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...says Pierre Dolivet, director of the Chalet du Thianty, France's other in-patient drug center catering to athletes. "The non-stars usually improvise with drugs and doses-often even sharing syringes, despite the aids threat. When you see what these people are doing to themselves you understand the darker meaning of ?winning at any cost...
...through the high school zoo, and most people will manage to cope. I, for one, rather enjoyed the experience. But I knew plenty of people who didn't, people who couldn't accommodate themselves to the warped hierarchies of an adolescent culture. I don't doubt that in their darker moments, these unhappy high schoolers fantasized that they, like Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman, might "take a flame thrower to this place...
...there will be 5 million people waiting to listen to it," he says. "But I think I've got better records in me." Success has made him a happy man-you need only watch him bound onto stage to know that-but Gray says his songs will still probe darker themes. "The ordeal that is living is exactly the same. The entire weight of our suffering day to day, if you want to get involved in it, remains identical...
...with Alison Krauss, who serves as a particularly strong foil. Dolly's commitment to her new direction is further borne out by the seven songs she wrote herself, which may well account for the more personal, introspective quality that distinguishes this CD from its predecessor. "Little Sparrow" explores the darker, more fable-like side of the genre; there are repeated references to infant deaths and faithless lovers, and both the title track and her collaboration with the Irish band Altan on her 30-year-old "Down From Dover" evoke the appropriate sense of dread. But in the most ambitious...
Nicholson is awfully good at suggesting inner tension without overplaying it. He's a great watcher at the crossroads. But then everyone in the cast (which includes Vanessa Redgrave and Helen Mirren) is good at playing normality while implying darker thoughts moving beneath the surface...