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...photos on his Web site range from wide-angle crowd shots to a close-up of a life-size Elmo holding a sign mocking President George Bush. One memorable photo shows a simple “No War in Iraq” placard in front of Grand Central Station. Others show a police officer in riot gear blocking crowds and riding on horseback...
...black and gray, the International Gothic of metropolitan chic. Nothing else about them is dour. His conversation, in particular, is a series of sharp, rabbity observations on history, music and architecture, punctuated by bursts of laughter. He reminds you of a cross between Martin Scorsese and Tickle Me Elmo...
...head of his own solar-power company. Some are bizarre: Bronson talks to a Tibetan refugee who received a letter telling him he was the reincarnation of an ancient Buddhist spiritual leader. Some are bathetic: Carl Kurlander, the screenwriter responsible for the callow 1980s hit St. Elmo's Fire, abruptly left Hollywood for his native Pittsburgh, Pa., in search of his lost artistic integrity; he didn't find it. What Should I Do with My Life? is an old question borrowed from a sacred context, but Bronson is asking it in a modern, secular age, when the voice from...
Bronson doesn't have Terkel's gift for conveying character through dialogue, and he can be very, very earnest. It would try the patience of a saint--be it St. Paul or St. Elmo--to listen to the overachieving ballet dancer--runway model--M.B.A. who moans on and on about how empty her life is. Maybe Bronson puts up with it because, even with the hopeless narcissists, he knows he's on the trail of something real: by and large, the interviews are scarily honest, with people sweating and crying and popping antidepressants as they fight to find themselves...
WATKINS: When Congress leaked my memos and it was all over the news, we would be watching, and Marion [her 3-year-old daughter] was getting so bored with it. My husband said we wanted to watch the news, and she piped up, "Well, how about some Elmo news...