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...audience during concerts and rarely gave media interviews. But a potentially lethal brain aneurysm last spring that required delicate surgery, followed by the death of his father, Canadian journalist and writer Scott Young, changed him. Or, perhaps more correctly, opened him up. With mortality grabbing him by the scruff of the neck (and his 60th birthday awaiting him in the fall), Young went into a Nashville studio last March to record Prairie Wind, which may be the most intimate of his 31 albums. Then he agreed to let director-producer Jonathan Demme (Stop Making Sense, Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia...
...Alexander”) as the angst-ridden, yet hopeful, John Smith.The film’s themes also strike close to the preoccupations of people in their late teens and early twenties: Malick explores the vagaries of love, war and the indefinite attractiveness of Farrell in various states of scruff. Whether or not Malick’s retelling of the Pocahontas story is more accurate than the Disney movie, it is certainly less simplistic: though Smith and Pocahontas, played by talented newcomer Q’Orianka Kilcher, quickly fall in love, he ultimately leaves her to undertake a new expedition, instructing...
...face plants. If it falls on its back, it can get up with a command from its remote, but if it falls forward, he shouts "User error!" I think that's supposed to be ironic, because the only way up is if you pick it up by the scruff of its body armor, and set it on its oversize feet again...
...first glance, Nick himself may not seem the “stripper” type. His brown facial scruff, thick-rimmed glasses, and pensive nature better suggest philosophy than Chippendale’s. Yet as far back as he can remember, Nick has relished baring it all. “I don’t know how my parents screwed me up, but my youngest memories are mainly just being completely naked,” Nick says...
Even when not offending the sensibilities of the cozy coterie that runs the show, those outside the fold remain in the crosshairs. Except for the one time I was snatched up by the scruff of my neck and slammed against a wall, I was generally not subjected to physical violence. The mafia employ not physical, but psychological warfare to marginalize targets while solidifying the preeminence of their group—in my case Albanian—in the basement. Baseless complaints to a sympathetic boss about the less-senior Columbian, idle gossip spread through the tenant population about the Canadian...