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...does a movie soundtrack focus on a single artist. Simon and Garfunkel's work on The Graduate is one of the few that come to mind. Former Bostonian Aimee Mann takes on the task with nine tracks for Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia. Why Aimee Mann? According to his liner notes, Anderson, a friend of Mann, felt that she "is the great articulator of the biggest things we think about." On the Magnolia soundtrack, Mann's songwriting cuts to the core of human emotion, exploring the intricacies of love and pain with a catchy quality that locks the songs...
...Mann's new songs and liked them so much he began building characters around them. Claudia, the lonely cokehead played by Melora Walters, was inspired by the song Deathly. "Everything [Aimee] seemed to be thinking were things that I was thinking," the Boogie Nights auteur writes in Magnolia's liner notes. Mann's songs were inadvertently attuned to Anderson's central theme: emotional rescue...
While Wikler works out his stapler woes, Dreyfus is making his way from Pforzheimer House to Gnomon Copy on Mass. Ave. He too carries a stack of flyers advertising his candidacy--each poster sports a fuzzy logo, filched from the Web site of Dreyfus Mutual Funds, and a one-liner like "Read my lips" or "forty-four forty or fight...
...while it does elicit some chuckles, the screenplay has precious few original moments, comedic or otherwise. At one point, Rusty says: "Theres no romance without finance." It's a joke of "Golden Girls"-caliber at best, but the film tries to pass it off as a piercing one-liner. Meanwhile, the story about Walt and Rusty is further marred by a useless and laborious subplot about a gangster trying to find out who has his money...