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Other songs also demonstrate Brooks' impressive range. Ain't Going Down (Til the Sun Comes Up) is a country-rock romp about a daughter out past curfew; One Night a Day starts with some Billy Joel-like piano stroking and later fades into a soulful saxophone solo. But through all this, it's hard to forget Brooks' cheap shot at people "standing in a welfare line...
...screen, he radiates a dangerous intelligence -- a big brain with a short fuse -- that is so intense it's erotic. "There's an energy that is sexual and intellectual," says Joel Schumacher, director of The Client, "and it's a great combination." Andrew Davis, who directed Jones in The Package, Under Siege and The Fugitive, has heard him referred to as "the new Bogart. He's not the most attractive, smooth-faced guy in the world, yet he has this sexuality. He really is the Southwestern Bogart." Which is why the character closest to Jones may be Woodrow Call...
...Joel aims for the universal but smartly stays close to home. If Bruce Springsteen is the Jersey shore, Billy is Long Island, where the working class that fled Brooklyn stares stilettos at the moneyed folk who summer in the Hamptons. The album opens with the stinging No Man's Land, a rant anthem to the area's cultural deforestation ("Give us this day our daily discount- outlet merchandise,/ Raise up a multiplex and we will pay the sacrifice"), and closes with Famous Last Words, a snapshot of a resort town after Labor Day ("Nothing left for a dreamer now,/ Only...
...familiar itinerary for ambitious singers of a certain age. At 44, Billy Joel has some lovely hardware: platinum albums and a shelfful of Grammys. He has a model wife (Christie Brinkley) and a daughter (Alexa, 7) worth crooning to sleep. Joel also has his share of bitter lawsuits, including one against his former father-in-law. So maybe he's got a right to sing some blues. He surely had the itch to write a song cycle; he is, after all, the last, finest heir to the songwriter tradition of soulful...
...Joel's gem is the sleepytime title tune. Its consonant-poppin' lyric charts a land where pop merges with gospel, black embraces white, dread is absolved by belief -- in God, in dreams, in the rolling sing-along cadence of a doo-wop bass line. "We all end in the ocean,/ We all start in the streams,/ We're all carried along/ By the river of dreams." And by effortlessly sophisticated, perfectly primal music. It makes the journey of faith as jaunty as a Nintendo quest...