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...make a virtue of his misery. Since forming the band Wilco a decade ago, Tweedy has battled depression, panic disorder, painkiller addiction, and migraines so intense that he has interrupted live performances to go backstage and throw up. Last February, while the band was finishing its seventh album, A Ghost Is Born, Tweedy quit taking his migraine medication and went into an emotional free fall. "It was terrifying," he says. "I was having such severe panic I couldn't think. It was all I could do to put one foot in front of the other." After checking himself into rehab...
...Among the Asian movies that competed: Mamoru Oshii's Japanese anim? Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence. Voluptuous futuristic graphics complement an astronomical robot body count. The film was produced by the same company that provided the gorgeously gruesome anim? sequence in Tarantino's Kill Bill...
...rare appearances at Cannes. Asia's strong showing included a mainstream Korean revenge-a-thon (Park Chan-wook's Old Boy), a Hong Kong media melodrama (Johnnie To's Breaking News) with an elaborate five-minute tracking shot of a shootout, and a gorgeous animated feature (Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence) from the company that did the smashing anime segment of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 1. You'd almost think the films had been chosen to suit the video-store tastes of this year's jury president ? Quentin Tarantino...
When we think of our children or grandchildren, the ghost haunting the attics of our minds is their vulnerability. They are essentially defenseless. And in the late watches of the night, we can't help succumbing to clammy unease...
...seven years at SNL, she's also working on a sitcom-development deal at NBC. And she would like to write and direct movies in which she has small parts. "My role model is Harold Ramis," she says, referring to the writer of such movies as Stripes and Ghost Busters, who also appeared in them. "I want to sneak into movies. I have no pretensions of thinking people will pay to see me." Fey, of all people, shouldn't underestimate just how many geeky boys are out there...