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There is precedent for a puppet movie like Team America: World Police. It's only that none has ever been placed in hands as deviantly deft as those of South Park malefactors Trey Parker and Matt Stone. A crew of superhero marionettes (the old-fashioned kind) faces off against wmd-hoarding, four-letter-wording North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. Some have already attacked the film for mocking the war on terrorism. But given the correctly impolitic attitudes of Parker and Stone, count on both left and right wings getting clipped. The trailer ballyhoos star names: "Alec Baldwin! ... Susan Sarandon...
...civil rights movement, like the Montgomery, Ala., bus stop where Rosa Parks was arrested, that are increasingly being turned into monuments and pilgrimage points, and it's clear that the story of African-American life, for so long passed over in near silence, is finally being set down in stone...
...natch--battling their way to triumph or martyrdom. Jamie Foxx is perfectly cast as the singer overcoming blindness and addiction on his way to becoming an icon. Colin Farrell too seems freakishly right--with the possible exception of the hair--as the charismatic, ambitious Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone's Alexander. The Motorcycle Diaries features Gael Garcia Bernal as a carefree Guevara vrooming around South America on his hog, looking for fun but discovering the beginnings of his revolutionary destiny. Too political? Try Finding Neverland--Johnny Depp doing a loose interpretation of J.M. Barrie, exploring both the realities...
...under-the-radar 2003 EP, The Soul Sessions, Joss Stone won critical praise and a blues-club-ful of Norah Jones comparisons with her husky, knowing renditions of vintage soul covers. Stone showed she has taste, but the important question--does she have soul?--went unanswered. Her covers were emotive, but the depth of her feeling, at 16, was a tad suspicious. Where Jones, an ancient 25, shrewdly concedes the limitations of her experience by never oversinging her tidy little songs, Stone, a native of Devon, England, who signed a record deal after performing on a BBC talent show, heaved...
...Stone's first proper album, Mind, Body & Soul, out Sept. 28, is expected to be the hottest-selling debut this fall. Her voice is pretty enough; at the top of her register, Stone is clear and ripe, and at the bottom, when she's almost out of breath, she does a persuasive version of desperation. But her vocal maturity is undercut by songs--originals this time--that are not objectionable, just forgettable. The melodies quote her old soul faves, but they're nowhere near as hooky, while love, the central theme of her lyrics, is predictably like...