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...Tenenbaum kids are--or were--child geniuses, adept at playwriting (Paltrow), tennis (Wilson) and the stock market (Stiller). When we meet them, however, they are still overprotected by their mother (Huston) and have aged into various forms of hostile fecklessness. Director and co-writer (with Owen Wilson) Anderson has confessed admiration for J.D. Salinger's Glass family, and The Royal Tenenbaums can be seen as his take, more comic than tragic, on the costs of being smart in a world that resents intelligence as much as it pretends to admire...
...inspired funk. The first track, Lonely Road, uses hoarse vocals and rugged Neil Young-style electric guitar (rugged? Paul?) to reckon with the departure of a loved one, surely McCartney's wife and much-maligned musical collaborator, Linda, who died in 1998. McCartney shows himself to be as adept at conjuring up angst as any obscure pack of teenagers in a garage. The hurt in his voice turns the innocuous lines "I hear your music and it's driving me wild/Familiar rhythms in a different style" into a lament all the more moving for the fact that it comes from...
...documentary as a time for character development. When Clooney happens upon his ex-wife, Tess Ocean (Julia Roberts), the restaurant scene is softly lit from a single table lamp; palpably romantic, it plays skilfully against the oily glaze of the casino. Soderbergh is perhaps also the contemporary director most adept at using music to underscore the tenor of his films. David Holmes’ slinky, funky score mixes with 60s swing and hints of Vegas glam, lending the film a coolly hip pulse...
NATO has proved adept recently at mutating to meet new challenges, such as peacekeeping in the Balkans. But this new threat is far more nebulous and, ironically, of equal concern to the alliance's erstwhile enemy, Russia. Already, NATO has proposed giving Russia equal status in regard to some of its policies...
...double album, the sum of Vaughan’s first Montreux performance and his triumphant return in 1985, represents the first comprehensive collection of those celebrated live performances. Needless to say, the compilation is simply glorious. Vaughan was as adept at funneling rip-roaring blues through his guitar as he was pulling out smouldering riffs from its strings, and the first Montreux outing provides a brilliant sampler of his stunning—if then still raw—talent...