From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V8 #263 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Thursday, September 18 2003 Volume 08 : Number 263 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] BF in Cycle accident [OBrienFerry@aol.com] [AVALON] BF in Cycle accident [KWil632057@aol.com] [AVALON] Ferry karaoked ["Carien Overdijk" ] Re: [AVALON] BF in Cycle accident [Susan Stekel ] Re: [AVALON] Ferry karaoked [Colleen Matan ] RE: [AVALON] like a hurricane ... ["Anton van Lammeren" ] RE: [AVALON] Ferry karaoked ["Anton van Lammeren" ] Re: [AVALON] Bryan Ferry chose the path of least resistance..... [=?iso-8] Re: [AVALON] Bryan Ferry chose the path of least resistance..... [KWil632] Re: [AVALON] Bryan Ferry chose the path of least resistance..... [Go2Swee] [AVALON] Bryan Ferry chose the path of least resistance..... [KWil632057@] [AVALON] Read all about Bryans bike trauma.... [KWil632057@aol.com] FW: [AVALON] Bryan Ferry chose the path of least resistance..... ["Theres] [AVALON] Bryan Silliness ["M" ] RE: [AVALON] Ferry karaoked ["eRacerX" ] [AVALON] Keeping in touch ["Stirling" ] [AVALON] Bryan bike fall ["Kari Solberg" ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 05:54:43 EDT From: OBrienFerry@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] BF in Cycle accident It was reported in today's 'The Sun' that Bryan Ferry had a cycling accident whilst on holiday in Spain and had to be flown home to be treated in hospital. He fell off his mountain bike and hurt his back but didn't need any operation according to The Sun. J.O'B. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 06:12:03 EDT From: KWil632057@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] BF in Cycle accident I don't think I've ever recolied in horror quite so much as when forced to picture Bryan in lycra cycling shorts. J In a message dated 17/09/2003 10:55:25 GMT Standard Time, OBrienFerry@aol.com writes: > It was reported in today's 'The Sun' that Bryan Ferry had a cycling > accident > whilst on holiday in Spain and had to be flown home to be treated in > hospital. > > He fell off his mountain bike and hurt his back but didn't need any > operation > according to The Sun. > > J.O'B. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:10:20 +0200 From: "Carien Overdijk" Subject: [AVALON] Ferry karaoked Hi folks, Has anyone checked out yet whether Bob - character in the new film Lost in Translation - does justice to More than this??? Underneath the reference from NYT, 9-12... Carien MOVIE REVIEW | 'LOST IN TRANSLATION' By ELVIS MITCHELL The director Sofia Coppola's new comic melodrama, "Lost in Translation," thoroughly and touchingly connects the dots between three standards of yearning in movies: David Lean's "Brief Encounter," Richard Linklater's "Before Sunrise" and Wong Kar-wai's "In the Mood for Love." All three movies are, in their way, about a moment of evanescence that fades before the participants' eyes  as is "Translation." ("Translation" also exhibits the self-contained, stylized lonesomeness found in post-punk, like New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle.") Ms. Coppola's movie also happens to be hilarious  a paean to dislocated people discovering how alive they are when they can barely keep their eyes open. The sexiness comes from the busy, desperate need-to-impress heat of a flirtation, an unrequited love communicated through a filter of sleep deprivation. "Translation," which opens today in New York and Los Angeles, is also one of the purest and simplest examples ever of a director falling in love with her star's gifts. And never has a director found a figure more deserving of her admiration than Bill Murray. He plays a vodka-and-bitters version of himself and the persona that made him famous. His character, Bob, is an American movie star who is in Tokyo to participate in the celebrity not-so-secret shame: he's picking up a boatload of dough to perform in commercials for Suntory whiskey. He arrives in Japan just in time to gaze, slightly embarrassed, at the sullen billboards of himself that are starting to appear there. While blinking sleeplessly around the lobby of the majestically hermetic Tokyo Hyatt, he meets Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), who has been abandoned by her photographer husband (Giovanni Ribisi); he's off shooting a band. The movie follows the twists and connections in Bob and Charlotte's relationship  like some trans-Atlantic phone calls, their feelings reach each other on a five-second delay. The lag time only embellishes the comedy, and the heartbreak. It's the first grown-up starring part that Mr. Murray has had, and he inflects every facet of public awareness of Bill Murray with a sure, beveled determination. That may be because he has never really had a leading role that has asked him simply to pay attention to the other actors instead of guide the scene or save it. Lean and physically witty  because he has dropped the awareness of the audience's