Word: singeing
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...script (see box), could not imagine doing the movie without Phoenix. The actor, in turn, could not imagine passing on the role. "I had been desperate to disappear into a character completely," he says. Mangold believed that for the film to be authentic, the actors needed to play and sing, not rely on looped music. "With all due respect, I don't think of Natalie Wood's performance in West Side Story as one of the hallmarks of musical cinema," says Mangold. (As for Ray, 2004's biopic about a drug-addicted music legend from the South, which used looping...
...album’s fourth track, “Far From Home,” is a spirited trek down memory lane. After an energetic horn intro, Young launches into verses that recall the family sing-a-longs of his youth and his first excursions into Nashville, or “Music City” as he names...
...have to go to the bathroom, sit on the bowl and sing show tunes...
...Cameron Crowe, tackling the embarrassingly personal comes naturally. This is the man who lauded the power of the stereo serenade in “Say Anything,” the director who glorified the car sing-along in “Jerry Maguire,” the inspiration behind a 15-year-old’s awkward loss of virginity in “Almost Famous.” “The personal stuff tends to be the thing people come up to me later and say, ‘Thank you for putting that in a movie...
...Still Moves.” As the track draws to a close, singer/guitarist Jim James channels Elton John’s howling vocals over a tight soul-funk rhythm. The most remarkable thing about James’ trademark voice is that he does not even need to sing actual words for his songs to feel meaningful, nor do his lyrics need to be particularly creative. Much of the album recalls songs such as the sprawling “Cobra” off the band’s 2002 E.P., “Chocolate and Ice.” But even...