Bono Epidemic Spreads
Leonard Cohen is The Man. I made eye contact with him once on 48th Street in Manhattan, and he gave me that sublime smile that says, "Yes, I am who you're thinking I am. Now go in peace."
That may not seem much of a brush with greatness, but so legendary is the man that I still relate the story. His songs are so well crafted that he is the subject of one of perhaps two tribute albums that don't suck (that would be I'm Your Fan
).
So it was with excitement that I cued up the trailer for the upcoming documentary I'm Your Man. And the first voice I hear in my headphones? B*no. Of course.
Cohen is so very special that B*no even yields the screen for five seconds so The Edge can have a word. Then B*no has another word. Then a pull quote on screen. And then the band B*onoizes a classic track. And B*no has another word and then there's a subtle seque into another U2 performance.
The few moments in the trailer where Cohen himself is allowed to speak (so as recount what a huge influence U2 were on him in the early '70s and the time B*no saved him from the burning Chelsea Hotel) are compelling. Someone who's seen the film, please let me know the Cohen/B*no ratio in the actual film so I can decide if my heart can take it.
UPDATE: To be fair, two other people are quoted in the trailer: Mel Gibson, who starred in The Million Dollar Hotel, which was based on an idea by B*no, and Wim Wenders, who directed The Million Dollar Hotel, Faraway, So Close! (the title of which is also a song on U2's Zooropa), and Until the End of the World (which is also a song on U2's Achtung Baby).
That may not seem much of a brush with greatness, but so legendary is the man that I still relate the story. His songs are so well crafted that he is the subject of one of perhaps two tribute albums that don't suck (that would be I'm Your Fan
).So it was with excitement that I cued up the trailer for the upcoming documentary I'm Your Man. And the first voice I hear in my headphones? B*no. Of course.
Cohen is so very special that B*no even yields the screen for five seconds so The Edge can have a word. Then B*no has another word. Then a pull quote on screen. And then the band B*onoizes a classic track. And B*no has another word and then there's a subtle seque into another U2 performance.
The few moments in the trailer where Cohen himself is allowed to speak (so as recount what a huge influence U2 were on him in the early '70s and the time B*no saved him from the burning Chelsea Hotel) are compelling. Someone who's seen the film, please let me know the Cohen/B*no ratio in the actual film so I can decide if my heart can take it.
UPDATE: To be fair, two other people are quoted in the trailer: Mel Gibson, who starred in The Million Dollar Hotel, which was based on an idea by B*no, and Wim Wenders, who directed The Million Dollar Hotel, Faraway, So Close! (the title of which is also a song on U2's Zooropa), and Until the End of the World (which is also a song on U2's Achtung Baby).
1 Comments:
"Million Dollar Hotel" ...what an odd movie.
It had such great actors, but the story line was so strange that it was one of those movies that I couldn't tell if I liked it or not.
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