After attending a post-premiere reception that felt more like a wake, the devastated director retreated with his wife, Christiane, to a rented Long Island mansion, where he continued to agonize into the night before finally falling into an exhausted sleep, his supreme self-confidence in his vision and ability apparently gone. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece,” Kubrick may not have overheard that particular remark, but he had apparently reached much the same conclusion. Clarke overheard a comment from an executive from MGM, the studio whose $12 million Kubrick had just spent: “Well, that’s the end of Stanley Kubrick.”Īs Michael Benson describes in “Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. People who had been merely squirming in their seats began walking out by the end of the screening, well over 200 had departed. And snide comments like “Let’s move it along,” as the star, Keir Dullea, jogged interminably around the centrifuge of the spaceship Discovery. Not long into the first half of the nearly three-hour-long film, the boos began. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece,” by Michael Benson (Simon & Schuster, 497 pages). I think of her every time we perform it.BOOK REVIEW - “Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. To have a singer of her calibre compliment a song that I wrote, was a huge, huge moment for me. "It was one of the only times I thought, 'I could die right now,' - because it wasn't about, 'oh you sang that really well,' but she liked the song. After thanking me for participating near the end of the tour, she leaned in and hugged me and said into my ear, 'Damn, I love this song.' She takes the mic and introduces me, and the crowd is cheering. "I'm drinking a glass of water and turn around and Whitney is on stage. Sometimes your lips aren't wet enough, so, we had the whistle recorded for playback on tape. "But it's really hard to generate that whistle every night. "That song starts with a whistle," said Marshall. Several dates into the tour, Marshall was shocked when Houston suddenly appeared on stage beside her to sing “If I Didn’t Have You.” "Whitney's first record came out when I was 12 - she was a goddess to me.”
#Opus 2001 full#
"That was a full circle moment for me," recalled Marshall. But when our conversation turned to her hit "If I Didn't Have You," from "Tuesday's Child," Marshall says that the song provided one of her biggest career highlights when she toured Europe with Whitney Houston in 1999. In the past, Marshall has opened for everyone from Jeff Healey to Simply Red. Marshall says she loves the new album because "it's the record to me that sounds like me, but now."
“There was such a swagger and such coolness to her writing, that it made me re-evaluate the tone of the rest of the record.”
It was co-written by Marsha Ambrosius, one-half of Floetry, an R&B duo out of the UK in the early '00s. On "Heavy Lifting," Marshall’s soulful alto sounds more mature and confident, and there's enough playful attitude being flung about in such songs as "Dawgcatcher," the upbeat "God Forbid" and the funky bounce of "I'm Not Drunk" that she sounds like she's having the time of her life.Īnd it is her life, as the entire album was co-written and produced by Marshall and her life partner and bass player Rob Misener with the exception of "I Hope She Cheats," the first single off the record. I was able to write and record and make mistakes and change things and keep going back to the well.” "Nobody was waiting for the record,” said Marshall. There was another benefit to the time away from the spotlight.
#Opus 2001 how to#
It sounds really boring, but learning how to cook for yourself, how to buy and decorate your own home, was a way for me to grow up.” I learned crucial life skills: how to pay your own bills how to keep watch over your own money how to be in charge of your own life. “It gave me an opportunity to become the person I am now. "When you do this job, the natural tendency is for people to remove all obstacles from your path,” she said. The forced pause offered time for self-discovery. "I'm extremely fortunate and I'm very aware of it," said Marshall, adding that she has no regrets.
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