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...came by this interest, which would become the driving force in his life, when the script of the second Beatles film, Help!, called for chase scenes involving cartoonish Hindu villains, and Indian sitar players were brought in to provide some zippy chase music. George started noodling on a sitar--if indeed one can noodle on a sitar--and asking questions. This led to exotic instrumentation on the Lennon ballad Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) and later to an apprenticeship with master sitarist Ravi Shankar, who gave Harrison lessons on the instrument and in life itself. "He was a friend...
...came by this interest, which would become the driving force in his life, when the script of the second Beatles film, Help!, called for chase scenes involving cartoonish Hindu villains, and Indian sitar players were brought in to provide some zippy chase music. George started noodling on a sitar - if indeed one can noodle on a sitar - and asking questions. This led to exotic instrumentation on the Lennon ballad Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) and later to an apprenticeship with master sitarist Ravi Shankar, who gave Harrison lessons on the instrument and in life itself. "He was a friend...
...better than that. What happens when three ludicrously talented musicians get together and have fun? Well, a lot of silliness to be sure: The title track is a pastiche march, and the bizarre “Wield the Spade” owes something to early Pink Floyd in its cartoonish morality tale. They’re not always politically correct: “Shadow of a Man” is all about Billy who came back from Vietnam. The brilliant “Pseudo Suicide,” sounds like Jimi back in the afro-haired prime of the Experience...
...last Saturday’s scheduled airing of The Peacemaker, the 1998 film which depicts George Clooney and Nicole Kidman working to prevent a nuclear attack on New York City’s United Nations building. Likewise, Sony Pictures acted wisely in pulling previews of its upcoming Spiderman. The cartoonish preview concludes with the superhero snaring an enemy helicopter in a “spider web” stretching between the two Trade Center towers...
Maybe so, but when you correct certain problems in the postmodern novel--its cartoonish characters, its repetitive paranoia and absorption in Big Patterns--you get a better book. The Corrections does not "solve" the mystery of family life, but it renders its mysteries with the fine filament and moral nuance they require. There are already an impressive 90,000 copies in print. While that's not quite John Grisham territory, Franzen has so far made more than a million dollars. This could be another reason why he's feeling optimistic about the literary novel these days. He may be right...