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...Chris Tomlin belongs in the second camp. People sing his songs a lot, often repeatedly. Specifically, they sing them in church. According to Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI), an organization that licenses music to churches, Tomlin, 34, is the most often sung contemporary artist in U.S. congregations every week. Since glee clubs have fallen out of popularity, that might make Tomlin the most often sung artist anywhere...
This distinction does not make him the best musician anywhere, as he will be the first to admit. Tomlin's How Great Is Our God (which he co-wrote with Jesse Reeves and Ed Cash), currently the second most popular modern chorus in U.S. churches (after Tim Hughes' Here I Am to Worship), is not particularly profound--the title pretty much sums it up--but it's heartfelt, short and set to a stirring soft-rock melody that sticks in the mind like white to rice. That's Tomlin's gift: immediacy. "I try to think, How do I craft...
...being a star is entirely fine by Streep. She's critical, in a motherly way, of Lohan, hordes of whose fans she had to push by outside the Prairie set every day. ("Do you know who this is?" Lily Tomlin, another co-star, yelled at them.) "There's plenty of incredibly wonderful young actresses who have not chosen to be on the cover of everything," she says. "But they're not this other thing that's seen at parties, which is--I don't know what it is. I know it probably limits your ability to be imagined...
...white trenchcoat, who is actually the Angel of Death, come to claim "The Axeman" (Tommy Lee Jones), who is present to administer the coup de grace to the program. There are a number of subplots in the film, in the best of which Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin play singing sisters, once promising, now more than a little forlorn...
...their performances. Streep adds, “You’re just living it.”To bolster the organic vibe, Altman abandons the set script; with his guidance, actors instead improvise as the tape rolls. Streep recalls the first day of filming: “Lily [Tomlin] and I just looked at each other. We couldn’t remember what to say, so we just said whatever came into our minds.” She remembers that Altman encouraged them. “He kept us going and he was unafraid, and it made us unafraid...