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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 6 February 2018

In a Sept. 22, 2016 file photo, musician Paul Simon performs dur-
ing the Global Citizen Festival, in New York.
Associated Press
Paul Simon announces

his upcoming tour

will be his last This image released by Netflix shows John Ortiz, from left, David Oyelowo and Gugu Mbatha-Raw
in a scene from "The Cloverfield Paradox."
Associated Press
By MARK KENNEDY and Europe. His last date
James Taylor and Bonnie Review: 'Cloverfield Paradox'
EW YORK (AP) — Only a few is July 15 in London with
days after Elton John an-
nounced he will retire from Raitt as special guests. desperately needs sharpening
touring in three years, an- Simon's best-known songs
other venerable music fig- include "The Sound of Si-
ure is throwing in the tour- lence," ''Mrs. Robinson,"
ing towel — Paul Simon. ''Bridge Over Troubled Wa- By MARK KENNEDY lingual, racially diverse sters and demons. What? "I
Simon, 76, took to social ter" and "Diamonds on the AP Entertainment Writer astronauts — led by Da- don't get it," says one flus-
media Monday to say his Soles of Her Shoes." The big draw following the vid Oyelowo and Gugu tered astronaut. You can
upcoming tour will be his Paul Simon is a member thrilling Super Bowl was a Mbatha-Raw — are in an sympathize.
last, citing the personal toll of the Songwriters Hall of fresh episode of "This Is Us." orbiting space station try- What it really does is nudge
of touring and the death of Fame and has been in- But, very mysteriously, there ing to get a particle ac- aside a potentially fasci-
his lead guitarist, Vincent ducted into the Rock 'n' was suddenly something celerator to work, thereby nating head-warping plot
N'guini. Roll Hall of Fame, both as else big to see. solving the crisis. But two about clashing realities
"I feel the travel and time a member of Simon & Gar- Netflix surprised nearly ev- years of failure have left and our responsibility to al-
away from my wife and funkel and as a solo artist. eryone by streaming the frayed nerves and splinter- ternate worlds. That would
family takes a toll that de- The singer-songwriter said latest "Cloverfield" film di- ing cohesion. have been some darn
tracts from the joy of play- he will still do the "occa- rectly after the game. But Story creators Oren Uziel good high-brow sci-fi. But
ing," he wrote. Retiring from sional performance" after up against one of TV's most and Doug Jung borrow it gets overrun by the ap-
the road "feels a little unset- his last tour. popular shows — promis- heavily from films like "Inter- pearance of a severed
tling, a touch exhilarating, Late last month, the ing an answer to a long- stellar," ''Alien," ''Event Ho- arm, buckets of worms
and something of a relief." 70-year-old John said his running cliffhanger — was rizon" and even "Evil Dead and dodgy eyeballs, which
Tickets for his "Homeward upcoming would tour it a terrible miscalculation II" to create their thriller, but never get explained prop-
Bound — The Farewell Tour would be his last, saying or an attempt to hide a fall victim to strange de- erly. "Logic doesn't apply to
" will go on sale Feb. 8. It he wanted to spend time clunker? tours, including a woefully any of this," someone says,
kicks off in May in Vancou- with his family. His "Farewell The answer is a bit of both. flimsy Earth-bound story- as if to inoculate the writers
ver, Canada, and will take Yellow Brick Road" tour will Somewhere in "The Clover- line that pointlessly follows from blame.
him across North America end in 2021.q field Paradox" is an excel- one of the astronaut's hus- Mbatha-Raw is a riveting
lent sci-fi thriller but one bands.
lead and proves she can
Actor Hugh Grant that's in desperate need of Directed with skill by Julius stand with any muscle-
sharpening. It's no disaster, Onah, the film is under-lit for flexing space heroine of
settles phone-hacking like Netflix's recent "Bright," full paranoia, with slick, an- the past like Sigourney
but it tries too hard to give tiseptic visuals, including a Weaver or Carrie Fisher.
case with UK papers something to everyone spinning space station that Elizabeth Debicki shows her
and ends of unsatisfying resembles an upside-down creepy side brilliantly and
to everyone. That it had a cupcake tower. Onah is a the always welcome Chris
LONDON (AP) — British ac- led the public and its share- poorly considered birth is little too reliant on huge or- O'Dowd proves to be the
tor Hugh Grant has settled holders for many years; and simply its first problem. chestral movements to add oddball in an otherwise
his phone-hacking dam- it has let down its readers The franchise — created a dose of urgent drama or high-functioning, very seri-
ages claim against Mirror and its hard-working jour- and produced by J.J. a feeling of magnitude but ous crew. His comic relief
Group Newspapers. Grant nalists," Grant said outside Abrams — began with "Clo- he has dread down cold. is a large reason you keep
was at the High Court on the court. Settlement de- verfield" in 2008 and contin- Back on the station, things watching even if it threat-
Monday when the details tails weren't made public. ued with 2016's "10 Clover- are getting serious. The ens to destabilize the film.
of the settlement were pro- British media said the pay- field Lane." This time it looks onboard particle accel- How “The Cloverfield Para-
vided at a hearing. Grant ment involved a six-figure up, far into space. It's set erator threatens to risk split- dox” fits into the franchise’s
said the newspaper group sum which the actor do- in a near-future where an ting open the membrane universe seems to be clear
had engaged in "industrial nated to the anti-hacking energy crisis threatens to between space and time, at the end, but it is a clunky
scale" phone hacking. "This activist group Hacked Off. cause World War III. thereby shattering reality, connection, raising plenty
newspaper group has mis- q A crew of seven multi- unleashing chaos, mon- of questions. q