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Ireland's druids of drone, U2, go a step further in their concerts: they program and project their own interactive special effects. Bono (or The Edge) will use a remote control to move a cursor (which can be seen on the two huge screens) that allows him to set a song's instruments and tempo. Then the band joins in. The onstage screen shows the choices he has and the decisions he makes. Between songs Bono can regulate four projections of himself; when he clicks on one of them, it will tell a joke, start singing or talk. "U2 love...
...surrealistically kitschy visit Graceland Wedding Chapel, where Norm Jones, the Elvis impersonator in residence, is both pleased and bewildered by the sudden popularity of the wedding ceremonies he performs for $250. Heavy-metal star Jon Bon Jovi got married there in 1989; Phil Joanou, director of the U2's concert film Rattle and Hum, was not only married at the Graceland Chapel but played a tape of his wedding onstage every night of the band's last American tour. In December 1992 three members of Def Leppard showed up at the door, one to get married and two to renew...
...respective versions of the early '70s. Sharon Stone, perfectly pretty in her pink '50s prom dress, was Barbie, live. (In postshow remarks, she volunteered an answer to the question everybody wants to ask Sharon Stone: "Did you fish and hunt with your dad growing up in Pennsylvania?" She did.) U2's the Edge, with a channel-surfing video wall and Deep Space Nine outfit, was pure 2001. And when Pearl Jam performed Neil Young's Rockin' in the Free World with Young himself, neo-'60s avatars alloyed with the genuine article and made the ecstatic audience feel as if they...
...wind down from one of the most electrifying rock shows ever staged? If you're U2, the indefatigable Irish quartet, the answer is you don't. Riding the wave of its audacious 1991 album, Achtung Baby, the group has spent the past 15 months hop-scotching the globe with the Zoo TV tour, a futuristic, high-voltage extravaganza that has packed stadiums from Berlin to Los Angeles, and is scheduled to end in Australia next November. But just when most bands would be lurching for the finish line, U2 has struck while the muse is hot and re-energized itself...
...dazzler, has the smooth whoosh of a Bentley. THEATER Terrence McNally's play is a miracle worker. TELEVISION A weekend in the life of one troubled family makes a fine mini-series. CINEMA In the Line of Fire casts Eastwood as Clintosaurus rex. MUSIC In mid-megatour, U2 releases a reflective album...