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...France's beloved singer-songwriter. When Serge died in 1991, the nation went into mourning and President François Mitterrand lauded him as "our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire." Carrying such celebrated DNA can be a daunting task. "With acting I never have to reference my father," Gainsbourg says. "With music I want to refer to him, but I want to find my own path, too." (See TIME's fond farewells...
...course, Gainsbourg is lucky she's got her father's musical genes to fall back on. The path that many actresses follow from the movie set to recording studio is lined with misplaced ambitions and audible trauma - remember Lindsay Lohan's and Scarlett Johansson's disastrous efforts? But Gainsbourg has made the transition effortlessly. Her 2006 album 5:55, a collaboration with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, topped the French charts, with critics praising her as a true chanteuse. For her latest album IRM - which will be released on Jan. 26 in the U.S. and most of Europe - she teamed...
...teens are now using their phones, computers, TVs and video-game systems for a total of 7.5 hours a day, or 52.5 hours a week. (The authors explain that multitasking and dual-use devices--like cell phones that play video--push those figures even higher.) In the past decade, music listening has increased the most, up nearly an hour per day. The only leisure activity that has become less popular is reading...
Listening to music...
Sometimes an inspirational clicks with millions of Mildreds. The word gets out that some little movie will leave audiences limp with emotion and gratitude. A bunch of these true-life uplifters (The Sound of Music, A Man for All Seasons, Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, Schindler's List, A Beautiful Mind) have won the Oscar for Best Picture, and many others (My Left Foot, Awakenings, Shine, Erin Brockovich, The Pianist, Seabiscuit) have been nominated. It may be that members of the Motion Picture Academy, on the whole far older than the average movie audience, recall when the inspirational was so popular...