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...advice tidbits from curiously close brother Jamie--there's some intriguing stuff. When a baby in Sierra Leone screamed upon seeing her, his mother explained, "He's scared because of the color of your skin." It certainly couldn't have been that vial of husband Billy Bob Thornton's blood on the chain around her neck...
Meanwhile, back on lower Earth--in the roiling depths of California film noir--there are plots every bit as dark and complex as those in the season's fantasy films. Just look into the barely beating heart of Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton), the barber of Santa Rosa, in Joel and Ethan Coen's tragicomic cardiograph The Man Who Wasn't There. He's got a cheating wife (Frances McDormand), a conniving friend (James Gandolfini), a dead-end job and the depressive sense that "life has dealt me some bum cards. Or maybe I didn't play them right...
Rock is staging a comeback too. There's the old school: Bob Dylan reveals a new masterpiece, Love and Theft, on Sept. 11. There's the new school: the Strokes puts out its excellent debut, Is This It, on Sept. 25, and rock-hoppers Incubus deliver Morning View Oct. 23. And there's international rock: Colombian rockera Shakira unveils her first English-language disc Nov. 6, and Femi Kuti, son of Nigerian Afrobeat performer Fela, unleashes his potent Fight...
...This coming month will see the release of three movie star pop efforts: an album by Billy Bob Thornton, the country-rock "Private Radio," (Lost Highway); the self-titled debut of Tenacious D (Epic), a rock duo featuring Jack Black, the fire-hydrant-shaped funny man of "High Fidelity," "Saving Silverman" and the upcoming "Shallow Hal," in which he co-stars with Gwyneth Paltrow; and the first American release from Russell Crowe's classic-rock band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, "Bastard Life or Clarity" (Artemis). Of these three CDs, one might hold out the highest hopes for Thornton...
...soul, from his romantic idealism, as documented in "Things Have Got to Change," to his fiery streak, laid down for all to hear in "Somebody Else's Princess." If the tunes were riveting, it could be as much of a privilege to dive into Crowe's brain as Bob Dylan's or Kurt Cobain's, but Crowe's music, like Thornton's, is competent, inoffensive and short on surprises. While Thornton's record is country-inflected and Crowe's is in the vein of Bruce Springsteen, they are both deadly serious and seriously ponderous. As musicians, both men appear...