Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...loss of an oddly magnetic, brilliant musician was jolting, though, the manner of his death was not entirely unexpected. Cobain spoke so openly on the subjects of drugs and depression and suicide that writers searching for easy obituary ironies didn't have to look very hard. Cobain himself even began joking about it; a song called I Hate Myself and I Want to Die was recorded but dropped from the last album. "It was totally satirical, making fun of ourselves," Cobain told a reporter earlier this year. "I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants...
Collins, who oversaw this week's story on Kurt Cobain's suicide, has been especially fascinated by mainstream media's warm embrace of alternative culture. "In some ways, the story of Kurt Cobain reflects the amazing workings of the music industry, in which the songs of a brilliant, provincial musician are suddenly made available to millions," he says. "Inevitably, though, that process changes the work an artist produces, and in Cobain's case, it contributed to his destruction...
...film is based on Collard's novel of the same title and tells the story of Jean (played by Collard), a film maker and musician who lives a seedy bisexual life in the subculture of Paris. He meets, falls in love and has great, mind-numbing sex with Laura, played by Romaine Bohringer, an 18-year old whose maturity seems far beyond her years...
Essentially, this movie deals with choices and the inability of the protagonist to make any. He cannot choose between whether he wants to be a film maker or a musician he cannot decide if he wants men, women or even which ones from each of these. Responsibility, trust and some form of commitment are essential elements in any sort of relationship, but Jean is incapable of exercising any of these character traits. His overarching sense of denial seems to pervade all of his actions. And the inconsistency of the film's basic structure-its exaggeration, melodrama and useless subplots-reflects...
...scenes -- a boy dealing with the slaughter of his mother, that boy grown up into a loving musician who is shot down, another boy coping with his father's grim disappearance -- are adapted from the Lennon saga. The parallels lend sporadic power to a sketchy plot with underdrawn characters and a maudlin message: the first act climaxes in a plea for universal brotherhood, the second in a ritual surrender of weapons by a multicultural array of street toughs...