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...singing epiphany. This is usually a scene where all the lead characters, or at least a large number of them, get together and sing in an otherwise non-singing movie. In "Magnolia," the characters suddenly forget they're in a drama and start singing along to the Aimee Mann soundtrack. In "Beautiful Girls," Timothy Hutton leads his pals in a rendition of "Sweet Caroline." And in "My Best Friend's Wedding" - and this scene is a classic of the genre - Rupert Everett spurs a roomful of folks to sing "I Say a Little Prayer." In the forthcoming "Remember the Titans...
...came the improbable survivors of the '60s Crosby, Stills & Nash. The harmonies may occasionally strain but the commitment and history of the three performers lent an air of Big Chill idealism to the proceedings. "Marrakesh Express" and "Helplessly Hoping" (the latter slyly dedicated to "Shrub" by Crosby) were the soundtrack to the giddy optimism of the late...
...male species had to keep her public waiting for the follow-up to 1995's "I'm With Stupid," but talent will out -- especially with friends like director Paul Thomas Anderson, who crafted "Magnolia" around her songs, instead of the other way around. Comprising about half that film's soundtrack, "Bachelor" is as good as it gets for fans of richly melodic misanthropy; these are hooks with barbs, the kind that made Elvis Costello's reputation, but Mann's pithy lyrics have a clarity and focus that Elvis often seems to lack the discipline to achieve. Even those...
...United Airlines understands the true currency of any convention: Credentials. And each PoliticalFest visitor can march right up to the United kiosk, accompanied by the soaring and strangely distressing swells of the "Saving Private Ryan" soundtrack and "register" for their very own "delegate cards," stamped with the visitor's home state. "It's really just a free souvenir," I was told by one of the students working the booths. Thanks for clearing that...
...Although heavily skewed to the soundtrack of the baby-boom generation, the poll was not confined to rock 'n' roll, thus "Over the Rainbow" from "The Wizard of Oz" and "Strange Fruit," popularized by Billie Holiday, weigh in at number 3 and 7, respectively. Like most of the songs on the list, these are cultural phenomena as much as songs, and this applies as well to Motown and Bob Dylan, represented on the list by Smokey Robinson's "The Tracks of My Tears' (5) and Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changing...