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News Item B: The mythological adventure Clash of the Titans was No. 1 for a second week, narrowly defeating the Steve Carell-Tina Fey romantic comedy Date Night and proving the box-office muscle of movies released in 3-D. This was the 13th week in the past 17 that a 3-D picture has topped the weekend tally...
...movie took in. How to Train Your Dragon's estimated $25.4 million was also a little high; the true total was $24.9 million. So Clash gets to brag in this week's commercials that it's still the No. 1 movie in America - though because of its higher 3-D prices in many theaters the picture was probably seen by fewer people than Date Night...
...idea of presenting this story as dance music came from an article Byrne read some years ago that discussed the former beauty queens reputation for clubhopping in the '70s and early '80s. He'd been interested in what he calls "the bubble worlds of the rich and powerful" for a while, and asked Cook to work with him on a set of songs that would be both about and in the musical forms associated with Imelda's particular bubble world. Here Lies Love was first performed in concert in 2006; Byrne had initially hoped to stage it in dance clubs...
...hits. "The text on that one is almost one hundred percent taken from one of Imelda's wackier speeches," Byrne says. "She got into her own kind of cosmology where binary code, zeroes and ones, would turn into flowers and trees and heart shapes, and she'd give these speeches and do drawings at the same time. She did one in front of the U.N. General Assembly; I can only imagine what they thought...
...real-life Imelda Marcos, now 80, has recently tried to relaunch her political career, and Here Lies Love is, among other things, an attempt to explain her monomaniacal craving for power and respect: Byrne notes that he'd like listeners to "reluctantly empathize" with his version of her. "Audiences already have a certain amount of knowledge--it might be just the shoes and the money in the Swiss bank accounts. So I have to let people know what drove her to this, and to see if they can see things from her point of view. Which is not to excuse...