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...friend's mother. Then they made a video with Rachel Hunter, the ex-Mrs. Rod Stewart, playing a modern Mrs. Robinson in a bikini. Naturally, Stacy's Mom became a top 10 hit--the most downloaded song on iTunes--and earned the band a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist. "People are watching the video and downloading the single, but they don't know us or our record at all. It's kind of disappointing. It's a novelty song," says Collingwood. Says Schlesinger, who wrote the song: "There are a lot of videos with hot models. I happen...
Fountains of Wayne's first two albums (Grammy nominations for Best New Artist are given out only when the Grammy people are good and ready) were full of great, Kinks-inspired guitar-pop songs about contemporary suburban characters like themselves. "When we first started writing songs," says Schlesinger, "we felt like we needed to write about grand, universal themes like 'I am the King of Pain.' I remember thinking, Jesus Christ, how do you write something like that, especially if you're from New Jersey?" So instead they wrote Red Dragon Tattoo, about an exuberant moron who gets inked...
...stockinged legs; the lonely loser (Michel Bouquet) who says he won?t touch Julie, but wants to be asked; the pompous politician (Michel Lonsdale) who suggests they have sex so that ?You can say, ?For one hour he forgot about France and gave himself to me??; the skirt-chasing artist (Charles Denner) who is almost too charming to kill. But not quite. (Woolrich minutiae: Lonsdale?s son is called Cookie - the same name Ricki Lake gives her son in ?Mrs. Winterbourne...
...played by Jean-Claude Brialy) his function is merely to cast a net of suspicion on the bride. [SPOILER] In the film, the killer is one of the group of five (brutish Daniel Boulanger), who is put in jail before Julie can kill him. Julie materializes at the artist?s funeral, is arrested and jailed. In prison, she is assigned kitchen duty, and commits her ultimate murder just out of camera range in the final shot...
Currin isn't the first artist to work at the intersection of art and trash. The kitsch shenanigans of Jeff Koons have been a major inspiration for him, and so has the later work of Francis Picabia--those painstaking oils from the 1940s that Picabia copied from naughty photographs. But in the mid-'90s Currin began to introduce old master borrowings into his work, at first conflating them with soft, pillowy porn, then working them into more conventionally scaled nudes and lately scattering them into satires of life among the well dressed and well fed. His art-history references come...