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...Phair struggled to make her album more commercial, an executive suggested she try writing songs with the Matrix, the team behind Lavigne's ear-bending debut. Phair was hesitant. "Mostly it was the name the Matrix," she says. "Why would you want people to think of you as the evil, all-controlling, delusional architecture of the universe?" It turned out that the Matrix--Scott Spock plus husband-and-wife team Graham Edwards and Lauren Christy--was named in an homage to the womb (no one said it was a great homage) and that Christy was a thirty-something...
...Hate me if you want, but nothing would make me happier than if my songs got blasted from pop radio all summer." Phair, a single mom with a 6-year-old son, got help making the album commercial from the Matrix, the team behind Avril Lavigne's ear-bending debut. But she mostly stuck to her own irony-laden voice for the lyrics; on Rock Me and Extraordinary the subjects are, respectively, stupid teen fascination and the desire of a woman in her mid-30s to be fascinating to stupid teens - "I want to play Xbox on your floor...
...Dichter, head of the Shin Bet, Israel's domestic spy and security service. (The Mossad handles foreign intelligence.) According to Israeli intelligence officials, he has had a more profound effect on the Prime Minister's handling of Palestinian terrorists than any other adviser. "He has the Prime Minister's ear," says a senior Israeli security official. With 27 years' service in the Shin Bet, the mild-looking Dichter, who once worked as an undercover, in-flight security guard for El Al, knows how to talk to Sharon, who likes to hear details and facts rather than opinions...
...Powell have pronounced him nothing less than a "saint." That's a bit much for Hitchens, who prefers to say that Orwell "took some of the supposedly Christian virtues and showed how they could be 'lived' without piety or religious belief." One virtue Orwell did not possess was an ear for good fiction. His early novels creak and groan with messages about the evils of imperialism, capitalism or middle-class respectability. Even Animal Farm and 1984 are memorable more for the power of their ideas than the gracefulness of their prose. Indeed, there are probably dozens of 20th century writers...
DIED. MICKIE MOST, 64, successful music producer who helped mold the sound of the British Invasion; of cancer; in London. Famous for his sharp yet adventurous ear for pop songs, he discovered the Animals and Herman's Hermits, shaped the careers of such solo artists as Donovan and Lulu, and produced such hits as the Animals' House of the Rising Sun, Donovan's Mellow Yellow and the Hermits' I'm into Something Good...