
(Timmy Blupe/ The O and M Co. via AP)
about a lovable loser who
turns a prep-school class
into a rock band.
Brightman attended a
reading of the musical and
of the kids and an ensem-
of Sly & the Family
Stone dead at 71
OSCAR GABRIEL II
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cyn-
thia Robinson, a trumpeter
and vocalist whose bold
a key member of Sly and
the Family Stone, has died
at age 71. Jerry Martini, her
longtime friend and fellow
horn player in the band,
said late Wednesday that
he was among those with
her when she died of can-
cer Nov. 23 at her sister’s
home in Carmichael, Cali-
fornia. A Sacramento na-
tive, Robinson joined Sly
Stone (the stage name for
Sylvester Stewart) and five
others in the late 1960s for
what became one of the
first bands to feature wom-
en and men and blacks
and whites. Sly and the
Family Stone’s wide open,
funky style helped change
popular music and Robin-
son’s trumpet playing and
singing was hard to miss
on such hits as “Everyday
People,” ‘’Hot Fun in the
Summertime” and “I Want
To Take You Higher.”
After Sly and the Family
Stone broke up in the mid-
1970s, Robinson toured
with Prince, played with
former Sly bassist Larry
Graham’s Grand Central
Station and, until recently,
toured with Martini as part
continues to perform.
Sly and the Family Stone
was inducted into the Rock
& Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
Robinson was a widely re-
spected trumpeter and
one of the first black fe-
male trumpet players to
play in a major group. Mar-
tini told the AP that Robin-
son “didn’t consider her-
self a great soloist, but she
was.” He also says while
she didn’t do a lot of long
trumpet solos to show off
her skills, “every note she
played meant something.”
As a vocalist, too, Robinson
emphasized feeling over
technique and was as like-
ly to shout her lines as sing
them. It’s Robinson’s voice
that is heard on the Sly and
the Family Stone break-
through hit “Dance to the
Music,” urging people to
“get up and dance to the
music.”q