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...rapper you could take home to meet the parents. In fact, it's the parents of Raymzter's Italian producer, Massimo Baudo, who open the door of the neat terraced house on a new housing estate outside Amsterdam, when a reporter arrives for a visit. In a tiny studio in the attic, Raymzter is putting the finishing touches on his debut album, Rayalistisch (a pun combining his stage name and the Dutch word for realistic), which is out next month. The disc will feature Raymzter's hugely successful and controversial first single, K__ Marokkanen (F___ing Moroccans), a biting commentary...
...1920s, psychoanalysis had become wildly popular in America (a country Freud visited only once and hated). Jazz age sophisticates held "Freuding" parties at which they told one another their dreams. Samuel Goldwyn, the movie-studio magnate, offered Freud $100,000 to write a love story that Goldwyn could turn into a motion picture. (He was rebuffed.) But Freud died in 1939, and the golden age of psychoanalysis lasted only until the 1950s. By then competing psychotherapeutic theories and approaches had begun to spring up, among them ego psychology, self-psychology, the object-relations school, interpersonal therapy and existential therapy...
...will cut most of my activities as a musician, at least 80% of my professional career," he concedes. But he stills aims to play gigs on weekends and holidays, and he promises that his recently released retrospective collection of 28 CDs will soon be followed by a new studio album. Being a minister, he says with a sly smile, should provide him with a rich vein of inspiration. "I have lots of new subjects for songs. I'm thinking of writing a song about Zero Hunger...
Finally, in the '60s, when the studio system was collapsing, a few imposing actors--Marlon Brando, John Cassavetes, Paul Newman--seized the reins. In the '70s, Woody Allen (who would be the first actor to win a Director Oscar, for Annie Hall) and Clint Eastwood (who would win a directing Oscar for Unforgiven) became full-time hyphenates. Studios realized that letting a star direct could keep him happy and busy. At times it paid off in grosses and statuettes...
...That was a studio prop,” Wilson says. “Cecil Beaton, a very fashionable man who designed the costumes for My Fair Lady, was also photographed in that sweater...