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Beiber sued for alleged assault
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CALABASAS, Calif. — Deputies were investigating claims made Tuesday by a neighbor that Justin Bieber attacked and threatened
him during an him in suburban Los Angeles, authorities said.
No one was arrested and few details were immediately available.
A representative of Bieber, Melissa Victor, did not immediately return a request for comment
for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
"There have been allegations made against Mr. Bieber of battery and making threats," Whitmore said.
"There have been allegations made against Mr. Bieber of battery and making threats."
Online schedules indicate the "Baby" singer is in the midst of a European tour and performed a show in Poland on Monday night.
Authorities were called to the Calabasas scene just after 9 a.m., said Steve Whitmore, spokesman
STEVE WHITMORE
L.A. Sheriff's Department spokesman
Recently, Bieber lashed out at pa-
It's unclear who called authorities, and whether there might have been previous problems between the 19-year-old singer and neighbors, Whitmore
said.
In recent years, the Canadian singer has been constantly chased by paparazzi while publicly morphing from an almost angelic mop-topped teen to an adult battling a bad boy image.
parazzi and lunged at one photographer as members of the singer's entourage held him back.
Last summer, he got a speeding ticket while trying to avoid a bevy of photographers on a Los Angeles freeway in his distinctive chrome Fisker Karma.
He collapsed backstage during a recent London concert and canceled a performance in Portugal.
Prosecutors decided against filing charges after the pop star was accused of kicking and punching a photographer outside a Calabasas movie theater in May 2012.
Earlier this year, an ex-bodyguard sued Bieber for alleged assault and more than $420,000 in unpaid wages. Moshe Benabou claims Bieber repeatedly punched him in the chest after an argument over the singer's entourage.
Lately, the slim singer has taken to whipping off his shirt in public places.
XV focuses on upcoming album 'The Kid With the Green Backpack'
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RYAN WRIGHT
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Wichita rapper XV answers a few questions about his future plans for coming to Lawrence as well as what he's currently working on. According to MTVcom, XV released mixtapes online until he signed a Warner Bros. contract in July 2010.
DO YOU EVER PLAN ON COMING BACK AND PERFORMING IN LAWRENCE?
XV: Of course. Whenever I plan a tour, I always try to make sure it starts in Kansas; just because I never get that hometown appreciation and love like I do in Lawrence. My first sold out show on my headline run was in Lawrence, so it's hard to not go back to the city that gave me that achievement. Plus, I'm shooting a couple of videos out there around March Madness, so look for the green backpack.
HOW MUCH OF "THE KID WITH THE GREEN BACKPACK" IS DONE? AND WHEN CAN FANS EXPECT THAT?
XV: The Kid with the Green Backpack is about 50 percent complete. Making the music is easy, but the marketing, timing, singles and strategy is a bit more stressful. That's what you get the "Wizy Zone," "Zero Heroes" and "Popular Culture" projects. So, after "Popular
Culture," all I've focused on is "The Kid with the Green Backpack," because that's all I care about anymore.
ARE YOU RELEASING ANYTHING BEFORE "THE KID WITH THE GREEN BACKPACK"?
XV: Since I don't want to lose focus on my main goal, which is my debut, I've held back from releasing any new music or projects that aren't $SOUARIAN$ related or "Kid with the Green Backpack" related. But I created
a project aside from the theme of my album, and even apart from the theme of music people are used to me making. I'm looking at releasing that on April 20. Other than that, I'll be releasing the first single from the album soon as well as continuing with the Squarian mixture volumes with Sez Batters, Freddy High and Awesome Sound. It's going to be an eventful year.
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Four college girls run afoul of a drug-dealing reprobate named Allen (James Franco) in Harmony Korine's "Spring Breakers."
Like the unholy brainchild of Horatio Alger and cinematic schlockmeister Russ Meyer ("Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill"), "Spring Breakers" is the story of four bikini-clad coeds who travel to St. Pete Beach in search of booze, boys and the ephemeral sense of chemical camaraderie they've mistaken for the American Dream.
