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YOUR PAST FEW MOVIES HAVE BEEN COMMERCIALLY APPEALING BUT NOT ART HOUSE. HAVE YOU GIVEN UP ON ANOTHER OSCAR? [Laughs] It's not like you go out and try and drum those roles up. I'm interested in all kinds of roles. The Silence of the Lambs, for all intents and purposes, was not an Oscar-bait movie. I don't know, I just don't have rules for it. I think what interests me is being a part of the storytelling, not necessarily being the drummer with the solo...
...discussing dance at Harvard, Foster describes both her delight in and frustration with the program in all of its manifestations. She speaks enthusiastically about the many different student dance groups, from Irish step groups to the new Pan-African Dance and Drum Ensemble, while also expressing her disappointment in the demise of such programs as the summer course in dance in which she once participated...
Dupri, the Boyz, D4L (whose “Laffy Taffy” blew up all over the country and whose cheap, minimalist sound precipitated the formation of this group), et al. have managed to make a club trend out of really weak drum machines and minimal production. It’s good business, and it works. This is the kind of music that you say you hate, but which secretly you wish you could play at full volume without fear of being smacked...
...Dupri-produced pop gems. “It’s Like That,” the follow-up single to “We Belong Together,” is a consummate club-banger: Dupri relies on little more than an Indian flute loop and an arrhythmic drum machine beat to craft an incredibly danceable track. The song’s beat is so hot that its occasional lapses into lyrical absurdity—at one point Carey opines, “these chickens is ash and I’m lotion”—are excusable...
Next to perform was the Pan African Drum and Dance Troupe, a fairly new student group that focuses on traditional African dance. The troupe performed a “Didadi” dance, which originated from Mali. Generating an infectious amount of enthusiasm around Sanders, the troupe, with their rhythmic dancing and African chanting, were genuinely impressive. With smiles plastered on their faces, they clapped and stomped amidst audience cheers...