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...screen. "Every director in Hollywood wanted to do it," Schumacher recalls. "Because this was already the biggest show in the world." Then he saw it and got hooked. Just the storyline - a deformed composer who lives beneath the Paris Opera House and becomes obsessed with a young singer - transfixed him. In the darkness of Broadway's Majestic Theater, at the climax when the Phantom threatens to kill the girl's lover unless she stays with him, Schumacher had an epiphany. "She kisses him. And then - I don't know who came up with this but it was incredible - she kisses...
...Kanye West has brought God back to mainstream rap (“Well if this take away from my spins / which will probably take away from my ends / then I hope it take away from my sins” is his approach to the popular/religious music divide) while good singer-songwriters like Joseph Arthur and Pedro the Lion have been doing the same in indie music. If the folk and emo sensibilities of rap and indie-pop make these genres friendlier to religion than usual, these genres also tend to be more self-conscious, making the music itself better...
...that both entertains and educates. But that’s somewhat mundane. Frankly, I find performance less rewarding than the actual rehearsal process. That might seem somewhat antithetical to the project’s purpose, but it’s in rehearsal that I feel I develop as a singer, actor, person, whatever. And that’s really...
Chris: Who ever said that commercial tie-ins are a good thing? When the Postal Service—a popular band on Subpop combining the lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie, Ben Gibbard (who is as portly as he is whiny) with the poppy glitches of Jimmy Tamborello from Dntel—agreed to a deal with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), politically correct crunchies everywhere praised this indie-rock spirit of compromise. But they seem to critically overlook the fact that by this deal, an allegedly DIY band and an allegedly DIY branch of the U.S. government have...
...BONO Lead Singer of U2 Brand U.S.A. is in a bit of trouble. When you call in the regional branch managers, they'll tell you you've lost touch with your customers around the world. The way you respond to the AIDS emergency and the difficulties of the developing world will offer an opportunity to redescribe America to the world in the 21st century...