Word: rehab
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...smoky voice beyond her 24 years, Amy Winehouse sat proudly atop the U.K.'s album charts this spring after scooping up five awards at the Grammys in Los Angeles. She sang her signature tune for the audience there via satellite from London: "They tried to make me go to rehab/ I said...
...showed up, although it's not entirely clear whether the lure was the former Prime Minister or free bowls of Mati's tasty beef soup. Either way, she was satisfied. "Feeding noodles to 2,000 people," Mati says, "is a lot cheaper than sending my son to another expensive rehab program...
...crazy. I suggested that he adopt the slogan "My bad!" and produce campaign buttons with his head on Urkel's body, saying DID I DO THAT? Nader would come out onstage to Britney Spears' Oops! ... I Did It Again and maybe do one of those supershort apology trips to rehab, blaming his involvement in the 2000 election on Quaaludes or yerba mate or whatever drug someone like Ralph Nader might take. If the subtext of John McCain's and Hillary Clinton's campaigns is "I've gone through hell, so you owe me," then Nader needs...
...night belonged to Winehouse, who sang two songs, even though she wasn't up for any awards. Her snippet of Valerie with Mark Ronson was technically brilliant, but the fresh-out-of-rehab singer just couldn't engage, not with Ronson, not with the audience and not with the song. Staring out into the middle-distance most of time, she was just phoning it in. But back on stage half an hour later was a whole other Winehouse. On a set stripped bare - just her, her band and a red velvet backdrop - she belted out Love is a Losing Game...
...Consequently, the movie is consistently dumb, though not consistently funny.“Walk Hard” gives the biopic genre a thorough lashing. Cox fathers dozens of children whose names he cannot remember, experiments with every drug imaginable, and is imprisoned twice, each time following a stint in rehab. Ironically, not unlike the recent Bob Dylan quasi-biopic “I’m Not There,” serious music fans will draw the most from “Walk Hard.” Reilly goes through creative phases that resemble (either implicitly or explicitly) the careers...