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...know what to do with them." Or with those wafer-thin frogs, peeled lovingly from roads around Siem Reap and now drying in his window box. He cranks up his Mac to display his latest work: bizarrely beautiful etchings of Angkorian temples where rioting fig-tree roots pulsate and twist in freakish homage to the stone gods. "Surreal, obviously," says Swaffield. Obviously. "I've started messing about with robotics, too," he continues, producing a clockwork cat's skull that skitters across his desk on scary plastic-doll legs. "And have you seen my Babies in Bottles series...
...more appear in its pages. Ollmann's work is new to me, and it has the leaps and falls of a new artist extending himself. Some of the tales are artless swipes at the usual archetypes, but enough of the stories surprise you with odd details or an unexpected twist to make them a treat...
...Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry; of throat cancer; in Los Angeles. As frontman for the Midnighters, the Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer won teen adulation, if not radio play, for such racy hits as 1954's Work with Me Annie. In 1958 he wrote and recorded The Twist as the b side of the sappy Teardrops on Your Letter. After Chubby Checker recorded Twist a year later, the song launched a dance craze and became one of rock's seminal hits. "They call Chubby the father of the twist," Ballard said, "but he's just the stepfather...
...forbidden dance itself, it's less erotic than pneumatic. As Inul bends her knees and swings her butt?in what, after careful and repeated observations, I'd estimate to be a 120? arc?she resembles a glittering piston. Betraying her rock roots, Inul doesn't so much twist in time with the music as arrhythmically hurl herself around the stage like a dangdut Joan Jett. If her performance is inspiring Indonesians to lustful acts, I just hope they limber up first...
...from Alan Parker (Angela’s Ashes). Once Gale reaches death row, he gives his side of the story to an ambitious reporter (Kate Winslet). The film’s trio of Oscar darlings and hot social topic should lend some class and relevance, respectively, to the reportedly twist-heavy story. The Life of David Gale screens...