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...roll superstardom. In spite of their new-money pedigrees (lead singer Julian Casablancas’ father is the founder of the Elite model empire; guitarist Albert Hammond Jr.’s father wrote “It Never Rains in Southern California;” Casablancas, drummer Fabrizio Moretti and guitarist Nick Valensi all attended Dwight prep school in New York City) and publicists’ assertions that they are überhip (“they dress as if the 1970s and the 80s fell into the same laundry hamper”), the five young band members proceed...
...clear that the Strokes are a live outfit. Their studio-recorded songs attempt to recreate the immediacy and anguish of Julian Casablancas’ vocals, the tight guitar riffs of Albert Hammond Jr. and Nick Valensi, the bouncy bass of Nikolai Fraiture and the aggressive drumming of Fabrizio Moretti. Even the band members’ names have a novel quality and are strangely fatalistic, as if they had already been written into the canon of rockstardom. Once on stage, they wasted no time opening with “The Modern Age.” Casablancas did forward rolls with...
...full-length CD, Is This It (RCA), a scrappy, old-school rock album with yowling vocals, jangling guitars and cool, carefree melodies that stay with you like tattoos. The New York City quintet--singer Julian Casablancas, bassist Nikolai Fraiture, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr. and drummer Fabrizio Moretti--has started drawing queries from journalists from as far away as Brazil, as well as advance raves from the U.S. press. "We try not to pay too much attention to things like that," says Valensi. "It could be a trap, to believe what people write about you." The Strokes...
...jury, headed by actress Liv Ullmann, gave the Palme d'Or to Nanni Moretti's family drama The Son's Room; second prize and both actor awards to Michael Haneke's sexual war of wills The Piano Teacher; the screenplay citation to a Bosnian film, Danis Tanovic's No Man's Land; and director laurels to two Americans, David Lynch for Mulholland Dr. and Joel Coen for The Man Who Wasn't There. Worthy films all - but the best of a mediocre bunch...
...Soccer's Spice Boy gets the O.K. from coach to play for England with a mohawk. Coach rejects Beck's bid to play bottomless DARYL HANNAH Actress wins libel suit against London tabloid. For a moment, she imagines the victory will reinvigorate her career?then reality sets in NANNI MORETTI Cannes awards director Italy's first Palme d'Or in 30 years. As if having fine-looking women, swell clothes and great cuisine wasn't enough