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...year ago, when ELTON JOHN's live-in companion, former ad exec David Furnish, began shooting a biography of the superstar rocker, no one expected much in the way of candor. After all, John was paying for the shoot and, having been burned in the past by stories of drug abuse, was acutely aware of the value of image control. This week the finished film, Tantrums and Tiaras, premieres in Britain and turns out to be far from a whitewash. Furnish's work documents a tantrum or two as it follows the rocker backstage, in his private jet and around...
...take the form of mass impact. Martha Stewart's inexhaustible brand of domesticity claims a sizable audience. So do Jerry Seinfeld's small-bore irony and Oprah Winfrey's irresistible empathy. There is influence within a creative field. Hence the architect Frank Gehry and the female-rocker-as-open-wound-feminist Courtney Love. And there is proximity to power, at least when it is enjoyed by people with ideas and issues they know how to push. It's largely by this means that Al Gore, who is supposed to be in a no-influence job, isn't. (Sorry, Bill...
Meet James Moreland, the only cross-dressing punk-rocker presidential candidate once married to trash diva Courtney Love (or "the punk-rock Rush Limbaugh," as he calls her). He's campaigning under his stage name, Falling James, and his platform is pretty simple. He wants to give the U.S. to the American Indians and move everyone else to Greenland...
...song's video was directed by Larry Clark (his name was removed from the credits after an editing disagreement), the man behind the controversial, nihilistic movie Kids. "I didn't see Kids until after the video," says Alexakis. "It offended me as a father." Clearly, this is a rocker with adult concerns, and this mature album proves...
...high above Beverly Hills. Inside, musicians are serenading an Irish philosopher as he lies dying in bed among linens that depict cartoon rocket ships zooming over planets. Throughout the afternoon and well into the night, visitors come to pay their respects: a grandchild, Rastas, filmmaker Oliver Stone, slackers, alternative rocker Perry Farrell, Webheads. "I run a salon," says Timothy Leary. "Throughout human history, the salon has always been a fermenting place where creative people meet...