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Captain Corelli's Mandolin...
...Cruz is now the most in-demand ingenue in movies. With more than two dozen European and American films to her credit, she will, in the coming months, star in Blow as Johnny Depp's cocaine-addled wife, in the World War II romantic drama Captain Corelli's Mandolin opposite Nicolas Cage and in Vanilla Sky, directed by Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous) and co-starring Tom Cruise. That film is a remake of the 1997 Spanish psychological thriller Abre los Ojos, which also starred Cruz (she's reprising her original role) and proves that despite her success...
...interview with the Chicago Sun-Times, Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson said his 22-year-old superstar was bored with the team's offense and a potentially divisive force in the locker room, but perhaps more ominously, a slack reader. Jackson assigned the Italian-raised Bryant Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres because "Kobe's a real Mediterranean kid," said Jackson. "I thought the book would be a good look at the culture he's attached to. It's a beautiful book. Tragic. But he didn't like it. Last year I gave him a book by Paul...
...think, as a trilling mandolin sets the scene and the Possum croons (magnificently, of course) for the first verse and a half about sunlight, flowers and such - a reverie, seemingly, about the wonders of nature. You wonder if Jones has been hitting the sappy bottle a little too hard; whether he's trying to turn into a second Gentleman...
...live sound (recorded last year) and the piano improvisations before almost every song bring energy and freshness to old favorites such as "Mandolin Rain" and the poignant "Road Not Taken." And the combination of piano artistry and heavy lyrics on "The Way It Is" that won Hornsby a Grammy in 1986 still delivers a powerful punch. New additions to the Hornsby repertoire include "The End of the Innocence," which, although co-penned by Hornsby, was originally recorded by Don Henley. Overall, Here Come the Noise Makers presents both a retrospective of Hornsby's 15-year musical career and puts...