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Alfred Kinsey (played with a magnificently starchy charisma by Liam Neeson) is a straitlaced Methodist who expands his pedantic passion for insects into a fascination with the eccentricities of human beings. He leaps to fame in the same way Vladimir Nabokov did, as a decorous entomologist who shocked '50s America with a high-IQ book about sex. At Indiana University Kinsey first scandalized the academic community with lectures on sex and then with his books that itemized the frequency of masturbation among teen boys and the, shall we say, animal husbandry of farmhands...
...will start yet another world tour in March 2005, right after its members turn up for their presumed induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. None of them are particularly pleased to be reminded that they released their first record 25 years ago, as the hall requires for inductees, but Bono admits he can't wait to join his idols the Beatles and Bob Marley. Clayton and Mullen Jr., naturally, have a different take. "I suppose if people want to shower you with honors, the only reasonable thing to do is accept them," says Clayton. "But it does...
...been raised by an imposing, belligerent mother. In the U.S. he worked for years in commercial art before deciding, in the midst of the Depression, to emulate his friend Arshile Gorky and devote himself full time to painting, a choice that guaranteed him a hand-to-mouth existence. Fame arrived around 1950, the year he painted his magnificent, pulsing abstraction Excavation, a field of elbowing contours and a bravura rethinking of Cubist space...
...that I think is enough to brand both as sell-outs. The conflict started in the summer of 2004 when the Postal Service band faced a copyright infringement lawsuit from the Postal Service mail service. Why did the USPS care? Because the Postal Service band had earned far more fame and record sales than are appropriate to its label; its debut Give Up became Subpop’s second highest all-time seller, behind Bleach, the debut from another group of proud sell-outs. And also because the band’s burst of popularity was deemed nominally threatening...
...have it both ways? The answer, if we’re to believe in indie rock like Victoria believed in Santa, the way I want to believe in indie rock, is no. And Bill, don’t even try to summon Death Cab’s fame as a way of legitimize this deal—independent or not, they suck and besides, no one is trying to take that name. But it’s both members of the Postal Service (band) that have enjoyed the most fruits of this attention-getting scandal: their album remains...