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...smart as the smartest movies nor as dumb as the dumbest. Fastlane is, blissfully, exactly as dumb as the dumbest movies. Made by the uni-monikered director McG (Charlie's Angels), it reproduces the high-gloss, empty-calorie experience of a summer action flick, down to the loud soundtrack and the black-guy-white-guy jokes. It's crass, pandering, cliched--and fun. (A scene with the undercover black cop, played by Bill Bellamy, line dancing at a redneck bar is a pure 48 Hours rip-off but one of the few genuine laughs of the new season.) Adapting...
...shook up, and don't be cruel, but can we please have a little less conversation about the deep cultural significance of Elvis Presley? Well, no, we can't, because, for one thing, A Little Less Conversation, a minor Elvis song from 1968, which was on the soundtrack for the even more minor film Live a Little, Love a Little, has been grinding and swiveling at the top of the charts in a remixed version for the past several weeks. You thought only a small cult of Presley fanatics believed that Elvis, who died in 1977 of a heart attack...
...shook up, and don't be cruel, but can we please have a little less conversation about the deep cultural significance of Elvis Presley? Well, no, we can't, because, for one thing, A Little Less Conversation, a minor Elvis song from 1968, which was on the soundtrack for the even more minor film Live a Little, Love a Little, has been grinding and swiveling at the top of the charts in a remixed version for the past several weeks. You thought only a small cult of Presley fanatics believed that Elvis, who died in 1977 of a heart attack...
...keys carom off each other--it can be ugly. In 1996 Davis made the pieces fit well enough to create one of the great leaps forward in contemporary pop music, Endtroducing ... DJ Shadow, an album of odd snippets blended into warm songs that serves as a kind of jumbled soundtrack to modernity. The Private Press doesn't have Endtroducing's shock of the new, but its music is just as seductive...
...machine messages. "You will be punished. You need to fear for your life," says one caller. Newdow nods, puts down the ice cream and picks up his guitar. "Mike, this is God. I?m really upset with you," says the tape. Newdow strums Paul McCartney's "Blackbird," a strange soundtrack to the steady stream of abuse. "I bet you?ve said it, Mike. I bet you've said "my God,?" suggests an exasperated male voice. "Actually," Newdow tells the tape quietly, "what I say is ?your...