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...writes Kahn, whose book is much the better of the pair, "Kind of Blue is one of the holy relics." If so, it's a relic with no saint in its provenance. Davis was an angry, hostile man whose distance from his audience grew in proportion to his increasing renown. But in the first half of his career, at least, he managed to sublimate his various rages and resentments via some of the most beautiful creations in American musical history...
...success; his songs and their variations became part of the blues canon, but how much of it was Jefferson and how much was part of the tradition he came from is impossible to establish. What is clear is that in his time his skills as a performer were renown, and he introduced a whole genre to a broader audience. Along with Jefferson's unusual style of self-accompaniment, the appeal to modern listeners is the chance to hear these songs in their earliest form. But the intervening years have produced more evolved styles of guitar playing, and despite the archivists...
...about-Penelope-Cruz portion of this story. With her moony eyes, graceful neck, slim yet voluptuous figure, amazingly long fingers and distinctive nose, Cruz could be the love child of Sophia Loren and Ringo Starr. Even those feet...well, they have character. The one thing she lacks is American renown, and that's sure to change, considering the movie company she's keeping. The co-stars of her next four films are Matt Damon (in Billy Bob Thornton's All the Pretty Horses), Johnny Depp (in Ted Demme's Blow), Nicolas Cage (in John Madden's Captain Corelli's Mandolin...
...including hiding the fact that she's an unwed mother--in order to win beauty contests. Driver's an intelligent actress, but you don't quite believe that a smart woman would spend so much time on such a dumb mission. Still, the film captures the frenzy for cheap renown with nicely curdled expertise, and Joey Lauren Adams is wonderful as Mona's faithful, hard-pressed best friend...
Banks remembers that detectives were called in to investigate when his father went missing, but he makes no conscious connection between that event and his own choice of a career, stating only that "my intention was to combat evil." As he gains renown for the cases he solves, Banks is pursued by Sarah Hemmings, an attractive socialite, but he keeps himself emotionally remote from her overtures...