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...January Def Jam and Jive Records threw a joint press conference to congratulate themselves on their good fortune: Def Jam's top artist, rapper Jay-Z--the multimillion-selling kingpin of the genre--and Jive's top R.-and-B. singer, R. Kelly--whose schizoid canon runs between gospel-infused hits like I Believe I Can Fly and bedroom numbers on the order of Like a Freak--were collaborating on an album. Synergy isn't a science, but given the platinum pedigrees of both artists, the album, The Best of Both Worlds, could plausibly have become the first...
Coming upon your article "Jazzed About Ms. Jones," reviewing the debut album of singer Norah Jones on the Blue Note label [MUSIC, March 18], I assumed I'd be reading about jazz. But no, the story revealed the anemic jazz industry's crossover bid to dress up a pop singer as a jazz artist. Jazz still resonates with life in places like Latin America and Northern Europe, but in America it has become irrelevant and moribund. LEE M. COHEN Belmont Heights, Calif...
According to Arad, the maturation of "comic-book geeks" into powerful artists like Singer, Ang Lee (who will direct The Hulk) and Tim Burton (who directed the first two Batmans and is penciled in for Superman) has coincided with the technological developments. "The last four years' advances have made all the difference," he says. The Britain-based special-effects house Framestore, which worked on Blade 2, says that the film required 600 effects shots, against the movie average of around 50. Tom Roston, senior editor for film magazine Premiere, believes that comics give studios "intelligent" blockbusters: "Studios want...
...have been proved to work in comics for 20 years." The $75 million X-Men movie, he insists, was the film that opened the floodgates: "X-Men kicked ass. People thought it was unfilmable because there was no one obvious lead character. We brought in director Bryan Singer, whose The Usual Suspects had shown talent for an ensemble piece, and it worked. It gave the industry heart that some of the tougher properties could make great films...
...gossip columnist in the country, a vicious, preening Walter Winchel-like monster named J.J. Hunsecker (Richard Lancaster on film and Lithgow onstage). In order to get into Hunsecker’s precious good graces, Falco must split up the relationship between Hunsecker’s sister, Susan, and nightclub singer Dallas...