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What's the biggest difference between filming an indie like Napoleon and a studio movie like Heaven? Uh, Reese Witherspoon. Actual movie stars...
...life is a blur of activity. He lives alone in his white, Cape Cod--style house, where he often cooks for friends or lifts light weights. His paintings hang everywhere, including around bookcases and over the wood stove. Hundreds of sketches are stacked up in his studio, a converted bedroom. "You haven't seen messy till you've seen my studio," he says cheerfully...
...Baghdad for Iraq Star, the new Iraqi version of American Idol. "We're trying to help ease the burden and troubles of our people," said producer Wadia Nader. The show, watched nightly by about 50% of Iraqi TV viewers, isn't flashy, with spartan sets and no studio audience. But it does have Simon Cowell's Iraqi alter ego, Muhammad Hadi, whose slams have a local accent. His dis of one hopeful's off-key song about a hummingbird: "Slaughtered bird is masculine. You kept saying it is feminine." BILAL, playing an oud, had no such trials. In a performance...
...October 2002, West, exhausted from hours spent in a recording studio, fell asleep behind the wheel of his Lexus and nearly died. "He called me from his hospital bed with his jaw wired shut and asked for a drum machine," says Dash. "That impressed me." Three weeks after the accident, with his jaw still shut, West went to a studio and mumbled Through the Wire, a song about the crash built on the accelerated chorus of Chaka Khan's Through the Fire. It was dramatic and funny ("I drink a Boost for breakfast, a Ensure for dizzert/ Somebody ordered pancakes...
...night while making the record, Brion says, he and West got in a state of giddy exhaustion unique to people who spend hours a day for months on end in a windowless recording studio. "We had just been talking about something, and there was one of those weird, intense lulls," says Brion. "Kanye looks at me, and he goes, 'You know that saying You can't be all things to all people? Well, seriously, why not? I want to be all things to all people.'" Brion waited for a moment, then burst into laughter. "I knew he wasn't kidding...