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...result of this symbiosis is Music from the Motion Picture Magnolia (Reprise), Mann's first release in four years. It includes eight new songs in a curvaceous, melodically rich style evocative of Burt Bacharach and the Beatles. Two of the best songs, You Do and Save Me, Mann wrote for Magnolia; others were lifted from Bachelor No. 2, to be released next year on her new indie label, SuperEgo. Magnolia may be the best thing to have happened to sound tracks since Mike Nichols sat down with Simon and Garfunkel and came up with The Graduate. While it's unlikely...
...master tapes. "I had had it," she explains. "Now I understand what Prince went though. I was ready to cheerfully quit the business forever." Fortunately, this is when Paul Thomas Anderson stepped in. While writing the script for Magnolia, Anderson heard a tape of some of Mann's new songs and liked them so much he began building characters around them. Claudia, the lonely cokehead played by Melora Walters, was inspired by the song Deathly. "Everything [Aimee] seemed to be thinking were things that I was thinking," the Boogie Nights auteur writes in Magnolia's liner notes. Mann's songs...
Kolata's medical detective story is packed with new information and astonishments. She explains, for example, that it is now believed the epidemic killed mainly strong adults between ages 20 and 40 because healthy immune systems overreacted. Both invader and defender flooded the lungs, the only organ in the body with the enzyme needed to replicate the virus...
Only a genetic "footprint" of that plague year has been found. Yet Kolata has made the most of the ongoing mystery. She has produced not only a chilling read but also a book that, like Paul de Kruif's classic Microbe Hunters, could jump-start a new generation of medical researchers...
...just as her label, Imago Records, hit the financial skids. Her next album, I'm with Stupid, languished in legal limbo until Geffen Records released it--two years late. And early this year it looked as if the curse might strike again: as Mann neared completion of a new work, Bachelor No. 2, Geffen merged with Interscope Records, whose executives ordered her back into the studio to come up with a hit single...