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...cartoonist known as Jason, a 37 year-old Norwegian born John Arne S?ter?, really wants your attention. His first book, last year, asked us to "Hey, Wait..." Mixing melancholy, memory and the fantastical, "Hey, Wait..." made for a remarkable debut. (See the TIME.comix review.) Now, his follow-up commands us to "Sshhhh!" It's a double-entendre, of course. The book contains no dialogue. Still, readers should take the advice by quieting down to appreciate the deceptive simplicity of this interesting comix artist...
Lately she has developed an appreciation for jazz, thanks in part to the chart-topping debut album of her 23-year-old half-sister, Norah Jones. They only met five years ago - Jones' mother distanced herself and her daughter from Ravi after he married Anoushka's mother, Sukanya. Though the belated sibling relationship was a bit rocky at first, the sisters have become close and even have similar tattoos on their backs of a stylized lotus Anoushka designed. Will they ever collaborate? Perhaps. "We've tried to mess around a little. We just started laughing and gave up," says Anoushka...
...year-old cousin-once-removed will do that.) But it's Lewis who embodied - hell, embodies - so much of what was feral and profound about the new music. He knew its varied roots and how to tap them. As he announced at the conclusion of his belated, heroically defiant debut at the Grand Ole Opry in 1973: "Let me tell ya somethin' about Jerry Lee Lewis, ladies and gentlemen. I am a rock-'n'-rollin', country-and-Western, rhythm-'n'-blues-singin' mothafucker...
...song (written by Dave Williams and Roy Hall, a.k.a Sonny David) in the spring, but it started soaring after Lewis's July 28th appearance on Steve Allen's Sunday night show. I remember watching that performance with the same startled excitement that seized me when I saw Elvis's debut on the Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey "Stage Show" 18 months earlier. A sharp intake of breath, a gnarl of the stomach and an irresistibly bopping head could mean only one thing to a kid reaching puberty at the same time rock did: The revolution was here...
...cupidity and stupidity were nearly as inspired as their titles. "Mudhoney"! (A familiarly lurid tale of the drifter, the town bully and the yearning babe, with a supporting role for Maitland.) "Motorpsycho"! (A low-budget "Wild One" - the motorcycle crazies ride mopeds - with many worthy extras: a nice debut turn by Alex Rocco as a man whose wife the gang raped; a cameo by Meyer as the sexist sheriff who snaps, as regards Rocco's wife, "Nothin' happened to her a woman's not built for!"; and the legendary snake-venom scene where Rocco instructs leading lady Haji to "Suck...