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Rather than bring his frenzied Nirvana style to each project, Grohl strives to blend in. He usually spends a week or two in the recording studio ("Anybody who spends more than a few days laying down drums is an idiot," he says) and takes his cues from his collaborators' melodies. On Queens of the Stone Age's throbbing, bass-driven Songs for the Deaf, Grohl set the frantic pace and then stayed out of the way, while on Cat Power's You Are Free his style is more impressionistic, adding a layer of sadness to the songs. For Killing Joke...
...luminous tenor confesses that he is cheating on his wife with a transsexual. A bridegroom-to-be strips off his clothes to reveal a diaper fetish. A sluttish young woman battles with her mother over her aspiration to become a pole dancer. Running commentary is provided by a studio audience in the heavenly tones of a Bach choir; the crudest of insults are spewed in the sweetest of sopranos. "I wish you died at birth!" a mother sings to her daughter. "I wish you died at birth!" the daughter warbles back. "At least," the host offers helpfully, "you agree...
...young guys: "I guess he's the guy who says the things you want to say but don't have the b____ to say. He's never had the intention of hurting people's feelings. He just doesn't know." The third Pie movie, which Scott says the studio persuaded him to do by offering him a good script and better cash, focuses on Stifler's lack of character growth as he enters his mid-20s. "At the end of the movie, he does something good without disappointing the people who like him," Scott says. "He's still...
...rare--these days damn near impossible--to see a big-bucks, big-studio production take the kind of chances Ross unselfconsciously takes here. What eventually steals over you as Seabiscuit unfolds is that its New Deal America is a lot better than the one we inhabit--more generous and shyly exuberant, less noxiously self-centered and confident. Maybe that's just a movie illusion. But it wouldn't hurt us--politically, socially, humanly--if we began believing we could re-create that sweet, sustaining dream. --By Richard Schickel
...Died. Sam Phillips, 80, godfather of rock 'n' roll who launched the careers of Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison; in Memphis. Working at a time of deep racial divides in the American south, Phillips recorded black and white artists alike, and his Sun Records studio in Memphis was a crucible for melding R. and B. with country-and-western music. In 1951 he produced Rocket 88, often called the first rock-and-roll single, performed by Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm. Sun released Elvis Presley's first five singles, including That's All Right...