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...fueled by a newfound geographic passion. "I love New York City," she says. "Sometimes you find a place that just feels like your home, where you feel really alive and you are your own person. I love New York from the bottom of my heart." After working on a Hal Hartley movie in the city in 1998 (average listener, try not to hold his art-film pedigree against her), she spent the majority of 1999 living near Riverside Park in Manhattan and discovering the joys of walking by the water, staring at architecture and "mixing with all those different people...
...Diving school is commanded by a godlike lunatic (Hal Holbrook) who never leaves his tower office but knows what he hates, which is a black man striving for élite status. All but one of Carl's barracks mates move out rather than sleep in the same room with him. Day-to-day training is under the command of Billy Sunday (Robert De Niro), a drunken, brawling redneck who, if he can't drive Carl out of school, would just as soon kill...
...Sound," Spector's trademark, meaning maybe three guys playing the same bass line, four or five rhythm guitarists strumming away, two pianists playing the same chords in different registers, percussionists plugging away on maracas and castanets, a full symphony string section, and underneath it all the drums of Hal Blaine ("my five favorite drummers", according to Max Weinberg) piped through the galactic dimensions of the Gold Star Studios echo chamber...
...Hal Blaine and the Wrecking Crew: The Story of the World's Most Recorded Musician," by Hal Blaine and David Goggin, Mix Books, Emeryville, Calif...
Last week, when scientists at Brandeis University announced that one of their machines had finally designed and built a simple, toylike robot, the news immediately invited scary comparisons with such Hollywood rogue robots as The Terminator and 2001: A Space Odyssey's psychopathic HAL. Some futurists, like Sun Microsystem's chief scientist Bill Joy, even warned that this might be one genie that shouldn't be let out of the bottle...