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...also does a pretty good boom. That passing look blossoms into a ferocious shootout on a crowded Hong Kong street, between mainland Chinese gangsters and a band of undercover cops. What follows is a madly complex, five-minute gun battle, shot in a single fluid take, that should be required viewing for directors who can't shoot a visually comprehensible action scene to save themselves. Breaking News isn't a deep movie or even a particularly great one, though it was an official selection at last month's Cannes Film Festival. It is, however, a thoroughly Hong Kong movie...
...Just redistributing money is something in my mind that is probably a band-aid approach to a national crisis for low-income students,” Donahue said. “What I think would really make sense is to increase the money going to the federal aid programs...
...core of fans the band built during its earlier incarnation as country rockers has expanded to include indie-rock hipsters and the electronica avant-garde. A Ghost Is Born will probably do even better than its predecessor, though on first listen they have little in common. This time the songs are more loosely constructed, with Tweedy's delicate dirges giving way to roaring, rambling guitar solos. There are no hit singles here--"You can't hear it on the radio," Tweedy acknowledges on the final track, The Late Greats--but the album may still be the year's most addictive...
...been in Tweedy. The haggard despair shown in I Am Trying to Break Your Heart has been replaced by something approaching salubrity. Since his stint in rehab, he has lost weight, given up caffeine and shaken the migraines. "He looks more fit and together now," says John Stirratt, the band's bassist. "It's hard for me to tell because I see him a lot, but people tell me he looks like he's 25 again...
...unusual for older bands to come out of hiding to play the occasional summer concert, but this year the nostalgia fest is aimed at a younger and hipper crowd. Reunited veterans of alternative-rock groups are touring and headlining music festivals like the recently reinvigorated Lollapalooza. Among the alt-rock retreads back this summer: Morrissey, whose first album in seven years, You Are the Quarry, came out in May, along with the Cure (the ever evolving rock band, above) and more...