Word: mutes
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Guitar manipulator Omar Rodriguez, co-frontman of the Mars Volta, swears that their new album, Frances The Mute, was completed without any needles, pipes, or bottles. This may be a rock and roll first...
While De-Loused’s spiraling story line centered on the fictionalized dreams spawned by tormented childhood friend Julio Venegas’s time in a coma, Frances the Mute is purportedly based on a diary discovered and then continued in a similarly troubled vein by Jeremy Ward, the former Mars Volta bandmember who died of a drug overdose...
...didn't return to films until 1949, and then in a small role in a B picture called Impact. As the hero's housekeeper she is mostly mute and still, a piece of antique statuary, hoarding secrets in deference to her good master. When she speaks, it's in tortuous translations from the pseudo-Cantonese ("It is the hope that Su Lin was of small help to Mr. Williams"), Eleven years later she was another housekeeper in the Ross Hunter production Portrait in Black, this time supporting Anthony Quinn, who had done small roles in her late-30s Paramount films...
...Party's most revered soldier-hero, Lei Feng. And China's most popular sitcom producer, Ping Da, says he plans to shoot a series of new programs set in cities around China, "full of inside jokes that people from elsewhere won't get." Even Tom and Jerry - who are mute in the original - will stay vocal. Banned from broadcast, they're available...
...Party's most revered soldier-hero, Lei Feng. And China's most popular sitcom producer, Ping Da, says he plans to shoot a series of new programs set in cities around China, "full of inside jokes that people from elsewhere won't get." Even Tom and Jerry--who are mute in America--will stay vocal. Banned from broadcast, they're available on DVD. --By Matthew Forney/Beijing