demand for mainstream comedy  he even seems to be standing taller, perched on Bob's courtliness. Generally, Mr. Murray has given performances worth paying attention to in movies that no one sees, like his physical inhabitation of Hunter S. Thompson in "Where the Buffalo Roam," perhaps the only film example extant of Mr. Murray's ability to depict vulnerability and physical threat simultaneously. Here he supplies the kind of performance that seems so fully realized and effortless that it can easily be mistaken for not acting at all. The corollary of this is that Ms. Coppola's direction is so breezily assured in its awareness of loneliness that the film could potentially be dismissed as self-consciously moody rather than registering as a mood piece. But it's bound to be recognized as a movie worthy of the kind of Oscar attention occasionally given to films that challenge audiences subtly. Mr. Murray could collect the Academy Award that he didn't get for "Rushmore." Here, his capacity for absorbing everything around him has taken a toll, and the visibility of that burden is what "Translation" is all about. The psychodrama in the phone calls from Bob's wife adds a chilling layer of passive-aggressive horror that makes you understand why he had to flee to Tokyo. But thanks to Ms. Coppola's gracefulness, those conversations don't overwhelm the movie; instead, they add texture. As does Ms. Johansson's Charlotte. At 18, the actress gets away with playing a 25-year-old woman by using her husky voice to test the level of acidity in the air. Charlotte's husband has already stopped listening to her, and we can see that her pain is dulled by her exhaustion level. Ms. Johansson is not nearly as accomplished a performer as Mr. Murray, but Ms. Coppola gets around this by using Charlotte's simplicity and curiosity as keys to her character. Being shut away from experience has made Charlotte even lonelier than Bob, and their relationship flowers because he is eager for experience, too. Ms. Coppola gives Mr. Murray a scene that actors dream of; he falls definitively for Charlotte as she struggles through a karaoke version of "Brass in Pocket," a wisp of a smile flitting across his face as he watches her perform in a frosting-pink wig. She is his dream of an uncomplicated future, and Ms. Coppola lovingly shoots Ms. Johansson's wary, lazy eyes and lush lips  almost as a parody of Japanimation. Music is a big part of the director's life; Ms. Coppola's previous feature, a screen adaptation of "The Virgin Suicides," was informed more substantially by the score by the group Air than by the narrative. She also allows Bob a chance to croon some karaoke, including a cover of Roxy Music's "More Than This." Certainly we anticipate Mr. Murray's trashy sarcasm when he steps in front of a microphone, but we cringe slightly; if he whips Bryan Ferry's doomed narcissism around his throat like a scarf, the kind of thing he did when he invented this routine in the late 1970's on "Saturday Night Live," he'll get his laugh and demolish the movie. Instead he renders the song with a goofy delicacy; his workingman's suavity and generosity carry the day. And "Translation" already has a joke of a hotel lounge singer, played by Catherine Lambert, who is used for a bigger laugh later. A joy of filmmaking pervades the movie, and an instinctive understanding of the medium is evident. Sound is used so beautifully it takes your breath away; in a scene where Bob carries the dozing Charlotte to her room, the hotel corridor is gently dusted with aural density; the noise of air conditioners and fluorescent lights becomes a part of the milieu. The director is more than ably complemented by her sound designer, Richard Beggs, as well as the cinematographer Lance Acord and the editor Sarah Flack. All of their skills can be glimpsed in a scene that ends with Bob and Charlotte fleeing a karaoke bar as a friend fires a toy pistol that shoots lighted pellets at them, the gun's rat-a-tat fading into the jangling of a pachinko parlor. The movie conveys dislocation and the hungers it causes more than just visually. Perhaps because of that, "Translation" exists more as a film rendering psychological colorations than as a script. Obviously, Ms. Coppola placed all her trust in her actors. Anna Faris, who barely registers in the "Scary Movie" pictures  and she's the star  comes to full, lovable and irritating life as a live-wire starlet complicating Charlotte's life. Ms. Faris has already had work; this movie will secure her a career. But as a result of Ms. Coppola's faith, this is really Mr. Murray's movie, and his respect for his director couldn't be more visible. In the handful of films she has done  including her short, "Lick the Star"  Ms. Coppola has shown an interest in emotional way stations. Her characters are caught between past and future  lost in transition. Perhaps her films are a kind of ongoing metaphorical autobiography, but no matter. The important point is that there's a lot up there on the