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...about gun control--an extension of his political beliefs. Bono doesn't try that kind of thing much anymore, but when he does, you can feel the ambivalence from the band, and so can he. They want the rock star." Native Son was rewritten, stripped of politics and retitled Vertigo. Gradually, it emerged as the most rousing--and ironically, seemingly effortless--opener of U2's career...
Despite Lillywhite's success with Vertigo, the process didn't get any easier. U2 continued to work in moments of epiphany followed by days of wallowing. The Edge obsessed over his guitar sound, Clayton and Mullen Jr. hung around to offer criticism, encouragement and rhythm, and Bono checked in via cell phone during breaks from his various attempts to save the world. "He really wasn't around a hell of a lot," says Lillywhite. Nevertheless, his lyrics were the only thing flowing with relative ease. "It's all done in the morning now," says Bono cheerfully. "I used to stay...
Five treacherous weeks stretched out ahead, weeks that many in the Kerry camp believed could sink the candidate before the fall campaign got under way. Vertigo was a sensation those around Kerry had come to regard as normal. More than once he had been written off for dead in this race. He had marched through the primaries, but only after a year of bad starts, restarts, setbacks, comebacks. Kerry had fired one campaign manager and mortgaged a house to raise money. And he had yet to convince voters that he really stood for anything...
...best film in the Hitchcock canon is sometimes overshadowed by its more influential siblings Psycho and Vertigo. But the story of quadriplegic Jeff Jeffries (James Stewart) and his tedium-induced mission to uncover the possible murder of a neighboring tenant is a gripping exercise in guilty-pleasure voyeurism and paranoid tension. Part of the Harvard Film Archive’s “Frames of Mind” series. Tickets $6. 7 p.m. Harvard Film Archive...
...Mermaid? is dedicated to Renoir, but actually this is Truffaut?s Hitchcock film. Like ?Vertigo,? it?s story of a man in love with two women who are the same woman, and one of whom is dead - and who finally decides that he can love the second woman even though she impersonated the first woman and was responsible for her death. (Hope that?s clear.) But Woolrich?s novel came first...