Three of the girls (Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson and the director's wife Rachel Korine) are interchangeable hellcats who hold up the local Chicken Shack with spray-painted squirt guns in order to finance their trip and escape the drudgeries of dorm life. The fourth and most conservative member of their hard-partying posse is the aptly named Faith (Selena Gomez), a member of a Christian youth group whose minister routinely asks, "Are you jacked up on Jesus?"
'Spring Breakers' is a riot
Every generation gets the debauded beach party movie it deserves, and ours just found its rotten little soul mate.
Franco shines in his role as a drug-dealing gangster while Gomez and Hudgens break out of the Disney mold
Imagine watching a "Girls Gone Wild" infomercial from the balcony of a glitzy art-house theater with three hits of acid boiling in your belly and you'll have a rough idea of what to expect from "Spring Breakers." Harmony Korine's latest toxic valentine to the young and the feckless. What starts as a dayglow teenybop fantasy is vexed to nightmare by the arrival of Alien (James Franco), a cornrowed, golden-grilled gangsta rapper whose pad is awash with the finest cologne, the most colorful designer shorts, the darkest tanning oil and the gaudiest of high-capacity firearms.
Once Faith and her friends hit Florida, the movie dissolves into a neon-soaked riot for the senses, where every act of deprivacy is captured with swooning liquid metal
kineticism by master cinematographer Benoit Debie, who previously culled art from *acrocity* in films like Gaspar Noe's "Irreversible" and "Enter the Void." With its elliptical dialogue and pulsing, ethereal imagery, parts of the film border on the impressionistic, as "Drive" composer Cliff Martinez's synth-heavy score laces every scene with a snarling undercurrent of nebulous menace.
After a pre-dawn drug bust lands them before a judge who refuses to let them change out of their tattered swimwear, the girls are bailed out by Alien, who takes them back to his crib, a gangster's paradise where the mattress is lined with Benjamins, the Kool-Aid is always blue and "Scarface" plays on a constant loop. This leads to the so-to-be-classic "Look at my sheyeti" monologue where Alien implores his new houseguests to admire his many belongings, a largely improvised riff that singlehandedly makes up for Franco's botched co-hosting of the Oscars back in 2011.
Alien wants to enlist the girls as soldiers for the coming war against his ex-BFF and fellow drug dealer Archie (Gucci Mane, in his feverishly anticipated big screen debut). They agree, and the rest of "Spring Breakers" oscillates wildly between stoner comedy and gonzo gangster drama, as the girls spend their days disrupting Archie's business (with the aid of assault rifles and hot pink ski masks) and their nights being
serenaded by Alien, whose skills as a pianist seem to begin and end with the collected works of Britney Spears. To be fair, though, he does manage to turn the pop star's 2004 single "Everytime" into the haunting accompaniment for a series of increasingly brutal strong-arm robberies.
Gomez and Hudgens, both former Disney Channel stars, are clearly eager to burst out of their squeaky-clean shackles, but Franco is the film's real standout. His Alien comes off like the degenerative spawn of real-life rapper Riff Raff and Gary Oldman's deranged, dreadlocked pimp from "True Romance." After his oddly joyless performance in "Oz the Great and Powerful," it's nice to see the actor operating firmly outside of his comfort zone, inhabiting a character who couldn't be more different from his own carefully cultivated "pretentious goofball" persona.
Korine, the polarizing provocateur behind "Kids," "Gummo" and a slew of other disquieting portraits of youth in revolt, has reached a new level of commercial appeal with the release of "Spring Breakers," which enjoyed a healthy nationwide gross of nearly $5 million (the only modest thing about the film is its budget). But that's not to say the director has lost his edge. If anything, mainstream exposure has only served to mainline his unique brand of hypnotically amoral exhibitionism.
Or to put it in Allen-speaks "Spring break forever, bitches!"
Edited by Megan Hinman