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DIED. WILSON PICKETT, 64, volatile R&B star whose gravelly, raunchy delivery on such 1960s hits as Mustang Sally and In the Midnight Hour inspired the 1991 film The Commitments and helped earn him the moniker Wicked Pickett; of a heart attack; in Reston, Va. Despite drug and legal battles, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer remained inventive and determined, answering the disco craze with explosive live performances, which he continued until shortly before his death, and meriting a 2000 Grammy nomination for It's Harder Now, his first album in a decade...
...here are shocked. Maytag's profits have been shrinking for three years, and the company posted a $9 million loss last year. "I just had a gut feeling that at some point my time would come up," says Terry Pickett, who spent 17 years at Maytag as a tooling designer. Before he was laid off in April 2004, he had begun to look elsewhere for his future; he will finish his degree in civil engineering next spring. The town has been preparing as well. Since 2002, Newton has poured $130 million into parks, a 40,000-seat racetrack and small...
...exploring the unlikable, self-tortured inhabitants of his hometown of Omaha in Citizen Ruth, Election and About Schmidt, Payne, 43, has moved on to unlikable, self-tortured Californians. In his latest film, Sideways, opening Friday, the director and his longtime writing partner Jim Taylor turned a novel by Rex Pickett into a quirky movie about a failed writer and a C-list actor who go on a weeklong wine-tasting bachelor party through the vineyards near Santa Barbara. Paul Giamatti plays the novelist, who is deeply in love with wine and deeply in hatred with the rest of the world...
COVER: Digital photomontage. White House: Brooks Kraft--Corbis for TIME; Rather: Suzanne Plunkett--AP; Knox: Erich Schlegel--Dallas Morning News; Bloggers: Keri Pickett for TIME; Quagmire: MoveOn PAC; Gardner: Swift Boat Veterans for Truth; Bush: Reuters
...vocal, in a squealing release - ?Say, have you heard, baby/ Ray Charles is in town/ Let?s mess around till the midnight hour/ See what he?s puttin? down? - that prefigures no fewer than three Atlantic songs: Charles? own ?Let the Good Times Roll? and ?Mess Around? and Wilson Pickett?s ?In the Midnight Hour.? The song ends with generic barks (?Come on! Come on, child!?) that are pretty much grunts with consonants. A listener needs no English to get the message: a man?s desperate yearning in the tantalizingly remote face of God or Woman...