Word: forgiven
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More than three years after she was bashed and garroted, she still smiles from tabloids, book covers and TV screens. Joyce Carol Oates has called JonBenet Ramsey "the most famous little girl of our time," and we should be forgiven for being sick of her image...
Staring out at you from the cover of his fourth album, you would be forgiven for immediately thinking that the bald head on the cover of Mark Turner's Ballad Sessions belongs to media darling Joshua Redman '91. However, while Redman is known for his fire and exuberance alternating with tender touches, fellow tenor saxophonist Turner's sound is cooler and more brooding. That latter quality certainly shows up on this latest release, an album consisting of ballads that runs the gamut from George and Ira Gershwin to Hoagy Carmichael...
...stardom, it took five years for him to finish Voodoo, it took half the day for him to get to the interview. But in a few seconds, with a few notes, he gives a glimpse of the power of his talent, its roots in the church, and all is forgiven. Some artists make music that makes them look cool; D'Angelo makes music that makes you feel cool just listening...
...gamblers or pornographers; they live in _our_ universe and don't require the same roughing up to be understood. It's obvious from the start that all of these individuals are in pain, and that in order to heal, they need either to forgive or to be forgiven, to love or to be loved. Having built ample and complex backstory for them, Anderson sets his characters in place and then allows them to free-fall, introducing no new crises or red herrings, setting up almost nothing for later payoff. The film's only real plot points come, subversively...