screen, plenty to get lost in. "Lost in Translation" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It has sexual content as well as strong language and alcohol consumption. LOST IN TRANSLATION Written and directed by Sofia Coppola; director of photography, Lance Acord; edited by Sarah Flack; original music by Kevin Shields; sound designer, Richard Beggs, production designers, Anne Ross and K. K. Barrett; produced by Ms. Coppola and Ross Katz; released by Focus Features. Running time: 102 minutes. This film is rated R. WITH: Bill Murray (Bob Harris), Scarlett Johansson (Charlotte), Giovanni Ribisi (John), Anna Faris (Kelly) and Catherine Lambert (Jazz Singer). New York Times, September 12, 2003 ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 08:48:45 -0500 From: Susan Stekel Subject: Re: [AVALON] BF in Cycle accident At 05:54 AM 9/17/03 EDT, OBrienFerry@aol.com wrote: >It was reported in today's 'The Sun' that Bryan Ferry had a cycling accident >whilst on holiday in Spain and had to be flown home to be treated in hospital. Was he trying to break away from the peloton in the Vuelta? S. (who fully recognizes that if BF were to be in the Vuelta right now, he'd probably be doing better than her fave, George Hincapie) ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:12:08 -0400 From: Colleen Matan Subject: Re: [AVALON] Ferry karaoked Quoting Carien Overdijk : > Hi folks, > > Has anyone checked out yet whether Bob - character in the new film Lost in > Translation - does justice to More than this??? >From salon.com's review: - ---------- They spar and flirt with each other: Charlotte has some friends who live in the city, and she invites Bob to tag along on an outing. They end up, drunk and boisterous, taking turns at karaoke. Charlotte, having donned a pink Louise Brooks wig, chooses the Pretenders' "Brass in Pocket," and mimes it, purely for Bob's benefit, and with mock seductiveness that's a transparent mask for the real thing. Bob responds with Roxy Music's "More Than This," a song of Byronically lush romanticism. Murray, as we all know, can't sing -- the song comes out in a cracked warble. But he pulls it from somewhere deep inside him, a place where every note is steady and true and right on the money. - --------- The rest at: http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2003/09/12/translation/index.html And I can't remember if I read this in an article posted to Avalon or somewhere else, but evidently Bill Murray (who, btw is one of my Desert Island People) started singing MTT as a goof, and Scarlett Johanssen liked it so much she insisted his singing it be included in the film. Colleen (currently focused on battening down the hatches in advance of Hurricane Isabel--Washington, DC is currently under a hurricane watch, with the increase to a hurricane warning expected for this afternoon. Please join me in appreciating how surreal this is as I am 130 or so miles from the sea.) ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:56:51 +0200 From: "Anton van Lammeren" Subject: RE: [AVALON] like a hurricane ... > -----Original Message----- > From: Colleen Matan > Subject: Re: [AVALON] Ferry karaoked > ... > Colleen (currently focused on battening down the hatches > in advance of Hurricane Isabel > --Washington, DC is currently under a hurricane watch, > with the increase to a hurricane warning expected for > this afternoon. > Please join me in appreciating how surreal this is as I > am 130 or so miles from the sea.) How terrible! And that during your Honeymoon... We keep our fingers crossed. Tara, Anton. P.S. Who feels 'Like a Hurricane' is a _good_ cover? (To be remotely OT) ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 17:23:45 +0200 From: "Anton van Lammeren" Subject: RE: [AVALON] Ferry karaoked From: http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/entertainment/movies/ 6779024.htm [Murray] "goes deeper than ever before into his character, and gives us true vulnerability. One of his evenings with Charlotte includes singing karaoke with her and her young friends. Murray sings Roxy Music's 'More Than This', but he doesn't play it for the ironic laughs we'd expect. Instead it's tender;"... > -----Original Message----- > From: Carien Overdijk > Sent: woensdag 17 september 2003 9:10 > To: Avalonlijst > Subject: [AVALON] Ferry karaoked > > > Hi folks, > > Has anyone checked out yet whether Bob - character in the new > film Lost in Translation - does justice to More than this??? > > Carien ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 19:21:34 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Tracy=20Marshall?= Subject: Re: [AVALON] Bryan Ferry chose the path of least resistance..... Except when he fell off his bike! KWil632057@aol.com wrote:Discuss...... ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:35:37 EDT From: KWil632057@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Bryan Ferry chose the path of least resistance..... Except when he fell off his bike! KWil632057@aol.com wrote: > Discuss...... > Or was he pushed..... ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:45:29 EDT From: Go2Sweeney@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Bryan Ferry chose the path of least resistance..... In a message dated 17/09/2003 19:36:16 GMT Standard Time, KWil632057@aol.com writes: > Except when he fell off his bike! > > KWil632057@aol.com wrote: > >Discuss...... > > > > Or was he pushed..... > > Candidates for pushing??? ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:46:44 EDT From: KWil632057@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Bryan Ferry chose the path of least resistance..... In a message dated 17/09/2003 19:36:16 GMT Standard Time, KWil632057@aol.com writes: > Except when he fell off his bike! > > KWil632057@aol.com wrote: > >Discuss...... > > > > Or was he pushed..... > > Candidates for pushing??? More to the point candidates for NOT pushing? ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:48:29 EDT From: KWil632057@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Read all about Bryans bike trauma.... Gripping stuff. New album delayed by 12 years... http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003430872,00.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 17:00:50 -0400 From: "Theresa Fagan" Subject: FW: [AVALON] Bryan Ferry chose the path of least resistance..... This I have always maintained. Bryan Ferry is the laziest man alive (it takes one to know one -- believe you me!). Just take a look at the album covers, number of songs per CD, "extras," remakes of his own songs &c... - -----Original Message----- From: owner-avalon@smoe.org [mailto:owner-avalon@smoe.org] On Behalf Of KWil632057@aol.com Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 7:16 PM To: avalon@smoe.org Subject: [AVALON] Bryan Ferry chose the path of least resistance..... Discuss...... ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 20:02:39 -0400 From: "M" Subject: [AVALON] Bryan Silliness Sent to me on a mailing list for another band. For your viewing pleasure: http://members.boardhost.com/ToffeeWeb/msg/378016.html M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There was a young lady called M Whose real name was *ahem* *ahem* "The thing is," she said, "I'd rather be dead" "Than let out the truth just for *them*" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ N.P. Take Them On, On Your Own by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 20:58:15 -0400 From: "eRacerX" Subject: RE: [AVALON] Ferry karaoked >From salon.com's review: .... Bob responds with Roxy Music's "More Than This," a song of Byronically lush romanticism.... Funny, my old pal Gerry used to refer to Mr. Ferry as the 'Byron of Ferrari', of which I have no idea what he meant. here comes Isabel, I am expecting to see an old woman flying by on her bike... - Toto ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: 18 Sep 2003 01:16:20 -0000 From: "Stirling" Subject: [AVALON] Keeping in touch avalon@smoe.org, Please take a moment to reply to this email and make changes to your contact information. I'm using a new software tool called Plaxo to update my address book. Plaxo makes this easy by sending messages like this one - -- and, if you download Plaxo too, you and I will automatically have each other's latest contact info right inside Outlook or Outlook Express without needing to send emails back and forth. You can get Plaxo at: http://www.plaxo.com/downloads. Instructions: 1. 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I've also attached a copy as a vCard. +----------------- | Stirling | stirl@pacbell.net | Program Director | | Vacaville Psychiatric Program | PO Box 2297 | Vacaville, Ca. 95696 | work: 707-449-6597 +------------------------------------- ____________________________________________________________ This message was sent to you by stirl@pacbell.net via Plaxo. To have Plaxo automatically handle these messages in the future, go to: http://www.plaxo.com/autoreply Plaxo's Privacy Policy: http://www.plaxo.com/support/privacy [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type text/x-vcard which had a name of Stirling.vcf] ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 08:01:36 +0200 From: "Kari Solberg" Subject: [AVALON] Bryan bike fall Sun online: 'CROONER Bryan Ferry was rushed to hospital with an injured back after falling off a bicycle. The former(!) Roxy Music frontman, 57, screamed in agony after the fall during a Spanish holiday. Fearing he had slipped a disc, he flew to Britain for X-rays at a private hospital with girlfriend Katie Turner,(21). A pal revealed: "Bryan has a bad back anyway. He was on a mountain bike and slipped. He has been in a lot of pain". A spokesman for millionaire Ferry last night said he had left hospital and did not need an op.' Won't make his back any better...or the dance..... Speedy recovery to Bryan! Kari ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V8 #263 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest