Word: stardom
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...long way from street singing to stardom, and the intervening 15 years have been riddled with delays and detours, but Peyroux, 31, has made it. With two successful CDs behind her--the more recent of which, last year's Careless Love (Rounder), continues to sell nicely--she ranks as one of the bright talents of the jazz world. Instead of on sidewalks, she performs in festivals, auditoriums and clubs, backed by a polished combo. She still snaps her fingers (when she isn't strumming her guitar), but now plenty of listeners are snapping and tapping along with...
...Coleman found the lure of sudden stardom thrilling and discomfiting. "My wife was managing an MRI facility and making good money in Dallas," he says. "We're not kids. Moving to Nashville, making a record--there's a lot of uncertainty. I was excited but cautious." Whether some of that caution crept into Loco Motive is hard to know, but anyone expecting controversy will be surprised. Troy calls himself "the last of the Brohicans" on the Kid Rock-ish Beast on the Mic and asks the ladies to "get low" and "make it clap" on the willfully stupid (and thoroughly...
...pass itself off as a Sundance film, and a few critics at Cannes were outraged by the tests of faith it presented: of Christian faith for the characters, of plausibility for the audience. What's undeniable is the showcase it provides the young Mexican actor primed for U.S. stardom. Lending an impeccable American accent to his brooding good looks, Garcia Bernal expertly embodies a young man who can be gentle and cruel, a courtly lover and a ruthless killer...
This Tasmanian dreamboat used to rail at his swashbuckler stardom; he thought of himself as a character actor trapped in a leading man's body, and he ached to play serioso parts. But the bosses at Warner Bros. were no dopes; they knew that Flynn's roguish presence was made to add luster to grand escapades like Captain Blood and The Sea Hawk. Even George Custer could be a hero when Flynn played him, in They Died with Their Boots On. This handsome five-movie collection includes a fine documentary, The Adventures of Errol Flynn, that comes close to capturing...
...apparently well aware that she gets away with her rantings in large part because she is an attractive woman. In fact, she counts on it. She seems not to care about the bad effects that her outrageous conduct has on civil discourse; she prefers to bask in stardom. It's sad that her fans are amused by her trashy mouth. It's even sadder to contemplate what it says about the state of our country when Coulter's brand of xenophobia passes for critical political thought...