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...return home, to the hardscrabble Knowle West district of Bristol, England. That trip led to the release of his latest album, Knowle West Boy, a fusion of Britpop and hip-hop that Rolling Stone calls "Tricky's best since his 1995 debut Maxinquaye". For the 41-year-old artist, that journey home was a chance to take stock. "You can't just keep moving forward, you have to look backwards sometimes," Tricky tells TIME. Revisiting his own difficult childhood, Tricky found himself wanting to "talk for kids growing up on a council estate, my old environment." By the time Knowle...
...Richard Mason's 1957 best-selling novel The World of Suzie Wong, a young English artist checks into the fictional Nam Kok Hotel in Hong Kong, not realizing it is also a bordello. He meets and eventually falls in love with Suzie Wong, an archetypal "hooker with a heart of gold," and the novel ends happily...
...artist. This is something I've known my entire life, but it was nice to have it officially recognized by the Sundance Film Festival. This year the festival accepted Joel Stein's Completely Unfabricated Adventures into its short-film competition--one of only 96 entries chosen out of 5,632 submissions. Getting a short into Sundance is more difficult than getting into Harvard and an even greater indication that you have rich parents...
...their own, though, as they tend to merge together with the weaker songs when not culled from the lot. “Get Guilty” is not a bad album and might have been seen as a success for a lesser talent. Coming from as accomplished an artist as Newman, however, it can only be seen as a disappointment. “The Slow Wonder” suggested that Newman recognized no boundaries to his songwriting, but five years later he seems happy to constrain himself to the narrow territory he has already laid out. Hopefully when...
...though, Schrader became inspired by the film’s careful investigation of society, and his work veered from film criticism into screenwriting.“I got into writing for the best of all reasons: self-therapy,” Schrader says. “It was an artistic self-exorcism.” Now when teaching screenwriting classes, Schrader coaches his students in what he calls “the evolution from problems to metaphors to stories.”Often this problem is loneliness. Before writing “Taxi Driver,” the film that...