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...move that helped save videos: name checks. In the early '90s, MTV started putting director's names on the video credits; that meant filmmakers would get the credit - or blame - for what they did. If you made a heavy metal video full of half-naked supermodels, your mom was gonna call you. If you made a brilliant video with references to German Expressionism and "The Seventh Seal," perhaps Hollywood was going to call you. So the word began to spread. Videos could lead to feature films. And, not too mysteriously, the quality of films began...
...Merchant takes pains to prove that she’s not just someone’s mom, as the stolid drum sample on “Saint Judas” shows. Despite the gimmick, “Judas” is the best update of Merchant’s mellow alterna-country sound. With vocals that prove that the teen-queens don’t have the monopoly on kick-ass voices, “Judas” has a sly swagger, though Merchant eschews sex appeal almost entirely on the album...
This is a great album for anyone who misses their mom...
...You’re a knight—you’ve got knight’s armor on, you’re in a knight outfit.” Not near Heath Ledger, though, I mused. “You’re close to your mom,” she continued. Okay, that’s true. “But she wants you to slay dragons, and you don’t want to slay dragons. You’re going to build, create, design, make sure all needs are going to be taken care...
...after she has written for the Washington Post, tried her hand at a few magazine pieces, and bought the apartment next to the piano bar on K Street. She feels her 15 minutes every time she spends time with her daughters—whether through participation as the class mom or when she reads to them in all of her funny voices. Late at night as they are dozing off, she picks up old copies of FM and reads them aloud. “ Who is amazing,” Chelsea asks. Vicky replies?...