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...Paul Frank, Marc Ecko and a guy who calls himself Sucklord, customized Darth Vader helmets. The artists created a Statue of Liberty Vader, a Full Metal Vader with camo theme, a hip-hop Vader with a jewel encrusted grill and a black fleece Vader with an exposed pink fleece brain. Sucklord, a New York City artist who declines to share his "government name," used his helmet to construct a diorama of Tatooine, the desert planet that is the setting for most of the films. "I first saw Star Wars when I was 7," says Sucklord. "It set the tone...
...shake the movie's infectious lethargy, and some of the others, like Mac and Cheadle, have so little to do that it's a wonder they showed up (though Gould and Reiner are OK, and Eddie Izzard squeezes some life into his cameo as an amiable criminal super-brain...
...good to talk, and that music is the universal tongue. "Music has been a communication tool since humankind has existed," she says. "Music is a healer, a unifier. It breaks all the barriers between different nations. It relieves despair. It dampens war. Because when you listen to music, your brain is following your soul. I'm not scared by any genre, any musical background that is different from mine, because I know it's the same language...
...unifier. Running through a sales report for her last album, she was amazed to discover that she's a hit in Malaysia, a place she says she can hardly envision. She was just as astonished to be contacted by an American scientist studying the effect of music on the brain who told her that when he played her music to Inuit fishermen, they registered thought patterns indicating overwhelming serenity. "Two years ago," she adds, "I was playing Houston, and this lady came up on stage and sang with me, as sometimes happens. She was crying. And I said...
...know what the best thing about movie reviewing is? It's the freedom to indulge any cockamamie interest that goes skittering through your brain and pretend that you're working, solemnly patrolling the cultural ramparts, looking for miscreants, saboteurs and other freebooters. Wait long enough and the movies will provide what some people like to call "guilty pleasures," but which are, for the critic, entirely guilt-free. Yes, sometimes it's a bummer - an Irish romance (Once) which looks as if the cameraman and the sound guy were both DUI, or the entire Wilson family (Luke, Owen and Andrew) seeking...