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...video begins unassumingly in a tiny cabin sequestered in the snowy woods. Inside are our musicians, escaping from the world, the audience, and their stardom. The camera peers into their cabin—as Thoreau as it is fairytale—reminding us that Interpol needs no audience. The band members appear through the slats in the cabin walls and then disappear behind soft focus. We look in on a private session...
Daniels and stardom have circled each other for years--sometimes to his chagrin. "I understand what it's like being underappreciated," he says, explaining one of the emotions he tapped to play Bernard. The dark bravado with which he attacks the role has already caught Hollywood's attention. "I forgot what a strong actor he was," says director Barry Sonnenfeld, who saw an early print of Squid and promptly cast Daniels, 50, in the big-budget camper comedy R.V. "He's frightening in his coldness." In R.V., Daniels plays one of the "nicest folks you'd ever want...
...certain arena artistically that no one else had ever been in before, ever," he tells the documentary's offscreen interviewer. "Although I might have been wrong about that." No, that's about right. The musical exploration went according to his plan. What he hadn't expected was the stardom. He says of his first idol, the folk poet Woody Guthrie, "You could listen to his songs and actually learn how to live." Dylan's fans found the same home truths in his work...
DIED. BARBARA BEL GEDDES, 82, Emmy-winning actress who rose to stardom on the big screen and Broadway but was best known for playing Miss Ellie Ewing, matriarch of the wildly dysfunctional oil family on the nighttime TV soap opera Dallas; in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Bel Geddes wowed critics in George Stevens' 1948 film I Remember Mama and in 1955 originated the role of Maggie in Tennessee Williams' play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. In 1978 she moved to Dallas for the paycheck and took home an Emmy two years later...
...written over 20 years with an old-fashioned ink-dipped pen. A crackling storyteller and vivid portraitist, the onetime recluse wowed 40 million viewers of the PBS documentary, garnering critics' kudos and a slew of marriage proposals. "It's fun, I guess," he said of his stardom. "But I'm dead set against...