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ASSASSINATION TANGO. Robert Duvall’s career as a film actor reads like a smorgasbord of human types; he’s played a surf-crazy colonel in Apocalypse Now, a conformist tightass in MASH, a fire-spitting preacher in The Apostle and everybody in between. He lets his feet do some of the talking as he stars in Assassination Tango, a dance-tinged character study armed with a title that explains its plot with TV Guide-caliber brevity (Duvall’s an assassin, and he tangos!). Duvall’s aging hitman, his hair yanked back...
...grass doesn’t grow.” Now Harvard does. This spring has seen the return of Brian Lentz, Schuyler Mann, and a leaner, even more muscular Trey Hendricks as power threats, not to mention the smash debut of a crop of freshmen who can just plain mash. Entering yesterday, Harvard had half as many home runs as it had all of last year in a third of the games...
...After training in some of Singapore's top kitchens, local chef Jimmy Chok opened Salt Restaurant at 94 Amoy Street, tel: (65) 6223 1266, a no-frills fusion eatery known for top-notch nosh. Chok's signature roast rack of lamb with garlic mash and jus persille is the highlight of the menu, while the steamed Chilean sea bass with preserved Chinese cabbage is a local favorite...
...course, making a mash-up that anyone other than its creator would want to listen to requires a little finesse. You need to interlace the lyrics judiciously and learn subtleties like crossfades. But it's hard to go wrong mixing the a capella version of one song and the instrumental of another. It doesn't hurt that for years the music industry has been creating instrumental tracks on CD singles for the DJ market. If you can't find them, there's a piece of free software called Vocal Remover (at analogx.com that achieves the same effect; it's also...
Here's where you could wade into murky legal waters. Keeping a copy for personal use is O.K.; distributing it requires the permission of every artist you have sampled. Don't hold your breath. It took mash-up duo 2ManyDJs a whole year to clear the rights for an album that took a week to make. Meanwhile, at least you'll have something better than American Idol to pass the time with...