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...forum ended with Grossman-Spivak reciting an original lyric on the subject of the need and potential for change...
...MCKELLEN is sitting backstage at London's Lyric Theatre, a prestigious venue that overlooks the Windmill strip club in sex-driven Soho. Far from being perturbed by the district, or even the cockroach trap on his dressing-room floor, the star of The Lord of the Rings and The X-Men - two of Hollywood's biggest franchises - is gleeful about returning to the West End after 13 years to perform in Strindberg's The Dance of Death, which opens March 4. "I'm so excited about working in this street," he says. "The strip club is next door...
...combining his stage name and the Dutch word for realistic), which is out next month. The disc will feature Raymzter's hugely successful and controversial first single, K__ Marokkanen (F___ing Moroccans), a biting commentary on white Dutch attitudes toward young Moroccans following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks (sample lyric: "They look at me as if I flew into the Twin Towers"). The song reached No. 4 in the Dutch pop charts despite, or perhaps because of, being banned by some stations due to its racially and politically charged message. "So what?" says Raymzter. "It made people think about...
...first major response to 9/11, that title really should go to The Eminem Show, released in May. It was as polarizing as The Rising was unifying. When Eminem declared, "We need a little controversy ... it feels so empty without me," it was, like many of his lyrics, arrogant, self-aggrandizing--and true. Beyond the self-serving message--those other records are boring, so buy mine--the lyric was also a pointed rejection of the get-alongism that prevailed after 9/11. (As if his words weren't enough, he dressed up as Osama bin Laden in the video.) On the album...
...exposure to Sophie's Choice was the film, but his libretto is almost completely faithful to Styron's prose. So, he says, is his music. "It follows the rhythm and the emotional line of the text very closely. The way I would describe a lot of the music is 'lyric conversation.'" Some critics have faulted Maw for allowing the conversation to drone on too long. But Kirchschlager found the music fitted her voice perfectly. "It's very emotional, very different to the Mozart and Strauss I usually sing, which you have to sing in a very disciplined way," she says...