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...which he co-wrote more than half the songs. Two of them, Love Can't Get Any Better and She Mends Me, hold the promise of a long shelf life. The first is an up-tempo, feel-good song with strong Afro-Cuban percussion rhythms. The latter is a haunting ballad about a man who has lost himself in a painful breakup--a perfect vehicle to show off Anthony's technical and emotional range...
However, due to the spartan nature of the subject matter in these three photographs, the observer is forced to consider Udé’s meticulously ornate cosmetics as an artistic realization, as well as the entire process of transforming himself from a male into a female. This latter focus is especially dramatic in a photograph in which Udé’s upper torso is bare, exposing the male chest and unshaven armpits that still exist but are disguised by the feminine face, hair and posture...
...optimistic as Murphy is about remedying the first concern, he feels just as good about the latter...
...enlivens every fist-pumping riff, it's their flair for performance that makes Tenacious D worth listening to. Black assumes the voice of an array of comic characters on the album, from a sex-obsessed buffoon on "Kielbasa" to a lonely Don Juan rock star on "The Road" (the latter has been praised for its veracity by no less an expert than Dave Grohl, of Nirvana and Foo Fighters, who contributes drumming on the record.) He also manages to parody a swath of celebrated musicians by incorporating their stylistic trademarks into his songs: Joni Mitchell's upward swoop, the keening...
...latter with Adaptation, from the Being John Malkovich team of Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze. Meanwhile, we shouldn't rush to judge Cage or devalue his recent work. He was never one to do the expected. He took the hard way to stardom, with quirky portrayals in orphan movies. He may now be doing something even braver: anchoring serious or silly films with the haunting loneliness and eccentric rhythms that, even as a star, he can't shake. To invest his special gravity in nice-guy roles--this may be the strange quest and triumph of Nic the Nice...