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...that has not stopped him from trying. In addition to writing the score for the upcoming Sidney Lumet film Q and A, Blades has completed acting parts in three movies: Spike Lee's film; The Lemon Sisters, starring Diane Keaton; and The Two Jakes, the sequel to Chinatown that features Jack Nicholson as star and director. Nicholson shot around Blades' music tour in order to nab him for the role of Mickey Nice, a Jewish gangster from Los Angeles' Boyle Heights section. "He brought a lot of energy and good acting instincts to the role," reports Nicholson. "I think...
...Paris, where for decades he lived in an apartment overlooking the exercise yard of a prison. In such plays as Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Krapp's Last Tape; in novels, including Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable; in verse and essays and the script for a wordless Buster Keaton film, Beckett distilled despair...
Woody remembers that trip, along with two earlier jaunts to the Crescent City, as high points of his life. Accompanied by Diane Keaton, he scurried around the French Quarter with his clarinet under his arm, looking, listening and sitting in with local jazzmen. "It was like watching Willie Mays all your life and then finding yourself in the outfield with him," Woody recalls. Festival producer George Wein even talked him into playing a set at one of the official concerts...
...once he dons his rubber and leather bat costume, Keaton is something else again. His face, hidden behind a black rubber mask, is almost expressionless. His voice, somewhere between a rasp and a whisper, reveals almost no emotion. It is easy to understand why the people of Gotham are afraid of him--early sightings of the superhero describe a six-foot bat who drinks human blood. Keaton does his best to make Batman a creature of the supernatural...
...stands out from the Gotham cityscape. Dressed like that, the Joker is not about to disappear into the fog. And Nicholson's face, wrenched into a permanent parody of a grin (the result of being dropped, by Batman, into a vat of toxic chemicals), is a perfect complement to Keaton's expressionless mask...