Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clothing be credited with having a performance-enhancing power akin to, say, a film's director? It happened, it seems, during the shooting of Todd Haynes' Velvet Goldmine, an homage to the David Bowie '70s and the world of men in makeup. According to Toni Collette, who played a rock-star wife, all the leopard print and lame she wore in the film coaxed the hidden extrovert right out of her. "The clothes made me want to show off," she says, "which is just what the character...
...film. Recalls director Haynes: "When she agreed [to work on Velvet Goldmine], I started leaping up and down because I knew how important the costumes were to this film. Sandy's work is impeccably rich." Powell's best move in Goldmine, albeit the quietest, is ensuring that rock-star Brian Slade, the film's lead character, never looks all that different offstage than he does when he's performing. His lover and rival Curt Wild opts for black behind the scenes, but Slade believes in glam-rock's life-as-spectacle ethos more passionately than anyone else, and this...
...nominated as both director and producer of Saving Private Ryan. Critics have been promulgating the notion, which Spielberg in interviews appears to encourage, that the film has redeemed selfish baby boomers by forcing them to acknowledge their parents' sacrifices--as if baby boomers hadn't grown up reading Sgt. Rock and listening to the fakey tromp-tromp sound effect of marching Nazi soldiers on all those episodes of The World at War. But people these days seem to think of Spielberg less as a filmmaker than as a healer of deep historical wounds (don't forget that he has already...
...real show-stopper of the night was Jessica Tardy '99, with her smoking brand of funk rock and blues. Accompanied by Tyler Wood '01 (Keyboard), Andy Eggers '99 (drums), John Cappelo (bass), and Noam Weinstein (guitar)--who were all excellent in their own right--Tardy rocked the house with a voice and presence that Passim was straining to contain. Beginning with a borrowed song from Weinstein, Tardy poured out on the audience a voice like a steaming bath--spiked with scotch...
...progressed, her voice only grew richer and warmer, and it was like someone flambed the bath. "Get Real" was a refreshing original funk rock number delivered with so much punch that it felt like getting soaked on a dog day. By the time she closed her set with a cover of Eddy Arnold's "You Don't Know Me," the place was utterly drenched in her voice. From the first moment you hear her, you know that Tardy is something very special. I am almost embarrassed that she is still in school, subject to mundane concerns like response papers, when...