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...recitative, then soar into celestial melody. The soundtrack parades the composer's gift for alchemizing outside influences until they are totally Tamil, totally Rahman. He plays with reggae and jungle rhythms, runs cool variations on Ennio Morricone's scores for Italian westerns, fiddles with Broadway-style orchestrations. An astonishing debut...
...thriving in the American phase of his career after a period in which several major U.S. projects abruptly fell through and his views on the future of building got notably sour. Opening this summer is Koolhaas' second Prada store, in Beverly Hills, Calif. And last September saw the debut of his McCormick Tribune Campus Center at Chicago's Illinois Institute of Technology. Another instant icon, it's topped by a massive corrugated-steel tube intended both to muffle the noise of the railway line that passes overhead and to encourage another sound--wow!--from anybody passing...
...scary experience. And it doesn't help when a member of the audience is urging her co-star to kill her. For Julia Stiles, that unnerving moment came at the dramatic climax of the first preview show of the David Mamet play Oleanna, her London debut. She plays the student protagonist, who tenuously accuses her teacher of sexual harassment, and torments him until he snaps. As Stiles lay on the stage and her co-star, fellow Hollywood denizen Aaron Eckhart (Erin Brockovich, Paycheck) raised a chair as if to strike her, a woman in the front row of the Garrick...
...moderate audience’s sympathies don’t always stay with the vengeance seeker. Witness Man screenwriter Brian Helgeland’s directorial debut, Payback, which quickly degenerated into brutality for what seemed to be brutality’s own sake. The difference is in the humanity; Payback was a perfect fit for star Mel Gibson, the master of sadomasochistic cinema, but Scott wants us to care...
Svetlana Boym doesn’t give much credence to the adage “write what you know.” Ninochka, her recently released debut novel, focuses not on the vast knowledge she has gained over the years, but rather on questions of choice and regret that she has no intention of answering...