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...took the test and scientist came in at dead last. Number one was camp counselor and jazz musician was second,” Franken says...
...carpenter whose son he killed. But after all the politico-ethnic tsimmes and tsouris, the Jury (headed by U.S. director David Lynch) gave its top award, the Palme d'Or, to Roman Polanski's Holocaust saga The Pianist, an epic adaptation of the 1946 memoir by Jewish musician and Warsaw Ghetto survivor Wladyslaw Szpilman. Cannes this year was good for the Jews, and not bad for world cinema. It is always dangerous to find political significance in movies. Films are not news bulletins; they are dreams, acts of love, art and commerce. Still, the coupling of a Palestinian picture...
Syal, born in Britain, may not work with an agenda, but Rahman is a man with a mission. In an era, he notes, when racial tensions are high, he feels a sense of purpose. "Every true musician's goal must be to bring spiritual harmony to the world," he says. "Where words fail, music still communicates. It's a blessing." For this reason, he wants his music to have universal appeal. "The chance to reach London is a dream come true." An advance listen to five tracks from the show reveals an intoxicating aural world. Agile melodies twist and turn...
...many cultural figures of the past decade have been simultaneously cutting edge and mainstream? Quentin Tarantino had a moment in 1994, but that's all it was. Moby, however, is three years into his ride as the king of both hip and heartland. He's a dance musician who plays rock songs, a devout Christian who hates religious fervor, a scrawny bald guy who dates Christina Ricci and Natalie Portman, and an operator who sold every track on his last album, Play, for corporate use while often wearing a T shirt for anarchist punk group Minor Threat...
...worthy of comparison with this or that European master." I'll tell you what - rather than troubling yourself plowing through this pompous and dreary academic tome, why don't we both do something more interesting? I'll listen to my Lester Young CDs, while you try and find a musician who'll feel insulted if you compare him to Mozart...