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...decide whether a person is right to direct me," she explains. She knew nothing of the legendary Allen secretiveness: how, for example, he won't let actors see his scripts, just the scenes in which they appear. Morton simply had to read Sweet and Lowdown before taking the part Allen offered her on her 21st birthday. "I was totally frank with him and said I'd been offered this other film," she says. "I said, 'Can I read the script?' and he said, 'Of course...
Musical and lyrical honesty has always been a core hip-hop value--then again, so has exaggeration. On one hand, rappers want to keep their music true to life. On the other, boasting and roasting are also part of the tradition. Lately, exaggeration has ruled. It's often hard to find real experience in the cartoonish raps of many gangsta rappers. Q-Tip, on his new album, Amplified (Arista), brings back the honesty--but doesn't cut back on the fun. This is a party album about picking up chicks (Vivrant Thing), cruising the streets (Let's Ride) and dancing...
Morton knows a great part when she sees one. The fact that Sweet and Lowdown's Hattie utters not a single word--the character is mute--was far from a deterrent for the ordinarily motor-mouthed Morton, who delivers a magnetically expressive performance opposite Sean Penn. "Hattie's so full of stuff: How can I convey all that she's thinking?" she says. "Learning lines is the easiest thing in the world. This was the hardest part I've ever played...
...Mark Katz's commentary "Power Children" [ESSAY, Nov. 15], he criticized the teen worshipping of recent years. I am a part of the generation that has grown up with countless television shows and self-help books on how to be a teenager. You need not worry that teen worship will turn us from the golden calf into a tarnished cow. Even though we have got more attention, we are still the same people. The extra focus on teens and children in today's society is not necessarily a bad thing. LISA CHEN, AGE 17 New York City...
QUENTIN CRISP once paid me the grand, pontifical compliment that I was "his representative here on earth." This referred to my having played him in the film of his autobiography, The Naked Civil Servant. At the time, Quentin was untraveled and 60 years old. He referred to the latter part of his expected life as "the twilight of my life." I suggested that "sunset" would be a more accurate description. He lived to be 90, and the soft light of his sunset enriched the lives of many people...